OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Water Research X is 6. 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
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
Estimation of countrywide N2O emissions from wastewater treatment in Switzerland using long-term monitoring data	36
Linking seasonal N2O emissions and nitrification failures to microbial dynamics in a SBR wastewater treatment plant	34
The role of mobile genetic elements in organic micropollutant degradation during biological wastewater treatment	34
Modeling the energy consumption of potable water reuse schemes	31
Nanoplastics are significantly different from microplastics in urban waters	30
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
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

Inactivation of RNA and DNA viruses in water by copper and silver ions and their synergistic effect	23
Use of trihalomethanes as a surrogate for haloacetonitrile exposure introduces misclassification bias	22
Tracing N2O formation in full-scale wastewater treatment with natural abundance isotopes indicates control by organic substrate and process settings	22
Continuous high-frequency pesticide monitoring to observe the unexpected and the overlooked	21
Enhanced hydraulic cleanability of biofilms developed under a low phosphorus concentration in reverse osmosis membrane systems	21
Making waves: Why do we need ultra-permeable nanofiltration membranes for water treatment?	21
Quantifying the performance of dual-use rainwater harvesting systems	20
CrAssphage for fecal source tracking in Chile: Covariation with norovirus, HF183, and bacterial indicators	20
Controlling disinfection byproducts from treated wastewater using adsorption with granular activated carbon: Impact of pre-ozonation and pre-chlorination	20
Semi-crystalline microplastics in wastewater plant effluents and removal efficiencies of post-treatment filtration systems	19
Microbial mixotrophic denitrification using iron(II) as an assisted electron donor	18
Optimized suspect screening approach for a comprehensive assessment of the impact of best management practices in reducing micropollutants transport in the Potomac River watershed	17
Ammonia oxidation by novel “Candidatus Nitrosacidococcus urinae” is sensitive to process disturbances at low pH and to iron limitation at neutral pH	16
UV aged epoxy coatings ̶ Ecotoxicological effects and released compounds	16
Mitigating risks and maximizing sustainability of treated wastewater reuse for irrigation	16
Making Waves: Why water reuse frameworks need to co-evolve with emerging small-scale technologies	15
Separation of Microplastic Particles from Sewage Sludge Extracts Using Magnetic Seeded Filtration	14
Predictive water virology using regularized regression analyses for projecting virus inactivation efficiency in ozone disinfection	14
Microfluidic testing of flocculants for produced water treatment: Comparison with other methodologies	14
Periodic chemical cleaning with urea: disintegration of biofilms and reduction of key biofilm-forming bacteria from reverse osmosis membranes	14
The efficacy of Phoslock® in reducing internal phosphate loading varies with bottom water oxygenation	14
Control of sulfides and coliphage MS2 using hydrogen peroxide and UV disinfection for non-potable reuse of pilot-scale anaerobic membrane bioreactor effluent	14
An electrochemical advanced oxidation process for the treatment of urban stormwater	13
Hydrolysis capacity of different sized granules in a full-scale aerobic granular sludge (AGS) reactor	13
Spatial-temporal targeted and non-targeted surveys to assess microbiological composition of drinking water in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria	13
Competitive co-adsorption of bacteriophage MS2 and natural organic matter onto multiwalled carbon nanotubes	13
Low porosity, high areal-capacity Prussian blue analogue electrodes enhance salt removal and thermodynamic efficiency in symmetric Faradaic deionization with automated fluid control	13
Biological activated carbon filter for greywater post-treatment: Long-term TOC removal with adsorption and biodegradation	13
Demonstrating the reduction of enteric viruses by drinking water treatment during snowmelt episodes in urban areas	12
An overlooked route of inhalation exposure to tap water constituents for children and adults: Aerosolized aqueous minerals from ultrasonic humidifiers	12
A comprehensive kinetic model for phenol oxidation in seven advanced oxidation processes and considering the effects of halides and carbonate	12
Development and optimization of analytical methods for the detection of 18 taste and odor compounds in drinking water utilities	12
Use of stable nitrogen isotopes to track plant uptake of nitrogen in a nature-based treatment system	11
Particulate substrate retention in plug-flow and fully-mixed conditions during operation of aerobic granular sludge systems	11
Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream	11
Diverse and active archaea communities occur in non-disinfected drinking water systems–Less activity revealed in disinfected and hot water systems	11
Stagnation leads to short-term fluctuations in the effluent water quality of biofilters: A problem for greywater reuse?	11
Ozonation products of zidovudine and thymidine in oxidative water treatment	10
Predicting breakthrough of vanadium in fixed-bed absorbent columns with complex groundwater chemistries: A multi-component granular ferric hydroxide−vanadate−arsenate−phosphate−silicic acid system	10
Metabolic implications for predatory and parasitic bacterial lineages in activated sludge wastewater treatment systems	10
On-site urine treatment combining Ca(OH)2 dissolution and dehydration with ambient air	9
Boosted brackish water desalination and water softening by facilely designed MnO2/hierarchical porous carbon as capacitive deionization electrode	9
Quantification of anthropogenic and geogenic Ce in sewage sludge based on Ce oxidation state and rare earth element patterns	9
Defense mechanism of Fe(III)-assisted anammox under salt stress: Performance and microbial community dynamics	9
Amyloid adhesin production in activated sludge is enhanced in lab-scale sequencing batch reactors: Feeding regime impacts microbial community and amyloid distribution	9
A relationship between phages and organic carbon in wastewater treatment plant effluents	9
Long short-term memory models of water quality in inland water environments	8
Making waves: A vision for digital water utilities	8
Decreased natural organic matter in water distribution decreases nitrite formation in non-disinfected conditions, via enhanced nitrite oxidation	8
The impact of pH on the anaerobic and aerobic metabolism of Tetrasphaera-enriched polyphosphate accumulating organisms	8

High content of low molecular weight organics does not always affect pharmaceutical adsorption on activated carbon: The case of acetate, propionate and ethanol in source-separated urine	8
Towards the standardization of Enterococcus culture methods for waterborne antibiotic resistance monitoring: A critical review of trends across studies	8
Electrochemical nitrite sensing for urine nitrification	8
Occurrence of male-specific and somatic coliphages and relationship with rainfall in privately-owned wells from peri‑urban and rural households	8
Gravity-driven membrane filtration with compact second-life modules daily backwashed: An alternative to conventional ultrafiltration for centralized facilities	8
Keeping water from kiosks clean: Strategies for reducing recontamination during transport and storage in Eastern Uganda	7
Influence of intermittent flow on removal of organics in a biological activated carbon filter (BAC) used as post-treatment for greywater	7
Removal of perfluoroalkyl acids and common drinking water contaminants by weak-base anion exchange resins: Impacts of solution pH and resin properties	7
The interplay of suspended sediment concentration, particle size and fluid velocity on the rapid deposition of suspended iron oxide particles in PVC drinking water pipes	7
A systematic review and meta-analysis of pathogen reduction in onsite sanitation systems	7
Impact of biosolids amendment and wastewater effluent irrigation on enteric antibiotic-resistant bacteria – a greenhouse study	7
Modeling and experimental approaches for determining fluoride diffusion kinetics in bone char sorbent and prediction of packed-bed groundwater defluoridator performance	7
Making Waves: Biocatalysis and Biosorption: Opportunities and Challenges Associated with a New Protein-Based Toolbox for Water and Wastewater Treatment	7
Mechanism insight into the facet-dependent photoaging of polystyrene microplastics on hematite in freshwater	7
UV-chlorine advanced oxidation for potable water reuse: A review of the current state of the art and research needs	6
Why are decentralised urban water solutions still rare given all the claimed benefits, and how could that be changed?	6
Advances and perspectives of using stable isotope probing (SIP)-based technologies in contaminant biodegradation	6
Influent carbon to phosphorus ratio drives the selection of PHA-storing organisms in a single CSTR	6
Predictability of initial hydrogeochemical effects induced by short-term infiltration of ∼75 °C hot water into a shallow glaciogenic aquifer	6