OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering is 19. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Emerging techniques to monitor temperature and supply heat for multiscale solid-based catalysis processes	561
Advanced methodologies for model-based optimization and control of pharmaceutical processes	110
Modeling oil biodegradation and bioremediation within beaches	104
Advances in the enhanced removal of aqueous Hg(II) by metallic catalysts: a review	96
Interfacial synthesis: a scalable fabrication method of two-dimensional membranes	94
Metrics and methods for resilience-aware design of process systems: advances and challenges	89
Fine chemicals production in a carbon-neutral economy: the role of electrification	84
Moving beyond techno-economic considerations: incorporating organizational constraints into fit-for-use technologies	70
Process modeling of recombinant adeno-associated virus production in HEK293 cells	69
Challenges and opportunities for computer-aided molecular and process design approaches in advancing sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing	66
High power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) for the fabrication of antimicrobial and transparent TiO2 thin films	65
Deciphering the issue of single-atom catalyst stability	64
The chemical engineering aspects of CO2 capture, combined with its utilisation	61
Industrial carbon capture by absorption: recent advances and path forward	57
Featurizing chemistry for machine learning — methods and a coded example	53
Two-dimensional nanosheets and membranes for their emerging technologies	50
Considerations for Big Data management in pharmaceutical manufacturing	46
Flexible process operation for electrified chemical plants	46
Editorial overview: For materials engineering: antimicrobial and self-cleaning material surfaces	45
Z-scheme single-atom photocatalyst for advanced oxidation processes	45
High free volume polymers for pervaporation	45
Chemical fuel cell reactor as the ultimate green reactor	44
Artificial intelligence applications for fault detection and diagnosis in pharmaceutical bioprocesses: a review	44
Mechanistic and data-driven modeling of protein glycosylation	44
Audacity of huge: overcoming challenges of data scarcity and data quality for machine learning in computational materials discovery	43

Batch or flow chemistry? – a current industrial opinion on process selection	43
From omics to cellular mechanisms in mammalian cell factory development	43
Exploration of smart antibacterial coatings for practical applications	42
Single-atom coordination-dependent catalysis for peroxymonosulfate-mediated water purification	41
Current and emergent analytical methods for monitoring the behavior of agricultural functional nanoparticles in relevant matrices: a review	40
Recent progress on sustainable membrane manufacturing with green solvents and biopolymers	39
Future perspective on redox flow batteries: aqueous versus nonaqueous electrolytes	39
Artificial intelligence in reaction prediction and chemical synthesis	38
Recent advances in carbon-based non-noble single-atom catalysts for rechargeable zinc–air batteries	38
High efficiency PEM water electrolysis: enabled by advanced catalysts, membranes, and processes	37
Sorption-enhanced reactions as enablers for CO2 capture and utilisation	36
An engineering perspective on the future role of modelling in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis development	36
Recent advances of single-atom catalysts for peroxymonosulfate-based advanced oxidation processes aimed at environmental remediation	36
Advances of piezoelectric nanomaterials for applications in advanced oxidation technologies	35
Advances in applying sustainable materials and manufacturing scale-up in polymeric membrane fabrication	33
Green biomass-derived materials for oil spill response: recent advancements and future perspectives	32
Design and optimization of carbon capture processes using ionic liquid solvents	32
Computer-aided retrosynthetic design: fundamentals, tools, and outlook	31
Safe reuse of treated produced water outside oil and gas fields? A review of current practices, challenges, opportunities, and a risk-based pathway for produced water treatment and fit-for-purpose reu	31
Geologic carbon dioxide sequestration methods, opportunities, and impacts	30
Microcellular injection molding of polymers: a review of process know-how, emerging technologies, and future directions	30
Application of the Rd/w framework to assess Donnan dialysis performance	29
Understanding of chemical looping with autothermal operation	29
Towards a Net Zero, socially sustainable and eco-efficient biopharma industry: how far are we?	29
State-of-the-art polymers of intrinsic microporosity for high-performance gas separation membranes	29
Ionic liquids: a novel material for efficient nanofiltration membranes	29
Fungal morphology: a challenge in bioprocess engineering industries for product development	28
A perspective on hazardous chemical substitution in consumer products	28
Roles of mechanistic, data-driven, and hybrid modeling approaches for pharmaceutical process design and operation	28
Bioprocess systems analysis, modeling, estimation, and control	27
Hybrid modeling — a key enabler towards realizing digital twins in biopharma?	27
Accelerating the structure search of catalysts with machine learning	27
Flexible solar-to-iron system: a new concept and its implementation	26
Editorial Board	26
Editorial overview: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances	26
Editorial overview: Nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications: advances and recent trends	26
Editorial Board	25
Purification challenges for the portable, on-demand point-of-care production of biologics	25
The development of iron-based catalysts for the reduction of nitrogen and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in wastewater treatment: a review	25
A perspective on the state of Deepwater Horizon oil spill related tarball contamination and its impacts on Alabama beaches	24
Recent advance in understanding photooxidation of hydrocarbons after oil spills	24
Machine learning for multiscale modeling in computational molecular design	24
Modern analytical techniques are improving our ability to follow the fate of spilled oil in the environment	24
Mapping GHG emissions and prospects for renewable energy in the chemical industry	23
Additive manufacturing of polyaniline-based materials: an opportunity for new designs and applications in energy and biotechnology	23
Editorial overview: Advances on Z-scheme and S-scheme photocatalysis for environmental application	23
Facilitating the industrial transition to microbial and microalgal factories through mechanistic modelling within the Industry 4.0 paradigm	23
MXenes-based nanocomposites for supercapacitor applications	23
Contents	22
Mobile hydrogen reformers as a novel approach to decarbonise the transport sector	22

Editorial overview: Mechanistic and data-driven modelling of biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes	22
CO2 capture initiatives: are governments, society, industry and the financial sector ready?	22
Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) for catalysis: a perspective	22
Metal–organic framework-derived single-atom catalysts for peroxymonosulfate-mediated organic wastewater remediation	21
Temperature vacuum swing, a combined adsorption cycle for carbon capture	21
Recent developments of high-gravity (reactive) distillation in rotating packed beds	21
Opportunities for process intensification using non-thermal plasmas	21
Bayesian optimization for chemical products and functional materials	20
Methods identifying cost reduction potential for water electrolysis systems	20
Inorganic nanoparticle engineering against bacterial infections	20
Trends and perspectives on the ultrasound-assisted extraction of bioactive compounds using natural deep eutectic solvents	20
Protein crystal regulation and harvest via electric field-based method	19
Resolving electrocatalytic imprecision in atomically precise metal nanoclusters	19
The case for a common software library and a set of enumerated benchmark problems in computer-aided molecular design	19
Editorial overview: Frontiers of chemical engineering: 2D membranes: Materials, mechanisms and manufacturing	19
How synthetic methods of single-atom electrocatalysts affect the catalytic performance of carbon dioxide reduction	19