Santosh Kumar

4.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
52 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Santosh Kumar is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Santosh Kumar has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Santosh Kumar's work include Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (15 papers), Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (14 papers) and Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (8 papers). Santosh Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (15 papers), Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (14 papers) and Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (8 papers). Santosh Kumar collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and China. Santosh Kumar's co-authors include Ten H. Lai, Anish Arora, József Balogh, Chen Ai, Xiaole Bai, Ziqiu Yun, Dong Xuan, Sylvie Cloutier, Travis Banks and Prasun Sinha and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Computer and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

In The Last Decade

Santosh Kumar

47 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Barrier coverage with wireless sensors 2004 2026 2011 2018 2005 2004 2006 100 200 300 400
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. Barrier coverage with wireless sensors
    2005 465 citations Santosh Kumar, Ten H. Lai et al. profile →
  2. On k-coverage in a mostly sleeping sensor network
    2004 455 citations Santosh Kumar, Ten H. Lai et al. profile →
  3. Deploying wireless sensors to achieve both coverage and connectivity
    2006 409 citations Santosh Kumar, Ten H. Lai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Santosh Kumar India 20 2.4k 1.4k 234 193 163 52 2.9k
Joan Garcı́a-Haro Spain 28 1.2k 0.5× 1.4k 1.0× 136 0.6× 156 0.8× 58 0.4× 166 2.4k
Shanying Zhu China 27 1.3k 0.5× 773 0.6× 113 0.5× 115 0.6× 31 0.2× 187 2.5k
Lin Ma China 21 487 0.2× 996 0.7× 224 1.0× 268 1.4× 21 0.1× 261 2.0k
Gongpu Wang China 31 1.1k 0.5× 3.9k 2.9× 206 0.9× 81 0.4× 66 0.4× 188 4.4k
Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis Greece 25 548 0.2× 2.1k 1.5× 135 0.6× 99 0.5× 33 0.2× 144 2.9k
Andrea Gasparri Italy 21 1.2k 0.5× 279 0.2× 115 0.5× 325 1.7× 334 2.0× 145 1.8k
Eduardo F. Nakamura Brazil 21 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 324 1.4× 248 1.3× 58 0.4× 98 2.1k
Farshad Arvin United Kingdom 26 863 0.4× 239 0.2× 105 0.4× 640 3.3× 566 3.5× 115 2.3k
Chee Yen Leow Malaysia 21 856 0.4× 2.0k 1.4× 52 0.2× 82 0.4× 61 0.4× 115 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Santosh Kumar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Santosh Kumar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Santosh Kumar. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Santosh Kumar. The network helps show where Santosh Kumar may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Santosh Kumar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Santosh Kumar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Santosh Kumar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Santosh Kumar. Santosh Kumar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Dhabliya, Dharmesh, et al.. (2024). Safeguarding Critical Infrastructures: Machine Learning in Cybersecurity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 491. 2025–2025. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Santosh, et al.. (2024). Malicious Node Detection in VANETs via Enhanced DSR and ML. 1–7. 1 indexed citations
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Mahalle, Parikshit N., et al.. (2023). Marathi text summarization through NLP and deep learning mechanism. Journal of Autonomous Intelligence. 6(3). 2 indexed citations
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Kumar, Santosh, et al.. (2021). Designing digital circuits using 3D nanomagnetic logic architectures. Journal of Computational Electronics. 20(3). 1310–1325. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Santosh, et al.. (2018). A Novel Approach using Big Data Analytics to Improve the Crop Yield in Precision Agriculture. 824–827. 7 indexed citations
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Kumar, Santosh, P. Manimegalai, & S. Karthik. (2018). An Energy - competent Routing Protocol for MANETs: a Particle Swarm Optimization Approach. 1–10. 2 indexed citations
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Kotz, David, et al.. (2016). Privacy and Security in Mobile Health: A Research Agenda. Computer. 49(6). 22–30. 111 indexed citations
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Kumar, Santosh, et al.. (2014). An Advance Approach of Face Recognition using PCA and Region Base Color Segmentation. International Journal of Computer Applications. 89(17). 38–43.
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Kumar, Santosh, et al.. (2012). Modeling Extraction Transformation Load Embedding Privacy Preservation using UML. International Journal of Computer Applications. 50(6). 1–5. 3 indexed citations
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Balister, Paul, Zizhan Zheng, Santosh Kumar, & P. Sinha. (2009). Trap Coverage: Allowing Coverage Holes of Bounded Diameter in Wireless Sensor Networks. 136–144. 57 indexed citations
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Kumar, Santosh. (2009). Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing. 526–535. 4 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Amites, Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, & Santosh Kumar. (2007). Reliable Density Estimates for Achieving Coverage and Connectivity in Thin Strips of Finite Length. 23 indexed citations
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Ai, Chen, Santosh Kumar, & Ten H. Lai. (2007). Designing localized algorithms for barrier coverage. 63–74. 182 indexed citations
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Balister, Paul, Béla Bollobás, Amites Sarkar, & Santosh Kumar. (2007). Reliable density estimates for coverage and connectivity in thin strips of finite length. 75–86. 103 indexed citations
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Lai, Ten H. & Santosh Kumar. (2006). Foundations of coverage in wireless sensor networks. 8 indexed citations

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