OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering is 39. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Moving beyond techno-economic considerations: incorporating organizational constraints into fit-for-use technologies	192
Fine chemicals production in a carbon-neutral economy: the role of electrification	166
Process modeling of recombinant adeno-associated virus production in HEK293 cells	161
Advanced methodologies for model-based optimization and control of pharmaceutical processes	142
Emerging techniques to monitor temperature and supply heat for multiscale solid-based catalysis processes	140
Metrics and methods for resilience-aware design of process systems: advances and challenges	92
Interfacial synthesis: a scalable fabrication method of two-dimensional membranes	90
Process systems engineering: a key enabler of adsorption-based direct air capture	82
Featurizing chemistry for machine learning — methods and a coded example	79
Direct air capture of CO2: an industrial perspective	77
Editorial overview: Advanced reduction processes for environmental applications	74
Deciphering the issue of single-atom catalyst stability	73
Accurate model needs for desalination systems	67
Recent advances, challenges and perspectives on rotating packed bed technology in solvent-based post-combustion carbon capture	66
A review on scale-up approaches for ultrasound-assisted extraction of natural products	60
Kinetic and thermodynamic limitations in direct air capture: toward optimized adsorbent design and regeneration strategies	60
Two-dimensional nanosheets and membranes for their emerging technologies	60
Challenges and opportunities for computer-aided molecular and process design approaches in advancing sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing	60
High power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) for the fabrication of antimicrobial and transparent TiO2 thin films	59
Industrial carbon capture by absorption: recent advances and path forward	56
The chemical engineering aspects of CO2 capture, combined with its utilisation	55
Ultrasonic activation of persulfate for removal of aqueous pollutants: cavitational versus thermal mechanisms	54
Editorial overview: For materials engineering: antimicrobial and self-cleaning material surfaces	54
Editorial overview: Kinetic models for radical polymerization and polymer recycling	53
Anion exchange membrane electrolysis beyond the lab scale: a review on research and industry stacks	53

Prospects for using artificial intelligence to understand intrinsic kinetics of heterogeneous catalytic reactions	51
High free volume polymers for pervaporation	50
Batch or flow chemistry? – a current industrial opinion on process selection	50
Z-scheme single-atom photocatalyst for advanced oxidation processes	50
Considerations for Big Data management in pharmaceutical manufacturing	50
Window cleanliness in directly irradiated solar reactors: review and perspectives	49
Molecular machine learning in chemical process design	48
HiGee process intensification in biorefineries: innovations, challenges, and outlook	48
Flexible process operation for electrified chemical plants	48
Artificial intelligence applications for fault detection and diagnosis in pharmaceutical bioprocesses: a review	46
Audacity of huge: overcoming challenges of data scarcity and data quality for machine learning in computational materials discovery	45
Membrane synthesis via thermally induced phase separation: quantifying the shift to a more sustainable design	43
Perspective in the industrial applications of sonoelectrochemical hydrogen production	42
An engineering perspective on the future role of modelling in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis development	39
Role of cathode materials and their advancement for sustainable hydrogen evolution reaction in microbial electrolysis cells	39