OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of npj Clean Water is 13. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater: a comprehensive and critical review	694
Recent developments in hazardous pollutants removal from wastewater and water reuse within a circular economy	148
Removal of drug and dye from aqueous solutions by graphene oxide: Adsorption studies and chemometrics methods	120
A comprehensive review on the chemical regeneration of biochar adsorbent for sustainable wastewater treatment	118
Emerging contaminants affect the microbiome of water systems—strategies for their mitigation	91
Preliminarily comparative performance of removing bisphenol-S by ferrate oxidation and ozonation	81
A critical review on nanomaterials membrane bioreactor (NMs-MBR) for wastewater treatment	77
Proclivities for prevalence and treatment of antibiotics in the ambient water: a review	76
Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England	73
A critical review of point-of-use drinking water treatment in the United States	65
Seawater desalination concentrate—a new frontier for sustainable mining of valuable minerals	64
A comprehensive review on LDH-based catalysts to activate persulfates for the degradation of organic pollutants	45
A review of the impact of environmental factors on the fate and transport of coronaviruses in aqueous environments	44
Pathways to a net-zero-carbon water sector through energy-extracting wastewater technologies	42
Heavy metal and organic dye removal via a hybrid porous hexagonal boron nitride-based magnetic aerogel	42
Application of chemometrics for modeling and optimization of ultrasound-assisted dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction for the simultaneous determination of dyes	41
Long-lasting, monovalent-selective capacitive deionization electrodes	40
A review of advances in freeze desalination and future prospects	39
Revisiting the “forever chemicals”, PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water	38
Optimization, kinetics and thermodynamics studies for photocatalytic degradation of Methylene Blue using cadmium selenide nanoparticles	37
A twilight for the complete nitrogen removal via synergistic partial-denitrification, anammox, and DNRA process	36
Data centre water consumption	35
Safeguarding the microbial water quality from source to tap	33
Long-term water conservation is fostered by smart meter-based feedback and digital user engagement	32
Hexavalent chromium reduction and Rhodamine B degradation by visible-light-driven photocatalyst of stannum indium sulfide-samarium vanadate	31

Reverse osmosis membrane biofouling: causes, consequences and countermeasures	31
Metal-organic framework modified hydrophilic polyvinylidene fluoride porous membrane for efficient degerming selective oil/water emulsion separation	31
A three-dimensional antifungal wooden cone evaporator for highly efficient solar steam generation	29
A hydrate-based zero liquid discharge method for high-concentration organic wastewater: resource recovery and water reclamation	28
A thermodynamic platform for evaluating the energy efficiency of combined power generation and desalination plants	27
Self-supplied drinking water in low- and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific	27
Activated sludge models at the crossroad of artificial intelligence—A perspective on advancing process modeling	26
Achieving fast start-up of anammox process by promoting the growth of anammox bacteria with FeS addition	25
Increasingly frequent extreme weather events urge the development of point-of-use water treatment systems	24
Climate change extreme and seasonal toxic metal occurrence in Romanian freshwaters in the last two decades—case study and critical review	22
Pore-size engineered nanoporous silica for efficient adsorption cooling and desalination cycle	21
The how tough is WASH framework for assessing the climate resilience of water and sanitation	21
Experimental investigation of porous carbon for cooling and desalination applications	21
A bibliometric study on biomimetic and bioinspired membranes for water filtration	21
The efficacy of chlorine-based disinfectants against planktonic and biofilm bacteria for decentralised point-of-use drinking water	21
Transition of antimicrobial resistome in wastewater treatment plants: impact of process configuration, geographical location and season	20
Faecal pollution source tracking in the holy Bagmati River by portable 16S rRNA gene sequencing	20
Measuring the gaps in drinking water quality and policy across regional and remote Australia	20
Nanosilica modified with polyaspartic acid as an industrial circulating water scale inhibitor	20
Potential discharge, attenuation and exposure risk of SARS-CoV-2 in natural water bodies receiving treated wastewater	20
Flexible modeling and control of capacitive-deionization processes through a linear-state-space dynamic Langmuir model	19
Low-pressure-driven special wettable graphene oxide-based membrane for efficient separation of water-in-oil emulsions	19
Quorum quenching, biological characteristics, and microbial community dynamics as key factors for combating fouling of membrane bioreactors	19
The determinants of household water consumption: A review and assessment framework for research and practice	19
Inorganic–organic hybrid quantum dots for AOP-mediated photodegradation of ofloxacin and para-nitrophenol in diverse water matrices	18
Detection of untreated sewage discharges to watercourses using machine learning	18
Solar water purification with photocatalytic nanocomposite filter based on TiO2 nanowires and carbon nanotubes	18
Towards the realisation of high permi-selective MoS2 membrane for water desalination	18
Exploiting interfacial polymerization to fabricate hyper-cross-linked nanofiltration membrane with a constituent linear aliphatic amine for freshwater production	18
The efficacious of AOP-based processes in concert with electrocoagulation in abatement of CECs from water/wastewater	17
Removal and recovery of ammonia from simulated wastewater using Ti3C2Tx MXene in flow electrode capacitive deionization	17
Spatial analysis connects excess water pollution discharge, industrial production, and consumption at the sectoral level	17
Changes in China’s river water quality since 1980: management implications from sustainable development	17
Biogenic silver nanoparticles-modified forward osmosis membranes with mitigated internal concentration polarization and enhanced antibacterial properties	17
Forward osmosis (FO)-reverse osmosis (RO) hybrid process incorporated with hollow fiber FO	17
New sustainable utilization approach of livestock manure: Conversion to dual-reaction-center Fenton-like catalyst for water purification	16
Author Correction: Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater: a comprehensive and critical review	16
Global navigation of Lithium in water bodies and emerging human health crisis	16
Labeo rohita, a bioindicator for water quality and associated biomarkers of heavy metal toxicity	16
Investigating bio-remediation capabilities of a constructed wetland through spatial successional study of the sediment microbiome	16
Biosorption removal of iron from water by Aspergillus niger	15
Electrohydrodynamic atomization of CNT on PTFE membrane for scaling resistant membranes in membrane distillation	15
Phosphorus removal and recovery from wastewater via hybrid ion exchange nanotechnology: a study on sustainable regeneration chemistries	14
Analysis and ranking of corrosion causes for water pipelines: a critical review	14
Recognizing the groundwater related to chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology by humic-like organic matter	14
Iron-organic frameworks as effective fenton-like catalysts for peroxymonosulfate decomposition in advanced oxidation processes	14
Relative importance of organic- and iron-based colloids in six Nova Scotian lakes	13
Pyridinic N anchored Ag and Au hybrids for detoxification of organic pollutants	13
Highly durable and sustainable heterogeneous fabric using in-and-out fluorinated urethane coating for elimination of bacteria and oil–water separation	13
Electrostatic forces and higher order curvature terms of Young–Laplace equation on nanobubble stability in water	13

Drinking water consumption and association between actual and perceived risks of endocrine disrupting compounds	13
Comprehensive characterization of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in wastewater by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and screening algorithms	13
Degradation of bisphenol A in an oxidation system constructed from Mo2C MXene and peroxymonosulfate	13
Proposing two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks material for the capture of phenol molecules from wastewaters	13