OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Water Research X is 7. 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
Early-pandemic wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Southern Nevada: Methodology, occurrence, and incidence/prevalence considerations	170
Co-quantification of crAssphage increases confidence in wastewater-based epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 in low prevalence areas	85
Limited simultaneous nitrification-denitrification (SND) in aerobic granular sludge systems treating municipal wastewater: Mechanisms and practical implications	77
State of the art of urine treatment technologies: A critical review.	69
A review of long-term pesticide monitoring studies to assess surface water quality trends	67
Tools for interpretation of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 temporal and spatial trends demonstrated with data collected in the San Francisco Bay Area	64
Paint particles in the marine environment: An overlooked component of microplastics	62
Hospital discharges in urban sanitation systems: Long-term monitoring of wastewater resistome and microbiota in relationship to their eco-exposome	51
Membrane aerated biofilm reactors for mainstream partial nitritation/anammox: Experiences using real municipal wastewater	48
One-year stable pilot-scale operation demonstrates high flexibility of mainstream anammox application	43
The grey water footprint of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals	41
Capsid integrity quantitative PCR to determine virus infectivity in environmental and food applications – A systematic review	39
Removal of pharmaceuticals from nitrified urine by adsorption on granular activated carbon	35
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	34
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and complete ammonia-oxidizing Nitrospira in water treatment systems	33
Wastewater treatment efficacy evaluated with in vitro bioassays	31
Sewage sludge derived biochar for environmental improvement: Advances, challenges, and solutions	30
Estimation of countrywide N2O emissions from wastewater treatment in Switzerland using long-term monitoring data	28
The role of mobile genetic elements in organic micropollutant degradation during biological wastewater treatment	28
Successful year-round mainstream partial nitritation anammox: Assessment of effluent quality, performance and N2O emissions	28
Linking seasonal N2O emissions and nitrification failures to microbial dynamics in a SBR wastewater treatment plant	27
Modeling the energy consumption of potable water reuse schemes	25
Quantifying clogging patterns of infiltration systems to improve urban stormwater pollution reduction estimates	23
Persistence of emerging viral fecal indicators in large-scale freshwater mesocosms	23
Inactivation of RNA and DNA viruses in water by copper and silver ions and their synergistic effect	23

Microbial paracetamol degradation involves a high diversity of novel amidase enzyme candidates	23
Engineered methanotrophic syntrophy in photogranule communities removes dissolved methane	21
Quantification of individual Rare Earth Elements from industrial sources in sewage sludge	21
Use of trihalomethanes as a surrogate for haloacetonitrile exposure introduces misclassification bias	21
Enhanced hydraulic cleanability of biofilms developed under a low phosphorus concentration in reverse osmosis membrane systems	20
Quantifying the performance of dual-use rainwater harvesting systems	20
CrAssphage for fecal source tracking in Chile: Covariation with norovirus, HF183, and bacterial indicators	17
Continuous high-frequency pesticide monitoring to observe the unexpected and the overlooked	17
Optimized suspect screening approach for a comprehensive assessment of the impact of best management practices in reducing micropollutants transport in the Potomac River watershed	16
Three years of wastewater surveillance for new psychoactive substances from 16 countries	16
Controlling disinfection byproducts from treated wastewater using adsorption with granular activated carbon: Impact of pre-ozonation and pre-chlorination	15
Nanoplastics are significantly different from microplastics in urban waters	15
Semi-crystalline microplastics in wastewater plant effluents and removal efficiencies of post-treatment filtration systems	14
Microfluidic testing of flocculants for produced water treatment: Comparison with other methodologies	13
Practical implementation of true on-site water recycling systems for hand washing and toilet flushing	13
Making Waves: Why water reuse frameworks need to co-evolve with emerging small-scale technologies	13
Making waves: Why do we need ultra-permeable nanofiltration membranes for water treatment?	13
Tracing N2O formation in full-scale wastewater treatment with natural abundance isotopes indicates control by organic substrate and process settings	13
UV aged epoxy coatings ̶ Ecotoxicological effects and released compounds	12
Competitive co-adsorption of bacteriophage MS2 and natural organic matter onto multiwalled carbon nanotubes	12
The horizontal levee: a multi-benefit nature-based treatment system that improves water quality and protects coastal levees from the effects of sea level rise	12
Hydrolysis capacity of different sized granules in a full-scale aerobic granular sludge (AGS) reactor	12
Low porosity, high areal-capacity Prussian blue analogue electrodes enhance salt removal and thermodynamic efficiency in symmetric Faradaic deionization with automated fluid control	12
Demonstrating the reduction of enteric viruses by drinking water treatment during snowmelt episodes in urban areas	12
Separation of Microplastic Particles from Sewage Sludge Extracts Using Magnetic Seeded Filtration	11
Predictive water virology using regularized regression analyses for projecting virus inactivation efficiency in ozone disinfection	11
Control of sulfides and coliphage MS2 using hydrogen peroxide and UV disinfection for non-potable reuse of pilot-scale anaerobic membrane bioreactor effluent	11
Stagnation leads to short-term fluctuations in the effluent water quality of biofilters: A problem for greywater reuse?	11
The efficacy of Phoslock® in reducing internal phosphate loading varies with bottom water oxygenation	11
Development and optimization of analytical methods for the detection of 18 taste and odor compounds in drinking water utilities	11
An overlooked route of inhalation exposure to tap water constituents for children and adults: Aerosolized aqueous minerals from ultrasonic humidifiers	10
Tracking reduction of water lead levels in two homes during the Flint Federal Emergency	10
Diverse and active archaea communities occur in non-disinfected drinking water systems–Less activity revealed in disinfected and hot water systems	10
Particulate substrate retention in plug-flow and fully-mixed conditions during operation of aerobic granular sludge systems	10
Biological activated carbon filter for greywater post-treatment: Long-term TOC removal with adsorption and biodegradation	10
Ammonia oxidation by novel “Candidatus Nitrosacidococcus urinae” is sensitive to process disturbances at low pH and to iron limitation at neutral pH	9
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	9
Spatial-temporal targeted and non-targeted surveys to assess microbiological composition of drinking water in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria	9
Periodic chemical cleaning with urea: disintegration of biofilms and reduction of key biofilm-forming bacteria from reverse osmosis membranes	9
Ozonation products of zidovudine and thymidine in oxidative water treatment	9
Use of stable nitrogen isotopes to track plant uptake of nitrogen in a nature-based treatment system	9
On-site urine treatment combining Ca(OH)2 dissolution and dehydration with ambient air	8
Transport and retention of artificial and real wastewater particles inside a bed of settled aerobic granular sludge assessed applying magnetic resonance imaging	8
A comprehensive kinetic model for phenol oxidation in seven advanced oxidation processes and considering the effects of halides and carbonate	8
An electrochemical advanced oxidation process for the treatment of urban stormwater	8
Quantification of anthropogenic and geogenic Ce in sewage sludge based on Ce oxidation state and rare earth element patterns	8
Microbial mixotrophic denitrification using iron(II) as an assisted electron donor	8
Defense mechanism of Fe(III)-assisted anammox under salt stress: Performance and microbial community dynamics	7
Impact of biosolids amendment and wastewater effluent irrigation on enteric antibiotic-resistant bacteria – a greenhouse study	7
Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream	7

A relationship between phages and organic carbon in wastewater treatment plant effluents	7
Modeling and experimental approaches for determining fluoride diffusion kinetics in bone char sorbent and prediction of packed-bed groundwater defluoridator performance	7
Decreased natural organic matter in water distribution decreases nitrite formation in non-disinfected conditions, via enhanced nitrite oxidation	7
Boosted brackish water desalination and water softening by facilely designed MnO2/hierarchical porous carbon as capacitive deionization electrode	7
Application of QMRA to MAR operations for safe agricultural water reuses in coastal areas	7