Costas Michael

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Costas Michael is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Costas Michael has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Pollution, 16 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 13 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Costas Michael's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (16 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Reuse (13 papers) and Advanced oxidation water treatment (7 papers). Costas Michael is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (16 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Reuse (13 papers) and Advanced oxidation water treatment (7 papers). Costas Michael collaborates with scholars based in Cyprus, Spain and Greece. Costas Michael's co-authors include Despo Fatta‐Kassinos, Anastasis Christou, Vasileios Fotopoulos, Evroula Hapeshi, Josep M. Bayona, Popi Karaolia, Dimitra A. Lambropoulou, Ana Agüera, Peter Schröder and Mike Revitt and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Costas Michael

36 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture

2024 69 citations Anastasis Christou, Vasiliki G. Beretsou et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Costas Michael Cyprus	22	1.1k	595	574	270	262	38	2.0k
Genxiang Shen China	20	995 0.9×	425 0.7×	579 1.0×	222 0.8×	358 1.4×	48	2.0k
Esperanza Álvarez‐Rodríguez Spain	26	1.1k 1.0×	225 0.4×	653 1.1×	196 0.7×	217 0.8×	124	2.1k
Jianmeng Chen China	22	1.5k 1.3×	369 0.6×	447 0.8×	430 1.6×	185 0.7×	63	2.3k
Marlen I. Vasquez Cyprus	20	1.0k 0.9×	337 0.6×	546 1.0×	348 1.3×	579 2.2×	49	2.2k
Valeria Ancona Italy	18	1.1k 0.9×	256 0.4×	411 0.7×	385 1.4×	208 0.8×	47	2.1k
Azmi Aris Malaysia	24	574 0.5×	355 0.6×	787 1.4×	185 0.7×	255 1.0×	76	1.9k
Clinton F. Williams United States	22	930 0.8×	287 0.5×	342 0.6×	285 1.1×	110 0.4×	110	1.7k
Urszula Kotowska Poland	19	532 0.5×	302 0.5×	322 0.6×	357 1.3×	226 0.9×	69	1.4k
Kuppusamy Sathishkumar India	19	594 0.5×	277 0.5×	394 0.7×	273 1.0×	240 0.9×	64	1.7k
Jonas Margot Switzerland	11	1.0k 0.9×	302 0.5×	641 1.1×	562 2.1×	145 0.6×	15	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Costas Michael

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Fields of papers citing papers by Costas Michael

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Costas Michael

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Costas Michael. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Costas Michael 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 Costas Michael. Costas Michael is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Iakovides, Iakovos C., Vasiliki G. Beretsou, Anastasis Christou, et al.. (2025). Impact of the wastewater treatment technology and storage on micropollutant profiles during reclaimed water irrigation: A wide-scope HRMS screening in a water-soil-lettuce-leachate system. Water Research. 279. 123319–123319. 3 indexed citations

Olorunnisola, Chidinma G., Moses O. Alfred, Christina Günter, et al.. (2024). Affordable cellulose-based solid phase extraction adsorbent for efficient chromatographic analysis of trace contaminants in environmental waters for developing countries. Microchemical Journal. 200. 110355–110355. 4 indexed citations

Christou, Anastasis, Vasiliki G. Beretsou, Iakovos C. Iakovides, et al.. (2024). Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(7). 504–521. 69 indexed citations breakdown →

Christou, Anastasis, Vasiliki G. Beretsou, Iakovos C. Iakovides, et al.. (2024). Publisher Correction: Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(11). 833–833. 1 indexed citations

Christou, Anastasis, Marinos Stylianou, Egli C. Georgiadou, et al.. (2022). Effects of biochar derived from the pyrolysis of either biosolids, manure or spent coffee grounds on the growth, physiology and quality attributes of field-grown lettuce plants. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 26. 102263–102263. 19 indexed citations

Beretsou, Vasiliki G., Maria‐Christina Nika, Kyriakos Manoli, et al.. (2022). Multiclass target analysis of contaminants of emerging concern including transformation products, soil bioavailability assessment and retrospective screening as tools to evaluate risks associated with reclaimed water reuse. The Science of The Total Environment. 852. 158391–158391. 16 indexed citations

Manoli, Kyriakos, et al.. (2022). Investigation of the effect of microplastics on the UV inactivation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in water. Water Research. 222. 118906–118906. 30 indexed citations

Drigo, Barbara, I. Michael-Kordatou, Costas Michael, et al.. (2022). The effect of ultrafiltration process on the fate of antibiotic-related microcontaminants, pathogenic microbes, and toxicity in urban wastewater. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 435. 128943–128943. 25 indexed citations

Karaolia, Popi, Costas Michael, Thomas Schwartz, & Despo Fatta‐Kassinos. (2022). Membrane bioreactor followed by solar photo-Fenton oxidation: Bacterial community structure changes and bacterial reduction. The Science of The Total Environment. 847. 157594–157594. 4 indexed citations

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Stylianou, Marinos, Anastasis Christou, Costas Michael, et al.. (2021). Adsorption and removal of seven antibiotic compounds present in water with the use of biochar derived from the pyrolysis of organic waste feedstocks. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 9(5). 105868–105868. 109 indexed citations

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Christou, Anastasis, Costas Michael, Despo Fatta‐Kassinos, & Vasileios Fotopoulos. (2018). Can the pharmaceutically active compounds released in agroecosystems be considered as emerging plant stressors?. Environment International. 114. 360–364. 79 indexed citations

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Christou, Anastasis, George Papadavid, Panagiotis Dalias, et al.. (2018). Ranking of crop plants according to their potential to uptake and accumulate contaminants of emerging concern. Environmental Research. 170. 422–432. 158 indexed citations

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Christou, Anastasis, Ana Agüera, Josep M. Bayona, et al.. (2017). The potential implications of reclaimed wastewater reuse for irrigation on the agricultural environment: The knowns and unknowns of the fate of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria and resistance genes – A review. Water Research. 123. 448–467. 428 indexed citations

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Litskas, Vassilis, et al.. (2017). Assessing the presence of enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin in piggery wastewater and their adsorption behaviour onto solid materials, with a newly developed chromatographic method. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 24(29). 23371–23381. 23 indexed citations

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Christou, Anastasis, Chrystalla Antoniou, Evroula Hapeshi, et al.. (2016). Stress-related phenomena and detoxification mechanisms induced by common pharmaceuticals in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) plants. The Science of The Total Environment. 557-558. 652–664. 79 indexed citations

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Christou, Anastasis, Popi Karaolia, Evroula Hapeshi, Costas Michael, & Despo Fatta‐Kassinos. (2016). Long-term wastewater irrigation of vegetables in real agricultural systems: Concentration of pharmaceuticals in soil, uptake and bioaccumulation in tomato fruits and human health risk assessment. Water Research. 109. 24–34. 233 indexed citations

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Christou, Anastasis, et al.. (2014). Assessment of long-term wastewater irrigation impacts on the soil geochemical properties and the bioaccumulation of heavy metals to the agricultural products. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 186(8). 4857–4870. 44 indexed citations

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Christou, Anastasis, et al.. (2014). Impact assessment of the reuse of two discrete treated wastewaters for the irrigation of tomato crop on the soil geochemical properties, fruit safety and crop productivity. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 192. 105–114. 54 indexed citations

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Ioannou‐Ttofa, Lida, Costas Michael, S. Kyriakou, & Despo Fatta‐Kassinos. (2013). Solar Fenton: from pilot to industrial scale application for polishing winery wastewater pretreated by MBR. Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology. 89(7). 1067–1076. 24 indexed citations

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Ioannou‐Ttofa, Lida, Theodora Velegraki, Costas Michael, Dionissios Mantzavinos, & Despo Fatta‐Kassinos. (2012). Sunlight, iron and radicals to tackle the resistant leftovers of biotreated winery wastewater. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 12(4). 664–670. 13 indexed citations

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