2026 Ashok Kumar: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	69	4696	4545	47	45	355	15526
Chemistry	74	4777	4344	46	46	365	17460

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
2015 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
2015 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2007 - ASM Fellow For outstanding contributions to the fields of chemical mechanical polishing and surface engineering.

Overview

Ashok Kumar is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in India. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on physics, aging, and health-related topics.

Their recent publications include the following:

Unravelling the role of telomere shortening with ageing and their potential association with diabetes, cancer, and related lifestyle factors (2022, Tissue and Cell)
An intervention to reduce stigma and improve management of depression, risk of suicide/self-harm and other significant emotional or medically unexplained complaints among adolescents living in urban slums: protocol for the ARTEMIS project (2022, Research Square (Research Square))
Investigating fusion-fission and quasifission in reaction populating 188Pt compound nucleus (2024, The European Physical Journal A)
A Study of Changes in Provisions of Environmental Clearances and their Political-Economic Perspective (2025, International Research Journal on Advanced Engineering and Management (IRJAEM))

The main fields of study associated with their work are:

Physics and Astronomy

Their subfields of study include:

Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Physiology
Aging
Social Psychology
Health

Ashok Kumar's main research topics cover the following areas:

Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
Mental Health Treatment and Access
Health disparities and outcomes
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Nuclear physics research studies
Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Narayan Chandra Mandal
Amit Kumar Verma
Prithvi Singh
Fatimah A. Al-Saeed
Ahmed Ezzat Ahmed

Their contributions have been published in various venues such as:

Tissue and Cell
Research Square (Research Square)
The European Physical Journal A
International Research Journal on Advanced Engineering and Management (IRJAEM)

Ashok Kumar has been recognized with several fellowships and awards, including:

Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2015
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2010
ASM Fellow, 2007, for outstanding contributions to the fields of chemical mechanical polishing and surface engineering

Best Publications

Smart polymers: Physical forms and bioengineering applications

Ashok Kumar;Akshay Srivastava;Igor Yu Galaev;Bo Mattiasson

933
Citations
Exosome laden oxygen releasing antioxidant and antibacterial cryogel wound dressing OxOBand alleviate diabetic and infectious wound healing

Parvaiz A. Shiekh;Anamika Singh;Ashok Kumar

402
Citations
Skin Tissue Engineering for Tissue Repair and Regeneration

S. Geetha Priya;Hans Jungvid;Ashok Kumar

398
Citations
Synthesis and characterization of elastic and macroporous chitosan–gelatin cryogels for tissue engineering

Neeraj Kathuria;Anuj Tripathi;Kamal K Kar;Ashok Kumar

378
Citations
Exploring the Magnetoelectric Coupling at the Composite Interfaces of FE/FM/FE Heterostructures.

Dhiren K. Pradhan;Dhiren K. Pradhan;Shalini Kumari;Shalini Kumari;Rama K. Vasudevan;Evgheni Strelcov

366
Citations
Genetic landscape of the people of India: A canvas for disease gene exploration

Samir K. Brahmachari;Partha P. Majumder;Mitali Mukerji;Saman Habib

314
Citations
Bioactive materials for biomedical applications using sol–gel technology

Radha Gupta;Ashok Kumar

305
Citations
Supermacroprous chitosan -agarose - gelatin cryogels: in vitro characterization and in vivo assessment for cartilage tissue engineering

Sumrita Bhat;Anuj Tripathi;Ashok Kumar

268
Citations
Biomaterials and bioengineering tomorrow’s healthcare

Sumrita Bhat;Ashok Kumar

231
Citations
Advanced Biomaterials: Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications

Bikramjit Basu;Dhirendra S. Katti;Ashok Kumar

219
Citations
Seed treatment with iron pyrite (FeS2) nanoparticles increases the production of spinach

Gaurav Srivastava;Chinmaya Kumar Das;Anubhav Das;Satish Kumar Singh

202
Citations
Affinity fractionation of lymphocytes using a monolithic cryogel.

Ashok Kumar;Fatima M Plieva;Igor Yu Galaev;Bo Mattiasson

197
Citations
Cell separation using cryogel-based affinity chromatography

Ashok Kumar;Akshay Srivastava

186
Citations
The performance of laminin-containing cryogel scaffolds in neural tissue regeneration.

Marcin Jurga;Maria B. Dainiak;Anna Sarnowska;Anna Jablonska

184
Citations
Upstream processes in antibody production: evaluation of critical parameters.

Era Jain;Ashok Kumar

181
Citations
Fermentation of biowaste to H2 by Bacillus licheniformis.

V. C. Kalia;S. R. Jain;A. Kumar;A. P. Joshi

178
Citations
Two-phonon coupling to the antiferromagnetic phase transition in multiferroic BiFeO3

Mariola O. Ramirez;M. Krishnamurthi;S. Denev;A. Kumar

166
Citations
Cryogels: Freezing unveiled by thawing

Ashok Kumar;Ruchi Mishra;Yvonne Reinwald;Sumrita Bhat

149
Citations
Multi-featured macroporous agarose-alginate cryogel: synthesis and characterization for bioengineering applications.

Anuj Tripathi;Ashok Kumar

145
Citations
Mesenchymal stromal cell-derived exosome-rich fractionated secretome confers a hepatoprotective effect in liver injury.

Apeksha Damania;Deepika Jaiman;Arun Kumar Teotia;Ashok Kumar

139
Citations
Elastic and macroporous agarose-gelatin cryogels with isotropic and anisotropic porosity for tissue engineering.

Anuj Tripathi;Neeraj Kathuria;Ashok Kumar

134
Citations