N. B. Basu

7.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
90 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

N. B. Basu is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, N. B. Basu has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Water Science and Technology, 34 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 22 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in N. B. Basu's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (38 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (34 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (17 papers). N. B. Basu is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (38 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (34 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (17 papers). N. B. Basu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and India. N. B. Basu's co-authors include P. Suresh C. Rao, K. J. Van Meter, Sally Thompson, Murugesu Sivapalan, James W. Jawitz, C. J. Harman, Ronald W. Falta, Jessica Veenstra, C. Lee Burras and Praveen Kumar and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

N. B. Basu

87 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

The future of hydrology: An evolving science for a changing world

2010 579 citations Murugesu Sivapalan, N. B. Basu et al. profile →
Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity

2010 464 citations N. B. Basu, James W. Jawitz et al. profile →
The nitrogen legacy: emerging evidence of nitrogen accumulation in anthropogenic landscapes

2016 304 citations K. J. Van Meter, N. B. Basu et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
N. B. Basu United States	36	2.4k	1.8k	1.2k	931	869	90	4.5k
D. W. Hyndman United States	40	1.5k 0.6×	507 0.3×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	566 0.7×	115	4.4k
Richard Hooper United States	37	4.2k 1.7×	2.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.7×	1.5k 1.6×	1.5k 1.7×	113	6.7k
John A. Harrison United States	38	2.7k 1.1×	4.4k 2.4×	652 0.5×	1.7k 1.8×	1.0k 1.2×	89	8.8k
T. P. Burt United Kingdom	44	2.5k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	906 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	552 0.6×	105	5.3k
M. Todd Walter United States	47	4.0k 1.6×	2.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.7×	2.3k 2.4×	381 0.4×	199	7.6k
Clifford N. Dahm United States	39	3.1k 1.3×	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	2.0k 2.1×	597 0.7×	91	7.1k
Marios Sophocleous United States	36	3.3k 1.4×	504 0.3×	3.2k 2.7×	1.2k 1.3×	1.8k 2.1×	99	6.2k
Douglas A. Burns United States	49	3.7k 1.5×	2.8k 1.5×	1.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.8×	1.4k 1.6×	134	7.3k
Bjørn Kløve Finland	46	4.2k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.7×	3.0k 3.2×	877 1.0×	289	8.8k
Kun� Shi China	51	3.0k 1.2×	3.9k 2.1×	766 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	169 0.2×	232	8.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of N. B. Basu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Basu, N. B., D. O’Brien, Cathal Buckley, et al.. (2025). Simulation of management practices to reduce nitrogen losses to water and air on well-drained grass-based dairy farms in derogation. Journal of Dairy Science. 108(8). 8548–8566.

Li, Sisi, et al.. (2023). Size and temperature drive nutrient retention potential across water bodies in China. Water Research. 239. 120054–120054. 30 indexed citations

Meter, K. J. Van, et al.. (2022). Intensive agriculture, nitrogen legacies, and water quality: intersections and implications. Environmental Research Letters. 17(3). 35006–35006. 16 indexed citations

Batool, Masooma, Fanny Sarrazin, Sabine Attinger, et al.. (2022). Long-term annual soil nitrogen surplus across Europe (1850–2019). Scientific Data. 9(1). 612–612. 32 indexed citations

Marques, João, Joy Liu, Maria da Conceição Cunha, K. J. Van Meter, & N. B. Basu. (2021). Nitrogen legacies in anthropogenic landscapes: a case study in the Mondego Basin in Portugal. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(16). 23919–23935. 8 indexed citations

Ascott, Matthew, Daren C. Gooddy, Owen Fenton, et al.. (2021). The need to integrate legacy nitrogen storage dynamics and time lags into policy and practice. The Science of The Total Environment. 781. 146698–146698. 41 indexed citations

Meter, K. J. Van, et al.. (2021). Agricultural phosphorus surplus trajectories for Ontario, Canada (1961–2016), and erosional export risk. The Science of The Total Environment. 818. 151717–151717. 28 indexed citations

Liu, Yan, Christiane Zarfl, N. B. Basu, & Olaf A. Cirpka. (2019). Turnover and legacy of sediment-associated PAH in a baseflow-dominated river. The Science of The Total Environment. 671. 754–764. 20 indexed citations

Datta, Ankur, Somnath Mondal, Saibal Moitra, et al.. (2018). T11TS immunotherapy augments microglial and lymphocyte protective immune responses against Cryptococcus neoformans in the brain. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology. 89(2). e12733–e12733. 6 indexed citations

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Liu, Yan, Christiane Zarfl, N. B. Basu, Marc Schwientek, & Olaf A. Cirpka. (2018). Contributions of catchment and in-stream processes to suspended sediment transport in a dominantly groundwater-fed catchment. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(7). 3903–3921. 16 indexed citations

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Tate, Eric, et al.. (2016). Water security and rainwater harvesting: A conceptual framework and candidate indicators. Applied Geography. 76. 75–84. 44 indexed citations

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Marton, John M., Irena F. Creed, David B. Lewis, et al.. (2015). Geographically Isolated Wetlands are Important Biogeochemical Reactors on the Landscape. BioScience. 65(4). 408–418. 168 indexed citations

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English, Andrew, Kyriakos Spanoudes, Eleanor Jones, et al.. (2015). Substrate topography: A valuable in vitro tool, but a clinical red herring for in vivo tenogenesis. Acta Biomaterialia. 27. 3–12. 61 indexed citations

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English, Andrew, Kyriakos Spanoudes, Eleanor Jones, et al.. (2015). Data on in vitro and in vivo cell orientation on substrates with different topographies. Data in Brief. 5. 379–382. 1 indexed citations

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Meter, K. J. Van, et al.. (2015). The socio-ecohydrology of rainwater harvesting in India: understanding water storage and release dynamics at tank and catchment scales. UWSpace (University of Waterloo). 7 indexed citations

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Meter, K. J. Van & N. B. Basu. (2013). The Nitrogen Legacy: Evidence of Soil Nitrogen Accumulation in Anthropogenic Landscapes. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 6 indexed citations

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Basu, N. B., S. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao, Gianluca Botter, et al.. (2011). Spatiotemporal averaging of instream solute removal dynamics. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 7 indexed citations

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Gall, Heather E., et al.. (2011). Legacies and Trajectories of Hormone Export from Agricultural Catchments Under Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers. AGUFM. 2011.

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Basu, N. B., Pradeep Suresh, Chinta Sankar Rao, et al.. (2008). Integration of traditional and innovative characterization techniques for flux-based assessment of Dense Non-aqueous Phase Liquid (DNAPL) sites. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 105(3-4). 161–172. 35 indexed citations

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Cho, Jaehyun, et al.. (2008). Laboratory investigation of flux reduction from dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) partial source zone remediation by enhanced dissolution. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 102(1-2). 17–28. 34 indexed citations

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