2026 Shrinivas R. Kulkarni: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	170	145	140	95	92	1390	117926

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Physics

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1390

117926

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award

Overview

Shrinivas R. Kulkarni is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on physics and astronomy, with a significant number of publications contributing to the subfields of astronomy and astrophysics, nuclear and high energy physics, instrumentation, computational mechanics, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work covers diverse main topics, prominently including gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, pulsars and gravitational waves research, astrophysical phenomena and observations, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, astronomy and astrophysical research, and astro and planetary science.

Shrinivas R. Kulkarni has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

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

Among the most recent papers are:

The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. I. Spectroscopic Classification and the Redshift Completeness of Local Galaxy Catalogs (2020), The Astrophysical Journal
The Final Season Reimagined: 30 Tidal Disruption Events from the ZTF-I Survey (2022), The Astrophysical Journal
Tidal Disruption Event Demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Volumetric Rates, Luminosity Function, and Implications for the Local Black Hole Mass Function (2023), The Astrophysical Journal Letters
First tidal disruption events discovered by SRG/eROSITA: X-ray/optical properties and X-ray luminosity function at z < 0.6 (2021), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
A Systematic Search of Zwicky Transient Facility Data for Ultracompact Binary LISA-detectable Gravitational-wave Sources (2020), The Astrophysical Journal

Frequent co-authors include:

M. J. Graham
M. M. Kasliwal
Eric C. Bellm
J. Sollerman
Reed Riddle

Best Publications

The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission

N. Gehrels;G. Chincarini;G. Chincarini;P. Giommi;K. O. Mason

4923
Citations
LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Željko Ivezić;Steven M. Kahn;J. Anthony Tyson;Bob Abel

4078
Citations
The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance and First Results

N. M. Law;S. R. Kulkarni;R. G. Dekany;E. O. Ofek

1754
Citations
BEAMING IN GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: EVIDENCE FOR A STANDARD ENERGY RESERVOIR

D. A. Frail;S. R. Kulkarni;R. Sari;S. G. Djorgovski

1628
Citations
The zwicky transient facility: System overview, performance, and first results

Eric C. Bellm;Shrinivas R. Kulkarni;Matthew J. Graham;Richard Dekany

1561
Citations
The Palomar Transient Factory: system overview, performance and first results

Nicholas M. Law;Shrinivas R. Kulkarni;Richard G. Dekany;Eran O. Ofek

1414
Citations
LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

Paul A. Abell;Julius Allison;Scott F. Anderson

1210
Citations
Spectral constraints on the redshift of the optical counterpart to the γ-ray burst of 8 May 1997

M. R. Metzger;S. G. Djorgovski;S. R. Kulkarni;C. C. Steidel

1167
Citations
Discovery of a cool brown dwarf

T. Nakajima;B. R. Oppenheimer;S. R. Kulkarni;D. A. Golimowski

1057
Citations
Electrodynamics of Magnetars: Implications for the Persistent X-Ray Emission and Spin-down of the Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars

C. Thompson;M. Lyutikov;M. Lyutikov;S. R. Kulkarni

1008
Citations
A millisecond pulsar

D. C. Backer;Shrinivas R. Kulkarni;Carl Heiles;M. M. Davis

986
Citations
The radio afterglow from the γ-ray burst of 8 May 1997

D. A. Frail;S. R. Kulkarni;L. Nicastro;M. Feroci

927
Citations
Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory

Arne Rau;Shrinivas R. Kulkarni;Nicholas M. Law;Joshua S. Bloom

917
Citations
The Observed Offset Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts from Their Host Galaxies: A Robust Clue to the Nature of the Progenitors* **

J. S. Bloom;S. R. Kulkarni;S. G. Djorgovski

870
Citations
A γ-ray burst at a redshift of z ≈ 8.2

N. R. Tanvir;D. B. Fox;A. J. Levan;E. Berger

854
Citations
Radio emission from the unusual supernova 1998bw and its association with the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998

Shri R. Kulkarni;D. A. Frail;M. H. Wieringa;R. D. Ekers

853
Citations
The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives

Matthew J. Graham;S. R. Kulkarni;Eric C. Bellm;Scott M. Adams

789
Citations
An ultraluminous X-ray source powered by an accreting neutron star

M. Bachetti;F. A. Harrison;D. J. Walton;B. W. Grefenstette

760
Citations
The afterglow of GRB 050709 and the nature of the short-hard γ-ray bursts

Derek B Fox;Derek B Fox;Dale A Frail;Paul Antony Price;Shrinivas R Kulkarni

731
Citations
The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission

N. Gehrels;G Chincarini;P. Giommi;K. O. Mason

55
Citations