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Jabir Hussain Syed is affiliated with COMSATS University Islamabad in Pakistan and has contributed extensively to environmental science research. Their body of work encompasses multiple publications, primarily focusing on environmental health and atmospheric chemistry.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Sentiments and emotions evoked by news headlines of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak (2020), published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at urban settings in Pakistan: Spatial variations, sources and health risks (2021), published in Chemosphere
  • Heavy metals in urban dusts from Alexandria and Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt: implications for human health (2020), published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Isotopic Interpretation of Particulate Nitrate in the Metropolitan City of Karachi, Pakistan: Insight into the Oceanic Contribution to NOx (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Legacy and emerging flame retardants (FRs) in the urban atmosphere of Pakistan: Diurnal variations, gas-particle partitioning and human health exposure (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment

The main field of study for Jabir Hussain Syed is Environmental Science, including several subfields such as:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Pollution
  • Global and Planetary Change

The scientist focuses on a variety of topics, particularly:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jabir Hussain Syed include:

  • Jawad Nasir
  • Gan Zhang
  • Jun Li
  • Perihan Binnur Kurt-Karakuş
  • Mustafa Odabaşı

The researcher has published multiple studies in key environmental science journals and venues, with the most common being:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Chemosphere
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Waste Management

Best Publications

  • Current status of persistent organic pesticides residues in air, water, and soil, and their possible effect on neighboring countries: a comprehensive review of India.

    Ishwar Chandra Yadav;Ningombam Linthoingambi Devi;Jabir Hussain Syed;Zhineng Cheng

  • Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in South Asian region: a review.

    Usman Ali;Jabir Hussain Syed;Riffat Naseem Malik;Athanasios Katsoyiannis

  • Legacy and emerging flame retardants (FRs) in the freshwater ecosystem: A review

    Mehreen Iqbal;Jabir Hussain Syed;Athanasios Katsoyiannis;Riffat Naseem Malik

  • A review on vermicomposting of organic wastes

    Usman Ali;Nida Sajid;Azeem Khalid;Luqman Riaz

  • Microbe and plant assisted-remediation of organic xenobiotics and its enhancement by genetically modified organisms and recombinant technology: A review.

    Imran Hussain;Gajender Aleti;Ravi Naidu;Markus Puschenreiter

  • Organochlorine pesticides in air and soil and estimated air–soil exchange in Punjab, Pakistan

    Jabir Hussain Syed;Riffat Naseem Malik;Di Liu;Yue Xu

  • Pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables from Pakistan: a review of the occurrence and associated human health risks.

    Jabir Hussain Syed;Ambreen Alamdar;Ashiq Mohammad;Karam Ahad

  • Emerging issue of e-waste in Pakistan: A review of status, research needs and data gaps

    Mehreen Iqbal;Knut Breivik;Jabir Hussain Syed;Riffat Naseem Malik

  • Concentration, source identification, and exposure risk assessment of PM2.5-bound parent PAHs and nitro-PAHs in atmosphere from typical Chinese cities.

    Di Liu;Tian Lin;Jabir Hussain Syed;Zhineng Cheng

  • Occurrence and source identification of organochlorine pesticides in the surrounding surface soils of the Ittehad Chemical Industries Kalashah Kaku, Pakistan

    Jabir Hussain Syed;Riffat Naseem Malik

  • Rhizoremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soils: improvement opportunities and field applications.

    Imran Hussain;Imran Hussain;Markus Puschenreiter;Soja Gerhard;Philipp Schöftner

  • Biomass burning in Indo-China peninsula and its impacts on regional air quality and global climate change-a review

    Ishwar Chandra Yadav;Ishwar Chandra Yadav;Ningombam Linthoingambi Devi;Jun Li;Jabir Hussain Syed

  • Effect of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria inoculation on cadmium (Cd) uptake by Eruca sativa.

    Muhammad Aqeel Kamran;Jabir Hussain Syed;Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani;Muhammad Farooq Hussain Munis

  • Elucidating the urban levels, sources and health risks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Pakistan: Implications for changing energy demand.

    Naima Hamid;Jabir Hussain Syed;Jabir Hussain Syed;Muhammad Junaid;Adeel Mahmood

  • Organochlorine pesticides in surface soils from obsolete pesticide dumping ground in Hyderabad City, Pakistan: Contamination levels and their potential for air-soil exchange

    Ambreen Alamdar;Jabir Hussain Syed;Riffat Naseem Malik;Athanasios Katsoyiannis

  • Investigation of organochlorine pesticides from the Indus Basin, Pakistan: sources, air-soil exchange fluxes and risk assessment.

    Jawairia Sultana;Jabir Hussain Syed;Adeel Mahmood;Usman Ali

  • Screening of Atmospheric Short- and Medium-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins in India and Pakistan using Polyurethane Foam Based Passive Air Sampler

    Chakra Chaemfa;Yue Xu;Jun Li;Paromita Chakraborty

  • E-Waste Driven Pollution in Pakistan: The First Evidence of Environmental and Human Exposure to Flame Retardants (FRs) in Karachi City.

    Mehreen Iqbal;Jabir Hussain Syed;Jabir Hussain Syed;Knut Breivik;Knut Breivik;Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal Chaudhry

  • Status, distribution and ecological risk of organochlorines (OCs) in the surface sediments from the Ravi River, Pakistan

    Jabir Hussain Syed;Riffat Naseem Malik;Jun Li;Chakra Chaemfa

  • The potential of the flora from different regions of Pakistan in phytoremediation: a review

    Muhammad Aqeel Kamran;Amna;Rabia Mufti;Nadia Mubariz

Frequent Co-Authors

Riffat Naseem Malik
Riffat Naseem Malik Quaid-i-Azam University
Kevin C. Jones
Kevin C. Jones Lancaster University
Gan Zhang
Gan Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Athanasios Katsoyiannis
Athanasios Katsoyiannis Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Yan Wang
Yan Wang Dalian University of Technology
Knut Breivik
Knut Breivik Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Chongguo Tian
Chongguo Tian Chinese Academy of Sciences
Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi
Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi COMSATS University Islamabad
Alessandra Cincinelli
Alessandra Cincinelli University of Florence
Markus Puschenreiter
Markus Puschenreiter BOKU University

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