Sujan Fernando

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Sujan Fernando is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sujan Fernando has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 23 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sujan Fernando's work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (30 papers), Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (22 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (12 papers). Sujan Fernando is often cited by papers focused on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (30 papers), Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (22 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (12 papers). Sujan Fernando collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Sujan Fernando's co-authors include Thomas M. Holsen, Selma Mededovic Thagard, ‪Sadjad Fakouri Baygi‬, Raj Kamal Singh, Bernard S. Crimmins, Philip K. Hopke, Yang Yang, Shasha Yang, Rui Li and Timur İslamoğlu and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Analytical Chemistry and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Sujan Fernando

41 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Breakdown Products from Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) Degradation in a Plasma-Based Water Treatment Process

2019 342 citations Sujan Fernando, ‪Sadjad Fakouri Baygi‬ et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sujan Fernando United States	17	695	674	320	136	125	45	1.2k
Marina G. Evich United States	9	986 1.4×	694 1.0×	374 1.2×	78 0.6×	98 0.8×	14	1.4k
Mary J. B. Davis United States	8	1.1k 1.6×	826 1.2×	451 1.4×	88 0.6×	203 1.6×	9	1.6k
Brad Acrey United States	10	985 1.4×	711 1.1×	372 1.2×	124 0.9×	198 1.6×	17	1.5k
Raj Kamal Singh India	16	582 0.8×	505 0.7×	307 1.0×	213 1.6×	147 1.2×	22	1.2k
Ken J. Friesen Canada	15	626 0.9×	774 1.1×	420 1.3×	158 1.2×	134 1.1×	26	1.3k
Krzysztof Kulisa Poland	13	384 0.6×	245 0.4×	197 0.6×	171 1.3×	107 0.9×	33	842
Erica Gagliano Italy	12	807 1.2×	539 0.8×	240 0.8×	256 1.9×	150 1.2×	26	1.3k
Adeline Colin France	11	800 1.2×	717 1.1×	460 1.4×	87 0.6×	61 0.5×	11	995
Yixiang Bao China	20	798 1.1×	623 0.9×	417 1.3×	384 2.8×	204 1.6×	29	1.3k
Elisabeth L. Hawley United States	11	790 1.1×	816 1.2×	306 1.0×	196 1.4×	62 0.5×	21	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sujan Fernando

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

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Fernando, Sujan, et al.. (2025). Piezoelectric Ball Milling Treatment of PFAS-Laden Spent Resins. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 12(4). 461–466. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Celia Y., et al.. (2025). Evaluating the environmental occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and potential exposure risk for recreational shellfish harvesters in the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire. The Science of The Total Environment. 986. 179747–179747. 1 indexed citations

Ateia, Mohamed, et al.. (2025). Foam fractionation of PFAS from landfill leachate using a membrane electrochemical reactor. Waste Management. 208. 115154–115154.

Fernando, Sujan, et al.. (2025). Mercury bioaccumulation in the aquatic food webs from Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario in North America. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 51(3). 102548–102548. 1 indexed citations

Ateia, Mohamed, et al.. (2025). PFAS in pelagic Sargassum: A growing concern for the mexican caribbean coastline. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 495. 139139–139139.

Fernando, Sujan, et al.. (2025). Perfluorobutanesulfonate (PFBS) Treatment by Electrical Discharge Plasma: Reaction Mechanisms and Degradation Pathways. ACS Omega. 10(33). 37524–37535. 1 indexed citations

Pagano, James J., Philip K. Hopke, Bernard S. Crimmins, et al.. (2024). Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentrations and breakpoint trends across the waters of the Great Lakes by isotope-dilution high-resolution mass spectroscopy. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 178024–178024.

Ateia, Mohamed, Thabet Tolaymat, Sujan Fernando, et al.. (2024). The unique distribution pattern of PFAS in landfill organics. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 479. 135678–135678. 11 indexed citations

Gallagher, Lisa G., et al.. (2024). Patterns of Seafood Consumption Among New Hampshire Residents Suggest Potential Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances. Exposure and Health. 16(6). 1501–1517. 6 indexed citations

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Ateia, Mohamed, et al.. (2024). PFAS occurrence and distribution in yard waste compost indicate potential volatile loss, downward migration, and transformation. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 26(4). 657–666. 16 indexed citations

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Crimmins, Bernard S., et al.. (2023). Can blood proteome diversity among fish species help explain perfluoroalkyl acid trophodynamics in aquatic food webs?. The Science of The Total Environment. 875. 162337–162337. 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Shasha, Michael R. Twiss, Sujan Fernando, Stefan Grimberg, & Yang Yang. (2022). Mitigation of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms (cHABs) and Cyanotoxins by Electrochemical Oxidation: From a Bench-Scale Study to Field Application. ACS ES&T Engineering. 2(7). 1160–1168. 13 indexed citations

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Goodrum, Philip E., et al.. (2022). Is Mixtures’ Additivity Supported by Empirical Data? A Case Study of Developmental Toxicity of PFOS and 6:2 FTS in Wildtype Zebrafish Embryos. Toxics. 10(8). 418–418. 8 indexed citations

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Baygi‬, ‪Sadjad Fakouri, et al.. (2022). Bioaccumulation of polyfluoroalkyl substances in the Lake Huron aquatic food web. The Science of The Total Environment. 819. 152974–152974. 36 indexed citations

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Baygi‬, ‪Sadjad Fakouri, Ronan Cariou, Sujan Fernando, et al.. (2022). Comparison between automated and user-interactive non-targeted screening tools: isotopic profile deconvoluted chromatogram (IPDC) algorithm and HaloSeeker 1.0. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 19(11). 10535–10546. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Rui, David Speed, Dinusha Siriwardena, et al.. (2021). Comparison of hydrogen peroxide-based advanced oxidation processes for the treatment of azole-containing industrial wastewater. Chemical Engineering Journal. 425. 131785–131785. 41 indexed citations

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Fernando, Sujan, Thomas M. Holsen, Philip K. Hopke, et al.. (2021). Characterization of Halogenated Organic Compounds in Pelagic Sharks and Sea Turtles Using a Nontargeted Approach. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(24). 16390–16401. 11 indexed citations

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Baygi‬, ‪Sadjad Fakouri, Sujan Fernando, Philip K. Hopke, Thomas M. Holsen, & Bernard S. Crimmins. (2019). Automated Isotopic Profile Deconvolution for High Resolution Mass Spectrometric Data (APGC-QToF) from Biological Matrices. Analytical Chemistry. 91(24). 15509–15517. 23 indexed citations

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Fernando, Sujan, et al.. (1988). Intertidal sediment characteristics of Vellar Estuary. Mahasagar. 21(4). 245–251. 1 indexed citations

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Fernando, Sujan, S. Ajmal Khan, & Ravi S. Kasinathan. (1983). Observations on the distribution of benthic fauna in Vellar Estuary, Porto Novo. Mahasagar. 16(3). 341–348. 2 indexed citations

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