2026 Raju Venugopalan: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	92	2103	1998	1076	1005	309	32642

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Physics

2103

1998

1076

1005

309

32642

Raju Venugopalan 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 Raju Venugopalan sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 309 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Raju Venugopalan 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 Raju Venugopalan sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% 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

2007 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal work elucidating the parton substructure of nucleons and nuclei at low x

Overview

Raju Venugopalan is affiliated with Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States.

The primary field of study for Venugopalan is Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on several subfields:

Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Artificial Intelligence
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Venugopalan's work covers multiple main topics in research, highlighting intersections of theoretical and experimental particle physics:

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Venugopalan include:

The BEST framework for the search for the QCD critical point and the chiral magnetic effect, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
Deeply inelastic scattering structure functions on a hybrid quantum computer, 2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
Dijet impact factor in DIS at next-to-leading order in the Color Glass Condensate, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
Dynamics of entanglement in expanding quantum fields, 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
Single-particle digitization strategy for quantum computation of a ϕ⁴ scalar field theory, 2021, Physical review. A/Physical review, A

Venugopalan has collaborated frequently with several co-authors in their research efforts, including:

Farid Salazar
Björn Schenke
Andrey Tarasov
Paul Caucal
Himanshu Raj

Venugopalan's work has been published extensively in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
Journal of High Energy Physics
Physics Letters B
OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

In 2007, Venugopalan was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation for seminal work elucidating the parton substructure of nucleons and nuclei at low x.

Best Publications

Computing quark and gluon distribution functions for very large nuclei.

Larry D. McLerran;Raju Venugopalan

2817
Citations
Gluon distribution functions for very large nuclei at small transverse momentum.

Larry D. McLerran;Raju Venugopalan

2055
Citations
Electron-Ion Collider: The next QCD frontier: Understanding the glue that binds us all

A. Accardi;A. Accardi;J. L. Albacete;M. Anselmino;N. Armesto

1809
Citations
The Color Glass Condensate

Francois Gelis;Edmond Iancu;Jamal Jalilian-Marian;Raju Venugopalan

1538
Citations
Green's function in the color field of a large nucleus.

Larry D. McLerran;Raju Venugopalan

1197
Citations
Event-by-event anisotropic flow in heavy-ion collisions from combined Yang-Mills and viscous fluid dynamics

Charles Gale;Sangyong Jeon;Bjoern Schenke;Prithwish Tribedy

752
Citations
Fluctuating Glasma Initial Conditions and Flow in Heavy Ion Collisions

Bjoern Schenke;Prithwish Tribedy;Raju Venugopalan

748
Citations
The Color glass condensate and high-energy scattering in QCD

Edmond Iancu;Raju Venugopalan

482
Citations
Comparison of the color glass condensate to dihadron correlations in proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions

Kevin Dusling;Raju Venugopalan

472
Citations
Initial energy density of gluons produced in very-high-energy nuclear collisions

Alex Krasnitz;Raju Venugopalan

470
Citations
Glasma flux tubes and the near side ridge phenomenon at RHIC

Adrian Dumitru;François Gelis;Larry McLerran;Raju Venugopalan

465
Citations
Heavy-ion collisions at the LHC-Last call for predictions

N. Armesto;N. Borghini;S. Jeon;U. A. Wiedemann

462
Citations
Non-perturbative computation of gluon mini-jet production in nuclear collisions at very high energies

Alex Krasnitz;Raju Venugopalan

413
Citations
Non-equilibrium properties of hadronic mixtures

Madappa Prakash;Manju Prakash;Raju Venugopalan;Gerd Welke

405
Citations
Event-by-event gluon multiplicity, energy density, and eccentricities in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Björn Schenke;Prithwish Tribedy;Raju Venugopalan

401
Citations
Initial-state geometry and the role of hydrodynamics in proton-proton, proton-nucleus, and deuteron-nucleus collisions

Adam Bzdak;Bjoern Schenke;Prithwish Tribedy;Raju Venugopalan

387
Citations
The ridge in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

Adrian Dumitru;Adrian Dumitru;Kevin Dusling;François Gelis;Jamal Jalilian-Marian

370
Citations
Fock space distributions, structure functions, higher twists and small x

Larry D. McLerran;Raju Venugopalan

365
Citations
Coherent gluon production in very-high-energy heavy-ion collisions.

Alex Krasnitz;Yasushi Nara;Raju Venugopalan

339
Citations
Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the Electron-Ion Collider: EIC Yellow Report

R. Abdul Khalek;A. Accardi;J. Adam;D. Adamiak

189
Citations