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Santosh Kumar Sarkar

Santosh Kumar Sarkar

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
8630
World Ranking
4788
National Ranking
48

Overview

Santosh Kumar Sarkar is affiliated with the University of Calcutta in India and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work addresses various environmental concerns, with a focus on pollution, health impacts, ecology, water science, and industrial engineering.

The main areas of study in Sarkar's research include:

  • Pollution
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ecology
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Their research topics specifically cover:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity

Among the frequent publication venues where Sarkar has contributed are:

  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Water
  • Applied Sciences
  • Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Recent papers authored by Sarkar include:

  • Policy Framework for Mitigating Land-based Marine Plastic Pollution in the Gangetic Delta Region of Bay of Bengal - A review (2020), Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Exploration of an Extracellular Polymeric Substance from Earthworm Gut Bacterium (Bacillus licheniformis) for Bioflocculation and Heavy Metal Removal Potential (2020), Applied Sciences
  • Heavy metals in urban road dusts from Kolkata and Bengaluru, India: implications for human health (2020), Environmental Geochemistry and Health
  • Health Risk and Geochemical Assessment of Trace Elements in Surface Sediment along the Hooghly (Ganges) River Estuary (India) (2021), Water
  • Spatial distribution of trace elements in surface sediments of Hooghly (Ganges) river estuary in West Bengal, India (2021), Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Collaborations in Sarkar's research are frequent with colleagues including Priyanka Mondal, Marco Trifuoggi, Luciano Ferrara, Maria Toscanesi, and Michele Arienzo, with each coauthor appearing multiple times in their recent publications.

Best Publications

  • Human health risk assessment of heavy metals in tropical fish and shellfish collected from the river Buriganga, Bangladesh

    Md. Kawser Ahmed;Mohammad Abdul Baki;Md. Saiful Islam;Goutam Kumar Kundu

  • Distribution and possible source of trace elements in the sediment cores of a tropical macrotidal estuary and their ecotoxicological significance.

    M. Chatterjee;E.V. Silva Filho;S.K. Sarkar;S.M. Sella

  • Evaluation of the concentration of HCH, DDT, HCB, PCB and PAH in the sediments along the lower stretch of Hugli estuary, West Bengal, northeast India

    L. Guzzella;C. Roscioli;L. Viganò;M. Saha

  • Sources of sedimentary pahs in tropical asian waters: differentiation between pyrogenic and petrogenic sources by alkyl homolog abundance.

    Mahua Saha;Ayako Togo;Kaoruko Mizukawa;Michio Murakami

  • Temporal characteristics of pan evaporation trends under the humid conditions of northeast India

    D. Jhajharia;S.K. Shrivastava;D. Sarkar;S. Sarkar

  • Water quality management in the lower stretch of the river Ganges, east coast of India: an approach through environmental education

    Santosh Kumar Sarkar;Mahua Saha;Hideshige Takada;Asokkumar Bhattacharya

  • Chronic arsenic toxicity in west Bengal--the worst calamity in the world.

    Mazumder Dn;Das Gupta J;Santra A;Pal A

  • Levels of elements in the surficial estuarine sediments of the Hugli River, northeast India and their environmental implications.

    Santosh Kumar Sarkar;Stanislav Frančišković-Bilinski;Asokkumar Bhattacharya;Mahua Saha

  • Occurrence, distribution and possible sources of organochlorine pesticide residues in tropical coastal environment of India: an overview.

    S.K. Sarkar;B.D. Bhattacharya;A. Bhattacharya;M. Chatterjee

  • Characterization, source identification and risk associated with polyaromatic and chlorinated organic contaminants (PAHs, PCBs, PCBzs and OCPs) in the surface sediments of Hooghly estuary, India.

    Soumita Mitra;Simonetta Corsolini;Karla Andrea Pozo;Karla Andrea Pozo;Ondřej Audy

  • Bioaccumulation of metals in fish species from water and sediments in macrotidal Ennore creek, Chennai, SE coast of India: A metropolitan city effect.

    M. Jayaprakash;R. Senthil Kumar;L. Giridharan;S.B. Sujitha

  • Organochlorine pesticide residues in sediments of a tropical mangrove estuary, India: implications for monitoring.

    Badal Bhattacharya;Santosh Kumar Sarkar;Nilanjana Mukherjee

  • Microplastics in tourist beaches of Huatulco Bay, Pacific coast of southern Mexico

    I. Retama;M.P. Jonathan;V.C. Shruti;S. Velumani

  • Chromium (VI) induced acute toxicity and genotoxicity in freshwater stinging catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis.

    M.K. Ahmed;G.K. Kundu;M.H. Al-Mamun;S.K. Sarkar

  • Interspecific variation in heavy metal body concentrations in biota of Sunderban mangrove wetland, northeast India.

    M. Saha;S.K. Sarkar;B. Bhattacharya

  • Accumulation efficiency, genotoxicity and antioxidant defense mechanisms in medicinal plant Acalypha indica L. under lead stress.

    Perumal Venkatachalam;Narayanan Jayalakshmi;Natesan Geetha;Shivendra V. Sahi

  • Commonness and rarity in the marine biosphere

    Sean R. Connolly;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Julian Caley;Nancy Knowlton

  • Potential application of selected metal resistant phosphate solubilizing bacteria isolated from the gut of earthworm (Metaphire posthuma) in plant growth promotion

    Jayanta Kumar Biswas;Anurupa Banerjee;Mahendra Rai;Ravi Naidu

  • Concentration of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in sediment cores of Sundarban mangrove wetland, northeastern part of Bay of Bengal (India).

    Andrea Binelli;Santosh Kumar Sarkar;Mousumi Chatterjee;Consuelo Riva

  • Distribution of linear alkylbenzenes (LABs) in riverine and coastal environments in South and Southeast Asia.

    Kei O. Isobe;Mohamad P. Zakaria;Nguyen H. Chiem;Le Y. Minh

  • An assessment of trace element contamination in intertidal sediment cores of Sunderban mangrove wetland, India for evaluating sediment quality guidelines

    Mousumi Chatterjee;Serena Massolo;Santosh Kumar Sarkar;Asok Kumar Bhattacharya

Frequent Co-Authors

M.P. Jonathan
M.P. Jonathan Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Jörg Rinklebe
Jörg Rinklebe University of Wuppertal
Kadarkarai Murugan
Kadarkarai Murugan Bharathiar University
Jiang-Shiou Hwang
Jiang-Shiou Hwang National Taiwan Ocean University
Mahendra Rai
Mahendra Rai Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
Andrea Binelli
Andrea Binelli University of Milan
Marco Parolini
Marco Parolini University of Milan
Sabry M. Shaheen
Sabry M. Shaheen Kafrelsheikh University
Hideshige Takada
Hideshige Takada Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Simonetta Corsolini
Simonetta Corsolini University of Siena

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