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Said Muhammad is affiliated with the University of Peshawar in Pakistan, specializing in environmental science with a focus on pollution and water quality. Their research spans several subfields, including pollution, water science and technology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, artificial intelligence applications in environmental studies, and radiological and ultrasound technology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as heavy metals in the environment, water quality and pollution assessment, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, geochemistry and geologic mapping, radioactivity and radon measurements, as well as groundwater and isotope geochemistry and watershed analysis.

Among recent publications, several stand out by Said Muhammad as lead author:

  • Evaluation of heavy metals in water and sediments, pollution, and risk indices of Naltar Lakes, Pakistan (2022), published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Heavy metal contamination in water and fish of the Hunza River and its tributaries in Gilgit-Baltistan: Evaluation of potential risks and provenance (2020), published in Environmental Technology & Innovation
  • Heavy metal contamination in water of Indus River and its tributaries, Northern Pakistan: evaluation for potential risk and source apportionment (2021), published in Toxin Reviews

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Said Muhammad include Wajid Ali, Cem Tokatlı, Imran Ud Din, Sardar Khan, and Inayat ur Rehman. The collaboration record shows multiple joint publications, reflecting sustained partnerships in environmental research.

The scholar's work has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C (10 publications)
  • Environmental Technology & Innovation (9 publications)
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research (7 publications)
  • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (6 publications)
  • Environmental Geochemistry and Health (6 publications)

Said Muhammad's research addresses critical environmental challenges, particularly in heavy metal pollution and water quality monitoring within Pakistan and surrounding regions. Their expertise includes applying multivariate statistical techniques and water quality index models to evaluate ecological risks and pollution status.

Best Publications

  • Health risk assessment of heavy metals and their source apportionment in drinking water of Kohistan region, northern Pakistan

    Said Muhammad;M. Tahir Shah;Sardar Khan

  • Human health risk from heavy metal via food crops consumption with wastewater irrigation practices in Pakistan

    Muhammad Usman Khan;Riffat Naseem Malik;Said Muhammad

  • Arsenic health risk assessment in drinking water and source apportionment using multivariate statistical techniques in Kohistan region, northern Pakistan.

    Said Muhammad;M. Tahir Shah;Sardar Khan

  • Health risk assessment via surface water and sub-surface water consumption in the mafic and ultramafic terrain, Mohmand agency, northern Pakistan

    M.T. Shah;J. Ara;S. Muhammad;S. Muhammad;S. Khan

  • Evaluation of heavy metals in water and sediments, pollution, and risk indices of Naltar Lakes, Pakistan

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  • Heavy metal concentrations in soil and wild plants growing around Pb–Zn sulfide terrain in the Kohistan region, northern Pakistan

    Said Muhammad;M. Tahir Shah;Sardar Khan

  • Phyto-cultural diversity of the Shigar valley (Central Karakorum) Baltistan, Northern Pakistan

    Zaheer Abbas;Jan Alam;Said Muhammad;Rainer W Bussmann

  • Arsenic and Heavy Metal Concentrations in Drinking Water in Pakistan and Risk Assessment: A Case Study

    Sardar Khan;Irfan Ali Shah;Said Muhammad;Riffat Naseem Malik

  • Heavy metal contamination in water of Indus River and its tributaries, Northern Pakistan: evaluation for potential risk and source apportionment

    Said Muhammad;Said Muhammad;Qazi Ahmed Usman

  • Heavy metal contamination in water and fish of the Hunza River and its tributaries in Gilgit–Baltistan: Evaluation of potential risks and provenance

    Said Muhammad;Kashif Ahmad

  • Heavy metal(loid)s contaminations in soils of Pakistan: a review for the evaluation of human and ecological risks assessment and spatial distribution

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  • Arsenic and heavy metals health risk assessment through drinking water consumption in the Peshawar District, Pakistan

    Sardar Khan;Rabia Rauf;Said Muhammad;Muhammad Qasim

  • Health Risk Assessment of Consumption of Heavy Metals in Market Food Crops from Sialkot and Gujranwala Districts, Pakistan

    Muhammad Usman Khan;Riffat Naseem Malik;Said Muhammad;Faizan Ullah

  • Potential harmful elements in coal dust and human health risk assessment near the mining areas in Cherat, Pakistan.

    Muhammad Ishtiaq;Noor Jehan;Said Akbar Khan;Said Muhammad

  • An ethnomedicinal appraisal of the Kurram Agency, tribal area, Pakistan

    Said Muhammad;Manzoor Hussain;Zaheer Abbas;Zafeer Saqib

  • Spatial distribution of the contamination and risk assessment of potentially harmful elements in the Ghizer River Basin, northern Pakistan

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  • Evaluation of the Swat River, Northern Pakistan, water quality using multivariate statistical techniques and water quality index (WQI) model

    Shah Jehan;Ihsan Ullah;Sardar Khan;Said Muhammad

  • Pollution characteristics, sources and health risks assessment of potentially hazardous elements in sediments of ten ponds in the saros bay region (Türkiye).

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  • Groundwater quality assessment for drinking and irrigation purposes in the Hangu District, Pakistan

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  • Spatial distribution, eco-environmental risks, and source characterization of heavy metals using compositional data analysis in riverine sediments of a Himalayan river, Northern Pakistan

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  • Evaluation and risks assessment of potentially toxic elements in water and sediment of the Dor River and its tributaries, Northern Pakistan

    Sehrish Amin;Sehrish Amin;Said Muhammad;Hina Fatima

  • Spatial distribution and provenance of heavy metal contamination in the sediments of the Indus River and its tributaries, North Pakistan: Evaluation of pollution and potential risks

    Qazi Ahmed Usman;Said Muhammad;Said Muhammad;Wajid Ali;Saeeda Yousaf

  • Potentially toxic elements in soil of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and Tribal areas, Pakistan: evaluation for human and ecological risk assessment

    Umar Saddique;Said Muhammad;Mohsin Tariq;Hua Zhang

  • Popular wood and sugarcane bagasse biochars reduced uptake of chromium and lead by lettuce from mine-contaminated soil.

    Amir Zeb Khan;Sardar Khan;Tehreem Ayaz;Mark L. Brusseau

  • Heavy metals contamination in soil and food and their evaluation for risk assessment in the Zhob and Loralai valleys, Baluchistan province, Pakistan

    Said Muhammad;Said Muhammad;Rahim Ullah;Ishtiaq A.K. Jadoon

  • Hydrochemical properties of drinking water and their sources apportionment of pollution in Bajaur agency, Pakistan

    Shah Jehan;Sardar Khan;Seema Anjum Khattak;Said Muhammad;Said Muhammad

  • Health risk assessment and provenance of arsenic and heavy metal in drinking water in Islamabad, Pakistan

    Nayab Abeer;Said Akbar Khan;Said Muhammad;Atta Rasool

Frequent Co-Authors

Sardar Khan
Sardar Khan University of Peshawar
Riffat Naseem Malik
Riffat Naseem Malik Quaid-i-Azam University
Rainer W. Bussmann
Rainer W. Bussmann Ilia State University
Shujaul Mulk Khan
Shujaul Mulk Khan Quaid-i-Azam University
Mark L. Brusseau
Mark L. Brusseau University of Arizona
Scott D. Young
Scott D. Young University of Nottingham
Muhammad Farooq
Muhammad Farooq Sultan Qaboos University
Wajid Nasim
Wajid Nasim Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Martin R. Broadley
Martin R. Broadley Rothamsted Research
Jung Ho Kim
Jung Ho Kim University of Wollongong

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