| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Membrane materials for water purification: design, development, and application | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 494 |
| 2 | A critical review of resource recovery from municipal wastewater treatment plants – market supply potentials, technologies and bottlenecks | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2020 | 228 |
| 3 | Electrochemical technologies for wastewater treatment and resource reclamation | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 220 |
| 4 | LED revolution: fundamentals and prospects for UV disinfection applications | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2017 | 202 |
| 5 | Long-term performance of a 200 liter modularized microbial fuel cell system treating municipal wastewater: treatment, energy, and cost | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 200 |
| 6 | Fate of microplastics and other small anthropogenic litter (SAL) in wastewater treatment plants depends on unit processes employed | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 198 |
| 7 | The consumptive water footprint of electricity and heat: a global assessment | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2015 | 192 |
| 8 | Inorganic engineered nanoparticles in drinking water treatment: a critical review | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 187 |
| 9 | Reproducibility and sensitivity of 36 methods to quantify the SARS-CoV-2 genetic signal in raw wastewater: findings from an interlaboratory methods evaluation in the U.S. | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2021 | 185 |
| 10 | Adsorption of organic micropollutants onto biochar: a review of relevant kinetics, mechanisms and equilibrium | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2019 | 164 |
| 11 | Mining valuable minerals from seawater: a critical review | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2017 | 154 |
| 12 | Emerging investigators series: the source and fate of pandemic viruses in the urban water cycle | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2015 | 150 |
| 13 | Pee power urinal – microbial fuel cell technology field trials in the context of sanitation | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 147 |
| 14 | Microplastics removal in wastewater treatment plants: a critical review | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2020 | 147 |
| 15 | Emerging investigators series: the efficacy of chlorine photolysis as an advanced oxidation process for drinking water treatment | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 139 |
| 16 | Editorial Perspectives: 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): what is its fate in urban water cycle and how can the water research community respond? | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2020 | 138 |
| 17 | Advances in predicting organic contaminant abatement during ozonation of municipal wastewater effluent: reaction kinetics, transformation products, and changes of biological effects | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 131 |
| 18 | Surface functionalization and manipulation of mesoporous silica adsorbents for improved removal of pollutants: a review | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2018 | 131 |
| 19 | Selective adsorption of oil–water mixtures using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)–graphene sponges | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2015 | 127 |
| 20 | Lithium extraction from Chinese salt-lake brines: opportunities, challenges, and future outlook | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2017 | 122 |
| 21 | Bioelectrochemical systems for nitrogen removal and recovery from wastewater | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2015 | 117 |
| 22 | Recent trend in visible-light photoelectrocatalytic systems for degradation of organic contaminants in water/wastewater | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2018 | 114 |
| 23 | A review of the management and treatment of brine solutions | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2017 | 113 |
| 24 | Detection of trace arsenic in drinking water: challenges and opportunities for microfluidics | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2015 | 112 |
| 25 | Wastewater treatment plants as a source of plastics in the environment: a review of occurrence, methods for identification, quantification and fate | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2019 | 112 |
| 26 | The osmotic membrane bioreactor: a critical review | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2015 | 105 |
| 27 | A mechanistic understanding of the degradation of trace organic contaminants by UV/hydrogen peroxide, UV/persulfate and UV/free chlorine for water reuse | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2017 | 102 |
| 28 | Selective ion separation by capacitive deionization (CDI) based technologies: a state-of-the-art review | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2020 | 102 |
| 29 | Recent advances in portable heavy metal electrochemical sensing platforms | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2020 | 99 |
| 30 | Emerging investigators series: microbial communities in full-scale drinking water distribution systems – a meta-analysis | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 98 |
| 31 | Microplastic biofilm in fresh- and wastewater as a function of microparticle type and size class | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2019 | 97 |
| 32 | Solar-driven evaporators for water treatment: challenges and opportunities | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2021 | 94 |
| 33 | Capacitive deionization and electrosorption for heavy metal removal | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2020 | 92 |
| 34 | Anaerobic membrane bioreactor treatment of domestic wastewater at psychrophilic temperatures ranging from 15 °C to 3 °C | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2015 | 90 |
| 35 | Removal of heavy metal ions using a carboxylated graphene oxide-incorporated polyphenylsulfone nanofiltration membrane | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2018 | 90 |
| 36 | A review of recent developments in graphene-enabled membranes for water treatment | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 89 |
| 37 | Demonstration of membrane distillation on textile waste water: assessment of long term performance, membrane cleaning and waste heat integration | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2017 | 89 |
| 38 | Emerging investigator series: the role of vegetation in bioretention for stormwater treatment in the built environment: pollutant removal, hydrologic function, and ancillary benefits | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2018 | 86 |
| 39 | Energy-efficient desalination by forward osmosis using responsive ionic liquid draw solutes | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2015 | 84 |
| 40 | Survey of green building water systems reveals elevated water age and water quality concerns | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 81 |
| 41 | Assessing pharmaceutical removal and reduction in toxicity provided by advanced wastewater treatment systems | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2020 | 81 |
| 42 | Characterising and understanding the impact of microbial biofilms and the extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix in drinking water distribution systems | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 80 |
| 43 | Treatment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in landfill leachate: status, chemistry and prospects | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2019 | 79 |
| 44 | Electrochemical wastewater treatment with carbon nanotube filters coupled with in situ generated H2O2 | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2015 | 78 |
| 45 | Occurrence and fate of benzophenone-type UV filters in aquatic environments: a review | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2019 | 73 |
| 46 | Efficient removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in drinking water treatment: nanofiltration combined with active carbon or anion exchange | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2019 | 72 |
| 47 | Landfill leachate contributes per-/poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and pharmaceuticals to municipal wastewater | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2020 | 72 |
| 48 | Triclosan adsorption using wastewater biosolids-derived biochar | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2016 | 71 |
| 49 | Micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration (MEUF) – state of the art | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2017 | 70 |
| 50 | Computational design of 2D functional covalent–organic framework membranes for water desalination | Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology | 2017 | 69 |
