OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contaminant Hydrology is 8. 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
Mesoporous activated carbon as a green adsorbent for the removal of heavy metals and Congo red: Characterization, adsorption kinetics, and isotherm studies	90
Removal of paracetamol from aqueous solution by activated carbon and silica. Experimental and computational study	57
Geochemical evolution and tracing of groundwater salinization using different ionic ratios, multivariate statistical and geochemical modeling approaches in a typical semi-arid basin	56
Subsurface transport potential of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs): Column experiments and modeling	53
A novel Hybrid Wavelet-Locally Weighted Linear Regression (W-LWLR) Model for Electrical Conductivity (EC) Prediction in Surface Water	52
Estimation of groundwater pollution levels and specific ionic sources in the groundwater, using a comprehensive approach of geochemical ratios, pollution index of groundwater, unmix model and land use	47
Air-water interfacial adsorption coefficients for PFAS when present as a multi-component mixture	44
Review on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) migration from wastewater	43
Effectiveness of groundwater heavy metal pollution indices studies by deep-learning	41
Long-term behavior of PFAS in contaminated agricultural soils in Germany	38
Nitrate contamination and source apportionment in surface and groundwater in Ghana using dual isotopes (15N and 18O-NO3) and a Bayesian isotope mixing model	38
Understanding the factors contributing to groundwater salinity in the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh, India	38
Modeling cross model non-Newtonian fluid flow in porous media	35
Adsorptive and photocatalytic remediation of hazardous organic chemical pollutants in aqueous medium: A review	30
Removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in conventional drinking water treatment processes	28
Integrated hydrogeophysical modelling and data assimilation for geoelectrical leak detection	28
A field study to assess the role of air-water interfacial sorption on PFAS leaching in an AFFF source area	27
Ofloxacin adsorptive interaction with rice husk ash: Parametric and exhausted adsorbent disposability study	26
Physics-informed deep learning for prediction of CO2 storage site response	26
Deep eutectic solvent functionalized rice husk ash for effective adsorption of ofloxacin from aqueous environment	25
Impacts of water temperature on phosphorus release of sediments under flowing overlying water	24
Is thermal use of groundwater a pollution?	24
Removal performance and optimisation of pharmaceutical micropollutants from synthetic domestic wastewater by hybrid treatment	23
A multidisciplinary approach for delineating wastewater flow paths in shallow groundwater aquifers: A case study in the southeastern part of the Nile Delta, Egypt	23
Competitive and synergic sorption of carbamazepine, citalopram, clindamycin, fexofenadine, irbesartan and sulfamethoxazole in seven soils	22

Predicting methane solubility in water and seawater by machine learning algorithms: Application to methane transport modeling	22
Groundwater fauna downtown – Drivers, impacts and implications for subsurface ecosystems in urban areas	21
Field-scale demonstration of in situ immobilization of heavy metals by injecting iron oxide nanoparticle adsorption barriers in groundwater	21
Investigation of microplastic pollution in Torghabeh River sediments, northeast of Iran	20
The prediction of longitudinal dispersion coefficient in natural streams using LS-SVM and ANFIS optimized by Harris hawk optimization algorithm	20
Evolution of groundwater chemistry in coastal aquifers of the Jiangsu, east China: Insights from a multi-isotope (δ2H, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr, and δ11B) approach	19
Numerical modeling of water pollution by products of chemical reactions from the activities of industrial facilities at variable and constant temperatures of the environment	19
New insights into the selective adsorption mechanism of cationic and anionic dyes using MIL-101(Fe) metal-organic framework: Modeling and interpretation of physicochemical parameters	19
Application of chitosan-alginate bio composite for adsorption of malathion from wastewater: Characterization and response surface methodology	19
Effectiveness and comparison of physical barriers on seawater intrusion and nitrate accumulation in upstream aquifers	19
Dynamics of major and trace elements during seawater intrusion in a coastal sedimentary aquifer impacted by anthropogenic activities	19
Pump-and-treat configurations with vertical and horizontal wells to remediate an aquifer contaminated by hexavalent chromium	18
A review of spatial Markov models for predicting pre-asymptotic and anomalous transport in porous and fractured media	18
Co-transport of chromium(VI) and bentonite colloidal particles in water-saturated porous media: Effect of colloid concentration, sand gradation, and flow velocity	18
Submarine groundwater discharge as sources for dissolved nutrient fluxes in Coleroon river estuary, Bay of Bengal, India	17
Semi-empirical modelling of hydraulic conductivity of clayey soils exposed to deionized and saline environments	17
Predictive modeling of selected trace elements in groundwater using hybrid algorithms of iterative classifier optimizer	17
Sources and pollution path identification of PAHs in karst aquifers: an example from Liulin karst water system, northern China	17
Isotopic and hydrochemical evidence for the salinity origin in the coastal aquifers of the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou, China	17
Impact of diffuse layer processes on contaminant forward and back diffusion in heterogeneous sandy-clayey domains	17
Assessment of groundwater vulnerability using integrated remote sensing and GIS techniques for the West Bengal coast, India	17
Two-dimensional analytical solution for VOC vapor migration through layered soil laterally away from the edge of contaminant source	16
Modeling uranium and 226Ra mobility during and after an acidic in situ recovery test (Dulaan Uul, Mongolia)	16
Application of analytical hierarchical process, multi-influencing factor, and geospatial techniques for groundwater potential zonation in a semi-arid region of western India	16
The efficient removal of bisphenol A from aqueous solution using an assembled nanocomposite of zero-valent iron nanoparticles/graphene oxide/copper: Adsorption isotherms, kinetic, and thermodynamic st	15
Impacts of water table fluctuations on actual and perceived natural source zone depletion rates	15
Scale dependence of effective geochemical rates in weathering mine waste rock	15
Assessment of chlorinated ethenes degradation after field scale injection of activated carbon and bioamendments: Application of isotopic and microbial analyses	15
Hydraulic conductivity of soil-bentonite backfill comprised of SHMP-amended Ca-bentonite to Cr(VI)-impacted groundwater	15
Vulnerability of groundwater from elevated nitrate pollution across India: Insights from spatio-temporal patterns using large-scale monitoring data	15
Preliminary investigations of microplastic pollution in karst systems, from surface watercourses to cave waters	15
Pollution characteristics of aromatic hydrocarbons in the groundwater of China	15
The influence of porous media heterogeneity on smouldering remediation	15
Mechanistic insight into the adsorption of mercury (II) on the surface of red mud supported nanoscale zero-valent iron composite	15
The reduction and fate of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in microbial fuel cell (MFC) during treatment of livestock wastewater	14
Contamination presence and dynamics at a polluted site: Spatial analysis of integrated data and joint conceptual modeling approach	14
Nitrate distribution under the influence of seasonal hydrodynamic changes and human activities in Huixian karst wetland, South China	14
Delineating the impact of urbanization on the hydrochemistry and quality of groundwater wells in Aba, Nigeria	14
Utilize gadolinium as environmental tracer for surface water-groundwater interaction in Karst	13
The importance of transects for characterizing aged organic contaminant plumes in groundwater	13
Long-term cometabolic transformation of 1,1,1-trichloroethane and 1,4-dioxane by Rhodococcus rhodochrous ATCC 21198 grown on alcohols slowly produced by orthosilicates	13
Temporal analysis of the microbial communities in a nitrate-contaminated aquifer and the co-occurrence of anammox, n-damo and nitrous-oxide reducing bacteria	13
Comparison of methods to estimate air-water interfacial areas for evaluating PFAS transport in the vadose zone	13
Transport characteristics of DNA-tagged silica colloids as a colloidal tracer in saturated sand columns; role of solution chemistry, flow velocity, and sand grain size	13
Identifying the source and transformation of riverine nitrates in a karst watershed, North China: Comprehensive use of major ions, multiple isotopes and a Bayesian model	12
Assessing the impact of water infiltration on LNAPL mobilization in sand column using simplified image analysis method	12
Fibrous microplastics released from textiles: Occurrence, fate, and remediation strategies	12
Evaluating the impact of back diffusion on groundwater cleanup time	12
Combinations of multivariate statistical analysis and analytical hierarchical process for indexing surface water quality under arid conditions	12
An analytical model for one-dimensional diffusion of degradable contaminant through a composite geomembrane cut-off wall	12

Reactive transport modelling to investigate multi-scale waste rock weathering processes	12
A novel co-processed olive tree leaves biomass for lead adsorption from contaminated water	12
Experiment and multicomponent model based analysis on the effect of flow rate and nitrate concentration on denitrification in low-permeability media	12
Macroalgae for biomonitoring of trace elements in relation to environmental parameters and seasonality in a sub-tropical mangrove estuary	11
3D modelling of solute transport and mixing during managed aquifer recharge with an infiltration basin	11
Reactive transport modeling of pollutants in heterogeneous layered paddy soils: a) Cadmium migration and vertical distributions	11
Simulated leaching of PFAS from land-applied municipal biosolids at agricultural sites	11
Groundwater quality changes in peri-urban areas of the Walloon region of Belgium	11
Solute transport modelling to manage groundwater pollution from surface water resources	11
Groundwater quality and human health risk assessment in selected coastal and floodplain areas of Bangladesh	11
Spatiotemporal analysis of land use pattern and stream water quality in southern Alberta, Canada	11
Experimental study of thermally enhanced recovery of high-viscosity DNAPL in saturated porous media under non-isothermal conditions	11
Large scale occurrence of aluminium-rich shallow groundwater in the Pearl River Delta after the rapid urbanization: Co-effects of anthropogenic and geogenic factors	11
An interval multi-objective fuzzy-interval credibility-constrained nonlinear programming model for balancing agricultural and ecological water management	11
The link between microcystin levels in groundwater and surface Nile water, and assessing their potential risk to human health	11
Spatial and temporal distributions of microplastics and their macroscopic relationship with algal blooms in Chaohu Lake, China	11
Development of Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods for Reduction of Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers Using SEAWAT Code	11
Regional agricultural water resources management with respect to fuzzy return and energy constraint under uncertainty: An integrated optimization approach	11
Effects of different cropping systems on ammonia nitrogen load in a typical agricultural watershed of South China	10
Sorption and biodegradation parameters of selected pharmaceuticals in laboratory column experiments	10
Whale burial and organic matter impacts on biogeochemical cycling in beach aquifers and leachate fluxes to the nearshore zone	10
Diffusion of perfluoroalkyl acids through clay-rich soil	10
A novel concept for estimating the contaminant mass discharge of chlorinated ethenes emanating from clay till sites	10
Refinement of the gradient method for the estimation of natural source zone depletion at petroleum contaminated sites	10
Environmental tracers and groundwater residence time indicators reveal controls of arsenic accumulation rates beneath a rapidly developing urban area in Patna, India	10
Effect of multiple factors on the adsorption of Cd in an alluvial soil from Xiba, China	10
The application of surfactant colloidal gas aphrons to remediate contaminated soil: A review	10
Identifying remedial solutions through optimal bioremediation design under real-world field conditions	10
Gaussian process regression to determine water content of methane: Application to methane transport modeling	10
Experimental investigation and simulation of nitrogen transport in a subsurface infiltration system under saturated and unsaturated conditions	10
Impact of matrix diffusion on the migration of groundwater plumes for Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) and other non-degradable compounds	10
Experimental and numerical assessment of saltwater recession in coastal aquifers by constructing check dams	9
Experimental study of foam propagation and stability in highly permeable porous media under lateral water flow: Diverting groundwater for application to soil remediation	9
Multi-objective optimization for optimal extraction of groundwater from a nitrate-contaminated aquifer considering economic-environmental issues: A case study	9
Influence of aquifer heterogeneity on sea level rise-induced seawater intrusion: A probabilistic approach	9
Groundwater contaminant source characterization with simulation model parameter estimation utilizing a heuristic search strategy based on the stochastic-simulation statistic method	9
An approach for runoff and sediment nexus analysis under multi-flow conditions in a hyper-concentrated sediment river, Southwest China	9
Modelling gas-phase recovery of volatile organic compounds during in situ thermal treatment	9
Matrix permeability measurement from fractured unconventional source-rock samples: Method and application	9
Reactive transport modeling of produced water disposal into dolomite saline aquifers: Controls of barium transport	9
Health risk assessment of groundwater nitrogen pollution in Yinchuan plain	9
Effects of large-scale heterogeneity and temporally varying hydrologic processes on estimating immobile pore space: A mesoscale-laboratory experimental and numerical modeling investigation	9
Optimum concentration of fly ash nanoparticles to stabilize CO2 foams for aquifer and soil remediation	8
Subsurface transport of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)-stabilized nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI): Numerical and statistical analysis	8
The experimental study of fluorine-leaching ability of granite with different solutions: A new insight into the dynamic of groundwater fluorine levels along coastal zones	8
Sorption of Sr in granite under typical colloidal action	8
On the role of rock matrix to heat transfer in a fracture-rock matrix system	8
Transport of silica encapsulated DNA microparticles in controlled instantaneous injection open channel experiments	8
Gadolinium based contrast agents (GBCAs): Uniqueness, aquatic toxicity concerns, and prospective remediation	8
Optimized stacking, a new method for constructing ensemble surrogate models applied to DNAPL-contaminated aquifer remediation	8
A simple model for evaluating isotopic (18O, 2H and 87Sr/86Sr) mixing calculations of mine – Impacted surface waters	8
Projections of meteorological drought based on CMIP6 multi-model ensemble: A case study of Henan Province, China	8
Distribution characteristics and release mechanisms of Pb in surface sediments in different aquatic environments	8
Spatiotemporal evolution of iron and sulfate concentrations during riverbank filtration: Field observations and reactive transport modeling	8
Simultaneous identification of contaminant sources and hydraulic conductivity field by combining geostatistics method with self-organizing maps algorithm	8
Impact of solute charge and diffusion coefficient on electromigration and mixing in porous media	8
Using MODFLOW and RT3D to simulate diffusion and reaction without discretizing low permeability zones	8
Potential effects on groundwater quality associated with infiltrating stormwater through dry wells for aquifer recharge	8
Adsorption performance of phosphate in water by mixed precursor base geopolymers	8
Employing waste to manage waste: Utilizing waste biomaterials for the elimination of hazardous contaminant [Cr(VI)] from aqueous matrices	8
Tracking NSZD mass removal rates over decades: Site-wide and local scale assessment of mass removal at a legacy petroleum site	8
Effectiveness of two lightweight aggregates for the removal of heavy metals from contaminated urban stormwater	8
A novel two-step approach for optimal groundwater remediation by coupling extreme learning machine with evolutionary hunting strategy based metaheuristics	8