India: Top Cited Paper Award
Congratulations to the 2025 Top Cited Paper Award winners from India. These awards are presented to the top 10 papers in the top one per cent of the most-cited articles in their subject category, recently published in our journals*, with corresponding authors based in India.
We congratulate all the authors on this outstanding achievement. You can find the full list of top cited papers for each subject category below.
*We use data from Web of Science to identify the top cited papers during the period of 2022 to 2024.
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Astrophysics and Astronomy
| Article Title | Journal | Author list |
| Constraining primordial black holes as dark matter using the global 21-cm signal with X-ray heating and excess radio background | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | Shikhar Mittal, Anupam Ray, Girish Kulkarni and Basudeb Dasgupta |
| Testing Horndeski Gravity from EHT Observational Results for Rotating Black Holes | Astrophysical Journal | Misba Afrin and Sushant G. Ghosh |
| Tests of Loop Quantum Gravity from the Event Horizon Telescope Results of Sgr A | Astrophysical Journal | Jamia Millia Islamia |
Materials
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Effect of SnS thin film thickness on visible light photo detection | Physica Scripta | Devarajan Alagarasan, S S Hegde, S Varadharajaperumal, R Aadhavan, R Naik, Mohd Shkir, H Algarni and R Ganesan |
| Electrical transport properties of nanocrystalline and bulk nickel ferrite using complex impedance spectroscopy: a comparative study | Physica Scripta | Sanjeet Kumar Paswan, Lagen Kumar Pradhan, Pawan Kumar, Suman Kumari, Manoranjan Kar and Lawrence Kumar |
| Hybrid perovskites thin films morphology identification by adapting multiscale-SinGAN architecture, heat transfer search optimized feature selection and machine learning algorithms | Physica Scripta | Vinay Vakharia, Milind Shah, Venish Suthar, Vivek K. Patel and Ankur Solanki |
Materials Science
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Ab-Initio Calculations of Structural, Optoelectronic, Thermoelectric, and Thermodynamic Properties of Mixed-Halide Perovskites RbPbBr3-xIx (x=0 to 3): Applicable in Renewable Energy Devices | ECIS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology | Monika Rani, Peeyush Kumar Kamlesh, Sunil Kumawat, Anuradha, Upasana Rani, Gunjan Arora and Ajay Singh Verma |
| Theoretical study of perovskite solar cell for enhancement of device performance using SCAPS-1D | Physica Scripta | Pranjal Srivastava, Sadanand, Shambhavi Rai, Pooja Lohia, D K Dwivedi, Hussam Qasem, Ahmad Umar, Sheikh Akbar, Hassan Algadi and Sotirios Baskoutas |
Mathematical and Computational Science
Physics
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Generalized fifth-order nonlinear evolution equation for the Sawada-Kotera, Lax, and Caudrey-Dodd-Gibbon equations in plasma physics: Painleve analysis and multi-soliton solutions | Physica Scripta | Sachin Kumar, Brij Mohan and Amit Kumar |
| Quantum loop effects on the power spectrum and constraints on primordial black holes | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | Sayantan Choudhury, Sudhakar Panda and M. Sami |
| Static spherically symmetric wormholes in f(Q,T) gravity | Chinese Physics C | Moreshwar Tayde, Zinnat Hassan, P.K. Sahoo and Sashideep Gutti |
| The science case for LIGO-India | Classical and Quantum Gravity | M Saleem et al |
Review
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| A review of silver nanowire-based composites for flexible electronic applications | Flexible and Printed Electronics | Neha Sharma, Nitheesh M Nair, Garikapati Nagasarvari, Debdutta Ray and Parasuraman Swaminathan |
| A review on thin films, conducting polymers as sensor devices | Materials Research Express | Veera Prabakaran Elanjeitsenni, K Senthil Vadivu and B Mouli Prasanth |
| A strategic review of recent progress, prospects and challenges of MoS2-based photodetectors | Journal of Physics D – Applied Physics | Riya Wadhwa, Abhay V Agrawal and Mukesh Kumar |
| Emerging properties of carbon based 2D material beyond graphene | Journal of Physics – Condensed Matter | Susmita Jana, Arka Bandyopadhyay, Sujoy Datta, Debaprem Bhattacharya and Debnarayan Jana |
| Mimicking tumor microenvironment by 3D bioprinting: 3D cancer modeling | Biofabrication | Priyanshu Shukla, Sriya Yeleswarapu, Marcel A Heinrich, Jai Prakash and Falguni Pati |
| Quantum dots: an overview of synthesis, properties, and applications | Materials Research Express | Kushagra Agarwal, Himanshu Rai and Sandip Mondal |
| Recent advances in UV photodetectors based on 2D materials: a review | Journal of Physics D – Applied Physics | Ashok Kumar, Mustaque A Khan and Mahesh Kumar |
| Recent progress and future perspectives on carbon-nanomaterial-dispersed liquid crystal composites | Journal of Physics D – Applied Physics | Ajay Kumar, Dharmendra Pratap Singh and Gautam Singh |
| Review-An Overview on Supercapacitors and Its Applications | Journal of the Electrochemical Society | S. Chakraborty and Mary N. L. |
| Review-Recent Advancements in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells; From Photoelectrode to Counter Electrode | Journal of the Electrochemical Society | Mahesh Dhonde, Kirti Sahu, Malyaj Das, Anand Yadav, Pintu Ghosh and Vemparala Venkata Satyanarayana Murty |
