Water Research X

Papers
(The median citation count of Water Research X is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mechanism insight into the facet-dependent photoaging of polystyrene microplastics on hematite in freshwater121
Efficient and sustainable removal of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate in a membrane biofilm: Oxygen supply dosage impacts mineralization pathway120
Tools for interpretation of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 temporal and spatial trends demonstrated with data collected in the San Francisco Bay Area115
Aquacultural source of nitrous oxide revealed by nitrogen isotopes99
Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream76
Start-up of a full-scale two-stage partial nitritation/anammox (PN/A) process treating reject water from high solid anaerobic sludge digestion (HSAD)59
Effects of functional groups of polyfluoroalkyl substances on their removal by nanofiltration58
Making waves: Public health risks from arsenic in Mexico's water extraction practices57
Emerging and legacy organophosphate flame retardants in the tropical estuarine food web: Do they exhibit similar bioaccumulation patterns, trophic partitioning and dietary exposure?46
Gravity-driven membrane filtration with compact second-life modules daily backwashed: An alternative to conventional ultrafiltration for centralized facilities44
A novel approach for accurate quantification of lake residence time — Lake Kinneret as a case study43
Nanoplastics are significantly different from microplastics in urban waters42
Making waves: A vision for digital water utilities36
Opportunities and challenges of tackling Scope 3 “Indirect” emissions from residential hot water36
Spatial-economic scenarios to increase resilience to urban flooding36
An integrated strategy for sequential nitrite removal and methane recovery: Sludge fermentation driven by nitrite reduction34
Removal of soluble divalent manganese by superfine powdered activated carbon and free chlorine: Development and application of a simple kinetic model of mass transfer–catalytic surface oxidation34
Evaluating energy balance and environmental footprint of sludge management in BRICS countries32
An electrochemical advanced oxidation process for the treatment of urban stormwater31
Mechanisms of N2O production in salinity-adapted partial nitritation systems for high-ammonia wastewater treatment30
Modulation of ultrathin nanosheet structure and nitrogen defects in graphitic carbon nitride for efficient photocatalytic bacterial inactivation28
Effectiveness of three machine learning models for prediction of daily streamflow and uncertainty assessment24
Boosted brackish water desalination and water softening by facilely designed MnO2/hierarchical porous carbon as capacitive deionization electrode23
Wastewater tiling amplicon sequencing in sentinel sites reveals longitudinal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants prevalence23
Machine learning-driven benchmarking of China's wastewater treatment plant electricity consumption22
Continuous-flow phosphate removal using Cry-Ca-COS Monolith: Insights from dynamic adsorption modeling21
Influence of pipe materials on in-building disinfection of P. aeruginosa and A. baumannii in simulated hot water plumbing21
Enhancing accuracy and interpretability of multi-steps water demand prediction through prior knowledge integration in neural network architecture20
High-level nitrogen removal achieved by Feammox-based autotrophic nitrogen conversion19
An overlooked nanofluids effect from Fe3O4 nanoparticles enhances mass transfer in anammox granular sludge19
Autonomous online optimization of a closed-circuit reverse osmosis system19
Perfluoroalkyl functionalized-Au nanoparticle sensor: Employing rate of spectrum shifting for highly selective and sensitive detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in aqueous environ18
A probabilistic deep learning approach to enhance the prediction of wastewater treatment plant effluent quality under shocking load events17
Long-term onsite monitoring of a sewage sludge drying pan finds methane emissions consistent with IPCC default emission factor16
An inconvenient impact: Unveiling the overlooked differences in crystalline forms of iron (hydro)oxides on anaerobic digestion16
A two-stage partial nitritation-denitritation/anammox (PN-DN/A) process to treat high-solid anaerobic digestion (HSAD) reject water: Verification based on pilot-scale and full-scale projects16
Defense mechanism of Fe(III)-assisted anammox under salt stress: Performance and microbial community dynamics16
Stagnation leads to short-term fluctuations in the effluent water quality of biofilters: A problem for greywater reuse?15
Removal of perfluoroalkyl acids and common drinking water contaminants by weak-base anion exchange resins: Impacts of solution pH and resin properties15
Decoupling locally enhanced electric field treatment (LEEFT) intensity and copper release by applying asymmetric electric pulses for water disinfection15
Identifying periods impacted by sewer inflow and infiltration using time series anomaly detection14
Corrigendum to ‘Amyloid adhesin production in activated sludge is enhanced in lab-scale sequencing batch reactors: Feeding regime impacts microbial community and amyloid distribution’ [Water Research 14
A systematic review and meta-analysis of pathogen reduction in onsite sanitation systems14
The neglected ammonia leaching calcium in anaerobic granular sludge13
A unit process log reduction database for water reuse practitioners13
Effects of hydraulically disconnecting consumer pumps in an intermittent water supply12
Dual role of organic matter in Feammox-driven nitrogen and phosphate removal12
Benchmarks for urine volume generation and phosphorus mass recovery in commercial and institutional buildings12
Combined membrane aeration and filtration for energy- and space-efficient COD removal in water reuse12
Enrichment and identification of a moderately acidophilic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium12
Application of organic silicon quaternary ammonium salt (QSA) to reduce carbon footprint of sewers: Long-term inhibition on sulfidogenesis and methanogenesis11
Elucidating the complex hydrolysis and conversion network of xanthan-like extracellular heteropolysaccharides in waste activated sludge fermentation11
Unexpectedly high antibacterial ability of water in copper pot with tiny amount of plant leaves11
Model-based monitoring of diffuser fouling using standard sensors11
Scattered and transmitted light as surrogates for activated carbon residual in advanced wastewater treatment processes: Investigating the influence of particle size11
New understanding of microbial growth cycle for efficient waste-activated sludge disposal by preserving microbial self-degradation activity during the decline phase11
Evaluation of sealants to mitigate the release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from AFFF-impacted concrete: Characterization and forecasting10
Long short-term memory models of water quality in inland water environments10
Overlooked role of long capping time and environmental factors in the plateau lake for impairing lanthanum-modified-bentonite's immobilization to phosphate10
The interplay of suspended sediment concentration, particle size and fluid velocity on the rapid deposition of suspended iron oxide particles in PVC drinking water pipes10
Research stories along the urban water cycle10
Characterization of EPS subfractions from a mixed culture predominated by partial-denitrification functional bacteria10
Hydrolysis capacity of different sized granules in a full-scale aerobic granular sludge (AGS) reactor9
Three years of wastewater surveillance for new psychoactive substances from 16 countries9
Novel ellipsoid-like granules exhibit enhanced anammox performance compared to sphere-like granules9
Successful year-round mainstream partial nitritation anammox: Assessment of effluent quality, performance and N2O emissions9
Biodegradation kinetics of organic micropollutants in biofilters for advanced wastewater treatment – Impact of operational conditions and biomass origin on removal9
Mitigating risks and maximizing sustainability of treated wastewater reuse for irrigation9
Efficient utilization of photoelectron-hole at semiconductor-microbe interface for pyridine degradation with assistance of external electric field9
Nitrite-dependent microbial utilization for simultaneous removal of sulfide and methane in sewers9
Why stories matter in water research: A case for narrative style paper writing8
Sorghum-grown fungal biocatalysts for synthetic dye degradation8
A new Digital Harmony Search algorithm for optimizing Pump Scheduling in Water Distribution Networks8
Three-dimensional convolutional neural network for leak detection and localization in smart water distribution systems8
Water Research X is expanding its article types8
Effectiveness of cyclic treatment of municipal wastewater by Tetradesmus obliquus – Loofah biofilm, its internal community changes and potential for resource utilization8
Amyloid adhesin production in activated sludge is enhanced in lab-scale sequencing batch reactors: Feeding regime impacts microbial community and amyloid distribution7
Modeling and experimental approaches for determining fluoride diffusion kinetics in bone char sorbent and prediction of packed-bed groundwater defluoridator performance7
UV LED wastewater disinfection: The future is upon us7
Carbon footprint analysis of wastewater treatment processes coupled with sludge in situ reduction7
Modeling the energy consumption of potable water reuse schemes7
Making waves: Knowledge and data fusion in urban water modelling7
Sewage sludge derived biochar for environmental improvement: Advances, challenges, and solutions6
Making waves: Why do we need ultra-permeable nanofiltration membranes for water treatment?6
Effluent quality soft sensor for wastewater treatment plant with ensemble sparse learning-based online next generation reservoir computing6
Laboratory performance assessment of low-cost water level sensor for field monitoring in the tropics6
Uncovering the diverse hosts of tigecycline resistance gene tet(X4) in anaerobic digestion systems treating swine manure by epicPCR6
Towards stable and efficient nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment processes via an adaptive neural network based sliding mode controller6
Engineered methanotrophic syntrophy in photogranule communities removes dissolved methane6
Aquaculture bacterial pathogen database: Pathogen monitoring and screening in coastal waters using environmental DNA6
A positive contribution to nitrogen removal by a novel NOB in a full-scale duck wastewater treatment system6
Single CSTR can be as effective as an SBR in selecting PHA-storing biomass from municipal wastewater-derived feedstock6
Microbial mixotrophic denitrification using iron(II) as an assisted electron donor6
Water demand forecasting in multiple district metered areas based on a multi-scale correction module neural network architecture6
Compartment-specific effect of sulfamethoxazole at low μg/L concentrations on microbial nitrogen assimilation in a river system5
Real-time detection of 3–8-µm microbial particles in sand filter effluent as a surrogate indicator of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts5
Quadrupling the capacity of post aerobic digestion treating anaerobically digested sludge using a moving-bed biofilm (MBBR) configuration5
Comparative enrichment of complete ammonium oxidation bacteria in floccular sludge reactors: Sequencing batch reactor vs. continuous stirred tank reactor5
Leveraging multi-level correlations for imputing monitoring data in water supply systems using graph signal sampling theory5
Underestimation of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater due to single or double mutations in the N1 qPCR probe binding region5
Rapid and selective quantitative colourimetric analysis of nitrite in water using a S-Nitrosothiol based method5
A cohesive Microcoleus strain cluster causes benthic cyanotoxic blooms in rivers worldwide5
Efficient smartphone-based measurement of phosphorus in water5
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