Sijan Devkota

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 943 citations indexed

About

Sijan Devkota is a scholar working on Catalysis, Mechanical Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Sijan Devkota has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 943 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Catalysis, 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 5 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Sijan Devkota's work include Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (7 papers), Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (7 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (5 papers). Sijan Devkota is often cited by papers focused on Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (7 papers), Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (7 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (5 papers). Sijan Devkota collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Nepal and Pakistan. Sijan Devkota's co-authors include Rakesh Shrestha, Sagar Ban, Rajendra Joshi, Arjun Prasad Tiwari, Hak Yong Kim, Mahesh Kumar Joshi, Bibek Uprety, Shaukat Ali Mazari, Jong-Ho Moon and Hyung Chul Yoon and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Chemical Engineering Journal and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Sijan Devkota

18 papers receiving 922 citations

Hit Papers

Technological trends in heavy metals removal from industr... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Technological trends in heavy metals removal from industrial wastewater: A review
    2021 649 citations Rakesh Shrestha, Sagar Ban et al. Journal of environmental chemical engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sijan Devkota South Korea 12 405 211 207 188 150 20 943
Shejiang Liu China 19 238 0.6× 193 0.9× 335 1.6× 243 1.3× 168 1.1× 41 937
Jiachao Yao China 17 304 0.8× 108 0.5× 253 1.2× 187 1.0× 116 0.8× 43 986
Yuexing Wei China 16 273 0.7× 186 0.9× 364 1.8× 242 1.3× 159 1.1× 50 936
Abbas Aghaeinejad‐Meybodi Iran 14 289 0.7× 156 0.7× 204 1.0× 157 0.8× 144 1.0× 25 692
Farihahusnah Hussin Malaysia 16 198 0.5× 325 1.5× 179 0.9× 262 1.4× 99 0.7× 44 925
Sagar Ban Nepal 5 418 1.0× 142 0.7× 128 0.6× 160 0.9× 43 0.3× 7 767
Rakesh Shrestha Nepal 6 400 1.0× 151 0.7× 122 0.6× 159 0.8× 42 0.3× 7 791
Jianfeng Fu China 13 352 0.9× 89 0.4× 205 1.0× 125 0.7× 89 0.6× 23 710
Rongrong Miao China 21 314 0.8× 274 1.3× 314 1.5× 597 3.2× 141 0.9× 47 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sijan Devkota

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sijan Devkota

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sijan Devkota. 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 Sijan Devkota. The network helps show where Sijan Devkota may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sijan Devkota

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

All Works

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Poudel, Prakash, et al.. (2025). Hybrid renewable energy system optimization to mitigate climate vulnerability of Nepal's run-of-river hydro grid. Journal of Energy Storage. 129. 117311–117311. 2 indexed citations
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Devkota, Sijan, et al.. (2024). Techno-economic and environmental assessment of hydrogen production through ammonia decomposition. Applied Energy. 358. 122605–122605. 51 indexed citations
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Mahi, Mohammed El, et al.. (2024). Preparation of greener geopolymer binder based fly ash: An effective strategy toward carbon neutrality. Ceramics International. 50(15). 27018–27026. 12 indexed citations
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Devkota, Sijan, et al.. (2024). Decarbonizing urea: Techno-economic and environmental analysis of a model hydroelectricity and carbon capture based green urea production. Applied Energy. 372. 123789–123789. 16 indexed citations
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Mazari, Shaukat Ali, et al.. (2023). Experimental data driven thermodynamic modelling and process simulation for biogas upgrading. Chemical Engineering Journal. 479. 147497–147497. 9 indexed citations
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Devkota, Sijan, Sagar Ban, Rakesh Shrestha, & Bibek Uprety. (2023). Techno-economic analysis of hydropower based green ammonia plant for urea production in Nepal. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 48(58). 21933–21945. 23 indexed citations
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Mazari, Shaukat Ali, et al.. (2023). Investigating the effect of blending of diamine and alkanolamine for CO2 capture: Experiment and thermodynamic modeling of CO2-AEEA-DEA-H2O system. Chemical Engineering Journal. 470. 144141–144141. 12 indexed citations
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Shin, Beomju, Jihun Mun, Sijan Devkota, et al.. (2023). Internal carbon loop strategy for methanol production from natural gas: Multi-objective optimization and process evaluation. Journal of Cleaner Production. 418. 138140–138140. 13 indexed citations
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Devkota, Sijan, Shaukat Ali Mazari, Kanghee Cho, et al.. (2023). Comparative assessment and multi-objective optimization for the gray and blue ammonia synthesis processes: Energy, Economic and Environmental (3E) analysis. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 48(90). 35123–35138. 24 indexed citations
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Devkota, Sijan, et al.. (2023). Techno-economic assessment of green urea production utilizing municipal solid waste and hydropower in Nepal. Journal of Cleaner Production. 419. 138320–138320. 13 indexed citations
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Devkota, Sijan, Beomju Shin, Jihun Mun, et al.. (2023). Process design and optimization of onsite hydrogen production from ammonia: Reactor design, energy saving and NOX control. Fuel. 342. 127879–127879. 34 indexed citations
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Devkota, Sijan, Beomju Shin, Jihun Mun, et al.. (2022). Process Design and Optimization of Onsite Green Hydrogen Production from Ammonia. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Shrestha, Rakesh, Sagar Ban, Sijan Devkota, et al.. (2021). Technological trends in heavy metals removal from industrial wastewater: A review. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 9(4). 105688–105688. 649 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shrestha, Rakesh, et al.. (2021). Technological advances in the transformative utilization of CO2 to value-added products. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 10(1). 106922–106922. 55 indexed citations
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Devkota, Sijan, et al.. (2021). Design and cost estimation of a CO2 capture plant from cement flue gas for urea production in Nepal. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 111. 103484–103484. 21 indexed citations
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Kafle, Bhim Prasad, et al.. (2020). Storing Solar Energy in Sodium Acetate-Based Hand Warmers Using Light-Absorbing Particles. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(12). 11772–11780. 4 indexed citations
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Ban, Sagar, Rakesh Shrestha, & Sijan Devkota. (2020). Design and Simulation of Methanol Production Process from CO2 and CO Hydrogenation with Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction. Kathmandu University Journal of Science Engineering and Technology. 14(2).

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