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2026

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D-Index
80
Citations
22755
World Ranking
533
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Prosun Bhattacharya is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with significant contributions across infectious diseases, environmental chemistry, geochemistry and petrology, water science and technology, and health, toxicology and mutagenesis.

Bhattacharya's work covers numerous topics including arsenic contamination and mitigation, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, fluoride effects and removal, and heavy metal exposure and toxicity.

The scientist has published extensively in various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Groundwater for Sustainable Development
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health
  • International Journal of Surgery Global Health

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bhattacharya include:

  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Micro(nano)plastics pollution and human health: How plastics can induce carcinogenesis to humans?, 2022, Chemosphere
  • Arsenic biogeochemical cycling in paddy soil-rice system: Interaction with various factors, amendments and mineral nutrients, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Arsenic and other geogenic contaminants in global groundwater, 2024, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Spatial analysis and GIS mapping of regional hotspots and potential health risk of fluoride concentrations in groundwater of northern Tanzania, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Bhattacharya frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Md. Aminul Islam
  • Ahmad Arslan
  • Julian Ijumulana
  • Jyoti Prakash Maity
  • Felix Mtalo

Their research emphasis on arsenic contamination and mitigation is reflected in both topic coverage and recent publications. Other notable fields include groundwater studies and the chemistry involved in environmental processes.

Among honors received, Bhattacharya is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Human Health Effects From Chronic Arsenic Poisoning–A Review

    Simon Kapaj;Hans Peterson;Karsten Liber;Prosun Bhattacharya

  • Occurrence of Arsenic-contaminatedGroundwater in Alluvial Aquifers from Delta Plains, Eastern India: Options for Safe Drinking Water Supply

    Prosun Bhattacharya;Debashis Chatterjee;Gunnar Jacks

  • Arsenic enrichment in groundwater of the alluvial aquifers in Bangladesh: an overview

    K.Matin Ahmed;Prosun Bhattacharya;M.Aziz Hasan;S.Humayun Akhter

  • Arsenic in the environment: Biology and Chemistry

    Prosun Bhattacharya;Alan H. Welch;Kenneth G. Stollenwerk;Mike J. McLaughlin

  • Controls on the genesis of some high-fluoride groundwaters in India

    Gunnar Jacks;Prosun Bhattacharya;Vikas Chaudhary;K.P. Singh

  • Arsenic in groundwater of the Bengal delta plain aquifers in Bangladesh.

    P. Bhattacharya;G. Jacks;K. M. Ahmed;Joyanto Routh

  • Microalgae for third generation biofuel production, mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and wastewater treatment : Present and future perspectives - A mini review

    Jyoti Prakash Maity;Jochen Bundschuh;Jochen Bundschuh;Chien-Yen Chen;Prosun Bhattacharya

  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19.

    Aaron Bivins;Devin North;Arslan Ahmad;Warish Ahmed

  • Distribution and mobility of arsenic in the Río Dulce alluvial aquifers in Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina.

    Prosun Bhattacharya;Mattias Claesson;Jochen Bundschuh;Jochen Bundschuh;Ondra Sracek

  • Arsenic in soil and groundwater: an overview

    J.O. Nriagu;P. Bhattacharya;A.B. Mukherjee;J. Bundschuh

  • Fluoride in the environment: sources, distribution and defluoridation

    Meththika Vithanage;Prosun Bhattacharya

  • Arsenic in the Environment: A Global Perspective

    Prosun Bhattacharya;Gunnar Jacks;Seth Frisbie;Euan Smith

  • Groundwater arsenic in the Chaco-Pampean Plain, Argentina : Case study from Robles County, Santiago del Estero Province

    J. Bundschuh;J. Bundschuh;B. Farias;R. Martin;A. Storniolo

  • Arsenic in groundwater in the Bengal Delta Plain: slow poisoning in Bangladesh

    Arun B. Mukherjee;Prosun Bhattacharya

  • Behavior of arsenic and geochemical modeling of arsenic enrichment in aqueous environments

    Ondra Sracek;Prosun Bhattacharya;Gunnar Jacks;Jon-Petter Gustafsson

  • Arsenic contamination in groundwater in the Southeast Asia region.

    Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman;Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman;R. Naidu;R. Naidu;Prosun Bhattacharya

  • Natural arsenic in global groundwaters: distribution and geochemical triggers for mobilization

    Indika Herath;Indika Herath;Meththika Vithanage;Meththika Vithanage;Jochen Bundschuh;Jyoti Prakash Maity;Jyoti Prakash Maity

  • Fluoride occurrence in groundwater systems at global scale and status of defluoridation – State of the art

    Vivian Kimambo;Vivian Kimambo;Vivian Kimambo;Prosun Bhattacharya;Prosun Bhattacharya;Felix Mtalo;Joseph Mtamba

  • Hydrogeochemical comparison and effects of overlapping redox zones on groundwater arsenic near the Western (Bhagirathi sub-basin, India) and Eastern (Meghna sub-basin, Bangladesh) margins of the Bengal Basin.

    Abhijit Mukherjee;Mattias von Brömssen;Bridget R. Scanlon;Prosun Bhattacharya

  • Arsenic in the human food chain: the Latin American perspective

    Jochen Bundschuh;Bibhash Nath;Prosun Bhattacharya;Chen Wuing Liu

  • Groundwater for sustainable development : problems, perspectives and challenges

    Prosun Bhattacharya

Frequent Co-Authors

Jochen Bundschuh
Jochen Bundschuh University of Southern Queensland
Gunnar Jacks
Gunnar Jacks Royal Institute of Technology
Ravi Naidu
Ravi Naidu University of Newcastle Australia
Marta I. Litter
Marta I. Litter National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Abhijit Mukherjee
Abhijit Mukherjee Curtin University
Ondra Sracek
Ondra Sracek Palacký University, Olomouc
Debashis Chatterjee
Debashis Chatterjee University of Kalyani
Kazi Matin Ahmed
Kazi Matin Ahmed University of Dhaka
Bibhash Nath
Bibhash Nath City University of New York
Jiin-Shuh Jean
Jiin-Shuh Jean National Cheng Kung University

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