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Researcher · Universiti Sains Malaysia · Malaysia

Keng Yuen Foo

Keng Yuen Foo publishes mostly in Water Science and Technology, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, on topics such as Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal, Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication.

ORCID 0000-0002-8196-7250 OpenAlex
World rank
#70,908
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Malaysia
#182
of 41,196
Works
116
Citations
17k
Citations per work
145.8
h-index
49
i10-index 81Top 2.2% in Water Science and Technology
Keng Yuen Foo

What does Keng Yuen Foo research?

Keng Yuen Foo's work is mostly in Environmental Science (27%), Chemistry (11%), Materials Science (9%).

Physical Sciences: 64 works · 54.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 32 works · 27.4% of their workWater Science and Technology: 25 works · 21.9% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 works · 5.5% of their workChemistry: 13 works · 10.9% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 9 works · 7.4% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 4 works · 3.5% of their workMaterials Science: 11 works · 9.4% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 11 works · 9.4% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 7.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 8 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 45.2% of their workTHEIR WORKKeng Yuen Foo116works
Physical Sciences55%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science3227.4%
    2. Chemistry1310.9%
    3. Materials Science119.4%
    4. Engineering87.1%
  2. Everything else5245.2%
  1. 1Water Science and Technology22% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry9% of their works
  3. 3Organic Chemistry7% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Inorganic Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Keng Yuen Foo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanomaterials, Wastewater Treatment, Adsorption, Contaminant Removal, Catalytic Reduction, Nitro Compounds, Catalysis and Carbon-Based Materials.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanomaterials652 topics
  2. Wastewater Treatment642 topics
  3. Adsorption571 topic
  4. Contaminant Removal571 topic
  5. Catalytic Reduction211 topic
  6. Nitro Compounds211 topic
  7. Catalysis132 topics
  8. Carbon-Based Materials81 topic
  9. Graphene81 topic
  10. Groundwater Remediation71 topic
  11. Heavy Metal Removal71 topic
  12. Mesoporous Materials71 topic
  13. Molecularly Imprinted Polymers71 topic
  14. Nanocomposite Materials71 topic
  15. Solid-Phase Microextraction71 topic
  16. Nanoparticles61 topic
  17. Oxidation61 topic
  18. Antioxidants51 topic
  19. Reactive Oxygen Species51 topic

Where does Keng Yuen Foo work?

Keng Yuen Foo's main affiliation in the publication record is Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia.

How many publications and citations does Keng Yuen Foo have?

OpenAlex counts 116 works and 16,917 citations for Keng Yuen Foo, an h-index of 49, ranking #70,908 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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