OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Waste Management is 58. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Trustworthy and Human Centric neural network approaches for prediction of landfill methane emission and sustainable waste management practices	207
Microwave absorbent enhancement of multi-thermal field effect: Pyrolysis of waste printed circuit boards	199
Recovery and recycling of silica fabric from waste printed circuit boards to develop epoxy composite for electrical and thermal insulation applications	189
Editorial Board	178
Quantitative water content estimation in landfills through joint inversion of seismic refraction and electrical resistivity data considering surface conduction	176
Evaluating the impact of drying on leaching from a solidified/stabilized waste using a monolithic diffusion model	161
Leaching behavior and release mechanism of pollutants from different depths in a phosphogypsum stockpile	149
Sulfuric acid leaching of ball-milling activated FePO4 residue after lithium extraction from spent lithium iron phosphate cathode powder	147
High hydrophobic silanized paper: Material characterization and its biodegradation through brown rot fungus	142
Composition and selected properties of bio-waste collected in towns from single- and multi-family housing and in rural areas	141
Identifying plastic materials in post-consumer food containers and packaging waste using terahertz spectroscopy and machine learning	133
Green illusions in self-reporting? Reassessing the intention-behavior gap in waste recycling behaviors	127
What activities reduce plastic waste the most? – The path to a circular economy for Japan’s manufacturing industry	127
Energy effective utilization of circulating fluidized bed fly ash to prepare silicon-aluminum composite aerogel and gypsum	127
Coagulation studies on photodegraded and photocatalytically degraded polystyrene microplastics using polyaluminium chloride	119
High-rate in-vessel continuous composting of olive mill byproducts	110
Influence of long-term natural degradation processes on near-infrared spectra and sorting of post-consumer plastics	108
Structural study and metal speciation assessments of waste PCBs and environmental implications: Outlooks for choosing efficient recycling routes	102
Techno-economic and environmental assessments for sustainable bio-methanol production as landfill gas valorization	102
Real-time construction demolition waste detection using state-of-the-art deep learning methods; single–stage vs two-stage detectors	98
Efficient conversion of waste-to-SNG via hybrid renewable energy systems for circular economy: Process design, energy, and environmental analysis	98
A comparative pyrolysis study of different waste wind turbine blade parts: Kinetics, product distribution and evolution, and economics	95
Contaminants of concern (CoCs) pivotal in assessing the fate of MSW incineration bottom ash (MIBA): First results from India and analogy between several countries	93
Soil flushing for remediation of landfill leachate-contaminated soil: A comprehensive evaluation of optimal flushing agents and influencing factors	91
Natural and recyclable alginate hydrogels as extracting media for recovering valuable metals of spent lithium-ion batteries from a deep eutectic solvent	87

Biochemical, hydrological and mechanical behaviors of high food waste content MSW landfill: Numerical simulation analysis of a large-scale experiment	85
Earthworms and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) cooperate to promote the biodegradation of tetracycline residues in livestock manure	84
Social Hotspot analysis of the e-waste sector in Ghana and Nigeria	81
Physicochemical properties of carbon-based materials enhance in situ biomethanation performances under organic overload	79
Strategies for industrial residue valorization through metal recovery, use in construction, or CO2 mineralization	78
Migration and transformation of sulfur during pyrolysis of waste tires for high-value utilization of poly-generation products	77
Incinerator ash characterization – Implications for elevated temperature landfills	74
Techno-economic and scalability analysis of nitrogen plasma gasification of medical waste	74
Frequent export of pig slurry for outside storage reduced methane but not ammonia emissions in cold and warm seasons	73
Innovative hydrothermal technique in efficient disengagement of waste solar panels	73
Detection of degraded high-density polyethylene via near-infrared hyperspectral imaging	72
Advanced data augmentation techniques to enhance instance segmentation dataset for construction and demolition waste management	72
Preferential and efficient extraction of lithium under the combined action of reduction of herb-medicine residue and leaching of oxalic acid	69
Thermal and mechanical characterization of composite materials from industrial plastic wastes and recycled nylon fibers for floor paving tiles application	67
Prediction of metal recovery potential of end-of-life NEV batteries in China based on GRA-BiLSTM	66
A novel subcritical water synergistic co-treatment of brominated epoxy resin and copper-based spent catalysts: debromination, phenol production, and copper recovery	66
Plastics to fuel or plastics: Life cycle assessment-based evaluation of different options for pyrolysis at end-of-life	66
The development of China's Circular Economy: From the perspective of environmental regulation	65
Quantification of indicator and pathogenic bacteria in manures and digestates from three agricultural biogas plants over a one-year period	65
Insights on dissolved organic matter and bacterial community succession during secondary composting in residue after black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens L.) bioconversion for food waste treatm	64
Insight into SO4(-II)- dependent anaerobic methane oxidation in landfill: Dual-substrates dynamics model, microbial community, function and metabolic pathway	64
Waste LCA and the future	63
Circular waste management: Superworms as a sustainable solution for biodegradable plastic degradation and resource recovery	62
Low-carbon and high-value utilization of hazardous industrial organic waste: From molecular mechanism to application	62
Enhanced lactic acid production from household food waste under hyperthermophilic conditions: Mechanisms and regulation	62
On the use of plastic precursors for preparation of activated carbons and their evaluation in CO2 capture for biogas upgrading: a review	61
Efficient recovery of valuable metals from cathode materials of spent LiCoO2 batteries via co-pyrolysis with cheap carbonaceous materials	60
Charting the electric vehicle battery reuse and recycling network in North America	59
How microplastics affect sludge pyrolysis behavior: Thermogravimetry-mass spectrum analysis and biochar characteristics	59
Environmental sustainability of an integrate anaerobic digestion-composting treatment of food waste: Analysis of an Italian plant in the circular bioeconomy strategy	59
Machine learning-aided unveiling the relationship between chemical pretreatment and methane production of lignocellulosic waste	59
Microbial community assembly and chemical dynamics of raw brewers’ spent grain during inoculated and spontaneous solid-state fermentation	59
Current state of building demolition and potential for selective dismantling in Vietnam	58
Geotechnical characterization of municipal solid waste via cone penetration testing – A case study from landfills in Delhi, India	58
Effects of different conditions tested “in vitro” on the phosphorus runoff potential of livestock manure	58
Editorial Board	58