OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering is 27. 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
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Nickel oxide nanoparticles synthesis using plant extract and evaluation of their antibacterial effects on Streptococcus mutans	88
Green synthesis of nickel oxide nanoparticles using Salvia hispanica L. (chia) seeds extract and studies of their photocatalytic activity and cytotoxicity effects	82
ZnO-based antimicrobial coatings for biomedical applications	69
Zinc oxide and zinc oxide-based nanostructures: biogenic and phytogenic synthesis, properties and applications	69
Fungal biosurfactants, from nature to biotechnological product: bioprospection, production and potential applications	64
Lab-scale photobioreactor systems: principles, applications, and scalability	55
Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification in moving bed bioreactor and other biological systems	49
A comprehensive review on the techniques for coconut oil extraction and its application	49
Industrial applications of immobilized nano-biocatalysts	45
Cerium oxide nanoparticles: green synthesis using Banana peel, cytotoxic effect, UV protection and their photocatalytic activity	45
Green synthesis of colloidal selenium nanoparticles in starch solutions and investigation of their photocatalytic, antimicrobial, and cytotoxicity effects	43
Comparison of microbial community structures between mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic digestion of vegetable waste	42
Microbial pigments as an alternative to synthetic dyes and food additives: a brief review of recent studies	40
Extracellular myco-synthesis of nano-silver using the fermentable yeasts Pichia kudriavzeviiHA-NY2 and Saccharomyces uvarumHA-NY3, and their effective biomedical applications	36
Facile green synthesis of Ag-doped ZnO/CaO nanocomposites with Caccinia macranthera seed extract and assessment of their cytotoxicity, antibacterial, and photocatalytic activity	35
Sustainable production of biofuels from the algae-derived biomass	35
Preparation and characterization of chitosan/Nano-ZnO composite film with antimicrobial activity	34
Effect of Mg doping on ZnO fabricated using aqueous leaf extract of Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. for antioxidant and antibacterial studies	34
Groundwater contamination status in Malaysia: level of heavy metal, source, health impact, and remediation technologies	34
Microalgal–bacterial granular sludge process for non-aerated aquaculture wastewater treatment	32
Extraction of chitin from Litopenaeus vannamei shell and its subsequent characterization: an approach of waste valorization through microbial bioprocessing	31
Cytotoxicity properties of plant-mediated synthesized K-doped ZnO nanostructures	29
The differences in characteristics of extracellular polymeric substances of flocs and anammox granules impacted aggregation	28
Biogenic silver nanoparticles as an antibacterial agent against bacterial leaf blight causing rice phytopathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae	28
Research advances on endophytic fungi and their bioactive metabolites	28

Performances of simultaneous enhanced removal of nitrogen and phosphorus via biological aerated filter with biochar as fillers under low dissolved oxygen for digested swine wastewater treatment	28
Design of experiment (DOE) applied to artificial neural network architecture enables rapid bioprocess improvement	27
Improvement of ethanol production in fed-batch fermentation using a mixture of sugarcane juice and molasse under very high-gravity conditions	27