Marta Carballa

11.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Marta Carballa is a scholar working on Pollution, Building and Construction and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marta Carballa has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Pollution, 37 papers in Building and Construction and 27 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Marta Carballa's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (40 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (39 papers) and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (37 papers). Marta Carballa is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (40 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (39 papers) and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (37 papers). Marta Carballa collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Belgium and Germany. Marta Carballa's co-authors include Juan M. Lema, F. Omil, Thomas A. Ternes, Willy Verstraete, Leticia Regueiro, I. Rodrı́guez, Marı́a Llompart, Carmen Garcı́a-Jares, Nico Boon and Lorena González-Gil and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Marta Carballa

115 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

Behavior of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and hormones in a sewage treatment plant

2004 1.2k citations Marta Carballa, F. Omil et al. Water Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marta Carballa Spain	49	5.4k	2.1k	2.0k	1.9k	1.8k	117	8.7k
Alan J. Guwy United Kingdom	46	3.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	2.9k 1.6×	1.1k 0.6×	150	9.5k
Richard M. Dinsdale United Kingdom	48	3.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	2.8k 1.5×	758 0.4×	110	8.9k
F. Omil Spain	43	5.6k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	759 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	99	7.7k
Qaisar Mahmood Pakistan	56	4.7k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	559 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	293	9.9k
Derin Orhon Türkiye	48	5.3k 1.0×	3.6k 1.7×	1.3k 0.6×	952 0.5×	2.8k 1.6×	340	8.3k
R. D. Tyagi Canada	54	4.0k 0.7×	3.4k 1.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	284	12.8k
Sanjay P. Govindwar India	67	2.4k 0.5×	2.3k 1.1×	3.8k 1.9×	899 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	247	14.7k
David C. Stuckey United Kingdom	55	4.8k 0.9×	4.7k 2.2×	1.3k 0.7×	3.4k 1.8×	1.9k 1.1×	216	11.4k
Liang Guo China	47	3.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	884 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	216	6.8k
Chong‐Jian Tang China	50	3.5k 0.7×	2.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	597 0.3×	1.3k 0.7×	128	8.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marta Carballa

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Mauricio‐Iglesias, Miguel, et al.. (2025). From dairy waste to butyric acid: Scaling the valorization process. Journal of Environmental Management. 380. 124934–124934.

Cubero‐Cardoso, Juan, Gemma Eibes, & Marta Carballa. (2024). Exploring macroalgae biorefinery: Extraction of bioactive compounds and production of volatile fatty acids. Environmental Research. 263(Pt 1). 120008–120008. 4 indexed citations

Duarte, M. Salomé, A. J. Cavaleiro, Andreia F. Salvador, et al.. (2022). Principles, Advances, and Perspectives of Anaerobic Digestion of Lipids. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(8). 4749–4775. 64 indexed citations

Balboa, Sabela, et al.. (2022). Sulfamethoxazole Enhances Specific Enzymatic Activities under Aerobic Heterotrophic Conditions: A Metaproteomic Approach. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(18). 13152–13159. 23 indexed citations

Regueira, Alberte, Kiira S. Vuoristo, Marta Carballa, et al.. (2022). Model-aided targeted volatile fatty acid production from food waste using a defined co-culture microbial community. The Science of The Total Environment. 857(Pt 2). 159521–159521. 5 indexed citations

González-Gil, Lorena, et al.. (2020). The organic loading rate affects organic micropollutants’ cometabolic biotransformation kinetics under heterotrophic conditions in activated sludge. Water Research. 189. 116587–116587. 38 indexed citations

Carballa, Marta, et al.. (2019). An optimised control system to steer the transition from anaerobic mono- to co-digestion in full-scale plants. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 5(5). 1004–1011. 9 indexed citations

Lema, Juan M., et al.. (2019). Opportunities for rotating belt filters in novel wastewater treatment plant configurations. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 5(4). 704–712. 6 indexed citations

Rivadulla, Enrique, et al.. (2019). Comprehensive comparison of chemically enhanced primary treatment and high-rate activated sludge in novel wastewater treatment plant configurations. Water Research. 169. 115258–115258. 95 indexed citations

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Lema, Juan M., et al.. (2019). Energetic and economic assessment of sludge thermal hydrolysis in novel wastewater treatment plant configurations. Waste Management. 92. 30–38. 30 indexed citations

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Fernández‐González, Nuria, et al.. (2019). Thermal hydrolysis of sewage sludge partially removes organic micropollutants but does not enhance their anaerobic biotransformation. The Science of The Total Environment. 690. 534–542. 38 indexed citations

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Paredes, Lidia, et al.. (2016). Understanding the fate of organic micropollutants in sand and granular activated carbon biofiltration systems. The Science of The Total Environment. 551-552. 640–648. 80 indexed citations

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Regueiro, Leticia, M. Figueroa, Jorge Alonso-Gutiérrez, et al.. (2012). Relationship between microbial activity and microbial community structure in six full-scale anaerobic digesters. Microbiological Research. 167(10). 581–589. 182 indexed citations

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Carballa, Marta, Marianne Smits, Claudia Etchebehere, Nico Boon, & Willy Verstraete. (2010). Correlations between molecular and operational parameters in continuous lab-scale anaerobic reactors. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 89(2). 303–314. 86 indexed citations

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Donoso‐Bravo, Andrés, Marta Carballa, Gonzalo Ruíz-Filippi, & Rolando Chamy. (2009). Treatment of low strength sewage with high suspended organic matter content in an anaerobic sequencing batch reactor and modeling application. Electronic Journal of Biotechnology. 12(3). 13–14. 7 indexed citations

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Clippeleir, Haydée De, Siegfried E. Vlaeminck, Marta Carballa, & Willy Verstraete. (2009). A low volumetric exchange ratio allows high autotrophic nitrogen removal in a sequencing batch reactor. Bioresource Technology. 100(21). 5010–5015. 29 indexed citations

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Moerman, Wim, et al.. (2009). Phosphate removal in agro-industry: Pilot- and full-scale operational considerations of struvite crystallization. Water Research. 43(7). 1887–1892. 132 indexed citations

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Ma, Jingxing, et al.. (2009). Maximum removal rate of propionic acid as a sole carbon source in UASB reactors and the importance of the macro- and micro-nutrients stimulation. Bioresource Technology. 100(14). 3477–3482. 47 indexed citations

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Ma, Jingxing, et al.. (2007). Improvement of the anaerobic treatment of potato processing wastewater in a UASB reactor by co-digestion with glycerol. Biotechnology Letters. 30(5). 861–867. 73 indexed citations

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Carballa, Marta, et al.. (2006). Influence of ozone pre-treatment on sludge anaerobic digestion: Removal of pharmaceutical and personal care products. Chemosphere. 67(7). 1444–1452. 130 indexed citations

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