OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science & Technology is 119. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 Pandemic Repercussions on the Use and Management of Plastics	656
Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities	490
Origins of Electron-Transfer Regime in Persulfate-Based Nonradical Oxidation Processes	473
Global Estimates and Long-Term Trends of Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations (1998–2018)	446
2D N-Doped Porous Carbon Derived from Polydopamine-Coated Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Efficient Nonradical Activation of Peroxymonosulfate	326
Unraveling the Overlooked Involvement of High-Valent Cobalt-Oxo Species Generated from the Cobalt(II)-Activated Peroxymonosulfate Process	325
Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19	321
A Critical Review on Thin-Film Nanocomposite Membranes with Interlayered Structure: Mechanisms, Recent Developments, and Environmental Applications	319
Potential Difference Driving Electron Transfer via Defective Carbon Nanotubes toward Selective Oxidation of Organic Micropollutants	297
Peroxymonosulfate Activation by Fe–Co–O-Codoped Graphite Carbon Nitride for Degradation of Sulfamethoxazole	287
Biochar Aging: Mechanisms, Physicochemical Changes, Assessment, And Implications for Field Applications	283
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater Settled Solids Is Associated with COVID-19 Cases in a Large Urban Sewershed	280
Marine Plastic Debris: A New Surface for Microbial Colonization	267
Peroxydisulfate Activation and Singlet Oxygen Generation by Oxygen Vacancy for Degradation of Contaminants	263
Single-Atom Fe Catalyst Outperforms Its Homogeneous Counterpart for Activating Peroxymonosulfate to Achieve Effective Degradation of Organic Contaminants	257
Roles of Oxygen Vacancies in the Bulk and Surface of CeO₂ for Toluene Catalytic Combustion	250
Lifetime Accumulation of Microplastic in Children and Adults	246
Analysis of Microplastics in Human Feces Reveals a Correlation between Fecal Microplastics and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Status	243
Deep Dive into Plastic Monomers, Additives, and Processing Aids	241
Monthly Global Estimates of Fine Particulate Matter and Their Uncertainty	238
Understanding and Improving Microplastic Removal during Water Treatment: Impact of Coagulation and Flocculation	230
Enhanced Oxidation of Organic Contaminants by Iron(II)-Activated Periodate: The Significance of High-Valent Iron–Oxo Species	226
Molecular Insights into Extracellular Polymeric Substances in Activated Sludge	226
Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Nonradical Degradation of Organics: Critical Trigger of Oxygen (O₂) in the Fe–Co LDH/Peroxymonosulfate System	223
Nanoconfinement-Mediated Water Treatment: From Fundamental to Application	221

Microplastic Fallout in Different Indoor Environments	220
Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM_2.5 Retrievals from Multisource Data Fusion	211
Unraveling the High-Activity Origin of Single-Atom Iron Catalysts for Organic Pollutant Oxidation via Peroxymonosulfate Activation	207
Correlation of Active Sites to Generated Reactive Species and Degradation Routes of Organics in Peroxymonosulfate Activation by Co-Loaded Carbon	206
Silicate-Enhanced Heterogeneous Flow-Through Electro-Fenton System Using Iron Oxides under Nanoconfinement	202
Facet Engineered α-MnO₂ for Efficient Catalytic Ozonation of Odor CH₃SH: Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Active Centers and Catalytic Mechanism	201
Efficient Removal of Organic Pollutants by Metal–organic Framework Derived Co/C Yolk–Shell Nanoreactors: Size-Exclusion and Confinement Effect	199
Nonradical Oxidation of Pollutants with Single-Atom-Fe(III)-Activated Persulfate: Fe(V) Being the Possible Intermediate Oxidant	198
Which Micropollutants in Water Environments Deserve More Attention Globally?	197
Mechanism of Heterogeneous Fenton Reaction Kinetics Enhancement under Nanoscale Spatial Confinement	195
Cobalt Single Atoms on Tetrapyridomacrocyclic Support for Efficient Peroxymonosulfate Activation	193
Recent Progress of Thermocatalytic and Photo/Thermocatalytic Oxidation for VOCs Purification over Manganese-based Oxide Catalysts	193
Persulfate Oxidation of Sulfamethoxazole by Magnetic Iron-Char Composites via Nonradical Pathways: Fe(IV) Versus Surface-Mediated Electron Transfer	187
Boosting Toluene Combustion by Engineering Co–O Strength in Cobalt Oxide Catalysts	185
Influences of Chemical Properties, Soil Properties, and Solution pH on Soil–Water Partitioning Coefficients of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)	183
Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)	183
Interaction of Microplastics with Antibiotics in Aquatic Environment: Distribution, Adsorption, and Toxicity	183
Quality Criteria for Microplastic Effect Studies in the Context of Risk Assessment: A Critical Review	179
Global Riverine Plastic Outflows	178
Effects of Molecular Structure on Organic Contaminants’ Degradation Efficiency and Dominant ROS in the Advanced Oxidation Process with Multiple ROS	175
Fluorescence Signatures of Dissolved Organic Matter Leached from Microplastics: Polymers and Additives	174
Thermal Activation of Peracetic Acid in Aquatic Solution: The Mechanism and Application to Degrade Sulfamethoxazole	170
Unveiling the Origins of Selective Oxidation in Single-Atom Catalysis via Co–N₄–C Intensified Radical and Nonradical Pathways	169
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Facilitates the Detection of Microplastics <1 μm in the Environment	167
Biodegradation of Polystyrene by Pseudomonas sp. Isolated from the Gut of Superworms (Larvae of Zophobas atratus)	166
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills: An Underestimated Source of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in the Water Environment	165
Differentiating Solutes with Precise Nanofiltration for Next Generation Environmental Separations: A Review	164
Revisiting the Graphitized Nanodiamond-Mediated Activation of Peroxymonosulfate: Singlet Oxygenation versus Electron Transfer	164
Environmentally Sustainable Management of Used Personal Protective Equipment	160
Are Fluoropolymers Really of Low Concern for Human and Environmental Health and Separate from Other PFAS?	160
High Abundances of Microplastic Pollution in Deep-Sea Sediments: Evidence from Antarctica and the Southern Ocean	159
Critical Review: Role of Inorganic Nanoparticle Properties on Their Foliar Uptake and in Planta Translocation	159
Solving the Nonalignment of Methods and Approaches Used in Microplastic Research to Consistently Characterize Risk	159
Toward Selective Oxidation of Contaminants in Aqueous Systems	158
Weathering Plastics as a Planetary Boundary Threat: Exposure, Fate, and Hazards	157
Detailed Analysis of the Composition of Selected Plastic Packaging Waste Products and Its Implications for Mechanical and Thermochemical Recycling	156
Atomically Dispersed Cobalt Sites on Graphene as Efficient Periodate Activators for Selective Organic Pollutant Degradation	154
Prediction of Soil Heavy Metal Immobilization by Biochar Using Machine Learning	154
Detection and Analysis of Microplastics in Human Sputum	152
Interface Engineering of Co(OH)₂ Nanosheets Growing on the KNbO₃ Perovskite Based on Electronic Structure Modulation for Enhanced Peroxymonosulfate Activation	151
Synthetic Phenolic Antioxidants: A Review of Environmental Occurrence, Fate, Human Exposure, and Toxicity	151
Toxic Cyanobacteria: A Growing Threat to Water and Air Quality	150
Aqueous Iron(IV)–Oxo Complex: An Emerging Powerful Reactive Oxidant Formed by Iron(II)-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes for Oxidative Water Treatment	150
Different Pathways for Cr(III) Oxidation: Implications for Cr(VI) Reoccurrence in Reduced Chromite Ore Processing Residue	148
A New OECD Definition for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances	148
Rapid Production of Micro- and Nanoplastics by Fragmentation of Expanded Polystyrene Exposed to Sunlight	148
Quantitative Analysis of Selected Plastics in High-Commercial-Value Australian Seafood by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry	147
Rational Regulation of Co–N–C Coordination for High-Efficiency Generation of ¹O₂ toward Nearly 100% Selective Degradation of Organic Pollutants	146
Characteristics and Sinking Behavior of Typical Microplastics Including the Potential Effect of Biofouling: Implications for Remediation	145
Insights into the Electron-Transfer Mechanism of Permanganate Activation by Graphite for Enhanced Oxidation of Sulfamethoxazole	144

Applied Machine Learning for Prediction of CO₂ Adsorption on Biomass Waste-Derived Porous Carbons	143
Membrane-Confined Iron Oxychloride Nanocatalysts for Highly Efficient Heterogeneous Fenton Water Treatment	142
Long-Term Fertilization History Alters Effects of Microplastics on Soil Properties, Microbial Communities, and Functions in Diverse Farmland Ecosystem	140
Machine Learning: New Ideas and Tools in Environmental Science and Engineering	140
The Colors of the Ocean Plastics	140
How Much of the Total Organic Halogen and Developmental Toxicity of Chlorinated Drinking Water Might Be Attributed to Aromatic Halogenated DBPs?	139
Are Free Radicals the Primary Reactive Species in Co(II)-Mediated Activation of Peroxymonosulfate? New Evidence for the Role of the Co(II)–Peroxymonosulfate Complex	139
Accelerated Fe²⁺ Regeneration in an Effective Electro-Fenton Process by Boosting Internal Electron Transfer to a Nitrogen-Conjugated Fe(III) Complex	139
Mechanistic Insights into the Role of Polydopamine Interlayer toward Improved Separation Performance of Polyamide Nanofiltration Membranes	139
Methanobacterium Capable of Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer	139
Capacitive Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Wastewater via an Electro-Adsorption and Electro-Reaction Coupling Process	138
Efficient Fenton-like Process for Pollutant Removal in Electron-Rich/Poor Reaction Sites Induced by Surface Oxygen Vacancy over Cobalt–Zinc Oxides	138
Nanoplastics Disturb Nitrogen Removal in Constructed Wetlands: Responses of Microbes and Macrophytes	138
Modeling the Kinetics of UV/Peracetic Acid Advanced Oxidation Process	138
Duet Fe₃C and FeN_x Sites for H₂O₂ Generation and Activation toward Enhanced Electro-Fenton Performance in Wastewater Treatment	137
Overlooked Role of Fe(IV) and Fe(V) in Organic Contaminant Oxidation by Fe(VI)	137
Temporal Dynamics of Antibiotic Resistome in the Plastisphere during Microbial Colonization	136
Flow Electrode Capacitive Deionization (FCDI): Recent Developments, Environmental Applications, and Future Perspectives	134
Iron and Sulfur Precursors Affect Crystalline Structure, Speciation, and Reactivity of Sulfidized Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron	134
Widespread Occurrence of Pesticides in Organically Managed Agricultural Soils—the Ghost of a Conventional Agricultural Past?	133
Recent Advances in Sulfidated Zerovalent Iron for Contaminant Transformation	133
Dispersion Normalized PMF Provides Insights into the Significant Changes in Source Contributions to PM_2.5 after the COVID-19 Outbreak	132
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Breast Milk: Concerning Trends for Current-Use PFAS	130
Indoor Particulate Matter during HOMEChem: Concentrations, Size Distributions, and Exposures	129
Reactivity of Chlorine Radicals (Cl^• and Cl₂^•–) with Dissolved Organic Matter and the Formation of Chlorinated Byproducts	129
A Critical Review of Extraction and Identification Methods of Microplastics in Wastewater and Drinking Water	128
Microplastics Aggravate the Bioaccumulation of Two Waterborne Veterinary Antibiotics in an Edible Bivalve Species: Potential Mechanisms and Implications for Human Health	127
Facing the Challenge of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Water: Is Electrochemical Oxidation the Answer?	127
Fish Ingest Microplastics Unintentionally	127
Data-Driven Machine Learning in Environmental Pollution: Gains and Problems	126
Dissecting the Role of Substrate on the Morphology and Separation Properties of Thin Film Composite Polyamide Membranes: Seeing Is Believing	126
Multiple Roles of Dissolved Organic Matter in Advanced Oxidation Processes	126
From Hydrometeorology to River Water Quality: Can a Deep Learning Model Predict Dissolved Oxygen at the Continental Scale?	125
Estimating Spatiotemporal Variation in Ambient Ozone Exposure during 2013–2017 Using a Data-Fusion Model	124
Effects of Different Microplastics on Nematodes in the Soil Environment: Tracking the Extractable Additives Using an Ecotoxicological Approach	123
Exploring the Mechanisms of Selectivity for Environmentally Significant Oxo-Anion Removal during Water Treatment: A Review of Common Competing Oxo-Anions and Tools for Quantifying Selective Adsorption	123
Tracking PM_2.5 and O₃ Pollution and the Related Health Burden in China 2013–2020	123
Evidence of Microplastic Translocation in Wild-Caught Fish and Implications for Microplastic Accumulation Dynamics in Food Webs	123
Mn₂O₃ as an Electron Shuttle between Peroxymonosulfate and Organic Pollutants: The Dominant Role of Surface Reactive Mn(IV) Species	122
Critical Impact of Nitrogen Vacancies in Nonradical Carbocatalysis on Nitrogen-Doped Graphitic Biochar	122
Degradation of Organic Contaminants in the Fe(II)/Peroxymonosulfate Process under Acidic Conditions: The Overlooked Rapid Oxidation Stage	122
Microplastics Reduce Lipid Digestion in Simulated Human Gastrointestinal System	121
Multipollutant Control (MPC) of Flue Gas from Stationary Sources Using SCR Technology: A Critical Review	121
High-Efficiency Electrocatalysis of Molecular Oxygen toward Hydroxyl Radicals Enabled by an Atomically Dispersed Iron Catalyst	121
Novel Nonradical Oxidation of Sulfonamide Antibiotics with Co(II)-Doped g-C₃N₄-Activated Peracetic Acid: Role of High-Valent Cobalt–Oxo Species	119
An Ensemble Learning Approach for Estimating High Spatiotemporal Resolution of Ground-Level Ozone in the Contiguous United States	119