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Edik U. Rafailov

Edik U. Rafailov

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 39 4649 4462 245 239 464 7183

Edik U. Rafailov publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Edik U. Rafailov between 1989 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Edik U. Rafailov published across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025, averaging 15.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 37 publications in 2011. 40 of the 562 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1989 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 37. Peak 37 publications in 2011. 1989: 1 publication 1990: 2 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 2 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 1 publication 1995: 1 publication 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 2 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 6 publications 2002: 8 publications 2003: 8 publications 2004: 10 publications 2005: 13 publications 2006: 13 publications 2007: 18 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 18 publications 2010: 27 publications 2011: 37 publications 2012: 30 publications 2013: 37 publications 2014: 35 publications 2015: 22 publications 2016: 25 publications 2017: 26 publications 2018: 27 publications 2019: 28 publications 2020: 34 publications 2021: 19 publications 2022: 26 publications 2023: 30 publications 2024: 22 publications 2025: 18 publications
1989 2025

562 publications in total across all disciplines

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Edik U. Rafailov: publications per year, 1989 to 2025
Year Publications
1989 1
1990 2
1991 1
1992 2
1993 1
1994 1
1995 1
1996 1
1997 1
1998 2
1999 2
2000 3
2001 6
2002 8
2003 8
2004 10
2005 13
2006 13
2007 18
2008 7
2009 18
2010 27
2011 37
2012 30
2013 37
2014 35
2015 22
2016 25
2017 26
2018 27
2019 28
2020 34
2021 19
2022 26
2023 30
2024 22
2025 18
Total 562
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Edik U. Rafailov publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edik U. Rafailov sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 34–53 to 1,065+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 445. Most scientists, 445, have 174–193 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 454–473 publications, is where this scientist sits. 34–53 publications: 24 scientists 54–73 publications: 52 scientists 74–93 publications: 114 scientists 94–113 publications: 203 scientists 114–133 publications: 269 scientists 134–153 publications: 355 scientists 154–173 publications: 403 scientists 174–193 publications: 445 scientists 194–213 publications: 430 scientists 214–233 publications: 431 scientists 234–253 publications: 399 scientists 254–273 publications: 366 scientists 274–293 publications: 335 scientists 294–313 publications: 300 scientists 314–333 publications: 276 scientists 334–353 publications: 250 scientists 354–373 publications: 214 scientists 374–393 publications: 187 scientists 394–413 publications: 152 scientists 414–433 publications: 169 scientists 434–453 publications: 147 scientists 454–473 publications: 111 scientists 474–493 publications: 117 scientists 494–513 publications: 103 scientists 514–533 publications: 99 scientists 534–553 publications: 92 scientists 554–573 publications: 75 scientists 574–593 publications: 58 scientists 594–613 publications: 69 scientists 614–633 publications: 50 scientists 634–653 publications: 62 scientists 654–673 publications: 54 scientists 674–693 publications: 44 scientists 694–713 publications: 37 scientists 714–733 publications: 28 scientists 734–753 publications: 26 scientists 754–773 publications: 26 scientists 774–793 publications: 19 scientists 794–813 publications: 23 scientists 814–833 publications: 20 scientists 834–853 publications: 16 scientists 854–873 publications: 20 scientists 874–893 publications: 11 scientists 894–913 publications: 11 scientists 914–933 publications: 16 scientists 934–953 publications: 13 scientists 954–973 publications: 10 scientists 974–993 publications: 11 scientists 994–1,013 publications: 9 scientists 1,014–1,033 publications: 9 scientists 1,034–1,053 publications: 10 scientists 1,054–1,064 publications: 6 scientists 1,065+ publications: 99 scientists
34–53 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 464 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
34–53 24
54–73 52
74–93 114
94–113 203
114–133 269
134–153 355
154–173 403
174–193 445
194–213 430
214–233 431
234–253 399
254–273 366
274–293 335
294–313 300
314–333 276
334–353 250
354–373 214
374–393 187
394–413 152
414–433 169
434–453 147
454–473 111 464
474–493 117
494–513 103
514–533 99
534–553 92
554–573 75
574–593 58
594–613 69
614–633 50
634–653 62
654–673 54
674–693 44
694–713 37
714–733 28
734–753 26
754–773 26
774–793 19
794–813 23
814–833 20
834–853 16
854–873 20
874–893 11
894–913 11
914–933 16
934–953 13
954–973 10
974–993 11
994–1,013 9
1,014–1,033 9
1,034–1,053 10
1,054–1,064 6
1,065+ 99
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Edik U. Rafailov D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edik U. Rafailov sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 82 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 111+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 263. Most scientists, 263, have 32 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 39 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 178 scientists 31 D-Index: 257 scientists 32 D-Index: 263 scientists 33 D-Index: 262 scientists 34 D-Index: 244 scientists 35 D-Index: 236 scientists 36 D-Index: 211 scientists 37 D-Index: 220 scientists 38 D-Index: 214 scientists 39 D-Index: 214 scientists 40 D-Index: 205 scientists 41 D-Index: 187 scientists 42 D-Index: 194 scientists 43 D-Index: 201 scientists 44 D-Index: 155 scientists 45 D-Index: 189 scientists 46 D-Index: 148 scientists 47 D-Index: 160 scientists 48 D-Index: 134 scientists 49 D-Index: 130 scientists 50 D-Index: 141 scientists 51 D-Index: 156 scientists 52 D-Index: 108 scientists 53 D-Index: 130 scientists 54 D-Index: 112 scientists 55 D-Index: 97 scientists 56 D-Index: 111 scientists 57 D-Index: 102 scientists 58 D-Index: 108 scientists 59 D-Index: 120 scientists 60 D-Index: 103 scientists 61 D-Index: 93 scientists 62 D-Index: 92 scientists 63 D-Index: 74 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 73 scientists 66 D-Index: 64 scientists 67 D-Index: 69 scientists 68 D-Index: 60 scientists 69 D-Index: 39 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 59 scientists 72 D-Index: 46 scientists 73 D-Index: 49 scientists 74 D-Index: 38 scientists 75 D-Index: 35 scientists 76 D-Index: 32 scientists 77 D-Index: 35 scientists 78 D-Index: 31 scientists 79 D-Index: 22 scientists 80 D-Index: 34 scientists 81 D-Index: 31 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 23 scientists 84 D-Index: 18 scientists 85 D-Index: 30 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 20 scientists 89 D-Index: 8 scientists 90 D-Index: 17 scientists 91 D-Index: 7 scientists 92 D-Index: 14 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 10 scientists 98 D-Index: 10 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 16 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 8 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 13 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 5 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 8 scientists 111+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 178
31 257
32 263
33 262
34 244
35 236
36 211
37 220
38 214
39 214 39
40 205
41 187
42 194
43 201
44 155
45 189
46 148
47 160
48 134
49 130
50 141
51 156
52 108
53 130
54 112
55 97
56 111
57 102
58 108
59 120
60 103
61 93
62 92
63 74
64 77
65 73
66 64
67 69
68 60
69 39
70 57
71 59
72 46
73 49
74 38
75 35
76 32
77 35
78 31
79 22
80 34
81 31
82 34
83 23
84 18
85 30
86 19
87 19
88 20
89 8
90 17
91 7
92 14
93 9
94 15
95 10
96 12
97 10
98 10
99 12
100 16
101 5
102 7
103 7
104 8
105 9
106 13
107 4
108 5
109 10
110 8
111+ 96
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Overview

Edik U. Rafailov is affiliated with Aston University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily focusing on engineering and physics and astronomy. Within these areas, Rafailov has contributed significantly to several subfields, including biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their work covers a wide range of topics that include metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, advanced fiber laser technologies, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, orbital angular momentum in optics, photodynamic therapy research studies, and photonic crystal and fiber optics.

Frequent publication venues for Rafailov's research include the 2022 International Conference Laser Optics (ICLO), Scientific Reports, Optics Express, Applied Sciences, and the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Tatjana Gric, Sergei G. Sokolovski, Viktor Dremin, Amit Yadav, and Dmitrii Stoliarov.

Among Rafailov's recent papers are:

  • Photobiomodulation of lymphatic drainage and clearance: perspective strategy for augmentation of meningeal lymphatic functions, 2020, Biomedical Optics Express
  • Singlet oxygen stimulates mitochondrial bioenergetics in brain cells, 2020, Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • Photostimulation of cerebral and peripheral lymphatic functions, 2020, Translational Biophotonics
  • Propagation of surface plasmon polaritons at the interface of metal-free metamaterial with anisotropic semiconductor inclusions, 2022, Optik
  • Intranasal Delivery of Liposomes to Glioblastoma by Photostimulation of the Lymphatic System, 2022, Pharmaceutics

Best Publications

  • Mode-locked quantum-dot lasers

    Edik U. Rafailov;Maria Ana Cataluna;Wilson Sibbett

  • Ultrafast electroabsorption dynamics in an InAs quantum dot saturable absorber at 1.3μm

    D. B. Malins;A. Gomez-Iglesias;S. J. White;W. Sibbett

  • High-power picosecond and femtosecond pulse generation from a two-section mode-locked quantum-dot laser

    Edik U. Rafailov;Maria Ana Cataluna;Wilson Sibbett;N. D. Il'Inskaya

  • Enhancement of terahertz photoconductive antenna operation by optical nanoantennas

    Sergey Lepeshov;Andrei Gorodetsky;Andrei Gorodetsky;Alexander Krasnok;Alexander Krasnok;Edik Rafailov

  • Enhancement of Terahertz Photoconductive Antennas and Photomixers Operation by Optical Nanoantennas

    Sergey I. Lepeshov;Andrei Gorodetsky;Alexander E. Krasnok;Edik U. Rafailov

  • Fast quantum-dot saturable absorber for passive mode-locking of solid-State lasers

    E.U. Rafailov;S.J. White;A.A. Lagatsky;A. Miller

  • Temperature-Dependent Internal Quantum Efficiency of Blue High-Brightness Light-Emitting Diodes

    Ilya E. Titkov;Sergey Yu. Karpov;Amit Yadav;Vera L. Zerova

  • SESAM-free mode-locked semiconductor disk laser

    Lukasz Kornaszewski;Gareth Maker;Graeme P. A. Malcolm;Mantas Butkus

  • Broadly tunable high-power InAs/GaAs quantum-dot external cavity diode lasers

    Ksenia A. Fedorova;Maria Ana Cataluna;Igor L. Krestnikov;Daniil A. Livshits

  • Conical refraction Nd:KGd(WO_4)_2 laser

    Amin Abdolvand;Keith G. Wilcox;Todor K. Kalkandjiev;Edik U. Rafailov

  • Giant resonant light forces in microspherical photonics

    Yangcheng Li;Oleksiy V Svitelskiy;Oleksiy V Svitelskiy;Alexey V Maslov;David Carnegie

  • Boosting Terahertz Photoconductive Antenna Performance with Optimised Plasmonic Nanostructures.

    Sergey Lepeshov;Andrei Gorodetsky;Andrei Gorodetsky;Andrei Gorodetsky;Alexander Krasnok;Nikita Toropov

  • Diode-pumped ultrafast Yb:KGW laser with 56 fs pulses and multi-100 kW peak power based on SESAM and Kerr-lens mode locking

    R. Akbari;K.A. Fedorova;Edik Rafailov

  • Ultrafast Lasers Based on Quantum Dot Structures: Physics and Devices

    Edik U. Rafailov;Maria Ana Cataluna;Eugene A. Avrutin

  • Ultrashort-pulse lasers passively mode locked by quantum-dot-based saturable absorbers

    A. A. Lagatsky;C. G. Leburn;C. T. A. Brown;W. Sibbett

  • Mode-locked semiconductor disk lasers

    Mahmoud A. Gaafar;Arash Rahimi-Iman;Ksenia A. Fedorova;Wolfgang Stolz

  • Dual-wavelength mode-locked quantum-dot laser, via ground and excited state transitions: experimental and theoretical investigation

    Maria Ana Cataluna;Daniil I. Nikitichev;Spiros Mikroulis;Hercules Simos

  • Stable mode locking via ground- or excited-state transitions in a two-section quantum-dot laser

    Maria Ana Cataluna;Wilson Sibbett;Daniil A. Livshits;J. Weimert

  • Quantum-dot saturable absorber and Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KGW laser with >450 kW of peak power

    R. Akbari;H. Zhao;K.A. Fedorova;Edik Rafailov

  • Efficient frequency doubling of a vertical-extended-cavity surface-emitting laser diode by use of a periodically poled KTP crystal.

    E. U. Rafailov;W. Sibbett;A. Mooradian;J. G. McInerney

  • Amplification of femtosecond pulses over by 18 dB in a quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier

    E.U. Rafailov;P. Loza-Alvarez;W. Sibbett;G.S. Sokolovskii

  • Infrared laser pulse triggers increased singlet oxygen production in tumour cells

    S. G. Sokolovski;S. A. Zolotovskaya;Alexey Goltsov;C. Pourreyron

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander A. Lagatsky
Alexander A. Lagatsky University of St Andrews
V. M. Ustinov
V. M. Ustinov Russian Academy of Sciences
Oleg G. Okhotnikov
Oleg G. Okhotnikov Tampere University
Dimitris Syvridis
Dimitris Syvridis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Anthony E. Kelly
Anthony E. Kelly University of Glasgow
A. E. Zhukov
A. E. Zhukov National Research University Higher School of Economics
A. R. Kovsh
A. R. Kovsh Arista (United States)
Alex Krasnok
Alex Krasnok Florida International University
Martin Koch
Martin Koch Philipp University of Marburg
Pavel A. Belov
Pavel A. Belov ITMO University

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