OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Water Research is 115. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	763
Volatilization behavior of diesel oil-water-glass bead system exposed to freeze-thaw cycles	554
Interlaboratory performance and quantitative PCR data acceptance metrics for NIST SRM® 2917	370
Lagrangian solver for coupling hydrodynamics with biokinetic conversion modelling in anaerobic digesters	348
Leveraging primary effluent- and glycerol-driven partial denitrification-anammox within a pilot-scale tertiary step-feed moving bed biofilm reactor treating high-rate activated sludge systems effluent	330
Cycles of solar ultraviolet radiation favor periodic expansions of cyanobacterial blooms in global lakes	310
What drives the adoption of a technology? An analysis of the implementation of Nereda®	304
Corrigendum to ’ Biochar enhances the biotransformation of organic micropollutants (OMPs) in an anaerobic membrane bioreactor treating sewage’ [Water Research 223 (2022) 118974]	293
Corrigendum to “Understanding the role of biofilms and estimation of life-span of a tire derived aggregates-based underground stormwater treatment system” [Water Research 257 (2024) 121716]	266
Corrigendum to “Impact of Human Activities on Rare Earth Elements in Coastal Regions: Anthropogenic Gadolinium Sources, Budget, and Transport” [Water Research 287 (2025), 124302]	254
Sedimentation supports life-cycle CH4 production and accumulation in a river valley reservoir: A hierarchical Bayesian modeling approach	247
Identification of ∼200 transformation products of polyhalogenated compounds to characterize their transformation pathways in sludges	245
Electrochemistry-mass spectrometry bridging the gap between suspect and target screening of valsartan transformation products in wastewater treatment plant effluent	242
The effect of anode potential on electrogenesis, methanogenesis and sulfidogenesis in a simulated sewer condition	238
Simultaneous photochemical oxidation of As(III) and Mn2+(aq) in the presence of hematite	233
Extreme weather events as an important factor for the evolution of plastisphere but not for the degradation process	229
Cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent investigation of O-methylated pollutant-producing bacteria in three drinking water treatment plants	215
Alternation magnitudes of organic matter composition determines priming effect of biodegradable microplastics on lake carbon emission	214
Influence of hydrological features on CO2 and CH4 concentrations in the surface water of lakes, Southwest China: A seasonal and mixing regime analysis	211
Groundwater-native Fe(II) oxidation prior to aeration with H2O2 to enhance As(III) removal	211
PipeNetGen: A methodology for generating synthetic water distribution network models	210
Abundance and composition of anthropogenic macrolitter and natural debris in road runoff in Ohio, USA	209
Significant enhancement of photoproduced reactive intermediates in liquid-like region in frozen surface water for micropollutant degradation	208
Tipping points of nitrogen use efficiency in freshwater phytoplankton along trophic state gradient	207
MnO2-based capacitive system enhances ozone inactivation of bacteria by disrupting cell membrane	205

Biochar reduces road-salt-induced osmotic stress and improves plant water availability in green stormwater infrastructure	203
Co-substrate utilisation in “Candidatus Accumulibacter” enhances metabolic fitness in dynamic environments	201
Photosynthetic pretreatment increases membrane-based rejection of boron and arsenic	200
Alkaline hydrolysis of solid 1,3,5-trichloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (T3): kinetics, mechanism, and overlooked deprotonation effects	200
CO2-driven ion exchange for ammonium recovery from source-separated urine	195
Side-stream anaerobic membrane bioreactor system for energy-positive sewage treatment	190
Acetochlor degradation in anaerobic microcosms with hyporheic sediments: Insights from biogeochemical data, transformation products, and isotope analysis	186
Aging effects of titanium dioxide on Cu toxicity to Daphnia magna: Exploring molecular docking and significance of surface properties	182
Recovery targets and timescales for Lough Neagh and other lakes	182
Cyanobacterial blooms increase the release of vanadium through iron reduction and dissolved organic matter complexation in the sediment of eutrophic lakes	174
Distance-decay equations of antibiotic resistance genes across freshwater reservoirs	172
Modeling and optimization of synergistic ozone-ultraviolet-chlorine process for reclaimed water disinfection: From laboratory tests to software simulation	169
Mixture effects on the tracing significance of carbon and hydrogen isotopes for identifying leaking points at landfills: Insights from theoretical analysis and field investigation	169
Fate of sulfamethoxazole in wetland sediment under controlled redox conditions	168
Estimating Yangtze River basin's riverine N2O emissions through hybrid modeling of land-river-atmosphere nitrogen flows	167
Mixotrophic partial denitrification coupled with anammox achieves robust nitrogen removal under organic-rich conditions: Insights into metabolic adaptations of sulfur-oxidizing and anammox bacteria	160
Mitigation of combined fouling by gypsum and humic acid in membrane distillation via synergistic foulant capture mechanism	160
Development of a deep learning–based feature stream network for forecasting riverine harmful algal blooms from a network perspective	159
A mixed blessing of influent leachate microbes in downstream biotreatment systems of a full-scale landfill leachate treatment plant	159
Polystyrene microplastics alter plankton community and enhance greenhouse gas emissions: A case study in the China coastal sea	157
Influence of microbial communities on foam fractionation of wastewater for PFAS removal	157
Mechanism of organic phosphorus transformation and its impact on the primary production in a deep oligotrophic plateau lake during stratification	157
Making Waves: A justice-centred framework for wastewater-based public health surveillance	156
Response of planktonic microbial assemblages to disturbance in an urban sub-tropical estuary	155
The impacts of water storage infrastructure on real property values and crop production	155
Corroded iron pipe inhibits microbial-mediated Mn(II) oxidation and MnOx accumulation compared to PVC pipe	155
Metabolic coupling of arsenic, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in high arsenic geothermal groundwater: Evidence from molecular mechanisms to community ecology	154
Spatial variability of methane fluxes driven by lacustrine groundwater discharge and its influence on lake methane emissions	154
Microbiome and antibiotic resistome in bioelectrochemical toilets for onsite treatment of fecal sludge	153
Making waves: The sensitivity of lakes to brownification and issues of concern in ecological status assessment	153
Optimal cybersecurity framework for smart water system: Detection, localization and severity assessment	152
Active anaerobic methane oxidation in the groundwater table fluctuation zone of rice paddies	151
The nanoscale explanation of metal cations differences in enhancing the Fe(III) coagulation performance	150
Photoaged tire wear particles hinder the transport of Pb(II) in urban soils under acid rain: Experimental and numerical investigations	148
Decadal mitigation and shifting drivers of aquatic CH4 and N2O emissions during urban stream restoration	148
Hidden dangers: High levels of organic pollutants in hadal trenches	146
Enhancing microalgae cell inactivation through hydrodynamic cavitation: Insights from flow cytometry analysis	146
A multi-pronged strategy towards one-stage partial nitritation/anammox in a lab-scale MABR	145
Loss of riparian canopy cover reduces the transfer of polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) and simplifies the trophic links in stream food webs	144
Insights into the silica scaling behaviors in membrane distillation and anti-scaling mechanism of functional polymers	143
Interaction mechanisms between fouling and chemical cleaning on the ageing behavior of ion-exchange membranes during electrodialysis treatment of flue gas desulfurization wastewater	142
High salinity restrains microplastic transport and increases the risk of pollution in coastal wetlands	142
Overlooked dark dissolved organic matter reveals the migration and transformation of carbon exports in surface and subsurface flows from cropland during rainfall	141
Inhibition of biofouling by in-situ grown zwitterionic hydrogel nanolayer on membrane surface in ultralow-pressurized ultrafiltration process	141
Priority control sequence of 34 typical pollutants in effluents of Chinese wastewater treatment plants	140
Constrained sediment carbon sequestration driven by agricultural diffuse pollution: Evidence from core-derived DOM	139
Microbial advanced oxidation aroused by bacteria-algae symbiosis induced abiotic methane production in anaerobic digestion	138
Synergistic effect of UV-A and UV-C light is traced to UV-induced damage of the transfer RNA	138
An N2O emissions model featuring newly integrated abiotic pathways in nitrification	136
Functional characterization of a novel Chlamydomonas reinhardtii hydrolase involved in biotransformation of chloramphenicol	136

Real-time monitoring of in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) of dissolved TCE by integrating electrical resistivity tomography and reactive transport modeling	136
Tailored carbonaceous materials as biofilter amendments for PFAS removal in stormwater runoff	135
Impact of suspended mussel aquaculture on benthic oxygen fluxes	134
Phosphorus recovery from wastewater using waste gypsum via sulfur-metabolizing bacteria: Influence of gypsum type on performance and mechanisms	133
Asymmetrical contamination of anionic PFAS across global freshwater reservoirs	133
Mainstream anammox in inverse fluidized bed bioreactors	133
Harvesting of cyanobacteria and phosphorus by electrocoagulation-flocculation-flotation: Role of phosphorus precipitation in cell separations and organics destabilization	133
Cyanobacteria decay alters CH4 and CO2 produced hotspots along vertical sediment profiles in eutrophic lakes	133
Virus-induced redox cycling in Fe(II)/peracetic acid systems: dual roles as reactant and catalytic promoter	132
Supply, demand and the economic effectiveness of urine-diverting technologies and products: A systematic literature review	131
Fungal communities as dual indicators of river biodiversity and water quality assessment	130
Fungal spore inactivation in drinking water by UV222: Kinetics and mechanistic insights with transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses	130
Optimization of water quality index models using machine learning approaches	130
Characterizing disinfection byproduct precursors through organic matter fractionation and correlation analysis using nontargeted screening analysis with Orbitrap mass spectrometry	129
Rapid methylmercury demethylation in phytoplankton during algal blooms: insights from mercury isotopes and dynamic modeling	128
From waste to resource: Metagenomics uncovers the molecular ecological resources for plastic degradation in estuaries of South China	127
When does infrastructure hybridisation outperform centralised infrastructure paradigms? – Exploring economic and hydraulic impacts of decentralised urban wastewater system expansion	127
Hydrographic proxies for submarine groundwater discharge in the Jiulong River estuary and global perspectives	126
Sulfur powder utilization and denitrification efficiency in an elemental sulfur-based membrane bioreactor with coagulant addition	126
Efficient capture of endocrine-disrupting compounds by a high-performance nanofiltration membrane for wastewater treatment	126
Removal, transport, and transformation of organic micropollutants in managed aquifer recharge: Insights from target and non-target analyses	125
Dark side of biodegradable microplastics in mangrove ecosystem: Plastisphere as an overlooked hotspot of sulfate-reducing metabolism	125
A new framework to model the distributed transfer and retention of nutrients by incorporating topology structure of small water bodies	125
From anaerobic digestion to single cell protein synthesis: A promising route beyond biogas utilization	125
Advanced micropollutant and phosphorus removal with superfine powdered activated carbon and pile cloth media filtration	125
Filling data gaps in urban drainage networks: An automated graph theory framework for data collection and reconstruction	124
Insufficient desorption of ions in constant-current membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI): Problems and solutions	123
Colloid-bound radicals formed in NOM-enhanced Fe(III)/peroxymonosulfate process accelerate the degradation of trace organic contaminants in water	122
Quantitative study of in situ chemical oxidation remediation with coupled thermal desorption	120
Periodate activation by pyrite for the disinfection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria: Performance and mechanisms	120
Urban wastewater treatment plants as resource hubs: evaluating circularity and sustainability of nutrient recovery and water reuse	120
Novel strategy for efficient energy recovery and pollutant control from sewage sludge and food waste treatment	120
The fate of cadmium during the hydrolysis and solid-state transformation of iron	119
An electrochemical anaerobic dynamic membrane bioreactor for enhanced sludge digestion: Unveiling molecular interactions and microbial mechanisms	117
Linking sediment geochemistry with catchment processes, internal phosphorus loading and lake water quality	117
Making waves: The potential of generative AI in water utility operations	117
Bioturbation-Resilient phosphorus control in eutrophic sediments using industrial waste-derived calcium silicate hydrate	117
Short-term Lake Erie algal bloom prediction by classification and regression models	116
Substantial increase in P release following conversion of coastal wetlands to aquaculture ponds from altered kinetic exchange and resupply capacity	116
Algal-bacterial granular sludge process for sustainable wastewater treatment: Technological advances and challenges	115
A comprehensive reconnaissance and risk assessment of rubber additives and their transformation products (RATPs) in groundwater: 1,3-Diphenylguanidine (DPG) as a pressing ecological concern	115
Occurrence and risk assessment of organophosphate esters in global aquatic products	115
Study on the mechanism of rapid degradation of Rhodamine B with Fe/Cu@antimony tailing nano catalytic particle electrode in a three dimensional electrochemical reactor	115