collaborators

6 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Which is the best day of the week to submit to arXiv:astro-ph?

Chirag Sharma, Shantanu Desai

We examine whether the citations received by refereed astronomy papers vary systematically with the day of the week of their arXiv preprint release. We use NASA ADS citation data f…

astro-ph.HE2026

Probing dipole and quadrupole anisotropy in Gamma-ray bursts from Swift dataset

Vedant Mokal, Shantanu Desai

Testing the validity of the cosmological principle's assumption of large-scale isotropy remains crucial for modern cosmology. We investigate the angular distributions of gamma-ray…

astro-ph.CO2026

Impact of CMB low- EE polarization data on dark energy parameterizations

Shubham Barua, Shantanu Desai

Measurement of the optical depth to reionization () is largely driven by the large-scale EE polarization data of CMB (). Removing the low- EE data p…

astro-ph.GA2026

Determination of the best dark matter profile for the Milky Way with Gaia DR3 using Bayesian Model Comparison

Aryan Singh, Shantanu Desai

We carry out a Bayesian model comparison analysis to determine the dark matter model that best describes the Milky Way rotation curve, using four recent compilations of rotation-cu…

astro-ph.IM2025

How stable are the impact factors of major astrophysics journals

Rayani Venkat Sai Rithvik, Shantanu Desai

We examine the long-term trends in impact factor over the past decade (2015-2014) for seven flagship journals widely used in Astrophysics: ApJ, AJ, ApJL, ApJS,A &A, JCAP, and MNRAS…

astro-ph.IM2025

A meta-analysis of impact factors of astrophysics journals

Rayani Venkat Sai Rithvik, Shantanu Desai

We calculate the 2024 impact factors for the 38 most widely used journals in Astrophysics, using the citations collated by NASA/ADS (Astrophysics Data System) and compare them to t…