OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science and Pollution Research is 104. 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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and sustainable mitigation measures	724
A state-of-the-art review on wastewater treatment techniques: the effectiveness of adsorption method	574
Effect of microplastics in water and aquatic systems	453
Energy structure, digital economy, and carbon emissions: evidence from China	410
An overview of the environmental pollution and health effects associated with waste landfilling and open dumping	351
Linking financial development, economic growth, and ecological footprint: what is the role of technological innovation?	258
Hydrogen fuel and fuel cell technology for cleaner future: a review	246
Do fiscal decentralization and natural resources rent curb carbon emissions? Evidence from developed countries	244
Evaluating green innovation and performance of financial development: mediating concerns of environmental regulation	235
Recent progress on Ag/TiO2 photocatalysts: photocatalytic and bactericidal behaviors	233
Photocatalysis: an effective tool for photodegradation of dyes—a review	233
How green technology innovation affects carbon emission efficiency: evidence from developed countries proposing carbon neutrality targets	232
Do public-private partnerships in energy and renewable energy consumption matter for consumption-based carbon dioxide emissions in India?	197
Nexus on climate change: agriculture and possible solution to cope future climate change stresses	196
Remittance inflows affect the ecological footprint in BICS countries: do technological innovation and financial development matter?	185
Impact of foreign direct investment, natural resources, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth on environmental degradation: evidence from BRICS, developing, developed and global countries	183
Wavelet analysis of impact of renewable energy consumption and technological innovation on CO2 emissions: evidence from Portugal	182
Beneficial microbiomes for bioremediation of diverse contaminated environments for environmental sustainability: present status and future challenges	179
Digitalization and environment: how does ICT affect enterprise environmental performance?	176
Environmental risks and toxicity of surfactants: overview of analysis, assessment, and remediation techniques	175
Impact of climate change on biodiversity loss: global evidence	172
The dynamic linkage between globalization, financial development, energy utilization, and environmental sustainability in GCC countries	167
The nexus between environmental regulations, economic growth, and environmental sustainability: linking environmental patents to ecological footprint reduction in South Asia	166
RETRACTED ARTICLE: The asymmetric effects of renewable energy consumption and trade openness on carbon emissions in Sweden: new evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression ap	164
Detection and removal of microplastics in wastewater: evolution and impact	163

Impact of tourism development upon environmental sustainability: a suggested framework for sustainable ecotourism	163
Understanding the dynamics of natural resources rents, environmental sustainability, and sustainable economic growth: new insights from China	162
Impact of globalization, foreign direct investment, and energy consumption on CO2 emissions in Bangladesh: Does institutional quality matter?	162
Water-energy nexus: desalination technologies and renewable energy sources	160
Analysis of the mechanism of the impact of internet development on green economic growth: evidence from 269 prefecture cities in China	158
The increases and decreases of the environment Kuznets curve (EKC) for 8 OECD countries	157
Impact of economic policy uncertainty on CO2 emissions: evidence from top ten carbon emitter countries	157
The roles of nuclear energy, renewable energy, and economic growth in the abatement of carbon dioxide emissions in the G7 countries	153
Modeling CO2 emissions in Malaysia: an application of Maki cointegration and wavelet coherence tests	153
Clean energy investment and financial development as determinants of environment and sustainable economic growth: evidence from China	153
Alternative energy and natural resources in determining environmental sustainability: a look at the role of government final consumption expenditures in France	151
The effect of technological innovation, FDI, and financial development on CO2 emission: evidence from the G8 countries	149
Dynamics among economic growth, urbanization, and environmental sustainability in IEA countries: the role of industry value-added	149
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Industry 4.0 technology and circular economy practices: business management strategies for environmental sustainability	147
Impact of Green financing, FinTech, and financial inclusion on energy efficiency	146
The influences of renewable electricity generation, technological innovation, financial development, and economic growth on ecological footprints in ASEAN-5 countries	144
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Does green finance mitigate the effects of climate variability: role of renewable energy investment and infrastructure	144
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Do energy use and economic policy uncertainty affect CO2 emissions in China? Empirical evidence from the dynamic ARDL simulation approach	143
Can digital finance promote corporate green innovation?	141
Impact of financial development and technological innovation on the volatility of green growth—evidence from China	141
Does economic prosperity lead to environmental sustainability in developing economies? Environmental Kuznets curve theory	140
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Impact of renewable energy consumption, financial development and natural resources on environmental degradation in OECD countries with dynamic panel data	140
The impact of financial development and geopolitical risk on renewable energy consumption: evidence from emerging markets	139
Nexus between green logistic operations and triple bottom line: evidence from infrastructure-led Chinese outward foreign direct investment in Belt and Road host countries	137
Antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and resistance genes in aquaculture: risks, current concern, and future thinking	137
Air pollution exposure—the (in)visible risk factor for respiratory diseases	136
Does geopolitical risk escalate CO2 emissions? Evidence from the BRICS countries	136
Co-movement of energy prices and stock market return: environmental wavelet nexus of COVID-19 pandemic from the USA, Europe, and China	134
The role of disinfectants and sanitizers during COVID-19 pandemic: advantages and deleterious effects on humans and the environment	134
Municipal solid waste management during COVID-19 pandemic: effects and repercussions	134
Moderating the effect of globalization on financial development, energy consumption, human capital, and carbon emissions: evidence from G20 countries	133
Do environmental taxes and environmental stringency policies reduce CO2 emissions? Evidence from 7 emerging economies	131
A review of water electrolysis–based systems for hydrogen production using hybrid/solar/wind energy systems	131
Accounting for the combined impacts of natural resources rent, income level, and energy consumption on environmental quality of G7 economies: a panel quantile regression approach	130
Blockchain and artificial intelligence technology in e-Health	129
Abundance of natural resources and environmental sustainability: the roles of manufacturing value-added, urbanization, and permanent cropland	128
Technological innovation, financialization, and ecological footprint: evidence from BEM economies	128
Role of financial development, environmental-related technologies, research and development, energy intensity, natural resource depletion, and temperature in sustainable environment in Canada	126
Blockchain in supply chain management: a review, bibliometric, and network analysis	126
Sustainable development and pollution: the effects of CO2 emission on population growth, food production, economic development, and energy consumption in Pakistan	126
Monetization of the environmental damage caused by fossil fuels	124
The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for Bangladesh: the importance of natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and hydropower consumption	124
Climate change and crop production nexus in Somalia: an empirical evidence from ARDL technique	124
Effect of green human resource management practices on organizational sustainability: the mediating role of environmental and employee performance	123
Determinants of green growth in developed and developing countries	123
How energy insecurity leads to energy poverty? Do environmental consideration and climate change concerns matters	123
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Does energy consumption, economic growth, urbanization, and population growth influence carbon emissions in the BRICS? Evidence from panel models robust to cross-sectional dependenc	121
A comprehensive review on human health effects of chromium: insights on induced toxicity	120
ICT, foreign direct investment and environmental pollution in major Asia Pacific countries	120
Go for green: green innovation through green dynamic capabilities: accessing the mediating role of green practices and green value co-creation	119

Reinvigorating the role of clean energy transition for achieving a low-carbon economy: evidence from Bangladesh	119
Effects of the spread of COVID-19 on public health of polluted cities: results of the first wave for explaining the dejà vu in the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and epidemics of future vital agents	118
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Asymmetric nexus among financial globalization, non-renewable energy, renewable energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions: impact on environmental sustainability targets in	116
Heavy metal–induced stress in eukaryotic algae—mechanisms of heavy metal toxicity and tolerance with particular emphasis on oxidative stress in exposed cells and the role of antioxidant response	116
Aluminum environmental pollution: the silent killer	115
Asymmetric investigation to track the effect of urbanization, energy utilization, fossil fuel energy and CO2 emission on economic efficiency in China: another outlook	114
Geochemical characteristics and quality of groundwater evaluation for drinking, irrigation, and industrial purposes from a part of hard rock aquifer of South India	113
Renewable Energy Consumption and Environmental Sustainability in Canada: Does Political Stability Make a Difference?	113
The role of information and communication technologies in mitigating carbon emissions: evidence from panel quantile regression	113
Can CO2 emissions and energy consumption determine the economic performance of South Korea? A time series analysis	112
A causal link between renewable energy, energy efficiency, property rights, and CO2 emissions in developed countries: A road map for environmental sustainability	112
Determinants of consumption-based carbon emissions in Chile: an application of non-linear ARDL	112
The intermittent effects of renewable energy on ecological footprint: evidence from developing countries	112
Treatment of electroplating industry wastewater: a review on the various techniques	112
Renewable energy and non-renewable energy consumption: assessing the asymmetric role of monetary policy uncertainty in energy consumption	112
Assessing environmental quality through natural resources, energy resources, and tax revenues	111
Climate-resilient strategies for sustainable management of water resources and agriculture	111
Comprehensive assessment of water quality and associated health risk by using physicochemical quality indices and multivariate analysis in Terme River, Turkey	110
Ecotoxicological risk assessment for sediments of Çavuşlu stream in Giresun, Turkey: association between garbage disposal facility and metallic accumulation	109
Striving towards environmental sustainability: how natural resources, human capital, financial development, and economic growth interact with ecological footprint in China	109
Heterogeneous effects of remittances and institutional quality in reducing environmental deficit in the presence of EKC hypothesis: A global study with the application of panel quantile regression	109
Recycling/reuse of plastic waste as construction material for sustainable development: a review	107
Impact of good governance and natural resource rent on economic and environmental sustainability: an empirical analysis for South Asian economies	107
A review of the cost and effectiveness of solutions to address plastic pollution	107
Can nuclear energy fuel an environmentally sustainable economic growth? Revisiting the EKC hypothesis for India	107
Economic complexity, tourism, energy prices, and environmental degradation in the top economic complexity countries: fresh panel evidence	106
Foreign investment and CO2 emissions: do technological innovation and institutional quality matter? Evidence from system GMM approach	106
Nonrenewable and renewable energy consumption, trade openness, and environmental quality in G-7 countries: the conditional role of technological progress	105
Do economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk surge CO2 emissions? New insights from panel quantile regression approach	104
The environmental impact of industrialization and foreign direct investment: empirical evidence from Asia-Pacific region	104
RETRACTED ARTICLE: How green finance and financial development promote green economic growth: deployment of clean energy sources in South Asia	104
Analysis of CO2 emissions and energy consumption by sources in MENA countries: evidence from quantile regressions	104