OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of npj Clean Water is 14. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater: a comprehensive and critical review	622
Recent developments in hazardous pollutants removal from wastewater and water reuse within a circular economy	133
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak: some serious consequences with urban and rural water cycle	118
Removal of drug and dye from aqueous solutions by graphene oxide: Adsorption studies and chemometrics methods	112
A comprehensive review on the chemical regeneration of biochar adsorbent for sustainable wastewater treatment	109
Emerging contaminants affect the microbiome of water systems—strategies for their mitigation	85
Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England	77
A critical review on nanomaterials membrane bioreactor (NMs-MBR) for wastewater treatment	77
Preliminarily comparative performance of removing bisphenol-S by ferrate oxidation and ozonation	76
Proclivities for prevalence and treatment of antibiotics in the ambient water: a review	73
A critical review of point-of-use drinking water treatment in the United States	63
Seawater desalination concentrate—a new frontier for sustainable mining of valuable minerals	59
Drinking water quality and the SDGs	54
A review of the impact of environmental factors on the fate and transport of coronaviruses in aqueous environments	43
Heavy metal and organic dye removal via a hybrid porous hexagonal boron nitride-based magnetic aerogel	40
Application of chemometrics for modeling and optimization of ultrasound-assisted dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction for the simultaneous determination of dyes	39
Pathways to a net-zero-carbon water sector through energy-extracting wastewater technologies	37
A comprehensive review on LDH-based catalysts to activate persulfates for the degradation of organic pollutants	36
Long-lasting, monovalent-selective capacitive deionization electrodes	35
A twilight for the complete nitrogen removal via synergistic partial-denitrification, anammox, and DNRA process	34
Data centre water consumption	34
A review of advances in freeze desalination and future prospects	34
A framework for monitoring the safety of water services: from measurements to security	32
Optimization, kinetics and thermodynamics studies for photocatalytic degradation of Methylene Blue using cadmium selenide nanoparticles	32
Microbial niche nexus sustaining biological wastewater treatment	31

Long-term water conservation is fostered by smart meter-based feedback and digital user engagement	30
Safeguarding the microbial water quality from source to tap	29
Revisiting the “forever chemicals”, PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water	29
Metal-organic framework modified hydrophilic polyvinylidene fluoride porous membrane for efficient degerming selective oil/water emulsion separation	28
Reverse osmosis membrane biofouling: causes, consequences and countermeasures	26
Using generalized additive models to investigate the environmental effects on pipe failure in clean water networks	26
A hydrate-based zero liquid discharge method for high-concentration organic wastewater: resource recovery and water reclamation	25
Achieving fast start-up of anammox process by promoting the growth of anammox bacteria with FeS addition	24
Self-supplied drinking water in low- and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific	23
Activated sludge models at the crossroad of artificial intelligence—A perspective on advancing process modeling	23
Hexavalent chromium reduction and Rhodamine B degradation by visible-light-driven photocatalyst of stannum indium sulfide-samarium vanadate	23
A thermodynamic platform for evaluating the energy efficiency of combined power generation and desalination plants	22
A three-dimensional antifungal wooden cone evaporator for highly efficient solar steam generation	22
Climate change extreme and seasonal toxic metal occurrence in Romanian freshwaters in the last two decades—case study and critical review	21
A bibliometric study on biomimetic and bioinspired membranes for water filtration	21
Potential discharge, attenuation and exposure risk of SARS-CoV-2 in natural water bodies receiving treated wastewater	20
The efficacy of chlorine-based disinfectants against planktonic and biofilm bacteria for decentralised point-of-use drinking water	20
Flexible modeling and control of capacitive-deionization processes through a linear-state-space dynamic Langmuir model	19
Thermocatalytic membrane distillation for clean water production	19
Pore-size engineered nanoporous silica for efficient adsorption cooling and desalination cycle	19
Nanosilica modified with polyaspartic acid as an industrial circulating water scale inhibitor	18
Detection of untreated sewage discharges to watercourses using machine learning	18
Quorum quenching, biological characteristics, and microbial community dynamics as key factors for combating fouling of membrane bioreactors	18
Measuring the gaps in drinking water quality and policy across regional and remote Australia	18
Increasingly frequent extreme weather events urge the development of point-of-use water treatment systems	18
Solar water purification with photocatalytic nanocomposite filter based on TiO2 nanowires and carbon nanotubes	17
Exploiting interfacial polymerization to fabricate hyper-cross-linked nanofiltration membrane with a constituent linear aliphatic amine for freshwater production	17
Faecal pollution source tracking in the holy Bagmati River by portable 16S rRNA gene sequencing	17
Transition of antimicrobial resistome in wastewater treatment plants: impact of process configuration, geographical location and season	17
Towards the realisation of high permi-selective MoS2 membrane for water desalination	17
The how tough is WASH framework for assessing the climate resilience of water and sanitation	17
Spatial analysis connects excess water pollution discharge, industrial production, and consumption at the sectoral level	17
Forward osmosis (FO)-reverse osmosis (RO) hybrid process incorporated with hollow fiber FO	17
Experimental investigation of porous carbon for cooling and desalination applications	16
The efficacious of AOP-based processes in concert with electrocoagulation in abatement of CECs from water/wastewater	15
Labeo rohita, a bioindicator for water quality and associated biomarkers of heavy metal toxicity	15
Waterborne pathogen monitoring in Jaipur, India reveals potential microbial risks of urban groundwater supply	15
The determinants of household water consumption: A review and assessment framework for research and practice	15
Author Correction: Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater: a comprehensive and critical review	15
From data to decisions: understanding information flows within regulatory water quality monitoring programs	14
Biogenic silver nanoparticles-modified forward osmosis membranes with mitigated internal concentration polarization and enhanced antibacterial properties	14
Phosphorus removal and recovery from wastewater via hybrid ion exchange nanotechnology: a study on sustainable regeneration chemistries	14
Global navigation of Lithium in water bodies and emerging human health crisis	14
Removal and recovery of ammonia from simulated wastewater using Ti3C2Tx MXene in flow electrode capacitive deionization	14
Low-pressure-driven special wettable graphene oxide-based membrane for efficient separation of water-in-oil emulsions	14