2026 Ramesh Narayan: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	154	255	244	150	144	645	93590

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Physics

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Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Ramesh Narayan is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a notable focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their work extends into subfields including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Geophysics.

The scientist's research topics include:

Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Relativity and Gravitational Theory

Recent publication venues where Ramesh Narayan has contributed significantly include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Astrophysical Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Journal of Plasma Physics

Among recent published papers, the following titles and venues are included:

"Key Science Goals for the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope," 2023, Galaxies
"Reconnection-driven Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Shear Flows," 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
"Toward Determining the Number of Observable Supermassive Black Hole Shadows," 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
"Faraday depolarization and induced circular polarization by multipath propagation with application to FRBs," 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
"Flux Eruption Events Drive Angular Momentum Transport in Magnetically Arrested Accretion Flows," 2022, The Astrophysical Journal

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including Angelo Ricarte, Koushik Chatterjee, Priyamvada Natarajan, Sheperd S. Doeleman, and Daniel C. M. Palumbo.

Ramesh Narayan has been recognized through several awards and honors. They were named a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2006, became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013, and were made a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

Advection-dominated Accretion: A Self-similar Solution

Ramesh Narayan;Insu Yi

3344
Citations
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

3175
Citations
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole

Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

2457
Citations
Spectra and light curves of gamma-ray burst afterglows

Re'em Sari;Tsvi Piran;Ramesh Narayan

2358
Citations
Advection dominated accretion: Underfed black holes and neutron stars

Ramesh Narayan;Insu Yi

2140
Citations
Advection-Dominated Accretion and the Spectral States of Black Hole X-Ray Binaries: Application to Nova Muscae 1991

Ann A. Esin;Jeffrey E. McClintock;Ramesh Narayan

1889
Citations
Gamma-ray bursts as the death throes of massive binary stars

Ramesh Narayan;Bohdan Paczynski;Tsvi Piran

1864
Citations
Hot Accretion Flows Around Black Holes

Feng Yuan;Ramesh Narayan

1390
Citations
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. The Shadow and Mass of the Central Black Hole

Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

1246
Citations
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring

Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

1204
Citations
Advection-dominated accretion: Self-similarity and bipolar outflows

Ramesh Narayan;Insu Yi

1152
Citations
Efficient Generation of Jets from Magnetically Arrested Accretion on a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole

Alexander Tchekhovskoy;Ramesh Narayan;Jonathan C. McKinney

1033
Citations
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and Instrumentation

Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

864
Citations
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Data Processing and Calibration

Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

864
Citations
Nonthermal Electrons in Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow Models of Sagittarius A

Feng Yuan;Eliot Quataert;Ramesh Narayan

757
Citations
Maximum Entropy Image Restoration in Astronomy

Ramesh Narayan;Rajaram Nityananda

674
Citations
Advection-Dominated Accretion and the Black Hole Event Horizon

Ramesh Narayan;Jeffrey E. McClintock

671
Citations
Explaining the spectrum of Sagittarius-A* with a model of an accreting black-hole

Ramesh Narayan;Insu Yi;Rohan Mahadevan

660
Citations
THE BLACK HOLE MASS DISTRIBUTION IN THE GALAXY

Feryal Özel;Dimitrios Psaltis;Ramesh Narayan;Jeffrey E. McClintock

622
Citations
The Spin of the Near-Extreme Kerr Black Hole GRS 1915+105

Jeffrey E. McClintock;Rebecca Shafee;Ramesh Narayan;Ronald A. Remillard

610
Citations