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Kannan Soundararajan

Kannan Soundararajan

D-Index & Metrics

Mathematics

D-Index
40
Citations
5315
World Ranking
2092
National Ranking
884

Kannan Soundararajan publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kannan Soundararajan sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 135 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Kannan Soundararajan D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kannan Soundararajan sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 174 scientists 31 D-Index: 151 scientists 32 D-Index: 174 scientists 33 D-Index: 117 scientists 34 D-Index: 136 scientists 35 D-Index: 127 scientists 36 D-Index: 145 scientists 37 D-Index: 153 scientists 38 D-Index: 150 scientists 39 D-Index: 150 scientists 40 D-Index: 138 scientists 41 D-Index: 136 scientists 42 D-Index: 93 scientists 43 D-Index: 108 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 112 scientists 46 D-Index: 103 scientists 47 D-Index: 75 scientists 48 D-Index: 59 scientists 49 D-Index: 67 scientists 50 D-Index: 60 scientists 51 D-Index: 57 scientists 52 D-Index: 59 scientists 53 D-Index: 62 scientists 54 D-Index: 60 scientists 55 D-Index: 50 scientists 56 D-Index: 42 scientists 57 D-Index: 54 scientists 58 D-Index: 50 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 41 scientists 61 D-Index: 35 scientists 62 D-Index: 40 scientists 63 D-Index: 21 scientists 64 D-Index: 31 scientists 65 D-Index: 27 scientists 66 D-Index: 29 scientists 67 D-Index: 19 scientists 68 D-Index: 25 scientists 69 D-Index: 17 scientists 70 D-Index: 18 scientists 71 D-Index: 12 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 13 scientists 74 D-Index: 18 scientists 75 D-Index: 9 scientists 76 D-Index: 11 scientists 77 D-Index: 10 scientists 78 D-Index: 9 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 10 scientists 82 D-Index: 5 scientists 83 D-Index: 5 scientists 84 D-Index: 13 scientists 85 D-Index: 6 scientists 86+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society For contributions to analytic number theory.

Overview

Kannan Soundararajan is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Mathematics and Computer Science, with a notable focus on subfields such as Algebra and Number Theory, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their main topics of research cover a range of areas including:

  • Analytic Number Theory Research
  • Advanced Mathematical Identities
  • Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
  • Coding theory and cryptography
  • Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
  • Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
  • Finite Group Theory Research

Recent publications by Kannan Soundararajan include the following:

  • "Central limit theorems for random multiplicative functions," 2023, Journal d Analyse Mathématique
  • "Productivity and quality improvement through DMAIC in SME," 2020, International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Other notable papers closely associated with coauthors in their scholarly network are:

  • "Lower bounds for moments of zeta and L-functions revisited," 2022, Mathematika
  • "Lower bounds for moments of zeta and $L$-functions revisited," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Almost all entries in the character table of the symmetric group are multiples of any given prime," 2022, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal)

Frequent collaborators in Soundararajan's research include Sarah Peluse, Winston Heap, Max Wenqiang Xu, K. Janardhan Reddy, and Emmanuel Kowalski.

The venues in which they have regularly published comprise:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Mathematika
  • Journal d Analyse Mathématique
  • International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management
  • Advances in Mathematics

Soundararajan has contributed to book publications as well, including a work published by the American Mathematical Society titled Finite Fields, with Applications to Combinatorics (2022).

Awards granted to Soundararajan include the designation of Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2018, recognizing contributions to analytic number theory.

Best Publications

  • Demography of Cirsium vulgare in a grazing experiment.

    Kannan Soundararajan

  • Moments of the Riemann zeta function

    Kannan Soundararajan

  • The distribution of values of L(1, χ d )

    Andrew Granville;K. Soundararajan

  • Large character sums: Pretentious characters and the Pólya-Vinogradov theorem

    Andrew Granville;Kannan Soundararajan;Kannan Soundararajan

  • Mass equidistribution for Hecke eigenforms

    Roman Holowinsky;Kannan Soundararajan

  • Extreme values of zeta and L-functions

    K. Soundararajan

  • Quantum unique ergodicity for SL2 (Z) H

    Kannan Soundararajan

  • Mean-values of the Riemann zeta-function

    K. Soundararajan

  • Omega results for the divisor and circle problems

    Kannan Soundararajan

  • Divisibility of Class Numbers of Imaginary Quadratic Fields

    K. Soundararajan

  • Primes in short intervals

    Hugh L. Montgomery;K. Soundararajan

  • Large character sums

    Andrew Granville;K. Soundararajan;K. Soundararajan

  • Small gaps between prime numbers: The work of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim

    K. Soundararajan;K. Soundararajan

  • Moments and distribution of central $$L$$ L -values of quadratic twists of elliptic curves

    Maksym Radziwiłł;K. Soundararajan

  • Lower bounds for moments of L-functions

    Z. Rudnick;K. Soundararajan

  • On modular signs

    E. Kowalski;Y.-K. Lau;Kannan Soundararajan;J. Wu

  • Maximum of the Riemann zeta function on a short interval of the critical line

    Louis Pierre Arguin;David Belius;Paul Bourgade;Maksym Radziwiłł

  • CONDITIONAL BOUNDS FOR THE LEAST QUADRATIC NON-RESIDUE AND RELATED PROBLEMS

    Youness Lamzouri;Xiannan Li;Kannan Soundararajan

  • Ramanujan's ternary quadratic form

    Ken Ono;K. Soundararajan

  • Decay of Mean Values of Multiplicative Functions

    Andrew Granville;K. Soundararajan

  • Nonvanishing of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions at s=1/2

    K. Soundararajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Granville
Andrew Granville University of Montreal
Henryk Iwaniec
Henryk Iwaniec Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Persi Diaconis
Persi Diaconis Stanford University
Jeffrey C. Lagarias
Jeffrey C. Lagarias University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ken Ono
Ken Ono University of Virginia
Sourav Chatterjee
Sourav Chatterjee Stanford University
Hugh L. Montgomery
Hugh L. Montgomery University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Zeév Rudnick
Zeév Rudnick Tel Aviv University
Ben Green
Ben Green University of Oxford

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