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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Early-pandemic wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Southern Nevada: Methodology, occurrence, and incidence/prevalence considerations	178
Co-quantification of crAssphage increases confidence in wastewater-based epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 in low prevalence areas	92
State of the art of urine treatment technologies: A critical review.	81
Tools for interpretation of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 temporal and spatial trends demonstrated with data collected in the San Francisco Bay Area	73
A review of long-term pesticide monitoring studies to assess surface water quality trends	72
Paint particles in the marine environment: An overlooked component of microplastics	69
Membrane aerated biofilm reactors for mainstream partial nitritation/anammox: Experiences using real municipal wastewater	52
One-year stable pilot-scale operation demonstrates high flexibility of mainstream anammox application	46
Sewage sludge derived biochar for environmental improvement: Advances, challenges, and solutions	44
Capsid integrity quantitative PCR to determine virus infectivity in environmental and food applications – A systematic review	43
Removal of pharmaceuticals from nitrified urine by adsorption on granular activated carbon	39
Wastewater treatment efficacy evaluated with in vitro bioassays	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
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and complete ammonia-oxidizing Nitrospira in water treatment systems	36
Estimation of countrywide N2O emissions from wastewater treatment in Switzerland using long-term monitoring data	33
Linking seasonal N2O emissions and nitrification failures to microbial dynamics in a SBR wastewater treatment plant	33
The role of mobile genetic elements in organic micropollutant degradation during biological wastewater treatment	31
Successful year-round mainstream partial nitritation anammox: Assessment of effluent quality, performance and N2O emissions	29
Modeling the energy consumption of potable water reuse schemes	28
Persistence of emerging viral fecal indicators in large-scale freshwater mesocosms	27
Quantification of individual Rare Earth Elements from industrial sources in sewage sludge	26
Microbial paracetamol degradation involves a high diversity of novel amidase enzyme candidates	26
Engineered methanotrophic syntrophy in photogranule communities removes dissolved methane	24
Inactivation of RNA and DNA viruses in water by copper and silver ions and their synergistic effect	23
Nanoplastics are significantly different from microplastics in urban waters	23

Enhanced hydraulic cleanability of biofilms developed under a low phosphorus concentration in reverse osmosis membrane systems	22
Use of trihalomethanes as a surrogate for haloacetonitrile exposure introduces misclassification bias	21
Quantifying the performance of dual-use rainwater harvesting systems	20
Three years of wastewater surveillance for new psychoactive substances from 16 countries	20
Tracing N2O formation in full-scale wastewater treatment with natural abundance isotopes indicates control by organic substrate and process settings	20
CrAssphage for fecal source tracking in Chile: Covariation with norovirus, HF183, and bacterial indicators	20
Making waves: Why do we need ultra-permeable nanofiltration membranes for water treatment?	19
Continuous high-frequency pesticide monitoring to observe the unexpected and the overlooked	19
Controlling disinfection byproducts from treated wastewater using adsorption with granular activated carbon: Impact of pre-ozonation and pre-chlorination	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
Semi-crystalline microplastics in wastewater plant effluents and removal efficiencies of post-treatment filtration systems	16
UV aged epoxy coatings ̶ Ecotoxicological effects and released compounds	14
Microfluidic testing of flocculants for produced water treatment: Comparison with other methodologies	14
Making Waves: Why water reuse frameworks need to co-evolve with emerging small-scale technologies	14
Competitive co-adsorption of bacteriophage MS2 and natural organic matter onto multiwalled carbon nanotubes	13
Separation of Microplastic Particles from Sewage Sludge Extracts Using Magnetic Seeded Filtration	13
An overlooked route of inhalation exposure to tap water constituents for children and adults: Aerosolized aqueous minerals from ultrasonic humidifiers	12
Control of sulfides and coliphage MS2 using hydrogen peroxide and UV disinfection for non-potable reuse of pilot-scale anaerobic membrane bioreactor effluent	12
Demonstrating the reduction of enteric viruses by drinking water treatment during snowmelt episodes in urban areas	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
Biological activated carbon filter for greywater post-treatment: Long-term TOC removal with adsorption and biodegradation	12
Hydrolysis capacity of different sized granules in a full-scale aerobic granular sludge (AGS) reactor	12
Ammonia oxidation by novel “Candidatus Nitrosacidococcus urinae” is sensitive to process disturbances at low pH and to iron limitation at neutral pH	12
Microbial mixotrophic denitrification using iron(II) as an assisted electron donor	12
Predictive water virology using regularized regression analyses for projecting virus inactivation efficiency in ozone disinfection	12
The efficacy of Phoslock® in reducing internal phosphate loading varies with bottom water oxygenation	11
An electrochemical advanced oxidation process for the treatment of urban stormwater	11
Particulate substrate retention in plug-flow and fully-mixed conditions during operation of aerobic granular sludge systems	11
Spatial-temporal targeted and non-targeted surveys to assess microbiological composition of drinking water in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria	11
Periodic chemical cleaning with urea: disintegration of biofilms and reduction of key biofilm-forming bacteria from reverse osmosis membranes	11
Stagnation leads to short-term fluctuations in the effluent water quality of biofilters: A problem for greywater reuse?	11
Development and optimization of analytical methods for the detection of 18 taste and odor compounds in drinking water utilities	11
Mitigating risks and maximizing sustainability of treated wastewater reuse for irrigation	11
Diverse and active archaea communities occur in non-disinfected drinking water systems–Less activity revealed in disinfected and hot water systems	10
A comprehensive kinetic model for phenol oxidation in seven advanced oxidation processes and considering the effects of halides and carbonate	10
Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream	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
Boosted brackish water desalination and water softening by facilely designed MnO2/hierarchical porous carbon as capacitive deionization electrode	9
Use of stable nitrogen isotopes to track plant uptake of nitrogen in a nature-based treatment system	9
Ozonation products of zidovudine and thymidine in oxidative water treatment	9
Metabolic implications for predatory and parasitic bacterial lineages in activated sludge wastewater treatment systems	8
Gravity-driven membrane filtration with compact second-life modules daily backwashed: An alternative to conventional ultrafiltration for centralized facilities	8
Quantification of anthropogenic and geogenic Ce in sewage sludge based on Ce oxidation state and rare earth element patterns	8
A relationship between phages and organic carbon in wastewater treatment plant effluents	8
Occurrence of male-specific and somatic coliphages and relationship with rainfall in privately-owned wells from peri‑urban and rural households	8
On-site urine treatment combining Ca(OH)2 dissolution and dehydration with ambient air	8
Electrochemical nitrite sensing for urine nitrification	8
Application of QMRA to MAR operations for safe agricultural water reuses in coastal areas	8
Decreased natural organic matter in water distribution decreases nitrite formation in non-disinfected conditions, via enhanced nitrite oxidation	8
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
The impact of pH on the anaerobic and aerobic metabolism of Tetrasphaera-enriched polyphosphate accumulating organisms	7
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	7
Defense mechanism of Fe(III)-assisted anammox under salt stress: Performance and microbial community dynamics	7
Amyloid adhesin production in activated sludge is enhanced in lab-scale sequencing batch reactors: Feeding regime impacts microbial community and amyloid distribution	7