OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water Research X is 13. 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
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
Quantifying the performance of dual-use rainwater harvesting systems	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