Gary Amy

38.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
419 papers, 31.4k citations indexed

About

Gary Amy is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Biomedical Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary Amy has authored 419 papers receiving a total of 31.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 274 papers in Water Science and Technology, 144 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 133 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Gary Amy's work include Membrane Separation Technologies (191 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (122 papers) and Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (117 papers). Gary Amy is often cited by papers focused on Membrane Separation Technologies (191 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (122 papers) and Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (117 papers). Gary Amy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Saudi Arabia. Gary Amy's co-authors include Noreddine Ghaffour, Jörg E. Drewes, Thomas M. Missimer, Chalor Jarusutthirak, Jaeweon Cho, Maria D. Kennedy, Rodrigo Valladares Linares, Namguk Her, Yeomin Yoon and Paul Westerhoff and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Gary Amy

405 papers receiving 30.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Technical review and evaluation of the economics of water desalination: Current and future challenges for better water supply sustainability

2012 1.2k citations Gary Amy et al. Desalination profile →
Factors affecting the rejection of organic solutes during NF/RO treatment—a literature review

2004 849 citations Gary Amy et al. Water Research profile →
Membrane-based seawater desalination: Present and future prospects

2016 582 citations Gary Amy, Zhenyu Li et al. Desalination profile →
Identification and understanding of fouling in low-pressure membrane (MF/UF) filtration by natural organic matter (NOM)

2004 507 citations Gary Amy, Jean‐Philippe Croué et al. Water Research profile →
Tracking natural organic matter (NOM) in a drinking water treatment plant using fluorescence excitation–emission matrices and PARAFAC

2010 454 citations Saroj Sharma, Gary Amy et al. Water Research profile →
The growing trend of saltwater intrusion and its impact on coastal agriculture: Challenges and opportunities

2025 14 citations Jing‐Hua Tzeng, Gary Amy et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary Amy United States	101	21.4k	12.4k	8.3k	5.9k	4.9k	419	31.4k
Long D. Nghiem Australia	97	17.6k 0.8×	12.2k 1.0×	3.8k 0.5×	10.4k 1.8×	5.7k 1.2×	611	34.8k
Dinesh Mohan India	78	19.4k 0.9×	10.1k 0.8×	4.0k 0.5×	8.2k 1.4×	5.8k 1.2×	191	37.7k
Bin Gao United States	115	22.8k 1.1×	12.7k 1.0×	3.2k 0.4×	9.9k 1.7×	9.9k 2.0×	517	49.9k
Paul Westerhoff United States	95	13.4k 0.6×	8.0k 0.6×	13.0k 1.6×	9.9k 1.7×	7.0k 1.4×	478	43.7k
Jun Ma China	95	21.7k 1.0×	10.3k 0.8×	4.7k 0.6×	4.6k 0.8×	3.7k 0.8×	572	32.7k
Jiuhui Qu China	113	19.5k 0.9×	9.5k 0.8×	7.3k 0.9×	7.4k 1.3×	6.5k 1.3×	815	47.3k
Wenshan Guo Australia	91	15.4k 0.7×	7.2k 0.6×	3.9k 0.5×	13.1k 2.2×	9.4k 1.9×	517	34.9k
Baoyu Gao China	86	19.2k 0.9×	7.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.4×	2.9k 0.5×	6.4k 1.3×	574	29.2k
Huijuan Liu China	94	12.1k 0.6×	6.3k 0.5×	4.2k 0.5×	4.0k 0.7×	4.1k 0.8×	635	31.8k
Jianlong Wang China	112	25.1k 1.2×	13.1k 1.1×	3.9k 0.5×	13.4k 2.3×	9.6k 2.0×	743	55.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gary Amy

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Tzeng, Jing‐Hua, David A. Ladner, Clinton F. Williams, et al.. (2025). Partial desalination as a new paradigm for cultivation of salt-tolerant food crops in hydroponic controlled environment agriculture using brackish waters: A critical review. Desalination. 613. 119072–119072.

Liu, Yunsi, et al.. (2024). Sample enrichment of drinking water for biological analyses of disinfection byproducts-associated toxicity: Recent advances. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 179. 117892–117892. 6 indexed citations

Alayande, Abayomi Babatunde, et al.. (2024). Use of reclaimed municipal wastewater in agriculture: Comparison of present practice versus an emerging paradigm of anaerobic membrane bioreactor treatment coupled with hydroponic controlled environment agriculture. Water Research. 265. 122197–122197. 4 indexed citations

Rho, Hojung, Pingfeng Yu, Chung-Seop Lee, et al.. (2022). Inhibition of biofouling on reverse osmosis membrane surfaces by germicidal ultraviolet light side-emitting optical fibers. Water Research. 224. 119094–119094. 32 indexed citations

Wei, Chun-Hai, TorOve Leiknes, Gary Amy, et al.. (2019). Removal and biotransformation pathway of antibiotic sulfamethoxazole from municipal wastewater treatment by anaerobic membrane bioreactor. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 380. 120894–120894. 58 indexed citations

Liu, Chao, Mahmut S. Erşan, Michael J. Plewa, Gary Amy, & Tanju Karanfil. (2019). Formation of iodinated trihalomethanes and noniodinated disinfection byproducts during chloramination of algal organic matter extracted from Microcystis aeruginosa. Water Research. 162. 115–126. 37 indexed citations

Saththasivam, Jayaprakash, et al.. (2017). Effect of organic on chemical oxidation for biofouling control in pilot-scale seawater cooling towers. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 20. 1–7. 14 indexed citations

Katuri, Krishna P., et al.. (2017). Enrichment of extremophilic exoelectrogens in microbial electrolysis cells using Red Sea brine pools as inocula. Bioresource Technology. 239. 82–86. 33 indexed citations

Harb, Moustapha, Chun-Hai Wei, Nan Wang, Gary Amy, & Pei‐Ying Hong. (2016). Organic micropollutants in aerobic and anaerobic membrane bioreactors: Changes in microbial communities and gene expression. Bioresource Technology. 218. 882–891. 70 indexed citations

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Villacorte, Loreen O., et al.. (2014). Improved method for measuring transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) and their precursors in fresh and saline water. Water Research. 70. 300–312. 63 indexed citations

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Linares, Rodrigo Valladares, Zhenyu Li, Sarper Sarp, et al.. (2014). Forward osmosis niches in seawater desalination and wastewater reuse. Water Research. 66. 122–139. 293 indexed citations

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Li, Zhenyu, et al.. (2013). Osmotically driven membrane process for the management of urban runoff in coastal regions. Water Research. 48. 200–209. 30 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Maria D., et al.. (2012). On the induction time of CaCO3: effect of ionic strength. Desalination and Water Treatment. 39(1-3). 55–69. 2 indexed citations

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Petruševski, B., et al.. (2012). Multivariate statistical analysis for fluoride occurrence in groundwater in the Northern region of Ghana. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 140-141. 34–44. 88 indexed citations

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Ridder, D.J. de, Loreen O. Villacorte, A.R.D. Verliefde, et al.. (2010). Modeling equilibrium adsorption of organic micropollutants onto activated carbon. Water Research. 44(10). 3077–3086. 139 indexed citations

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Holzbecher, Ekkehard, Gesche Grützmacher, Gary Amy, Bernd Wiese, & Saroj Sharma. (2008). The Bank Filtration Simulator - a MATLAB GUI. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 359–365. 2 indexed citations

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Amy, Gary, et al.. (2006). Low-pressure membrane (MF/UF) fouling associated with allochthonous versus autochthonous natural organic matter. Water Research. 40(12). 2357–2368. 182 indexed citations

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Sperlich, Alexander, et al.. (2005). Breakthrough behavior of granular ferric hydroxide (GFH) fixed-bed adsorption filters: modeling and experimental approaches. Water Research. 39(6). 1190–1198. 130 indexed citations

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Rittmann, Bruce E., et al.. (2002). Treatment of a colored groundwater by ozone-biofiltration: pilot studies and modeling interpretation. Water Research. 36(13). 3387–3397. 28 indexed citations

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Amy, Gary, et al.. (1995). Threshold levels for bromate formation in drinking water. 13(1). 157–167. 4 indexed citations

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