Mike Hightower

427 total citations
12 papers, 304 citations indexed

About

Mike Hightower is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Hightower has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 304 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Water Science and Technology, 3 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 2 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mike Hightower's work include Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (6 papers), Microgrid Control and Optimization (2 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (1 paper). Mike Hightower is often cited by papers focused on Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (6 papers), Microgrid Control and Optimization (2 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (1 paper). Mike Hightower collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Mike Hightower's co-authors include Suzanne A. Pierce, Richard Joseph Kottenstette, Patrick V. Brady, Thomas Mayer, Yanyan Zhang, Pei Xu, Pei Xu, Danny D. Reible, Luis Fernández‐Salazar and Xuewei Du and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.

In The Last Decade

Mike Hightower

12 papers receiving 296 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mike Hightower United States	6	173	73	68	62	43	12	304
Lars Yde Denmark	9	210 1.2×	75 1.0×	191 2.8×	20 0.3×	27 0.6×	16	423
Ait Mimoune Hamiche Algeria	3	266 1.5×	76 1.0×	25 0.4×	62 1.0×	75 1.7×	7	362
Moayyad Shawaqfah Jordan	9	100 0.6×	27 0.4×	70 1.0×	101 1.6×	14 0.3×	23	361
Prakash Rao United States	8	74 0.4×	40 0.5×	26 0.4×	86 1.4×	25 0.6×	22	249
Jitti Mungkalasiri Thailand	12	49 0.3×	36 0.5×	94 1.4×	82 1.3×	25 0.6×	33	396
Salil Arora United States	4	68 0.4×	26 0.4×	152 2.2×	102 1.6×	15 0.3×	6	363
Sebastián Ovidio Pérez Báez Spain	10	232 1.3×	55 0.8×	118 1.7×	75 1.2×	9 0.2×	34	343
Omar Bamaga Saudi Arabia	12	347 2.0×	99 1.4×	253 3.7×	121 2.0×	21 0.5×	36	554
Sebastián Herrera‐León Chile	8	101 0.6×	67 0.9×	44 0.6×	20 0.3×	31 0.7×	12	276
Gouri Shankar Mishra United States	11	52 0.3×	51 0.7×	34 0.5×	84 1.4×	12 0.3×	19	347

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12 of 12 papers shown

Hightower, Mike, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive cytotoxicity assessment of treated produced water from thermal distillation using human cell lines. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 302. 118726–118726. 1 indexed citations

Du, Xuewei, et al.. (2025). Public Perception of Nontraditional Water Reuse in New Mexico: A Focus on Produced Water from Oil and Gas Production. ACS ES&T Water. 5(2). 761–771. 5 indexed citations

Hightower, Mike, et al.. (2024). Benchmarking produced water treatment strategies for non-toxic effluents: Integrating thermal distillation with granular activated carbon and zeolite post-treatment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 478. 135549–135549. 8 indexed citations

Hightower, Mike, et al.. (2024). Treatment of produced water from the Permian Basin: Chemical and toxicological characterization of the effluent from a pilot-scale low-temperature distillation system. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 67. 106146–106146. 3 indexed citations

Hightower, Mike, et al.. (2021). Use of Advanced Microgrids to Support Community Resilience. Natural Hazards Review. 22(4). 8 indexed citations

Hightower, Mike, et al.. (2018). Resource Recovery of Brackish Desalination Concentrate Large-Scale System Design and Performance Lessons Learned. 1 indexed citations

McHenry, Mark P., Jay Johnson, & Mike Hightower. (2016). Why Do Electricity Policy and Competitive Markets Fail to Use Advanced PV Systems to Improve Distribution Power Quality?. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2016. 1–10. 2 indexed citations

Hightower, Mike, Danny D. Reible, & Michael E. Webber. (2013). Workshop Report: Developing a Research Agenda for the Energy Water Nexus. Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library). 13(7). 1–306. 2 indexed citations

Hightower, Mike. (2011). Energy Meets Water. Mechanical Engineering. 133(7). 34–39. 1 indexed citations

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Brady, Patrick V., Richard Joseph Kottenstette, Thomas Mayer, & Mike Hightower. (2009). Inland Desalination: Challenges and Research Needs. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education. 132(1). 46–51. 44 indexed citations

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Hightower, Mike & Suzanne A. Pierce. (2008). The energy challenge. Nature. 452(7185). 285–286. 215 indexed citations

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Hightower, Mike. (2007). Emerging Energy Development Demands on Water. 14 indexed citations

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