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Behnam Keshavarzi

Behnam Keshavarzi

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
9751
World Ranking
4735
National Ranking
17

Overview

Behnam Keshavarzi is affiliated with Shiraz University in Iran and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses various subfields, including Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's research centers on several main topics, notably Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Heavy Metals in the Environment, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Radioactivity and Radon Measurements, Biodegradable Polymer Synthesis and Properties, and Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity.

Keshavarzi has published in a number of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Research

Frequent collaborators in Keshavarzi's research include Farid Moore, Rosa Busquets, Mohammad Javad Nematollahi, Naghmeh Soltani, and Mehdi Zarei.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Behnam Keshavarzi include:

  • PET-microplastics as a vector for heavy metals in a simulated plant rhizosphere zone, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microplastic occurrence in settled indoor dust in schools, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microplastic occurrence in urban and industrial soils of Ahvaz metropolis: A city with a sustained record of air pollution, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microplastic particles in sediments and waters, south of Caspian Sea: Frequency, distribution, characteristics, and chemical composition, 2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Effect of land use on microplastic pollution in a major boundary waterway: The Arvand River, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Distribution and potential health impacts of microplastics and microrubbers in air and street dusts from Asaluyeh County, Iran

    Sajjad Abbasi;Behnam Keshavarzi;Farid Moore;Andrew Turner

  • Microplastics in different tissues of fish and prawn from the Musa Estuary, Persian Gulf

    Sajjad Abbasi;Naghmeh Soltani;Behnam Keshavarzi;Farid Moore

  • Ecological and human health hazards of heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in road dust of Isfahan metropolis, Iran.

    Naghmeh Soltani;Behnam Keshavarzi;Farid Moore;Tahereh Tavakol

  • Investigating a probable relationship between microplastics and potentially toxic elements in fish muscles from northeast of Persian Gulf

    Razegheh Akhbarizadeh;Farid Moore;Behnam Keshavarzi

  • Chemical speciation, human health risk assessment and pollution level of selected heavy metals in urban street dust of Shiraz, Iran

    Behnam Keshavarzi;Zahra Tazarvi;Mohammad Ali Rajabzadeh;Ali Najmeddin

  • Ecotoxicological risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in urban soil of Isfahan metropolis, Iran

    F. Moore;R. Akhbarizadeh;B. Keshavarzi;S. Khabazi

  • Health risk implications of potentially toxic metals in street dust and surface soil of Tehran, Iran

    Sharareh Dehghani;Farid Moore;Behnam Keshavarzi;Beverley A Hale

  • Investigating microplastics bioaccumulation and biomagnification in seafood from the Persian Gulf: a threat to human health?

    Razegheh Akhbarizadeh;Farid Moore;Behnam Keshavarzi

  • Investigation of microrubbers, microplastics and heavy metals in street dust: a study in Bushehr city, Iran

    Sajjad Abbasi;Behnam Keshavarzi;Farid Moore;Hossein Delshab

  • PET-microplastics as a vector for heavy metals in a simulated plant rhizosphere zone.

    Sajjad Abbasi;Farid Moore;Behnam Keshavarzi;Philip K. Hopke

  • A geochemical survey of heavy metals in agricultural and background soils of the Isfahan industrial zone, Iran

    Ali Esmaeili;Farid Moore;Behnam Keshavarzi;Nemat Jaafarzadeh

  • Distribution, source identification and health risk assessment of soil heavy metals in urban areas of Isfahan province, Iran

    Meisam Rastegari Mehr;Behnam Keshavarzi;Farid Moore;Reza Sharifi

  • Microplastics and potentially toxic elements in coastal sediments of Iran's main oil terminal (Khark Island)

    Razegheh Akhbarizadeh;Farid Moore;Behnam Keshavarzi;Alireza Moeinpour

  • Heavy metal contamination and health risk assessment in three commercial fish species in the Persian Gulf.

    Behnam Keshavarzi;Mina Hassanaghaei;Farid Moore;Meisam Rastegari Mehr

  • Geochemical sources, hydrogeochemical behavior, and health risk assessment of fluoride in an endemic fluorosis area, central Iran.

    Reza Dehbandi;Farid Moore;Behnam Keshavarzi

  • Speciation and Phytoavailability of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Soils in Sarcheshmeh Area, Kerman Province, Iran

    F. Rastmanesh;F. Moore;B. Keshavarzi

  • Presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments and surface water from Shadegan wetland – Iran: A focus on source apportionment, human and ecological risk assessment and Sediment-Water Exchange

    Nasrin Yavar Ashayeri;Behnam Keshavarzi;Farid Moore;Michael Kersten

  • Geochemical characteristics, partitioning, quantitative source apportionment, and ecological and health risk of heavy metals in sediments and water: A case study in Shadegan Wetland, Iran.

    Nasrin Yavar Ashayeri;Behnam Keshavarzi

  • Microplastic occurrence in settled indoor dust in schools

    Mohammad Javad Nematollahi;Fatemeh Zarei;Behnam Keshavarzi;Mehdi Zarei

  • Aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons risk assessment in coastal water and sediments of Khark Island, SW Iran.

    Razegheh Akhbarizadeh;Farid Moore;Behnam Keshavarzi;Alireza Moeinpour

  • Pollution, source apportionment and health risk of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in urban street dust of Mashhad, the second largest city of Iran

    Ali Najmeddin;Farid Moore;Behnam Keshavarzi;Zahra Sadegh

Frequent Co-Authors

Farid Moore
Farid Moore Shiraz University
Armin Sorooshian
Armin Sorooshian University of Arizona
Frank J. Kelly
Frank J. Kelly Imperial College London
Peter S. Hooda
Peter S. Hooda Kingston University
Andrew Turner
Andrew Turner Plymouth University
Ravi Naidu
Ravi Naidu University of Newcastle Australia
Rolf D. Vogt
Rolf D. Vogt Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman University of Newcastle Australia
Philip K. Hopke
Philip K. Hopke Clarkson University
Patryk Oleszczuk
Patryk Oleszczuk Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

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