Advanced oxidation water treatment
Advanced oxidation water treatment is a research topic within Water Science and Technology. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 29.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the application of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for water and wastewater treatment, including topics such as oxidation kinetics, wastewater decontamination, peroxymonosulfate activation, Fenton reaction chemistry, electrochemical technologies, organic contaminant degradation, sulfate radical generation, and heterogeneous catalysis.
- Advanced Oxidation Processes
- Water Treatment
- Oxidation Kinetics
- Wastewater Decontamination
- Peroxymonosulfate Activation
- Fenton Reaction Chemistry
- Electrochemical Technologies
- Organic Contaminant Degradation
- Sulfate Radical Generation
- Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Research works
- 29k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 8.7k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 29.4% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +81% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Advanced oxidation water treatment research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (5.1k and 479 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 5.1k works
- 2 India 479 works
- 3 United States 280 works
- 4 Iran 230 works
- 5 Brazil 199 works
- 6 Spain 165 works
- 7 Türkiye 156 works
- 8 South Korea 143 works
- 9 ?? 111 works
- 10 France 99 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
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Which institutions lead Advanced oxidation water treatment research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Harbin Institute of Technology publishes the most Advanced oxidation water treatment research, followed by State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse and Hunan University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 142 works
- 2 State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource ReuseChina 90 works
- 3 Hunan UniversityChina 77 works
- 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 72 works
- 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 69 works
- 6 Nankai UniversityChina 64 works
- 7 Sichuan UniversityChina 63 works
- 8 Tongji UniversityChina 60 works
- 9 South China University of TechnologyChina 53 works
- 10 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 48 works
Who are the leading researchers in Advanced oxidation water treatment?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced oxidation water treatment include Guangming Zeng, Shaobin Wang and Zongping Shao.
- 1 Guangming Zeng China 5.6k citations
- 2 Shaobin Wang Australia 3.5k citations
- 3 Zongping Shao China 3.1k citations
- 4 Menachem Elimelech United States 3k citations
- 5 Hong Li China 3k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Advanced oxidation water treatment research done?
The largest centres of Advanced oxidation water treatment research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Shanghai.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Shanghai34.0 works27×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced oxidation water treatment than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Advanced oxidation water treatment?
Among universities, judged by research, Hunan University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Guangdong University of Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hunan UniversityChina | 83.6 | 52.8% | 13.1× | 77 | +580.3% |
| 2 | Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina | 71.4 | 39.6% | 10.2× | 142 | +49.3% |
| 3 | Guangdong University of TechnologyChina | 68.8 | 31.3% | 10.1× | 47 | +205.0% |
| 4 | Nankai UniversityChina | 67.2 | 38.1% | 11.4× | 64 | +78.4% |
| 5 | Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina | 65.0 | 26.4% | 17.7× | 46 | +227.7% |
| 6 | Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina | 64.8 | 33.3% | 9.3× | 36 | +179.6% |
| 7 | Beijing University of Civil Engineering and ArchitectureChina | 64.3 | 59.6% | 10.7× | 13 | — |
| 8 | The University of AdelaideAustralia | 62.7 | 61.2% | 6.2× | 22 | — |
| 9 | Huaqiao UniversityChina | 62.1 | 31.5% | 12.0× | 19 | +465.8% |
| 10 | Hunan Agricultural UniversityChina | 60.8 | 38.4% | 11.8× | 15 | +149.7% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Advanced oxidation water treatment research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 81% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced oxidation water treatment.
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Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.