Adnan Khan

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
143 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Adnan Khan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Adnan Khan has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Materials Chemistry, 34 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 33 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Adnan Khan's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (32 papers), Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (28 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (27 papers). Adnan Khan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (32 papers), Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (28 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (27 papers). Adnan Khan collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, China and Saudi Arabia. Adnan Khan's co-authors include Nisar Ali, Muhammad Bilal, Nauman Ali, Sumeet Malik, Hafiz M.N. Iqbal, Hamayun Khan, Farman Ali, Nauman Ali, Syed Lal Badshah and Sumaira Shah and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and Coordination Chemistry Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Adnan Khan

134 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Green Synthesis of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Nanoparticles Using A... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2023 200 400 600
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Green Synthesis of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Nanoparticles Using Aqueous Fruit Extracts of Myristica fragrans: Their Characterizations and Biological and Environmental Applications
    2021 610 citations Sumaira Shah, Adnan Khan et al. profile →
  2. Insight into microplastics in the aquatic ecosystem: Properties, sources, threats and mitigation strategies
    2023 144 citations Nisar Ali, Muhammad Arif Ali et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Adnan Khan Pakistan 39 2.1k 1.3k 886 827 636 143 4.7k
Arif Nazir Pakistan 37 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 930 1.0× 1.3k 1.5× 790 1.2× 261 5.7k
Dimitrios A. Giannakoudakis Greece 42 2.2k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 865 1.0× 1.5k 1.8× 1.1k 1.7× 128 5.2k
Nisar Ali China 44 2.2k 1.1× 1.6k 1.2× 945 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 914 1.4× 176 6.0k
Ijaz Ahmad Bhatti Pakistan 46 1.7k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 894 1.0× 963 1.2× 1.0k 1.6× 211 6.8k
Reda M. Abdelhameed Egypt 52 3.3k 1.6× 1.3k 0.9× 920 1.0× 1.3k 1.5× 936 1.5× 165 6.7k
Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo Cyprus 37 1.3k 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 723 0.8× 1.8k 2.2× 619 1.0× 89 3.8k
Trinh Duy Nguyen Vietnam 44 2.4k 1.2× 1.6k 1.2× 948 1.1× 1.7k 2.1× 980 1.5× 227 5.9k
Raja Selvaraj India 47 2.8k 1.3× 1.1k 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 1.3k 1.5× 1.4k 2.2× 158 5.8k
Dipak V. Pinjari India 42 2.2k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 917 1.0× 1.4k 1.7× 1.3k 2.1× 111 5.9k
Ajit Sharma India 40 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 657 0.7× 921 1.1× 778 1.2× 141 4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adnan Khan

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All Works

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Khan, Aziz, Dongmei Liu, Jie Zheng, et al.. (2025). Pre-treatment of roots with melatonin triggers a key tolerance mechanism underlying cadmium stress in cotton seedlings. Industrial Crops and Products. 228. 120870–120870. 3 indexed citations
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Nawaz, Arif, et al.. (2025). Carboxymethyl chitosan derived Nx-C integrated with adjacent redox half reactions (MnCoSnO3): A dynamic contender for wastewater decontamination. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 320(Pt 1). 145757–145757. 1 indexed citations
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Ali, Nisar, Song Wang, Abdul Kareem, et al.. (2024). Robust polymer hybrid and assembly materials from structure tailoring to efficient catalytic remediation of emerging pollutants. Chemosphere. 360. 142408–142408. 11 indexed citations
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Khan, Adnan, Nauman Ali, Mazhar Ul‐Islam, et al.. (2024). Catalytic performance of in-situ generated gold nanoparticles in alginate biopolymer and carbon nitride nanocomposite hydrogel beads. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 173. 113854–113854. 1 indexed citations
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Ali, Nisar, Muhammad Arif Ali, Arif Nawaz, et al.. (2024). Fabrication, characterization, metal ions sensor and photocatalytic activity of visible light harvesting lead free perovskite oxide. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 325. 129738–129738. 4 indexed citations
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Khan, Adnan, et al.. (2024). Cellulose acetate sheet supported gold nanoparticles for the catalytic reduction of toxic organic pollutants. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie. 238(12). 2279–2297.
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Ali, Nisar, et al.. (2024). Visible Light-Triggered Chitosan Supported Ternary Ferrite for Efficient Removal of Organic Dye Pollutants from Wastewater. Topics in Catalysis. 68(9-10). 759–779. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Qirui, Muhammad Faisal, Nisar Ali, et al.. (2024). Ternary Metal Oxide–Chitosan Hybrids for Efficient Photocatalytic Remediation of Organic Pollutants from Wastewater. Topics in Catalysis. 68(9-10). 984–999. 3 indexed citations
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Khan, Hamayun, Sumeet Malik, Paulo Sérgio Taube, et al.. (2023). Ternary magnetic silica–graphene oxide composite for remediation of textile dyes from aqueous environment and real samples. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie. 238(5). 883–912. 2 indexed citations
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Nawaz, Arif, Sarmad A. Ali, Falak Naz, et al.. (2023). A robust rationally designed multinarydouble perovskites microplates as an efficient visible-light photocatalyst. Surfaces and Interfaces. 38. 102794–102794. 17 indexed citations
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Malik, Sumeet, Adnan Khan, Hamayun Khan, et al.. (2023). Biomimetic Electrochemical Sensors Based on Core-Shell Imprinted Polymers for Targeted Sunset Yellow Estimation in Environmental Samples. Biosensors. 13(4). 429–429. 13 indexed citations
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Nawaz, Arif, et al.. (2023). A comparative and comprehensive study on robust silver-immobilized chitosan/carboxy methyl chitosan macromolecules for elimination of dyes. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 395. 123831–123831. 17 indexed citations
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Ismail, Ahmed, et al.. (2022). Effect of Morphology-Dependent Oxygen Vacancies of CeO2 on the Catalytic Oxidation of Toluene. Catalysts. 12(9). 1034–1034. 16 indexed citations
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Khan, Saraf, Adnan Khan, Nisar Ali, et al.. (2021). Degradation of Congo red dye using ternary metal selenide-chitosan microspheres as robust and reusable catalysts. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 22. 101402–101402. 58 indexed citations
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Ali, Nisar, Adnan Khan, Saraf Khan, et al.. (2020). Selenide‐chitosan as High‐performance Nanophotocatalyst for Accelerated Degradation of Pollutants. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 15(17). 2660–2673. 39 indexed citations
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Ali, Nisar, Salah Uddin, Adnan Khan, et al.. (2020). Regenerable chitosan-bismuth cobalt selenide hybrid microspheres for mitigation of organic pollutants in an aqueous environment. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 161. 1305–1317. 50 indexed citations
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Khan, Hamayun, Kashif Gul, Behisht Ara, et al.. (2020). Adsorptive removal of acrylic acid from the aqueous environment using raw and chemically modified alumina: Batch adsorption, kinetic, equilibrium and thermodynamic studies. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 8(4). 103927–103927. 55 indexed citations

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