2026 Pankaj K. Agarwal: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	78	173	142	101	79	408	21841
Computer Science	86	762	736	409	394	479	34767

Pankaj K. Agarwal 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 Pankaj K. Agarwal sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 537+

This scientist: 408 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pankaj K. Agarwal 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 Pankaj K. Agarwal sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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 United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
2002 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computational geometry and for building and strengthening links between this area and many of its applications.
1996 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Pankaj K. Agarwal is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, particularly in computational geometry and algorithms. Their research spans various topics including data management, graph theory, and digital image processing techniques.

The following are some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Pankaj K. Agarwal, which reflect their research focus:

Computing A Well-Representative Summary of Conjunctive Query Results, 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
Dynamic Geometric Set Cover and Hitting Set, 2022, ACM Transactions on Algorithms
Selectivity Functions of Range Queries are Learnable, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data
Computing Complex Temporal Join Queries Efficiently, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data
A Near-linear Time ε-Approximation Algorithm for Geometric Bipartite Matching, 2020, Journal of the ACM

Frequent co-authors of Agarwal include:

Micha Sharir
Stavros Sintos
Esther Ezra
Xiao Hu
Boris Aronov

Key publication venues for Agarwal's work encompass:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
ACM Transactions on Algorithms
Discrete & Computational Geometry
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data

Main fields of study include computer science with a strong focus on subfields such as:

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Signal Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Networks and Communications

Their research covers key topics such as:

Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
Data Management and Algorithms
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
Graph Theory and Algorithms
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Advanced Graph Theory Research
Digital Image Processing Techniques

Agarwal has received professional recognition including:

ACM Fellow, 2002, for contributions to computational geometry and for building and strengthening links between this area and many of its applications
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1996

Best Publications

Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

Robert H. Waterston;Kerstin Lindblad-Toh;Ewan Birney;Jane Rogers

8732
Citations
Davenport-Schinzel sequences and their geometric applications

Micha Sharir;Pankaj K. Agarwal

1146
Citations
Simplification envelopes

Jonathan Cohen;Amitabh Varshney;Dinesh Manocha;Greg Turk

932
Citations
Geometric Range Searching and Its Relatives

Pankaj K. Agarwal;Je Erickson

654
Citations
Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Clustering

P. K. Agarwal;C. M. Procopiuc

635
Citations
Indexing moving points

Pankaj K. Agarwal;Lars Arge;Jeff Erickson

563
Citations
The resilience of WDM networks to probabilistic geographical failures

Pankaj K. Agarwal;Alon Efrat;Shashidhara K. Ganjugunte;David Hay

515
Citations
A Monte Carlo algorithm for fast projective clustering

Cecilia M. Procopiuc;Michael Jones;Pankaj K. Agarwal;T. M. Murali

504
Citations
Geometric Approximation via Coresets

P. K. Agarwal;S. Har-Peled;K. Varadarajan

474
Citations
Use of genome-wide association studies for drug repositioning.

Philippe Sanseau;Pankaj Agarwal;Michael R Barnes;Michael R Barnes;Tomi Pastinen

426
Citations
Computational Drug Repositioning: From Data to Therapeutics

M R Hurle;L Yang;Q Xie;D K Rajpal

410
Citations
Approximating extent measures of points

Pankaj K. Agarwal;Sariel Har-Peled;Kasturi R. Varadarajan

408
Citations
Ray shooting and parametric search

Pankaj K. Agarwal;Jiří Matoušek

408
Citations
Human disease-drug network based on genomic expression profiles.

Guanghui Hu;Pankaj Agarwal

376
Citations
Efficient algorithms for geometric optimization

Pankaj K. Agarwal;Micha Sharir

370
Citations
Combinatorial Geometry: Pach/Combinatorial

János Pach;Pankaj K. Agarwal

343
Citations
Label placement by maximum independent set in rectangles

Pankaj K. Agarwal;Marc van Kreveld;Subhash Suri

324
Citations
Arrangements and Their Applications

Pankaj K. Agarwal;Micha Sharir

302
Citations
An Assessment of Gene Prediction Accuracy in Large DNA Sequences

Roderic Guigó;Pankaj Agarwal;Josep F. Abril;Moisés Burset

301
Citations
Systematic Drug Repositioning Based on Clinical Side-Effects

Lun Yang;Pankaj Agarwal

288
Citations
Comparative gene prediction in human and mouse.

Genı́s Parra;Pankaj Agarwal;Josep F. Abril;Thomas Wiehe

283
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Micha Sharir Tel Aviv University

Boris Aronov New York University

Lars Arge Aarhus University

Sariel Har-Peled University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jun Yang Duke University

Subhash Suri University of California, Santa Barbara

Kasturi Varadarajan University of Iowa

Leonidas J. Guibas Stanford University

Haim Kaplan Tel Aviv University

Ke Yi Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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