Raja Belaabed

828 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 608 citations indexed

About

Raja Belaabed is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Raja Belaabed has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 608 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Water Science and Technology, 2 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 2 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Raja Belaabed's work include Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (4 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (2 papers) and TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (1 paper). Raja Belaabed is often cited by papers focused on Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (4 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (2 papers) and TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (1 paper). Raja Belaabed collaborates with scholars based in Morocco and Spain. Raja Belaabed's co-authors include Abdellah Addaou, Ahmed Lahsini, Ali Laajeb, Hakima El Knidri, Miguel Á. Rodríguez, Soumya Elabed, Abdelali El Gaidoumi, Abdelhak Kherbeche, Karim Tanji and Youssef Miyah and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Journal of environmental chemical engineering and Water Environment Research.

In The Last Decade

Raja Belaabed

5 papers receiving 597 citations

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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.

Extraction, chemical modification and characterization of chitin and chitosan

2018 553 citations Hakima El Knidri, Raja Belaabed et al. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raja Belaabed Morocco	4	328	107	89	74	74	6	608
Suneeta Kumari India	6	443 1.4×	102 1.0×	127 1.4×	100 1.4×	62 0.8×	8	720
Bruna Silva de Farias Brazil	14	269 0.8×	124 1.2×	143 1.6×	152 2.1×	100 1.4×	38	649
Hakima El Knidri Morocco	4	526 1.6×	147 1.4×	171 1.9×	87 1.2×	92 1.2×	6	847
Ariel C. de Oliveira Brazil	13	320 1.0×	148 1.4×	50 0.6×	25 0.3×	73 1.0×	19	595
Ali Laajeb Morocco	10	530 1.6×	154 1.4×	171 1.9×	110 1.5×	97 1.3×	19	1.0k
Roberta Signini Brazil	13	451 1.4×	191 1.8×	112 1.3×	80 1.1×	123 1.7×	29	820
Laura Fernández de Castro Spain	14	242 0.7×	119 1.1×	123 1.4×	77 1.0×	40 0.5×	20	710
Abdellah Addaou Morocco	10	534 1.6×	160 1.5×	173 1.9×	121 1.6×	101 1.4×	19	1.1k
Ahmed Lahsini Morocco	11	536 1.6×	160 1.5×	173 1.9×	121 1.6×	101 1.4×	16	1.1k
El Montassir Dahmane Morocco	9	163 0.5×	91 0.9×	75 0.8×	63 0.9×	49 0.7×	12	541

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raja Belaabed

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Miyah, Youssef, Raja Belaabed, Hakima El Knidri, et al.. (2025). Multifunctional BiVO4@Illite-Chitosan hybrid for visible-light photocatalytic degradation of phenol and diluted olive mill wastewater via synergistic photocatalysis-coagulation. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(6). 120389–120389.

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Tanji, Karim, Abdelali El Gaidoumi, Raja Belaabed, et al.. (2025). Innovative use of iron-impregnated natural illite as a catalyst for phenol purification through Fenton, sono-Fenton, photo-Fenton, and sono-photo-Fenton technologies. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(4). 117333–117333. 7 indexed citations

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Belaabed, Raja, Hakima El Knidri, Abdellah Addaou, Ali Laajeb, & Ahmed Lahsini. (2024). Optimization of Zeolite LTA Synthesis Parameters for Chromium Removal From Tannery Wastewater. Chemistry Africa. 7(6). 3329–3341. 2 indexed citations

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Tanji, Karim, Abdelali El Gaidoumi, Raja Belaabed, et al.. (2024). Resourceful exploitation of sedimentary clay: Designing a dual‐chambered borosilicate glass reactor system for the efficient treatment of malachite green and phenol through SCRT adsorption and 5%Fe@SRCT catalysis via CWPO, with evaluation of seed germination and fish survival. Water Environment Research. 96(8). e11090–e11090. 7 indexed citations

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Knidri, Hakima El, Raja Belaabed, Abdellah Addaou, Ali Laajeb, & Ahmed Lahsini. (2018). Extraction, chemical modification and characterization of chitin and chitosan. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 120(Pt A). 1181–1189. 553 indexed citations breakdown →

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Belaabed, Raja, et al.. (2016). Synthesis of LTA zeolite for bacterial adhesion. Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Cerámica y Vidrio. 55(4). 152–158. 39 indexed citations

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