Venkat Padmanabhan

10.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Venkat Padmanabhan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Venkat Padmanabhan has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Venkat Padmanabhan's work include Material Dynamics and Properties (13 papers), Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (11 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (7 papers). Venkat Padmanabhan is often cited by papers focused on Material Dynamics and Properties (13 papers), Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (11 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (7 papers). Venkat Padmanabhan collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and United Kingdom. Venkat Padmanabhan's co-authors include Paramvir Bahl, Victor Bahl, Susanta Banerjee, Sarbani Ghosh, Krishna Chintalapudi, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Debaditya Bera, J. K. Basu, Nafisa Begam and Sivasurender Chandran and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Venkat Padmanabhan

51 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

RADAR: an in-building RF-based user location and tracking... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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. RADAR: an in-building RF-based user location and tracking system
    2002 6.2k citations Venkat Padmanabhan 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
Venkat Padmanabhan India 22 6.4k 3.1k 3.0k 1.5k 1.2k 52 7.8k
Ran Liu China 30 3.3k 0.5× 300 0.1× 807 0.3× 211 0.1× 648 0.5× 197 4.2k
Mu Zhou China 29 1.9k 0.3× 672 0.2× 519 0.2× 581 0.4× 906 0.7× 249 3.3k
Beibei Wang United States 42 3.0k 0.5× 2.1k 0.7× 329 0.1× 424 0.3× 445 0.4× 157 4.8k
Luciano Tarricone Italy 36 3.8k 0.6× 856 0.3× 226 0.1× 62 0.0× 1.2k 1.0× 368 5.9k
Yuhan Dong China 30 2.9k 0.4× 515 0.2× 1.7k 0.6× 49 0.0× 398 0.3× 281 4.1k
Xue Wang China 32 1.4k 0.2× 914 0.3× 170 0.1× 138 0.1× 215 0.2× 270 3.7k
Xu Zhu China 31 3.2k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 182 0.1× 232 0.2× 546 0.4× 412 4.4k
Yintang Yang China 38 5.0k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 60 0.0× 117 0.1× 539 0.4× 813 8.4k
Wenbo Wang China 42 5.8k 0.9× 5.4k 1.8× 54 0.0× 159 0.1× 693 0.6× 578 7.7k
Liang Liu China 33 5.6k 0.9× 1.5k 0.5× 204 0.1× 113 0.1× 1.8k 1.5× 126 6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Venkat Padmanabhan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Venkat Padmanabhan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Venkat Padmanabhan. 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 Venkat Padmanabhan. The network helps show where Venkat Padmanabhan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Venkat Padmanabhan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Venkat Padmanabhan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Venkat Padmanabhan 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 Venkat Padmanabhan. Venkat Padmanabhan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ghosh, Sarbani, et al.. (2021). Room temperature hydrogen storage in defective single-walled carbon nanotubes: a molecular dynamics study. Letters on Materials. 11(3). 321–326. 7 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anaparthi Ganesh, R. Yu. Nikiforov, В. Е. Рыжих, et al.. (2020). Novel semi-fluorinated poly(ether imide)s with benzyl ether side groups: Synthesis, physicochemical characterization, gas transport properties and simulation. European Polymer Journal. 135. 109879–109879. 13 indexed citations
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Begam, Nafisa, et al.. (2019). Viscosity and fragility of confined polymer nanocomposites: a tale of two interfaces. Nanoscale. 11(17). 8546–8553. 17 indexed citations
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Aswal, Vinod K., et al.. (2019). Unraveling the Polymer Chain-Adsorbed Constrained Interfacial Region on an Atomistically Thin Carbon Sheet. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 123(13). 2994–3001. 3 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, Venkat, et al.. (2019). Solution Rheology of Poly(acrylic acid)-Grafted Silica Nanoparticles. Macromolecules. 52(24). 9594–9603. 11 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, Venkat, et al.. (2018). Nanoparticle Diffusion in Polymer Nanocomposites. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 65 indexed citations
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Kumar, Anaparthi Ganesh, et al.. (2018). Polyimides Containing Phosphaphenanthrene Skeleton: Gas-Transport Properties and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. ACS Omega. 3(10). 13510–13523. 24 indexed citations
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Begam, Nafisa, et al.. (2018). Nanoparticle–polymer interfacial layer properties tune fragility and dynamic heterogeneity of athermal polymer nanocomposite films. Soft Matter. 14(43). 8853–8859. 13 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, Venkat, et al.. (2017). The effects of groove height and substrate stiffness on C. elegans locomotion. Journal of Biomechanics. 55. 34–40. 5 indexed citations
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Mandal, Arun Kumar, et al.. (2016). Aromatic polyamides containing trityl substituted triphenylamine: Gas transport properties and molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Membrane Science. 522. 77–90. 61 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, Venkat, et al.. (2016). Durotaxis in Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Biophysical Journal. 111(3). 666–674. 7 indexed citations
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Neogi, Sudarsan, et al.. (2014). Effect of Temperature Pre-Exposure on the Locomotion and Chemotaxis of C. elegans. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e111342–e111342. 14 indexed citations
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Chandran, Sivasurender, Nafisa Begam, Venkat Padmanabhan, & J. K. Basu. (2014). Confinement enhances dispersion in nanoparticle–polymer blend films. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3697–3697. 72 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, Venkat. (2013). Percolation of high-density polymer regions in nanocomposites: The underlying property for mechanical reinforcement. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 139(14). 144904–144904. 15 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, Venkat & Sanat K. Kumar. (2011). Gelation in semiflexible polymers. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 134(17). 174902–174902. 7 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, Venkat, Sanat K. Kumar, & Arun Yethiraj. (2008). Phase behavior of semiflexible polymer chains. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 128(12). 124908–124908. 14 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, Venkat. (2002). CoopNet: Cooperative Networking.
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Padmanabhan, Venkat, et al.. (2001). Radiation doses to patients from X-ray examinations involving fluoroscopy. Indian journal of radiology and imaging - new series/Indian journal of radiology and imaging/Indian Journal of Radiology & Imaging. 11(4). 181. 3 indexed citations
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Bahl, Victor & Venkat Padmanabhan. (2000). Enhancements to the RADAR User Location and Tracking System. 2(1). 13–42. 390 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, Venkat, et al.. (1991). Sonographic Evaluation of Operability of Malignant Cervical Lymph Nodes. American Journal of Clinical Oncology. 14(5). 438–441. 6 indexed citations

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