Professor Tong Zhang from the Department of Civil Engineering has been awarded the first joint winner in the category “Environmental Science” in the 2023 Environmental Science and Technology Best Paper Award. The award recognizes the outstanding publication titled "Toward a Universal Unit for Quantification of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Environmental Samples " in Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) (Volume 57: 9713–9721). This paper has been very well cited with over 59 citations (based on Google Scholar Citations) since its publication in June 13, 2023.
More about the award: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c12812
Details of the awarded paper:
Toward a Universal Unit for Quantification of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Environmental Samples
Published in Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) (Volume 57: 9713–9721)