Christos S. Akratos

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Christos S. Akratos is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Water Science and Technology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Christos S. Akratos has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 14 papers in Water Science and Technology and 13 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Christos S. Akratos's work include Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (27 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (12 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse (9 papers). Christos S. Akratos is often cited by papers focused on Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (27 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (12 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse (9 papers). Christos S. Akratos collaborates with scholars based in Greece, Italy and Poland. Christos S. Akratos's co-authors include Vassiliοs A. Tsihrintzis, Dimitris V. Vayenas, Athanasia G. Tekerlekopoulou, Alexandros Stefanakis, Stavros Pavlou, John N.E. Papaspyros, Triantafyllos I. Tatoulis, Georgios D. Gikas, George Aggelis and Maria Moustaka‐Gouni and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Bioresource Technology.

In The Last Decade

Christos S. Akratos

55 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Effect of temperature, HRT, vegetation and porous media on removal efficiency of pilot-scale horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands

2006 498 citations Christos S. Akratos, Vassiliοs A. Tsihrintzis Ecological Engineering profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christos S. Akratos Greece	28	1.5k	486	395	289	270	58	2.4k
Antônio Teixeira de Matos Brazil	24	1.4k 0.9×	625 1.3×	567 1.4×	225 0.8×	249 0.9×	299	2.9k
Alisson Carraro Borges Brazil	20	689 0.5×	279 0.6×	454 1.1×	128 0.4×	128 0.5×	142	1.4k
Lewis A. Gaston United States	24	673 0.4×	632 1.3×	763 1.9×	187 0.6×	121 0.4×	79	2.3k
Lei Huang China	25	805 0.5×	1.0k 2.1×	396 1.0×	148 0.5×	307 1.1×	90	2.1k
Joseph C. Akunna United Kingdom	23	405 0.3×	835 1.7×	522 1.3×	291 1.0×	152 0.6×	53	1.9k
Meiyan Xing China	26	1.1k 0.7×	915 1.9×	277 0.7×	305 1.1×	139 0.5×	73	1.9k
Saurabh Mishra India	28	395 0.3×	630 1.3×	969 2.5×	406 1.4×	179 0.7×	101	2.5k
Yingmu Wang China	29	753 0.5×	1.6k 3.3×	425 1.1×	522 1.8×	511 1.9×	66	2.4k
Manfred van Afferden Germany	25	1.0k 0.7×	680 1.4×	236 0.6×	237 0.8×	165 0.6×	60	1.8k
Shuiping Cheng China	28	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 2.7×	480 1.2×	344 1.2×	595 2.2×	143	3.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Akratos, Christos S., et al.. (2026). Monitoring Chlorophyll-a and Turbidity Using UAV Imagery and Machine Learning in Small Peri-Urban River in Thrace, Greece. Remote Sensing. 18(2). 347–347.

Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch. & Christos S. Akratos. (2025). A Review on Water Quality Indices. 2(1). 10003–10003.

Sylaios, Georgios, et al.. (2024). The Spring to Coast Approach in Small-Scale Catchments and Adjacent Coastal Zone. Water. 16(2). 259–259. 2 indexed citations

Vasiliadou, Ioanna A., et al.. (2024). Mathematical modeling of constructed wetlands for hexavalent chromium removal. The Science of The Total Environment. 917. 170088–170088. 7 indexed citations

Lazarina, Maria, et al.. (2023). Macroinvertebrate Community Responses to Multiple Pressures in a Peri-Urban Mediterranean River. Sustainability. 15(24). 16569–16569. 1 indexed citations

Mallinis, Giorgos, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of Multiple Classifier Systems for Mapping Different Hierarchical Levels of Forest Ecosystems in the Mediterranean Region Using Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, and ICESat-2 Data. Forests. 14(11). 2224–2224. 1 indexed citations

Akratos, Christos S., et al.. (2023). Testing Zeolite and Palygorskite as a Potential Medium for Ammonium Recovery and Brewery Wastewater Treatment. Water. 15(23). 4069–4069.

Tekerlekopoulou, Athanasia G., Christos S. Akratos, George Aggelis, et al.. (2018). Agroindustrial Wastewater Treatment with Simultaneous Biodiesel Production in Attached Growth Systems Using a Mixed Microbial Culture. Water. 10(11). 1693–1693. 42 indexed citations

Tatoulis, Triantafyllos I., Christos S. Akratos, Athanasia G. Tekerlekopoulou, Dimitris V. Vayenas, & Alexandros Stefanakis. (2017). A novel horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland: Reducing area requirements and clogging risk. Chemosphere. 186. 257–268. 57 indexed citations

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Tekerlekopoulou, Athanasia G., et al.. (2014). Molasses as an efficient low-cost carbon source for biological Cr(VI) removal. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 281. 95–105. 45 indexed citations

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Akratos, Christos S., et al.. (2014). Integrated Cr(VI) removal using constructed wetlands and composting. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 281. 106–113. 39 indexed citations

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Gikas, Georgios D., et al.. (2013). Performance monitoring of a vertical flow constructed wetland treating municipal wastewater. Global NEST Journal. 9(3). 277–285. 9 indexed citations

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Gikas, Georgios D., Vassiliοs A. Tsihrintzis, & Christos S. Akratos. (2011). Performance and modeling of a vertical flow constructed wetland–maturation pond system. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A. 46(7). 692–708. 23 indexed citations

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Stefanakis, Alexandros, Christos S. Akratos, & Vassiliοs A. Tsihrintzis. (2011). Effect of wastewater step-feeding on removal efficiency of pilot-scale horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands. Ecological Engineering. 37(3). 431–443. 53 indexed citations

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Akratos, Christos S., et al.. (2011). Treatment of olive mill wastewater in pilot-scale vertical flow constructed wetlands. Ecological Engineering. 37(6). 931–939. 62 indexed citations

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Stefanakis, Alexandros, Christos S. Akratos, Paraschos Melidis, & Vassiliοs A. Tsihrintzis. (2009). Surplus activated sludge dewatering in pilot-scale sludge drying reed beds. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 172(2-3). 1122–1130. 27 indexed citations

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Melidis, Paraschos, Georgios D. Gikas, Christos S. Akratos, & Vassiliοs A. Tsihrintzis. (2009). Dewatering of primary settled urban sludge in a vertical flow wetland. Desalination. 250(1). 395–398. 19 indexed citations

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Gikas, Georgios D., et al.. (2008). Water quality trends in Polyphytos reservoir, Aliakmon River, Greece. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 149(1-4). 163–181. 42 indexed citations

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Akratos, Christos S., John N.E. Papaspyros, & Vassiliοs A. Tsihrintzis. (2008). Total nitrogen and ammonia removal prediction in horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands: Use of artificial neural networks and development of a design equation. Bioresource Technology. 100(2). 586–596. 54 indexed citations

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Melidis, Paraschos, et al.. (2006). Characterization of Rain and Roof Drainage Water Quality in Xanthi, Greece. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 127(1-3). 15–27. 59 indexed citations

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