Bruce E. Logan

96.6k total citations · 30 hit papers
599 papers, 76.4k citations indexed

About

Bruce E. Logan is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce E. Logan has authored 599 papers receiving a total of 76.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 403 papers in Environmental Engineering, 316 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 182 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Bruce E. Logan's work include Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (374 papers), Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (226 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (182 papers). Bruce E. Logan is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (374 papers), Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (226 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (182 papers). Bruce E. Logan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Saudi Arabia. Bruce E. Logan's co-authors include Shaoan Cheng, Hong Liu, John M. Regan, Sang‐Eun Oh, Korneel Rabaey, Douglas F. Call, Booki Min, Menachem Elimelech, Ruggero Rossi and René A. Rozendal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Bruce E. Logan

590 papers receiving 74.0k citations

Hit Papers

Microbial Fuel Cells:  Methodology and Technology 1993 2026 2004 2015 2006 2009 2004 2012 2012 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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.

  1. Microbial Fuel Cells:  Methodology and Technology
    2006 4.8k citations Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  2. Exoelectrogenic bacteria that power microbial fuel cells
    2009 1.9k citations Bruce E. Logan profile →
  3. Electricity Generation Using an Air-Cathode Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell in the Presence and Absence of a Proton Exchange Membrane
    2004 1.6k citations Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  4. Conversion of Wastes into Bioelectricity and Chemicals by Using Microbial Electrochemical Technologies
    2012 1.5k citations Bruce E. Logan et al. profile →
  5. Membrane-based processes for sustainable power generation using water
    2012 1.4k citations Bruce E. Logan et al. profile →
  6. Production of Electricity during Wastewater Treatment Using a Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell
    2004 1.2k citations Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  7. Electroactive microorganisms in bioelectrochemical systems
    2019 1.1k citations Bruce E. Logan, Ruggero Rossi et al. profile →
  8. Microbial Fuel Cells
    2007 1.1k citations Bruce E. Logan profile →
  9. Graphite Fiber Brush Anodes for Increased Power Production in Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cells
    2007 999 citations Bruce E. Logan, Shaoan Cheng et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  10. Microbial Electrolysis Cells for High Yield Hydrogen Gas Production from Organic Matter
    2008 983 citations Bruce E. Logan, Douglas F. Call et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  11. Electricity-producing bacterial communities in microbial fuel cells
    2006 969 citations Bruce E. Logan, John M. Regan profile →
  12. Increased performance of single-chamber microbial fuel cells using an improved cathode structure
    2006 929 citations Shaoan Cheng, Bruce E. Logan et al. profile →
  13. Direct Biological Conversion of Electrical Current into Methane by Electromethanogenesis
    2009 927 citations Shaoan Cheng, Douglas F. Call et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  14. Production of Electricity from Acetate or Butyrate Using a Single-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell
    2004 839 citations Shaoan Cheng, Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  15. Electrochemically Assisted Microbial Production of Hydrogen from Acetate
    2005 797 citations Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  16. Power Generation in Fed-Batch Microbial Fuel Cells as a Function of Ionic Strength, Temperature, and Reactor Configuration
    2005 766 citations Shaoan Cheng, Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  17. Microbial Fuel Cells—Challenges and Applications
    2006 746 citations Bruce E. Logan, John M. Regan Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  18. The abundance and significance of a class of large, transparent organic particles in the ocean
    1993 736 citations Bruce E. Logan et al. profile →
  19. Power Densities Using Different Cathode Catalysts (Pt and CoTMPP) and Polymer Binders (Nafion and PTFE) in Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells
    2005 693 citations Shaoan Cheng, Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  20. Continuous Electricity Generation from Domestic Wastewater and Organic Substrates in a Flat Plate Microbial Fuel Cell
    2004 688 citations Booki Min, Bruce E. Logan Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  21. Hydrogen Production in a Single Chamber Microbial Electrolysis Cell Lacking a Membrane
    2008 675 citations Douglas F. Call, Bruce E. Logan Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  22. Electricity generation from swine wastewater using microbial fuel cells
    2005 663 citations Booki Min, John M. Regan et al. Water Research profile →
  23. Scaling up microbial fuel cells and other bioelectrochemical systems
    2009 642 citations Bruce E. Logan Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology profile →
  24. A New Method for Water Desalination Using Microbial Desalination Cells
    2009 609 citations Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  25. Increased Power Generation in a Continuous Flow MFC with Advective Flow through the Porous Anode and Reduced Electrode Spacing
    2006 593 citations Shaoan Cheng, Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  26. Ammonia treatment of carbon cloth anodes to enhance power generation of microbial fuel cells
    2006 581 citations Shaoan Cheng, Bruce E. Logan profile →
  27. Power Generation Using Different Cation, Anion, and Ultrafiltration Membranes in Microbial Fuel Cells
    2007 539 citations Shaoan Cheng, Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  28. Cathode Performance as a Factor in Electricity Generation in Microbial Fuel Cells
    2004 529 citations Booki Min, Bruce E. Logan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  29. Brewery wastewater treatment using air-cathode microbial fuel cells
    2008 486 citations Bruce E. Logan et al. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology profile →
  30. Assessment of Microbial Fuel Cell Configurations and Power Densities
    2015 390 citations Bruce E. Logan, Kyoung‐Yeol Kim et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bruce E. Logan United States 137 56.3k 43.3k 25.6k 17.0k 10.9k 599 76.4k
Derek R. Lovley United States 160 53.1k 0.9× 21.1k 0.5× 8.9k 0.3× 17.4k 1.0× 5.8k 0.5× 530 88.5k
Han‐Qing Yu China 120 11.6k 0.2× 11.0k 0.3× 4.5k 0.2× 13.0k 0.8× 17.9k 1.6× 864 58.9k
Jürg Keller Australia 102 17.0k 0.3× 8.5k 0.2× 4.6k 0.2× 4.7k 0.3× 7.2k 0.7× 337 35.9k
Yujie Feng China 82 8.5k 0.2× 9.1k 0.2× 4.4k 0.2× 5.6k 0.3× 4.9k 0.4× 683 26.4k
Xia Huang China 86 8.9k 0.2× 8.0k 0.2× 3.2k 0.1× 9.5k 0.6× 12.9k 1.2× 668 28.5k
Bruce E. Rittmann United States 93 12.0k 0.2× 4.8k 0.1× 2.1k 0.1× 6.6k 0.4× 6.2k 0.6× 745 39.0k
Kelly P. Nevin United States 76 15.4k 0.3× 6.3k 0.1× 3.0k 0.1× 4.4k 0.3× 1.9k 0.2× 119 21.0k
Peng Liang China 65 7.3k 0.1× 6.5k 0.1× 2.8k 0.1× 4.9k 0.3× 4.8k 0.4× 346 15.6k
Duu‐Jong Lee Taiwan 106 7.6k 0.1× 4.8k 0.1× 1.1k 0.0× 13.7k 0.8× 12.5k 1.2× 1.2k 53.1k
Shungui Zhou China 76 8.0k 0.1× 5.1k 0.1× 2.6k 0.1× 2.7k 0.2× 1.8k 0.2× 441 18.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Heidrich, Elizabeth, Ioannis Ieropoulos, Bruce E. Logan, et al.. (2026). Waste to value: microbial electrochemical technologies for sustainable water, material, and energy cycles. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 4.
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Bian, Bin, Najiaowa Yu, Amir Akbari, et al.. (2024). Using a non-precious metal catalyst for long-term enhancement of methane production in a zero-gap microbial electrosynthesis cell. Water Research. 259. 121815–121815. 15 indexed citations
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Shi, Le, Xuechen Zhou, Chenghan Xie, et al.. (2024). Thin-Film Composite Membranes for Hydrogen Evolution with a Saline Catholyte Water Feed. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(2). 1131–1141. 2 indexed citations
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Logan, Bruce E., Fang Zhang, Wulin Yang, & Le Shi. (2024). Your personal choices in transportation and food are important for lowering carbon emissions. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering. 18(6). 2 indexed citations
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Rau, Matthew J., et al.. (2022). Power and energy capacity tradeoffs in an all-aqueous copper thermally regenerative ammonia battery. Journal of Power Sources. 531. 231339–231339. 20 indexed citations
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Hall, Derek M., et al.. (2021). The impact of fiber arrangement and advective transport in porous electrodes for silver-based thermally regenerated batteries. Electrochimica Acta. 388. 138527–138527. 10 indexed citations
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Lvov, Serguei N., et al.. (2021). An All-Aqueous Thermally Regenerative Ammonia Battery Chemistry Using Cu(I, II) Redox Reactions. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 168(7). 70523–70523. 24 indexed citations
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Kim, Kyoung‐Yeol, et al.. (2021). Improving microbial electrolysis stability using flow-through brush electrodes and monitoring anode potentials relative to thermodynamic minima. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 46(14). 9514–9522. 9 indexed citations
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Son, Moon, Taeyoung Kim, Wulin Yang, et al.. (2020). Stepwise ammonium enrichment using selective battery electrodes. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 6(6). 1649–1657. 13 indexed citations
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Yang, Wulin, Moon Son, Ruggero Rossi, Johannes S. Vrouwenvelder, & Bruce E. Logan. (2019). Adapting Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide for Electrically Conductive Membranes Fabricated by Atomic Layer Deposition. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(1). 963–969. 13 indexed citations
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Rossi, Ruggero, et al.. (2018). In situ biofilm removal from air cathodes in microbial fuel cells treating domestic wastewater. Bioresource Technology. 265. 200–206. 88 indexed citations
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Rossi, Ruggero, David Jones, Jaewook Myung, et al.. (2018). Evaluating a multi-panel air cathode through electrochemical and biotic tests. Water Research. 148. 51–59. 125 indexed citations
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Martínez, Claudia M., Xiuping Zhu, & Bruce E. Logan. (2017). AQDS immobilized solid-phase redox mediators and their role during bioelectricity generation and RR2 decolorization in air-cathode single-chamber microbial fuel cells. Bioelectrochemistry. 118. 123–130. 37 indexed citations
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McAnulty, Michael J., Venkata Giridhar Poosarla, Kyoung‐Yeol Kim, et al.. (2017). Electricity from methane by reversing methanogenesis. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15419–15419. 129 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xiuping, Justin C. Tokash, Yiying Hong, & Bruce E. Logan. (2012). Controlling the occurrence of power overshoot by adapting microbial fuel cells to high anode potentials. Bioelectrochemistry. 90. 30–35. 117 indexed citations
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Kiely, Patrick, Douglas F. Call, Matthew D. Yates, John M. Regan, & Bruce E. Logan. (2010). Anodic biofilms in microbial fuel cells harbor low numbers of higher-power-producing bacteria than abundant genera. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 88(1). 371–380. 94 indexed citations
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Cheng, Shaoan & Bruce E. Logan. (2007). Sustainable and efficient biohydrogen production via electrohydrogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(47). 18871–18873. 472 indexed citations
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Xu, Jianlin, et al.. (2003). Microbial Degradation of Perchlorate: Principles and Applications. Environmental Engineering Science. 20(5). 405–422. 144 indexed citations
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Logan, Bruce E., et al.. (2000). Fixed-Bed Bioreactor Treating Perchlorate-Contaminated Waters. Environmental Engineering Science. 17(5). 257–265. 38 indexed citations

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