OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geothermics is 29. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the latent needs of diverse stakeholders unfamiliar with geothermal energy	138
Editorial Board	115
Corrosion inhibitors and lubricants characterization using the Rock-Eval® Shale Play™ method: Case studies to determine the origin of geothermal scales	90
Preface: Enhanced Geothermal Systems – Recent Progress	85
An influence of geothermal water, temperature and pressure on the hydration of multicomponent cement binders	81
Permeability estimating beyond boreholes from electrical conductivity data determined from magnetotelluric sounding: Soultz-sous-Forêts site (France) case study	72
Pathé geothermal power plant, Hidalgo, Mexico: A comprehensive retrospective assessment of the first plant of its kind in the Americas	63
Hydrogen emission characteristics of Changbaishan Volcano: Spatial and temporal distribution and genesis	52
Extraction turbines and feed-heating in geothermal binary plants: A thermodynamic performance assessment	52
Findability of geothermal energy websites in seven EU countries and Iceland	46
Effects of building envelope design on ground heat exchanger sizing	45
Assessment of installation suitability of a vertical closed loop ground source heat pump system in regional scale	44
Cyclic CO2 storage and geothermal energy extraction using a huff and puff technique in the Basal Cambrian Sandstone Unit, Canada	44
Friction and stability of granite faults in the Gonghe geothermal reservoir and implications for injection-induced seismicity	43
A multiscale recurrent neural network model for predicting energy production from geothermal reservoirs	39
Lithium prospectivity and capacity assessment in Northern Germany	37
Geothermal investigation of sandstone reservoirs using a probabilistic neural network with 2D seismic and borehole data: insights into structural and reservoir characteristics	36
Life cycle assessment of the Theistareykir geothermal power plant in Iceland	36
Combining direct ground cooling with ground-source heat pumps and district heating: Borehole sizing and land area requirements	36
Geochemical and isotope constraints on the hydrogeology and geochemistry of the geothermal waters in the Shandong Peninsula, China	34
Morphostructural controls on heat flow and fluid circulation in the Valle de Nereidas geothermal field, Nevado del Ruiz, Northern Andes, Colombia	34
Structures and fluid flows inferred from the microseismic events around a low-resistivity anomaly in the Kakkonda geothermal field, Northeast Japan	34
Fluid-CO2 injection impact in a geothermal reservoir: Evaluation with 3-D reactive transport modeling	32
Scaling in fractured geothermal carbonate reservoir rocks: An experimental approach	32
Meso-damage mechanism and physico-mechanical properties of Zhangzhou granite subjected to water-cooling treatment after elevated temperatures	32

Design and optimization of deep coaxial borehole heat exchangers for cold sedimentary basins	31
The 2017 Pohang, South Korea, Mw 5.4 main shock was either natural or triggered, but not induced	31
Editorial Board	30
Geothermal heat pump solutions for frost heave control in railway subgrades	30
Editorial Board	29
Corrigendum to “Thermal investigation of geothermally activated building systems using Thermal-Response-Test method” [Geothermics Volume 123 (2024) 103116]	29
Editorial Board	29
A new method for calculating the minimum sand-carrying velocity in geothermal well production	29