Jafar Soltan

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Jafar Soltan is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Jafar Soltan has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Water Science and Technology, 34 papers in Materials Chemistry and 28 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Jafar Soltan's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (28 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (21 papers) and Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (18 papers). Jafar Soltan is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (28 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (21 papers) and Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (18 papers). Jafar Soltan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Iran and Colombia. Jafar Soltan's co-authors include Kerry N. McPhedran, Khaled Zoroufchi Benis, Ebrahim Rezaei, Ajay K. Dalai, Reza M. Malek Abbaslou, Ning Chen, Amanollah Ebadi, Zahra Jeirani, Catherine Hui Niu and Ajay K. Dalai and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

In The Last Decade

Jafar Soltan

85 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater using advanced treatments. A review

2022 260 citations Nadia Morin‐Crini, Éric Lichtfouse et al. Environmental Chemistry Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jafar Soltan Canada	34	1.4k	1.2k	765	740	726	86	3.4k
Yu‐Jen Shih Taiwan	34	663 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	582 0.8×	429 0.6×	591 0.8×	107	3.3k
Chao Long China	36	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	683 0.9×	711 1.0×	351 0.5×	123	3.6k
Rafael Gonzalez‐Olmos Spain	35	527 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	834 1.1×	507 0.7×	348 0.5×	88	3.0k
J.L. Sotelo Spain	34	1.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.4×	975 1.3×	1.0k 1.4×	360 0.5×	86	4.1k
Mohammadtaghi Vakili China	35	1.6k 1.1×	2.4k 2.1×	812 1.1×	668 0.9×	279 0.4×	103	5.2k
Luiz C.A. Oliveira Brazil	35	1.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	561 0.8×	302 0.4×	119	4.4k
Yaping Zhang China	28	1.3k 0.9×	587 0.5×	324 0.4×	720 1.0×	687 0.9×	108	2.5k
Young Nam Chun South Korea	22	1.4k 1.0×	699 0.6×	1.2k 1.6×	297 0.4×	291 0.4×	101	3.3k
Sungjun Bae South Korea	36	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	1.8k 2.3×	273 0.4×	813 1.1×	110	4.6k
Patrycja Makoś‐Chełstowska Poland	28	602 0.4×	635 0.5×	566 0.7×	561 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	61	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jafar Soltan

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Asadi, Mohsen, et al.. (2025). Smart municipal wastewater treatment sludge management: Enhancement of biogas production from anaerobic digestion amended by optimized sludge-derived biochar. The Science of The Total Environment. 989. 179860–179860. 1 indexed citations

Soltan, Jafar, et al.. (2025). Off-Flavour Challenges in Plant Proteins: Mechanisms, Advanced Oxidation Technologies, and Opportunities for Flavour Improvement—A Critical Review. Food and Bioprocess Technology. 18(12). 9973–10003. 1 indexed citations

Payan, Amir, et al.. (2025). Boosting catalytic activity of Ag-modified CeO2-Al2O3 mixed metal oxide support via coupling with a VUV photoreactor: A catalytic ozonation system applied towards VOC oxidation. Applied Catalysis A General. 704. 120370–120370. 4 indexed citations

Payan, Amir, et al.. (2025). Enhanced catalytic performance of α-MnO2 via coupling with a vacuum ultraviolet photoreactor: A catalytic ozonation approach targeting VOC oxidation. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 201. 107499–107499. 1 indexed citations

Payan, Amir & Jafar Soltan. (2025). Impact of support on acetone oxidation by Ag@S (S=CeO2, Al2O3, ZSM-5) catalysts under VUV illumination at room temperature: Improving synergy, influence of relative humidity, and in-situ mechanistic studies. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(4). 117334–117334. 2 indexed citations

Payan, Amir, et al.. (2025). Novel insight into the influence of supports on the performance of α-MnO2 catalysts for ozone-assisted VOC oxidation: A comparative study of inert and semiconductor supports, impact of operational parameters, and stability assessments. Catalysis Today. 459. 115418–115418. 1 indexed citations

Asadi, Mohsen, et al.. (2024). Sustainable enhancement of biogas production from a cold-region municipal wastewater anaerobic digestion process using optimized sludge-derived and commercial biochar additives. Journal of Cleaner Production. 478. 143948–143948. 8 indexed citations

Soltan, Jafar, et al.. (2024). Test Method to Evaluate Cross-Contamination of Gaseous Contaminants within Total Energy Recovery Wheels. 2 indexed citations

Minaei, Shahab, Khaled Zoroufchi Benis, Kerry N. McPhedran, & Jafar Soltan. (2024). Adsorption of sulfamethoxazole and lincomycin from single and binary aqueous systems using acid-modified biochar from activated sludge biomass. Journal of Environmental Management. 358. 120742–120742. 31 indexed citations

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Soltan, Jafar, et al.. (2024). A novel biochar adsorbent for treatment of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) contaminated water: Exploring batch and dynamic adsorption behavior. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 69. 106586–106586. 9 indexed citations

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Payan, Amir, et al.. (2023). Novel insight into the effect of relative humidity on the acetone photocatalytic decomposition using Ag−CeO2 under vacuum ultraviolet illumination: Catalytic synergies, performance, and mechanistic interpretation. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 443. 114847–114847. 12 indexed citations

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Benis, Khaled Zoroufchi, Ali Behnami, Shahab Minaei, et al.. (2023). Environmental Occurrence and Toxicity of 6PPD Quinone, an Emerging Tire Rubber-Derived Chemical: A Review. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 10(10). 815–823. 68 indexed citations

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Chen, Ning, et al.. (2023). Ozonative epoxidation of ethylene: A novel process for production of ethylene oxide. Applied Catalysis A General. 661. 119239–119239. 2 indexed citations

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Morin‐Crini, Nadia, Éric Lichtfouse, Marc Fourmentin, et al.. (2022). Removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater using advanced treatments. A review. Environmental Chemistry Letters. 20(2). 1333–1375. 260 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benis, Khaled Zoroufchi, et al.. (2020). Treatment of aqueous arsenic – A review of biochar modification methods. The Science of The Total Environment. 739. 139750–139750. 159 indexed citations

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Benis, Khaled Zoroufchi, Mohsen Shakouri, Kerry N. McPhedran, & Jafar Soltan. (2020). Enhanced arsenate removal by Fe-impregnated canola straw: assessment of XANES solid-phase speciation, impacts of solution properties, sorption mechanisms, and evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR) models. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(10). 12659–12676. 21 indexed citations

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Soltan, Jafar, et al.. (2018). Sonochemical degradation of triclosan in water in a multifrequency reactor. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26(5). 4450–4461. 27 indexed citations

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Ebrahimi, Hadi, et al.. (2013). Zonal modeling of radiative heat transfer in industrial furnaces using simplified model for exchange area calculation. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 37(16-17). 8004–8015. 29 indexed citations

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Mankidy, Rishikesh, et al.. (2013). Mineralization of bisphenol A by catalytic ozonation over alumina. Separation and Purification Technology. 107. 310–317. 36 indexed citations

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Soltan, Jafar, et al.. (2012). Catalytic ozonation of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid using alumina in the presence of a radical scavenger. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part B. 47(6). 544–552. 11 indexed citations

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