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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Materials Science 72 4140 4007 1109 1043 291 14614

Ivan I. Smalyukh publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Ivan I. Smalyukh between 1998 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Ivan I. Smalyukh published across 29 years, from 1998 to 2026, averaging 12.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 30 publications in 2018. 23 of the 355 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1998 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 30. Peak 30 publications in 2018. 1998: 5 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 18 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 15 publications 2011: 19 publications 2012: 15 publications 2013: 16 publications 2014: 18 publications 2015: 23 publications 2016: 17 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 30 publications 2019: 20 publications 2020: 21 publications 2021: 18 publications 2022: 16 publications 2023: 17 publications 2024: 14 publications 2025: 19 publications 2026: 4 publications
1998 2026

355 publications in total across all disciplines

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Ivan I. Smalyukh: publications per year, 1998 to 2026
Year Publications
1998 5
1999 0
2000 0
2001 2
2002 3
2003 3
2004 3
2005 18
2006 9
2007 5
2008 8
2009 5
2010 15
2011 19
2012 15
2013 16
2014 18
2015 23
2016 17
2017 12
2018 30
2019 20
2020 21
2021 18
2022 16
2023 17
2024 14
2025 19
2026 4
Total 355
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Ivan I. Smalyukh publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ivan I. Smalyukh sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600 800
Bar chart with 57 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 50–69 to 1,163+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 891. Most scientists, 891, have 190–209 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 290–309 publications, is where this scientist sits. 50–69 publications: 28 scientists 70–89 publications: 152 scientists 90–109 publications: 356 scientists 110–129 publications: 487 scientists 130–149 publications: 723 scientists 150–169 publications: 835 scientists 170–189 publications: 850 scientists 190–209 publications: 891 scientists 210–229 publications: 862 scientists 230–249 publications: 766 scientists 250–269 publications: 726 scientists 270–289 publications: 665 scientists 290–309 publications: 593 scientists 310–329 publications: 537 scientists 330–349 publications: 477 scientists 350–369 publications: 440 scientists 370–389 publications: 356 scientists 390–409 publications: 321 scientists 410–429 publications: 256 scientists 430–449 publications: 246 scientists 450–469 publications: 216 scientists 470–489 publications: 212 scientists 490–509 publications: 174 scientists 510–529 publications: 194 scientists 530–549 publications: 162 scientists 550–569 publications: 131 scientists 570–589 publications: 111 scientists 590–609 publications: 103 scientists 610–629 publications: 99 scientists 630–649 publications: 77 scientists 650–669 publications: 92 scientists 670–689 publications: 56 scientists 690–709 publications: 53 scientists 710–729 publications: 53 scientists 730–749 publications: 38 scientists 750–769 publications: 52 scientists 770–789 publications: 43 scientists 790–809 publications: 38 scientists 810–829 publications: 34 scientists 830–849 publications: 25 scientists 850–869 publications: 18 scientists 870–889 publications: 20 scientists 890–909 publications: 24 scientists 910–929 publications: 27 scientists 930–949 publications: 20 scientists 950–969 publications: 17 scientists 970–989 publications: 10 scientists 990–1,009 publications: 16 scientists 1,010–1,029 publications: 13 scientists 1,030–1,049 publications: 12 scientists 1,050–1,069 publications: 9 scientists 1,070–1,089 publications: 8 scientists 1,090–1,109 publications: 7 scientists 1,110–1,129 publications: 9 scientists 1,130–1,149 publications: 2 scientists 1,150–1,162 publications: 5 scientists 1,163+ publications: 100 scientists
50–69 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 291 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

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Number of Materials Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 12,847 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
50–69 28
70–89 152
90–109 356
110–129 487
130–149 723
150–169 835
170–189 850
190–209 891
210–229 862
230–249 766
250–269 726
270–289 665
290–309 593 291
310–329 537
330–349 477
350–369 440
370–389 356
390–409 321
410–429 256
430–449 246
450–469 216
470–489 212
490–509 174
510–529 194
530–549 162
550–569 131
570–589 111
590–609 103
610–629 99
630–649 77
650–669 92
670–689 56
690–709 53
710–729 53
730–749 38
750–769 52
770–789 43
790–809 38
810–829 34
830–849 25
850–869 18
870–889 20
890–909 24
910–929 27
930–949 20
950–969 17
970–989 10
990–1,009 16
1,010–1,029 13
1,030–1,049 12
1,050–1,069 9
1,070–1,089 8
1,090–1,109 7
1,110–1,129 9
1,130–1,149 2
1,150–1,162 5
1,163+ 100
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Ivan I. Smalyukh D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ivan I. Smalyukh sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 165+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 667. Most scientists, 667, have 52–53 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 72–73 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 211 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 450 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 612 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 612 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 598 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 657 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 667 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 621 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 597 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 610 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 587 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 606 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 533 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 490 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 469 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 378 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 421 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 359 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 323 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 299 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 230 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 210 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 195 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 203 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 175 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 175 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 142 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 121 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 117 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 107 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 88 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 85 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 68 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 62 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 57 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 45 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 49 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 50 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 34 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 38 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 29 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 28 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 24 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 33 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 28 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 20 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 23 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 17 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 12 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 17 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 21 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 13 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 11 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 13 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 4 scientists 164 D-Index: 3 scientists 165+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40–41 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

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Number of Materials Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 12,847 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 211
42–43 450
44–45 612
46–47 612
48–49 598
50–51 657
52–53 667
54–55 621
56–57 597
58–59 610
60–61 587
62–63 606
64–65 533
66–67 490
68–69 469
70–71 378
72–73 421 72
74–75 359
76–77 323
78–79 299
80–81 230
82–83 210
84–85 195
86–87 203
88–89 175
90–91 175
92–93 142
94–95 121
96–97 117
98–99 107
100–101 88
102–103 85
104–105 68
106–107 62
108–109 57
110–111 45
112–113 49
114–115 50
116–117 34
118–119 38
120–121 37
122–123 29
124–125 28
126–127 24
128–129 33
130–131 28
132–133 21
134–135 20
136–137 23
138–139 17
140–141 12
142–143 17
144–145 21
146–147 13
148–149 11
150–151 14
152–153 13
154–155 9
156–157 10
158–159 7
160–161 4
162–163 4
164 3
165+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to the physics of liquid crystal colloids, topological solitons, and related soft matter systems

Overview

Ivan I. Smalyukh is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields including Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several specialized topics such as Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Pickering Emulsions and Particle Stabilization, Micro and Nano Robotics, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation, and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems.

Ivan I. Smalyukh has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Advanced Materials, Physical Review E, Science Advances, and Nature Communications.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Highly transparent silanized cellulose aerogels for boosting energy efficiency of glazing in buildings, 2023, Nature Energy
  • Review: knots and other new topological effects in liquid crystals and colloids, 2020, Reports on Progress in Physics
  • Thermal Management by Engineering the Alignment of Nanocellulose, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Nanocrystal Assemblies: Current Advances and Open Problems, 2024, ACS Nano
  • Hopfions, heliknotons, skyrmions, torons and both abelian and nonabelian vortices in chiral liquid crystals, 2022, Liquid Crystals Reviews

The scientist collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors. These include Bohdan Senyuk, Jin-Sheng Wu, Jung-Shen B. Tai, Haridas Mundoor, and Mykola Tasinkevych, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Ivan I. Smalyukh was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2016 for contributions to the physics of liquid crystal colloids, topological solitons, and related soft matter systems.

Best Publications

  • Self-alignment of plasmonic gold nanorods in reconfigurable anisotropic fluids for tunable bulk metamaterial applications.

    Qingkun Liu;Yanxia Cui;Dennis Gardner;Xin Li

  • Three-dimensional structure and multistable optical switching of triple-twisted particle-like excitations in anisotropic fluids

    Ivan I. Smalyukh;Yves Lansac;Yves Lansac;Noel A. Clark;Rahul P. Trivedi

  • Shape-Controlled Colloidal Interactions in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Clayton P. Lapointe;Clayton P. Lapointe;Thomas G. Mason;Ivan I. Smalyukh

  • Topological colloids

    Bohdan Senyuk;Qingkun Liu;Sailing He;Randall D. Kamien

  • Three-dimensional imaging of orientational order by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy

    I.I. Smalyukh;S.V. Shiyanovskii;O.D. Lavrentovich

  • Elasticity-mediated self-organization and colloidal interactions of solid spheres with tangential anchoring in a nematic liquid crystal.

    Ivan I. Smalyukh;Oleg D. Lavrentovich;A. N. Kuzmin;A. V. Kachynski

  • Structure and dynamics of liquid crystalline pattern formation in drying droplets of DNA.

    Ivan I. Smalyukh;Ivan I. Smalyukh;Olena V. Zribi;John C. Butler;Oleg D. Lavrentovich

  • Preparation and in vitro characterization of a eutectic based semisolid self-nanoemulsified drug delivery system (SNEDDS) of ubiquinone: mechanism and progress of emulsion formation

    S Nazzal;I.I Smalyukh;O.D Lavrentovich;Mansoor A Khan

  • Topography from topology: photoinduced surface features generated in liquid crystal polymer networks.

    Michael E. McConney;Angel Martinez;Vincent P. Tondiglia;Kyung Min Lee

  • Two-dimensional skyrmion bags in liquid crystals and ferromagnets

    David Foster;Charles Kind;Paul J. Ackerman;Jung-Shen B. Tai

  • Plasmon-enhanced energy transfer for improved upconversion of infrared radiation in doped-lanthanide nanocrystals

    Qi Sun;Haridas Mundoor;Josep Ribot;Vivek Singh

  • Diversity of Knot Solitons in Liquid Crystals Manifested by Linking of Preimages in Torons and Hopfions

    Paul Jeffrey Ackerman;Ivan I. Smalyukh

  • Liquid Crystal Colloids

    Ivan I. Smalyukh

  • Static three-dimensional topological solitons in fluid chiral ferromagnets and colloids

    Paul J. Ackerman;Ivan I. Smalyukh

  • Liquid crystals of aqueous, giant graphene oxide flakes

    Budhadipta Dan;Natnael Behabtu;Angel Martinez;Julian S. Evans

  • Ordered droplet structures at the liquid crystal surface and elastic-capillary colloidal interactions.

    Ivan I. Smalyukh;S. Chernyshuk;B. I. Lev;A. B. Nych

  • Electrically and Optically Tunable Plasmonic Guest–Host Liquid Crystals with Long-Range Ordered Nanoparticles

    Qingkun Liu;Ye Yuan;Ivan I. Smalyukh

  • Mutually tangled colloidal knots and induced defect loops in nematic fields

    Angel Martinez;Miha Ravnik;Brice Lucero;Rayshan Visvanathan

  • Real-time microbe detection based on director distortions around growing immune complexes in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

    Sergij V. Shiyanovskii;Sergij V. Shiyanovskii;T. Schneider;Ivan I. Smalyukh;T. Ishikawa

  • Metal nanoparticle dispersion, alignment, and assembly in nematic liquid crystals for applications in switchable plasmonic color filters and E-polarizers.

    Yuan Zhang;Yuan Zhang;Qingkun Liu;Haridas Mundoor;Ye Yuan

Frequent Co-Authors

Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Oleg D. Lavrentovich Kent State University
Jao van de Lagemaat
Jao van de Lagemaat National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sailing He
Sailing He Zhejiang University
Paras N. Prasad
Paras N. Prasad University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Slobodan Žumer
Slobodan Žumer University of Ljubljana
Noel A. Clark
Noel A. Clark University of Colorado Boulder
Matteo Pasquali
Matteo Pasquali Rice University
Xiaolin Xie
Xiaolin Xie Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Scott B. Papp
Scott B. Papp National Institute of Standards and Technology
Scott A. Diddams
Scott A. Diddams University of Colorado Boulder

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