Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

109.4k total citations · 31 hit papers
1.1k papers, 86.7k citations indexed

About

Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht has authored 1.1k papers receiving a total of 86.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 689 papers in Pollution, 268 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 267 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (625 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (207 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (174 papers). Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (625 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (207 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (174 papers). Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, China and United States. Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht's co-authors include Joseph J. Heijnen, Robbert Kleerebezem, Cristian Picioreanu, Mike S. M. Jetten, Merle de Kreuk, Damir Brdjanović, Mogens Henze, Johannes S. Vrouwenvelder, Xiaodi Hao and J. J. Heijnen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

1.0k papers receiving 84.1k citations

Hit Papers

Full-scale partial nitrit... 1987 2026 2000 2013 2014 2019 1999 2009 2008 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Full-scale partial nitritation/anammox experiences – An application survey
    2014 1.5k citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. Water Research profile →
  2. Microplastics in wastewater treatment plants: Detection, occurrence and removal
    2019 1.4k citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. Water Research profile →
  3. Activated Sludge Model No. 3
    1999 1.4k citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. Water Science & Technology profile →
  4. Nitrous oxide emission during wastewater treatment
    2009 1.1k citations Robbert Kleerebezem, Mike S. M. Jetten et al. Water Research profile →
  5. Biological Wastewater Treatment: Principles, Modelling and Design
    2008 1.1k citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  6. Sewage Treatment with Anammox
    2010 1.0k citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  7. Startup of reactors for anoxic ammonium oxidation: Experiences from the first full-scale anammox reactor in Rotterdam
    2007 979 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. Water Research profile →
  8. The role of bacterial cell wall hydrophobicity in adhesion
    1987 768 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  9. Microbiology and biochemistry of the enhanced biological phosphate removal process
    1998 765 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Joseph J. Heijnen et al. Water Research profile →
  10. Quantifying Biomediated Ground Improvement by Ureolysis: Large-Scale Biogrout Experiment
    2010 759 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  11. Model of the anaerobic metabolism of the biological phosphorus removal process: Stoichiometry and pH influence
    1994 683 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. Biotechnology and Bioengineering profile →
  12. Mainstream partial nitritation–anammox in municipal wastewater treatment: status, bottlenecks, and further studies
    2017 675 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  13. The anaerobic oxidation of ammonium
    1998 659 citations Mike S. M. Jetten, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  14. The SHARON-Anammox process for treatment of ammonium rich wastewater.
    2001 639 citations Udo van Dongen, Mike S. M. Jetten et al. profile →
  15. Full scale performance of the aerobic granular sludge process for sewage treatment
    2015 616 citations Mario Pronk, Robbert Kleerebezem et al. Water Research profile →
  16. Influence of interfaces on microbial activity
    1990 599 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  17. Aerobic granulation in a sequencing batch reactor
    1999 589 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Joseph J. Heijnen et al. Water Research profile →
  18. Anticipating the next century of wastewater treatment
    2014 584 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  19. Electrophoretic mobility and hydrophobicity as a measured to predict the initial steps of bacterial adhesion
    1987 581 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  20. Fixation and distribution of bacterial activity in sand to induce carbonate precipitation for ground reinforcement
    2009 573 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  21. An omics-based framework for assessing the health risk of antimicrobial resistance genes
    2021 569 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  22. The SHARON®-Anammox® process for treatment of ammonium rich wastewater
    2001 557 citations Udo van Dongen, Mike S. M. Jetten et al. Water Science & Technology profile →
  23. Activated Sludge Model No. 3
    1999 544 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. Water Science & Technology profile →
  24. Microbiology and application of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (‘anammox’) process
    2001 511 citations Mike S. M. Jetten, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. Current Opinion in Biotechnology profile →
  25. The Relevance of Phosphorus and Iron Chemistry to the Recovery of Phosphorus from Wastewater: A Review
    2015 471 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  26. Aerobic granular sludge in a sequencing batch reactor
    1997 464 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Joseph J. Heijnen et al. Water Research profile →
  27. Activated sludge wastewater treatment plant modelling and simulation: state of the art
    2003 400 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  28. Physiological and kinetic characterization of a suspended cell anammox culture
    2014 380 citations Tommaso Lotti, Robbert Kleerebezem et al. Water Research profile →
  29. Biological Stability of Drinking Water: Controlling Factors, Methods, and Challenges
    2016 362 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  30. A critical review of resource recovery from municipal wastewater treatment plants – market supply potentials, technologies and bottlenecks
    2020 322 citations Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht et al. profile →
  31. Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage
    2024 77 citations Eveline I.P. Volcke, Xiaodi Hao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht Netherlands 154 55.7k 24.4k 24.0k 20.2k 12.7k 1.1k 86.7k
Guangming Zeng China 213 35.9k 0.6× 20.1k 0.8× 52.6k 2.2× 5.6k 0.3× 15.9k 1.2× 1.6k 169.2k
Andrew D. Eaton Canada 17 18.3k 0.3× 12.9k 0.5× 20.6k 0.9× 8.0k 0.4× 9.8k 0.8× 76 63.6k
Lenore S. Clesceri United States 13 19.5k 0.4× 13.7k 0.6× 22.0k 0.9× 8.5k 0.4× 10.5k 0.8× 24 66.8k
Willy Verstraete Belgium 139 18.1k 0.3× 6.2k 0.3× 8.2k 0.3× 26.0k 1.3× 6.5k 0.5× 898 74.6k
Zhiguo Yuan Australia 113 25.8k 0.5× 9.6k 0.4× 8.5k 0.4× 12.3k 0.6× 8.0k 0.6× 730 43.4k
Yong Sik Ok South Korea 159 31.1k 0.6× 14.8k 0.6× 26.4k 1.1× 3.5k 0.2× 9.6k 0.8× 915 92.1k
Han‐Qing Yu China 120 15.8k 0.3× 7.5k 0.3× 17.9k 0.7× 11.6k 0.6× 5.3k 0.4× 864 58.9k
A. E. Greenberg Belgium 7 18.3k 0.3× 12.9k 0.5× 20.7k 0.9× 7.9k 0.4× 9.8k 0.8× 8 63.0k
Duu‐Jong Lee Taiwan 106 14.3k 0.3× 8.0k 0.3× 12.5k 0.5× 7.6k 0.4× 2.9k 0.2× 1.2k 53.1k
Huu Hao Ngo Australia 102 17.2k 0.3× 12.1k 0.5× 20.5k 0.9× 5.4k 0.3× 5.7k 0.4× 788 46.9k

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All Works

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Andrei, Sebastian A., et al.. (2025). Identification of a surface protein in the extracellular polymeric substances of seawater-adapted aerobic granular sludge. Water Research. 286. 124187–124187. 2 indexed citations
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Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. van, et al.. (2025). Co-substrate utilisation in “Candidatus Accumulibacter” enhances metabolic fitness in dynamic environments. Water Research. 287(Pt A). 124401–124401.
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Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. van, et al.. (2024). Rethinking characterization, application, and importance of extracellular polymeric substances in water technologies. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 89. 103192–103192. 4 indexed citations
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Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. van, et al.. (2024). Sustainability assessment framework for integrated seawater desalination and resource recovery: A participatory approach. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 212. 107954–107954. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Ji, Xiaodi Hao, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, & Yuemei Lin. (2024). Understanding the ionic hydrogel-forming property of extracellular polymeric substances: Differences in lipopolysaccharides between flocculent and granular sludge. Water Research. 268(Pt B). 122707–122707. 6 indexed citations
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Schmitt, Heike, et al.. (2024). Sludge size affects sorption of organic micropollutants in full-scale aerobic granular sludge systems. Water Research. 267. 122513–122513. 9 indexed citations
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Rahimi, Zahra, Ali Akbar Zinatizadeh, Sirus Zinadini, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, & Damien J. Batstone. (2024). A high-rate A2O bioreactor with airlift-driven circulation and anoxic hybrid growth for enhanced carbon and nutrient removal from a nutrient rich wastewater. Chemosphere. 370. 143811–143811. 1 indexed citations
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Hülsen, Tim, Clement Matthew Chan, Luigi‐Jules Vandi, et al.. (2023). Polyhydroxyalkanoate production in a biofilm by mixed culture phototrophic bacteria. Journal of Cleaner Production. 434. 140001–140001. 5 indexed citations
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Deng, Yangfan, Di Wu, Hao Huang, et al.. (2021). Exploration and verification of the feasibility of sulfide-driven partial denitrification coupled with anammox for wastewater treatment. Water Research. 193. 116905–116905. 107 indexed citations
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Leal, Lucía Hernández, et al.. (2020). Annual dynamics of antimicrobials and resistance determinants in flocculent and aerobic granular sludge treatment systems. Water Research. 190. 116752–116752. 39 indexed citations
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Deng, Yangfan, George A. Ekama, Yan-Xiang Cui, et al.. (2019). Coupling of sulfur(thiosulfate)-driven denitratation and anammox process to treat nitrate and ammonium contained wastewater. Water Research. 163. 114854–114854. 93 indexed citations
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Lotti, Tommaso, Robbert Kleerebezem, & Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht. (2014). Effect of temperature change on anammox activity. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 112(1). 98–103. 178 indexed citations
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Guo, Lisha, Matthijs R.J. Daelman, Youri Amerlinck, et al.. (2013). Comprehensive field measurement of nitrous oxide (N2O) gas emissions and influencing factors under dry and wet weather conditions. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations
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Volcke, Eveline I.P., Stijn Van Hulle, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, & Peter A. Vanrolleghem. (2003). Generation of Anammox optimal nitrite:ammonium ratio with SHARON process: usefulness of process control. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 4 indexed citations
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Dongen, Udo van, Mike S. M. Jetten, & Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht. (2001). The SHARON®-Anammox® process for treatment of ammonium rich wastewater. Water Science & Technology. 44(1). 153–160. 557 indexed citations breakdown →
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Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. van, et al.. (1997). Kinetic modeling of poly(β-hydroxybutyrate) production and consumption byParacoccus pantotrophus under dynamic substrate supply. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 55(5). 773–782. 116 indexed citations

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