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D-Index
47
Citations
13687
World Ranking
4336
National Ranking
1510

Kaustuv Roy publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kaustuv Roy sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 90 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Kaustuv Roy D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kaustuv Roy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Kaustuv Roy is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research mainly spans the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Energy, with a focus on several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics within these areas, including:

  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties
  • ZnO Doping and Properties
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion

Kaustuv Roy has published research in various scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • Magnetic-field induced sustainable electrochemical energy harvesting and storage devices: Recent progress, opportunities, and future perspectives, 2021, Nano Energy
  • 2D-Heterostructure assisted activation of MoS2 basal plane for enhanced photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction, 2022, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Chlorophyll(a)/Carbon Quantum Dot Bio-Nanocomposite Activated Nano-Structured Silicon as an Efficient Photocathode for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Unravelling Rashba-Dresselhaus Splitting Assisted Magneto-Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting in Asymmetric MoSSe-GaN Heterostructures, 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction via photoelectrochemical water splitting utilizing asymmetric MoSSe under a low external magnetic field, 2023, Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Frequent collaborators include Praveen Kumar, Dibyendu Ghosh, Soumyajit Maitra, Pooja Devi, and K Sarkar.

The most common venues where Kaustuv Roy publishes are:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Nano Energy
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Kaustuv Roy was recognized with the Hellman Fellow award in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske;Howard V. Cornell;Andrew P. Allen

  • Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions

    Douglas W. Schemske;Gary G. Mittelbach;Howard V. Cornell;James M. Sobel

  • Out of the Tropics: Evolutionary Dynamics of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient

    David Jablonski;Kaustuv Roy;James W. Valentine

  • Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification

    J. Alroy;C. R. Marshall;R. K. Bambach;K. Bezusko

  • Marine latitudinal diversity gradients: Tests of causal hypotheses

    Kaustuv Roy;David Jablonski;James W. Valentine;Gary Rosenberg

  • Ecological and evolutionary consequences of size-selective harvesting: how much do we know?

    Phillip B. Fenberg;Kaustuv Roy

  • Defining and quantifying the core microbiome: Challenges and prospects.

    Alexander T Neu;Eric E Allen;Kaustuv Roy

  • Scales of climatic variability and time averaging in Pleistocene biotas: implications for ecology and evolution.

    Kaustuv Roy;James W. Valentine;David Jablonski;Susan M. Kidwell

  • Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time.

    Felisa A. Smith;Felisa A. Smith;James H. Brown;John P. Haskell;S. Kathleen Lyons

  • The impact of the pull of the recent on the history of marine diversity.

    David Jablonski;David Jablonski;David Jablonski;Kaustuv Roy;Kaustuv Roy;Kaustuv Roy;James W. Valentine;James W. Valentine;James W. Valentine;Rebecca M. Price;Rebecca M. Price;Rebecca M. Price

  • Out of the tropics, but how? Fossils, bridge species, and thermal ranges in the dynamics of the marine latitudinal diversity gradient

    David Jablonski;Christina L. Belanger;Sarah K. Berke;Shan Huang

  • Dissecting latitudinal diversity gradients: functional groups and clades of marine bivalves

    Kaustuv Roy;David Jablonski;James W. Valentine

  • Climate-Driven Range Expansion and Morphological Evolution in a Marine Gastropod

    Michael E. Hellberg;Deborah P. Balch;Kaustuv Roy

  • Anthropogenic impacts and historical decline in body size of rocky intertidal gastropods in southern California

    Kaustuv Roy;Allen Gilbert Collins;Bonnie J. Becker;Emina Begovic

  • Eastern Pacific molluscan provinces and latitudinal diversity gradient: no evidence for "Rapoport's rule".

    Kaustuv Roy;David Jablonski;James W. Valentine

  • Morphological approaches to measuring biodiversity

    Kaustuv Roy;Mike Foote

  • Climate change, body size evolution, and Cope's Rule in deep-sea ostracodes.

    Gene Hunt;Kaustuv Roy

  • Geographical range and speciation in fossil and living molluscs.

    David Jablonski;Kaustuv Roy

  • Global environmental predictors of benthic marine biogeographic structure

    Christina L. Belanger;David Jablonski;Kaustuv Roy;Sarah K. Berke

  • Invariant size-frequency distributions along a latitudinal gradient in marine bivalves.

    Kaustuv Roy;David Jablonski;Karen K. Martien

  • Higher Taxa in Biodiversity Studies: Patterns from Eastern Pacific Marine Molluscs

    K. Roy;D. Jablonski;J. W. Valentine

Frequent Co-Authors

David Jablonski
David Jablonski University of Chicago
James W. Valentine
James W. Valentine University of California, Berkeley
Danwei Huang
Danwei Huang National University of Singapore
Michael E. Hellberg
Michael E. Hellberg Louisiana State University
Gary G. Mittelbach
Gary G. Mittelbach Michigan State University
Douglas W. Schemske
Douglas W. Schemske Michigan State University
Howard V. Cornell
Howard V. Cornell University of California, Davis
Linda C. Ivany
Linda C. Ivany Syracuse University
Susan M. Kidwell
Susan M. Kidwell University of Chicago
Steven M. Holland
Steven M. Holland University of Georgia

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