International Journal of Coal Geology

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Coal Geology is 11. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Organic matter accumulation, paleoenvironment and kerogen structure of the Middle Jurassic Dameigou Formation, Qaidam Basin: Evidence from organic petrography and geochemistry110
Reassessment of the Pennsylvanian bio- and chronostratigraphy of the Saar-Lorraine Basin using high-precision U Pb ages of volcanic ashes65
Chemo-hydro-mechanical effects of CO2 injection into a permeable limestone61
CO2-enriched CBM accumulation mechanism for low-rank coal in the southern Junggar Basin, China53
Soft modelling of the Hardgrove grindability index of bituminous coals: An overview52
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Contrasts in maceral textures in progressive metamorphism versus near-surface hydrothermal metamorphism50
Organic matter accumulation mechanisms in the Wufeng-Longmaxi shales in western Hubei Province, China and paleogeographic implications for the uplift of the Hunan-Hubei Submarine high47
The implementation of subterranean barriers with mine pre-drainage to reduce coal mine methane emissions from open-cut and underground metallurgical-coal mines47
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Deep-basin gas generation via organic–inorganic interactions: New insights from redox-controlled hydrothermal experiments at elevated temperature44
Evaluation of elemental affinities in coal using agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm: A case study in a thick and mineable coal seam (kM2) from Soma Basin (W. Turkey)42
Mechanisms of strain rate-dependent response of naturally fractured coal42
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology40
Petrology and geochemistry of the Fire Clay coalbed, Martin County, Inez 7 ½′ quadrangle, Kentucky, USA40
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Organic matter preservation conditions in the third member of the Shahejie Formation (Dongpu Depression, China)37
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Geochemistry of two high-lithium content coal seams, Shanxi Province, China35
The influence of Early Cretaceous paleoclimate warming event on sedimentary environment evolution and organic matter sources in Yin'e Basin: Evidence from petrology and molecular geochemistry35
Formation of natural fractures and their impact on shale oil accumulation in the Mahu Sag, Junggar Basin, NW China34
Coal mine wastes: Effective mitigation of coal waste slurry and acid mine drainage through bioflocculation using mixotrophic bacteria as bioflocculants33
The origin of GHG's emission from self-heating coal waste dump: Atmogeochemical interactions and environmental implications33
Differential graphitization of organic matter in coal: Some new understandings from reflectance evolution of meta-anthracite macerals32
High-cellulose content of in-situ Miocene fossil tree stumps and trunks from Lusatia lignite mining district, Federal Republic of Germany31
Interactions between surface properties of pristine coals and the intrinsic microbial communities involved in methane formation31
Hyperspectral imaging of coal core: A focus on the visible-near-shortwave infrared (VN-SWIR) region31
Cyclical water vapor sorption-induced structural alterations of mine roof shale31
Solid bitumen as an indicator of petroleum migration, thermal maturity, and contact metamorphism: A case study in the Barrandian Basin (Silurian - Devonian), Czech Republic30
Substantial gas enrichment in shales influenced by volcanism during the Ordovician–Silurian transition30
Petrological and geochemical evidences for anaerobic and thermochemical oxidations of methane in petroliferous basins30
Palynostratigraphy of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary in the Tyler Formation, Williston Basin, USA: Implications for organic matter-rich source rocks and paleoenvironmental reconstruction30
Geochemical characteristics and formation mechanism of organic-rich source rocks of mixed sedimentary strata in continental saline lacustrine basin: A case study of Permian Pingdiquan formation in the29
Disentangling causes of the limestone-marl bedding couplets in the Bridge Creek Limestone Member of the Greenhorn Formation through an integrated sedimentological and organic petrology analysis29
Multiscale synchrotron microtomography imaging of kerogen lenses in organic-rich shales from the Norwegian Continental Shelf28
Deep syntectonic burial of the Anthracite belt, Eastern Pennsylvania28
Climatic and environmental conditions during the Pleistocene in the Central Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from GDGTs, stable isotopes and major and trace elements of the Qigequan Formatio28
Decoupling experiments for CH4 “diffusion-seepage” in coal columns to effectively measure sorption time27
The formation of early Eocene organic-rich mudstone in the western Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China: Insight from paleoclimate and hydrothermal activity27
Scanning electron microscopic evaluation of broad ion beam milling effects to sedimentary organic matter: Sputter-induced artifacts or naturally occurring porosity?26
Integrated containment risks assessment for subsurface CO2 storage: Overburden analysis and top seal integrity study, offshore Norway25
Methane absorption of coal-measure shales with and without pore water from the Qinshui Basin, North China: Based on high-pressure methane absorption experiments25
Revisiting the petrology of lower Pennsylvanian (Namurian and Langsettian) coals in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia, USA25
Hydrocarbon potential and Organofacies of the Devonian Antrim Shale, Michigan Basin25
Pore systems and their correlation with oil enrichment in various lithofacies of saline lacustrine shale strata25
Intelligent classification of coal structure using multinomial logistic regression, random forest and fully connected neural network with multisource geophysical logging data25
Nanomechanical characterization of organic-matter maturity by atomic force microscopy (AFM)24
Differences and origins of hydrocarbon generation characteristics between mudstone and shale in the Seventh Member of the Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China24
Interactions between mineral evolution and organic acids dissolved in bitumen in hybrid shale system24
Palynofacies as sea-level-sensitive proxy in Early Cretaceous marine mudstones – A critical evaluation23
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Graptolite reflectance anomaly22
Carbon stability and morphotype composition of biochars from feedstocks in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam22
Detachment of coal fines deposited in proppant packs induced by single-phase water flow: Theoretical and experimental analyses22
PAHs in feed coals and fly ashes from coal-fired thermal power plants in Bulgaria22
Role of zooclasts in the kerogen type and hydrocarbon potential of the lower Paleozoic Alum Shale21
The effects of sample preparation on the interpretation of pyrolysis-based organic matter analysis in immature oil shale21
Hydrocarbon potential and depositional environment of the Middle Miocene Balikpapan Formation, lower Kutai Basin, Indonesia: Sedimentology, calcareous nannofossil, organic geochemistry, and organic pe21
Multiscale measurements of gas diffusion coefficient of coal using counter-diffusion and image-based methods21
Extractability indices for screening coal combustion byproduct feedstocks for recovery of rare earth elements21
Estimation of in-situ rock strength from borehole geophysical logs in Australian coal mine sites20
Effects of geochemical compositional heterogeneities on hydrocarbon expulsion and thermal maturation: An analog study of Maastrichtian source rocks from Jordan20
Geochemistry and organic petrography of the Middle Permian Lucaogou alkaline lacustrine oil shale in the southern Junggar Basin, China: Implications for formation conditions and organic matter accumul20
Recognition and (semi-)quantitative analysis of REE-bearing minerals in coal using automated scanning electron microscopy20
Kerogen composition and origin, oil and gas generation potential of the Berriasian Wealden Shales of the Lower Saxony Basin20
From abandoned mines to carbon sinks: Assessing the CO2 storage capacity of Austrian low-rank coal deposits20
Palaeo-thermal history of the Blanice Graben (the Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic): The origin of anthracite in a late-Variscan strike-slip basin20
Rare earth elements and other critical elements in the magnetic fraction of fly ash from several Polish power plants19
Effects of acid concentration on the recovery of rare earth elements from coal fly ash19
Pore systems and organic petrology of cretaceous Mowry and Niobrara source-rock reservoirs, Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA19
Oil migration from internal and external source rocks in an unconventional hybrid petroleum system, Montney Formation, western Canada19
Occurrence and preservation of primary organic matter in a hybrid unconventional reservoir: Montney Formation, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin19
Pore-scale modelling of water sorption in nanopore systems of shale18
Enhancement of biogenic methane production from subbituminous coal by reduced iron-bearing clay mineral18
First insights into mineralogy, geochemistry, and isotopic signatures of the Upper Triassic high‑sulfur coals from the Thai Nguyen Coal field, NE Vietnam18
Data-driven modeling to predict adsorption of hydrogen on shale kerogen: Implication for underground hydrogen storage18
Interlaboratory study: Testing reproducibility of solid biofuels component identification using reflected light microscopy18
Middle Jurassic lacustrine source rocks controlled by an aridification event: A case study in the northern Qaidam Basin (NW China)18
Geomechanical characterization and mineralogical correlation of compositionally diverse world-class Kazakhstani source rocks: Insights from nanoindentation testing18
Organic petrography and stable isotopic characteristics of Permian Talcher coal, India: Implications on depositional environment18
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Organic matter content and its role in shale porosity development with maturity: Insights from Baltic Basin Silurian shales17
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Critical insights from Rock-Eval analysis of vitrains17
Shale oil potential and mobility in low- to medium-maturity lacustrine shales: A case study of the Yanchang Formation shale in southeast Ordos Basin, China17
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Relationship between coal composition, fracture abundance and initial reservoir permeability: A case study in the Walloon Coal Measures, Surat Basin, Australia17
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Comparative metabolomic reveals chemotaxonomic markers of resin fossils for identification of botanical origins16
The occurrence of elevated δ34S in dissolved sulfate in a multi-level coal mine water system, Glasgow, UK16
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Single-well production history matching and geostatistical modeling as proxy to multi-well reservoir simulation for evaluating dynamic reservoir properties of coal seams16
Climatic reconstruction of the Late Palaeocene using sedimentary archives from the Bikaner-Nagaur Basin, Rajasthan, India16
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Discussion: “Effects of acid concentration on the recovery of rare earth elements from coal fly ash” [Mokoena et al., 2022, Int. J. Coal Geology, volume 259, article 104037]16
Application of organic petrology and chemistry in forensic studies of solid waste sites16
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Petrological, mineralogical, and geochemical compositions of the Eocene coals from Senakin Peninsula, South Kalimantan, Indonesia15
Understanding coal quality and the critical importance of comprehensive coal analyses15
Lithium isotopic composition of two high‑lithium coals and their fractions with different lithium occurrence modes, Shanxi Province, China15
Factors controlling the heterogeneity of shale pore structure and shale gas production of the Wufeng–Longmaxi shales in the Dingshan plunging anticline of the Sichuan Basin, China15
Movable and non-movable hydrocarbon fractions in an oil-depleted sandstone reservoir considered for CO2 storage, Nini West Field, Danish North Sea15
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Wood-degrading fungal origin of perylene in peatlands of southern Poland: A molecular and statistical approach15
Weathering-induced organic matter enrichment in marine-continental transitional shale: A case study on the early Permian Taiyuan Formation in the Ordos Basin, China15
Organic petrology and geochemistry data reveal depositional and thermal history of coal in the Guaduas formation, Colombian Eastern Cordillera15
Evaluating aromatization of solid bitumen generated in the presence and absence of water: Implications for solid bitumen reflectance as a thermal proxy14
Hydrothermally-altered coal from the Daqingshan Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, northern China: Evidence from stable isotopes of C within organic matter and C-O-Sr in associated carbonates14
Effect of ScCO2-H2O treatment duration on the microscopic structure of coal reservoirs: Implications for CO2 geological sequestration in coal14
Macromolecular structural changes in contact metamorphosed inertinite-rich coals from the No. 2 Seam, Witbank Coalfield (South Africa): Insights from petrography, NMR and XRD14
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Deposition of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in rural areas: Current data and historical record from an ombrotrophic peatland14
Borehole measurements of adsorbed gas content in coals using stimulated diffusion nuclear magnetic resonance14
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Record of Middle Jurassic wildfire and its incidental mercury emissions in northern Qaidam Basin, China: Evidence from the inertinite and mercury anomalies in coal14
Using optical-electron correlative microscopy for shales of contrasting thermal maturity14
Discussion on the applicability of Th/U ratio for evaluating the paleoredox conditions of lacustrine basins14
Enhancing predictions of blast-induced ground vibration in open-pit mines: Comparing swarm-based optimization algorithms to optimize self-organizing neural networks13
Simultaneous enhanced oil recovery, CCUS and UHUS in shale oil reservoirs13
Insights into coupling between in-situ coalbed water geochemical signatures and microbial communities13
Net primary productivity of paleo-peatlands linked to deep-time glacial periods in the late Carboniferous and early Permian icehouse interval13
Zeolite and associated mineral occurrences in high-sulphur coals from the middle Miocene upper coal seam from underground mines in the Çayirhan coalfield, (Beypazarı, Central Turkey)13
Relating systematic compositional variability to the textural occurrence of solid bitumen in shales13
Geochemical characteristics of mudstones from the lower cretaceous strata of the Jixi Basin, NE China: Implications for organic matter enrichment13
Petrology and geochemistry of Devonian cutinitic liptobioliths from northwestern China13
A novel tail: One story from the rare taxa of the coal seam microbiome12
Prediction of higher heating value of coal based on gradient boosting regression tree model12
Thermal history of the Northwestern Argentina, Central Andean Basin, based on first-ever reported graptolite reflectance data12
Mineralogy and geochemistry of the Middle Jurassic coal from the Hexi Mine, Shenfu Mining Area, Ordos Basin: With an emphasis on genetic indications of siderite12
Burial and thermal history modeling of basins in convergent oblique-slip mobile zones: A case study of the Ardmore Basin, southern Oklahoma12
Biosorption of some elements by algae from a cutinite-rich coal and its effect on organic geochemical composition: A case study from Abu Thora, Sinai, Egypt12
Reservoir lithofacies study of the Toolebuc Formation, Eromanga Basin, Australia as a potential unconventional target12
Insights into organic metagenesis using Raman spectroscopy and high resolution mass spectrometry: A case study of the Shahezi formation, deep Songliao basin, China12
Maturation study of vitrinite in carbonaceous shales and coals: Insights from hydrous pyrolysis12
Signature characteristics of coal geochemistry from the Eocene Tanjung Formation and the Miocene Warukin Formation, Barito Basin: Insights into geological control on coal deposition and future critica12
Prediction of acid production potential of self-combusted coal mining wastes from Douro Coalfield (Portugal) with integration of mineralogical and chemical data11
Elemental composition, environment of deposition of the lower Carboniferous Emma Fiord formation oil shale in Arctic Canada11
Chemical characteristics, formation mechanisms, and geological evolution processes of high-salinity coal reservoir water in the Binchang area of the southern Ordos Basin, China11
Deformation of pores in response to uniaxial and hydrostatic stress cycling in Marcellus Shale: Implications for gas recovery11
Time-lapse nanometre-scale 3D synchrotron imaging and image-based modelling of the response of shales to heating11
Combining molecular simulation and experiment to prove micropore distribution controls methane adsorption in kerogens11
Gas-water flow in fractured coal revealed by multimodal imaging11
Physicochemical characteristics and oxidative potential of size-segregated respirable coal mine dust: Implications for potentially hazardous agents and health risk assessment11
Particle size and mineralogy distributions in respirable dust samples from 25 US underground coal mines11
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of coal deposition during the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition in the Eastern Cordillera Basin, Colombian Andes11
Ranking the oil contribution of individual layers in a lacustrine shale oil system based on non-hydrocarbon analysis by FT-ICR MS11
Effects of thermal intrusion on biomarker distributions in the Alum Shale from south-central Sweden11
Petrographic and geochemical signatures of the Upper Permian Gondwana coals: Newcastle Coal Measures, Northern Sydney Basin, Australia11
Advancements in machine learning techniques for coal and gas outburst prediction in underground mines11
The effects of Jurassic igneous intrusions on the generation and retention of gas shale in the Lower Permian source-reservoir shales of Karoo Basin, South Africa11
Differential mineral diagenetic evolution of lacustrine shale: Implications for CO2 storage11
Origin and nature of pores in the Toolebuc Formation, a potential unconventional target in Australia11
The petrology of dispersed organic matter in sedimentary rocks: Review and update11
Structure and morphology of chars and activated carbons obtained from thermal treatment of coal and biomass origin materials, including their wastes: Results from the ICCP Microscopy of Carbon Materia11
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