N.S. Magesh

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

N.S. Magesh is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Pollution and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, N.S. Magesh has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Water Science and Technology, 40 papers in Pollution and 30 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in N.S. Magesh's work include Heavy metals in environment (34 papers), Water Quality and Pollution Assessment (27 papers) and Groundwater and Watershed Analysis (26 papers). N.S. Magesh is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (34 papers), Water Quality and Pollution Assessment (27 papers) and Groundwater and Watershed Analysis (26 papers). N.S. Magesh collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Portugal. N.S. Magesh's co-authors include N. Chandrasekar, John Prince Soundranayagam, S. Kaliraj, Prince S. Godson, S. Krishna Kumar, S. Krishnakumar, S. Selvakumar, K. Gangadhar, T. Simon Peter and L. Elango and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

N.S. Magesh

86 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Delineation of groundwater potential zones in Theni district, Tamil Nadu, using remote sensing, GIS and MIF techniques

2012 624 citations N.S. Magesh, N. Chandrasekar et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
N.S. Magesh India	37	2.9k	2.5k	1.7k	1.4k	1.1k	88	5.0k
N. Chandrasekar India	35	3.0k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	515 0.5×	109	5.1k
Venkatramanan Senapathi India	38	1.6k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	582 0.4×	1.6k 1.4×	170	4.4k
Dongmei Han China	37	1.8k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	2.4k 1.4×	594 0.4×	496 0.4×	89	4.8k
S. Chidambaram India	42	3.1k 1.1×	3.2k 1.3×	4.2k 2.5×	391 0.3×	772 0.7×	221	6.3k
Nerantzis Kazakis Greece	35	2.3k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	268 0.2×	81	4.3k
Chander Kumar Singh India	36	1.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	992 0.7×	245 0.2×	86	3.4k
Kevin M. Hiscock United Kingdom	36	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	894 0.7×	501 0.4×	93	4.9k
Changyuan Tang China	37	1.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	819 0.6×	602 0.5×	147	4.1k
Colin Neal United Kingdom	51	1.3k 0.5×	4.3k 1.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	818 0.7×	160	7.9k
Priyadarsi D. Roy Mexico	38	697 0.2×	953 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	439 0.3×	1.9k 1.7×	169	4.7k

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Gopal, V., R. R. Krishnamurthy, M. Bhuvaneswari, et al.. (2025). Hazardous trace elemental contamination in urban river sediments: Distribution, source identification, and Environmental impacts. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances. 18. 100733–100733. 2 indexed citations

Tiwari, Anoop Kumar, et al.. (2024). Source apportionment of major ions and trace metals in the lacustrine systems of Schirmacher Hills, East Antarctica. The Science of The Total Environment. 946. 174189–174189. 1 indexed citations

Gopal, V., R. R. Krishnamurthy, T. Shanmuga Priya, et al.. (2024). Geochemical evaluation, ecological and human health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in urban soil, Southern India. Environmental Research. 248. 118413–118413. 24 indexed citations

Magesh, N.S., et al.. (2023). Occurrence and risk assessment of total mercury, methylmercury and other selected trace metals in the surface sediments of the Cochin Estuary, Southwest Coast of India. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 62. 102924–102924. 9 indexed citations

Kanagaraj, G., et al.. (2023). Geochemical evaluation of groundwater around Chromepet tannery belt, Southern India. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 22. 100963–100963. 2 indexed citations

Gopal, V., R. R. Krishnamurthy, Ravichandran Vignesh, et al.. (2023). Assessment of heavy metal contamination in the surface sediments of the Vedaranyam coast, Southern India. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 65. 103081–103081. 34 indexed citations

Vidyasakar, A., S. Krishnakumar, K. Suresh Kumar, et al.. (2021). Microplastic contamination in edible sea salt from the largest salt-producing states of India. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 171. 112728–112728. 46 indexed citations

Gopal, V., et al.. (2021). Effect of a tropical cyclone on the distribution of heavy metals in the marine sediments off Kameswaram, Southeast coast of India. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 171. 112741–112741. 18 indexed citations

Magesh, N.S., et al.. (2020). Trace element concentrations and their potential ecological risk in the reef sediments of coral islands, Vembar group of islands, Gulf of Mannar, India. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 160. 111607–111607. 6 indexed citations

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Gopal, V., et al.. (2020). Trace metal contamination in the marine sediments off Point Calimere, Southeast coast of India. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 161(Pt B). 111764–111764. 16 indexed citations

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Krishnakumar, S., A. Vidyasakar, Sankarappan Anbalagan, et al.. (2020). Bioavailable trace metals and their ecological risks in the tourist beaches of the Southeast coast of India. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 160. 111562–111562. 13 indexed citations

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Saravanan, Panchamoorthy, S. Krishnakumar, A. Vidyasakar, et al.. (2018). Elemental concentration and potential ecological risk assessment of reef associated surface sediments of Appa Island, Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve, Southeast coast of India. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 128. 398–407. 13 indexed citations

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Vidyasakar, A., Kannaiyan Neelavannan, S. Krishnakumar, et al.. (2018). Macrodebris and microplastic distribution in the beaches of Rameswaram Coral Island, Gulf of Mannar, Southeast coast of India: A first report. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 137. 610–616. 104 indexed citations

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Gopal, V., et al.. (2018). Seasonal variations and environmental risk assessment of trace elements in the sediments of Uppanar River estuary, southern India. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 129(1). 347–356. 20 indexed citations

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Magesh, N.S., N. Chandrasekar, & L. Elango. (2017). Trace element concentrations in the groundwater of the Tamiraparani river basin, South India: Insights from human health risk and multivariate statistical techniques. Chemosphere. 185. 468–479. 80 indexed citations

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Godson, Prince S., N.S. Magesh, T. Simon Peter, et al.. (2017). A baseline study on the concentration of trace elements in the surface sediments off Southwest coast of Tamil Nadu, India. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 126. 381–388. 27 indexed citations

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Kaliraj, S., N. Chandrasekar, T. Simon Peter, S. Selvakumar, & N.S. Magesh. (2014). Mapping of coastal aquifer vulnerable zone in the south west coast of Kanyakumari, South India, using GIS-based DRASTIC model. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 187(1). 4073–4073. 76 indexed citations

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Magesh, N.S., N. Chandrasekar, & S. Kaliraj. (2012). A GIS based Automated Extraction Tool for the Analysis of Basin Morphometry. 2. 32–35. 34 indexed citations

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Kumar, S. Krishna, N.S. Magesh, & N. Chandrasekar. (2012). Trace Element Concentration in Groundwater, Tuticorin City, Tamil Nadu, India. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 88(6). 876–879. 10 indexed citations

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Kumar, S. Krishna, N. Chandrasekar, P Seralathan, Prince S. Godson, & N.S. Magesh. (2011). Hydrogeochemical study of shallow carbonate aquifers, Rameswaram Island, India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 184(7). 4127–4138. 119 indexed citations

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