Robert Delatolla

3.6k total citations
92 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Robert Delatolla is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Delatolla has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Pollution, 36 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 26 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Robert Delatolla's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (44 papers), Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (29 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (25 papers). Robert Delatolla is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (44 papers), Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (29 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (25 papers). Robert Delatolla collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Robert Delatolla's co-authors include Kevin J. Kennedy, Alain Stintzi, Édith Laflamme, Patrick M. D’Aoust, Alain Gadbois, Élisabeth Mercier, Tyson E. Graber, Alex MacKenzie, Kevin Kennedy and Mark R. Servos and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Robert Delatolla

85 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Delatolla Canada 26 925 842 568 557 425 92 2.2k
Ryo Honda Japan 30 904 1.0× 597 0.7× 281 0.5× 563 1.0× 553 1.3× 132 2.6k
Lauren B. Stadler United States 24 1.2k 1.3× 418 0.5× 304 0.5× 601 1.1× 807 1.9× 67 2.6k
Paola Foladori Italy 28 1.2k 1.2× 339 0.4× 931 1.6× 388 0.7× 737 1.7× 65 2.7k
Sheena Kumari South Africa 32 1.2k 1.3× 299 0.4× 616 1.1× 962 1.7× 488 1.1× 146 3.8k
César R. Mota Brazil 22 453 0.5× 365 0.4× 362 0.6× 277 0.5× 276 0.6× 68 1.6k
Brooke K. Mayer United States 28 569 0.6× 351 0.4× 1.6k 2.8× 469 0.8× 1.3k 3.1× 87 3.3k
Francis L. de los Reyes United States 25 832 0.9× 149 0.2× 445 0.8× 387 0.7× 407 1.0× 101 2.2k
Naohiro Kishida Japan 15 955 1.0× 279 0.3× 520 0.9× 153 0.3× 494 1.2× 36 1.6k
Shelesh Agrawal Germany 17 1.1k 1.2× 224 0.3× 357 0.6× 163 0.3× 236 0.6× 35 1.5k
Daniel Gerrity United States 33 1.1k 1.2× 633 0.8× 972 1.7× 521 0.9× 1.5k 3.6× 87 3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Delatolla

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Delatolla

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Delatolla

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert Delatolla. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert Delatolla 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 Robert Delatolla. Robert Delatolla is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Mercier, Élisabeth, Edgard M. Mejia, Lawrence Goodridge, et al.. (2026). Wastewater surveillance to track a generational scale outbreak of measles in Ontario, Canada, February - November, 2025. medRxiv.
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Kabir, Md Pervez, Élisabeth Mercier, Julio Plaza‐Díaz, et al.. (2025). Diagnostic performance of allele-specific RT-qPCR and genomic sequencing in wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2. PubMed. 4(1). 100135–100135. 3 indexed citations
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Mercier, Élisabeth, Lakshmi Pisharody, Md Pervez Kabir, et al.. (2025). Detection of Measles Virus Genotype A in a Non-Endemic Wastewater Setting: Insights from Measles Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring in Canada’s Capital Region. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 12(2). 124–129. 6 indexed citations
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Kabir, Md Pervez, Julio Plaza‐Díaz, Élisabeth Mercier, et al.. (2025). Passive sampling for genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater resource recovery facility: Insights for pandemic preparedness. Water Research. 285. 124071–124071.
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Manuel, Douglas G., Ivan Lee, Mathew Thomson, et al.. (2024). Wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2: Short-term projection (forecasting), smoothing and outlier identification using Bayesian smoothing. The Science of The Total Environment. 949. 174937–174937.
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Mercier, Élisabeth, Patrick M. D’Aoust, Nada Hegazy, et al.. (2024). Sewer transport conditions and their role in the decay of endogenous SARS-CoV-2 and pepper mild mottle virus from source to collection. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 263. 114477–114477.
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Mercier, Élisabeth, Patrick M. D’Aoust, Md Pervez Kabir, et al.. (2024). Urban wastewater contains a functional human antibody repertoire of mucosal origin. Water Research. 267. 122532–122532. 2 indexed citations
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Fuzzen, Meghan, Nivetha Srikanthan, Leslie M. Bragg, et al.. (2023). An improved method for determining frequency of multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater using qPCR assays. The Science of The Total Environment. 881. 163292–163292. 6 indexed citations
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Hegazy, Nada, Xin Tian, Patrick M. D’Aoust, et al.. (2023). Impact of coagulation on SARS-CoV-2 and PMMoV viral signal in wastewater solids. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31(4). 5242–5253. 1 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Philip J., Nicole Acosta, Patrick M. D’Aoust, et al.. (2023). Realizing the value in “non-standard” parts of the qPCR standard curve by integrating fundamentals of quantitative microbiology. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1048661–1048661. 8 indexed citations
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Bonakdari, Hossein, Isa Ebtehaj, Farouq S. Mjalli, et al.. (2019). Predicting wastewater treatment plant quality parameters using a novel hybrid linear-nonlinear methodology. Journal of Environmental Management. 240. 463–474. 82 indexed citations
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Delatolla, Robert, et al.. (2017). Post carbon removal nitrifying MBBR operation at high loading and exposure to starvation conditions. Bioresource Technology. 239. 318–325. 13 indexed citations
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Kennedy, Kevin J., et al.. (2016). Thermophilic and hyper-thermophilic co-digestion of waste activated sludge and fat, oil and grease: Evaluating and modeling methane production. Journal of Environmental Management. 183(Pt 3). 551–561. 45 indexed citations
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Delatolla, Robert, et al.. (2015). Disinfection byproduct formation during biofiltration cycle: Implications for drinking water production. Chemosphere. 136. 190–197. 22 indexed citations
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Delatolla, Robert, et al.. (2015). Carrier effects on tertiary nitrifying moving bed biofilm reactor: An examination of performance, biofilm and biologically produced solids. Environmental Technology. 37(6). 662–671. 34 indexed citations
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Delatolla, Robert, Turki S. Abujamel, Walid Mottawea, et al.. (2013). Nitrifying moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) biofilm and biomass response to long term exposure to 1 °C. Water Research. 49. 215–224. 132 indexed citations
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Delatolla, Robert, Nathalie Tufenkji, Yves Comeau, et al.. (2012). Effects of Long Exposure to Low Temperatures on Nitrifying Biofilm and Biomass in Wastewater Treatment. Water Environment Research. 84(4). 328–338. 31 indexed citations

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