OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering is 38. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Fine chemicals production in a carbon-neutral economy: the role of electrification	157
Process modeling of recombinant adeno-associated virus production in HEK293 cells	137
Moving beyond techno-economic considerations: incorporating organizational constraints into fit-for-use technologies	125
Emerging techniques to monitor temperature and supply heat for multiscale solid-based catalysis processes	122
Interfacial synthesis: a scalable fabrication method of two-dimensional membranes	99
Metrics and methods for resilience-aware design of process systems: advances and challenges	83
Advanced methodologies for model-based optimization and control of pharmaceutical processes	80
Modeling oil biodegradation and bioremediation within beaches	70
Challenges and opportunities for computer-aided molecular and process design approaches in advancing sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing	69
Accurate model needs for desalination systems	67
Editorial overview: Advanced reduction processes for environmental applications	66
Recent advances, challenges and perspectives on rotating packed bed technology in solvent-based post-combustion carbon capture	65
Industrial carbon capture by absorption: recent advances and path forward	59
Deciphering the issue of single-atom catalyst stability	58
The chemical engineering aspects of CO2 capture, combined with its utilisation	57
Featurizing chemistry for machine learning — methods and a coded example	53
High power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) for the fabrication of antimicrobial and transparent TiO2 thin films	53
Direct air capture of CO2: an industrial perspective	52
Two-dimensional nanosheets and membranes for their emerging technologies	52
Chemical fuel cell reactor as the ultimate green reactor	50
A review on scale-up approaches for ultrasound-assisted extraction of natural products	50
HiGee process intensification in biorefineries: innovations, challenges, and outlook	48
Editorial overview: For materials engineering: antimicrobial and self-cleaning material surfaces	48
Editorial overview: Kinetic models for radical polymerization and polymer recycling	47
Considerations for Big Data management in pharmaceutical manufacturing	46

High free volume polymers for pervaporation	46
Exploration of smart antibacterial coatings for practical applications	46
Audacity of huge: overcoming challenges of data scarcity and data quality for machine learning in computational materials discovery	45
Artificial intelligence applications for fault detection and diagnosis in pharmaceutical bioprocesses: a review	45
Z-scheme single-atom photocatalyst for advanced oxidation processes	44
Flexible process operation for electrified chemical plants	43
Batch or flow chemistry? – a current industrial opinion on process selection	42
Ultrasonic activation of persulfate for removal of aqueous pollutants: cavitational versus thermal mechanisms	42
Recent advances of single-atom catalysts for peroxymonosulfate-based advanced oxidation processes aimed at environmental remediation	41
Perspective in the industrial applications of sonoelectrochemical hydrogen production	40
Intensified physical and chemical processing using cavitation: how far are we from commercial applications of hydrodynamic cavitation?	40
Artificial intelligence in reaction prediction and chemical synthesis	38
Future perspective on redox flow batteries: aqueous versus nonaqueous electrolytes	38