OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science and Pollution Research is 108. 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
A state-of-the-art review on wastewater treatment techniques: the effectiveness of adsorption method	404
A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and sustainable mitigation measures	402
Toxic heavy metals: impact on the environment and human health, and treatment with conducting organic polymers, a review	348
Energy structure, digital economy, and carbon emissions: evidence from China	337
Renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, economic complexity, CO2 emissions, and ecological footprint in the USA: testing the EKC hypothesis with a structural break	334
Effect of microplastics in water and aquatic systems	333
Dynamic relationship between technological innovations, financial development, renewable energy, and ecological footprint: fresh insights based on the STIRPAT model for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperati	276
An empirical analysis of the non-linear impacts of ICT-trade openness on renewable energy transition, energy efficiency, clean cooking fuel access and environmental sustainability in South Asia	259
Investigating the EKC hypothesis for China: the role of economic complexity on ecological footprint	227
Does globalization matter for ecological footprint in Turkey? Evidence from dual adjustment approach	221
Linking financial development, economic growth, and ecological footprint: what is the role of technological innovation?	221
Do fiscal decentralization and natural resources rent curb carbon emissions? Evidence from developed countries	210
Nexus between green finance and climate change mitigation in N-11 and BRICS countries: empirical estimation through difference in differences (DID) approach	207
Linking Information Communication Technology, trade globalization index, and CO2 emissions: evidence from advanced panel techniques	206
Hydrogen fuel and fuel cell technology for cleaner future: a review	205
Natural resource, globalization, urbanization, human capital, and environmental degradation in Latin American and Caribbean countries	197
Evaluating green innovation and performance of financial development: mediating concerns of environmental regulation	194
Global distribution of microplastics and its impact on marine environment—a review	194
Occupational stress, job satisfaction, and intent to leave: nurses working on front lines during COVID-19 pandemic in Zagazig City, Egypt	192
Environmental taxes, energy consumption, and environmental quality: Theoretical survey with policy implications	190
Do public-private partnerships in energy and renewable energy consumption matter for consumption-based carbon dioxide emissions in India?	188
An overview of the environmental pollution and health effects associated with waste landfilling and open dumping	185
Role of renewable energy and globalization on ecological footprint in the USA: implications for environmental sustainability	181
Recent progress on Ag/TiO2 photocatalysts: photocatalytic and bactericidal behaviors	177
How green technology innovation affects carbon emission efficiency: evidence from developed countries proposing carbon neutrality targets	176

3D printing filament as a second life of waste plastics—a review	175
Remittance inflows affect the ecological footprint in BICS countries: do technological innovation and financial development matter?	166
Wavelet analysis of impact of renewable energy consumption and technological innovation on CO2 emissions: evidence from Portugal	162
Trilemma assessment of energy intensity, efficiency, and environmental index: evidence from BRICS countries	161
The dynamic linkage between globalization, financial development, energy utilization, and environmental sustainability in GCC countries	161
The dynamic links among energy consumption, tourism growth, and the ecological footprint: the role of environmental quality in 38 IEA countries	161
It is time to control the worst: testing COVID-19 outbreak, energy consumption and CO2 emission	158
Impact of foreign direct investment, natural resources, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth on environmental degradation: evidence from BRICS, developing, developed and global countries	158
Inflammatory effects of particulate matter air pollution	154
Photocatalysis: an effective tool for photodegradation of dyes—a review	148
Testing pollution haven and pollution halo hypotheses for Turkey: a new perspective	148
Modeling CO2 emissions in Malaysia: an application of Maki cointegration and wavelet coherence tests	146
The asymmetric effects of renewable energy consumption and trade openness on carbon emissions in Sweden: new evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression approach	145
Ambient air pollution and its influence on human health and welfare: an overview	145
Nexus on climate change: agriculture and possible solution to cope future climate change stresses	144
Beneficial microbiomes for bioremediation of diverse contaminated environments for environmental sustainability: present status and future challenges	142
Impact of globalization, foreign direct investment, and energy consumption on CO2 emissions in Bangladesh: Does institutional quality matter?	142
The increases and decreases of the environment Kuznets curve (EKC) for 8 OECD countries	142
Analysis of the mechanism of the impact of internet development on green economic growth: evidence from 269 prefecture cities in China	141
The role of technology innovation and people’s connectivity in testing environmental Kuznets curve and pollution heaven hypotheses across the Belt and Road host countries: new evidence from Method of	141
The nexus between environmental regulations, economic growth, and environmental sustainability: linking environmental patents to ecological footprint reduction in South Asia	141
Testing validity of the EKC hypothesis in South Korea: role of renewable energy and trade openness	141
Understanding the dynamics of natural resources rents, environmental sustainability, and sustainable economic growth: new insights from China	140
Effect of institutional quality and renewable energy consumption on CO2 emissions−an empirical investigation for developing countries	140
Green preparation of activated carbon from pomegranate peel coated with zero-valent iron nanoparticles (nZVI) and isotherm and kinetic studies of amoxicillin removal in water	138
The dynamics effect of green technology innovation on economic growth and CO2 emission in Singapore: new evidence from bootstrap ARDL approach	137
Digitalization and environment: how does ICT affect enterprise environmental performance?	136
Effect of foreign direct investment on CO2 emission with the role of globalization, institutional quality with pooled mean group panel ARDL	135
The roles of nuclear energy, renewable energy, and economic growth in the abatement of carbon dioxide emissions in the G7 countries	135
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Do energy use and economic policy uncertainty affect CO2 emissions in China? Empirical evidence from the dynamic ARDL simulation approach	134
Clean energy investment and financial development as determinants of environment and sustainable economic growth: evidence from China	134
Water-energy nexus: desalination technologies and renewable energy sources	134
The effect of technological innovation, FDI, and financial development on CO2 emission: evidence from the G8 countries	131
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Impact of renewable energy consumption, financial development and natural resources on environmental degradation in OECD countries with dynamic panel data	130
Detection and removal of microplastics in wastewater: evolution and impact	129
Dynamics among economic growth, urbanization, and environmental sustainability in IEA countries: the role of industry value-added	128
The influence of financial openness, trade openness, and energy intensity on ecological footprint: revisiting the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for BRICS countries	126
Impact of financial development and technological innovation on the volatility of green growth—evidence from China	126
The relationship between corporate social responsibility, environmental investments and financial performance: evidence from manufacturing companies	125
Impact of economic policy uncertainty on CO2 emissions: evidence from top ten carbon emitter countries	125
Effects of microplastics and nanoplastics on marine environment and human health	125
The influences of renewable electricity generation, technological innovation, financial development, and economic growth on ecological footprints in ASEAN-5 countries	124
Nexus between green logistic operations and triple bottom line: evidence from infrastructure-led Chinese outward foreign direct investment in Belt and Road host countries	123
Does economic prosperity lead to environmental sustainability in developing economies? Environmental Kuznets curve theory	122
The asymmetric effect of tourism, financial development, and globalization on ecological footprint in Turkey	122
The role of fixed capital formation, renewable and non-renewable energy in economic growth and carbon emission: a case study of Belt and Road Initiative project	120
Foliar application of silicon nanoparticles affected the growth, vitamin C, flavonoid, and antioxidant enzyme activities of coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) plants grown in lead (Pb)-spiked soil	120
Determinants of economic growth and environmental sustainability in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation: evidence from panel ARDL	119
Co-movement of energy prices and stock market return: environmental wavelet nexus of COVID-19 pandemic from the USA, Europe, and China	119
Impact of climate change on biodiversity loss: global evidence	118

A systematic review of emerging human coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak: focus on disinfection methods, environmental survival, and control and prevention strategies	118
The distribution and impact of polystyrene nanoplastics on cucumber plants	118
Environmental risks and toxicity of surfactants: overview of analysis, assessment, and remediation techniques	117
The impact of financial development and globalization on environmental quality: evidence from South Asian economies	117
Abundance of natural resources and environmental sustainability: the roles of manufacturing value-added, urbanization, and permanent cropland	116
Assessing energy security in Africa based on multi-dimensional approach of principal composite analysis	116
The role of disinfectants and sanitizers during COVID-19 pandemic: advantages and deleterious effects on humans and the environment	115
Alternative energy and natural resources in determining environmental sustainability: a look at the role of government final consumption expenditures in France	115
Municipal solid waste management during COVID-19 pandemic: effects and repercussions	115
Does green finance mitigate the effects of climate variability: role of renewable energy investment and infrastructure	115
Study on coupling coordination and spatiotemporal heterogeneity between economic development and ecological environment of cities along the Yellow River Basin	113
Bioremediation of toxic heavy metals (THMs) contaminated sites: concepts, applications and challenges	113
Moderating the effect of globalization on financial development, energy consumption, human capital, and carbon emissions: evidence from G20 countries	113
Asymmetric investigation to track the effect of urbanization, energy utilization, fossil fuel energy and CO2 emission on economic efficiency in China: another outlook	113
The impact of financial development and geopolitical risk on renewable energy consumption: evidence from emerging markets	113
Can digital finance promote corporate green innovation?	113
Effects of the spread of COVID-19 on public health of polluted cities: results of the first wave for explaining the dejà vu in the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and epidemics of future vital agents	112
How energy insecurity leads to energy poverty? Do environmental consideration and climate change concerns matters	112
Blockchain in supply chain management: a review, bibliometric, and network analysis	112
Reinvigorating the role of clean energy transition for achieving a low-carbon economy: evidence from Bangladesh	112
The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for Bangladesh: the importance of natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and hydropower consumption	112
Accounting for the combined impacts of natural resources rent, income level, and energy consumption on environmental quality of G7 economies: a panel quantile regression approach	111
Economic policy uncertainty, energy consumption and carbon emissions in G7 countries: evidence from a panel Granger causality analysis	111
Analyzing the association between innovation, economic growth, and environment: divulging the importance of FDI and trade openness in India	110
Role of financial development, environmental-related technologies, research and development, energy intensity, natural resource depletion, and temperature in sustainable environment in Canada	110
Industry 4.0 technology and circular economy practices: business management strategies for environmental sustainability	110
Impact of Green financing, FinTech, and financial inclusion on energy efficiency	109
Consumers’ intention-based influence factors of renewable energy adoption in Pakistan: a structural equation modeling approach	109
The advantages of clay mineral modification methods for enhancing adsorption efficiency in wastewater treatment: a review	109
Determinants of consumption-based carbon emissions in Chile: an application of non-linear ARDL	109
Trilemma association of energy consumption, carbon emission, and economic growth of BRICS and OECD regions: quantile regression estimation	108
The determinants of environmental quality in the SAARC region: a spatial heterogeneous panel data approach	108
Technological innovation, financialization, and ecological footprint: evidence from BEM economies	108
How to achieve a win-win situation between economic growth and carbon emission reduction: empirical evidence from the perspective of industrial structure upgrading	108
How does energy poverty affect economic development? A panel data analysis of South Asian countries	108