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Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

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Mathematics
Canada
2026

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Mathematics

D-Index
98
Citations
105037
World Ranking
50
National Ranking
3

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan 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 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 1,362 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan 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 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan 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: 137 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: 98 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mathematics in Canada Leader Award
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and has an extensive publication record across fields related to mathematics and decision sciences. Their research primarily focuses on statistics, probability, reliability, and uncertainty, contributing to both theoretical and applied aspects of these disciplines.

The scientist has published in several recognized venues, with the most frequent including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods
  • Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
  • Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability

Balakrishnan's work encompasses a variety of specialized topics, notably:

  • Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
  • Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
  • Reliability and Maintenance Optimization
  • Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Probability and Risk Models
  • Statistical Methods and Inference

Their recent papers illustrate the breadth of their research interests and publication record, including:

  • "Circulating anti-nuclear autoantibodies in COVID-19 survivors predict long-COVID symptoms," 2022, European Respiratory Journal
  • "A unified formulation of entropy and its application," 2022, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • "Cumulative Residual and Relative Cumulative Residual Fisher Information and Their Properties," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • "Reliability estimation for one-shot devices under cyclic accelerated life-testing," 2021, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • "Jensen-information generating function and its connections to some well-known information measures," 2020, Statistics & Probability Letters

Collaborations form an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • He Yi
  • Elena Castilla
  • Omid Kharazmi
  • Leandro Pardo
  • Ghobad Barmalzan

In addition to journal articles, Balakrishnan has contributed to book publications such as "Methodology and Applications of Statistics," published in 2021 under the series Contributions to Statistics.

Their academic contributions have been recognized by awards such as the Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), which they received in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Continuous Multivariate Distributions

    Samuel Kotz;N. Balakrishnan;Norman Lloyd Johnson

  • Continuous Multivariate Distributions: Models and Applications

    Samuel Kotz;N. Balakrishnan;Norman L. Johnson

  • Continuous univariate distributions

    Norman Lloyd Johnson;Samuel Kotz;N. Balakrishnan

  • A first course in order statistics

    Barry C. Arnold;N. Balakrishnan;H. N. Nagaraja

  • Progressive Censoring: Theory, Methods, and Applications

    N. Balakrishnan;Rita Aggarwala

  • Discrete Multivariate Distributions

    Norman Lloyd Johnson;Samuel Kotz;N. Balakrishnan

  • Records: Arnold/Records

    Barry C. Arnold;N. Balakrishnan;H. N. Nagaraja

  • Continuous Bivariate Distributions

    N. Balakrishnan;Chin-Diew Lai

  • On families of beta- and generalized gamma-generated distributions and associated inference

    K. Zografos;N. Balakrishnan

  • A Simple Simulational Algorithm for Generating Progressive Type-II Censored Samples

    N. Balakrishnan;R. A. Sandhu

  • Progressive censoring methodology: an appraisal

    N. Balakrishnan

  • Order Statistics and Inference—Estimation Methods

    P. Prescott;N. Balakrishnan;A. C. Cohen

  • The Art of Progressive Censoring

    N. Balakrishnan;Erhard Cramer

  • Handbook of the Logistic Distribution

    N. Balakrishnan

  • Runs and scans with applications

    N. Balakrishnan

  • A General Purpose Approximate Goodness-of-Fit Test

    Gemai Chen;N. Balakrishnan

  • The gamma-exponentiated exponential distribution

    Miroslav M. Ristić;Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

  • A Primer on Statistical Distributions

    N. Balakrishnan;Valery B. Nevzorov

  • Interval Estimation of Parameters of Life From Progressively Censored Data

    Román Viveros;N. Balakrishnan

  • Continuous Univariate Distributions.Vol. 1@@@Continuous Univariate Distributions.Vol. 2

    S. Kocherlakota;N. L. Johnson;S. Kotz;N. Balakrishnan

  • Order statistics and inference : estimation methods

    P. K. Sen;N. Balakrishnan;A. Clifford Cohen

  • Discrete Multivariate Distributions

    H. Papageorgiou;N. L. Johnson;S. Kotz;N. Balakrishnan

  • A First Course in Order Statistics.

    H. Papageorgiou;B. C. Arnold;N. Balakrishnan;H. N. Nagaraja

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Sitharama Iyengar
S. Sitharama Iyengar Florida International University
Norman L. Johnson
Norman L. Johnson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Samuel Kotz
Samuel Kotz George Washington University
Barry C. Arnold
Barry C. Arnold University of California, Riverside
Debasis Kundu
Debasis Kundu Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Víctor Leiva
Víctor Leiva Pontificial Catholic University of Valparaiso
Jorge Navarro
Jorge Navarro University of Murcia
Dusan S. Zrnic
Dusan S. Zrnic National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
V. N. Bringi
V. N. Bringi Colorado State University
Donghua Zhou
Donghua Zhou Shandong University of Science and Technology

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