Omar Labban

950 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 791 citations indexed

About

Omar Labban is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Omar Labban has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 791 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Water Science and Technology, 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 2 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Omar Labban's work include Membrane Separation Technologies (6 papers), Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (3 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (3 papers). Omar Labban is often cited by papers focused on Membrane Separation Technologies (6 papers), Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (3 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (3 papers). Omar Labban collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and United Kingdom. Omar Labban's co-authors include John H. Lienhard, Tzyy Haur Chong, Chang Liu, Kyle L. Wilke, R.Z. Wang, Zhenyuan Xu, Bikram Bhatia, Evelyn N. Wang, Lenan Zhang and Chenxi Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, Applied Energy and Journal of Membrane Science.

In The Last Decade

Omar Labban

7 papers receiving 777 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.

Ultrahigh-efficiency desalination via a thermally-localized multistage solar still

2020 441 citations Zhenyuan Xu, Lenan Zhang et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Omar Labban United States	6	497	481	237	214	76	7	791
Xiaohong Yang China	11	213 0.4×	337 0.7×	96 0.4×	108 0.5×	71 0.9×	31	517
Mossab K. Alsaedi United States	6	200 0.4×	489 1.0×	114 0.5×	242 1.1×	48 0.6×	8	631
Akram Entezari China	8	171 0.3×	475 1.0×	84 0.4×	292 1.4×	36 0.5×	8	619
Jiguang Huang China	11	163 0.3×	219 0.5×	81 0.3×	210 1.0×	93 1.2×	23	506
Guopei Li China	12	268 0.5×	296 0.6×	137 0.6×	115 0.5×	45 0.6×	27	415
Ghulam M. Mustafa Saudi Arabia	11	503 1.0×	207 0.4×	346 1.5×	98 0.5×	103 1.4×	13	635
Mohamed El-Morsi Egypt	10	66 0.1×	265 0.6×	110 0.5×	358 1.7×	55 0.7×	22	540
Suhaib M. Alawad Saudi Arabia	14	541 1.1×	435 0.9×	344 1.5×	59 0.3×	112 1.5×	38	672
Syed Muztuza Ali Australia	14	394 0.8×	138 0.3×	399 1.7×	250 1.2×	161 2.1×	22	698
Hyuk Soo Son Saudi Arabia	12	419 0.8×	332 0.7×	245 1.0×	119 0.6×	79 1.0×	15	547

Countries citing papers authored by Omar Labban

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Fields of papers citing papers by Omar Labban

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Omar Labban

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Omar Labban. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Omar Labban based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Omar Labban. Omar Labban is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Labban, Omar, et al.. (2021). Deformation-induced cleaning of organically fouled membranes: Fundamentals and techno-economic assessment for spiral-wound membranes. Journal of Membrane Science. 626. 119169–119169. 21 indexed citations

2.

Xu, Zhenyuan, Lenan Zhang, Lin Zhao, et al.. (2020). Ultrahigh-efficiency desalination via a thermally-localized multistage solar still. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(3). 830–839. 441 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Labban, Omar, et al.. (2019). Osmotically-induced Cleaning of Fouled Reverse Osmosis Membranes in Desalination. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

4.

Labban, Omar, Chang Liu, Tzyy Haur Chong, & John H. Lienhard. (2018). Relating transport modeling to nanofiltration membrane fabrication: Navigating the permeability-selectivity trade-off in desalination pretreatment. Journal of Membrane Science. 554. 26–38. 63 indexed citations

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Labban, Omar, Tzyy Haur Chong, & John H. Lienhard. (2018). Design and modeling of novel low-pressure nanofiltration hollow fiber modules for water softening and desalination pretreatment. Desalination. 439. 58–72. 31 indexed citations

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Labban, Omar, Tianyi Chen, Ahmed F. Ghoniem, John H. Lienhard, & Leslie K. Norford. (2017). Next-generation HVAC: Prospects for and limitations of desiccant and membrane-based dehumidification and cooling. Applied Energy. 200. 330–346. 83 indexed citations

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Labban, Omar, Chang Liu, Tzyy Haur Chong, & John H. Lienhard. (2016). Fundamentals of low-pressure nanofiltration: Membrane characterization, modeling, and understanding the multi-ionic interactions in water softening. Journal of Membrane Science. 521. 18–32. 151 indexed citations

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