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Nikhil Padmanabhan

Nikhil Padmanabhan

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
106
Citations
91786
World Ranking
1305
National Ranking
682

Nikhil Padmanabhan publication distribution in Physics in 2026

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

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 236 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Nikhil Padmanabhan D-index placement in Physics in 2026

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

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 106 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Nikhil Padmanabhan is a researcher affiliated with Yale University in the United States, specializing primarily in the fields of Physics and Astronomy. Their scholarly contributions encompass a range of study areas, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Infectious Diseases, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Epidemiology.

Their research spans several significant scientific topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena; Cosmology and Gravitation Theories; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research; SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing; Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena; and Respiratory viral infections research.

Padmanabhan's recent papers include:

  • "The High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope" (2022), published in The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Baryon acoustic oscillation theory and modelling systematics for the DESI 2024 results" (2024), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Optimal 1D Ly α forest power spectrum estimation - II. KODIAQ, SQUAD, and XQ-100" (2021), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "First detection of the BAO signal from early DESI data" (2023), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Optimal 1D Ly α forest power spectrum estimation - I. DESI-lite spectra" (2020), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Padmanabhan's frequent coauthors include:

  • George B. Sigal
  • Daniel Romero
  • Xinyi Chen
  • Anu Mathew
  • S. P. Ahlen

Their work appears most often in the following publication venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Physical Review D
  • Scientific Reports

In 2013, Nikhil Padmanabhan was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork N. Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam

  • Stellar Masses and Star Formation Histories for 10^5 Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Simon D.M. White;Stephane Charlot

  • The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

    Shadab Alam;Metin Ata;Stephen Bailey;Florian Beutler

  • Stellar masses and star formation histories for 105 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Simon D. M. White;Stéphane Charlot;Stéphane Charlot

  • SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Baryon acoustic oscillations in the data release 9 spectroscopic galaxy sample

    Lauren Anderson;Élric Aubourg;Stephen Bailey;Florian Beutler

  • The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An

  • The eleventh and twelfth data releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: final data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: I. Stellar Number Density Distribution

    Mario Juric;Zeljko Ivezic;Alyson Brooks;Robert H. Lupton

  • THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III

    Kyle S. Dawson;David J. Schlegel;Christopher P. Ahn;Scott F. Anderson

  • Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Max Tegmark;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Michael A. Strauss;David H. Weinberg

  • The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Friedrich Anders

  • The ninth data release of the sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Schlegel
David J. Schlegel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Daniel J. Eisenstein
Daniel J. Eisenstein Harvard University
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Will J. Percival
Will J. Percival University of Waterloo
Francisco Prada
Francisco Prada Spanish National Research Council
David H. Weinberg
David H. Weinberg The Ohio State University
Uroš Seljak
Uroš Seljak University of California, Berkeley
Robert H. Lupton
Robert H. Lupton Princeton University
Michael R. Blanton
Michael R. Blanton New York University
Robert C. Nichol
Robert C. Nichol University of Surrey

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