Ocean Thakali

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ocean Thakali is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Biomedical Engineering and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Ocean Thakali has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Infectious Diseases, 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 8 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Ocean Thakali's work include SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (22 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (14 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (10 papers). Ocean Thakali is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (22 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (14 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (10 papers). Ocean Thakali collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Nepal. Ocean Thakali's co-authors include Eiji Haramoto, Bikash Malla, Masaaki Kitajima, Samendra P. Sherchan, Sarmila Tandukar, Ananda Tiwari, Jeevan Bahadur Sherchand, John P. Brooks, Tarja Pitkänen and Anssi Lipponen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ocean Thakali

35 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

First environmental surveillance for the presence of SARS... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300 400
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. First environmental surveillance for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater and river water in Japan
    2020 440 citations Eiji Haramoto, Bikash Malla et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ocean Thakali Japan 17 806 424 183 138 107 37 1.1k
Bradley W. Schmitz United States 14 874 1.1× 476 1.1× 176 1.0× 136 1.0× 135 1.3× 23 1.2k
Goffe Elsinga Netherlands 7 1.3k 1.7× 719 1.7× 299 1.6× 195 1.4× 229 2.1× 8 1.7k
Bikash Malla Japan 18 884 1.1× 420 1.0× 234 1.3× 98 0.7× 97 0.9× 53 1.3k
Tatiana Prado Brazil 13 569 0.7× 186 0.4× 73 0.4× 92 0.7× 45 0.4× 29 758
Arnau Casanovas‐Massana United States 15 796 1.0× 368 0.9× 219 1.2× 48 0.3× 112 1.0× 27 1.3k
Katya Moniz United States 2 607 0.8× 339 0.8× 260 1.4× 442 3.2× 86 0.8× 2 1.2k
Xiawan Zheng Hong Kong 11 323 0.4× 215 0.5× 163 0.9× 106 0.8× 53 0.5× 19 494
Inês B. Moura United Kingdom 16 523 0.6× 91 0.2× 239 1.3× 70 0.5× 39 0.4× 33 847
Neha Rajpara India 10 315 0.4× 170 0.4× 182 1.0× 24 0.2× 49 0.5× 11 639
Francesca Romeri Italy 6 355 0.4× 147 0.3× 55 0.3× 29 0.2× 67 0.6× 8 481

Countries citing papers authored by Ocean Thakali

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ocean Thakali

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ocean Thakali. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ocean Thakali. The network helps show where Ocean Thakali may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ocean Thakali

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kabir, Md Pervez, Élisabeth Mercier, Julio Plaza‐Díaz, et al.. (2025). Diagnostic performance of allele-specific RT-qPCR and genomic sequencing in wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2. PubMed. 4(1). 100135–100135. 3 indexed citations
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Thakali, Ocean, et al.. (2025). Occurrence of plasmid pBI143 in wastewater in Baltimore. 1(2). 100020–100020. 1 indexed citations
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Thakali, Ocean, et al.. (2025). Molecular detection of human immunodeficiency virus RNA in Maryland wastewater. The Science of The Total Environment. 1011. 181066–181066.
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Rubiyatno, Rubiyatno, et al.. (2024). Biodegradation of Chlorpyrifos by Microbes: A Review. 4(1). 10–26. 3 indexed citations
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Tandukar, Sarmila, Ocean Thakali, Ananda Tiwari, et al.. (2024). Long-term longitudinal monitoring of SARS CoV-2 in urban rivers and sewers of Nepal. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175138–175138. 2 indexed citations
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Malla, Bikash, et al.. (2024). Validation and application of high-throughput quantitative PCR for the simultaneous detection of microbial source tracking markers in environmental water. The Science of The Total Environment. 940. 173604–173604. 5 indexed citations
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Sherchan, Samendra P., Ocean Thakali, Luisa A. Ikner, Charles P. Gerba, & Eiji Haramoto. (2023). Survivability of Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. Water Research. 246. 120644–120644. 5 indexed citations
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Sherchan, Samendra P., et al.. (2023). Wastewater surveillance of Mpox virus in Baltimore. The Science of The Total Environment. 891. 164414–164414. 19 indexed citations
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Tiwari, Ananda, Sangeet Adhikari, Shuxin Zhang, et al.. (2023). Tracing COVID-19 Trails in Wastewater: A Systematic Review of SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance with Viral Variants. Water. 15(6). 1018–1018. 23 indexed citations
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Hegazy, Nada, Xin Tian, Patrick M. D’Aoust, et al.. (2023). Impact of coagulation on SARS-CoV-2 and PMMoV viral signal in wastewater solids. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31(4). 5242–5253. 1 indexed citations
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Malla, Bikash, et al.. (2023). Development of highly sensitive one-step reverse transcription-quantitative PCR for SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater. The Science of The Total Environment. 907. 167844–167844. 17 indexed citations
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Shrestha, Sadhana, et al.. (2023). Long-term SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in wastewater and estimation of COVID-19 cases: An application of wastewater-based epidemiology. The Science of The Total Environment. 896. 165270–165270. 18 indexed citations
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Sherchan, Samendra P., Ocean Thakali, Luisa A. Ikner, & Charles P. Gerba. (2023). Survival of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. The Science of The Total Environment. 882. 163049–163049. 17 indexed citations
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Malla, Bikash, Ocean Thakali, Sadhana Shrestha, et al.. (2022). Application of a high-throughput quantitative PCR system for simultaneous monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants and other pathogenic viruses in wastewater. The Science of The Total Environment. 853. 158659–158659. 35 indexed citations
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Mercier, Élisabeth, Patrick M. D’Aoust, Ocean Thakali, et al.. (2022). Municipal and neighbourhood level wastewater surveillance and subtyping of an influenza virus outbreak. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 15777–15777. 88 indexed citations
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Tiwari, Ananda, et al.. (2021). Persistence and occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in water and wastewater environments: a review of the current literature. STM:n Hallinnonalan avoin julkaisuarkisto (Julkari). 2 indexed citations
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Tiwari, Ananda, et al.. (2021). Persistence and occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in water and wastewater environments: a review of the current literature. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(57). 85658–85668. 20 indexed citations
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