Rai S. Kookana

21.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
282 papers, 16.3k citations indexed

About

Rai S. Kookana is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rai S. Kookana has authored 282 papers receiving a total of 16.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 175 papers in Pollution, 94 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 56 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rai S. Kookana's work include Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (107 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (95 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (42 papers). Rai S. Kookana is often cited by papers focused on Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (107 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (95 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (42 papers). Rai S. Kookana collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Rai S. Kookana's co-authors include Guang‐Guo Ying, Ravi Naidu, Xiangyang Yu, Brian Williams, Mélanie Kah, Ali Shareef, Mike Williams, Danielle P. Oliver, Yingjun Ru and Thomas D. Bucheli and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Nature Nanotechnology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Rai S. Kookana

279 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Environmental fate of alkylphenols and alkylphenol ethoxylates—a review

2002 915 citations Guang‐Guo Ying, Rai S. Kookana et al. profile →
A critical evaluation of nanopesticides and nanofertilizers against their conventional analogues

2018 762 citations Mélanie Kah, Rai S. Kookana et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Occurrence and fate of hormone steroids in the environment

2002 600 citations Guang‐Guo Ying, Rai S. Kookana et al. profile →
Characteristics of biochar and its application in remediation of contaminated soil

2013 458 citations Rai S. Kookana et al. profile →
Influences of Chemical Properties, Soil Properties, and Solution pH on Soil–Water Partitioning Coefficients of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)

2020 330 citations Shervin Kabiri, Divina A. Navarro et al. profile →
Increasing ionic strength and valency of cations enhance sorption through hydrophobic interactions of PFAS with soil surfaces

2022 142 citations Divina A. Navarro, Jun Du et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rai S. Kookana Australia	66	9.0k	5.9k	2.7k	2.0k	1.9k	282	16.3k
Ji‐Dong Gu China	72	8.0k 0.9×	3.8k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	2.6k 1.3×	1.4k 0.7×	508	19.5k
Nabeel Khan Niazi Pakistan	66	7.1k 0.8×	3.4k 0.6×	3.9k 1.4×	4.1k 2.0×	3.1k 1.7×	190	15.3k
Fangbai Li China	69	6.1k 0.7×	3.1k 0.5×	3.9k 1.4×	2.4k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	367	15.6k
Murray B. McBride United States	63	10.7k 1.2×	3.5k 0.6×	3.2k 1.2×	3.7k 1.8×	3.1k 1.6×	257	20.5k
Yibing Ma China	54	6.9k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	282	12.5k
N.F.Y. Tam Hong Kong	78	9.5k 1.1×	4.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	3.3k 1.8×	435	20.4k
Muhammad Shahid Pakistan	70	8.1k 0.9×	3.9k 0.7×	3.7k 1.3×	3.0k 1.5×	5.6k 3.0×	290	17.4k
Hui Li China	63	5.9k 0.7×	2.9k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	2.9k 1.4×	1.5k 0.8×	495	15.5k
Sardar Khan Pakistan	60	7.7k 0.9×	3.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	2.9k 1.5×	1.8k 1.0×	227	13.1k
Kirk G. Scheckel United States	58	6.4k 0.7×	3.9k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	198	13.9k

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Douglas, Grant, Prashant Srivastava, Rai S. Kookana, et al.. (2025). Assessment of sealants for the mitigation of PFAS leaching from contaminated concrete. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 496. 139254–139254. 1 indexed citations

Wallington, Timothy J., Pierangelo Metrangolo, Bruno Améduri, et al.. (2025). Comment on “Scientists’ Statement on the Chemical Definition of PFASs”. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 12(11). 1587–1589.

Kookana, Rai S., Bo Sha, Karl C. Bowles, et al.. (2025). Human exposure to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Asia and contributing factors, with a focus on East Asia. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 27(9). 2614–2635. 3 indexed citations

Srivastava, Prashant, Grant Douglas, Greg B. Davis, et al.. (2024). Leachability of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances from contaminated concrete. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 26(12). 2227–2239. 2 indexed citations

Navarro, Divina A., Shervin Kabiri, Karl C. Bowles, et al.. (2024). Review on Methods for Assessing and Predicting Leaching of PFAS from Solid Matrices. Current Pollution Reports. 10(4). 628–647. 7 indexed citations

Srivastava, Prashant, Mike Williams, Jun Du, et al.. (2022). Method for extraction and analysis of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances in contaminated asphalt. Analytical Methods. 14(17). 1678–1689. 12 indexed citations

Kah, Mélanie, Divina A. Navarro, Walter D. C. Schenkeveld, et al.. (2022). Fate of copper in soil: effect of agrochemical (nano)formulations and soil properties. Environmental Science Nano. 9(2). 653–662. 3 indexed citations

Rayner, John L., Rai S. Kookana, Elise Bekele, et al.. (2022). Laboratory batch representation of PFAS leaching from aged field soils: Intercomparison across new and standard approaches. The Science of The Total Environment. 838(Pt 4). 156562–156562. 30 indexed citations

Judy, Jonathan D., Mike Williams, Adrienne Gregg, et al.. (2019). Microplastics in municipal mixed-waste organic outputs induce minimal short to long-term toxicity in key terrestrial biota. Environmental Pollution. 252(Pt A). 522–531. 219 indexed citations

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Oliver, Danielle P., Yasong Li, Paul N. Nelson, et al.. (2019). The role of surface charge and pH changes in tropical soils on sorption behaviour of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs). The Science of The Total Environment. 673. 197–206. 57 indexed citations

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Kah, Mélanie, Rai S. Kookana, Alexander Gogos, & Thomas D. Bucheli. (2018). A critical evaluation of nanopesticides and nanofertilizers against their conventional analogues. Nature Nanotechnology. 13(8). 677–684. 762 indexed citations breakdown →

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Varua, Maria Estela, John Ward, Basant Maheshwari, S. Dave, & Rai S. Kookana. (2017). Groundwater management and gender inequalities: The case of two watersheds in rural India. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 6. 93–100. 17 indexed citations

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Santos, Dayana Moscardi dos, Mike Williams, Rai S. Kookana, & Mary Rosa Rodrigues de Marchi. (2017). Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) Fibers: in situ Measurements of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Seawater. Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society. 5 indexed citations

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Kookana, Rai S., et al.. (2015). Biochar and hydrochar as low-cost sorbents for removing contaminants from water. 42(2). 142. 5 indexed citations

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Kookana, Rai S., et al.. (2014). Particulate and Dissolved Forms of N, P and Organic C Transported From Major Land Uses in the Pagsanjan-Lumban Catchment to Laguna de Bay, Philippines. Journal of Environmental Science and Management. 17(1). 38–38. 1 indexed citations

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Ying, Guang‐Guo, et al.. (2004). Release behavior of triazine residues in stabilised contaminated soils. Environmental Pollution. 134(1). 71–77. 28 indexed citations

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Kookana, Rai S.. (2002). Environmental protection and risk assessment of organic contaminants. 17 indexed citations

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Di, H. J., L. A. G. Aylmore, & Rai S. Kookana. (1998). DEGRADATION RATES OF EIGHT PESTICIDES IN SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE SOILS UNDER LABORATORY AND FIELD CONDITIONS. Soil Science. 163(5). 404–411. 57 indexed citations

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Baskaran, S., Rai S. Kookana, & Ravi Naidu. (1997). Determination of the insecticide imidacloprid in water and soil using high-performance liquid chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A. 787(1-2). 271–275. 125 indexed citations

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Singh, Gurmeet, W. F. Spencer, Martinus Th. van Genuchten, & Rai S. Kookana. (1992). Predicting Pesticide Transport in Soil. Pesticide Research Journal. 4(1). 1–10. 5 indexed citations

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