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Vladimir E. Zakharov

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Physics

D-Index
88
Citations
44997
World Ranking
2355
National Ranking
8

Vladimir E. Zakharov 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 Vladimir E. Zakharov sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 427 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Vladimir E. Zakharov 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 Vladimir E. Zakharov sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% 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

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2012 - OSA Fellows For outstanding contributions to nonlinear wave theory in optics, including optical solitons, turbulence and wave collapses.
  • 2011 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Vladimir E. Zakharov was affiliated with the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in the Russian Federation. Their research spanned extensively across multiple disciplines within physics and astronomy, focusing on nonlinear wave phenomena and their applications.

The main fields of study for Zakharov included:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The subfields of study they contributed to consisted of:

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Zakharov's principal research topics were focused on:

  • Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
  • Nonlinear Photonic Systems
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies

The scientist authored papers in various notable venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Теоретическая и математическая физика
  • Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk
  • Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Selected recent papers included:

  • "Solutions to the Kaup-Broer system and its (21) dimensional integrable generalization via the dressing method" (2020), published in Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena
  • "Water, hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and dust production from distant comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1" (2022), published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "Soliton Turbulence in Approximate and Exact Models for Deep Water Waves" (2020), published in Fluids
  • "Integration of a deep fluid equation with a free surface" (2020), published in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
  • "Bound-state soliton gas as a limit of adiabatically growing integrable turbulence" (2022), published in Chaos Solitons & Fractals

Zakharov collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Victor A. L'vov
  • Gregory Falkovich
  • Dmitry Zakharov
  • Andrey Gelash
  • A. N. Pushkarev

Their work also contributed to book publications, notably one forthcoming title:

  • Kolmogorov-Zakharov Spectra of Turbulence (2025), published by Springer Nature

Zakharov received several distinguished awards during their career including:

  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2018)
  • OSA Fellow (2012) for contributions to nonlinear wave theory in optics, including optical solitons, turbulence, and wave collapses
  • Member of Academia Europaea (2011)

Best Publications

  • Exact Theory of Two-dimensional Self-focusing and One-dimensional Self-modulation of Waves in Nonlinear Media

    V. E. Zakharov;A. B. Shabat

  • Stability of periodic waves of finite amplitude on the surface of a deep fluid

    Vladimir E Zakharov

  • Collapse of Langmuir Waves

    V. E. Zakharov

  • Kolmogorov Spectra of Turbulence I: Wave Turbulence

    V. E. Zakharov;V. S. L'Vov;G. Falkovich

  • Kolmogorov Spectra of Turbulence I

    Vladimir E. Zakharov;Victor S. L’vov;Gregory Falkovich

  • Interaction between solitons in a stable medium

    V. E. Zakharov;A. B. Shabat

  • The Inverse Scattering Method

    V. E. Zakharov

  • A scheme for integrating the nonlinear equations of mathematical physics by the method of the inverse scattering problem. I

    V. E. Zakharov;A. B. Shabat

  • Korteweg-de Vries equation: A completely integrable Hamiltonian system

    V. E. Zakharov;L. D. Faddeev

  • Modulation instability: The beginning

    V.E. Zakharov;V.E. Zakharov;L.A. Ostrovsky;L.A. Ostrovsky

  • Integration of nonlinear equations of mathematical physics by the method of inverse scattering. II

    V. E. Zakharov;A. B. Shabat

  • Relativistically invariant two-dimensional models of field theory which are integrable by means of the inverse scattering problem method

    V.E. Zakharov;A.V. Mikhailov

  • Soliton stability in plasmas and hydrodynamics

    E.A. Kuznetsov;A.M. Rubenchik;V.E. Zakharov

  • Two-dimensional solitons of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation and their interaction

    S.V. Manakov;V.E. Zakharov;L.A. Bordag;A.R. Its

  • What Is Integrability

    Vladimir Evgenʹevich Zakharov;Francesco Calogero

  • Equivalence of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the equation of a Heisenberg ferromagnet

    V. E. Zakharov;L. A. Takhtadzhyan

  • Hamiltonian formalism for nonlinear waves

    Vladimir E. Zakharov;Evgenii A. Kuznetsov

  • Hamiltonian approach to the description of non-linear plasma phenomena

    V.E. Zakharov;S.L. Musher;A.M. Rubenchik

  • Instability of waveguides and solitons in nonlinear media

    V. E. Zakharov;A. M. Rubenchik

  • Construction of higher-dimensional nonlinear integrable systems and of their solutions

    V. E. Zakharov;S. V. Manakov

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan C. Newell
Alan C. Newell University of Arizona
Alexander V. Mikhailov
Alexander V. Mikhailov University of Leeds
Gregory Falkovich
Gregory Falkovich Weizmann Institute of Science
Sergey Nazarenko
Sergey Nazarenko Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
S. P. Novikov
S. P. Novikov Russian Academy of Sciences
Frédéric Dias
Frédéric Dias University College Dublin
Vladimir E. Fortov
Vladimir E. Fortov Russian Academy of Sciences
Miguel Onorato
Miguel Onorato University of Turin
Bertrand Kibler
Bertrand Kibler Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alexander V. Babanin
Alexander V. Babanin University of Melbourne

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