R. Sankar

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
137 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

R. Sankar is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Sankar has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Materials Chemistry, 67 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 53 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in R. Sankar's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (43 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (32 papers) and Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (29 papers). R. Sankar is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (43 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (32 papers) and Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (29 papers). R. Sankar collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, India and United States. R. Sankar's co-authors include F. C. Chou, Madhab Neupane, Ilya Belopolski, M. Zahid Hasan, Horng‐Tay Jeng, R. Jayavel, Hsin Lin, Guang Bian, Nasser Alidoust and Tay‐Rong Chang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

R. Sankar

126 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Observation of a three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal phase in high-mobility Cd3As2

2014 1.1k citations Madhab Neupane, R. Sankar et al. profile →
Observation of Fermi arc surface states in a topological metal

2014 566 citations R. Sankar, Ilya Belopolski et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
R. Sankar	3.0k	2.9k	1.4k	1.2k	545	137	4.5k
Satya Kushwaha	2.9k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	316 0.6×	55	4.3k
Takao Kotani	2.4k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 2.2×	86	4.5k
M. Alouani	2.5k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 2.4×	150	4.8k
Ion Errea	2.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	670 0.5×	1.5k 1.3×	429 0.8×	82	4.0k
Fumitaka Kagawa	1.8k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	2.7k 2.0×	1.9k 1.6×	1.1k 2.0×	98	4.6k
G. Profeta	2.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.8×	463 0.8×	142	3.8k
Takashi Koretsune	1.8k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	549 1.0×	97	3.8k
C. Y. Fong	1.8k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	889 0.6×	525 0.5×	947 1.7×	149	3.3k
David Graf	2.9k 0.9×	3.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.9×	2.9k 2.5×	898 1.6×	272	6.1k
Domenico Di Sante	2.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.9×	75	3.7k

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Diez, Lisa, R. Sankar, Guido Nolte, et al.. (2025). Stoichiometric 14-3-3ζ binding promotes phospho-Tau microtubule dissociation and reduces aggregation and condensation. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1139–1139. 3 indexed citations

Václavková, Diana, Rajesh Kumar Ulaganathan, R. Sankar, et al.. (2025). Strong and selective magnon-phonon coupling in the van der Waals antiferromagnet CoPS 3 . Physical review. B.. 112(16).

Karthika, K., et al.. (2025). Magnetoelectric coupling in solid solution of Ni3-xCoxTeO6 (0 ≤ x ≤ 2.85). Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 630. 173364–173364.

Krishnamoorthi, S., Changhyun Koo, Taeyun Kim, et al.. (2025). Coexistence of anomalous spin dynamics and weak magnetic order in the chiral trillium lattice K2FeSn(PO4)3. Physical review. B.. 112(6). 1 indexed citations

Bayikadi, Khasim Saheb, Chun-Lin Chang, Amr Sabbah, et al.. (2024). Ultra-low lattice thermal conductivity driven high thermoelectric figure of merit in Sb/W co-doped GeTe. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(44). 30892–30905. 3 indexed citations

Pawbake, Amit, Wei‐Li Lee, K. C. James Raju, et al.. (2024). Tuning terahertz magnons in a mixed van der Waals antiferromagnet. Physical review. B.. 110(17).

Roy, Bhaswati, Jennifer A. Ogren, Luke A. Allen, et al.. (2024). Brain gray matter changes in children at risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Pediatric Research. 96(7). 1732–1738.

Kim, Dong Seob, Di Huang, Kejun Li, et al.. (2023). Anisotropic Excitons Reveal Local Spin Chain Directions in a van der Waals Antiferromagnet. Advanced Materials. 35(19). e2206585–e2206585. 23 indexed citations

Kalaivanan, R., et al.. (2023). Cluster-glass freezing and antiferromagnetic phase transitions in corundum structure Mg3−Co TeO6. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 577. 170802–170802.

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Sankar, R., et al.. (2023). Ultrafast carrier dynamics and layer-dependent carrier recombination rate in InSe. Nanoscale. 15(7). 3169–3176. 3 indexed citations

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Sankar, R., et al.. (2023). Dry Reforming of Methane Using a Swirl-Induced Plasma Discharge Reactor. Energies. 16(4). 1823–1823. 7 indexed citations

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Sivakumar, A., S. Sahaya Jude Dhas, S. Arumugam, et al.. (2022). Reversible disorder-order type structural phase transition of potassium dihydrogen phosphate bulk single crystals induced by dynamic shock waves. Physica B Condensed Matter. 644. 414233–414233. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiao, Zhiwei Hu, Stefano Agrestini, et al.. (2021). Evidence for largest room temperature magnetic signal from Co2+ in antiphase-free & fully inverted CoFe2O4 in multiferroic-ferrimagnetic BiFeO3-CoFe2O4 nanopillar thin films. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 530. 167940–167940. 8 indexed citations

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Ebad-Allah, J., Georg Eickerling, Wolfgang Scherer, et al.. (2021). Pressure-Induced Excitations in the Out-of-Plane Optical Response of the Nodal-Line Semimetal ZrSiS. Physical Review Letters. 127(7). 76402–76402. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yanxue, Silvia Nappini, R. Sankar, et al.. (2020). Assessing the stability of Cd ₃ As ₂ Dirac semimetal in humid environments: the influence of defects, steps and surface oxidation. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9(4). 1235–1244. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Ting‐Hsuan, et al.. (2020). Highly improved thermoelectric performance of BiCuTeO achieved by decreasing the oxygen content. Materials Today Physics. 15. 100248–100248. 15 indexed citations

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Muthuselvam, I. Panneer, Raja Nehru, K. Ramesh Babu, et al.. (2019). Gd ₂ Te ₃ : an antiferromagnetic semimetal. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 31(28). 285802–285802. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Q. R., Bin Zeng, Yu-Che Chiu, et al.. (2019). Possible manifestations of the chiral anomaly and evidence for a magnetic field induced topological phase transition in the type-I Weyl semimetal TaAs. Physical review. B.. 100(11). 15 indexed citations

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Wilson, M. N., Alannah M. Hallas, Yipeng Cai, et al.. (2017). μSR study of the noncentrosymmetric superconductor PbTaSe2. Physical review. B.. 95(22). 18 indexed citations

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Xu, Su‐Yang, Ilya Belopolski, Nasser Alidoust, et al.. (2015). Experimental realization of a topological Weyl semimetal phase with Fermi arc surface states in TaAs. arXiv (Cornell University). 11 indexed citations

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