Gary Owens

18.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
290 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Gary Owens is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Pollution and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary Owens has authored 290 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 77 papers in Pollution and 77 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Gary Owens's work include Heavy metals in environment (63 papers), Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (48 papers) and Arsenic contamination and mitigation (40 papers). Gary Owens is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (63 papers), Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (48 papers) and Arsenic contamination and mitigation (40 papers). Gary Owens collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and South Korea. Gary Owens's co-authors include Zuliang Chen, Xuan Wu, Haolan Xu, Yida Wang, Kwon-Rae Kim, Ravi Naidu, Xiaofei Yang, Xiaoying Jin, Long Zhou and Xiao-quan Shan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gary Owens

283 papers receiving 14.8k 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.

  1. Anti-tumor activity of GW572016: a dual tyrosine kinase inhibitor blocks EGF activation of EGFR/erbB2 and downstream Erk1/2 and AKT pathways
    2002 548 citations Gary Owens et al. profile →
  2. Simultaneous removal of tetracycline and oxytetracycline antibiotics from wastewater using a ZIF-8 metal organic-framework
    2018 504 citations Xiaoying Jin, Gary Owens et al. Journal of Hazardous Materials profile →
  3. A flexible photothermal cotton-CuS nanocage-agarose aerogel towards portable solar steam generation
    2018 397 citations Gary Owens et al. profile →
  4. Bioavailability of heavy metals in soils: definitions and practical implementation—a critical review
    2015 390 citations Gary Owens et al. profile →
  5. Graphene and Rice-Straw-Fiber-Based 3D Photothermal Aerogels for Highly Efficient Solar Evaporation
    2020 362 citations Gary Owens, Nasreen Islam Khan et al. profile →
  6. Simultaneous removal of mixed contaminants, copper and norfloxacin, from aqueous solution by ZIF-8
    2019 339 citations Gary Owens, Zuliang Chen et al. Chemical Engineering Journal profile →
  7. More from less: improving solar steam generation by selectively removing a portion of evaporation surface
    2022 215 citations Pan Wu, Gary Owens et al. profile →
  8. Health-related toxicity of emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: Comparison to legacy PFOS and PFOA
    2022 189 citations Gary Owens et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Gary Owens 4.8k 4.6k 3.5k 2.4k 2.3k 290 15.1k
Éric Lichtfouse 2.8k 0.6× 4.0k 0.9× 2.9k 0.8× 2.6k 1.1× 3.0k 1.3× 372 17.3k
Guangming Zhang 3.2k 0.7× 3.8k 0.8× 3.6k 1.0× 2.6k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 429 14.5k
Zhenya Zhang 2.7k 0.6× 4.7k 1.0× 3.4k 1.0× 2.5k 1.1× 2.2k 0.9× 442 15.5k
Chunping Yang 3.8k 0.8× 5.6k 1.2× 4.4k 1.3× 2.9k 1.2× 4.0k 1.7× 241 16.7k
Wen‐Wei Li 5.4k 1.1× 6.0k 1.3× 3.5k 1.0× 4.3k 1.8× 3.7k 1.6× 429 19.9k
Rongliang Qiu 3.1k 0.7× 4.4k 1.0× 7.0k 2.0× 3.0k 1.3× 2.8k 1.2× 541 19.6k
Jingchun Tang 2.2k 0.4× 5.7k 1.2× 5.5k 1.6× 4.4k 1.9× 2.7k 1.2× 259 15.7k
Jinren Ni 2.9k 0.6× 6.7k 1.5× 4.7k 1.3× 2.6k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 332 18.6k
Yuqing Sun 2.2k 0.5× 4.0k 0.9× 1.8k 0.5× 2.8k 1.2× 2.3k 1.0× 201 10.6k
Bo Yang 5.7k 1.2× 4.3k 0.9× 1.6k 0.5× 3.0k 1.3× 4.3k 1.8× 429 17.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gary Owens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gary Owens

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

All Works

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Wu, Pan, Nana Luo, Xiong Yang, et al.. (2025). Flexible sorbent-filled solar evaporator drives Pb contaminated soil remediation. Applied Thermal Engineering. 266. 125656–125656. 3 indexed citations
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Owens, Gary, et al.. (2024). Recovery of rare earth elements from mine wastewater using alginate microspheres encapsulated with zeolitic imidazolate framework-8. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 471. 134435–134435. 30 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhenjun, et al.. (2024). How nitrate and ammonium impact soil organic carbon transformation with reference to aggregate size. The Science of The Total Environment. 949. 175213–175213. 3 indexed citations
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Owens, Gary, et al.. (2024). Plants as Medicine and Aromatics. 7 indexed citations
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Owens, Gary, et al.. (2024). Green synthesis of Mn2O3 activated PDS to degrade estriol in medical wastewater and its degradation pathway. Chemical Engineering Journal. 484. 149713–149713. 20 indexed citations
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Xue, Chao, et al.. (2023). Preparation of bionanomaterial based on green reduced graphene immobilized Ochrobactrum sp. FJ1: Optimization, characterization and its application. Separation and Purification Technology. 310. 123144–123144. 5 indexed citations
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Weng, Xiulan, et al.. (2023). Improved recovery selectivity of rare earth elements from mining wastewater utilizing phytosynthesized iron nanoparticles. Water Research. 244. 120486–120486. 36 indexed citations
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Wu, Pan, Yuhao Guo, Ye Yang, et al.. (2023). Cotton-based bionic tree-shaped photothermal evaporator for extraction of heavy metals from river sediment. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 11(5). 111063–111063. 15 indexed citations
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Wu, Jing, Xiulan Weng, Gary Owens, & Zuliang Chen. (2023). Enhanced activity of Fe/Mn nanoparticles using a response surface methodology and mechanism for removing oxytetracycline and copper ion. Chemosphere. 319. 138057–138057. 11 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, Ying Cheng, Gary Owens, & Zuliang Chen. (2023). Self- immobilized bio-nanomaterials based on hybridized green reduced graphene and Burkholderia vietnamiensis C09V for enhanced removal of Sb species from mine wastewater. Chemical Engineering Journal. 472. 145002–145002. 7 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yuchen, Chao Xue, Li Gan, Gary Owens, & Zuliang Chen. (2023). Antibacterial activity of reduced graphene oxide prepared by microbe. Materials Today Sustainability. 22. 100341–100341. 11 indexed citations
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Wu, Pan, et al.. (2022). Adsorption and fenton-like oxidation of ofloxacin in wastewater using hybrid MOF bimetallic Fe/Ni nanoparticles. Chemosphere. 307(Pt 2). 135936–135936. 30 indexed citations
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Wu, Jing, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic insight into the one step green synthesis of hybrid rGO/Fe NPs. Materials Today Nano. 18. 100193–100193. 24 indexed citations
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Weng, Xiulan, et al.. (2022). Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using three different fruit extracts: Characterization, formation mechanism and estrogen removal. Journal of Environmental Management. 316. 115224–115224. 16 indexed citations
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Li, Heng, et al.. (2022). Mechanism for the simultaneous removal of Sb(III) and Sb(V) from mining wastewater by phytosynthesized iron nanoparticles. Chemosphere. 307(Pt 1). 135778–135778. 18 indexed citations
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Weng, Xiulan, Wanling Cai, Gary Owens, & Zuliang Chen. (2021). Magnetic iron nanoparticles calcined from biosynthesis for fluoroquinolone antibiotic removal from wastewater. Journal of Cleaner Production. 319. 128734–128734. 38 indexed citations
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Li, Wenpeng, Qingping Wang, Xiaoying Jin, et al.. (2021). Removal of low Sb(V) concentrations from mining wastewater using zeolitic imidazolate framework-8. Journal of Environmental Management. 287. 112280–112280. 24 indexed citations

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