OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Pollution is 101. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding plastic degradation and microplastic formation in the environment: A review	724
Adsorption of emerging contaminants from water and wastewater by modified biochar: A review	483
Links between air pollution and COVID-19 in England	367
Applications of water-stable metal-organic frameworks in the removal of water pollutants: A review	346
Application of adsorption process for effective removal of emerging contaminants from water and wastewater	325
Interactions and effects of microplastics with heavy metals in aquatic and terrestrial environments	294
Environmental arsenic exposure and its contribution to human diseases, toxicity mechanism and management	289
Microplastics could be a threat to plants in terrestrial systems directly or indirectly	282
Current status, spatial features, health risks, and potential driving factors of soil heavy metal pollution in China at province level	282
Antibiotics in soil and water in China–a systematic review and source analysis	281
Multifaceted roles of microalgae in the application of wastewater biotreatment: A review	258
Air quality during the COVID-19: PM2.5 analysis in the 50 most polluted capital cities in the world	251
Distribution of microplastics in soil and freshwater environments: Global analysis and framework for transport modeling	241
An emerging source of plastic pollution: Environmental presence of plastic personal protective equipment (PPE) debris related to COVID-19 in a metropolitan city	239
Heavy metal contamination risk assessment and correlation analysis of heavy metal contents in soil and crops	237
What are the drivers of microplastic toxicity? Comparing the toxicity of plastic chemicals and particles to Daphnia magna	229
A review on bioremediation approach for heavy metal detoxification and accumulation in plants	223
Biomass utilization and production of biofuels from carbon neutral materials	217
The abundance and characteristics of microplastics in surface water in the transboundary Ganges River	216
Impact of plastic mulch film debris on soil physicochemical and hydrological properties	207
Foliar-applied polystyrene nanoplastics (PSNPs) reduce the growth and nutritional quality of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)	199
Diurnal and temporal changes in air pollution during COVID-19 strict lockdown over different regions of India	198
Cadmium pollution of soil-rice ecosystems in rice cultivation dominated regions in China: A review	186
Adsorptive removal of cationic methylene blue and anionic Congo red dyes using wet-torrefied microalgal biochar: Equilibrium, kinetic and mechanism modeling	186
Macro- and microplastic accumulation in soil after 32 years of plastic film mulching	186

Microplastics in freshwater: A global review of factors affecting spatial and temporal variations	183
Distinct microplastic distributions in soils of different land-use types: A case study of Chinese farmlands	178
Used disposable face masks are significant sources of microplastics to environment	178
Disinfection by-products in drinking water: Occurrence, toxicity and abatement	174
Metabolomics revealing the response of rice (Oryza sativa L.) exposed to polystyrene microplastics	171
Microplastic pollution of worldwide lakes	171
Distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment	169
Microplastic fibres from synthetic textiles: Environmental degradation and additive chemical content	168
Prevention and control of COVID-19 in public transportation: Experience from China	165
Current progress on plastic/microplastic degradation: Fact influences and mechanism	162
The impact of COVID-19 as a necessary evil on air pollution in India during the lockdown	159
Effects of different feedstocks-based biochar on soil remediation: A review	155
Face masks as a source of nanoplastics and microplastics in the environment: Quantification, characterization, and potential for bioaccumulation	153
The occurrence of microplastics in farmland and grassland soils in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau: Different land use and mulching time in facility agriculture	153
A review of water pollution arising from agriculture and mining activities in Central Asia: Facts, causes and effects	151
Risks of floating microplastic in the global ocean	148
Physiological impacts of zero valent iron, Fe3O4 and Fe2O3 nanoparticles in rice plants and their potential as Fe fertilizers	147
Selective removal of arsenic in water: A critical review	146
Interactions between microplastics/nanoplastics and vascular plants	146
Antibiotics in wastewater: From its occurrence to the biological removal by environmentally conscious technologies	144
Inhibitory effect of microplastics on soil extracellular enzymatic activities by changing soil properties and direct adsorption: An investigation at the aggregate-fraction level	143
Phthalate metabolites: Characterization, toxicities, global distribution, and exposure assessment	142
Mask use during COVID-19: A risk adjusted strategy	141
Heavy metal pollution, ecological risk, spatial distribution, and source identification in sediments of the Lijiang River, China	141
Nanoplastics in aquatic systems - are they more hazardous than microplastics?	138
Nanoplastics impact on marine biota: A review	138
Nationwide monitoring of microplastics in bivalves from the coastal environment of Korea	136
Estimation of nitrate pollution sources and transformations in groundwater of an intensive livestock-agricultural area (Comarca Lagunera), combining major ions, stable isotopes and MixSIAR model	135
Quantification and exposure assessment of microplastics in Australian indoor house dust	134
Waste-to-energy nexus: A sustainable development	133
Marine mammals and microplastics: A systematic review and call for standardisation	132
Biotransformation of perfluoroalkyl acid precursors from various environmental systems: advances and perspectives	132
Use of water quality index and multivariate statistical methods for the evaluation of water quality of a stream affected by multiple stressors: A case study	130
Long-term exposure to microplastics induces oxidative stress and a pro-inflammatory response in the gut of Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758	130
Toxic effects of exposure to microplastics with environmentally relevant shapes and concentrations: Accumulation, energy metabolism and tissue damage in oyster Crassostrea gigas	130
Adsorption, uptake and toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics: Effects on terrestrial plants and aquatic macrophytes	128
Microplastics act as vectors for antibiotic resistance genes in landfill leachate: The enhanced roles of the long-term aging process	128
An overview of removing heavy metals from sewage sludge: Achievements and perspectives	128
Microplastics in composting of rural domestic waste: abundance, characteristics, and release from the surface of macroplastics	127
Occurrence, influencing factors, toxicity, regulations, and abatement approaches for disinfection by-products in chlorinated drinking water: A comprehensive review	125
Abundance and morphology of microplastics in an agricultural soil following long-term repeated application of pig manure	124
Characterization of the hydrochemistry of water resources of the Weibei Plain, Northern China, as well as an assessment of the risk of high groundwater nitrate levels to human health	124
Biodegradation of low-density polyethylene and polystyrene in superworms, larvae of Zophobas atratus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): Broad and limited extent depolymerization	124
Ecological risk assessment of microplastics in coastal, shelf, and deep sea waters with a consideration of environmentally relevant size and shape	124
Health toxicity effects of brominated flame retardants: From environmental to human exposure	121
Water quality prospective in Twenty First Century: Status of water quality in major river basins, contemporary strategies and impediments: A review	121
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics: Occurrence, mode of action, resistance, environmental detection, and remediation – A comprehensive review	121
Sewage sludge-derived biochar for the adsorptive removal of wastewater pollutants: A critical review	119
A review of strategies for mitigating roadside air pollution in urban street canyons	118
Surface treated acid-activated carbon for adsorption of anionic azo dyes from single and binary adsorptive systems: A detail insight	118

Enhancing Cd(II) adsorption on rice straw biochar by modification of iron and manganese oxides	117
Effects of seasonal variation and resuspension on microplastics in river sediments	115
Occurrence of microplastic in livestock and poultry manure in South China	114
An integrated method for source apportionment of heavy metal(loid)s in agricultural soils and model uncertainty analysis	114
Changes in air quality during COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ in the United Kingdom	114
Identification and apportionment of shallow groundwater nitrate pollution in Weining Plain, northwest China, using hydrochemical indices, nitrate stable isotopes, and the new Bayesian stable isotope m	111
Cocktails of pesticide residues in conventional and organic farming systems in Europe – Legacy of the past and turning point for the future	111
Global greenhouse vegetable production systems are hotspots of soil N2O emissions and nitrogen leaching: A meta-analysis	111
Spatial patterns of mesoplastics and coarse microplastics in floodplain soils as resulting from land use and fluvial processes	111
Effects of polyethylene microplastics on the microbiome and metabolism in larval zebrafish	109
Heavy metals in soils around non-ferrous smelteries in China: Status, health risks and control measures	108
Degradation of toxic agrochemicals and pharmaceutical pollutants: Effective and alternative approaches toward photocatalysis	108
Bioremediation of PAHs and heavy metals co-contaminated soils: Challenges and enhancement strategies	107
Phycoremediation of wastewater for pollutant removal: A green approach to environmental protection and long-term remediation	107
Informal landfill contributes to the pollution of microplastics in the surrounding environment	107
The effect of sewage sludge containing microplastics on growth and fruit development of tomato plants	106
Vertical migration of microplastics along soil profile under different crop root systems	106
Coastal zone use influences the spatial distribution of microplastics in Hangzhou Bay, China	105
Detection of selected tire wear compounds in urban receiving waters	105
Iron-based materials for simultaneous removal of heavy metal(loid)s and emerging organic contaminants from the aquatic environment: Recent advances and perspectives	104
Improvement of alfalfa resistance against Cd stress through rhizobia and arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi co-inoculation in Cd-contaminated soil	103
Polystyrene microplastics disrupt the blood-testis barrier integrity through ROS-Mediated imbalance of mTORC1 and mTORC2	103
Microplastics in the edible and inedible tissues of pelagic fishes sold for human consumption in Kerala, India	103
Air pollution exposure and depression: A comprehensive updated systematic review and meta-analysis	103
Heavy metal pollution promotes antibiotic resistance potential in the aquatic environment	102
Accumulation of polystyrene microplastics induces liver fibrosis by activating cGAS/STING pathway	102
Microplastic pollution research methodologies, abundance, characteristics and risk assessments for aquatic biota in China	101
A bibliometric analysis of industrial wastewater treatments from 1998 to 2019	101