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Ramesh Narayan 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 Ramesh Narayan sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 645 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ramesh Narayan 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 Ramesh Narayan sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 154 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 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

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

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

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

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • Spectra and light curves of gamma-ray burst afterglows

    Re'em Sari;Tsvi Piran;Ramesh Narayan

  • Advection dominated accretion: Underfed black holes and neutron stars

    Ramesh Narayan;Insu Yi

  • 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

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

    Ramesh Narayan;Bohdan Paczynski;Tsvi Piran

  • Hot Accretion Flows Around Black Holes

    Feng Yuan;Ramesh Narayan

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

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

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

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • Advection-dominated accretion: Self-similarity and bipolar outflows

    Ramesh Narayan;Insu Yi

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

    Alexander Tchekhovskoy;Ramesh Narayan;Jonathan C. McKinney

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and Instrumentation

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

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

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • Nonthermal Electrons in Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow Models of Sagittarius A

    Feng Yuan;Eliot Quataert;Ramesh Narayan

  • Maximum Entropy Image Restoration in Astronomy

    Ramesh Narayan;Rajaram Nityananda

  • Advection-Dominated Accretion and the Black Hole Event Horizon

    Ramesh Narayan;Jeffrey E. McClintock

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

    Ramesh Narayan;Insu Yi;Rohan Mahadevan

  • THE BLACK HOLE MASS DISTRIBUTION IN THE GALAXY

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey E. McClintock
Jeffrey E. McClintock Harvard University
Dimitrios Psaltis
Dimitrios Psaltis University of Arizona
Remo P. J. Tilanus
Remo P. J. Tilanus University of Arizona
James M. Moran
James M. Moran Harvard University
Charles F. Gammie
Charles F. Gammie University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Feryal Özel
Feryal Özel Georgia Institute of Technology
Marek A. Abramowicz
Marek A. Abramowicz Polish Academy of Sciences
Svetlana G. Jorstad
Svetlana G. Jorstad Boston University
Ue-Li Pen
Ue-Li Pen University of Toronto
Eliot Quataert
Eliot Quataert Princeton University

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