Vikas Varshney

7.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
108 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Vikas Varshney is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Vikas Varshney has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Materials Chemistry, 21 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Vikas Varshney's work include Thermal properties of materials (33 papers), Graphene research and applications (30 papers) and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (28 papers). Vikas Varshney is often cited by papers focused on Thermal properties of materials (33 papers), Graphene research and applications (30 papers) and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (28 papers). Vikas Varshney collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Vikas Varshney's co-authors include Ajit K. Roy, Eric Pop, Barry L. Farmer, Soumya S. Patnaik, Jonghoon Lee, Hendrik Heinz, Rajiv Berry, Valeria Puddu, Fateme S. Emami and Carole C. Perry and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Vikas Varshney

104 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Thermal properties of graphene: Fundamentals and applications

2012 1.3k citations Vikas Varshney, Ajit K. Roy et al. profile →
Emerging Applications of Elemental 2D Materials

2019 525 citations Nicholas R. Glavin, Rahul Rao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Force Field and a Surface Model Database for Silica to Simulate Interfacial Properties in Atomic Resolution

2014 435 citations Vikas Varshney et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vikas Varshney United States	33	4.1k	1.2k	1.0k	919	818	108	6.1k
Zhang Jiang China	41	3.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.6×	940 0.9×	895 1.0×	699 0.9×	239	6.6k
Jun Zhou China	39	4.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.7×	493 0.5×	717 0.8×	566 0.7×	177	6.8k
Wei Yang China	44	4.0k 1.0×	2.8k 2.4×	693 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	828 1.0×	281	6.9k
Chunlin Chen China	48	3.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.4×	1.0k 1.3×	231	8.1k
Rong Xiang China	45	4.0k 1.0×	2.4k 2.1×	707 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	465 0.6×	222	6.7k
Min Yi China	36	3.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	439 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	997 1.2×	214	6.0k
Annick Hubin Belgium	42	2.2k 0.5×	2.6k 2.2×	488 0.5×	702 0.8×	527 0.6×	267	5.9k
Baolin Wang China	42	2.8k 0.7×	1.9k 1.7×	368 0.4×	907 1.0×	665 0.8×	219	6.0k
Bohayra Mortazavi Germany	55	7.5k 1.8×	2.4k 2.1×	384 0.4×	727 0.8×	522 0.6×	154	8.8k
Shangchao Lin United States	34	3.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.7×	441 0.4×	1.3k 1.4×	490 0.6×	85	4.7k

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Varshney, Vikas, et al.. (2025). An efficient pathway to high persistence length helicenes from scalable [4]-helicene synthons. RSC Advances. 15(26). 20935–20943.

Varshney, Vikas, et al.. (2025). Assessing the Effectiveness of Neural Networks and Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Predicting Viscosity of Small Organic Molecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 129(18). 4501–4513. 1 indexed citations

Varshney, Vikas, et al.. (2025). Investigating the structure–property correlations of pyrolyzed phenolic resin as a function of degree of carbonization. Nanoscale Advances. 7(6). 1582–1595. 3 indexed citations

Varshney, Vikas, et al.. (2025). Accelerated ReaxFF Simulations of Vitrimers with Dynamic Covalent Adaptive Networks. Macromolecules. 58(10). 4948–4958. 2 indexed citations

Paluch, Andrew S., et al.. (2025). Limitations of theory-informed machine learning algorithms for the prediction and exploration of molecular properties: Solvation free energy as a case study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3).

Dunlap, John H., et al.. (2025). Scaling Helicene Synthesis via Photochemical Oxidation─A Comparison between Batch and Flow Reactors. Organic Process Research & Development. 29(6). 1440–1445.

Tao, Lei, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking study of deep generative models for inverse polymer design. Digital Discovery. 4(4). 910–926. 11 indexed citations

Prasad, Anamika, et al.. (2024). Mechanical behavior of MXene-Polymer layered nanocomposite using computational finite element analysis. Composites Part B Engineering. 284. 111689–111689. 7 indexed citations

Nadagouda, Mallikarjuna N., et al.. (2024). Recent Advances in Technologies for Phosphate Removal and Recovery: A Review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(6). 271–291. 28 indexed citations

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Ren, Yixin, Amber M. Hubbard, Drake Austin, et al.. (2024). Rapid Photothermal Healing of Vitrimer Nanocomposites Activated by Gold-Nanoparticle-Coated Graphene Nanoplatelets. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 7(16). 18769–18778. 4 indexed citations

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Islam, Md. Sherajul, Gary S. Kedziora, Jonghoon Lee, et al.. (2024). Efficiency and Mechanism of Catalytic Siloxane Exchange in Vitrimer Polymers: Modeling and Density Functional Theory Investigations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 128(28). 5627–5636. 5 indexed citations

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Prasad, Anamika, Vikas Varshney, Dhriti Nepal, & Geoffrey J. Frank. (2023). Bioinspired Design Rules from Highly Mineralized Natural Composites for Two-Dimensional Composite Design. Biomimetics. 8(6). 500–500. 2 indexed citations

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Hubbard, Amber M., Yixin Ren, Dominik Konkolewicz, et al.. (2021). Vitrimer Transition Temperature Identification: Coupling Various Thermomechanical Methodologies. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 3(4). 1756–1766. 90 indexed citations

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Varshney, Vikas, et al.. (2021). Breaking the bottleneck: stilbene as a model compound for optimizing 6π e⁻ photocyclization efficiency. RSC Advances. 11(12). 6504–6508. 8 indexed citations

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Glavin, Nicholas R., Rahul Rao, Vikas Varshney, et al.. (2019). Emerging Applications of Elemental 2D Materials. Advanced Materials. 32(7). e1904302–e1904302. 525 indexed citations breakdown →

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Varshney, Vikas, et al.. (2019). Design and Development of Intellectual Robotic Arm. International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development. 984–987. 2 indexed citations

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Apte, Amey, Elisabeth Bianco, Aravind Krishnamoorthy, et al.. (2018). Polytypism in ultrathin tellurium. 2D Materials. 6(1). 15013–15013. 83 indexed citations

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Radue, Matthew S., Vikas Varshney, Jeffery W. Baur, Ajit K. Roy, & Gregory M. Odegard. (2018). Molecular Modeling of Cross-Linked Polymers with Complex Cure Pathways: A Case Study of Bismaleimide Resins. Macromolecules. 51(5). 1830–1840. 72 indexed citations

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Varshney, Vikas, Vinu Unnikrishnan, Jonghoon Lee, & Ajit K. Roy. (2017). Developing nanotube junctions with arbitrary specifications. Nanoscale. 10(1). 403–415. 7 indexed citations

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Wu, Xufei, Jonghoon Lee, Vikas Varshney, et al.. (2016). Thermal Conductivity of Wurtzite Zinc-Oxide from First-Principles Lattice Dynamics – a Comparative Study with Gallium Nitride. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 22504–22504. 149 indexed citations

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