OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Waste Management is 57. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
BIM-driven transformation of waste management toward enhanced reduction and circularity in the built environment	181
Structural study and metal speciation assessments of waste PCBs and environmental implications: Outlooks for choosing efficient recycling routes	150
On the use of plastic precursors for preparation of activated carbons and their evaluation in CO2 capture for biogas upgrading: a review	137
Earthworms and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) cooperate to promote the biodegradation of tetracycline residues in livestock manure	125
Energy effective utilization of circulating fluidized bed fly ash to prepare silicon-aluminum composite aerogel and gypsum	117
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in municipal solid waste incineration ash: occurrence and management implications	112
Microwave absorbent enhancement of multi-thermal field effect: Pyrolysis of waste printed circuit boards	110
Physicochemical properties of carbon-based materials enhance in situ biomethanation performances under organic overload	105
Linking landfill operational characteristics and treatment conditions to Daphnia magna toxicity of leachates	100
Biochemical, hydrological and mechanical behaviors of high food waste content MSW landfill: Numerical simulation analysis of a large-scale experiment	100
Techno-economic and scalability analysis of nitrogen plasma gasification of medical waste	97
Low-carbon and high-value utilization of hazardous industrial organic waste: From molecular mechanism to application	95
High hydrophobic silanized paper: Material characterization and its biodegradation through brown rot fungus	95
Incinerator ash characterization – Implications for elevated temperature landfills	93
Techno-economic and environmental assessments for sustainable bio-methanol production as landfill gas valorization	92
Preferential and efficient extraction of lithium under the combined action of reduction of herb-medicine residue and leaching of oxalic acid	87
High-rate in-vessel continuous composting of olive mill byproducts	84
Parametrization of biowaste composting system for life cycle assessment	84
What activities reduce plastic waste the most? – The path to a circular economy for Japan’s manufacturing industry	83
Quantitative water content estimation in landfills through joint inversion of seismic refraction and electrical resistivity data considering surface conduction	83
Microbial community assembly and chemical dynamics of raw brewers’ spent grain during inoculated and spontaneous solid-state fermentation	81
Innovative hydrothermal technique in efficient disengagement of waste solar panels	81
Trustworthy and Human Centric neural network approaches for prediction of landfill methane emission and sustainable waste management practices	80
Unlocking methanogenesis at 45°C: Synergistic roles of Zero-Valent iron and magnetite in Restoring cellulose anaerobic digestion	78
Charting the electric vehicle battery reuse and recycling network in North America	78

Efficient conversion of waste-to-SNG via hybrid renewable energy systems for circular economy: Process design, energy, and environmental analysis	78
Enhanced lactic acid production from household food waste under hyperthermophilic conditions: Mechanisms and regulation	77
Leaching behavior and release mechanism of pollutants from different depths in a phosphogypsum stockpile	76
How microplastics affect sludge pyrolysis behavior: Thermogravimetry-mass spectrum analysis and biochar characteristics	76
Advanced data augmentation techniques to enhance instance segmentation dataset for construction and demolition waste management	73
Production of high-quality polyethylene (PE) films from post-consumer shrink wrap with solvent targeted recovery and precipitation (STRAP)	72
Migration and transformation of sulfur during pyrolysis of waste tires for high-value utilization of poly-generation products	72
Converting source-separated organics from municipal solid waste into high-quality bio-oil and hydrogen-rich syngas through a hybrid intermediate pyrolysis system	71
Analysis of the performance of Air Pollution Control residues as CO2 sorbents in the calcium looping process	70
Plastics to fuel or plastics: Life cycle assessment-based evaluation of different options for pyrolysis at end-of-life	68
A novel subcritical water synergistic co-treatment of brominated epoxy resin and copper-based spent catalysts: debromination, phenol production, and copper recovery	68
Coagulation studies on photodegraded and photocatalytically degraded polystyrene microplastics using polyaluminium chloride	66
Social Hotspot analysis of the e-waste sector in Ghana and Nigeria	66
Machine learning-aided unveiling the relationship between chemical pretreatment and methane production of lignocellulosic waste	66
The development of China's Circular Economy: From the perspective of environmental regulation	65
Detection of degraded high-density polyethylene via near-infrared hyperspectral imaging	65
Evaluating the impact of drying on leaching from a solidified/stabilized waste using a monolithic diffusion model	63
Circular waste management: Superworms as a sustainable solution for biodegradable plastic degradation and resource recovery	63
Quantification of indicator and pathogenic bacteria in manures and digestates from three agricultural biogas plants over a one-year period	62
Apply machine learning to predict greenhouse gas emissions in aerobic composting and achieve emission reduction by nanomembrane covering mode	62
Phosphorus role in bioconversions of food waste by black soldier fly larvae	62
Composition and selected properties of bio-waste collected in towns from single- and multi-family housing and in rural areas	61
Dual catalytic system using industrial solid waste and zeolite for enhanced aromatic hydrocarbon conversion from waste bamboo biomass	60
Frequent export of pig slurry for outside storage reduced methane but not ammonia emissions in cold and warm seasons	60
Recovery and recycling of silica fabric from waste printed circuit boards to develop epoxy composite for electrical and thermal insulation applications	60
Prediction of metal recovery potential of end-of-life NEV batteries in China based on GRA-BiLSTM	59
Identifying plastic materials in post-consumer food containers and packaging waste using terahertz spectroscopy and machine learning	59
Soil flushing for remediation of landfill leachate-contaminated soil: A comprehensive evaluation of optimal flushing agents and influencing factors	58
Deep eutectic solvent as a solution for polyester/cotton textile recycling	58
Sulfuric acid leaching of ball-milling activated FePO4 residue after lithium extraction from spent lithium iron phosphate cathode powder	58
Natural and recyclable alginate hydrogels as extracting media for recovering valuable metals of spent lithium-ion batteries from a deep eutectic solvent	57
Real-time construction demolition waste detection using state-of-the-art deep learning methods; single–stage vs two-stage detectors	57