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Yaobin Zhang publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yaobin Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 225 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Yaobin Zhang D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yaobin Zhang sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in China Leader Award

Overview

Yaobin Zhang is a researcher affiliated with the Dalian University of Technology in China. Their primary research contributions span environmental science and engineering, with a significant focus on environmental engineering as a subfield. The research work encompasses critical topics such as microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, membrane separation technologies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, advanced oxidation water treatment, and water treatment and disinfection.

Research publications by Yaobin Zhang have appeared in several well-known scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include Water Research, Chemical Engineering Journal, SSRN Electronic Journal, Bioresource Technology, and the Journal of Hazardous Materials. These venues highlight the scientist's engagement with environmental and chemical engineering communities.

Among recent notable papers are:

  • Magnetite-contained biochar derived from fenton sludge modulated electron transfer of microorganisms in anaerobic digestion, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Sparking Anaerobic Digestion: Promoting Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer to Enhance Methane Production, 2020, iScience
  • Fe3O4 accelerates tetracycline degradation during anaerobic digestion: Synergistic role of adsorption and microbial metabolism, 2020, Water Research
  • Enhancing anaerobic digestion of kitchen wastes with biochar: Link between different properties and critical mechanisms of promoting interspecies electron transfer, 2020, Renewable Energy
  • The bio-chemical cycle of iron and the function induced by ZVI addition in anaerobic digestion: A review, 2020, Water Research

Yaobin Zhang has collaborated frequently with several researchers throughout their career. Prominent coauthors include Zhiqiang Zhao, Qilin Yu, Lianfu Liang, Cheng Sun, and Zhenxin Wang.

The scientist's research focuses largely on anaerobic digestion processes and biogas production, examining mechanisms such as electron transfer influenced by biochar and mineral additives. These studies contribute to understanding microbial interactions and chemical processes within environmental systems aimed at improving waste treatment and renewable energy generation. Additional work covers water science and technologies relevant to pollution control and membrane separation methods.

Best Publications

  • Enhanced anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge digestion by the addition of zero valent iron

    Yinghong Feng;Yaobin Zhang;Xie Quan;Suo Chen

  • Facile Ammonia Synthesis from Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction under Ambient Conditions on N-Doped Porous Carbon

    Yanming Liu;Yan Su;Xie Quan;Xinfei Fan

  • Enhanced activation of peroxymonosulfate by nitrogen doped porous carbon for effective removal of organic pollutants

    Guanlong Wang;Shuo Chen;Xie Quan;Hongtao Yu

  • Fabrication of atomic single layer graphitic-C3N4 and its high performance of photocatalytic disinfection under visible light irradiation

    Huanxin Zhao;Hongtao Yu;Xie Quan;Shuo Chen

  • Enhanced Fenton-like catalysis by iron-based metal organic frameworks for degradation of organic pollutants

    Cong Gao;Shuo Chen;Xie Quan;Hongtao Yu

  • Enhancing anaerobic digestion of complex organic waste with carbon-based conductive materials.

    Yan Dang;Yan Dang;Dawn E. Holmes;Zhiqiang Zhao;Trevor L. Woodard

  • Enhancing syntrophic metabolism in up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors with conductive carbon materials

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Yaobin Zhang;T.L. Woodard;K.P. Nevin

  • Uncovering the Key Role of the Fermi Level of the Electron Mediator in a Z-Scheme Photocatalyst by Detecting the Charge Transfer Process of WO3-metal-gC3N4 (Metal = Cu, Ag, Au).

    Houfen Li;Hongtao Yu;Xie Quan;Shuo Chen

  • Insights into the fate and removal of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes using biological wastewater treatment technology

    Ting-ting Zhu;Zhong-xian Su;Wen-xia Lai;Yao-bin Zhang

  • Adding granular activated carbon into anaerobic sludge digestion to promote methane production and sludge decomposition

    Yafei Yang;Yaobin Zhang;Zeyu Li;Zhiqiang Zhao

  • Enhanced oxidation of 4-chlorophenol using sulfate radicals generated from zero-valent iron and peroxydisulfate at ambient temperature

    Jinying Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Xie Quan;Shuo Chen

  • Towards engineering application: Potential mechanism for enhancing anaerobic digestion of complex organic waste with different types of conductive materials

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Yang Li;Xie Quan;Yaobin Zhang

  • Selective Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Ethanol on a Boron- and Nitrogen-Co-doped Nanodiamond

    Yanming Liu;Yujing Zhang;Kai Cheng;Xie Quan

  • Communities stimulated with ethanol to perform direct interspecies electron transfer for syntrophic metabolism of propionate and butyrate

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Qilin Yu;Yan Dang

  • Potential enhancement of direct interspecies electron transfer for syntrophic metabolism of propionate and butyrate with biochar in up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors.

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Yaobin Zhang;Dawn E. Holmes;Yan Dang

  • Why do DIETers like drinking: Metagenomic analysis for methane and energy metabolism during anaerobic digestion with ethanol

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Jianfeng Wang;Yang Li;Tingting Zhu

  • Efficient Mineralization of Perfluorooctanoate by Electro-Fenton with H2O2 Electro-generated on Hierarchically Porous Carbon

    Yanming Liu;Shuo Chen;Xie Quan;Hongtao Yu

  • Enhanced production of methane from waste activated sludge by the combination of high-solid anaerobic digestion and microbial electrolysis cell with iron–graphite electrode

    Yinghong Feng;Yaobin Zhang;Shuo Chen;Xie Quan

  • Comparing the mechanisms of ZVI and Fe3O4 for promoting waste-activated sludge digestion.

    Zisheng Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Yang Li;Xie Quan

  • Ferroferric oxide triggered possible direct interspecies electron transfer between Syntrophomonas and Methanosaeta to enhance waste activated sludge anaerobic digestion

    Zisheng Zhao;Yang Li;Qilin Yu;Yaobin Zhang

  • Potentially shifting from interspecies hydrogen transfer to direct interspecies electron transfer for syntrophic metabolism to resist acidic impact with conductive carbon cloth

    Zhiqiang Zhao;Yaobin Zhang;Yang Li;Yan Dang;Yan Dang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xie Quan
Xie Quan Dalian University of Technology
Shuo Chen
Shuo Chen Dalian University of Technology
Yiwen Liu
Yiwen Liu University of Technology Sydney
Huimin Zhao
Huimin Zhao University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xinyong Li
Xinyong Li Dalian University of Technology
Derek R. Lovley
Derek R. Lovley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cheng Sun
Cheng Sun Northwestern University
Fenglin Yang
Fenglin Yang Dalian University of Technology
Bing-Jie Ni
Bing-Jie Ni University of New South Wales
Dawn E. Holmes
Dawn E. Holmes Western New England University

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