Sergio Ponsá

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Sergio Ponsá is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Soil Science and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergio Ponsá has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 17 papers in Soil Science and 15 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Sergio Ponsá's work include Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques (14 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (10 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (10 papers). Sergio Ponsá is often cited by papers focused on Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques (14 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (10 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (10 papers). Sergio Ponsá collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Portugal. Sergio Ponsá's co-authors include Antoni Sánchez, Teresa Gea, Joan Colón, Felícitas Vázquez, Xavier Font, Ivet Ferrer, Evina Katsou, Peyo Stanchev, Renata Krzyżyńska and Hussam Jouhara and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Sergio Ponsá

59 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Municipal solid waste management and waste-to-energy in the context of a circular economy and energy recycling in Europe

2017 674 citations Joan Colón, Sergio Ponsá et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sergio Ponsá Spain	26	1.0k	753	594	493	406	63	2.6k
Giuliana D’Imporzano Italy	33	1.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.8×	653 1.1×	809 1.6×	480 1.2×	61	3.3k
Dezhi Shi China	32	1.0k 1.0×	861 1.1×	868 1.5×	701 1.4×	574 1.4×	78	3.5k
Thrassyvoulos Manios Greece	30	1.3k 1.3×	559 0.7×	627 1.1×	466 0.9×	575 1.4×	121	3.5k
Joan Colón Spain	26	1.3k 1.3×	444 0.6×	551 0.9×	450 0.9×	458 1.1×	48	3.0k
Jacek Dach Poland	30	884 0.9×	785 1.0×	496 0.8×	527 1.1×	811 2.0×	166	3.0k
Céline Vaneeckhaute Canada	26	1.1k 1.1×	459 0.6×	543 0.9×	386 0.8×	270 0.7×	75	2.5k
Junting Pan China	37	921 0.9×	1000 1.3×	848 1.4×	900 1.8×	959 2.4×	132	4.2k
Azeem Khalid Pakistan	25	421 0.4×	676 0.9×	619 1.0×	547 1.1×	306 0.8×	80	3.0k
Fabrice Béline France	33	989 1.0×	840 1.1×	1.2k 2.0×	330 0.7×	235 0.6×	87	2.9k
Surendra Sarsaiya China	32	753 0.7×	471 0.6×	849 1.4×	1.2k 2.3×	329 0.8×	87	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergio Ponsá

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20 of 20 papers shown

López‐Doval, Julio C., Sergio Ponsá, Victòria Salvadó, et al.. (2025). Improving small urban wastewater treatment plants with a nature-based reactor for tertiary treatment. Journal of Environmental Management. 393. 126983–126983.

Longoni, Annachiara, Sergio Ponsá, Cristina Sancha, Vicenta Sierra, & Frank Wiengarten. (2024). Exploring the Implications of Working Conditions for Corporate Sustainability in Last-Mile Delivery Platform Companies. Journal of Business Ethics. 199(3). 627–651.

López‐Doval, Julio C., Sergio Ponsá, Victòria Salvadó, et al.. (2024). Nature-based bioreactors: Tackling antibiotic resistance in urban wastewater treatment. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology. 22. 100445–100445. 8 indexed citations

Mauricio, Óscar, et al.. (2024). Novel biostimulant bacterial exopolysaccharides production via solid-state fermentation as a valorisation strategy for agri-food waste. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 32(48). 27902–27914. 2 indexed citations

Paredes, Lidia, et al.. (2023). A Novel Hybrid Membrane Process Coupled with Freeze Concentration for Phosphorus Recovery from Cheese Whey. Membranes. 13(4). 450–450. 3 indexed citations

Ponsá, Sergio, et al.. (2023). Life cycle assessment of bio-based fertilizers production systems: where are we and where should we be heading?. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 28(6). 626–650. 16 indexed citations

Maresma, Ángel, Evan A.N. Marks, Carlos E. Ortíz, et al.. (2022). Nitrogen fertilization with pig slurry in a barley-sorghum double-annual forage cropping system. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 124(3). 373–388. 1 indexed citations

Mauricio, Óscar, Laia Llenas, & Sergio Ponsá. (2021). Sustainable polyhydroxyalkanoates production via solid-state fermentation: Influence of the operational parameters and scaling up of the process. Food and Bioproducts Processing. 132. 13–22. 19 indexed citations

Mauricio, Óscar, Elisabet Marti, Dan Kučera, et al.. (2021). Brewer’s spent grain as a no-cost substrate for polyhydroxyalkanoates production: Assessment of pretreatment strategies and different bacterial strains. New Biotechnology. 62. 60–67. 29 indexed citations

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Abril, Meritxell, et al.. (2021). Driving Factors of Geosmin Appearance in a Mediterranean River Basin: The Ter River Case. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 741750–741750. 6 indexed citations

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Colón, Joan, et al.. (2021). Biomass fuel production from cellulosic sludge through biodrying: Aeration strategies, quality of end-products, gaseous emissions and techno-economic assessment. Waste Management. 126. 487–496. 14 indexed citations

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Mauricio, Óscar, et al.. (2020). Brewer’s spent grain biotransformation to produce lignocellulolytic enzymes and polyhydroxyalkanoates in a two-stage valorization scheme. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. 12(9). 3921–3932. 32 indexed citations

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Llenas, Laia, et al.. (2020). Effects of an hypersaline effluent from an abandoned potash mine on freshwater biofilm and diatom communities. Aquatic Toxicology. 230. 105707–105707. 11 indexed citations

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Méndez, Daniel Alexander, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of Pre-treatments of Brewery’s Spent Grain for Growing Bacteria in the Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoates. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7 indexed citations

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Colón, Joan, et al.. (2017). Analysis of MSW full-scale facilities based on anaerobic digestion and/or composting using respiration indices as performance indicators. Bioresource Technology. 236. 87–96. 25 indexed citations

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Cañedo‐Argüelles, Miguel, et al.. (2017). Effects of potash mining on river ecosystems: An experimental study. Environmental Pollution. 224. 759–770. 39 indexed citations

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Ponsá, Sergio. (2010). Different indices to express biodegradability in organic solid wastes. Application to full scale waste treatment plants. TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa). 2 indexed citations

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Ponsá, Sergio, Teresa Gea, & Antoni Sánchez. (2009). The effect of storage and mechanical pretreatment on the biological stability of municipal solid wastes. Waste Management. 30(3). 441–445. 32 indexed citations

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Barrena, Raquel, Giuliana D’Imporzano, Sergio Ponsá, et al.. (2008). In search of a reliable technique for the determination of the biological stability of the organic matter in the mechanical–biological treated waste. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 162(2-3). 1065–1072. 115 indexed citations

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Ponsá, Sergio, et al.. (2008). Comparison of aerobic and anaerobic stability indices through a MSW biological treatment process. Waste Management. 28(12). 2735–2742. 108 indexed citations

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