OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science & Technology is 118. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 Pandemic Repercussions on the Use and Management of Plastics	641
The Intrinsic Nature of Persulfate Activation and N-Doping in Carbocatalysis	538
Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities	471
Origins of Electron-Transfer Regime in Persulfate-Based Nonradical Oxidation Processes	450
Global Estimates and Long-Term Trends of Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations (1998–2018)	434
2D N-Doped Porous Carbon Derived from Polydopamine-Coated Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Efficient Nonradical Activation of Peroxymonosulfate	317
Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19	316
Unraveling the Overlooked Involvement of High-Valent Cobalt-Oxo Species Generated from the Cobalt(II)-Activated Peroxymonosulfate Process	312
A Critical Review on Thin-Film Nanocomposite Membranes with Interlayered Structure: Mechanisms, Recent Developments, and Environmental Applications	312
Potential Difference Driving Electron Transfer via Defective Carbon Nanotubes toward Selective Oxidation of Organic Micropollutants	290
Reactive Oxygen Species and Catalytic Active Sites in Heterogeneous Catalytic Ozonation for Water Purification	287
Peroxymonosulfate Activation by Fe–Co–O-Codoped Graphite Carbon Nitride for Degradation of Sulfamethoxazole	276
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater Settled Solids Is Associated with COVID-19 Cases in a Large Urban Sewershed	275
Biochar Aging: Mechanisms, Physicochemical Changes, Assessment, And Implications for Field Applications	272
Marine Plastic Debris: A New Surface for Microbial Colonization	258
Peroxydisulfate Activation and Singlet Oxygen Generation by Oxygen Vacancy for Degradation of Contaminants	253
Single-Atom Fe Catalyst Outperforms Its Homogeneous Counterpart for Activating Peroxymonosulfate to Achieve Effective Degradation of Organic Contaminants	246
Effects of Microplastic Fibers and Drought on Plant Communities	243
Lifetime Accumulation of Microplastic in Children and Adults	235
Roles of Oxygen Vacancies in the Bulk and Surface of CeO₂ for Toluene Catalytic Combustion	232
Deep Dive into Plastic Monomers, Additives, and Processing Aids	228
Understanding and Improving Microplastic Removal during Water Treatment: Impact of Coagulation and Flocculation	223
Analysis of Microplastics in Human Feces Reveals a Correlation between Fecal Microplastics and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Status	221
Monthly Global Estimates of Fine Particulate Matter and Their Uncertainty	218
Molecular Insights into Extracellular Polymeric Substances in Activated Sludge	215

Microplastic Fallout in Different Indoor Environments	214
Enhanced Oxidation of Organic Contaminants by Iron(II)-Activated Periodate: The Significance of High-Valent Iron–Oxo Species	211
Nanoconfinement-Mediated Water Treatment: From Fundamental to Application	209
Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM_2.5 Retrievals from Multisource Data Fusion	205
Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Nonradical Degradation of Organics: Critical Trigger of Oxygen (O₂) in the Fe–Co LDH/Peroxymonosulfate System	204
Unraveling the High-Activity Origin of Single-Atom Iron Catalysts for Organic Pollutant Oxidation via Peroxymonosulfate Activation	199
Facet Engineered α-MnO₂ for Efficient Catalytic Ozonation of Odor CH₃SH: Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Active Centers and Catalytic Mechanism	197
Silicate-Enhanced Heterogeneous Flow-Through Electro-Fenton System Using Iron Oxides under Nanoconfinement	194
Efficient Removal of Organic Pollutants by Metal–organic Framework Derived Co/C Yolk–Shell Nanoreactors: Size-Exclusion and Confinement Effect	193
Correlation of Active Sites to Generated Reactive Species and Degradation Routes of Organics in Peroxymonosulfate Activation by Co-Loaded Carbon	192
Nonradical Oxidation of Pollutants with Single-Atom-Fe(III)-Activated Persulfate: Fe(V) Being the Possible Intermediate Oxidant	192
Hydrochar-Facilitated Anaerobic Digestion: Evidence for Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer Mediated through Surface Oxygen-Containing Functional Groups	190
Mechanism of Heterogeneous Fenton Reaction Kinetics Enhancement under Nanoscale Spatial Confinement	189
Cobalt Single Atoms on Tetrapyridomacrocyclic Support for Efficient Peroxymonosulfate Activation	187
Recent Progress of Thermocatalytic and Photo/Thermocatalytic Oxidation for VOCs Purification over Manganese-based Oxide Catalysts	186
Which Micropollutants in Water Environments Deserve More Attention Globally?	181
Persulfate Oxidation of Sulfamethoxazole by Magnetic Iron-Char Composites via Nonradical Pathways: Fe(IV) Versus Surface-Mediated Electron Transfer	180
Influences of Chemical Properties, Soil Properties, and Solution pH on Soil–Water Partitioning Coefficients of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)	175
Global Riverine Plastic Outflows	175
Interaction of Microplastics with Antibiotics in Aquatic Environment: Distribution, Adsorption, and Toxicity	174
Quality Criteria for Microplastic Effect Studies in the Context of Risk Assessment: A Critical Review	173
Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)	171
Fluorescence Signatures of Dissolved Organic Matter Leached from Microplastics: Polymers and Additives	171
Ultrathin Thin-Film Composite Polyamide Membranes Constructed on Hydrophilic Poly(vinyl alcohol) Decorated Support Toward Enhanced Nanofiltration Performance	170
Flexible Nitrite Supply Alternative for Mainstream Anammox: Advances in Enhancing Process Stability	169
Boosting Toluene Combustion by Engineering Co–O Strength in Cobalt Oxide Catalysts	167
Thermal Activation of Peracetic Acid in Aquatic Solution: The Mechanism and Application to Degrade Sulfamethoxazole	166
Effects of Molecular Structure on Organic Contaminants’ Degradation Efficiency and Dominant ROS in the Advanced Oxidation Process with Multiple ROS	163
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Facilitates the Detection of Microplastics <1 μm in the Environment	160
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills: An Underestimated Source of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in the Water Environment	160
Biodegradation of Polystyrene by Pseudomonas sp. Isolated from the Gut of Superworms (Larvae of Zophobas atratus)	160
Unveiling the Origins of Selective Oxidation in Single-Atom Catalysis via Co–N₄–C Intensified Radical and Nonradical Pathways	159
Differentiating Solutes with Precise Nanofiltration for Next Generation Environmental Separations: A Review	159
Revisiting the Graphitized Nanodiamond-Mediated Activation of Peroxymonosulfate: Singlet Oxygenation versus Electron Transfer	156
Environmentally Sustainable Management of Used Personal Protective Equipment	156
Solving the Nonalignment of Methods and Approaches Used in Microplastic Research to Consistently Characterize Risk	154
Critical Review: Role of Inorganic Nanoparticle Properties on Their Foliar Uptake and in Planta Translocation	154
Weathering Plastics as a Planetary Boundary Threat: Exposure, Fate, and Hazards	152
High Abundances of Microplastic Pollution in Deep-Sea Sediments: Evidence from Antarctica and the Southern Ocean	152
Are Fluoropolymers Really of Low Concern for Human and Environmental Health and Separate from Other PFAS?	151
Atomically Dispersed Cobalt Sites on Graphene as Efficient Periodate Activators for Selective Organic Pollutant Degradation	150
Detailed Analysis of the Composition of Selected Plastic Packaging Waste Products and Its Implications for Mechanical and Thermochemical Recycling	150
Toward Selective Oxidation of Contaminants in Aqueous Systems	149
Toxic Cyanobacteria: A Growing Threat to Water and Air Quality	147
Rapid Production of Micro- and Nanoplastics by Fragmentation of Expanded Polystyrene Exposed to Sunlight	144
Synthetic Phenolic Antioxidants: A Review of Environmental Occurrence, Fate, Human Exposure, and Toxicity	144
Detection and Analysis of Microplastics in Human Sputum	143
Aqueous Iron(IV)–Oxo Complex: An Emerging Powerful Reactive Oxidant Formed by Iron(II)-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes for Oxidative Water Treatment	143
Quantitative Analysis of Selected Plastics in High-Commercial-Value Australian Seafood by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry	143
Production of Reactive Oxygen Species by the Reaction of Periodate and Hydroxylamine for Rapid Removal of Organic Pollutants and Waterborne Bacteria	142

Different Pathways for Cr(III) Oxidation: Implications for Cr(VI) Reoccurrence in Reduced Chromite Ore Processing Residue	141
Prediction of Soil Heavy Metal Immobilization by Biochar Using Machine Learning	140
Membrane-Confined Iron Oxychloride Nanocatalysts for Highly Efficient Heterogeneous Fenton Water Treatment	138
Interface Engineering of Co(OH)₂ Nanosheets Growing on the KNbO₃ Perovskite Based on Electronic Structure Modulation for Enhanced Peroxymonosulfate Activation	138
Characteristics and Sinking Behavior of Typical Microplastics Including the Potential Effect of Biofouling: Implications for Remediation	138
Efficient Fenton-like Process for Pollutant Removal in Electron-Rich/Poor Reaction Sites Induced by Surface Oxygen Vacancy over Cobalt–Zinc Oxides	137
Mechanistic Insights into the Role of Polydopamine Interlayer toward Improved Separation Performance of Polyamide Nanofiltration Membranes	137
A New OECD Definition for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances	136
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	136
Rational Regulation of Co–N–C Coordination for High-Efficiency Generation of ¹O₂ toward Nearly 100% Selective Degradation of Organic Pollutants	136
The Colors of the Ocean Plastics	135
Methanobacterium Capable of Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer	135
Machine Learning: New Ideas and Tools in Environmental Science and Engineering	135
Chemodiversity of Soil Dissolved Organic Matter	135
Temporal Dynamics of Antibiotic Resistome in the Plastisphere during Microbial Colonization	134
Applied Machine Learning for Prediction of CO₂ Adsorption on Biomass Waste-Derived Porous Carbons	134
Duet Fe₃C and FeN_x Sites for H₂O₂ Generation and Activation toward Enhanced Electro-Fenton Performance in Wastewater Treatment	133
How Much of the Total Organic Halogen and Developmental Toxicity of Chlorinated Drinking Water Might Be Attributed to Aromatic Halogenated DBPs?	133
Modeling the Kinetics of UV/Peracetic Acid Advanced Oxidation Process	132
Long-Term Fertilization History Alters Effects of Microplastics on Soil Properties, Microbial Communities, and Functions in Diverse Farmland Ecosystem	132
Insights into the Electron-Transfer Mechanism of Permanganate Activation by Graphite for Enhanced Oxidation of Sulfamethoxazole	132
Overlooked Role of Fe(IV) and Fe(V) in Organic Contaminant Oxidation by Fe(VI)	132
Capacitive Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Wastewater via an Electro-Adsorption and Electro-Reaction Coupling Process	131
Accelerated Fe²⁺ Regeneration in an Effective Electro-Fenton Process by Boosting Internal Electron Transfer to a Nitrogen-Conjugated Fe(III) Complex	130
Inferring Changes in Summertime Surface Ozone–NO_x–VOC Chemistry over U.S. Urban Areas from Two Decades of Satellite and Ground-Based Observations	130
Iron and Sulfur Precursors Affect Crystalline Structure, Speciation, and Reactivity of Sulfidized Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron	129
Nanoplastics Disturb Nitrogen Removal in Constructed Wetlands: Responses of Microbes and Macrophytes	129
Reactivity of Chlorine Radicals (Cl^• and Cl₂^•–) with Dissolved Organic Matter and the Formation of Chlorinated Byproducts	127
Dispersion Normalized PMF Provides Insights into the Significant Changes in Source Contributions to PM_2.5 after the COVID-19 Outbreak	126
Indoor Particulate Matter during HOMEChem: Concentrations, Size Distributions, and Exposures	125
Flow Electrode Capacitive Deionization (FCDI): Recent Developments, Environmental Applications, and Future Perspectives	125
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Breast Milk: Concerning Trends for Current-Use PFAS	125
Widespread Occurrence of Pesticides in Organically Managed Agricultural Soils—the Ghost of a Conventional Agricultural Past?	125
Recent Advances in Sulfidated Zerovalent Iron for Contaminant Transformation	124
Systematic Study of Microplastic Fiber Release from 12 Different Polyester Textiles during Washing	124
Dissecting the Role of Substrate on the Morphology and Separation Properties of Thin Film Composite Polyamide Membranes: Seeing Is Believing	124
A Critical Review of Extraction and Identification Methods of Microplastics in Wastewater and Drinking Water	123
Long-Term Ecological Impacts from Oil Spills: Comparison of Exxon Valdez, Hebei Spirit, and Deepwater Horizon	121
Microplastics Aggravate the Bioaccumulation of Two Waterborne Veterinary Antibiotics in an Edible Bivalve Species: Potential Mechanisms and Implications for Human Health	121
Facing the Challenge of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Water: Is Electrochemical Oxidation the Answer?	120
Estimating Spatiotemporal Variation in Ambient Ozone Exposure during 2013–2017 Using a Data-Fusion Model	119
Evidence of Microplastic Translocation in Wild-Caught Fish and Implications for Microplastic Accumulation Dynamics in Food Webs	119
Effects of Different Microplastics on Nematodes in the Soil Environment: Tracking the Extractable Additives Using an Ecotoxicological Approach	118
Exploring the Mechanisms of Selectivity for Environmentally Significant Oxo-Anion Removal during Water Treatment: A Review of Common Competing Oxo-Anions and Tools for Quantifying Selective Adsorption	118
Mn₂O₃ as an Electron Shuttle between Peroxymonosulfate and Organic Pollutants: The Dominant Role of Surface Reactive Mn(IV) Species	118