Best Paper Awards 2026
India
Congratulations to the authors of the winning papers.
The India Best Paper Awards celebrate highly cited and downloaded research whose first authors are based in India. The awards recognise outstanding research and help raise the visibility of scientific contributions from the region.
Selected based on citations, downloads and quality score, this year’s winners represent some of the highest-performing papers published in IOP Publishing journals during 2024 and 2025.
Explore the full list of award-winning papers below.
| Article Title | Journal | Author list |
| Probing astrophysical environment with eccentric extreme mass-ratio inspirals | JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | Mostafizur Rahman, Shailesh Kumar and Arpan Bhattacharyya |
| Dielectrically-Modulated GANFET Biosensor for Label-Free Detection of DNA and Avian Influenza Virus: Proposal and Modeling | ECS JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Shivani Yadav, Amit Das and Sonam Rewari |
| A review on additive manufacturing for aerospace application | MATERIALS RESEARCH EXPRESS | Radhika C, Ragavanantham Shanmugam, Monsuru Ramoni and Gnanavel BK |
| Air pollution from biomass burning in India | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS | Sachchida N Tripathi, Shweta Yadav and Konika Sharma |
| Quantum effects on the evaporation of PBHs: contributions to dark matter | JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | Md Riajul Haque, Suvashis Maity, Debaprasad Maity and Yann Mambrini |
| Did we hear the sound of the Universe boiling? Analysis using the full fluid velocity profiles and NANOGrav 15-year data | JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | Tathagata Ghosh, Anish Ghoshal, Huai-Ke Guo, Fazlollah Hajkarim, Stephen F. King, Kuver Sinha, Xin Wang and Graham White |
| Gravitational wave signatures of cogenesis from a burdened PBH | JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | Basabendu Barman, Md Riajul Haque and Óscar Zapata |
| India’s pathway to net zero by 2070: status, challenges, and way forward | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS | Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Arunabha Ghosh, Amit Garg*, Vidhee Avashia, Saritha Sudharmma Vishwanathan, Dipti Gupta*, Nilesh Kumar Sinha, Chandra Bhushan*, Srestha Banerjee, Divya Datt et al. |
| Prospects of detecting deviations to Kerr geometry with radiation reaction effects in EMRIs | JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | Abhishek Chowdhuri, Arpan Bhattacharyya and Shailesh Kumar |
| Numerical Simulation of Dielectric Modulated Cylindrical Schottky Nanowire FETs for Enhanced Analog Performance | ECS JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Amit Das, Pratham Singh, Swati Sharma, Preeti Goyal, Om Joshi, Paarth Nakra and R. S. Gupta |
| Reconstructing the Genealogy of LIGO-Virgo Black Holes | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Parthapratim Mahapatra, Debatri Chattopadhyay, Anuradha Gupta, Fabio Antonini, Marc Favata, B. S. Sathyaprakash, and K. G. Arun |
| Optimization of Optical Biosensor Based on 1D Photonic Crystals with Metaheuristic Algorithms for Measuring Glucose Concentration | ECS JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Mahalakshmi R, Yahya M. Al-Moliki, Ali H. Alqahtani and Arun Kumar U |
| Review-Graphene-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Detecting Environmental Pollutants | JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY | U. Harini and Caroline Ponraj |
| Analysis of lead free CsSnBr₃ based perovskite solar cells utilizing numerical modeling | PHYSICA SCRIPTA | Shazia Akhtar Dar and Brajendra Singh Sengar |
