Kiran Bala

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Kiran Bala is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Kiran Bala has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 19 papers in Materials Chemistry and 16 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Kiran Bala's work include Algal biology and biofuel production (37 papers), Biodiesel Production and Applications (11 papers) and Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (11 papers). Kiran Bala is often cited by papers focused on Algal biology and biofuel production (37 papers), Biodiesel Production and Applications (11 papers) and Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (11 papers). Kiran Bala collaborates with scholars based in India, Germany and United States. Kiran Bala's co-authors include Ajeet Kaushik, Ritunesh Kumar, A. Usha Rani, Barinder Kaur, C. P. Kaushik, Devendra Deshmukh, Puru Jena, Nisha Rani, Kit H. Bowen and Hansgeorg Schnöckel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kiran Bala

83 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Heavy metal accumulation in vegetables irrigated with wat... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 200 400 600
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. Heavy metal accumulation in vegetables irrigated with water from different sources
    2008 653 citations Kiran Bala 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
Kiran Bala India 26 812 774 724 611 523 86 3.3k
Guoliang Li China 41 936 1.2× 1.8k 2.3× 473 0.7× 926 1.5× 521 1.0× 170 5.1k
Jean‐Jacques Aaron France 27 1.3k 1.6× 811 1.0× 585 0.8× 1.7k 2.8× 833 1.6× 117 4.9k
Leilei Xiao China 32 492 0.6× 1.4k 1.8× 455 0.6× 946 1.5× 672 1.3× 77 4.5k
Jixian Yang China 34 464 0.6× 348 0.4× 1.4k 2.0× 1.0k 1.7× 502 1.0× 119 3.4k
Daniel O. Mártire Argentina 33 719 0.9× 847 1.1× 580 0.8× 1.4k 2.3× 674 1.3× 127 3.3k
Qi Yang China 29 501 0.6× 549 0.7× 725 1.0× 952 1.6× 608 1.2× 114 2.7k
Mohamed Ateia United States 34 838 1.0× 1.2k 1.5× 637 0.9× 959 1.6× 482 0.9× 92 4.7k
Marcello Brigante France 43 1.3k 1.6× 500 0.6× 1.1k 1.5× 2.2k 3.5× 681 1.3× 129 4.7k
Bice S. Martincigh South Africa 35 429 0.5× 847 1.1× 671 0.9× 452 0.7× 353 0.7× 154 3.5k
Xianliang Qiao China 38 968 1.2× 706 0.9× 1.7k 2.4× 1.2k 2.0× 732 1.4× 94 4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Kiran Bala

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kiran Bala

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kiran Bala

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

All Works

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Ghosh, Tonmoy, et al.. (2024). An untargeted metabolomic outlook for delineating the reverberations of CO2 exposure to Scenedesmus sp. Algal Research. 79. 103471–103471. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ritunesh, et al.. (2023). Comparison and testing of cerium oxide nanoparticle added Pongamia and, Scenedesmus microalgae biodiesel blends. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 197. 871–883. 6 indexed citations
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Bala, Kiran, et al.. (2023). Microplastics: The stemming environmental challenge and the quest for the missing mitigation strategies. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 179. 105581–105581. 10 indexed citations
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Kashyap, Mrinal, Supratim Ghosh, Kiran Bala, & Alexander Golberg. (2023). High voltage pulsed electric field and electroporation technologies for algal biomass processing. Journal of Applied Phycology. 36(1). 273–289. 4 indexed citations
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Kashyap, Mrinal, et al.. (2023). Impact of H2O2 on biomass and lipid accumulation in Scenedesmus sp.: Promising species for biofuel production. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology. 51. 102795–102795. 2 indexed citations
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Bhatnagar, Amit, et al.. (2022). Effect of acute vs chronic stress on Polyhydroxybutyrate production by indigenous cyanobacterium. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 227. 416–423. 3 indexed citations
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Kashyap, Mrinal, et al.. (2021). Bioprospecting of native algal strains with unique lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates signatures: A time dependent study. Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy. 41(2). 7 indexed citations
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Kashyap, Mrinal, Hyunju Lee, Naomi Sawamoto, et al.. (2021). Synthesis, characterization and application of intracellular Ag/AgCl nanohybrids biosynthesized in Scenedesmus sp. as neutral lipid inducer and antibacterial agent. Environmental Research. 201. 111499–111499. 19 indexed citations
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Kashyap, Mrinal & Kiran Bala. (2021). Milking microalgae in conjugation with nano-biorefinery approach utilizing wastewater. Journal of Environmental Management. 293. 112864–112864. 10 indexed citations
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Bala, Kiran, et al.. (2017). Carbon Concentration in Algae: Reducing CO 2 From Exhaust Gas. Trends in biotechnology. 35(9). 806–808. 46 indexed citations
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Bala, Kiran, et al.. (2016). Distribution and Occurrence of Desmids in Bhadra Reservoir, Karnataka. 2(3). 4 indexed citations
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Bala, Kiran, et al.. (2012). Biological photohydrogen production by cyanobacteria: future prospects as a fuel.. 6. 779–783. 2 indexed citations
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Rani, Nisha, et al.. (2009). GROWTH, EXOPOLYMER PRODUCTION AND METAL BIOREMOVAL BY Nostoc punctiforme IN Na + AND Cr (VI) SPIKED MEDIUM. 4(2). 372–379. 3 indexed citations
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Choudhary, V.R., Somdeb Jana, & Kiran Bala. (2000). Highly active Si-MCM-41-supported GaO and InO catalysts for friedel-crafts-type benzylation and acylation reactions in the presence or absence of moisture. Journal of Catalysis. 192(2). 257–261. 88 indexed citations

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