Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers

Natural Sciences / Physics Highly Cited Researchers 103 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2025

The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) list highlight the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 197 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This unique approach addresses the advantages researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others. Furthermore, citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community. For more detailed citation analyses, explore the Scientists Last 6 Years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025, and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025.

* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
India
Biswarup Satpati
TEM
STEM
EELS
Plasmonics
Nanopatterning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,171
7,091
0.500
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
India
Bikas K Chakrabarti
statistical physics
quantum spin-glasses
quantum annealing & computating
fracture
econophysics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,724
3,996
0.291
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
India
Prabhat Mandal
Condensed Matter Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,792
3,212
0.412
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
India
Biswajit Banerjee
High energy gamma-ray astronomy
MAGIC telescope
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,408
6,052
0.817
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
India
Dulal Senapati
Physical Chemistry
Laser Spectroscopy
Optics & Imaging
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
and Molecular & Cellular Nano-Bio Materi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,022
2,090
0.298
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
India
Pijushpani Bhattacharjee
Astroparticle Physics
Dark Matter
neutrinos
Cosmology
Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,791
1,293
0.223
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
India
Susanta Lahiri
radiochemistry
green chemistry
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,346
2,396
0.378
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
India
Sangam Banerjee
Condensed Matter Physics
X-ray reflectivity
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Chemical and Biological Sensors based on nanomaterials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,350
1,676
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
India
Amitabha De
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,229
1,233
0.236

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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
India
Bijay Agrawal
Nuclear Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,830
2,402
0.497
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
India
Ushasi Datta|Ushasi DattaPramanik
Exotic nuclei
Nuclear structure and reaction dynamics
Nuclear astrophysics
Neutrino phys
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,888
1,205
0.247
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
India
Milan K Sanyal
Condensed Matter Physics
Synchrotron X-ray Scattering
Surface Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,297
939
0.219
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
India
H Raghuraman
Membrane proteins
Lipid-protein interactions
membrane dynamics
EPR and fluorescence spectroscopy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,668
1,374
0.375
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
India
Munshi Golam Mustafa
Phenomenology of Quark-Gluon Plasma
Non-Perturbative and Perturbative QCD
Effective QCD Models
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,633
859
0.236
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
India
Radhey Shyam
Nuclear Physics
high energy physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,612
912
0.252
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
India
Harindranath Avaroth
High Energy Physics
Nuclear Physics
Computational Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,318
513
0.155
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
India
Ranganathan R
Magnetic Materials at low temperature and at High filed
inter metallic alloys
materials science
Engineering Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,184
1,198
0.376
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
India
Shibaji Roy
String theory
Quantum Field Theory
AdS/CFT
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,398
1,935
0.440
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
India
Manabendra Mukherjee
Soft matter physics
LB/Polymer/Organic Sc film
X-ray Reflectivity
XPS
NEXAFS
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,234
1,246
0.385
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
India
Chandrima Das
Chromatin Dynamics & Epigenetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,182
1,284
0.404
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
India
I Das
Magnetic Nano-materials
Magnetocaloric effect
Magnetoresistance
Spintronics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,914
669
0.230
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
India
Arnab Kundu
Theoretical Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,776
1,308
0.471
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
India
JN De
Theoretical nuclear physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,735
502
0.184
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
India
Satyajit Hazra
Surfaces and interfaces
Low dimensional systems
Soft Matter
Grazing incidence X-ray scattering
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,440
829
0.340
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
India
Debades Bandyopadhyay
Supernovae and Neutron Stars
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,380
854
0.359
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
66,519
India
687
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Biswarup Satpati
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,171
7,091
0.500
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
67,190
India
695
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Bikas K Chakrabarti
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,724
3,996
0.291
statistical physics
quantum spin-glasses
quantum annealing & computating
fracture
econophysics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
134,034
India
1,953
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Prabhat Mandal
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,792
3,212
0.412
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
140,577
India
2,104
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Biswajit Banerjee
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,408
6,052
0.817
High energy gamma-ray astronomy
MAGIC telescope
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
149,537
India
2,294
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Dulal Senapati
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,022
2,090
0.298
Physical Chemistry
Laser Spectroscopy
Optics & Imaging
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
and Molecular & Cellular Nano-Bio Materi
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
182,526
India
3,041
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Pijushpani Bhattacharjee
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,791
1,293
0.223
Astroparticle Physics
Dark Matter
neutrinos
Cosmology
Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
186,833
India
3,161
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Susanta Lahiri
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,346
2,396
0.378
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
197,572
India
3,411
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Sangam Banerjee
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,350
1,676
0.313
Condensed Matter Physics
X-ray reflectivity
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Chemical and Biological Sensors based on nanomaterials
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
200,095
India
3,477
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Amitabha De
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,229
1,233
0.236
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
214,960
India
3,890
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Bijay Agrawal
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,830
2,402
0.497

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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
215,767
India
3,907
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Ushasi Datta|Ushasi DattaPramanik
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,888
1,205
0.247
Exotic nuclei
Nuclear structure and reaction dynamics
Nuclear astrophysics
Neutrino phys
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
240,516
India
4,598
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Milan K Sanyal
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,297
939
0.219
Condensed Matter Physics
Synchrotron X-ray Scattering
Surface Physics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
279,778
India
5,825
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
H Raghuraman
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,668
1,374
0.375
Membrane proteins
Lipid-protein interactions
membrane dynamics
EPR and fluorescence spectroscopy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
280,201
India
5,839
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Munshi Golam Mustafa
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,633
859
0.236
Phenomenology of Quark-Gluon Plasma
Non-Perturbative and Perturbative QCD
Effective QCD Models
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
281,477
India
5,884
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Radhey Shyam
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,612
912
0.252
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
303,629
India
6,576
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Harindranath Avaroth
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,318
513
0.155
High Energy Physics
Nuclear Physics
Computational Physics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
312,263
India
6,863
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Ranganathan R
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,184
1,198
0.376
Magnetic Materials at low temperature and at High filed
inter metallic alloys
materials science
Engineering Physics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
313,443
India
6,902
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Shibaji Roy
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,398
1,935
0.440
String theory
Quantum Field Theory
AdS/CFT
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
313,540
India
6,905
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Manabendra Mukherjee
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,234
1,246
0.385
Soft matter physics
LB/Polymer/Organic Sc film
X-ray Reflectivity
XPS
NEXAFS
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
316,668
India
7,002
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Chandrima Das
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,182
1,284
0.404
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
337,162
India
7,660
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
I Das
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,914
669
0.230
Magnetic Nano-materials
Magnetocaloric effect
Magnetoresistance
Spintronics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
350,860
India
8,123
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Arnab Kundu
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,776
1,308
0.471
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
353,558
India
8,212
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
JN De
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,735
502
0.184
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
388,696
India
9,461
27
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Satyajit Hazra
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,440
829
0.340
Surfaces and interfaces
Low dimensional systems
Soft Matter
Grazing incidence X-ray scattering
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
397,789
India
9,785
28
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Debades Bandyopadhyay
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,380
854
0.359