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Yong Sik Ok

Yong Sik Ok

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2025
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Chemistry
Korea
2026

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National Ranking
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Chemistry

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169
Citations
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184
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8
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1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Yong Sik Ok is affiliated with Korea University in South Korea and has an extensive publication record primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics focused on pollution, waste management, and environmental remediation technologies.

The scientist's notable recent papers include:

  • Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality (2021) published in The Innovation
  • Metal contamination and bioremediation of agricultural soils for food safety and sustainability (2020) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • How biochar works, and when it doesn't: A review of mechanisms controlling soil and plant responses to biochar (2021) published in GCB Bioenergy
  • Biochar technology in wastewater treatment: A critical review (2020) published in Chemosphere
  • Microplastics as pollutants in agricultural soils (2020) published in Environmental Pollution

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel C.W. Tsang
  • Jörg Rinklebe
  • Xiangzhou Yuan
  • Deyi Hou
  • Pavani Dulanja Dissanayake

Yong Sik Ok frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Bioresource Technology
  • Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
  • Environmental Research

Their main fields of study are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

Key subfields addressed include:

  • Pollution
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Materials Chemistry

Main research topics focused on by Yong Sik Ok are:

  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies

Best Publications

  • Biochar as a sorbent for contaminant management in soil and water: a review.

    Mahtab Ahmad;Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha;Jung Eun Lim;Ming Zhang

  • Organic and inorganic contaminants removal from water with biochar, a renewable, low cost and sustainable adsorbent--a critical review.

    Dinesh Mohan;Ankur Sarswat;Yong Sik Ok;Charles U. Pittman

  • Occurrences and removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in drinking water and water/sewage treatment plants: A review

    Yi Yang;Yong Sik Ok;Ki Hyun Kim;Eilhann E. Kwon

  • Effects of pyrolysis temperature on soybean stover- and peanut shell-derived biochar properties and TCE adsorption in water.

    Mahtab Ahmad;Sang Soo Lee;Xiaomin Dou;Dinesh Mohan

  • Surface functional groups of carbon-based adsorbents and their roles in the removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions: A critical review.

    Xiaodong Yang;Yongshan Wan;Yulin Zheng;Feng He

  • A review of biochar as a low-cost adsorbent for aqueous heavy metal removal

    Mandu I. Inyang;Bin Gao;Ying Yao;Yingwen Xue

  • Engineered/designer biochar for contaminant removal/immobilization from soil and water: Potential and implication of biochar modification

    Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha;Season S. Chen;Daniel C.W. Tsang;Ming Zhang

  • Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality

    Fang Wang;Jean Damascene Harindintwali;Zhizhang Yuan;Zhizhang Yuan;Min Wang

  • Soil amendments for immobilization of potentially toxic elements in contaminated soils: A critical review.

    Kumuduni Niroshika Palansooriya;Sabry M. Shaheen;Sabry M. Shaheen;Sabry M. Shaheen;Season S. Chen;Daniel C.W. Tsang

  • Review on nano zerovalent iron (nZVI): From synthesis to environmental applications

    Magdalena Stefaniuk;Patryk Oleszczuk;Yong Sik Ok

  • Metal contamination and bioremediation of agricultural soils for food safety and sustainability

    Deyi Hou;David O’Connor;Avanthi D. Igalavithana;Daniel S. Alessi

  • Biochar application to low fertility soils: A review of current status, and future prospects

    Ali El-Naggar;Ali El-Naggar;Sang Soo Lee;Jörg Rinklebe;Jörg Rinklebe;Muhammad Farooq;Muhammad Farooq

  • How biochar works, and when it doesn't: A review of mechanisms controlling soil and plant responses to biochar

    Stephen Joseph;Annette L. Cowie;Annette L. Cowie;Lukas Van Zwieten;Lukas Van Zwieten;Nanthi Bolan;Nanthi Bolan

  • Trace elements in the soil-plant interface: Phytoavailability, translocation, and phytoremediation–A review

    Vasileios Antoniadis;Efi Levizou;Sabry M. Shaheen;Sabry M. Shaheen;Yong Sik Ok;Yong Sik Ok

  • Biochar technology in wastewater treatment: A critical review.

    Wei Xiang;Xueyang Zhang;Xueyang Zhang;Jianjun Chen;Weixin Zou

  • Waste-derived biochar for water pollution control and sustainable development

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  • Response of microbial communities to biochar-amended soils: a critical review

    Kumuduni Niroshika Palansooriya;James Tsz Fung Wong;Yohey Hashimoto;Longbin Huang

  • Cadmium stress in rice: toxic effects, tolerance mechanisms, and management: a critical review.

    Muhammad Rizwan;Shafaqat Ali;Muhammad Adrees;Hina Rizvi

  • Microplastics as pollutants in agricultural soils

    Manish Kumar;Xinni Xiong;Mingjing He;Daniel C.W. Tsang

  • Effect of bamboo and rice straw biochars on the mobility and redistribution of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn) in contaminated soil.

    Kouping Lu;Xing Yang;Gerty Gielen;Nanthi Bolan

  • Competitive adsorption of heavy metals onto sesame straw biochar in aqueous solutions.

    Jong Hwan Park;Yong Sik Ok;Seong Heon Kim;Ju Sik Cho

  • Minireview of potential applications of hydrochar derived from hydrothermal carbonization of biomass

    June Fang;Lu Zhan;Lu Zhan;Yong Sik Ok;Bin Gao

  • Cadmium minimization in wheat: A critical review

    Muhammad Rizwan;Shafaqat Ali;Tahir Abbas;Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C.W. Tsang
Daniel C.W. Tsang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jörg Rinklebe
Jörg Rinklebe University of Wuppertal
Sang Soo Lee
Sang Soo Lee Yonsei University
Nanthi Bolan
Nanthi Bolan University of Western Australia
Meththika Vithanage
Meththika Vithanage University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Mahtab Ahmad
Mahtab Ahmad Quaid-i-Azam University
Hailong Wang
Hailong Wang Foshan University
Eilhann E. Kwon
Eilhann E. Kwon Hanyang University
Adel R.A. Usman
Adel R.A. Usman Assiut University
Sabry M. Shaheen
Sabry M. Shaheen Kafrelsheikh University

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