Amir Sapkota

20.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Amir Sapkota is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Amir Sapkota has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 16 papers in Pollution and 10 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Amir Sapkota's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (30 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (30 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (9 papers). Amir Sapkota is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (30 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (30 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (9 papers). Amir Sapkota collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Taiwan. Amir Sapkota's co-authors include Amy R. Sapkota, Rolf U. Halden, Jochen Heidler, Chengsheng Jiang, Robert Lawrence, Shawn McKenzie, Janelle M. Burke, Polly Walker, Timothy J. Buckley and Clifford S. Mitchell and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Amir Sapkota

98 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Aquaculture practices and potential human health risks: Current knowledge and future priorities

2008 673 citations Amir Sapkota, Amir Sapkota et al. Environment International profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amir Sapkota United States	34	1.6k	1.3k	460	287	252	102	3.9k
Cordia Chu Australia	44	2.6k 1.6×	622 0.5×	450 1.0×	405 1.4×	139 0.6×	213	7.6k
Dung Phung Australia	33	1.7k 1.1×	710 0.6×	296 0.6×	318 1.1×	38 0.2×	131	4.9k
Hiroshi Sakugawa Japan	42	1.2k 0.7×	801 0.6×	438 1.0×	304 1.1×	182 0.7×	221	7.6k
M. Belal Hossain Bangladesh	40	1.0k 0.6×	2.5k 2.0×	323 0.7×	499 1.7×	119 0.5×	343	6.4k
Paul Kay United Kingdom	38	813 0.5×	3.3k 2.6×	199 0.4×	365 1.3×	202 0.8×	105	5.6k
Yuanan Lu United States	38	1.8k 1.1×	424 0.3×	323 0.7×	698 2.4×	967 3.8×	185	4.8k
Elisavet Stavropoulou Greece	24	1.5k 0.9×	459 0.4×	409 0.9×	849 3.0×	108 0.4×	76	5.6k
Keeve E. Nachman United States	33	1.4k 0.8×	922 0.7×	152 0.3×	374 1.3×	210 0.8×	101	3.9k
Linsheng Yang China	36	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	308 0.7×	220 0.8×	28 0.1×	184	4.7k
Shamin Ara Jahan South Korea	13	2.7k 1.7×	1.0k 0.8×	130 0.3×	476 1.7×	50 0.2×	14	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Amir Sapkota

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amir Sapkota

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amir Sapkota. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amir Sapkota based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Amir Sapkota. Amir Sapkota is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roxy, Mathew Koll, Raghu Murtugudde, Amir Sapkota, et al.. (2025). Dengue dynamics, predictions, and future increase under changing monsoon climate in India. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 1637–1637. 5 indexed citations

Gao, Chuansi, Dong An, Raul Cruz‐Cano, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal link between El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), extreme heat, and thermal stress in the Asia–Pacific region. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7448–7448. 7 indexed citations

Cruz‐Cano, Raul, Hao He, Meghnath Dhimal, et al.. (2024). A prototype early warning system for diarrhoeal disease to combat health threats of climate change in the asia-pacific region. Environmental Research Letters. 19(11). 114094–114094.

Sharma, Ayushi, Priya Dutta, Priyanka Shah, et al.. (2024). Characterizing the effects of extreme heat events on all-cause mortality: A case study in Ahmedabad city of India, 2002–2018. Urban Climate. 54. 101832–101832. 3 indexed citations

Raimann, Jochen G., et al.. (2023). Inclement Weather and Risk of Missing Scheduled Hemodialysis Appointments among Patients with Kidney Failure. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 18(7). 904–912. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Linyan, Suhana Chattopadhyay, Leena Malayil, et al.. (2023). Biochar and zero-valent iron sand filtration simultaneously removes contaminants of emerging concern and Escherichia coli from wastewater effluent. Biochar. 5(1). 8 indexed citations

Sapkota, Amir & Peter Kotanko. (2023). Climate change-fuelled natural disasters and chronic kidney disease: a call for action. Nature Reviews Nephrology. 19(3). 141–142. 11 indexed citations

Li, Xuecao, Xuecao Li, Ghassem Asrar, et al.. (2022). Detection and attribution of long-term and fine-scale changes in spring phenology over urban areas: A case study in New York State. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 110. 102815–102815. 17 indexed citations

Dhimal, Meghnath, Dinesh Bhandari, Khem Bahadur Karki, et al.. (2022). Effects of Climatic Factors on Diarrheal Diseases among Children below 5 Years of Age at National and Subnational Levels in Nepal: An Ecological Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(10). 6138–6138. 22 indexed citations

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Shrestha, Gambhir, et al.. (2022). Differences in risk factors for head and neck cancer among men and women in Nepal: A case-control study. Cancer Epidemiology. 82. 102319–102319. 4 indexed citations

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He, Hao, Jochen G. Raimann, Peter Kotanko, et al.. (2021). Combined effects of air pollution and extreme heat events among ESKD patients within the Northeastern United States. The Science of The Total Environment. 812. 152481–152481. 10 indexed citations

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Zhu, Linyan, et al.. (2020). Impact of high precipitation and temperature events on the distribution of emerging contaminants in surface water in the Mid-Atlantic, United States. The Science of The Total Environment. 755(Pt 2). 142552–142552. 38 indexed citations

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Kulkarni, Prachi, Anthony Bui, Kalmia E. Kniel, et al.. (2019). Zerovalent iron-sand filtration can reduce the concentration of multiple antimicrobials in conventionally treated reclaimed water. Environmental Research. 172. 301–309. 16 indexed citations

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Craddock, Hillary A., et al.. (2019). Antibiotic and herbicide concentrations in household greywater reuse systems and pond water used for food crop irrigation: West Bank, Palestinian Territories. The Science of The Total Environment. 699. 134205–134205. 41 indexed citations

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Siwakoti, Bhola, et al.. (2019). Tobacco smoking, chewing habits, alcohol drinking and the risk of head and neck cancer in Nepal. International Journal of Cancer. 147(3). 866–875. 35 indexed citations

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Wilson, Sacoby, et al.. (2018). Development of a Cumulative Stressors and Resiliency Index to Examine Environmental Health Risk: A South Carolina Assessment. Environmental Justice. 11(4). 165–175. 2 indexed citations

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Kulkarni, Prachi, Nathan D. Olson, Rachel E. Rosenberg Goldstein, et al.. (2017). Antibiotic Concentrations Decrease during Wastewater Treatment but Persist at Low Levels in Reclaimed Water. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 14(6). 668–668. 91 indexed citations

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Goldstein, Rachel E. Rosenberg, Shirley A. Micallef, Shawn G. Gibbs, et al.. (2013). Detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) at four U.S. wastewater treatment plants that provide effluent for reuse. The Science of The Total Environment. 466-467. 404–411. 83 indexed citations

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Kerridge, Bradley T., Maria R. Khan, Jürgen Rehm, & Amir Sapkota. (2013). Terrorism, civil war and related violence and substance use disorder morbidity and mortality: A global analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 61–61. 8 indexed citations

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Sapkota, Amir, Amir Sapkota, Amy R. Sapkota, et al.. (2008). Aquaculture practices and potential human health risks: Current knowledge and future priorities. Environment International. 34(8). 1215–1226. 673 indexed citations breakdown →

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