OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering is 12. 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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The source and transport of bioaerosols in the air: A review	98
Preventing masks from becoming the next plastic problem	95
Research progress on distribution, sources, identification, toxicity, and biodegradation of microplastics in the ocean, freshwater, and soil environment	91
Repercussions of COVID-19 pandemic on solid waste generation and management strategies	90
A novel hybrid model for water quality prediction based on VMD and IGOA optimized for LSTM	65
A review on sustainable reuse applications of Fenton sludge during wastewater treatment	58
Achievements, challenges and global implications of China’s carbon neutral pledge	55
One-pot hydrothermal fabrication of BiVO4/Fe3O4/rGO composite photocatalyst for the simulated solar light-driven degradation of Rhodamine B	55
What have we known so far for fluorescence staining and quantification of microplastics: A tutorial review	51
Bacteriophages in water pollution control: Advantages and limitations	47
Metagenomic analysis on resistance genes in water and microplastics from a mariculture system	46
The main anammox-based processes, the involved microbes and the novel process concept from the application perspective	46
Inactivation and risk control of pathogenic microorganisms in municipal sludge treatment: A review	44
Visible-light-driven heterostructured g-C3N4/Bi-TiO2 floating photocatalyst with enhanced charge carrier separation for photocatalytic inactivation of Microcystis aeruginosa	44
Fabrication of magnetic multi-template molecularly imprinted polymer composite for the selective and efficient removal of tetracyclines from water	43
Microbial biodegradation of plastics: Challenges, opportunities, and a critical perspective	42
New insights into different surfactants’ impacts on sludge fermentation: Focusing on the particular metabolic processes and microbial genetic traits	41
Identification of sources, characteristics and photochemical transformations of dissolved organic matter with EEM-PARAFAC in the Wei River of China	40
Human health ambient water quality criteria for 13 heavy metals and health risk assessment in Taihu Lake	39
Advancing ion-exchange membranes to ion-selective membranes: principles, status, and opportunities	38
Environmental effects and risk control of antibiotic resistance genes in the organic solid waste aerobic composting system: A review	38
Mechanism and characterization of microplastic aging process: A review	38
Aerosol transmission, an indispensable route of COVID-19 spread: case study of a department-store cluster	37
Simultaneous Feammox and anammox process facilitated by activated carbon as an electron shuttle for autotrophic biological nitrogen removal	37
Interaction and combined toxicity of microplastics and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in aquatic environment	36

Quorum sensing regulation methods and their effects on biofilm in biological waste treatment systems: A review	36
What have we known so far about microplastics in drinking water treatment? A timely review	35
Microplastics removal strategies: A step toward finding the solution	35
Fate and risk assessment of emerging contaminants in reclaimed water production processes	35
Overlooked nitrogen-cycling microorganisms in biological wastewater treatment	34
Zero E-waste: Regulatory impediments and blockchain imperatives	34
Partial anammox achieved in full scale biofilm process for typical domestic wastewater treatment	34
Global perspectives and future research directions for the phytoremediation of heavy metal-contaminated soil: A knowledge mapping analysis from 2001 to 2020	33
Tuning the primary selective nanochannels of MOF thin-film nanocomposite nanofiltration membranes for efficient removal of hydrophobic endocrine disrupting compounds	32
Enhancing the adsorption function of biochar by mechanochemical graphitization for organic pollutant removal	31
Fate of microplastics in a coastal wastewater treatment plant: Microfibers could partially break through the integrated membrane system	31
Hormesis-like growth and photosynthetic physiology of marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin exposed to polystyrene microplastics	31
Bioinspired and biomimetic membranes for water purification and chemical separation: A review	29
Recent advances in antimony removal using carbon-based nanomaterials: A review	29
δ15N-stable isotope analysis of NHx: An overview on analytical measurements, source sampling and its source apportionment	28
Challenges in characterization of nanoplastics in the environment	27
Concurrent adsorption and reduction of chromium(VI) to chromium(III) using nitrogen-doped porous carbon adsorbent derived from loofah sponge	27
Formation of disinfection by-products during sodium hypochlorite cleaning of fouled membranes from membrane bioreactors	27
Perfluoroalkane acids in human milk under the global monitoring plan of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2008–2019)	27
A hybrid Wavelet-CNN-LSTM deep learning model for short-term urban water demand forecasting	27
Effects of manufactured nanomaterials on algae: Implications and applications	26
Water resource conservation promotes synergy between economy and environment in China’s northern drylands	26
Techno-economic characteristics of wastewater treatment plants retrofitted from the conventional activated sludge process to the membrane bioreactor process	25
Development of machine learning multi-city model for municipal solid waste generation prediction	25
Homogeneous and heterogeneous photolysis of nitrate in the atmosphere: state of the science, current research needs, and future prospects	25
Mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic digestion of swine manure with sulfamethoxazole and norfloxacin: Dynamics of microbial communities and evolution of resistance genes	24
Advances in airborne microorganisms detection using biosensors: A critical review	24
Distribution of antibiotic resistance genes and their association with bacteria and viruses in decentralized sewage treatment facilities	24
PICRUSt2 functionally predicts organic compounds degradation and sulfate reduction pathways in an acidogenic bioreactor	24
Effect of the ultraviolet/chlorine process on microbial community structure, typical pathogens, and antibiotic resistance genes in reclaimed water	24
Occurrence and distribution of micro- and mesoplastics in the high-latitude nature reserve, northern China	24
Is atmospheric oxidation capacity better in indicating tropospheric O3 formation?	23
A heterotrophic nitrification-aerobic denitrification bacterium Halomonas venusta TJPU05 suitable for nitrogen removal from high-salinity wastewater	23
Recent advances, challenges, and perspectives on carbon capture	22
Preparation of nZVI embedded modified mesoporous carbon for catalytic persulfate to degradation of reactive black 5	22
Characterization and seasonal distribution of microplastics in the nearshore sediments of the south-east coast of India, Bay of Bengal	21
Adsorption behavior of imidacloprid pesticide on polar microplastics under environmental conditions: critical role of photo-aging	21
Integrated energy view of wastewater treatment: A potential of electrochemical biodegradation	21
Effect of gastric fluid on adsorption and desorption of endocrine disrupting chemicals on microplastics	21
Co-pyrolysis of sludge and kaolin/zeolite in a rotary kiln: Analysis of stabilizing heavy metals	21
China’s carbon neutrality: an extensive and profound systemic reform	21
Flocculation behaviors of a novel papermaking sludge-based flocculant in practical printing and dyeing wastewater treatment	20
Effectiveness of tertiary treatment processes in removing different classes of emerging contaminants from domestic wastewater	20
Recent advances in electrochemical decontamination of perfluorinated compounds from water: a review	19
Polypropylene microplastics alter the cadmium adsorption capacity on different soil solid fractions	19
Anaerobic digestion of sludge by different pretreatments: Changes of amino acids and microbial community	19
Moving policy and regulation forward for single-use plastic alternatives	19
Highly degradable chitosan-montmorillonite (MMT) nano-composite hydrogel for controlled fertilizer release	19
Solvent-free mechanochemical mild oxidation method to enhance adsorption properties of chitosan	19
Bioinspired cellulose-based membranes in oily wastewater treatment	19

Online recognition of drainage type based on UV-vis spectra and derivative neural network algorithm	19
Effects of oxidizing environment on digestate humification and identification of substances governing the dissolved organic matter (DOM) transformation process	19
Antibiotic resistance genes in manure-amended paddy soils across eastern China: Occurrence and influencing factors	19
Technologies for pollutant removal and resource recovery from blackwater: a review	18
Sulfur mediated heavy metal biogeochemical cycles in coastal wetlands: From sediments, rhizosphere to vegetation	18
Cesium removal from radioactive wastewater by adsorption and membrane technology	18
Distinct community assembly processes underlie significant spatiotemporal dynamics of abundant and rare bacterioplankton in the Yangtze River	18
Reutilize tire in microbial fuel cell for enhancing the nitrogen removal of the anammox process coupled with iron-carbon micro-electrolysis	18
Energy neutrality potential of wastewater treatment plants: A novel evaluation framework integrating energy efficiency and recovery	18
A fast antibiotic detection method for simplified pretreatment through spectra-based machine learning	18
Win-Win: Anthropogenic circularity for metal criticality and carbon neutrality	17
Biotoxicity evaluation of zinc oxide nanoparticles on bacterial performance of activated sludge at COD, nitrogen, and phosphorus reduction	17
Electricity-driven ammonia oxidation and acetate production in microbial electrosynthesis systems	17
Occurrence and migration of microplastics and plasticizers in different wastewater and sludge treatment units in municipal wastewater treatment plant	17
A critical review of the emerging research on the detection and assessment of microplastics pollution in the coastal, marine, and urban Bangladesh	17
Four kinds of capping materials for controlling phosphorus and nitrogen release from contaminated sediment using a static simulation experiment	17
Insight into the promotion mechanism of activated carbon on the monolithic honeycomb red mud catalyst for selective catalytic reduction of NOx	16
Bacteria inactivation by sulfate radical: progress and non-negligible disinfection by-products	16
Dual-functional sites for synergistic adsorption of Cr(VI) and Sb(V) by polyaniline-TiO2 hydrate: Adsorption behaviors, sites and mechanisms	16
Highly effective visible-photocatalytic hydrogen evolution and simultaneous organic pollutant degradation over an urchin-like oxygen-doped MoS2/ZnIn2S4 composite	16
Identification of resistant pharmaceuticals in ozonation using QSAR modeling and their fate in electro-peroxone process	16
Responses of microbial interactions to elevated salinity in activated sludge microbial community	16
Application of heterogeneous catalysis to biodiesel synthesis using microalgae oil	16
Emerging contaminant control: From science to action	16
Bioaerosol emissions variations in large-scale landfill region and their health risk impacts	16
Enhanced cross-flow filtration with flat-sheet ceramic membranes by titanium-based coagulation for membrane fouling control	16
Impact of anthropogenic heat emissions on meteorological parameters and air quality in Beijing using a high-resolution model simulation	15
UV-LED/P25-based photocatalysis for effective degradation of isothiazolone biocide	15
MSWNet: A visual deep machine learning method adopting transfer learning based upon ResNet 50 for municipal solid waste sorting	15
Removal of steroid hormones from mariculture system using seaweed Caulerpa lentillifera	15
Experimental and computational assessment of 1,4-Dioxane degradation in a photo-Fenton reactive ceramic membrane filtration process	15
Occurrence, spatial and seasonal variation, and environmental risk of pharmaceutically active compounds in the Pearl River basin, South China	15
Influence of extracellular polymeric substances from activated sludge on the aggregation kinetics of silver and silver sulfide nanoparticles	15
Effects of different types of biochar on the properties and reactivity of nano zero-valent iron in soil remediation	15
Electroconductive RGO-MXene membranes with wettability-regulated channels: improved water permeability and electro-enhanced rejection performance	15
Twenty years of achievements in China’s implementation of the Stockholm Convention	15
Product identification and toxicity change during oxidation of methotrexate by ferrate and permanganate in water	14
Evaluating the impact of sulfamethoxazole on hydrogen production during dark anaerobic sludge fermentation	14
Understanding and addressing the environmental risk of microplastics	14
Ceramic membrane fouling mechanisms and control for water treatment	14
Enhancement of extracellular Cr(VI) reduction for anammox recovery using hydrazine: performance, pathways, and mechanism	14
Removal of odors and VOCs in municipal solid waste comprehensive treatment plants using a novel three-stage integrated biofilter: Performance and bioaerosol emissions	14
Preparation of reverse osmosis membrane with high permselectivity and anti-biofouling properties for desalination	14
Microplastics in municipal wastewater treatment plants: a case study of Denizli/Turkey	14
Hybrid energy harvesting systems for self-powered sustainable water purification by harnessing ambient energy	14
Water quality prediction of copper-molybdenum mining-beneficiation wastewater based on the PSO-SVR model	14
Comparative analysis of impact of human occupancy on indoor microbiomes	14
Separation/degradation behavior and mechanism for cationic/anionic dyes by Ag-functionalized Fe3O4-PDA core-shell adsorbents	14
Mechanism insight into the formation of H2S from thiophene pyrolysis: A theoretical study	13
Unveiling the interaction mechanisms of key functional microorganisms in the partial denitrification-anammox process induced by COD	13
Water quality soft-sensor prediction in anaerobic process using deep neural network optimized by Tree-structured Parzen Estimator	13
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for emerging contaminant analysis in drinking water	13
Research progress and prospects of complete ammonia oxidizing bacteria in wastewater treatment	13
Current status of municipal wastewater treatment plants in North-east China: implications for reforming and upgrading	13
V-shaped substrate for surface and volume enhanced Raman spectroscopic analysis of microplastics	13
Effective remediation of organic-metal co-contaminated soil by enhanced electrokinetic-bioremediation process	13
Translocation and biotoxicity of metal (oxide) nanoparticles in the wetland-plant system	13
Modelling the thresholds of nitrogen/phosphorus concentration and hydraulic retention time for bloom control in reclaimed water landscape	13
Distribution, characteristics and daily fluctuations of microplastics throughout wastewater treatment plants with mixed domestic—industrial influents in Wuxi City, China	13
Impacts of methanol fuel on vehicular emissions: A review	13
Insights into simultaneous anammox and denitrification system with short-term pyridine exposure: Process capability, inhibition kinetics and metabolic pathways	13
Chromium phytoextraction and physiological responses of the hyperaccumulator Leersia hexandra Swartz to plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium inoculation	13
Precise regulation of acid pretreatment for red mud SCR catalyst: Targeting on optimizing the acidity and reducibility	13
A Cu-modified active carbon fiber significantly promoted H2S and PH3 simultaneous removal at a low reaction temperature	13
Comparison of different valent iron on anaerobic sludge digestion: Focusing on oxidation reduction potential, dissolved organic nitrogen and microbial community	13
Characteristics of plankton Hg bioaccumulations based on a global data set and the implications for aquatic systems with aggravating nutrient imbalance	12
Source identification and prediction of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of Lake Taihu by an ensemble machine learning technique	12
Bioaerosolization behavior along sewage sludge biostabilization	12
Local and regional contributions to PM2.5 in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics infrastructure areas during haze episodes	12
Fluorescence detection of phosphate in an aqueous environment by an aluminum-based metal-organic framework with amido functionalized ligands	12
The road to sustainable use and waste management of plastics in Portugal	12
Using hydrochemical signatures to characterize the long-period evolution of groundwater information in the Dagu River Basin, China	12
Mitigating microbiological risks of potential pathogens carrying antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factors in receiving rivers: Benefits of wastewater treatment plant upgrade	12
A critical review on thermodynamic mechanisms of membrane fouling in membrane-based water treatment process	12
Research progress on synthesis of zeolites from coal fly ash and environmental applications	12
Electro-conductive crosslinked polyaniline/carbon nanotube nanofiltration membrane for electro-enhanced removal of bisphenol A	12
China Launched the First Wastewater Resource Recovery Factory in Yixing	12