S. Shankaranarayanan

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

S. Shankaranarayanan is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Shankaranarayanan has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 70 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 33 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in S. Shankaranarayanan's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (76 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (65 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (28 papers). S. Shankaranarayanan is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (76 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (65 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (28 papers). S. Shankaranarayanan collaborates with scholars based in India, Canada and United Kingdom. S. Shankaranarayanan's co-authors include Saurya Das, Joseph P. Johnson, Sourav Sur, Mikhail Kagan, Martin Bojowald, Golam Mortuza Hossain, L. Sriramkumar, Yanbei Chen, Τ. Padmanabhan and Roberto Casadio and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, The Astrophysical Journal and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

S. Shankaranarayanan

86 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Modified theories of gravity: Why, how and what? 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 25 50 75 100
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Modified theories of gravity: Why, how and what?
    2022 106 citations S. Shankaranarayanan, Joseph P. Johnson General Relativity and Gravitation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
S. Shankaranarayanan India 18 1.1k 969 518 237 65 94 1.3k
Orhan Dönmez Kuwait 20 695 0.6× 499 0.5× 117 0.2× 38 0.2× 106 1.6× 70 840
Minyong Guo China 20 1.2k 1.1× 922 1.0× 176 0.3× 91 0.4× 15 0.2× 43 1.3k
Richard T. Hammond United States 12 476 0.4× 441 0.5× 176 0.3× 126 0.5× 25 0.4× 61 646
Rahul Kumar India 19 1.7k 1.5× 1.3k 1.4× 222 0.4× 138 0.6× 41 0.6× 34 1.8k
Raúl Carballo-Rubio Spain 19 885 0.8× 730 0.8× 267 0.5× 185 0.8× 26 0.4× 47 1.0k
Hideki Ishihara Japan 21 1.2k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 327 0.6× 112 0.5× 23 0.4× 99 1.3k
Faisal Javed China 27 1.9k 1.7× 1.6k 1.7× 229 0.4× 138 0.6× 189 2.9× 138 2.1k
Xiao‐Mei Kuang China 20 1.1k 1.0× 989 1.0× 266 0.5× 148 0.6× 13 0.2× 85 1.2k
Andrea Geralico Italy 20 1.4k 1.2× 703 0.7× 91 0.2× 98 0.4× 76 1.2× 105 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by S. Shankaranarayanan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. Shankaranarayanan

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2025). Recent trends in thermal energy storage for enhanced solar still performance. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 212. 115373–115373. 16 indexed citations
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2025). Can Q-balls describe cosmological and galactic dark matter?. The European Physical Journal C. 85(2).
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Bojowald, Martin, et al.. (2025). Scalar quasinormal modes in emergent modified gravity. Physical review. D. 111(2). 1 indexed citations
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2025). Generation of effective massive Spin-2 fields through spontaneous symmetry breaking of scalar field. General Relativity and Gravitation. 57(2).
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Johnson, Joseph P., et al.. (2025). Interacting dark sector from Horndeski theories and beyond: Mapping fields and fluids. Physical review. D. 111(2). 2 indexed citations
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2023). The dominating mode of two competing massive modes of quadratic gravity. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 8547–8547. 4 indexed citations
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2023). Gertsenshtein–Zel’dovich effect: a plausible explanation for fast radio bursts?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 4378–4387. 5 indexed citations
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2023). Electromagnetic memory in arbitrary curved spacetimes. Physical review. D. 108(2). 3 indexed citations
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2023). Dynamical scaling symmetry and asymptotic quantum correlations for time-dependent scalar fields. Physical review. D. 107(2). 8 indexed citations
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2023). Quantum Structure of Space-time. Resonance. 28(3). 355–370.
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2023). Effective field theory of magnetogenesis identify necessary and sufficient conditions. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(1). 45–45. 2 indexed citations
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Lochan, Kinjalk, et al.. (2023). Quenched Kitaev chain: Analogous model of gravitational collapse. Physical review. D. 107(10).
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2023). Constraints on the non-minimal coupling of electromagnetic fields from astrophysical observations. 4326–4336. 1 indexed citations
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Panchal, Hitesh, et al.. (2023). Air stone-induced microbubble agitation: a strategy for solar still performance enhancement. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. 26(2). 417–434. 4 indexed citations
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2021). Maximal momentum GUP leads to Stelle gravity. arXiv (Cornell University).
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2016). Black hole thermodynamics as seen through a microscopic model of a relativistic Bose gas. International Journal of Modern Physics D. 25(4). 1650047–1650047. 3 indexed citations
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2016). Fluctuations in horizon-fluid lead to negative bulk viscosity. Physical review. D. 93(6). 6 indexed citations
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Shankaranarayanan, S., et al.. (2014). No minimally coupled scalar black hole hair in Lanczos–Lovelock gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 31(17). 175005–175005. 3 indexed citations
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Das, Saurya, S. Shankaranarayanan, & Sourav Sur. (2008). Power-law corrections to entanglement entropy of horizons. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(6). 99 indexed citations
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Das, Saurya, S. Shankaranarayanan, & Sourav Sur. (2007). Power-law corrections to entanglement entropy of black holes. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations

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