OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Water Research is 111. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Complete biodegradability assessment of polyoxyethylene glycerol ester non-ionic surfactant: Aerobic, anaerobic, combined biodegradation and inhibitory effects	519
Aging effects of titanium dioxide on Cu toxicity to Daphnia magna: Exploring molecular docking and significance of surface properties	419
Distance-decay equations of antibiotic resistance genes across freshwater reservoirs	400
Abundance and composition of anthropogenic macrolitter and natural debris in road runoff in Ohio, USA	394
Numerical simulation for spatial distribution of water aerosol produced from nozzle spray and health risk related to Legionella pneumophila in spray scenarios	331
Editorial Board	251
Lagrangian solver for coupling hydrodynamics with biokinetic conversion modelling in anaerobic digesters	245
Groundwater-native Fe(II) oxidation prior to aeration with H2O2 to enhance As(III) removal	245
Volatilization behavior of diesel oil-water-glass bead system exposed to freeze-thaw cycles	237
Chiral inversion of 2-arylpropionoic acid (2-APA) enantiomers during simulated biological wastewater treatment	236
Advanced micropollutant and phosphorus removal with superfine powdered activated carbon and pile cloth media filtration	231
Application of GLDAS models and ALS point clouds in assessing the impact of modified evapotranspiration on the water budget	228
Sedimentation supports life-cycle CH4 production and accumulation in a river valley reservoir: A hierarchical Bayesian modeling approach	227
The effect of anode potential on electrogenesis, methanogenesis and sulfidogenesis in a simulated sewer condition	220
Photo-sterilization of groundwater by tellurium and enhancement by micro/nano bubbles	220
Hydro-conditioning: Advanced approaches for cost-effective water quality management in agricultural watersheds	219
Underwater hidden microplastic hotspots: Historical ocean dumping sites	212
Response of planktonic microbial assemblages to disturbance in an urban sub-tropical estuary	210
Heavy metal transport driven by seawater-freshwater interface dynamics: The role of colloid mobilization and aquifer pore structure change	205
Electrochemistry-mass spectrometry bridging the gap between suspect and target screening of valsartan transformation products in wastewater treatment plant effluent	205
Corrigendum to ’ Biochar enhances the biotransformation of organic micropollutants (OMPs) in an anaerobic membrane bioreactor treating sewage’ [Water Research 223 (2022) 118974]	204
Extreme weather events as an important factor for the evolution of plastisphere but not for the degradation process	198
Streambed immobilization controls the transport of antibiotic resistance genes in flowing water	198
The impacts of water storage infrastructure on real property values and crop production	195
Identification of ∼200 transformation products of polyhalogenated compounds to characterize their transformation pathways in sludges	194

A new Bayesian approach for managing bathing water quality at river bathing locations vulnerable to short-term pollution	188
The nanoscale explanation of metal cations differences in enhancing the Fe(III) coagulation performance	179
Enhanced long-term reduction of high-level Au(III) with the presence of NO3− in a H2-based membrane biofilm reactor	174
Reduced water collection time improves learning achievement among primary school children in India	173
Acetochlor degradation in anaerobic microcosms with hyporheic sediments: Insights from biogeochemical data, transformation products, and isotope analysis	173
Exploring the reliability of 222Rn as a tracer of groundwater age in alluvial aquifers: Insights from the explicit simulation of variable 222Rn production	172
Microplastics storage at the sediment-water interface in a gravel-bed river: Importance of local hydro-sedimentary conditions in downwelling, upwelling, and sedimentation zones	171
Harvesting of cyanobacteria and phosphorus by electrocoagulation-flocculation-flotation: Role of phosphorus precipitation in cell separations and organics destabilization	171
Diatomaceous organic matter is overlooked but forms disinfection byproducts of high cytotoxicity during chlorination	170
Effect of free ammonia on partial denitrification: Long-term performance, mechanism, and feasibility of PD/Anammox-FBBR for mature landfill leachate treatment	168
Corrigendum to “Understanding the role of biofilms and estimation of life-span of a tire derived aggregates-based underground stormwater treatment system” [Water Research 257 (2024) 121716]	167
A new framework to model the distributed transfer and retention of nutrients by incorporating topology structure of small water bodies	165
Hydrographic proxies for submarine groundwater discharge in the Jiulong River estuary and global perspectives	164
Leveraging primary effluent- and glycerol-driven partial denitrification-anammox within a pilot-scale tertiary step-feed moving bed biofilm reactor treating high-rate activated sludge systems effluent	163
Active anaerobic methane oxidation in the groundwater table fluctuation zone of rice paddies	162
CO2-driven ion exchange for ammonium recovery from source-separated urine	161
What drives the adoption of a technology? An analysis of the implementation of Nereda®	160
Sulfur powder utilization and denitrification efficiency in an elemental sulfur-based membrane bioreactor with coagulant addition	159
Optimal cybersecurity framework for smart water system: Detection, localization and severity assessment	159
Microbiome and antibiotic resistome in bioelectrochemical toilets for onsite treatment of fecal sludge	159
Corroded iron pipe inhibits microbial-mediated Mn(II) oxidation and MnOx accumulation compared to PVC pipe	158
Mixture effects on the tracing significance of carbon and hydrogen isotopes for identifying leaking points at landfills: Insights from theoretical analysis and field investigation	155
Synergistic effect of UV-A and UV-C light is traced to UV-induced damage of the transfer RNA	155
Alkaline hydrolysis of solid 1,3,5-trichloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (T3): kinetics, mechanism, and overlooked deprotonation effects	154
The fate of cadmium during the hydrolysis and solid-state transformation of iron	153
Loss of riparian canopy cover reduces the transfer of polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) and simplifies the trophic links in stream food webs	152
Source resolution and model prediction of hydrogen peroxide produced through photochemistry and phytoplankton species in environmental waters	150
Interaction mechanisms between fouling and chemical cleaning on the ageing behavior of ion-exchange membranes during electrodialysis treatment of flue gas desulfurization wastewater	148
Making waves: The sensitivity of lakes to brownification and issues of concern in ecological status assessment	147
Interlaboratory performance and quantitative PCR data acceptance metrics for NIST SRM® 2917	146
Enhancing microalgae cell inactivation through hydrodynamic cavitation: Insights from flow cytometry analysis	146
When does infrastructure hybridisation outperform centralised infrastructure paradigms? – Exploring economic and hydraulic impacts of decentralised urban wastewater system expansion	146
Recovery targets and timescales for Lough Neagh and other lakes	146
Microbial advanced oxidation aroused by bacteria-algae symbiosis induced abiotic methane production in anaerobic digestion	145
Insufficient desorption of ions in constant-current membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI): Problems and solutions	144
Mineralization of tribromophenol under anoxic/oxic conditions in the presence of copper(II) doped green rust: Importance of sequential reduction-oxidation process	144
Application of dual carbon-bromine stable isotope analysis to characterize anaerobic micro-degradation mechanisms of PBDEs in wetland bottom-water	144
Human-induced homogenization of microbial taxa and function in a subtropical river and its impacts on community stability	144
Supply, demand and the economic effectiveness of urine-diverting technologies and products: A systematic literature review	143
Functional characterization of a novel Chlamydomonas reinhardtii hydrolase involved in biotransformation of chloramphenicol	143
A Simplified Sanitary Sewer System Generator for Exploratory Modelling at City-Scale	142
Tipping points of nitrogen use efficiency in freshwater phytoplankton along trophic state gradient	142
Generation of DBPs from dissolved organic matter by solar photolysis of chlorine: Associated changes of cytotoxicity and reactive species	139
Applicability of pepper mild mottle virus and cucumber green mottle mosaic virus as process indicators of enteric virus removal by membrane processes at a potable reuse facility	139
Fate of sulfamethoxazole in wetland sediment under controlled redox conditions	138
Carbon-fixing bacteria in diverse groundwaters of karst area: Distribution patterns, ecological interactions, and driving factors	138
MnO2-based capacitive system enhances ozone inactivation of bacteria by disrupting cell membrane	135
Adaptation of anammox bacteria to low temperature via gradual acclimation and cold shocks: Distinctions in protein expression, membrane composition and activities	135
Sustainable production of microbial protein from carbon dioxide in the integrated bioelectrochemical system using recycled nitrogen sources	132
Efficient decomposition of perfluorooctane sulfonate by electrochemical activation of peroxymonosulfate in aqueous solution: Efficacy, reaction mechanism, active sites, and application potential	132

Estrogenic activity and ecological risk of steroids, bisphenol A and phthalates after secondary and tertiary sewage treatment processes	131
Insights into the silica scaling behaviors in membrane distillation and anti-scaling mechanism of functional polymers	130
Hidden dangers: High levels of organic pollutants in hadal trenches	130
Shallow groundwater table fluctuations: A driving force for accelerating the migration and transformation of phosphorus in cropland soil	129
Chlorination-properties-performance of polyamide nanofiltration membranes for the rejection of emerging contaminants	128
Making Waves: A justice-centred framework for wastewater-based public health surveillance	128
Microalgae and immobilized TiO2/UV-A LEDs as a sustainable alternative for winery wastewater treatment	127
Photosynthetic pretreatment increases membrane-based rejection of boron and arsenic	123
Quantification of DOM effects on tetracyclines transport during struvite recovery from swine wastewater	123
Terrigenous organic carbon drives methane dynamics in cascade reservoirs in the upper Yangtze China	123
Unexpected shifts of dissolved carbon biogeochemistry caused by anthropogenic disturbances in karst rivers	123
Modeling and optimization of synergistic ozone-ultraviolet-chlorine process for reclaimed water disinfection: From laboratory tests to software simulation	122
Improving the interpretability of deep reinforcement learning in urban drainage system operation	122
Estimating Yangtze River basin's riverine N2O emissions through hybrid modeling of land-river-atmosphere nitrogen flows	120
Occurrence and risk assessment of organophosphate esters in global aquatic products	120
A mixed blessing of influent leachate microbes in downstream biotreatment systems of a full-scale landfill leachate treatment plant	119
Quantitative study of in situ chemical oxidation remediation with coupled thermal desorption	118
Cyanobacterial blooms increase the release of vanadium through iron reduction and dissolved organic matter complexation in the sediment of eutrophic lakes	118
Assessing the protection gap for mobile and persistent chemicals during advanced water treatment – A study in a drinking water production and wastewater treatment plant	118
Enhanced chemodiversity, distinctive molecular signature and diurnal dynamics of dissolved organic matter in streams of two headwater catchments, Southeastern China	117
Substantial increase in P release following conversion of coastal wetlands to aquaculture ponds from altered kinetic exchange and resupply capacity	117
From waste to resource: Metagenomics uncovers the molecular ecological resources for plastic degradation in estuaries of South China	117
Water clarity mapping of global lakes using a novel hybrid deep-learning-based recurrent model with Landsat OLI images	116
Cyanobacteria decay alters CH4 and CO2 produced hotspots along vertical sediment profiles in eutrophic lakes	116
Transformation of gemfibrozil by the interaction of chloride with sulfate radicals: Radical chemistry, transient intermediates and pathways	116
Magnetic activated carbon for improving the removal of antibiotics by heterogeneous solar photo-Fenton at circumneutral pH	116
Mechanism of organic phosphorus transformation and its impact on the primary production in a deep oligotrophic plateau lake during stratification	115
Refining the estimation of amphetamine consumption by wastewater-based epidemiology	115
Seamless observations of chlorophyll-a from OLCI and VIIRS measurements in inland lakes	114
Coagulant dosage determination using deep learning-based graph attention multivariate time series forecasting model	114
Origin, accumulation and fate of dissolved organic matter in an extreme hypersaline shallow lake	114
Linking sediment geochemistry with catchment processes, internal phosphorus loading and lake water quality	112
Making waves: The potential of generative AI in water utility operations	112
Hydroxyl groups bridge the electron transfer from Fe(II) to carbon tetrachloride	112
Micro-nano bubble ozonation for effective treatment of ibuprofen-laden wastewater and enhanced anaerobic digestion performance	111
Enhancing bioelectrochemical hydrogen production from industrial wastewater using Ni-foam cathodes in a microbial electrolysis cell pilot plant	111