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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Moving beyond techno-economic considerations: incorporating organizational constraints into fit-for-use technologies	159
Emerging techniques to monitor temperature and supply heat for multiscale solid-based catalysis processes	139
Advanced methodologies for model-based optimization and control of pharmaceutical processes	129
Interfacial synthesis: a scalable fabrication method of two-dimensional membranes	127
Metrics and methods for resilience-aware design of process systems: advances and challenges	108
Fine chemicals production in a carbon-neutral economy: the role of electrification	85
Process modeling of recombinant adeno-associated virus production in HEK293 cells	83
Modeling oil biodegradation and bioremediation within beaches	72
Direct air capture of CO2: an industrial perspective	71
Featurizing chemistry for machine learning — methods and a coded example	70
High power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) for the fabrication of antimicrobial and transparent TiO2 thin films	68
Accurate model needs for desalination systems	61
Editorial overview: Advanced reduction processes for environmental applications	61
Industrial carbon capture by absorption: recent advances and path forward	59
Recent advances, challenges and perspectives on rotating packed bed technology in solvent-based post-combustion carbon capture	54
Deciphering the issue of single-atom catalyst stability	53
Challenges and opportunities for computer-aided molecular and process design approaches in advancing sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing	53
Two-dimensional nanosheets and membranes for their emerging technologies	53
The chemical engineering aspects of CO2 capture, combined with its utilisation	52
A review on scale-up approaches for ultrasound-assisted extraction of natural products	50
Editorial overview: For materials engineering: antimicrobial and self-cleaning material surfaces	49
Editorial overview: Kinetic models for radical polymerization and polymer recycling	49
HiGee process intensification in biorefineries: innovations, challenges, and outlook	48
Ultrasonic activation of persulfate for removal of aqueous pollutants: cavitational versus thermal mechanisms	47
Considerations for Big Data management in pharmaceutical manufacturing	46

Flexible process operation for electrified chemical plants	45
Artificial intelligence applications for fault detection and diagnosis in pharmaceutical bioprocesses: a review	45
High free volume polymers for pervaporation	44
Z-scheme single-atom photocatalyst for advanced oxidation processes	43
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
Future perspective on redox flow batteries: aqueous versus nonaqueous electrolytes	41
Intensified physical and chemical processing using cavitation: how far are we from commercial applications of hydrodynamic cavitation?	39
Recent progress on sustainable membrane manufacturing with green solvents and biopolymers	39
Recent advances in carbon-based non-noble single-atom catalysts for rechargeable zinc–air batteries	39
Single-atom coordination-dependent catalysis for peroxymonosulfate-mediated water purification	37
Membrane synthesis via thermally induced phase separation: quantifying the shift to a more sustainable design	37
Role of cathode materials and their advancement for sustainable hydrogen evolution reaction in microbial electrolysis cells	35
Perspective in the industrial applications of sonoelectrochemical hydrogen production	35
Emerging nonthermal technologies for food safety: trends, limitations, and future research	35
Artificial intelligence in reaction prediction and chemical synthesis	34
Recent advances of single-atom catalysts for peroxymonosulfate-based advanced oxidation processes aimed at environmental remediation	34
An engineering perspective on the future role of modelling in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis development	34
Sorption-enhanced reactions as enablers for CO2 capture and utilisation	33
Design and optimization of carbon capture processes using ionic liquid solvents	32
Understanding of chemical looping with autothermal operation	32
Advances in applying sustainable materials and manufacturing scale-up in polymeric membrane fabrication	32
Computer-aided retrosynthetic design: fundamentals, tools, and outlook	32
Geologic carbon dioxide sequestration methods, opportunities, and impacts	31
Green biomass-derived materials for oil spill response: recent advancements and future perspectives	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
A perspective on hazardous chemical substitution in consumer products	30
State-of-the-art polymers of intrinsic microporosity for high-performance gas separation membranes	30
Application of the Rd/w framework to assess Donnan dialysis performance	30
Ionic liquids: a novel material for efficient nanofiltration membranes	30
Towards a Net Zero, socially sustainable and eco-efficient biopharma industry: how far are we?	30
Accelerating the structure search of catalysts with machine learning	29
Roles of mechanistic, data-driven, and hybrid modeling approaches for pharmaceutical process design and operation	27
Fungal morphology: a challenge in bioprocess engineering industries for product development	27
Intensified cavitation process for the pretreatment of microalgae: a mini review	27
Extraction of noble metals and rare earth elements using plants	27
Editorial overview: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances	27
Editorial Board	26
The development of iron-based catalysts for the reduction of nitrogen and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in wastewater treatment: a review	25
Editorial overview: Nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications: advances and recent trends	25
Recent advance in understanding photooxidation of hydrocarbons after oil spills	25
A perspective on the state of Deepwater Horizon oil spill related tarball contamination and its impacts on Alabama beaches	25
Additive manufacturing of polyaniline-based materials: an opportunity for new designs and applications in energy and biotechnology	24
Mapping GHG emissions and prospects for renewable energy in the chemical industry	24
Modern analytical techniques are improving our ability to follow the fate of spilled oil in the environment	24
Purification challenges for the portable, on-demand point-of-care production of biologics	24
Machine learning for multiscale modeling in computational molecular design	23
Flexible solar-to-iron system: a new concept and its implementation	23
Editorial overview: Advances on Z-scheme and S-scheme photocatalysis for environmental application	22
Contents	22

Insights into the biodegradation and bioremediation of microplastics: mechanisms and analytical methods	22
Editorial overview: Mechanistic and data-driven modelling of biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes	22
Hydrogen production by photocatalytic dehydrogenation of formic acid	21
Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) for catalysis: a perspective	21
Temperature vacuum swing, a combined adsorption cycle for carbon capture	20
Recent developments of high-gravity (reactive) distillation in rotating packed beds	20
Metal–organic framework-derived single-atom catalysts for peroxymonosulfate-mediated organic wastewater remediation	20
Recent trends in optimization models for industrial decarbonization	20
Opportunities for process intensification using non-thermal plasmas	20
Inorganic nanoparticle engineering against bacterial infections	20
CO2 capture initiatives: are governments, society, industry and the financial sector ready?	20
Trends and perspectives on the ultrasound-assisted extraction of bioactive compounds using natural deep eutectic solvents	19
Protein crystal regulation and harvest via electric field-based method	19
Resolving electrocatalytic imprecision in atomically precise metal nanoclusters	19
Editorial overview: Frontiers of chemical engineering: 2D membranes: Materials, mechanisms and manufacturing	19
Scale-up of HiGee for CO₂ capture: did evolution of HiGee technology give scale-up a miss?	19
Bayesian optimization for chemical products and functional materials	19
How synthetic methods of single-atom electrocatalysts affect the catalytic performance of carbon dioxide reduction	19
Ferroelectric BiFeO3 and BaTiO3 photocatalysts for photoelectrochemical water splitting	19
Distributed water desalination and purification systems: perspective and future directions	19
Editorial Board	19
The case for a common software library and a set of enumerated benchmark problems in computer-aided molecular design	19