| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Chemical and biological treatment technologies for leather tannery chemicals and wastewaters: A review | Science of the Total Environment | 2013 | 393 |
| 2 | A review of anaerobic membrane bioreactors for municipal wastewater treatment: Integration options, limitations and expectations | Separation and Purification Technology | 2013 | 315 |
| 3 | A review on dynamic membrane filtration: Materials, applications and future perspectives | Bioresource Technology | 2012 | 305 |
| 4 | Color and COD removal from wastewater containing Reactive Black 5 using Fenton’s oxidation process | Chemosphere | 2004 | 271 |
| 5 | Ozonation of hydrolyzed azo dye reactive yellow 84 (CI) | Chemosphere | 2002 | 241 |
| 6 | Potentials of anaerobic membrane bioreactors to overcome treatment limitations induced by industrial wastewaters | Bioresource Technology | 2012 | 217 |
| 7 | Desalination of produced water from oil production fields by membrane processes | Desalination | 2008 | 187 |
| 8 | Chronic impact of tetracycline on the biodegradation of an organic substrate mixture under anaerobic conditions | Water Research | 2013 | 176 |
| 9 | Complexing agent and heavy metal removals from metal plating effluent by electrocoagulation with stainless steel electrodes | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2009 | 152 |
| 10 | Development of antibiotic resistance genes in microbial communities during long-term operation of anaerobic reactors in the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater | Water Research | 2015 | 150 |
| 11 | Adsorption mechanism of cationic surfactants onto acid- and heat-activated sepiolites | Water Research | 2002 | 147 |
| 12 | Size distribution of wastewater COD fractions as an index for biodegradability | Water Research | 2006 | 133 |
| 13 | Effect of low dissolved oxygen on simultaneous nitrification and denitrification in a membrane bioreactor treating black water | Bioresource Technology | 2011 | 127 |
| 14 | Characterization and COD fractionation of domestic wastewaters | Environmental Pollution | 1997 | 112 |
| 15 | Ammonium removal from sanitary landfill leachate using natural Gördes clinoptilolite | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2008 | 112 |
| 16 | Water Consumption Prediction of Istanbul City by Using Fuzzy Logic Approach | Water Resources Management | 2005 | 109 |
| 17 | COD Fractionation in Wastewater Characterization—The State of the Art | Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology | 1997 | 105 |
| 18 | Application of real-time PCR to determination of combined effect of antibiotics on Bacteria, Methanogenic Archaea, Archaea in anaerobic sequencing batch reactors | Water Research | 2015 | 105 |
| 19 | Analysis, occurrence and fate of commonly used pharmaceuticals and hormones in the Buyukcekmece Watershed, Turkey | Chemosphere | 2013 | 103 |
| 20 | Towards sustainable and energy efficient municipal wastewater treatment by up-concentration of organics | Progress in Energy and Combustion Science | 2019 | 103 |
| 21 | Reconstruction of bacterial community structure and variation for enhanced petroleum hydrocarbons degradation through biostimulation of oil contaminated soil | Chemical Engineering Journal | 2016 | 101 |
| 22 | Combined effect of erythromycin, tetracycline and sulfamethoxazole on performance of anaerobic sequencing batch reactors | Bioresource Technology | 2015 | 100 |
| 23 | COD fractionation of tannery wastewaters—Particle size distribution, biodegradability and modeling | Water Research | 2008 | 97 |
| 24 | Anaerobic sulfamethoxazole degradation is driven by homoacetogenesis coupled with hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis | Water Research | 2016 | 94 |
| 25 | Color removal from textile wastewaters | Water Science and Technology | 1996 | 94 |
| 26 | Nitrogen removal from tannery wastewater by protein recovery | Water Science and Technology | 2003 | 85 |
| 27 | Toxicity evaluation and source apportionment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) at three stations in Istanbul, Turkey | Science of the Total Environment | 2014 | 85 |
| 28 | Biodegradation and reversible inhibitory impact of sulfamethoxazole on the utilization of volatile fatty acids during anaerobic treatment of pharmaceutical industry wastewater | Science of the Total Environment | 2015 | 85 |
| 29 | Evaluation of microbial population and functional genes during the bioremediation of petroleum-contaminated soil as an effective monitoring approach | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 2016 | 85 |
| 30 | PCB and PCDD/F in sediments and mussels of the Istanbul strait (Turkey) | Chemosphere | 2009 | 82 |
| 31 | Identification and modelling of aerobic hydrolysis - application of optimal experimental design | Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology | 2003 | 77 |
| 32 | Color removal from textile dyebath effluents in a zeolite fixed bed reactor: Determination of optimum process conditions using Taguchi method | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2008 | 75 |
| 33 | High temperature pyrolysis of sewage sludge as a sustainable process for energy recovery | Waste Management | 2018 | 73 |
| 34 | Interfacially polymerized thin-film composite membranes: Impact of support layer pore size on active layer polymerization and seawater desalination performance | Separation and Purification Technology | 2019 | 73 |
| 35 | Acute impact of erythromycin and tetracycline on the kinetics of nitrification and organic carbon removal in mixed microbial culture | Bioresource Technology | 2013 | 69 |
| 36 | The mechanism and design of sequencing batch reactor systems for nutrient removal - the state of the art | Water Science and Technology | 2001 | 68 |
| 37 | Effect of maize silage addition on biomethane recovery from mesophilic co-digestion of chicken and cattle manure to suppress ammonia inhibition | Energy Conversion and Management | 2013 | 68 |
| 38 | Effects of high-concentration influent suspended solids on aerobic granulation in pilot-scale sequencing batch reactors treating real domestic wastewater | Water Research | 2018 | 68 |
| 39 | Influence of pH and temperature on soluble substrate generation with primary sludge fermentation | Bioresource Technology | 2009 | 66 |
| 40 | S2O82−/UV-C and H2O2/UV-C treatment of Bisphenol A: Assessment of toxicity, estrogenic activity, degradation products and results in real water | Chemosphere | 2015 | 66 |
| 41 | Evaluating the impact of climate change on groundwater resources in a small Mediterranean watershed | Science of the Total Environment | 2014 | 65 |
| 42 | Fuzzy logic modeling of the dissolved oxygen fluctuations in Golden Horn | Ecological Modelling | 2005 | 64 |
| 43 | Effluent quality and reuse potential of domestic wastewater treated in a pilot-scale hybrid constructed wetland system | Journal of Environmental Management | 2015 | 64 |
| 44 | Treatment of wastewater by natural systems | Environment International | 2001 | 63 |
| 45 | Evaluation of the performance of the Tyson Foods wastewater treatment plant for nitrogen removal | Water Science and Technology | 2005 | 62 |
| 46 | Modeling the utilization of starch by activated sludge for simultaneous substrate storage and microbial growth | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 2006 | 62 |
| 47 | Effect of sludge age on simultaneous nitrification and denitrification in membrane bioreactor | Bioresource Technology | 2011 | 61 |
| 48 | Inhibitory effects of antibiotic combinations on syntrophic bacteria, homoacetogens and methanogens | Chemosphere | 2015 | 61 |
| 49 | Acute inhibitory impact of antimicrobials on acetoclastic methanogenic activity | Bioresource Technology | 2012 | 60 |
| 50 | Ammonia removal by magnesium ammonium phosphate precipitation in industrial wastewaters | Water Science and Technology | 1997 | 58 |
