OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Waste Management is 58. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Trustworthy and Human Centric neural network approaches for prediction of landfill methane emission and sustainable waste management practices	195
Recovery and recycling of silica fabric from waste printed circuit boards to develop epoxy composite for electrical and thermal insulation applications	184
Techno-economic and scalability analysis of nitrogen plasma gasification of medical waste	171
Editorial Board	168
Enhanced lactic acid production from household food waste under hyperthermophilic conditions: Mechanisms and regulation	165
Efficient conversion of waste-to-SNG via hybrid renewable energy systems for circular economy: Process design, energy, and environmental analysis	149
Physico-chemical and multielemental traits of anaerobic digestate from Mediterranean agro-industrial wastes and assessment as fertiliser for citrus nurseries	139
Influence of long-term natural degradation processes on near-infrared spectra and sorting of post-consumer plastics	137
Quantitative water content estimation in landfills through joint inversion of seismic refraction and electrical resistivity data considering surface conduction	134
Innovative hydrothermal technique in efficient disengagement of waste solar panels	130
Biochemical, hydrological and mechanical behaviors of high food waste content MSW landfill: Numerical simulation analysis of a large-scale experiment	120
What activities reduce plastic waste the most? – The path to a circular economy for Japan’s manufacturing industry	118
Contaminants of concern (CoCs) pivotal in assessing the fate of MSW incineration bottom ash (MIBA): First results from India and analogy between several countries	118
Preferential and efficient extraction of lithium under the combined action of reduction of herb-medicine residue and leaching of oxalic acid	114
A comparative pyrolysis study of different waste wind turbine blade parts: Kinetics, product distribution and evolution, and economics	108
Soil flushing for remediation of landfill leachate-contaminated soil: A comprehensive evaluation of optimal flushing agents and influencing factors	105
Develop spinel structure and quantify phase transformation for nickel stabilization in electroplating sludge	99
Low-carbon and high-value utilization of hazardous industrial organic waste: From molecular mechanism to application	95
Natural and recyclable alginate hydrogels as extracting media for recovering valuable metals of spent lithium-ion batteries from a deep eutectic solvent	93
Composition and selected properties of bio-waste collected in towns from single- and multi-family housing and in rural areas	92
High-rate in-vessel continuous composting of olive mill byproducts	92
Earthworms and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) cooperate to promote the biodegradation of tetracycline residues in livestock manure	90
Evaluating the impact of drying on leaching from a solidified/stabilized waste using a monolithic diffusion model	90
Thermal and mechanical characterization of composite materials from industrial plastic wastes and recycled nylon fibers for floor paving tiles application	86
A novel subcritical water synergistic co-treatment of brominated epoxy resin and copper-based spent catalysts: debromination, phenol production, and copper recovery	86

Coagulation studies on photodegraded and photocatalytically degraded polystyrene microplastics using polyaluminium chloride	85
How microplastics affect sludge pyrolysis behavior: Thermogravimetry-mass spectrum analysis and biochar characteristics	84
Insight into SO4(-II)- dependent anaerobic methane oxidation in landfill: Dual-substrates dynamics model, microbial community, function and metabolic pathway	80
Social Hotspot analysis of the e-waste sector in Ghana and Nigeria	78
Machine learning-aided unveiling the relationship between chemical pretreatment and methane production of lignocellulosic waste	77
Techno-economic and environmental assessments for sustainable bio-methanol production as landfill gas valorization	76
Identifying plastic materials in post-consumer food containers and packaging waste using terahertz spectroscopy and machine learning	73
Energy effective utilization of circulating fluidized bed fly ash to prepare silicon-aluminum composite aerogel and gypsum	72
High hydrophobic silanized paper: Material characterization and its biodegradation through brown rot fungus	72
Quantification of indicator and pathogenic bacteria in manures and digestates from three agricultural biogas plants over a one-year period	72
Circular waste management: Superworms as a sustainable solution for biodegradable plastic degradation and resource recovery	71
Leaching behavior and release mechanism of pollutants from different depths in a phosphogypsum stockpile	71
The development of China's Circular Economy: From the perspective of environmental regulation	69
Prediction of metal recovery potential of end-of-life NEV batteries in China based on GRA-BiLSTM	68
Efficient recovery of valuable metals from cathode materials of spent LiCoO2 batteries via co-pyrolysis with cheap carbonaceous materials	68
Microbial community assembly and chemical dynamics of raw brewers’ spent grain during inoculated and spontaneous solid-state fermentation	68
Incinerator ash characterization – Implications for elevated temperature landfills	67
Plastics to fuel or plastics: Life cycle assessment-based evaluation of different options for pyrolysis at end-of-life	67
Waste LCA and the future	66
On the use of plastic precursors for preparation of activated carbons and their evaluation in CO2 capture for biogas upgrading: a review	63
Green illusions in self-reporting? Reassessing the intention-behavior gap in waste recycling behaviors	62
Charting the electric vehicle battery reuse and recycling network in North America	61
Frequent export of pig slurry for outside storage reduced methane but not ammonia emissions in cold and warm seasons	61
Advanced data augmentation techniques to enhance instance segmentation dataset for construction and demolition waste management	61
Sulfuric acid leaching of ball-milling activated FePO4 residue after lithium extraction from spent lithium iron phosphate cathode powder	61
Environmental sustainability of an integrate anaerobic digestion-composting treatment of food waste: Analysis of an Italian plant in the circular bioeconomy strategy	60
Insights on dissolved organic matter and bacterial community succession during secondary composting in residue after black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens L.) bioconversion for food waste treatm	60
Real-time construction demolition waste detection using state-of-the-art deep learning methods; single–stage vs two-stage detectors	60
Microwave absorbent enhancement of multi-thermal field effect: Pyrolysis of waste printed circuit boards	59
Effects of different conditions tested “in vitro” on the phosphorus runoff potential of livestock manure	59
Structural study and metal speciation assessments of waste PCBs and environmental implications: Outlooks for choosing efficient recycling routes	59
Prototype of AI-powered assistance system for digitalisation of manual waste sorting	59
Fast co-pyrolysis behaviors and synergistic effects of corn stover and polyethylene via rapid infrared heating	58
Recovery of aluminum, magnetic ferrous metals and glass through enhanced industrial-scale treatment of different MSWI bottom ashes	58