Meijia Zhang

6.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
86 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Meijia Zhang is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Meijia Zhang has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Water Science and Technology, 38 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 24 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Meijia Zhang's work include Membrane Separation Technologies (63 papers), Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (28 papers) and Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics (20 papers). Meijia Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Membrane Separation Technologies (63 papers), Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (28 papers) and Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics (20 papers). Meijia Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and Hong Kong. Meijia Zhang's co-authors include Huachang Hong, Jianrong Chen, Hongjun Lin, Baoqiang Liao, Hongjun Lin, Liguo Shen, Renjie Li, Yiming He, Yanchao Xu and Wei Peng and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research and Bioresource Technology.

In The Last Decade

Meijia Zhang

84 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

A critical review of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) in membrane bioreactors: Characteristics, roles in membrane fouling and control strategies

2014 641 citations Hongjun Lin, Meijia Zhang et al. Journal of Membrane Science profile →
A review on anaerobic membrane bioreactors: Applications, membrane fouling and future perspectives

2013 514 citations Hongjun Lin, Wei Peng et al. Desalination profile →
Fabrication of fibrous MXene nanoribbons (MNRs) membrane with efficient performance for oil-water separation

2022 148 citations Zhengyi Huang, Liguo Shen et al. Journal of Membrane Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Meijia Zhang China	37	3.8k	2.4k	1.1k	909	806	86	5.0k
Sanghyun Jeong South Korea	47	4.0k 1.1×	2.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	677 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	159	6.0k
Shuili Yu China	41	3.4k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	914 0.9×	607 0.7×	560 0.7×	148	5.0k
David Jassby United States	44	3.2k 0.8×	2.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	432 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	119	5.7k
Xinglin Lu China	30	3.4k 0.9×	2.6k 1.1×	838 0.8×	556 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	54	4.9k
Hongjun Lin China	42	3.5k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.6×	857 0.9×	1.7k 2.2×	101	6.3k
Adewale Giwa United Arab Emirates	33	2.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	772 0.7×	530 0.6×	1.5k 1.8×	65	4.7k
Jeonghwan Kim South Korea	34	4.1k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	100	5.8k
Emile Cornelissen Netherlands	43	5.3k 1.4×	3.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.2×	935 1.0×	740 0.9×	146	6.5k
Arne Verliefde Belgium	44	4.2k 1.1×	3.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	707 0.8×	678 0.8×	150	5.4k
Qiaoying Wang China	33	2.3k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	645 0.6×	771 0.8×	508 0.6×	71	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meijia Zhang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Yuwei, Jiaheng Teng, Jiahui Huang, et al.. (2025). Glycerol-driven optimization of algae-bacteria symbiosis systems for enhanced lipid production and self-flocculation. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(2). 115540–115540. 4 indexed citations

Shen, Yue, Genying Yu, Hongjun Lin, et al.. (2025). Membrane fouling behaviors of microplastic in coagulation-ultrafiltration process: Role of surface functional groups. Chemical Engineering Journal. 511. 162141–162141. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Biyan, Xiaolu Xu, Liguo Shen, et al.. (2025). Microplastics as membrane fouling “promoter” in calcium-alginate systems: A multiscale thermodynamic perspective. Journal of Membrane Science. 735. 124547–124547.

Lin, Hongjun, Biyan Wang, Fang Hao, et al.. (2024). Membrane fouling mechanisms in the presence of microplastics and organic matter: The unexpected mitigating role of Ca2+. The Science of The Total Environment. 954. 176446–176446. 10 indexed citations

Hu, Xinyu, Jing Wang, Renjie Li, et al.. (2024). Novel conductive Janus membranes with water diode effect assisted by an electrostatic field for efficient mass transfer and oil-water separation. Journal of Membrane Science. 708. 123037–123037. 18 indexed citations

Yu, Changyuan, Meijia Zhang, Yichen Li, et al.. (2024). Design and implementation of a radiomic-driven intelligent dental hospital diversion system utilizing multilabel imaging data. Journal of Translational Medicine. 22(1). 1123–1123. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuwei, et al.. (2024). The molecular weight-fouling matrix: A novel dissection of polysaccharide interactions in ultrafiltration processes. Separation and Purification Technology. 345. 127340–127340. 13 indexed citations

Cai, Xiang, Si Pang, Meijia Zhang, et al.. (2024). Predicting thermodynamic adhesion energies of membrane fouling in planktonic anammox MBR via backpropagation neural network model. Bioresource Technology. 406. 131011–131011. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuwei, et al.. (2023). Harnessing diurnal dynamics: Deciphering the interplay of light cycles on algal-bacterial membrane bioreactors. The Science of The Total Environment. 913. 169644–169644. 15 indexed citations

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Huang, Jiahui, et al.. (2023). Optimizing aeration intensity to enhance self-flocculation in algal-bacterial symbiosis systems. Chemosphere. 341. 140064–140064. 13 indexed citations

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Han, Lei, Liguo Shen, Hongjun Lin, et al.. (2023). Three dimension-printed membrane for ultrafast oil/water separation as driven by gravitation. Nano Energy. 111. 108351–108351. 100 indexed citations

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You, Xiujia, Liguo Shen, Ying Zhao, et al.. (2023). Quantifying interfacial interactions for improved membrane antifouling: A novel approach using triangulation and surface element integration method. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 650(Pt A). 775–783. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Meijia, Haoxiang Xu, Yibin Luo, Jiqin Zhu, & Daojian Cheng. (2022). Enhancing the catalytic performance of PdAu catalysts by W-induced strong interaction for the direct synthesis of H₂O₂. Catalysis Science & Technology. 12(17). 5290–5301. 4 indexed citations

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Zou, Hui, Jiahui Huang, Meijia Zhang, et al.. (2022). Mitigation of protein fouling by magnesium ions and the related mechanisms in ultrafiltration process. Chemosphere. 310. 136817–136817. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wentian, Zhiwen Li, Yanchao Xu, et al.. (2021). In situ conversion of ZnO into zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 in polyamide layers for well-structured high-permeance thin-film nanocomposite nanofiltration membranes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(12). 7684–7691. 47 indexed citations

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Teng, Jiaheng, Meijia Zhang, Jianrong Chen, et al.. (2018). A unified thermodynamic mechanism underlying fouling behaviors of soluble microbial products (SMPs) in a membrane bioreactor. Water Research. 149. 477–487. 217 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianrong, Hongjun Lin, Liguo Shen, et al.. (2016). Realization of quantifying interfacial interactions between a randomly rough membrane surface and a foulant particle. Bioresource Technology. 226. 220–228. 82 indexed citations

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Zhang, Meijia. (2013). Design of sawtooth-wave oscillator for DC-DC switching power. Journal of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Meijia, Wei Peng, Jianrong Chen, et al.. (2013). A new insight into membrane fouling mechanism in submerged membrane bioreactor: Osmotic pressure during cake layer filtration. Water Research. 47(8). 2777–2786. 125 indexed citations

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Lin, Hongjun, Wei Peng, Meijia Zhang, et al.. (2013). A review on anaerobic membrane bioreactors: Applications, membrane fouling and future perspectives. Desalination. 314. 169–188. 514 indexed citations breakdown →

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