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Researcher · New York State Department of Health · United States

Kurunthachalam Kannan

Kurunthachalam Kannan publishes mostly in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry and Pollution, on topics such as Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals and Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research.

ORCID 0000-0002-1926-7456 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,863
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#719
of 1,627,098
Works
1,187
Citations
98k
Citations per work
82.7
h-index
159
i10-index 871Top 0.1% in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Kurunthachalam Kannan

What does Kurunthachalam Kannan research?

Kurunthachalam Kannan's work is mostly in Environmental Science (64%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 794 works · 66.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 760 works · 64.0% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 553 works · 46.6% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 108 works · 9.1% of their workPollution: 99 works · 8.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 34 works · 2.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 34 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 330 works · 27.8% of their workLife Sciences: 36 works · 3.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 36 works · 3.0% of their workCancer Research: 36 works · 3.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 27 works · 2.3% of their workMedicine: 27 works · 2.3% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 27 works · 2.3% of their workTHEIR WORKKurunthachalamKannan1,187works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences67%Health Sciences2%

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 Science76064.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences342.9%
  2. Everything else33027.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology363.0%
    1. Medicine272.3%
  1. 1Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis47% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Chemistry9% of their works
  3. 3Pollution8% of their works
  4. 4Cancer Research3% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science3% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kurunthachalam Kannan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Environmental Exposure, Health Effects, Global Distribution, Brominated Flame Retardants, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Bisphenol A, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Perfluoroalkyl Substances.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Exposure1,0292 topics
  2. Health Effects8293 topics
  3. Global Distribution7972 topics
  4. Brominated Flame Retardants5451 topic
  5. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons5451 topic
  6. Bisphenol A4841 topic
  7. Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals4841 topic
  8. Perfluoroalkyl Substances2521 topic
  9. Polyfluoroalkyl Compounds2521 topic
  10. Environmental Impact1972 topics
  11. Marine Environment1181 topic
  12. Microplastics1181 topic
  13. Comet Assay971 topic
  14. Genotoxicity Testing971 topic
  15. Air Pollution931 topic
  16. Particulate Matter931 topic
  17. Atmospheric Aerosols851 topic
  18. Black Carbon851 topic
  19. Antibiotics791 topic
  20. Resistance Genes791 topic

Where does Kurunthachalam Kannan work?

Kurunthachalam Kannan's main affiliation in the publication record is New York State Department of Health, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kurunthachalam Kannan have?

OpenAlex counts 1,187 works and 98,149 citations for Kurunthachalam Kannan, an h-index of 159, ranking #1,863 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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