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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Mitigating microbiological risks of potential pathogens carrying antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factors in receiving rivers: Benefits of wastewater treatment plant upgrade	113
Insights into the changes of amino acids, microbial community, and enzymatic activities related with the nutrient quality of product during the composting of food waste	86
Elucidate long-term changes of ozone in Shanghai based on an integrated machine learning method	79
NiB2O4 (B = Mn or Co) catalysts for NH3-SCR of NOx at low-temperature in microwave field	73
Analysis of the spatiotemporal evolution and drivers of environmental inequality based on well-being equity: evidence from Western China	72
Leveraging 3D printing in microbial electrochemistry research: current progress and future opportunities	68
Emergence of gasoline as a cheap and effective solvent for recycling shelf-stable multi-layer aseptic cartons	67
Adsorption of herring sperm DNA onto pine sawdust biochar: Thermodynamics and site energy distribution	56
Enrichment and transfer of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) through dust aerosol generation from soil to the air	56
A critical review of antibiotic resistance genes transmission driven by non-antibiotic pollutants: roles and molecular mechanisms	52
Recent advances in microplastics research: impacts on mammalian sperm and reproductive health	49
Spatial prediction of soil contamination based on machine learning: a review	44
Relationship between groundwater cadmium and vicinity resident urine cadmium levels in the non-ferrous metal smelting area, China	43
Effects of iron-oxidizing bacteria and humic acid of various molecular weights on iron corrosion in drinking water distribution systems	41
A novel deep learning framework with variational auto-encoder for indoor air quality prediction	40
Photoaging mechanism of microplastics: a perspective on the effect of dissolved organic matter in natural water	39
Appraisal of pollution and health risks associated with coal mine contaminated soil using multimodal statistical and Fuzzy-TOPSIS approaches	37
Microplastics in municipal wastewater treatment plants: a case study of Denizli/Turkey	37
Enhancing the efficiency of nitrogen removing bacterial population to a wide range of C:N ratio (1.5:1 to 14:1) for simultaneous C & N removal	36
Portable fluorescence instrument for detecting membrane integrity in membrane bioreactor (MBR)	36
Conductive and stable polyphenylene/CNT composite membrane for electrically enhanced membrane fouling mitigation	35
Occurrence, region-specific distribution and potential source of legacy and novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in grassland soils from remote pastoral areas, China	35
Photo-induced surface frustrated Lewis pairs for promoted photocatalytic decomposition of perfluorooctanoic acid	34
Biocide-resistant Klebsiella quasipneumoniae in seawater cooled system: a reservoir of efflux pumps driving cross-resistance to biocides and antibiotics	34
An antibiotic composite electrode for improving the sensitivity of electrochemically active biofilm biosensor	34

Monitoring fossil fuel CO2 emissions from co-emitted NO2 observed from space: progress, challenges, and future perspectives	34
Impact factors and pathways of halonitromethanes formation from aspartic acid during LED-UV265/chlorine disinfection	34
Nonlinear relationship between air pollution and precursor emissions in Qingdao, eastern China	33
Removal of endocrine disrupting chemicals from water through urethane functionalization of microfiltration membranes via electron beam irradiation	31
Research progress and prospects of complete ammonia oxidizing bacteria in wastewater treatment	31
Rapid monitoring of indoor airborne influenza and coronavirus with high air flowrate electrostatic sampling and PCR analysis	31
Microbial biodegradation of plastics: Challenges, opportunities, and a critical perspective	31
Thermal degradation and hydrolysis depolymerization of printing ink components for plastic packaging in recycling processes: a review	30
Cadmium removal mechanistic comparison of three Fe-based nanomaterials: Water-chemistry and roles of Fe dissolution	30
Sorption mechanisms of diphenylarsinic acid on natural magnetite and siderite: Evidence from sorption kinetics, sequential extraction and extended X-ray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy analysis	29
Cognitive impairment associated with individual and joint exposure to PM2.5 constituents in a Chinese national cohort	29
Climate change and its impact on environmental health: a narrative review of tropical countries	29
Micro-nano bubbles enhanced degradation of emerging contaminants by ferrous-oxalate complexes: synergistic interaction between oxidation and coagulation	29
Insights into seasonal temperature shifts on a robust composite-substrate autotrophic denitrification reactor for treating municipal secondary effluent	29
Tank-dependence of the functionality and network differentiation of activated sludge community in a full-scale anaerobic/anoxic/aerobic municipal sewage treatment plant	29
Machine learning assisted adsorption performance evaluation of biochar on heavy metal	28
Response of antibiotic and heavy metal resistance genes to the co-occurrence of gadolinium and sulfamethoxazole in activated sludge systems	28
Toxicity mechanisms of photodegraded polyvinyl chloride nanoplastics on pea seedlings	28
Mechanistic insights into the selective photocatalytic degradation of dyes over TiO2/ZSM-11	28
Process optimization and mechanism study of ionic liquid-based mixed amine biphasic solvents for CO2 capture in biogas upgrading procedure	28
Variation characteristics of atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide in summertime at a coastal site in the South China Sea	27
Co-pyrolysis of oil sludge with hydrogen-rich plastics in a vertical stirring reactor: Kinetic analysis, emissions, and products	27
Effects of acid deposition control in China: a review based on responses of subtropical forests	26
Discovery of emerging organic pollutants in the atmosphere through an omics approach	26
Modelling the thresholds of nitrogen/phosphorus concentration and hydraulic retention time for bloom control in reclaimed water landscape	26
Temperature-controlled self-assembly of Ce-based tubular boron carbon nitride for enhanced tetracyclines adsorption	25
Two-step hydrothermal conversion of biomass waste to humic acid using hydrochar as intermediate	24
Syngas production and heavy metal dynamics during supercritical water gasification of sewage sludge	24
Utilizing machine learning models to grasp water quality dynamic changes in lake eutrophication through phytoplankton parameters	24
Distribution characteristics and removal rate of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in different treatment processes of two drinking water plants	23
Construction of MOFs-based nanocomposite membranes for emerging organic contaminants abatement in water	23
Advances in bimetallic metal organic frameworks (BMOFs) based photocatalytic materials for energy production and waste water treatment	23
Multi-objective comparison of conventional and emerging wastewater treatment processes based on simulation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions	23
Struvite-loaded biochar beads fertilizer for different soils: nutrient slow release, soil properties improvement and heavy metal remediation	23
Variations in summertime ozone in Nanjing between 2015 and 2020: roles of meteorology, radical chain length and ozone production efficiency	23
Microbial specialists in high-altitude forest soils: environmental sensitivity and ecological significance	23
Chemodiversity of soil dissolved organic matter affected by contrasting microplastics from different types of polymers	23
Composition characterization and transformation mechanism of dissolved organic phosphorus in wastewater treatment using 31P NMR spectroscopy	22
Integrated risk assessment framework for transformation products of emerging contaminants: what we know and what we should know	22
Spatiotemporal characteristics and Monte Carlo simulation-based human health risk of heavy metals in soils from a typical coal-mining city in eastern China	22
How variations in DOM components affect the stability of microbial communities in drinking water supply system: from source to tap	22
China’s carbon neutrality: an extensive and profound systemic reform	22
Target the neglected VOCs emission from iron and steel industry in China for air quality improvement	22
Data-driven machine learning quantifies ozone transport in the Hangzhou Bay urban cluster	21
Jellyfish-inspired alginate composite hydrogel filter prepared by macro-micro double bionic strategy for efficient water purification	21
Evaluating the impact of sulfamethoxazole on hydrogen production during dark anaerobic sludge fermentation	21
Enhanced electron transfer in Fe–N–C catalysts for nitrobenzene reduction: from electrodes to functional materials	20
Compaction as a cost-effective strategy to upgrade the disposal of MSWI fly ash: feasibility and potential	20
Increasing flow velocity promotes nitrification and denitrification in benthic biofilms via enhancing the diversity and potential predation behavior among multi-trophic microorganisms	20
Dual role of Mn in regulating structural and functional sites of Ag-based catalysts for selective catalytic oxidation of high-concentration NH3	20

Electrocatalytic biofilm reactor for effective and energy-efficient azo dye degradation: the synergistic effect of MnOx/Ti flow-through anode and biofilm on the cathode	19
Long-term exposure to air pollution and cerebrovascular disease: findings from Beijing Health Management Cohort study	19
Chromium phytoextraction and physiological responses of the hyperaccumulator Leersia hexandra Swartz to plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium inoculation	19
Numerical modeling and performance evaluation of passive convergence-permeable reactive barrier (PC-PRB)	19
Uncovering self-catalytic and phase boundary-driven interactions in the pyrolysis kinetics of wasted printed circuit boards: co-existing materials and the atmosphere	19
Research progress on synthesis of zeolites from coal fly ash and environmental applications	18
Cesium removal from radioactive wastewater by adsorption and membrane technology	18
Differences in distributions, assembly mechanisms, and putative interactions of AOB and NOB at a large spatial scale	18
Responses of microbial interactions to elevated salinity in activated sludge microbial community	18
The γ-MnO2/NF mediated peroxymonosulfate activation for expeditious 2,4,6-trichlorophenol degradation: performance, pathways, and mechanism	18
Microbial-driven ectopic uranium extraction with net electrical energy production	18
Three-dimensional electrochemical system (3DES) for coking wastewater treatment: a comprehensive review	18
Cr-containing wastewater treatment based on Cr self-catalysis: a critical review	17
Homogeneous and heterogeneous photolysis of nitrate in the atmosphere: state of the science, current research needs, and future prospects	17
“Forever chemicals”: a sticky environmental problem	17
Win-Win: Anthropogenic circularity for metal criticality and carbon neutrality	17
Correction to: Pollution characteristics and ecological risk assessment of glucocorticoids in the Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River Basin	17
Hybrid energy harvesting systems for self-powered sustainable water purification by harnessing ambient energy	17
Photo-transformation of nitrate and fulvic acid driven by guest iron minerals	17
Stereoselective effects and its potential mechanism of ofloxacin on the growth and development of Rana nigromaculata: mainly liver lipid metabolism	17
Is atmospheric oxidation capacity better in indicating tropospheric O3 formation?	17
New perspectives in free nitrous acid (FNA) uses for sustainable wastewater management	17
Revealing the GHG reduction potential of emerging biomass-based CO2 utilization with an iron cycle system	17
Online machine learning for stream wastewater influent flow rate prediction under unprecedented emergencies	16
A hybrid fuel cell for water purification and simultaneously electricity generation	16
Effects of iron oxide nanoparticles on phenotype and metabolite changes in hemp clones (Cannabis sativa L.)	16
Screening of indicator pharmaceuticals and personal care products in landfill leachates: a case study in Shanghai, China	16
Sustainable nonmetal catalysts based on sulfur-doped melamine-derived graphitic carbon nitride for CO2 cycloaddition	16
Quantitative temporal-based contribution of key foulants to fouling proceeding in direct membrane filtration for sewage pre-concentration	16
Forecasting SARS-CoV-2 outbreak through wastewater analysis: a success in wastewater-based epidemiology	16
Decoding and quantitative detection of antibiotics by a luminescent mixed-lanthanide-organic framework	16
High doses of polypropylene and polyvinyl chloride microplastics affect the microbial community and nutrient status of vineyard soils	16
Electronic regulation to achieve efficient anaerobic digestion of organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW): strategies, challenges and potential solutions	16
Atmospheric and Earth System Modeling towards Coordinated Pollution Control and Climate Change Mitigation	16
Dual-functional Ag-Fe@Biochar systems: simultaneous adsorption and radical-mediated oxidation of antibiotics in fenton-like reactions	15
Broadening environmental research in the era of accurate protein structure determination and predictions	15
Simultaneous enhanced ammonia and nitrate removal from secondary effluent in constructed wetlands using a new manganese-containing substrate	15
Kinetics of hydrogen peroxide quenching following UV/H2O2 advanced oxidation by thiosulfate, bisulfite, and chlorine in drinking water treatment	15
MSWNet: A visual deep machine learning method adopting transfer learning based upon ResNet 50 for municipal solid waste sorting	15
Catalytic ozonation in advanced treatment of kitchen wastewater: multi-scale simulation and pilot-scale study	15
Priority emerging contaminants in the Taihu Basin (China): occurrence, risk assessment, and control strategies	15
Control strategies for disinfection byproducts by ion exchange resin, nanofiltration and their sequential combination	15
Facile fabrication of dolomite-doped biochar/bentonite for effective removal of phosphate from complex wastewaters	15
Intensifying electrified flow-through water treatment technologies via local environment modification	15
Distribution of PCDD/Fs in a food waste anaerobic digestion process with biogas utilization	15
Tracking Cryptosporidium in urban wastewater treatment plants in a cold region: Occurrence, species and infectivity	14
Prevalence of class 1 integron and its gene cassettes carrying antibiotic resistance genes in drinking water treatment and distribution systems	14
Solid Brønsted acidity boosts adsorption reactivity of nano-adsorbent for water decontamination	14
Salinity exchange between seawater/brackish water and domestic wastewater through electrodialysis for potable water	14
Ceramic membrane fouling mechanisms and control for water treatment	14
Self-catalytic pyrolysis thermodynamics of waste printed circuit boards with co-existing metals	14
Singlet oxygen-dominated non-radical oxidation pathway for 2,4-Dichlorophenol degradation over CeO2 coated carbon fibers	14
A cellphone-based colorimetric multi-channel sensor for water environmental monitoring	14
Enhanced gaseous chlorobenzene removal and its microbial mechanism through innovative modified packings coupled with magnetic field in a biotrickling filter	14
Enhanced Fenton-like process over Cu/L(+)-ascorbic acid co-doping mesoporous silica for toxicity reduction of emerging contaminants	14
Passive convergence-permeable reactive barrier (PC-PRB): An effective configuration to enhance hydraulic performance	14
Removal of virus aerosols by the combination of filtration and UV-C irradiation	14
Insight into the co-hydrothermal humification of corn stalk and sewage sludge for enhanced nitrogen-rich humic acid production	13
Enhancing Toy Safety: Time to Improve Chemical Migration Testing	13
Current scenario and challenges of plastic pollution in Bangladesh: a focus on farmlands and terrestrial ecosystems	13
Elevated methylmercury production in mercury-contaminated soil and its bioaccumulation in rice: key roles of algal decomposition	13
On the potential of iPhone significant location data to characterize individual mobility for air pollution health studies	13
Characterizing molecular fingerprint of dissolved organic matter shaped by natural and anthropogenic factors in a large macrophytic shallow lake wetland	13
Photocatalytic membrane treatment of antibiotics: combined chemical and toxicological evaluation of effectiveness	13
Advances and perspectives in environmental health research in China	13
Erratum to: On the potential of iPhone significant location data to characterize individual mobility for air pollution health studies	13
Effect of different climate zone’s humic and fulvic acid on aggregation of UV irradiated graphene oxide	13
Impact of historical pattern of human activities and natural environment on wetland in Heilongjiang River Basin	13
Multiobjective optimization control for multifacility coordination in integrated urban drainage systems	13
Quantifying multi-year ozone precursor contributions over the Pearl River Delta Region of China using a deep learning-based response surface model	12
Real-world identification of high-emitting vehicles based on near-road sensor measurement	12
Clean air captures attention whereas pollution distracts: evidence from brain activities	12
Data quality assessment for studies investigating microplastics and nanoplastics in food products: Are current data reliable?	12
Radical innovation breakthroughs of biodegradation of plastics by insects: history, present and future perspectives	12
Your personal choices in transportation and food are important for lowering carbon emissions	12
Ozonation of aromatic monomer compounds in water: factors determining reaction outcomes	12
Effects of the urban landscape on heatwave-mortality associations in Hong Kong: comparison of different heatwave definitions	12
Low-temperature caproate production, microbial diversity, and metabolic pathway in xylose anaerobic fermentation	12
Rsearch progress on biochar materials for new pollutants removal in the aquatic environment: a mini-review	12
High density sampling reveals the spatiotemporal characteristics of microbial communities in a full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plant	12