Neeraj Kumar

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Neeraj Kumar is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Neeraj Kumar has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Neeraj Kumar's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (15 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (7 papers) and Covalent Organic Framework Applications (6 papers). Neeraj Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (15 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (7 papers) and Covalent Organic Framework Applications (6 papers). Neeraj Kumar collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, India and United Kingdom. Neeraj Kumar's co-authors include Suprakas Sinha Ray, Rashi Gusain, Elvis Fosso‐Kankeu, Jane Catherine Ngila, Sanny Verma, Vyom Parashar, Om P. Khatri, Bir Sain, Harshal P. Mungse and Hemant Mittal and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Chemical Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Neeraj Kumar

49 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Recent advances in carbon nanomaterial-based adsorbents for water purification

2019 377 citations Rashi Gusain, Neeraj Kumar et al. Coordination Chemistry Reviews profile →
Top-down synthesis of graphene: A comprehensive review

2021 234 citations Neeraj Kumar, Katlego Setshedi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Neeraj Kumar South Africa	26	1.5k	744	742	698	624	51	2.9k
Rashi Gusain India	28	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	570 0.8×	660 0.9×	482 0.8×	42	3.7k
Chella Santhosh India	23	1.3k 0.8×	746 1.0×	723 1.0×	915 1.3×	555 0.9×	75	2.8k
Mostafa Y. Nassar Egypt	29	1.2k 0.8×	668 0.9×	385 0.5×	740 1.1×	718 1.2×	88	2.7k
Israf Ud Din Saudi Arabia	31	1.8k 1.2×	773 1.0×	708 1.0×	436 0.6×	426 0.7×	122	3.2k
Yongsheng Yan China	35	1.3k 0.9×	920 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	627 0.9×	463 0.7×	77	3.0k
Xiaoli Li China	28	1.2k 0.8×	960 1.3×	379 0.5×	986 1.4×	546 0.9×	69	2.5k
Zhanhui Yuan China	34	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 2.1×	655 0.9×	878 1.3×	592 0.9×	139	3.6k
Ibrahim M.A. Mohamed Egypt	32	983 0.6×	988 1.3×	653 0.9×	473 0.7×	504 0.8×	101	2.9k
Md Ariful Ahsan United States	35	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.9×	536 0.7×	808 1.2×	621 1.0×	52	3.4k
Esraa M. Bakhsh Saudi Arabia	30	1.2k 0.8×	626 0.8×	573 0.8×	586 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	113	2.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kumar, Neeraj, et al.. (2025). Development of Ethylene Glycol and Clay Based Quench Media for Quench Heat Treatment. 85243. 1–9.

Kumar, Neeraj, Rashi Gusain, Mike Masukume, & Suprakas Sinha Ray. (2023). B₂O₃‐Nanoparticles‐Decorated N‐Rich Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites for the Enhanced Visible‐Light‐Assisted Photocatalytic Degradation of Ciprofloxacin. Solar RRL. 7(20). 5 indexed citations

Kumar, Neeraj, Rashi Gusain, & Suprakas Sinha Ray. (2023). Two-Dimensional Materials for Environmental Applications. Springer series in materials science. 28 indexed citations

Gusain, Rashi, Neeraj Kumar, & Suprakas Sinha Ray. (2023). 3D‐Printed Hydrogels and Aerogels for Water Treatment and Energy Storage Applications. ChemistrySelect. 8(20). 17 indexed citations

Folorunso, Oladipo, Neeraj Kumar, Yskandar Hamam, Emmanuel Rotimi Sadiku, & Suprakas Sinha Ray. (2022). Facile solvent/drying fabrication of PVA/PPy/rGO: A novel nanocomposite for energy storage applications. Results in Materials. 15. 100295–100295. 20 indexed citations

Kumar, Neeraj, Katlego Setshedi, Mike Masukume, & Suprakas Sinha Ray. (2022). Facile scalable synthesis of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide: comparative investigation of different reduction methods. Carbon letters. 32(4). 1031–1046. 30 indexed citations

Kumar, Neeraj, et al.. (2022). A mini review on paraffin‐graphene and related hybrid phase change materials for building energy applications. Energy Storage. 5(4). 5 indexed citations

Folorunso, Oladipo, Yskandar Hamam, Emmanuel Rotimi Sadiku, Suprakas Sinha Ray, & Neeraj Kumar. (2021). Investigation and Modeling of the Electrical Conductivity of Graphene Nanoplatelets-Loaded Doped-Polypyrrole. Polymers. 13(7). 1034–1034. 26 indexed citations

Kumar, Neeraj, Pushpesh Ranjan, Mohd. Abubakar Sadique, et al.. (2021). Efficiency of Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Diagnostics based Point-of-Care Detection of Non-Invasive Oral Cancer Biomarkers. Advanced Materials Letters. 12(8). 1–20. 13 indexed citations

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Fosso‐Kankeu, Elvis, Ali Al Alili, Hemant Mittal, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of Bio-photocatalysts and their Application for the Degradation of Organic Pollutants. 1 indexed citations

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Fosso‐Kankeu, Elvis, John R. Bunt, Rashi Gusain, et al.. (2020). A Comparison Study of Different Photocatalyst Preparation Methods: A Review on RGO-BI2MoO6 Photocatalyts Synthesis Methods. 1 indexed citations

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Janu, Vikash Chandra, Ramavatar Meena, Neeraj Kumar, & Rakesh K. Sharma. (2020). Surface fluorinated hematite for uranium removal from radioactive effluent. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 8(5). 104218–104218. 25 indexed citations

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Gusain, Rashi, Neeraj Kumar, & Suprakas Sinha Ray. (2019). Recent advances in carbon nanomaterial-based adsorbents for water purification. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 405. 213111–213111. 377 indexed citations breakdown →

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George, Blassan P., Neeraj Kumar, Heidi Abrahamse, & Suprakas Sinha Ray. (2018). Apoptotic efficacy of multifaceted biosynthesized silver nanoparticles on human adenocarcinoma cells. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 14368–14368. 112 indexed citations

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Ama, Onoyivwe Monday, Neeraj Kumar, Feyisayo Victoria Adams, & Suprakas Sinha Ray. (2018). Efficient and Cost-effective Photoelectrochemical Degradation of Dyes in Wastewater over an Exfoliated Graphite-MoO3 Nanocomposite Electrode. Electrocatalysis. 9(5). 623–631. 21 indexed citations

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Kumar, Neeraj, Blassan P. George, Heidi Abrahamse, et al.. (2017). A novel approach to low-temperature synthesis of cubic HfO2 nanostructures and their cytotoxicity. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9351–9351. 74 indexed citations

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Selvakumar, D., et al.. (2016). Fabrication of an Enzymatic Biosensor Based on Gold Nanoparticles Modified Electrochemical Transducer for the Detection of Organophosphorus Compounds. Nano hybrids and composites. 12. 67–73. 3 indexed citations

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Kumar, Neeraj, Hemant Mittal, Vyom Parashar, Suprakas Sinha Ray, & Jane Catherine Ngila. (2016). Efficient removal of rhodamine 6G dye from aqueous solution using nickel sulphide incorporated polyacrylamide grafted gum karaya bionanocomposite hydrogel. RSC Advances. 6(26). 21929–21939. 93 indexed citations

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Verma, Sanny, Harshal P. Mungse, Neeraj Kumar, et al.. (2011). Graphene oxide: an efficient and reusable carbocatalyst for aza-Michael addition of amines to activated alkenes. Chemical Communications. 47(47). 12673–12673. 246 indexed citations

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Verma, Shalini, Abraham J. Domb, & Neeraj Kumar. (2010). Nanomaterials for Regenerative Medicine. Nanomedicine. 6(1). 157–181. 57 indexed citations

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