Deepak Pant

25.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
254 papers, 19.1k citations indexed

About

Deepak Pant is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Deepak Pant has authored 254 papers receiving a total of 19.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Environmental Engineering, 87 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 81 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Deepak Pant's work include Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (125 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (63 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (60 papers). Deepak Pant is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (125 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (63 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (60 papers). Deepak Pant collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, India and Egypt. Deepak Pant's co-authors include Karolien Vanbroekhoven, Ludo Diels, Gilbert Van Bogaert, Alok Adholeya, Xochitl Dominguez‐Benetton, Ahmed ElMekawy, Suman Bajracharya, Anoop Singh, Bruce E. Logan and Gunda Mohanakrishna and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Deepak Pant

248 papers receiving 18.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

A review of the substrates used in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) for sustainable energy production

2009 1.4k citations Deepak Pant et al. profile →
Recent advances in the use of different substrates in microbial fuel cells toward wastewater treatment and simultaneous energy recovery

2016 573 citations Deepak Pant et al. profile →
Recent developments in pretreatment technologies on lignocellulosic biomass: Effect of key parameters, technological improvements, and challenges

2020 555 citations Deepak Pant, J. Rajesh Banu et al. profile →
Valorization of agricultural waste for biogas based circular economy in India: A research outlook

2020 273 citations Deepak Pant et al. profile →
Lignocellulosic Biomass Valorization for Bioethanol Production: a Circular Bioeconomy Approach

2022 158 citations Deepak Pant et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deepak Pant Belgium	80	10.3k	7.1k	5.2k	4.7k	4.6k	254	19.1k
Cees J.N. Buisman Netherlands	78	10.6k 1.0×	7.3k 1.0×	3.1k 0.6×	5.7k 1.2×	4.5k 1.0×	225	18.5k
H.V.M. Hamelers Netherlands	79	15.1k 1.5×	12.9k 1.8×	3.2k 0.6×	8.5k 1.8×	6.6k 1.4×	205	25.0k
S. Venkata Mohan India	77	7.2k 0.7×	4.3k 0.6×	3.6k 0.7×	5.5k 1.2×	2.4k 0.5×	405	20.3k
Korneel Rabaey Belgium	91	26.3k 2.5×	18.3k 2.6×	5.0k 1.0×	7.5k 1.6×	10.2k 2.2×	306	35.6k
Makarand M. Ghangrekar India	59	7.4k 0.7×	5.9k 0.8×	2.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.3×	3.4k 0.7×	313	11.3k
Sang‐Eun Oh South Korea	54	5.8k 0.6×	4.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.2×	2.4k 0.5×	2.8k 0.6×	187	11.2k
Defeng Xing China	59	5.6k 0.5×	2.5k 0.4×	2.1k 0.4×	2.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.3×	294	12.3k
Aijie Wang China	77	7.8k 0.8×	3.9k 0.5×	2.8k 0.5×	4.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.3×	606	22.0k
Nanqi Ren China	91	7.3k 0.7×	4.7k 0.7×	7.0k 1.3×	7.8k 1.6×	2.1k 0.5×	629	30.3k
Gopalakrishnan Kumar South Korea	87	3.0k 0.3×	1.7k 0.2×	4.4k 0.9×	10.6k 2.2×	881 0.2×	401	23.5k

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Chen, Zhiyuan, et al.. (2025). Integrating Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Technology for Smart, Sustainable, and Stable In-Situ Resource Utilization for Outer-Space Applications. Engineering.

Franceschini, Filippo, Thi Hong Trang Nguyen, Deepak Pant, et al.. (2025). Nanostructuring copper thin film electrodes for CO ₂ electroreduction to C ₂₊ products. Nanoscale. 17(30). 17745–17757.

Chen, Zhiyuan, Jia Song, Tibor Höltzl, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical restructuring of H₂O₂ activated copper selenide for CO₂ reduction. Nanoscale. 17(29). 17075–17085. 1 indexed citations

Izadi, Paniz, Swapnil Varhade, C. M. Schneider, et al.. (2025). Scaling up electrochemical CO ₂ reduction to formate through comparative reactor analysis. 4(2). 260–275. 2 indexed citations

Chanda, Debabrata, Ramato Ashu Tufa, Yu Jin Kim, et al.. (2024). Gas-phase CO2 electrolysis using carbon-derived bismuth nanospheres on porous nickel foam gas diffusion electrode. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 56. 1020–1031. 9 indexed citations

Varhade, Swapnil, Chandani Singh, Giancarlo Cicero, et al.. (2024). Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction: Commercial Innovations and Prospects. ChemElectroChem. 12(2). 18 indexed citations

Anzola-Rojas, Mélida del Pilar, Lucas Tadeu Fuess, Marcelo Antunes Nolasco, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen production from fermented sugarcane vinasse and its utilization by biosynthesis processes in a single-chambered microbial electrolysis cell. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 100. 49–57. 4 indexed citations

Dessì, Paolo, Simon Mills, Anna Christine Trego, et al.. (2023). Microbial electrosynthesis of acetate from CO2 in three-chamber cells with gas diffusion biocathode under moderate saline conditions. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology. 16. 100261–100261. 19 indexed citations

Mostafa, Alsayed, Mohamed Elsamadony, Tarek E. Khalil, et al.. (2023). Bioelectrochemical system for enhancing anaerobic digestion of pharmaceutical-containing domestic wastewater. Chemosphere. 339. 139766–139766. 8 indexed citations

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Santoro, Carlo, Paolo Bollella, Benjamin Erable, Plamen Atanassov, & Deepak Pant. (2022). Oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysis in neutral media for bioelectrochemical systems. Nature Catalysis. 5(6). 473–484. 124 indexed citations

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Biswas, Jayanta Kumar, Monojit Mondal, Dhrubajyoti Majumdar, et al.. (2021). Harnessing biofertilizer from human urine via chemogenic and biogenic routes: Synthesis, characterization and agronomic application. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 25. 102152–102152. 2 indexed citations

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Gong, Jinlong, Niall J. English, Deepak Pant, et al.. (2021). Power-to-X: Lighting the Path to a Net-Zero-Emission Future. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 9(21). 7179–7181. 53 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez‐Sánchez, Oriol, Nick Daems, W. K. Offermans, et al.. (2021). The inhibition of the proton donor ability of bicarbonate promotes the electrochemical conversion of CO2 in bicarbonate solutions. Journal of CO2 Utilization. 48. 101521–101521. 39 indexed citations

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Kavitha, S., R. Yukesh Kannah, M. Gunasekaran, et al.. (2020). Profitable biomethane production from delignified rice straw biomass: the effect of lignin, energy and economic analysis. Green Chemistry. 22(22). 8024–8035. 41 indexed citations

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Sahoo, Prakash C., Deepak Pant, Manoj Kumar, S.K. Puri, & S.S.V. Ramakumar. (2020). Material–Microbe Interfaces for Solar-Driven CO2 Bioelectrosynthesis. Trends in biotechnology. 38(11). 1245–1261. 91 indexed citations

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Saratale, Rijuta Ganesh, Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale, Gajanan Ghodake, et al.. (2019). Wheat straw extracted lignin in silver nanoparticles synthesis: Expanding its prophecy towards antineoplastic potency and hydrogen peroxide sensing ability. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 128. 391–400. 103 indexed citations

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Mohanakrishna, Gunda, Riyadh I. Al‐Raoush, Ibrahim M. Abu-Reesh, & Deepak Pant. (2019). A microbial fuel cell configured for the remediation of recalcitrant pollutants in soil environment. RSC Advances. 9(71). 41409–41418. 25 indexed citations

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Rossi, Ruggero, David Jones, Jaewook Myung, et al.. (2018). Evaluating a multi-panel air cathode through electrochemical and biotic tests. Water Research. 148. 51–59. 125 indexed citations

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Pant, Deepak. (2018). Environmental Issues in Biomedical Waste (BMW) Autoclave Industry. Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research. 77(11). 661–663. 1 indexed citations

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Singh, Anoop, Deepak Pant, Stig Irving Olsen, & Poonam Singh Nee Nigam. (2012). Key issues to consider in microalgae based biodiesel production. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 29(1). 687–700. 38 indexed citations

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