Rajendran Prabakaran

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

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Rajendran Prabakaran is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rajendran Prabakaran has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rajendran Prabakaran's work include Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies (26 papers), Heat Transfer and Optimization (21 papers) and Phase Change Materials Research (12 papers). Rajendran Prabakaran is often cited by papers focused on Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies (26 papers), Heat Transfer and Optimization (21 papers) and Phase Change Materials Research (12 papers). Rajendran Prabakaran collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, India and Saudi Arabia. Rajendran Prabakaran's co-authors include D. Mohan Lal, Sung Chul Kim, Mohammad Salman, P. Ganesh Kumar, Sung Chul Kim, Amrit Kumar Thakur, C. Selvam, G. Praveen Kumar, Sivasankaran Harish and Sung Chul Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Rajendran Prabakaran

56 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

A state-of-the art review on advancing battery thermal management systems for fast-charging

2023 200 citations Amrit Kumar Thakur, Swellam W. Sharshir et al. Applied Thermal Engineering profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rajendran Prabakaran South Korea	20	600	362	328	270	164	63	1.2k
Qinghua Yu China	19	666 1.1×	476 1.3×	167 0.5×	422 1.6×	163 1.0×	57	1.3k
Abdellatif M. Sadeq Qatar	13	292 0.5×	156 0.4×	120 0.4×	196 0.7×	155 0.9×	85	802
Shouguang Yao China	18	649 1.1×	333 0.9×	169 0.5×	378 1.4×	257 1.6×	112	1.2k
Zitao Yu China	19	926 1.5×	402 1.1×	281 0.9×	506 1.9×	333 2.0×	48	1.5k
Yiji Lu United Kingdom	25	1.2k 2.0×	436 1.2×	446 1.4×	413 1.5×	208 1.3×	81	2.0k
Ahmed Rezk United Kingdom	16	800 1.3×	218 0.6×	67 0.2×	404 1.5×	180 1.1×	43	1.3k
Cenk Çelik Türkiye	16	188 0.3×	482 1.3×	124 0.4×	315 1.2×	172 1.0×	32	898
Naeim Farouk Saudi Arabia	21	712 1.2×	244 0.7×	89 0.3×	250 0.9×	169 1.0×	73	1.2k
Fahid Riaz Pakistan	19	479 0.8×	124 0.3×	88 0.3×	237 0.9×	210 1.3×	86	940
Navid Nasajpour-Esfahani United States	19	407 0.7×	232 0.6×	137 0.4×	170 0.6×	300 1.8×	76	927

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Prabakaran, Rajendran, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive review of vapor injection heat pumps in electric vehicles: technologies, challenges, R744 integrations, and future directions. Applied Thermal Engineering. 279. 127787–127787.

Prabakaran, Rajendran, et al.. (2025). Nozzle spray-cooling coupled PEMFC stack radiator: Thermal-hydraulic performance and integrated correlations. Energy. 321. 135517–135517. 2 indexed citations

Sathishkumar, A., P. Sundaram, Vignesh Kumaravel, et al.. (2025). Solidification characteristics of biomass-activated aloe vera PCM in a spherical enclosure for efficient cool thermal energy storage. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. 72. 106362–106362. 8 indexed citations

Tamilvanan, A., T. Mohanraj, Rajendran Prabakaran, et al.. (2025). Enhancing biodiesel yield from high free fatty acid paradise seed oil via two-stage acid-base esterification: Implications for CI engine application. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. 71. 106092–106092. 1 indexed citations

Prabakaran, Rajendran, et al.. (2025). Enhancing heat transfer in fuel cell stack radiators: A spray cooling approach with a reticulated foam surface. Energy. 332. 137270–137270.

Sathishkumar, A., P. Sundaram, Rajendran Prabakaran, et al.. (2025). Thermal performance evaluation of encapsulation materials for organic PCM-based cool thermal energy storage systems. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. 74. 106945–106945. 1 indexed citations

Prabakaran, Rajendran, et al.. (2025). Machine learning-based performance and optimal refrigerant charge prediction for a split air conditioning system. Applied Thermal Engineering. 274. 126764–126764. 2 indexed citations

Rajkumar, S., Rajendran Prabakaran, Samira Elaissi, & J. Princy Merlin. (2025). Construction of Nanostructured Mo4V6O25 Electrode Material for High-Performance Asymmetric Supercapacitors. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials. 36(2). 989–998. 3 indexed citations

Prabakaran, Rajendran, Mohamed Ragab, Jie Liu, & Sung Chul Kim. (2024). Improving fuel cell vehicle efficiency: Exploring dynamic cooling strategies for stack radiators with intermittent spray cooling. eTransportation. 23. 100384–100384. 8 indexed citations

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Tamilvanan, A., et al.. (2024). Uncalcined Zn/Al Carbonate LDH and Its Calcined Counterpart for Treating the Wastewater Containing Anionic Congo Red Dye. Energies. 17(11). 2698–2698. 5 indexed citations

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Salman, Mohammad, et al.. (2024). Thermo-hydraulic behavior and flow boiling characteristics of R290 in plate heat exchangers for electric vehicle heat pump applications under cold climatic conditions. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 235. 126165–126165. 6 indexed citations

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Prabakaran, Rajendran, et al.. (2024). Thermal performance of a stack cooling radiator coupled with spray cooling for the future fuel cell electric vehicles. Applied Thermal Engineering. 246. 122975–122975. 13 indexed citations

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Salman, Mohammad, et al.. (2024). Comparative analysis of R290 and R1234yf cooling performance in offset strip-fin plate heat exchanger for electric-vehicle battery thermal management. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 157. 107708–107708. 13 indexed citations

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Prabakaran, Rajendran, et al.. (2024). Energy-Efficient Secure Routing for a Sustainable Heterogeneous IoT Network Management. Sustainability. 16(11). 4756–4756. 3 indexed citations

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Raveendran, P. Saji, Rajendran Prabakaran, Murugan Paradesi Chockalingam, et al.. (2024). Experimental investigation of biogas production by co-digestion of local vegetable market wastes. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. 15(7). 9825–9834. 1 indexed citations

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Prabakaran, Rajendran, et al.. (2024). Dynamic performance of a fuel cell stack radiator coupled with low pressure drizzling cooling and intermittent flow strategies. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 235. 126161–126161. 4 indexed citations

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Elansezhian, R., et al.. (2023). Mechanical and microstructure behaviour of WSC/SiC/Al composites synthesized with and without ultrasonic treatment. Materials Science and Technology. 39(17). 2743–2755. 3 indexed citations

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Kumar, G. Praveen, et al.. (2023). Fuelling the future: A review of non-renewable hydrogen production and storage techniques. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 188. 113791–113791. 111 indexed citations

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Prabakaran, Rajendran, A. Sathishkumar, Paride Gullo, et al.. (2023). An Overview of the State of the Art and Challenges in the Use of Gelling and Thickening Agents to Create Stable Thermal Energy Storage Materials. Energies. 16(8). 3306–3306. 23 indexed citations

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Thakur, Amrit Kumar, Mohammad Shamsuddin Ahmed, Gwangeon Oh, et al.. (2020). Advancement in graphene-based nanocomposites as high capacity anode materials for sodium-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(5). 2628–2661. 49 indexed citations

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