Pankaj Bhatt

10.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
142 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Pankaj Bhatt is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Pankaj Bhatt has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Pollution, 28 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 26 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Pankaj Bhatt's work include Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (54 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (42 papers) and Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (22 papers). Pankaj Bhatt is often cited by papers focused on Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (54 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (42 papers) and Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (22 papers). Pankaj Bhatt collaborates with scholars based in China, India and United States. Pankaj Bhatt's co-authors include Shaohua Chen, Yaohua Huang, Wenping Zhang, Sandhya Mishra, Ziqiu Lin, Shimei Pang, Geeta Bhandari, Kalpana Bhatt, Muhammad Bilal and Saurabh Gangola and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Pankaj Bhatt

133 papers receiving 7.1k 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 Advanced Technologies for the Characterization of Xenobiotic-Degrading Microorganisms and Microbial Communities

2021 174 citations Sandhya Mishra, Wenping Zhang et al. profile →
Microbial Interventions in Bioremediation of Heavy Metal Contaminants in Agroecosystem

2022 166 citations Pankaj Bhatt et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →
Developments and application of chitosan-based adsorbents for wastewater treatments

2023 155 citations Pankaj Bhatt, Samiksha Joshi et al. Environmental Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pankaj Bhatt China	50	3.7k	1.6k	1.5k	1.1k	799	142	7.2k
Lusheng Zhu China	56	3.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	3.1k 2.1×	1.6k 1.5×	923 1.2×	230	9.7k
Angelina Pena Portugal	46	3.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	713 0.6×	427 0.5×	140	7.1k
Zofia Piotrowska‐Seget Poland	43	4.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	422 0.5×	130	6.8k
Jay Gan United States	56	6.8k 1.8×	1.5k 0.9×	3.9k 2.6×	766 0.7×	737 0.9×	258	11.4k
Haifeng Qian China	56	4.0k 1.1×	2.8k 1.8×	2.1k 1.4×	1.9k 1.7×	389 0.5×	237	10.5k
Paula M. L. Castro Portugal	57	3.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.6×	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	262 0.3×	266	10.1k
Kadiyala Venkateswarlu India	48	4.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	798 0.7×	256 0.3×	184	8.2k
Hans Mol Netherlands	43	2.1k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	800 0.7×	670 0.8×	135	6.7k
Ashwani Kumar Thukral India	36	2.1k 0.6×	2.6k 1.7×	885 0.6×	735 0.7×	456 0.6×	91	6.3k
Qi Zhang China	40	2.3k 0.6×	959 0.6×	674 0.5×	934 0.8×	171 0.2×	208	5.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pankaj Bhatt

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Yabing, Pankaj Bhatt, & Irene Xagoraraki. (2025). In-depth comparison of untargeted and targeted sequencing for detecting virus diversity in wastewater. Water Research. 283. 123803–123803.

Bhatt, Pankaj, et al.. (2025). Impact of AI on Consumers’ Purchase Intention Towards Online Grocery Shopping in India. 453–490. 1 indexed citations

Bhatt, Pankaj, et al.. (2024). Life cycle assessment on environmental feasibility of microalgae-based wastewater treatment for shrimp recirculating aquaculture systems. Bioresource Technology. 399. 130578–130578. 26 indexed citations

Wang, Tianyue, Liping Wang, Pengfei Wang, et al.. (2024). Microbes as carbendazim degraders: opportunity and challenge. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1424825–1424825. 5 indexed citations

Bhatt, Pankaj, et al.. (2023). Bacteriophage-based biosensors for detection of pathogenic microbes in wastewater. The Science of The Total Environment. 901. 165859–165859. 26 indexed citations

Kumar, Pushpendar, Pankaj Bhatt, Halis Şimşek, et al.. (2023). An integration of algae-mediated wastewater treatment and resource recovery through anaerobic digestion. Journal of Environmental Management. 342. 118159–118159. 18 indexed citations

Bhatt, Pankaj, et al.. (2023). Cyanophage-cyanobacterial interactions for sustainable aquatic environment. Environmental Research. 229. 115728–115728. 20 indexed citations

Bhatt, Pankaj, et al.. (2023). Developments and application of chitosan-based adsorbents for wastewater treatments. Environmental Research. 226. 115530–115530. 155 indexed citations breakdown →

Bhushan, Shashi, et al.. (2023). Biological pretreatment for algal biomass feedstock for biofuel production. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 11(3). 109870–109870. 63 indexed citations

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Huang, Yaohua, Shao-Fang Chen, Wenjuan Chen, et al.. (2023). Efficient biodegradation of multiple pyrethroid pesticides by Rhodococcus pyridinivorans strain Y6 and its degradation mechanism. Chemical Engineering Journal. 469. 143863–143863. 63 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenping, Wenjuan Chen, Shao-Fang Chen, et al.. (2023). Cellular Response and Molecular Mechanism of Glyphosate Degradation by Chryseobacterium sp. Y16C. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 71(17). 6650–6661. 31 indexed citations

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Wu, Siyi, Wenjuan Chen, Yaohua Huang, et al.. (2023). Current insights into the microbial degradation of nicosulfuron: Strains, metabolic pathways, and molecular mechanisms. Chemosphere. 326. 138390–138390. 42 indexed citations

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Maithani, Damini, Anita Sharma, Saurabh Gangola, Parul Chaudhary, & Pankaj Bhatt. (2022). Insights into applications and strategies for discovery of microbial bioactive metabolites. Microbiological Research. 261. 127053–127053. 20 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Sajjad, et al.. (2022). Microbial adaptation and impact into the pesticide’s degradation. Archives of Microbiology. 204(5). 288–288. 34 indexed citations

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Bhandari, Geeta, et al.. (2021). System biology analysis of endosulfan biodegradation in bacteria and its effect in other living systems: modeling and simulation studies. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 40(23). 13171–13183. 9 indexed citations

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Bhatt, Pankaj, Eldon R. Rene, Jagadeesh Kumar Alagarasan, Wenping Zhang, & Shaohua Chen. (2020). Binding interaction of allethrin with esterase: Bioremediation potential and mechanism. Bioresource Technology. 315. 123845–123845. 103 indexed citations

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Feng, Yanmei, Yaohua Huang, Hui Zhan, Pankaj Bhatt, & Shaohua Chen. (2020). An Overview of Strobilurin Fungicide Degradation:Current Status and Future Perspective. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 389–389. 108 indexed citations

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Zhou, Tian, et al.. (2019). Acinetobacter lactucae Strain QL-1, a Novel Quorum Quenching Candidate Against Bacterial Pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2867–2867. 29 indexed citations

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Bhatt, Pankaj, et al.. (2013). Rubia cordifolia Overview: A New Approach to Treat Cardiac Disorders. International Journal of Drug Development and Research. 5(2). 19 indexed citations

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Dhama, Kuldeep, et al.. (2012). Evaluation of azolla (Azolla pinnata) as a poultry feed and its role in poverty alleviation among landless people in northern plains of India.. Veterinary Practitioner. 13(2). 250–254. 11 indexed citations

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