OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering is 19. 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
Recent advances in carbon-based non-noble single-atom catalysts for rechargeable zinc–air batteries	36
Emerging nonthermal technologies for food safety: trends, limitations, and future research	36
Single-atom coordination-dependent catalysis for peroxymonosulfate-mediated water purification	36
Sorption-enhanced reactions as enablers for CO2 capture and utilisation	35
Role of cathode materials and their advancement for sustainable hydrogen evolution reaction in microbial electrolysis cells	35
An engineering perspective on the future role of modelling in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis development	35
Recent progress on sustainable membrane manufacturing with green solvents and biopolymers	34
Understanding of chemical looping with autothermal operation	33
Membrane synthesis via thermally induced phase separation: quantifying the shift to a more sustainable design	33
Green biomass-derived materials for oil spill response: recent advancements and future perspectives	33
Design and optimization of carbon capture processes using ionic liquid solvents	32
Geologic carbon dioxide sequestration methods, opportunities, and impacts	31
State-of-the-art polymers of intrinsic microporosity for high-performance gas separation membranes	31
Computer-aided retrosynthetic design: fundamentals, tools, and outlook	31
Safe reuse of treated produced water outside oil and gas fields? A review of current practices, challenges, opportunities, and a risk-based pathway for produced water treatment and fit-for-purpose reu	31
Advances in applying sustainable materials and manufacturing scale-up in polymeric membrane fabrication	31
Hybrid modeling — a key enabler towards realizing digital twins in biopharma?	30
Fungal morphology: a challenge in bioprocess engineering industries for product development	30
Towards a Net Zero, socially sustainable and eco-efficient biopharma industry: how far are we?	30
Application of the Rd/w framework to assess Donnan dialysis performance	30
Accelerating the structure search of catalysts with machine learning	30
Roles of mechanistic, data-driven, and hybrid modeling approaches for pharmaceutical process design and operation	29
Intensified cavitation process for the pretreatment of microalgae: a mini review	29
A perspective on hazardous chemical substitution in consumer products	29
Extraction of noble metals and rare earth elements using plants	27
Ionic liquids: a novel material for efficient nanofiltration membranes	27
Editorial overview: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances	27
Purification challenges for the portable, on-demand point-of-care production of biologics	26
Editorial overview: Nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications: advances and recent trends	26
Editorial Board	26
Mapping GHG emissions and prospects for renewable energy in the chemical industry	25
Modern analytical techniques are improving our ability to follow the fate of spilled oil in the environment	25
Recent advance in understanding photooxidation of hydrocarbons after oil spills	25
Machine learning for multiscale modeling in computational molecular design	25
Flexible solar-to-iron system: a new concept and its implementation	25
A perspective on the state of Deepwater Horizon oil spill related tarball contamination and its impacts on Alabama beaches	25
The development of iron-based catalysts for the reduction of nitrogen and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in wastewater treatment: a review	25

Insights into the biodegradation and bioremediation of microplastics: mechanisms and analytical methods	24
Metal–organic framework-derived single-atom catalysts for peroxymonosulfate-mediated organic wastewater remediation	24
Editorial overview: Advances on Z-scheme and S-scheme photocatalysis for environmental application	24
Additive manufacturing of polyaniline-based materials: an opportunity for new designs and applications in energy and biotechnology	24
Contents	23
Editorial overview: Mechanistic and data-driven modelling of biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes	23
Mobile hydrogen reformers as a novel approach to decarbonise the transport sector	22
Recent trends in optimization models for industrial decarbonization	22
Bayesian optimization for chemical products and functional materials	22
Opportunities for process intensification using non-thermal plasmas	22
CO2 capture initiatives: are governments, society, industry and the financial sector ready?	21
Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) for catalysis: a perspective	21
Inorganic nanoparticle engineering against bacterial infections	21
How synthetic methods of single-atom electrocatalysts affect the catalytic performance of carbon dioxide reduction	20
Ferroelectric BiFeO3 and BaTiO3 photocatalysts for photoelectrochemical water splitting	20
Temperature vacuum swing, a combined adsorption cycle for carbon capture	20
Resolving electrocatalytic imprecision in atomically precise metal nanoclusters	20
Trends and perspectives on the ultrasound-assisted extraction of bioactive compounds using natural deep eutectic solvents	20
Protein crystal regulation and harvest via electric field-based method	20
Hydrogen production by photocatalytic dehydrogenation of formic acid	20
Recent developments of high-gravity (reactive) distillation in rotating packed beds	20
Editorial overview: Frontiers of chemical engineering: 2D membranes: Materials, mechanisms and manufacturing	19
Two-dimensional material membrane fabrication: progress and challenges	19
Editorial Board	19
Depth filtration in bioprocessing — new opportunities for an old technology	19
The case for a common software library and a set of enumerated benchmark problems in computer-aided molecular design	19
Scale-up of HiGee for CO₂ capture: did evolution of HiGee technology give scale-up a miss?	19