Chitta Ranjan Chanda

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

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Chitta Ranjan Chanda is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Chitta Ranjan Chanda has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 10 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 4 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Chitta Ranjan Chanda's work include Arsenic contamination and mitigation (12 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (9 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (4 papers). Chitta Ranjan Chanda is often cited by papers focused on Arsenic contamination and mitigation (12 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (9 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (4 papers). Chitta Ranjan Chanda collaborates with scholars based in India and Japan. Chitta Ranjan Chanda's co-authors include Dilip Lodh, Dipankar Chakraborti, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, Badal Kumar Mandal, Gautam Samanta, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Gautam Basu, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman‬ and Bhajan Kumar Biswas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Chitta Ranjan Chanda

18 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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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.

Groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.

2000 698 citations Ujjwal K. Chowdhury, Bhajan Kumar Biswas et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chitta Ranjan Chanda India	15	2.5k	1.8k	1.2k	337	259	19	3.1k
Dilip Lodh India	20	2.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	416 1.2×	314 1.2×	25	3.4k
Bhajan Kumar Biswas India	13	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	357 1.1×	187 0.7×	15	2.6k
Mrinal Kumar Sengupta India	24	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	882 0.7×	429 1.3×	267 1.0×	33	2.8k
Tarit Roy Chowdhury India	15	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	253 0.8×	171 0.7×	17	2.4k
D. Chakraborti India	19	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	956 0.8×	279 0.8×	160 0.6×	47	2.6k
Pham Thi Kim Trang Vietnam	28	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	391 1.2×	224 0.9×	47	2.8k
Mizanur Rahman Japan	10	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	649 0.5×	299 0.9×	234 0.9×	30	2.4k
Quazi Quamruzzaman United States	35	2.5k 1.0×	2.6k 1.5×	1.0k 0.9×	395 1.2×	697 2.7×	76	4.3k
Claudia Hopenhayn‐Rich United States	19	2.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	585 0.5×	251 0.7×	713 2.8×	23	3.6k
Sad Ahamed India	20	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	696 0.6×	327 1.0×	98 0.4×	25	1.9k

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19 of 19 papers shown

Chowdhury, Uttam Kumar, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman‬, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, et al.. (2003). Pattern of Excretion of Arsenic Compounds [Arsenite, Arsenate, MMA(V), DMA(V)] in Urine of Children Compared to Adults from an Arsenic Exposed Area in Bangladesh. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A. 38(1). 87–113. 87 indexed citations

Chakraborti, Dipankar, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Shyamapada Pati, et al.. (2003). Arsenic groundwater contamination in Middle Ganga Plain, Bihar, India: a future danger?. Environmental Health Perspectives. 111(9). 1194–1201. 435 indexed citations

Mukherjee, Subhash Chandra, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman‬, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, et al.. (2003). Neuropathy in Arsenic Toxicity from Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in West Bengal, India. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A. 38(1). 165–183. 119 indexed citations

Rahman‬, Mohammad Mahmudur, Badal Kumar Mandal, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, et al.. (2003). Arsenic Groundwater Contamination and Sufferings of People in North 24-Parganas, One of the Nine Arsenic Affected Districts of West Bengal, India. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A. 38(1). 25–59. 106 indexed citations

Chowdhury, Uttam Kumar, Md. Mokhlesur Rahman, Gautam Samanta, et al.. (2003). Groundwater arsenic contamination in West Bengal-India and Bangladesh: case study on bioavailability of geogenic arsenic.. 291–329. 2 indexed citations

Rahman‬, Mohammad Mahmudur, Debapriyo Mukherjee, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, et al.. (2002). Effectiveness and Reliability of Arsenic Field Testing Kits: Are the Million Dollar Screening Projects Effective or Not?. Environmental Science & Technology. 36(24). 5385–5394. 164 indexed citations

Rahman‬, Mohammad Mahmudur, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, et al.. (2001). Chronic Arsenic Toxicity in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India—A Review and Commentary. Journal of Toxicology Clinical Toxicology. 39(7). 683–700. 331 indexed citations

Chakraborti, D., Chitta Ranjan Chanda, Gautam Samanta, et al.. (2000). Fluorosis in Assam, India.. Current Science. 78(12). 1421–1423. 45 indexed citations

Chowdhury, Ujjwal K., Bhajan Kumar Biswas, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, et al.. (2000). Groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.. Environmental Health Perspectives. 108(5). 393–397. 698 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chowdhury, Uttam Kumar, Bhajan Kumar Biswas, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, et al.. (2000). Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. Environmental Health Perspectives. 108(5). 393–393. 44 indexed citations

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Chakraborti, D., Bhajan Kumar Biswas, Gautam Basu, et al.. (1999). Possible Arsenic Contamination Free Groundwater Source in Bangladesh. 15. 180–188. 14 indexed citations

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Chowdhury, Tarit Roy, Gautam Basu, Badal Kumar Mandal, et al.. (1999). Arsenic poisoning in the Ganges delta. Nature. 401(6753). 545–546. 303 indexed citations

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Samanta, Gautam, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, Badal Kumar Mandal, et al.. (1999). Flow Injection Hydride Generation Atomic Absorption Spectrometry for Determination of Arsenic in Water and Biological Samples from Arsenic-Affected Districts of West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh. Microchemical Journal. 62(1). 174–191. 130 indexed citations

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Mandal, Badal Kumar, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, Gautam Samanta, et al.. (1998). Impact of safe water for drinking and cooking on five arsenic-affected families for 2 years in West Bengal, India. The Science of The Total Environment. 218(2-3). 185–201. 148 indexed citations

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Chattopadhyay, Gautam, Biswajit Mandal, Tarit Roy Chowdhury, et al.. (1998). Air pollution in Calcutta during winter - A three-year study. 75(2). 123–138. 17 indexed citations

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Das, Dipankar, Gautam Samanta, Badal Kumar Mandal, et al.. (1996). Arsenic in groundwater in six districts of West Bengal, India. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 18(1). 5–15. 342 indexed citations

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Das, Dipankar, et al.. (1995). Calcutta Pollution: Part V. Lead and Other Heavy Metal Contamination in a Residential Area from a Factory Producing Lead-Ingots and Lead-Alloys. Environmental Technology. 16(3). 223–231. 9 indexed citations

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Das, Dipankar, Gautam Samanta, Badal Kumar Mandal, et al.. (1994). Report. Arsenic contamination in groundwater in six districts of West Bengal, India: the biggest arsenic calamity in the world. The Analyst. 119(12). 168N–168N. 101 indexed citations

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Chanda, Chitta Ranjan, et al.. (1981). Spectrophotometric studies of rhenium complex with beta-mercapto cinnamic acid. Journal of the Indian Chemical Society. 58(11). 1091–1093.

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