OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Water Environment Research is 21. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of three different microplastics on enzyme activities and microbial communities in soil	144
Per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances thermal destruction at water resource recovery facilities: A state of the science review	78
Advances in water treatment technologies for removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Existing concepts, emerging trends, and future prospects	66
Groundwater pollution: Occurrence, detection, and remediation of organic and inorganic pollutants	58
Textiles wastewater treatment technology: A review	54
Degradation of azo dye Acid Red 14 (AR14) from aqueous solution using H₂O₂/nZVI and S₂O₈^2–/nZVI processes in the presence of UV irradiation	48
The removal efficiency and mechanism of microplastic enhancement by positive modification dissolved air flotation	45
Effects of hydrodynamics on the cross‐sectional distribution and transport of plastic in an urban coastal river	44
Adsorptive removal of enrofloxacin with magnetic functionalized graphene oxide@ metal–organic frameworks employing D‐optimal mixture design	42
Fate of environmental pollutants: A review	39
Copper (II) removal in a column reactor using electrocoagulation: Parametric optimization by response surface methodology using central composite design	35
A review of graphene‐TiO₂ and graphene‐ZnO nanocomposite photocatalysts for wastewater treatment	35
Advances and challenges of mainstream nitrogen removal from municipal wastewater with anammox‐based processes	34
Biodegradation and biosorption of Reactive Red 120 dye by immobilized Pseudomonas guariconensis: Kinetic and toxicity study	34
Radioactive waste: A review	31
Metagenomic prediction analysis of microbial aggregation in anammox‐dominated community	29
Contaminants of emerging concern in aquatic environment: Occurrence, monitoring, fate, and risk assessment	27
Impacts of conductive materials on microbial community during syntrophic propionate oxidization for biomethane recovery	26
Advances in the use of microalgal–bacterial consortia for wastewater treatment: Community structures, interactions, economic resource reclamation, and study techniques	26
Mechanistic understanding of the pollutant removal and transformation processes in the constructed wetland system	25
Comparison of the performance of decision tree (DT) algorithms and extreme learning machine (ELM) model in the prediction of water quality of the Upper Green River watershed	22
Role of thermal decomposition process in the photocatalytic or photoluminescence properties of BiPO₄ polymorphs	21
Photocatalytic oxidative degradation of hydrocarbon pollutants in refinery wastewater using TiO₂ as catalyst	21
Nitrogen removal performance and characteristics of gel beads immobilized anammox bacteria under different PVA:SA ratios	21
Investigation of textile dyeing effluent using activated sludge system to assess the removal efficiency	21

The destruction of Escherichia coli adhered to pipe surfaces in a model drinking water distribution system via various antibiofilm agents	21
An experimental investigation on phytoremediation performance of water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes L.) for pollutants removal from paper mill effluent	21