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Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques

Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 7.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of electrokinetic techniques for the remediation of contaminated soils, with a particular emphasis on the removal of heavy metals and organic compounds. The papers cover various enhancement techniques, bioremediation applications, electrochemical technologies, and environmental implications such as soil dewatering and the use of geosynthetics.

  • Electrokinetic Remediation
  • Soil Contamination
  • Heavy Metals
  • Organic Compounds
  • Bioremediation
  • Enhancement Techniques
  • Electrochemical Technologies
  • Environmental Applications
  • Soil Dewatering
  • Geosynthetics
Research works
7.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
770
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques

Which countries lead Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (697 and 162 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 697 works
  2. 2 India 162 works
  3. 3 United States 93 works
  4. 4 Iran 47 works
  5. 5 Brazil 41 works
  6. 6 Nigeria 38 works
  7. 7 Russia 37 works
  8. 8 Iraq 36 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 32 works
  10. 10 Spain 30 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.

China: 57.5%India: 13.3%United States: 7.7%Iran: 3.9%6 others listed: 17.6%58%largest
China697 · 57.5%India162 · 13.3%United States93 · 7.7%Iran47 · 3.9%6 others listed213 · 17.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques research, followed by Zhejiang University and Tongji University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 36 works
  2. 2 Zhejiang UniversityChina 20 works
  3. 3 Tongji UniversityChina 15 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 13 works
  5. 5 Hohai UniversityChina 12 works
  6. 6 Tianjin UniversityChina 11 works
  7. 7 Wuhan UniversityChina 11 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  9. 9 Central South UniversityChina 11 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques include Guangming Zeng, Menachem Elimelech and Yong Sik Ok.

  1. 1 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  2. 2 Menachem Elimelech United States 151k citations
  3. 3 Yong Sik Ok South Korea 126k citations
  4. 4 Shaobin Wang Australia 124k citations
  5. 5 Jing Li United States 120k citations
  6. 6 Derek R. Lovley United States 118k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques?

The most cited paper in Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques is "Kinetics of Adsorption on Carbon from Solution" (Walter J. Jr. Weber, John C. Morris, 1963), with 9,821 citations. Next come "Landfill leachate treatment: Review and opportunity" (2,588) and "Short-term assay of soil urease activity using colorimetric determination of ammonium" (2,191).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Kinetics of Adsorption on Carbon from Solution Walter J. Jr. Weber, John C. Morris · Journal of the Sanitary Engineering Division Apr 1963 9,821
2 Landfill leachate treatment: Review and opportunity S. Renou, J.G. Givaudan, Sébastien Poulain et al. · Journal of Hazardous Materials 2 Oct 2007 2,588
3 Short-term assay of soil urease activity using colorimetric determination of ammonium Ellen Kandeler, H. R. Gerber · Biology and Fertility of Soils Mar 1988 2,191
4 Remediation techniques for heavy metal-contaminated soils: Principles and applicability Lianwen Liu, Wei Li, Weiping Song et al. · The Science of The Total Environment Open access 21 Mar 2018 1,836
5 The use of zero-valent iron for groundwater remediation and wastewater treatment: A review Fenglian Fu, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Hong Liu · Journal of Hazardous Materials 7 Jan 2014 1,651
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Where is Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Hangzhou (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hangzhou and Tianjin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 111 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 45 works
  3. 3 HangzhouChina 41 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 40 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 38 works
  6. 6 TianjinChina 25 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 23 works
  8. 8 ChangshaChina 21 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 20 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HangzhouCN · 41.0 works3.7×
  2. TianjinCN · 24.9 works3.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Tongji University, Zhejiang University and Wuhan University 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 14.28%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tongji UniversityWuhan UniversityCentral South Univer…Zhejiang University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Tongji UniversityChina 81.726.0%6.8×15 +70.7%
2Zhejiang UniversityChina 57.110.4%5.0×20 +32.6%
3Wuhan UniversityChina 46.617.3%5.2×11 +321.4%
4Central South UniversityChina 46.317.3%3.8×11 +95.5%
5Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 41.321.6%9.9×8 +455.9%
6Hohai UniversityChina 30.713.5%14.1×12 -21.2%
7Tianjin UniversityChina 30.16.8%6.1×11 +45.3%
8Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 26.210.9%10.9×8 -39.3%
9China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 21.99.0%6.9×8 +139.5%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 16.610.0%2.4×8 +33.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques, country by country

Is Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0072% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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