OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Clean Water is 29. 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
Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater: a comprehensive and critical review	733
Recent developments in hazardous pollutants removal from wastewater and water reuse within a circular economy	160
A comprehensive review on the chemical regeneration of biochar adsorbent for sustainable wastewater treatment	132
Removal of drug and dye from aqueous solutions by graphene oxide: Adsorption studies and chemometrics methods	127
Preliminarily comparative performance of removing bisphenol-S by ferrate oxidation and ozonation	83
A critical review on nanomaterials membrane bioreactor (NMs-MBR) for wastewater treatment	78
Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England	74
Seawater desalination concentrate—a new frontier for sustainable mining of valuable minerals	70
A critical review of point-of-use drinking water treatment in the United States	65
A comprehensive review on LDH-based catalysts to activate persulfates for the degradation of organic pollutants	51
Pathways to a net-zero-carbon water sector through energy-extracting wastewater technologies	45
A review of the impact of environmental factors on the fate and transport of coronaviruses in aqueous environments	44
Heavy metal and organic dye removal via a hybrid porous hexagonal boron nitride-based magnetic aerogel	43
Application of chemometrics for modeling and optimization of ultrasound-assisted dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction for the simultaneous determination of dyes	42
Revisiting the “forever chemicals”, PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water	41
Long-lasting, monovalent-selective capacitive deionization electrodes	41
A review of advances in freeze desalination and future prospects	40
Optimization, kinetics and thermodynamics studies for photocatalytic degradation of Methylene Blue using cadmium selenide nanoparticles	40
A twilight for the complete nitrogen removal via synergistic partial-denitrification, anammox, and DNRA process	37
Hexavalent chromium reduction and Rhodamine B degradation by visible-light-driven photocatalyst of stannum indium sulfide-samarium vanadate	35
Data centre water consumption	35
Safeguarding the microbial water quality from source to tap	35
Long-term water conservation is fostered by smart meter-based feedback and digital user engagement	33
Reverse osmosis membrane biofouling: causes, consequences and countermeasures	32
A hydrate-based zero liquid discharge method for high-concentration organic wastewater: resource recovery and water reclamation	32

Metal-organic framework modified hydrophilic polyvinylidene fluoride porous membrane for efficient degerming selective oil/water emulsion separation	32
Self-supplied drinking water in low- and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific	30
A three-dimensional antifungal wooden cone evaporator for highly efficient solar steam generation	30
A thermodynamic platform for evaluating the energy efficiency of combined power generation and desalination plants	29