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Nirajan Shiwakoti

Nirajan Shiwakoti

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
39
Citations
5073
World Ranking
7807
National Ranking
398

Nirajan Shiwakoti publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nirajan Shiwakoti sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 177 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Nirajan Shiwakoti D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nirajan Shiwakoti sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Nirajan Shiwakoti is affiliated with RMIT University in Australia. Their research predominantly spans the field of Engineering, with a total of 143 publications. Within this broad area, their work focuses on subfields such as Transportation, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Automotive Engineering, Social Psychology, and Ocean Engineering.

Their research topics cover diverse areas related to transportation and safety, with notable attention on Traffic and Road Safety, Urban Transport and Accessibility, Transportation and Mobility Innovations, Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics, Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, Transportation Planning and Optimization, and Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety.

Among their recent papers are the following works:

  • Biomass supply chain environmental and socio-economic analysis: 40-Years comprehensive review of methods, decision issues, sustainability challenges, and the way forward (2020, Biomass and Bioenergy)
  • A multinomial logit model of motorcycle crash severity at Australian intersections (2020, Journal of Safety Research)
  • Cyber-attacks in the next-generation cars, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness and future directions (2020, Accident Analysis & Prevention)
  • Comparison of technology acceptance model, theory of planned behavior, and unified theory of acceptance and use of technology to assess a priori acceptance of fully automated vehicles (2022, Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice)
  • Observational-based study to explore pedestrian crossing behaviors at signalized and unsignalized crosswalks (2021, Accident Analysis & Prevention)

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Peter Stasinopoulos (45 joint publications)
  • Kayvan Aghabayk (30 joint publications)
  • Seyed Mojib Zahraee (20 joint publications)
  • Shah Khalid Khan (17 joint publications)
  • Xiaomeng Shi (10 joint publications)

Their work appears recurrently in several publication venues, such as:

  • Sustainability (16 publications)
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention (6 publications)
  • Transport Policy (6 publications)
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation (6 publications)
  • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (5 publications)

Best Publications

  • Animal dynamics based approach for modeling pedestrian crowd egress under panic conditions

    Nirajan Shiwakoti;Majid Sarvi;Geoffrey Rose;Martin Burd

  • Biomass supply chain environmental and socio-economic analysis: 40-Years comprehensive review of methods, decision issues, sustainability challenges, and the way forward

    Seyed Mojib Zahraee;Nirajan Shiwakoti;Peter Stasinopoulos

  • A multinomial logit model of motorcycle crash severity at Australian intersections

    Mohammad Abrari Vajari;Kayvan Aghabayk;Mohammad Sadeghian;Nirajan Shiwakoti

  • Cyber-attacks in the next-generation cars, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness and future directions.

    Shah Khalid Khan;Nirajan Shiwakoti;Peter Stasinopoulos;Yilun Chen

  • A review on the performance of an obstacle near an exit on pedestrian crowd evacuation

    Nirajan Shiwakoti;Xiaomeng Shi;Zhirui Ye

  • Examining effect of architectural adjustment on pedestrian crowd flow at bottleneck

    Xiaomeng Shi;Zhirui Ye;Nirajan Shiwakoti;Dounan Tang

  • Enhancing the panic escape of crowd through architectural design

    Nirajan Shiwakoti;Majid Sarvi

  • Likely behaviours of passengers under emergency evacuation in train station

    Nirajan Shiwakoti;Richard Tay;Peter Stasinopoulos;Peter Jarrod Woolley

  • Social Media Use during Unplanned Transit Network Disruptions: A Review of Literature

    Brendan Michael Pender;Graham Currie;Alexa Reynolds Delbosc;Nirajan Shiwakoti

  • Examining influence of merging architectural features on pedestrian crowd movement

    Nirajan Shiwakoti;Yanshan Gong;Xiaomeng Shi;Zhirui Ye

  • Empirical investigation on safety constraints of merging pedestrian crowd through macroscopic and microscopic analysis

    Xiaomeng Shi;Zhirui Ye;Nirajan Shiwakoti;Dounan Tang

  • Comparison of technology acceptance model, theory of planned behavior, and unified theory of acceptance and use of technology to assess a priori acceptance of fully automated vehicles

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  • Understanding public response to a congestion charge: A random-effects ordered logit approach

    Zhanle Zheng;Zhiyuan Liu;Chuanli Liu;Nirajan Shiwakoti

  • Observational-based study to explore pedestrian crossing behaviors at signalized and unsignalized crosswalks.

    Kayvan Aghabayk;Javad Esmailpour;Ahmad Jafari;Nirajan Shiwakoti

  • Disruption recovery in passenger railways: international survey

    Brendan Michael Pender;Graham Currie;Alexa Reynolds Delbosc;Nirajan Shiwakoti

  • Using ordered and unordered logistic regressions to investigate risk factors associated with pedestrian crash injury severity in Victoria, Australia

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  • Investigating Collective Escape Behaviours in Complex Situations

    Charitha Gayan Jagathpriya Dias;Majid Sarvi;Nirajan Shiwakoti;Omid Ejtemai

  • Projection of Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the Road Transport Sector Based on Multivariate Regression and the Double Exponential Smoothing Model

    Reham Alhindawi;Yousef Abu Nahleh;Arun Kumar;Nirajan Shiwakoti

  • Enhancing the Safety of Pedestrians During Emergency Egress: Can We Learn from Biological Entities?

    Nirajan Shiwakoti;Majid Sarvi;Geoffrey Rose;Martin Christopher Burd

  • Data mining approach to model bus crash severity in Australia

    Seyed Alireza Samerei;Kayvan Aghabayk;Amin Mohammadi;Nirajan Shiwakoti

  • Nest architecture and traffic flow: large potential effects from small structural features.

    Martin Christopher Burd;Nirajan Shiwakoti;Majid Sarvi;Geoffrey Rose

  • Video-based analysis of school students' emergency evacuation behavior in earthquakes

    Ziyuan Gu;Ziyuan Gu;Zhiyuan Liu;Nirajan Shiwakoti;Min Yang

  • Modelling pedestrian behaviour under emergency conditions - State-of-the-art and future directions

    Nirajan Shiwakoti;Majid Sarvi;Geoff Rose

  • An investigation of the environmental sustainability of palm biomass supply chains via dynamic simulation modeling: A case of Malaysia

    Seyed Mojib Zahraee;Saeed Rahimpour Golroudbary;Nirajan Shiwakoti;Andrzej Kraslawski;Andrzej Kraslawski

  • Review on Lane Detection and Tracking Algorithms of Advanced Driver Assistance System

    Swapnil Waykole;Nirajan Shiwakoti;Peter Stasinopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Majid Sarvi
Majid Sarvi University of Melbourne
Graham Currie
Graham Currie Monash University
Martin Burd
Martin Burd Monash University
Alexa Delbosc
Alexa Delbosc Monash University
Richard Tay
Richard Tay RMIT University
Zhiyuan Liu
Zhiyuan Liu Southeast University
Xiaobo Qu
Xiaobo Qu Xiamen University
Shuaian Wang
Shuaian Wang Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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