Raj Boopathy

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
136 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Raj Boopathy is a scholar working on Pollution, Biomedical Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Raj Boopathy has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Pollution, 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 19 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Raj Boopathy's work include Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (25 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (21 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (21 papers). Raj Boopathy is often cited by papers focused on Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (25 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (21 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (21 papers). Raj Boopathy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Indonesia and Malaysia. Raj Boopathy's co-authors include Charles F. Kulpa, Achmad Syafiuddin, Lacy Daniels, Rajkumar Nathaniel, John F. Manning, Gary LaFleur, Scott Bergeron, Quenton Fontenot, Joan Garcı́a and John R. White and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Raj Boopathy

130 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raj Boopathy United States	39	2.3k	970	835	699	685	136	4.6k
Ke Xu China	43	2.2k 1.0×	626 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	764 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	169	5.0k
Dayi Zhang China	37	1.6k 0.7×	689 0.7×	748 0.9×	683 1.0×	714 1.0×	99	4.4k
Y.V. Nancharaiah India	41	1.9k 0.8×	912 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	585 0.8×	905 1.3×	116	5.4k
Nilanjana Das India	34	2.0k 0.9×	701 0.7×	895 1.1×	768 1.1×	1.7k 2.5×	133	5.5k
Achlesh Daverey India	35	1.7k 0.7×	700 0.7×	459 0.5×	502 0.7×	808 1.2×	81	3.8k
Anna Barra Caracciolo Italy	35	2.7k 1.2×	424 0.4×	806 1.0×	497 0.7×	496 0.7×	110	4.6k
Aruliah Rajasekar India	42	1.2k 0.5×	860 0.9×	937 1.1×	637 0.9×	501 0.7×	159	5.0k
Pooja Sharma India	40	1.4k 0.6×	661 0.7×	800 1.0×	442 0.6×	639 0.9×	159	4.6k
Jens Ejbye Schmidt Brazil	44	1.7k 0.7×	1.8k 1.9×	381 0.5×	806 1.2×	917 1.3×	212	6.2k
Bing Zhang China	36	2.1k 0.9×	723 0.7×	513 0.6×	507 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	135	4.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Khoiruddin, K., Raj Boopathy, Sibudjing Kawi, & I Gede Wenten. (2025). Towards Next-Generation Membrane Bioreactors: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions. Current Pollution Reports. 11(1). 6 indexed citations

Liu, Chen‐Guang, Fengxue Xin, Zhanyou Chi, et al.. (2025). Towards Environmental Sustainability: Employing Adaptive Laboratory Evolution to Develop Elite Algae Strains for Industrial and Environmental Applications. Current Pollution Reports. 11(1).

Raje, Himanshu, et al.. (2024). Tolerance and Biodegradation of High Concentration of Phenol by a Bacterial Consortium Enriched From the Hurricane Ida Sediment. Environmental Quality Management. 34(3). 1 indexed citations

Boopathy, Raj, et al.. (2024). Distinct mechanisms are responsible for E. coli biofilm desorption upon T4 coliphage infection and nutrient deprivation. Bioresource Technology Reports. 27. 101894–101894.

Raje, Himanshu, et al.. (2024). Biodegradation of sulfamethoxazole by a bacterium isolated from the Hurricane overtop sediments. Bioresource Technology Reports. 27. 101926–101926. 2 indexed citations

Mehmood, Muhammad Aamer, Ayesha Shahid, Sana Malik, et al.. (2024). Assessment of molecular and metabolic traits of a newly isolated Spirulina platensis BERC15 in a low-cost cultivation alternative for its use as functional food. Bioresource Technology Reports. 26. 101816–101816. 3 indexed citations

Singh, Amrit, Raj Kumar, Kulvinder Singh, et al.. (2023). Nanotechnology-assisted treatment of pharmaceuticals contaminated water. Bioengineered. 14(1). 2260919–2260919. 10 indexed citations

Zaidi, Nur Syamimi, et al.. (2021). Potential of Carica papaya Seed-Derived Bio-Coagulant to Remove Turbidity from Polluted Water Assessed through Experimental and Modeling-Based Study. Applied Sciences. 11(12). 5715–5715. 29 indexed citations

Syafiuddin, Achmad, Salmiati Salmiati, Mohamad Ali Fulazzaky, et al.. (2021). The Physical Modeling Analysis of Fate and Transport of Silver Nanoparticles Dispersed by Water Flow. Journal of Chemistry. 2021. 1–9. 1 indexed citations

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Zaidi, Nur Syamimi, et al.. (2021). Shifting from Conventional to Organic Filter Media in Wastewater Biofiltration Treatment: A Review. Applied Sciences. 11(18). 8650–8650. 38 indexed citations

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Boopathy, Raj, et al.. (2018). Biodegradation of phenol by Acinetobacter tandoii isolated from the gut of the termite. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26(33). 34067–34072. 42 indexed citations

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Bergeron, Scott, et al.. (2015). Presence of antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in raw source water and treated drinking water. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 102. 370–374. 151 indexed citations

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Boopathy, Raj, et al.. (2014). A survey of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a sewage treatment plant in Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 95. 2–10. 49 indexed citations

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Boopathy, Raj, et al.. (2010). Effect of carbon to nitrogen (C:N) ratio on nitrogen removal from shrimp production waste water using sequencing batch reactor. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 37(10). 1105–1110. 58 indexed citations

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Boopathy, Raj, et al.. (2008). Cellulosic Ethanol Production from Sugarcane Baggase without Enzymatic Saccharification. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Doolittle, Mark M., Ashok K. Raina, Alan R. Lax, & Raj Boopathy. (2007). Presence of nitrogen fixing Klebsiella pneumoniae in the gut of the Formosan subterranean termite (Coptotermes formosanus). Bioresource Technology. 99(8). 3297–3300. 26 indexed citations

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Boopathy, Raj. (2002). Effect of food-grade surfactant on bioremediation of explosives-contaminated soil. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 92(1). 103–114. 40 indexed citations

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Boopathy, Raj. (2001). Microbial decomposition of post-harvest sugarcane residue. Bioresource Technology. 79(1). 29–33. 15 indexed citations

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Boopathy, Raj & Charles F. Kulpa. (1994). Biotransformation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) by a Methanococcus sp. (strain B) isolated from a lake sediment. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 40(4). 273–278. 38 indexed citations

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Boopathy, Raj, Charles F. Kulpa, John F. Manning, & Carlo Montemagno. (1993). Bioremediation of TNT contaminated soil using a soil slurry reactor. 2 indexed citations

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