Boreum Lee

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Boreum Lee is a scholar working on Catalysis, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Boreum Lee has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Catalysis, 29 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Boreum Lee's work include Catalysts for Methane Reforming (31 papers), Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (24 papers) and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (23 papers). Boreum Lee is often cited by papers focused on Catalysts for Methane Reforming (31 papers), Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (24 papers) and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (23 papers). Boreum Lee collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and China. Boreum Lee's co-authors include Hankwon Lim, Hyunjun Lee, Manhee Byun, Dongjun Lim, Menachem Elimelech, Sangbong Moon, Se‐Hwa Kim, Sohum K. Patel, Boris Brigljević and Hyun‐Seok Cho and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Energy & Environmental Science and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Boreum Lee

78 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Prospects of metal recovery from wastewater and brine

2023 141 citations Ryan M. DuChanois, Nathanial J. Cooper et al. Nature Water profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boreum Lee South Korea	31	1.0k	972	838	721	674	80	2.9k
Pierluigi Leone Italy	37	753 0.7×	1.7k 1.7×	585 0.7×	686 1.0×	630 0.9×	98	3.2k
R. Reimert Germany	24	1.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	472 0.7×	680 1.0×	83	3.2k
Manuel Götz Germany	9	1.9k 1.8×	1.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	541 0.8×	552 0.8×	21	3.4k
Jonathan Lefebvre Germany	11	1.8k 1.7×	1.4k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	524 0.7×	537 0.8×	18	3.4k
Friedemann Mörs Germany	7	842 0.8×	664 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	385 0.5×	401 0.6×	14	2.3k
Siegfried Bajohr Germany	17	2.2k 2.1×	1.7k 1.7×	1.4k 1.6×	609 0.8×	640 0.9×	40	3.9k
Mariagiovanna Minutillo Italy	34	427 0.4×	835 0.9×	702 0.8×	557 0.8×	443 0.7×	82	2.8k
Enrico Bocci Italy	33	615 0.6×	550 0.6×	581 0.7×	380 0.5×	1.1k 1.7×	89	2.6k
Rami S. El‐Emam Canada	21	286 0.3×	522 0.5×	777 0.9×	555 0.8×	446 0.7×	33	2.0k
Margaret Mann United States	15	479 0.5×	554 0.6×	513 0.6×	641 0.9×	750 1.1×	35	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Boreum Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Boreum Lee

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boreum Lee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Boreum Lee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Boreum Lee based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Boreum Lee. Boreum Lee is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lee, Boreum, et al.. (2026). Green hydrogen from water electrolysis: supply chain emissions assessment and net-zero pathways. Green Chemistry. 28(5). 2395–2407. 1 indexed citations

Cooper, Nathanial J., Boreum Lee, Sohum K. Patel, et al.. (2025). Viability assessment of lithium recovery from unconventional saline water sources. Desalination. 614. 119156–119156.

Meng, Sheng, Yun Guo, Boreum Lee, et al.. (2024). Electrified desalination processes: Where we are and where to go from performance and economic perspectives. Desalination. 600. 118486–118486. 5 indexed citations

Lee, Boreum, Li Wang, Zhangxin Wang, Nathanial J. Cooper, & Menachem Elimelech. (2023). Directing the research agenda on water and energy technologies with process and economic analysis. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(3). 714–722. 47 indexed citations

DuChanois, Ryan M., Nathanial J. Cooper, Boreum Lee, et al.. (2023). Prospects of metal recovery from wastewater and brine. Nature Water. 1(1). 37–46. 141 indexed citations breakdown →

Patel, Sohum K., Boreum Lee, Paul Westerhoff, & Menachem Elimelech. (2023). The potential of electrodialysis as a cost-effective alternative to reverse osmosis for brackish water desalination. Water Research. 250. 121009–121009. 68 indexed citations

Yuan, Xiangzhou, Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar, Boris Brigljevic ́, et al.. (2022). Sustainability-inspired upcycling of waste polyethylene terephthalate plastic into porous carbon for CO₂ capture. Green Chemistry. 24(4). 1494–1504. 86 indexed citations

Lee, Boreum, Lea R. Winter, Hyunjun Lee, et al.. (2022). Pathways to a Green Ammonia Future. ACS Energy Letters. 7(9). 3032–3038. 106 indexed citations

Tran, My Ha, Boreum Lee, Hyunjun Lee, et al.. (2022). Sustainable biopolyol production via solvothermal liquefaction silvergrass saccharification residue: Experimental, economic, and environmental approach. The Science of The Total Environment. 847. 157668–157668. 6 indexed citations

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Lee, Jae-Cheol, Boreum Lee, Hyun‐Woo Kim, Byong‐Hun Jeon, & Hankwon Lim. (2021). Techno-economic analysis of livestock urine and manure as a microalgal growth medium. Waste Management. 135. 276–286. 10 indexed citations

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Ko, Myohwa, Yongseon Kim, Jinwoo Woo, et al.. (2021). Direct propylene epoxidation with oxygen using a photo-electro-heterogeneous catalytic system. Nature Catalysis. 5(1). 37–44. 131 indexed citations

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Ly, Hoang Vu, Boreum Lee, Quoc Khanh Tran, et al.. (2021). Catalytic pyrolysis of spent coffee waste for upgrading sustainable bio-oil in a bubbling fluidized-bed reactor: Experimental and techno-economic analysis. Chemical Engineering Journal. 427. 130956–130956. 45 indexed citations

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Choe, Changgwon, et al.. (2021). Comprehensive assessment of CO₂ methanation: which H₂ production pathway is practicable for green methane production in terms of technical, economic, and environmental aspects?. Green Chemistry. 23(23). 9502–9514. 21 indexed citations

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Kim, Dong‐Yeon, Dongyup Shin, Hyungseob Lim, et al.. (2020). Unveiling Electrode–Electrolyte Design-Based NO Reduction for NH₃ Synthesis. ACS Energy Letters. 5(11). 3647–3656. 124 indexed citations

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Lee, Jae-Cheol, Boreum Lee, Yong Sik Ok, & Hankwon Lim. (2020). Preliminary techno-economic analysis of biodiesel production over solid-biochar. Bioresource Technology. 306. 123086–123086. 81 indexed citations

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Lee, Boreum, Hyunjun Lee, Se‐Hwa Kim, et al.. (2019). Quantification of economic uncertainty for synthetic natural gas production in a H2O permeable membrane reactor as simultaneous power-to-gas and CO2 utilization technologies. Energy. 182. 1058–1068. 8 indexed citations

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Lee, Boreum, et al.. (2019). Preliminary Economic Analysis for H 2 Transportation Using Liquid Organic H 2 Carrier to Enter H 2 Economy Society in Korea. Scholarworks@UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology). 30(2). 119–127. 8 indexed citations

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Lee, Boreum, et al.. (2018). Economic Evaluation with Uncertainty Analysis of Glycerol Steam Reforming for the H2 Production Capacity of 300 m 3 h -1. Applied Chemistry for Engineering. 29(5). 589–593. 1 indexed citations

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Lee, Boreum, et al.. (2017). Economic evaluation with sensitivity and profitability analysis for hydrogen production from water electrolysis in Korea. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 42(10). 6462–6471. 150 indexed citations

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Lee, Boreum, et al.. (2017). Preliminary techno‐economic analysis of a multi‐bed series reactor as a simultaneous CF₄ abatement and utilization process. Greenhouse Gases Science and Technology. 7(3). 542–549. 10 indexed citations

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