OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Water Research X is 24. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Early-pandemic wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Southern Nevada: Methodology, occurrence, and incidence/prevalence considerations	181
Co-quantification of crAssphage increases confidence in wastewater-based epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 in low prevalence areas	96
State of the art of urine treatment technologies: A critical review.	91
A review of long-term pesticide monitoring studies to assess surface water quality trends	80
Tools for interpretation of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 temporal and spatial trends demonstrated with data collected in the San Francisco Bay Area	80
Paint particles in the marine environment: An overlooked component of microplastics	77
Sewage sludge derived biochar for environmental improvement: Advances, challenges, and solutions	60
Membrane aerated biofilm reactors for mainstream partial nitritation/anammox: Experiences using real municipal wastewater	56
One-year stable pilot-scale operation demonstrates high flexibility of mainstream anammox application	53
Capsid integrity quantitative PCR to determine virus infectivity in environmental and food applications – A systematic review	43
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and complete ammonia-oxidizing Nitrospira in water treatment systems	42
Removal of pharmaceuticals from nitrified urine by adsorption on granular activated carbon	39
Wastewater treatment efficacy evaluated with in vitro bioassays	37
Estimation of countrywide N2O emissions from wastewater treatment in Switzerland using long-term monitoring data	36
COVID-19 and the call for ‘Safe Hands’: Challenges facing the under-resourced municipalities that lack potable water access - A case study of Chitungwiza municipality, Zimbabwe	36
The role of mobile genetic elements in organic micropollutant degradation during biological wastewater treatment	34
Linking seasonal N2O emissions and nitrification failures to microbial dynamics in a SBR wastewater treatment plant	34
Modeling the energy consumption of potable water reuse schemes	31
Microbial paracetamol degradation involves a high diversity of novel amidase enzyme candidates	30
Successful year-round mainstream partial nitritation anammox: Assessment of effluent quality, performance and N2O emissions	30
Nanoplastics are significantly different from microplastics in urban waters	30
Quantification of individual Rare Earth Elements from industrial sources in sewage sludge	28
Persistence of emerging viral fecal indicators in large-scale freshwater mesocosms	27
Engineered methanotrophic syntrophy in photogranule communities removes dissolved methane	25
Three years of wastewater surveillance for new psychoactive substances from 16 countries	24