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Kannan Pakshirajan publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kannan Pakshirajan sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 225 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Kannan Pakshirajan D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kannan Pakshirajan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kannan Pakshirajan is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in India and focuses their research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their scholarly contributions span several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Pollution, Water Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Biomaterials.

Their work extensively covers topics such as biofuel production and bioconversion, algal biology and biofuel production, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, membrane separation technologies, and the effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Frequent publication venues for Kannan Pakshirajan include the Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Water Process Engineering, Chemosphere, and Bioresource Technology.

They have collaborated often with several co-authors, including G. Pugazhenthi, Arindam Sinharoy, Tanushree Paul, Manoj Kumar, and Surjith Ramasamy, contributing to multiple studies together.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kannan Pakshirajan illustrate diverse research interests:

  • Algae based microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment and recovery of value-added products, 2020, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Recent advances in heavy metal recovery from wastewater by biogenic sulfide precipitation, 2020, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Preparation and characterization of environmentally safe and highly biodegradable microbial polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) based graphene nanocomposites for potential food packaging applications, 2020, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
  • Biological treatment of biomass gasification wastewater using hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium Rhodococcus opacus in an up-flow packed bed bioreactor with a novel waste-derived nano-biochar based bio-support material, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Selenite bioreduction and biosynthesis of selenium nanoparticles by Bacillus paramycoides SP3 isolated from coal mine overburden leachate, 2021, Environmental Pollution

Kannan Pakshirajan has also contributed to book literature, including a publication with Springer International Publishing titled Biohydrogen - Advances and Processes in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Fungal pelleted reactors in wastewater treatment: Applications and perspectives

    Erika J. Espinosa-Ortiz;Eldon R. Rene;Kannan Pakshirajan;Eric D. van Hullebusch

  • Growth kinetics of an indigenous mixed microbial consortium during phenol degradation in a batch reactor.

    Pichiah Saravanan;K. Pakshirajan;Prabirkumar Saha

  • Optimization of batch process parameters using response surface methodology for dye removal by a novel adsorbent

    K. Ravikumar;K. Pakshirajan;T. Swaminathan;K. Balu

  • Heavy metal removal from multicomponent system by sulfate reducing bacteria: Mechanism and cell surface characterization.

    M. Gopi Kiran;Kannan Pakshirajan;Gopal Das

  • Membrane bioreactor and integrated membrane bioreactor systems for micropollutant removal from wastewater: A review

    Lalit Goswami;R. Vinoth Kumar;Siddhartha Narayan Borah;N. Arul Manikandan

  • Chromium tolerance, bioaccumulation and localization in plants: An overview.

    Vibha Sinha;Kannan Pakshirajan;Rakhi Chaturvedi

  • Algae based microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment and recovery of value-added products

    S. Arun;Arindam Sinharoy;Arindam Sinharoy;Kannan Pakshirajan;Kannan Pakshirajan;Piet N.L. Lens

  • Biological Treatment Processes for the Removal of Organic Micropollutants from Wastewater: a Review

    Dipak Kumar Kanaujiya;Tanushree Paul;Arindam Sinharoy;Kannan Pakshirajan

  • Sophorolipids from Candida bombicola using mixed hydrophilic substrates: Production, purification and characterization

    Achlesh Daverey;Kannan Pakshirajan

  • Production, Characterization, and Properties of Sophorolipids from the Yeast Candida bombicola using a Low-cost Fermentative Medium

    Achlesh Daverey;Kannan Pakshirajan

  • Recent advances in heavy metal recovery from wastewater by biogenic sulfide precipitation.

    Manoj Kumar;Moumita Nandi;Kannan Pakshirajan

  • Removal of Cu(II) by biosorption onto coconut shell in fixed-bed column systems

    Mike A. Acheampong;Mike A. Acheampong;Kannan Pakshirajan;Kannan Pakshirajan;Ajit P. Annachhatre;Piet N.L. Lens

  • Purification and characterization of glutaminase-free l-asparaginase from Pectobacterium carotovorum MTCC 1428

    Sanjay Kumar;V. Venkata Dasu;K. Pakshirajan

  • Integrated adsorption-membrane filtration process for antibiotic removal from aqueous solution

    Vibhu Sharma;R. Vinoth Kumar;Kannan Pakshirajan;G. Pugazhenthi

  • Dairy wastewater treatment using a novel low cost tubular ceramic membrane and membrane fouling mechanism using pore blocking models

    R. Vinoth Kumar;Lalit Goswami;Kannan Pakshirajan;G. Pugazhenthi

  • A novel integrated biodegradation-microfiltration system for sustainable wastewater treatment and energy recovery.

    Lalit Goswami;R. Vinoth Kumar;Kannan Pakshirajan;G. Pugazhenthi

  • Biological treatment of biomass gasification wastewater using hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium Rhodococcus opacus in an up-flow packed bed bioreactor with a novel waste-derived nano-biochar based bio-support material

    Lalit Goswami;Kannan Pakshirajan;G. Pugazhenthi

  • Preparation and characterization of environmentally safe and highly biodegradable microbial polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) based graphene nanocomposites for potential food packaging applications.

    N. Arul Manikandan;Kannan Pakshirajan;G. Pugazhenthi

  • Biodiesel production potential of oleaginous Rhodococcus opacus grown on biomass gasification wastewater

    Lalit Goswami;M.M. Tejas Namboodiri;R. Vinoth Kumar;Kannan Pakshirajan

  • Biodegradation of phenol and m-cresol in a batch and fed batch operated internal loop airlift bioreactor by indigenous mixed microbial culture predominantly Pseudomonas sp.

    P. Saravanan;K. Pakshirajan;Prabirkumar Saha

  • Localization and production of novel l-asparaginase from Pectobacterium carotovorum MTCC 1428

    Sanjay Kumar;Veeranki Venkata Dasu;Kannan Pakshirajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Eldon R. Rene
Eldon R. Rene IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Piet N.L. Lens
Piet N.L. Lens University of Galway
Gopal Das
Gopal Das Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Hung-Suck Park
Hung-Suck Park University of Ulsan
Gopalakrishnan Kumar
Gopalakrishnan Kumar Yonsei University
Adrián M.T. Silva
Adrián M.T. Silva University of Porto
Jose R. Peralta-Videa
Jose R. Peralta-Videa The University of Texas at El Paso
Eric D. van Hullebusch
Eric D. van Hullebusch Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
P. Muthukumar
P. Muthukumar Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

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