OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water Research X is 13. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Early-pandemic wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Southern Nevada: Methodology, occurrence, and incidence/prevalence considerations	170
Co-quantification of crAssphage increases confidence in wastewater-based epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 in low prevalence areas	85
Limited simultaneous nitrification-denitrification (SND) in aerobic granular sludge systems treating municipal wastewater: Mechanisms and practical implications	77
State of the art of urine treatment technologies: A critical review.	69
A review of long-term pesticide monitoring studies to assess surface water quality trends	67
Tools for interpretation of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 temporal and spatial trends demonstrated with data collected in the San Francisco Bay Area	64
Paint particles in the marine environment: An overlooked component of microplastics	62
Hospital discharges in urban sanitation systems: Long-term monitoring of wastewater resistome and microbiota in relationship to their eco-exposome	51
Membrane aerated biofilm reactors for mainstream partial nitritation/anammox: Experiences using real municipal wastewater	48
One-year stable pilot-scale operation demonstrates high flexibility of mainstream anammox application	43
The grey water footprint of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals	41
Capsid integrity quantitative PCR to determine virus infectivity in environmental and food applications – A systematic review	39
Removal of pharmaceuticals from nitrified urine by adsorption on granular activated carbon	35
COVID-19 and the call for ‘Safe Hands’: Challenges facing the under-resourced municipalities that lack potable water access - A case study of Chitungwiza municipality, Zimbabwe	34
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and complete ammonia-oxidizing Nitrospira in water treatment systems	33
Wastewater treatment efficacy evaluated with in vitro bioassays	31
Sewage sludge derived biochar for environmental improvement: Advances, challenges, and solutions	30
Estimation of countrywide N2O emissions from wastewater treatment in Switzerland using long-term monitoring data	28
The role of mobile genetic elements in organic micropollutant degradation during biological wastewater treatment	28
Successful year-round mainstream partial nitritation anammox: Assessment of effluent quality, performance and N2O emissions	28
Linking seasonal N2O emissions and nitrification failures to microbial dynamics in a SBR wastewater treatment plant	27
Modeling the energy consumption of potable water reuse schemes	25
Persistence of emerging viral fecal indicators in large-scale freshwater mesocosms	23
Inactivation of RNA and DNA viruses in water by copper and silver ions and their synergistic effect	23
Microbial paracetamol degradation involves a high diversity of novel amidase enzyme candidates	23

Quantifying clogging patterns of infiltration systems to improve urban stormwater pollution reduction estimates	23
Quantification of individual Rare Earth Elements from industrial sources in sewage sludge	21
Use of trihalomethanes as a surrogate for haloacetonitrile exposure introduces misclassification bias	21
Engineered methanotrophic syntrophy in photogranule communities removes dissolved methane	21
Quantifying the performance of dual-use rainwater harvesting systems	20
Enhanced hydraulic cleanability of biofilms developed under a low phosphorus concentration in reverse osmosis membrane systems	20
CrAssphage for fecal source tracking in Chile: Covariation with norovirus, HF183, and bacterial indicators	17
Continuous high-frequency pesticide monitoring to observe the unexpected and the overlooked	17
Three years of wastewater surveillance for new psychoactive substances from 16 countries	16
Optimized suspect screening approach for a comprehensive assessment of the impact of best management practices in reducing micropollutants transport in the Potomac River watershed	16
Nanoplastics are significantly different from microplastics in urban waters	15
Controlling disinfection byproducts from treated wastewater using adsorption with granular activated carbon: Impact of pre-ozonation and pre-chlorination	15
Semi-crystalline microplastics in wastewater plant effluents and removal efficiencies of post-treatment filtration systems	14
Microfluidic testing of flocculants for produced water treatment: Comparison with other methodologies	13
Practical implementation of true on-site water recycling systems for hand washing and toilet flushing	13
Making Waves: Why water reuse frameworks need to co-evolve with emerging small-scale technologies	13
Making waves: Why do we need ultra-permeable nanofiltration membranes for water treatment?	13
Tracing N2O formation in full-scale wastewater treatment with natural abundance isotopes indicates control by organic substrate and process settings	13