OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science & Technology Letters is 49. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 RNA in Sewage and Correlation with Reported COVID-19 Prevalence in the Early Stage of the Epidemic in The Netherlands	1126
Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in Water and Wastewater	314
Scientific Basis for Managing PFAS as a Chemical Class	281
Increased Use of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and Beyond: Consideration of Environmental Implications	235
Occurrence of Polyethylene Terephthalate and Polycarbonate Microplastics in Infant and Adult Feces	188
Exhaled CO₂ as a COVID-19 Infection Risk Proxy for Different Indoor Environments and Activities	178
Historical Redlining Is Associated with Present-Day Air Pollution Disparities in U.S. Cities	165
Substantial Changes in Nitrogen Dioxide and Ozone after Excluding Meteorological Impacts during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Mainland China	145
Thermal Stability and Decomposition of Perfluoroalkyl Substances on Spent Granular Activated Carbon	131
Longitudinal Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on High-Touch Surfaces in a Community Setting	129
Fluorinated Compounds in North American Cosmetics	125
6PPD-Quinone: Revised Toxicity Assessment and Quantification with a Commercial Standard	123
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Persistence and Disinfection of Human Coronaviruses and Their Viral Surrogates in Water and Wastewater	117
Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Surfaces: Risks and Risk Reduction Strategies	115
Air Pollutant Correlations in China: Secondary Air Pollutant Responses to NO_x and SO₂ Control	114
Population-Wide Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Drinking Water in the United States	114
Acute Toxicity of the Tire Rubber-Derived Chemical 6PPD-quinone to Four Fishes of Commercial, Cultural, and Ecological Importance	109
Four-Month Changes in Air Quality during and after the COVID-19 Lockdown in Six Megacities in China	105
Acute Toxicity of a Tire Rubber-Derived Chemical, 6PPD Quinone, to Freshwater Fish and Crustacean Species	101
Increased Indoor Exposure to Commonly Used Disinfectants during the COVID-19 Pandemic	100
Occurrences of Tire Rubber-Derived Contaminants in Cold-Climate Urban Runoff	93
Occurrence of Substituted p-Phenylenediamine Antioxidants in Dusts	91
Quantification of Nanoplastic Uptake in Cucumber Plants by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry	90
Efficient Photocatalytic PFOA Degradation over Boron Nitride	89
Scaling of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Settled Solids from Multiple Wastewater Treatment Plants to Compare Incidence Rates of Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 in Their Sewersheds	89

Enhanced Degradation of Perfluorocarboxylic Acids (PFCAs) by UV/Sulfite Treatment: Reaction Mechanisms and System Efficiencies at pH 12	86
Intermittency of Large Methane Emitters in the Permian Basin	85
Release of Microplastics from Discarded Surgical Masks and Their Adverse Impacts on the Marine Copepod Tigriopus japonicus	83
Driving Forces of Changes in Air Quality during the COVID-19 Lockdown Period in the Yangtze River Delta Region, China	83
Determining Hosts of Antibiotic Resistance Genes: A Review of Methodological Advances	82
Wastewater-Based Detection of Two Influenza Outbreaks	81
The Widespread Environmental Footprint of Indigo Denim Microfibers from Blue Jeans	74
Microplastics Mitigation in Sewage Sludge through Pyrolysis: The Role of Pyrolysis Temperature	69
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) RNA in Wastewater Settled Solids Reflects RSV Clinical Positivity Rates	68
Quantitative SARS-CoV-2 Alpha Variant B.1.1.7 Tracking in Wastewater by Allele-Specific RT-qPCR	68
Revealing Drivers of Haze Pollution by Explainable Machine Learning	65
Significance of Hyporheic Exchange for Predicting Microplastic Fate in Rivers	65
Reducing Mortality from Air Pollution in the United States by Targeting Specific Emission Sources	64
Communicating Confidence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Identification via High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry	63
The Air That We Breathe: Neutral and Volatile PFAS in Indoor Air	63
Inactivation of Coronaviruses and Phage Phi6 from Irradiation across UVC Wavelengths	60
Another Pathway for Firefighter Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Firefighter Textiles	60
Quantifying the Dynamics of Polystyrene Microplastics UV-Aging Process	59
Harmful Algal Blooms in Chinese Coastal Waters Will Persist Due to Perturbed Nutrient Ratios	58
Defining the Scope of Exposome Studies and Research Needs from a Multidisciplinary Perspective	56
Challenges with Quantifying Tire Road Wear Particles: Recognizing the Need for Further Refinement of the ISO Technical Specification	55
Impacts of Modifiable Factors on Ambient Air Pollution: A Case Study of COVID-19 Shutdowns	52
Methane-Dependent Mineral Reduction by Aerobic Methanotrophs under Hypoxia	51
On the Relevancy of Observed Ozone Increase during COVID-19 Lockdown to Summertime Ozone and PM_2.5 Control Policies in China	49
Reconstructing the Composition of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Contemporary Aqueous Film-Forming Foams	49
Solvent Suitability for HFPO-DA (“GenX” Parent Acid) in Toxicological Studies	49