OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science & Technology is 121. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities	547
Origins of Electron-Transfer Regime in Persulfate-Based Nonradical Oxidation Processes	523
Unraveling the Overlooked Involvement of High-Valent Cobalt-Oxo Species Generated from the Cobalt(II)-Activated Peroxymonosulfate Process	349
A Critical Review on Thin-Film Nanocomposite Membranes with Interlayered Structure: Mechanisms, Recent Developments, and Environmental Applications	334
Biochar Aging: Mechanisms, Physicochemical Changes, Assessment, And Implications for Field Applications	303
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater Settled Solids Is Associated with COVID-19 Cases in a Large Urban Sewershed	296
Peroxymonosulfate Activation by Fe–Co–O-Codoped Graphite Carbon Nitride for Degradation of Sulfamethoxazole	294
Lifetime Accumulation of Microplastic in Children and Adults	287
Marine Plastic Debris: A New Surface for Microbial Colonization	286
Peroxydisulfate Activation and Singlet Oxygen Generation by Oxygen Vacancy for Degradation of Contaminants	279
Analysis of Microplastics in Human Feces Reveals a Correlation between Fecal Microplastics and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Status	278
Single-Atom Fe Catalyst Outperforms Its Homogeneous Counterpart for Activating Peroxymonosulfate to Achieve Effective Degradation of Organic Contaminants	273
Roles of Oxygen Vacancies in the Bulk and Surface of CeO₂ for Toluene Catalytic Combustion	268
Deep Dive into Plastic Monomers, Additives, and Processing Aids	268
Monthly Global Estimates of Fine Particulate Matter and Their Uncertainty	268
Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Nonradical Degradation of Organics: Critical Trigger of Oxygen (O₂) in the Fe–Co LDH/Peroxymonosulfate System	250
Enhanced Oxidation of Organic Contaminants by Iron(II)-Activated Periodate: The Significance of High-Valent Iron–Oxo Species	247
Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM_2.5 Retrievals from Multisource Data Fusion	237
Correlation of Active Sites to Generated Reactive Species and Degradation Routes of Organics in Peroxymonosulfate Activation by Co-Loaded Carbon	227
Which Micropollutants in Water Environments Deserve More Attention Globally?	226
Unraveling the High-Activity Origin of Single-Atom Iron Catalysts for Organic Pollutant Oxidation via Peroxymonosulfate Activation	224
Silicate-Enhanced Heterogeneous Flow-Through Electro-Fenton System Using Iron Oxides under Nanoconfinement	219
Facet Engineered α-MnO₂ for Efficient Catalytic Ozonation of Odor CH₃SH: Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Active Centers and Catalytic Mechanism	215
Efficient Removal of Organic Pollutants by Metal–organic Framework Derived Co/C Yolk–Shell Nanoreactors: Size-Exclusion and Confinement Effect	211
Influences of Chemical Properties, Soil Properties, and Solution pH on Soil–Water Partitioning Coefficients of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)	210

Mechanism of Heterogeneous Fenton Reaction Kinetics Enhancement under Nanoscale Spatial Confinement	208
Recent Progress of Thermocatalytic and Photo/Thermocatalytic Oxidation for VOCs Purification over Manganese-based Oxide Catalysts	208
Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)	207
Nonradical Oxidation of Pollutants with Single-Atom-Fe(III)-Activated Persulfate: Fe(V) Being the Possible Intermediate Oxidant	204
Cobalt Single Atoms on Tetrapyridomacrocyclic Support for Efficient Peroxymonosulfate Activation	204
Interaction of Microplastics with Antibiotics in Aquatic Environment: Distribution, Adsorption, and Toxicity	203
Effects of Molecular Structure on Organic Contaminants’ Degradation Efficiency and Dominant ROS in the Advanced Oxidation Process with Multiple ROS	202
Global Riverine Plastic Outflows	200
Boosting Toluene Combustion by Engineering Co–O Strength in Cobalt Oxide Catalysts	200
Persulfate Oxidation of Sulfamethoxazole by Magnetic Iron-Char Composites via Nonradical Pathways: Fe(IV) Versus Surface-Mediated Electron Transfer	198
Unveiling the Origins of Selective Oxidation in Single-Atom Catalysis via Co–N₄–C Intensified Radical and Nonradical Pathways	191
Thermal Activation of Peracetic Acid in Aquatic Solution: The Mechanism and Application to Degrade Sulfamethoxazole	186
Quality Criteria for Microplastic Effect Studies in the Context of Risk Assessment: A Critical Review	185
Fluorescence Signatures of Dissolved Organic Matter Leached from Microplastics: Polymers and Additives	184
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Facilitates the Detection of Microplastics <1 μm in the Environment	180
Differentiating Solutes with Precise Nanofiltration for Next Generation Environmental Separations: A Review	180
Detection and Analysis of Microplastics in Human Sputum	178
Revisiting the Graphitized Nanodiamond-Mediated Activation of Peroxymonosulfate: Singlet Oxygenation versus Electron Transfer	175
Are Fluoropolymers Really of Low Concern for Human and Environmental Health and Separate from Other PFAS?	175
Toward Selective Oxidation of Contaminants in Aqueous Systems	172
Detailed Analysis of the Composition of Selected Plastic Packaging Waste Products and Its Implications for Mechanical and Thermochemical Recycling	172
Atomically Dispersed Cobalt Sites on Graphene as Efficient Periodate Activators for Selective Organic Pollutant Degradation	171
Critical Review: Role of Inorganic Nanoparticle Properties on Their Foliar Uptake and in Planta Translocation	171
Interface Engineering of Co(OH)₂ Nanosheets Growing on the KNbO₃ Perovskite Based on Electronic Structure Modulation for Enhanced Peroxymonosulfate Activation	171
Synthetic Phenolic Antioxidants: A Review of Environmental Occurrence, Fate, Human Exposure, and Toxicity	170
Solving the Nonalignment of Methods and Approaches Used in Microplastic Research to Consistently Characterize Risk	170
High Abundances of Microplastic Pollution in Deep-Sea Sediments: Evidence from Antarctica and the Southern Ocean	170
Weathering Plastics as a Planetary Boundary Threat: Exposure, Fate, and Hazards	168
Prediction of Soil Heavy Metal Immobilization by Biochar Using Machine Learning	167
Aqueous Iron(IV)–Oxo Complex: An Emerging Powerful Reactive Oxidant Formed by Iron(II)-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes for Oxidative Water Treatment	166
Rational Regulation of Co–N–C Coordination for High-Efficiency Generation of ¹O₂ toward Nearly 100% Selective Degradation of Organic Pollutants	166
A New OECD Definition for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances	164
Toxic Cyanobacteria: A Growing Threat to Water and Air Quality	161
Membrane-Confined Iron Oxychloride Nanocatalysts for Highly Efficient Heterogeneous Fenton Water Treatment	156
Rapid Production of Micro- and Nanoplastics by Fragmentation of Expanded Polystyrene Exposed to Sunlight	156
Long-Term Fertilization History Alters Effects of Microplastics on Soil Properties, Microbial Communities, and Functions in Diverse Farmland Ecosystem	155
Different Pathways for Cr(III) Oxidation: Implications for Cr(VI) Reoccurrence in Reduced Chromite Ore Processing Residue	155
Insights into the Electron-Transfer Mechanism of Permanganate Activation by Graphite for Enhanced Oxidation of Sulfamethoxazole	155
Applied Machine Learning for Prediction of CO₂ Adsorption on Biomass Waste-Derived Porous Carbons	154
Nanoplastics Disturb Nitrogen Removal in Constructed Wetlands: Responses of Microbes and Macrophytes	154
Quantitative Analysis of Selected Plastics in High-Commercial-Value Australian Seafood by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry	154
Machine Learning: New Ideas and Tools in Environmental Science and Engineering	153
Duet Fe₃C and FeN_x Sites for H₂O₂ Generation and Activation toward Enhanced Electro-Fenton Performance in Wastewater Treatment	152
Data-Driven Machine Learning in Environmental Pollution: Gains and Problems	151
Capacitive Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Wastewater via an Electro-Adsorption and Electro-Reaction Coupling Process	151
Are Free Radicals the Primary Reactive Species in Co(II)-Mediated Activation of Peroxymonosulfate? New Evidence for the Role of the Co(II)–Peroxymonosulfate Complex	149
How Much of the Total Organic Halogen and Developmental Toxicity of Chlorinated Drinking Water Might Be Attributed to Aromatic Halogenated DBPs?	149
Methanobacterium Capable of Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer	149
Flow Electrode Capacitive Deionization (FCDI): Recent Developments, Environmental Applications, and Future Perspectives	147
Recent Advances in Sulfidated Zerovalent Iron for Contaminant Transformation	146

Reactivity of Chlorine Radicals (Cl^• and Cl₂^•–) with Dissolved Organic Matter and the Formation of Chlorinated Byproducts	146
Overlooked Role of Fe(IV) and Fe(V) in Organic Contaminant Oxidation by Fe(VI)	145
Widespread Occurrence of Pesticides in Organically Managed Agricultural Soils—the Ghost of a Conventional Agricultural Past?	145
Accelerated Fe²⁺ Regeneration in an Effective Electro-Fenton Process by Boosting Internal Electron Transfer to a Nitrogen-Conjugated Fe(III) Complex	145
Iron and Sulfur Precursors Affect Crystalline Structure, Speciation, and Reactivity of Sulfidized Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron	144
Mechanistic Insights into the Role of Polydopamine Interlayer toward Improved Separation Performance of Polyamide Nanofiltration Membranes	144
Temporal Dynamics of Antibiotic Resistome in the Plastisphere during Microbial Colonization	143
Dispersion Normalized PMF Provides Insights into the Significant Changes in Source Contributions to PM_2.5 after the COVID-19 Outbreak	142
Novel Nonradical Oxidation of Sulfonamide Antibiotics with Co(II)-Doped g-C₃N₄-Activated Peracetic Acid: Role of High-Valent Cobalt–Oxo Species	141
The Environmental Microbiology Minimum Information (EMMI) Guidelines: qPCR and dPCR Quality and Reporting for Environmental Microbiology	140
Fish Ingest Microplastics Unintentionally	140
Assessing the Use of Probes and Quenchers for Understanding the Reactive Species in Advanced Oxidation Processes	140
Multiple Roles of Dissolved Organic Matter in Advanced Oxidation Processes	139
From Hydrometeorology to River Water Quality: Can a Deep Learning Model Predict Dissolved Oxygen at the Continental Scale?	139
Tracking PM_2.5 and O₃ Pollution and the Related Health Burden in China 2013–2020	139
Mn₂O₃ as an Electron Shuttle between Peroxymonosulfate and Organic Pollutants: The Dominant Role of Surface Reactive Mn(IV) Species	138
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Breast Milk: Concerning Trends for Current-Use PFAS	137
Multipollutant Control (MPC) of Flue Gas from Stationary Sources Using SCR Technology: A Critical Review	136
Nitrogen Vacancy-Modulated Peroxymonosulfate Nonradical Activation for Organic Contaminant Removal via High-Valent Cobalt-Oxo Species	135
Facing the Challenge of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Water: Is Electrochemical Oxidation the Answer?	134
High-Capacity Amidoxime-Functionalized β-Cyclodextrin/Graphene Aerogel for Selective Uranium Capture	132
Estimating Spatiotemporal Variation in Ambient Ozone Exposure during 2013–2017 Using a Data-Fusion Model	132
Effects of Different Microplastics on Nematodes in the Soil Environment: Tracking the Extractable Additives Using an Ecotoxicological Approach	131
Degradation of Organic Contaminants in the Fe(II)/Peroxymonosulfate Process under Acidic Conditions: The Overlooked Rapid Oxidation Stage	131
Evidence of Microplastic Translocation in Wild-Caught Fish and Implications for Microplastic Accumulation Dynamics in Food Webs	130
High-Efficiency Electrocatalysis of Molecular Oxygen toward Hydroxyl Radicals Enabled by an Atomically Dispersed Iron Catalyst	129
New Evidence of Rubber-Derived Quinones in Water, Air, and Soil	128
Critical Impact of Nitrogen Vacancies in Nonradical Carbocatalysis on Nitrogen-Doped Graphitic Biochar	128
An Ensemble Learning Approach for Estimating High Spatiotemporal Resolution of Ground-Level Ozone in the Contiguous United States	127
Microplastics Reduce Lipid Digestion in Simulated Human Gastrointestinal System	126
Binderless and Oxygen Vacancies Rich FeNi/Graphitized Mesoporous Carbon/Ni Foam for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate	126
Ultrahigh Peroxymonosulfate Utilization Efficiency over CuO Nanosheets via Heterogeneous Cu(III) Formation and Preferential Electron Transfer during Degradation of Phenols	126
First Direct and Unequivocal Electron Spin Resonance Spin-Trapping Evidence for pH-Dependent Production of Hydroxyl Radicals from Sulfate Radicals	125
Biofilms Enhance the Adsorption of Toxic Contaminants on Plastic Microfibers under Environmentally Relevant Conditions	125
A Review of Road Traffic-Derived Non-Exhaust Particles: Emissions, Physicochemical Characteristics, Health Risks, and Mitigation Measures	125
Concentrations of Tire Additive Chemicals and Tire Road Wear Particles in an Australian Urban Tributary	124
Challenges in Measuring the Recovery of SARS-CoV-2 from Wastewater	124
Assessment of the UV/Chlorine Process in the Disinfection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Efficiency and Mechanism	124
Integrating Biochar, Bacteria, and Plants for Sustainable Remediation of Soils Contaminated with Organic Pollutants	123
Spatial Trends of Anionic, Zwitterionic, and Cationic PFASs at an AFFF-Impacted Site	123
pH-Independent Production of Hydroxyl Radical from Atomic H*-Mediated Electrocatalytic H₂O₂ Reduction: A Green Fenton Process without Byproducts	122
A Critical Review of Membrane Wettability in Membrane Distillation from the Perspective of Interfacial Interactions	122
A 20-Year Journey of Partial Nitritation and Anammox (PN/A): from Sidestream toward Mainstream	122
Infiltration Behavior of Microplastic Particles with Different Densities, Sizes, and Shapes—From Glass Spheres to Natural Sediments	121
Selective Degradation of Electron-Rich Organic Pollutants Induced by CuO@Biochar: The Key Role of Outer-Sphere Interaction and Singlet Oxygen	121
Ambient Atmospheric Deposition of Anthropogenic Microfibers and Microplastics on the Western Periphery of Europe (Ireland)	121