Arpan Sarkar

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 955 citations indexed

About

Arpan Sarkar is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Water Science and Technology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Arpan Sarkar has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 955 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 6 papers in Water Science and Technology and 4 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Arpan Sarkar's work include Arsenic contamination and mitigation (7 papers), Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (5 papers) and Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (4 papers). Arpan Sarkar is often cited by papers focused on Arsenic contamination and mitigation (7 papers), Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (5 papers) and Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (4 papers). Arpan Sarkar collaborates with scholars based in India. Arpan Sarkar's co-authors include Biswajit Paul, Dhiraj Dutta, Rama Dubey, Pronobesh Chattopadhyay, Gopala Krishna Darbha, Ashish Ranjan, Nisha Gaur, Sanjai K. Dwivedi, Gobinda Gopal Khan and Ayan Sarkar and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Chemosphere and Microporous and Mesoporous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Arpan Sarkar

12 papers receiving 932 citations

Hit Papers

The global menace of arsenic and its conventional remedia... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2021 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. The global menace of arsenic and its conventional remediation - A critical review
    2016 422 citations Arpan Sarkar, Biswajit Paul Chemosphere profile →
  2. Functionalized carbon nanotubes: synthesis, properties and applications in water purification, drug delivery, and material and biomedical sciences
    2021 295 citations Rama Dubey, Dhiraj Dutta et al. Nanoscale Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Arpan Sarkar India 10 419 288 226 224 173 12 955
S. Bhattacharjee India 14 418 1.0× 490 1.7× 241 1.1× 108 0.5× 176 1.0× 38 1.0k
Anjali Gupta India 13 372 0.9× 421 1.5× 231 1.0× 248 1.1× 77 0.4× 17 899
Akila G. Karunanayake United States 9 221 0.5× 629 2.2× 184 0.8× 195 0.9× 196 1.1× 10 964
Sanjoy Kumar Maji India 12 320 0.8× 276 1.0× 145 0.6× 173 0.8× 88 0.5× 22 688
Jan Kolařík Czechia 13 320 0.8× 405 1.4× 422 1.9× 248 1.1× 108 0.6× 32 993
Yuanli Liu China 17 280 0.7× 553 1.9× 589 2.6× 203 0.9× 194 1.1× 27 1.2k
Zecong Ding China 14 154 0.4× 356 1.2× 188 0.8× 125 0.6× 97 0.6× 24 762
Wei Lin China 15 165 0.4× 346 1.2× 154 0.7× 218 1.0× 84 0.5× 63 908
Sehnaz Sule Kaplan‐Bekaroglu Türkiye 10 135 0.3× 446 1.5× 236 1.0× 238 1.1× 115 0.7× 29 904

Countries citing papers authored by Arpan Sarkar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Arpan Sarkar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arpan Sarkar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Arpan Sarkar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Arpan Sarkar 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 Arpan Sarkar. Arpan Sarkar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Sarkar, Arpan, et al.. (2024). Engineered MnO2-Multiwalled carbon Nanotube nanoheterostructures for efficient removal of nanoplastics and plastic-derived contaminant Bisphenol S from contaminated water. Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & Management. 23. 101038–101038. 2 indexed citations
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Mahanty, Shouvik, Arpan Sarkar, Punarbasu Chaudhuri, & Gopala Krishna Darbha. (2023). Mycosynthesized magnetic iron-oxide nanoparticles for the remediation of heavy metals – An insight into the mechanism of adsorption, process optimization using algorithmic approach and its application for the treatment of groundwater. Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & Management. 20. 100854–100854. 8 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Arpan, Biswajit Paul, & Gopala Krishna Darbha. (2022). The groundwater arsenic contamination in the Bengal Basin-A review in brief. Chemosphere. 299. 134369–134369. 59 indexed citations
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Gaur, Nisha, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of water quality index and geochemical characteristics of surfacewater from Tawang India. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 11698–11698. 58 indexed citations
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Dubey, Rama, Dhiraj Dutta, Arpan Sarkar, & Pronobesh Chattopadhyay. (2021). Functionalized carbon nanotubes: synthesis, properties and applications in water purification, drug delivery, and material and biomedical sciences. Nanoscale Advances. 3(20). 5722–5744. 295 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sarkar, Arpan, Ayan Sarkar, Biswajit Paul, & Gobinda Gopal Khan. (2019). Designing of Functionalized MWCNTs/Anodized Stainless Steel Heterostructure Electrode for Anodic Oxidation of Low Concentration As(III) in Drinking Water. ChemistrySelect. 4(32). 9367–9375. 9 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Arpan, Ayan Sarkar, Biswajit Paul, & Gobinda Gopal Khan. (2018). Fabrication of One Dimensional MnO2‐TiO2 Nano‐Heterostructures for Enhanced Hole Mediated Oxidation of As(III) in Potable Water. ChemCatChem. 10(19). 4369–4379. 10 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Arpan, Ashish Ranjan, & Biswajit Paul. (2018). Synthesis, characterization and application of surface-modified biochar synthesized from rice husk, an agro-industrial waste for the removal of hexavalent chromium from drinking water at near-neutral pH. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. 21(2). 447–462. 38 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Arpan & Biswajit Paul. (2016). The global menace of arsenic and its conventional remediation - A critical review. Chemosphere. 158. 37–49. 422 indexed citations breakdown →

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