OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
Comprehensive assessment of radiological hazards in chromite mines at Khanozai and Muslim Bagh, Balochistan, Pakistan	16
Behaviour of ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb inventory at three candidate reference sites for erosion study in the upstream Citarum watershed area, West Java, Indonesia	10
Better understand past, present and future climate variability by linking water isotopes and conventional hydrometeorology: summary and recommendations from the International Atomic Energy Agency and	9
Anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled with sulphate reduction: high concentration of methanotrophic archaea might be responsible for low stable isotope fractionation factors in methane	8
A straightforward approach for assessing the effectiveness of membrane materials as radon (²²²Rn) barriers	8
Assessment of natural radioactivity levels in rice samples and their implications for radiological protection	7
Assessment of multiple stable isotopes for tracking regional and organic authenticity of plant products in Hesse, Germany	7
The stable isotope composition of hoarfrost	6
A protocol for distilling animal body water from biological samples and measuring oxygen and hydrogen stable isotopes via cavity ring-down spectroscopy	5
Exploring hydrogen isotope fractionation in lipid biomolecules of freshwater algae: implications for ecological and paleoenvironmental studies	5
The evolution of hydrochemical and isotopic signatures from precipitation, surface water to groundwater in a typical karst watershed, Central Texas, USA	5
A protocol for nitrogen isotopic measurement of dissolved organic nitrogen with a combination of oxidation-denitrification and gas phase diffusion methods	5
First conceptual hydrogeological model of two intermountain Andean basins based on isotopes and hydrochemistry	5
Preventing drift of oxygen isotopes of CO₂-in-air stored in glass sample flasks: new insights and recommendations	4
Spectroscopic investigation of hydrogen and triple-oxygen isotopes in atmospheric water vapor and precipitation during Indian monsoon season	4
Occupational exposure to NORM in gold mining areas of northwestern Sudan	4
Stable isotope hydrology of surface and ground waters in King George Island, Antarctica	4
Nutrient sources for offspring formation: diet–mother and mother–offspring isotope discrimination in domesticated gallinaceous birds	4
New insights into diffusive kinetic fractionation during liquid condensation under supersaturated environment: an alternative approach for isotope tagging of ground-level water vapour	4
How much rainwater contributes to a spring discharge in the Guarani Aquifer System: insights from stable isotopes and a mass balance model	4
Radiocarbon integrity of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) samples stored in plastic and glass bottles: implications for reliable groundwater age dating	4
Organic N compounds in plant nutrition: have methodologies based on stable isotopes provided unequivocal evidence of direct N uptake?	4
Dragonflies (Odonata) as bioindicators of radioactivity	4
A primer on stable isotopes in ecology	3
Assessing land use influences on isotopic variability and stream water ages in urbanising rural catchments	3

Sulphur and oxygen stable isotopes in acid mine drainage impacted rivers of Meghalaya (India): deciphering the sulphide oxidation pathways*	3
High δ ¹³ C values in red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris explained by a reliance on conifer seeds	3
Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope abundance of major bottled water brands sold in the United Kingdom	3
Stable-isotope variability in daily precipitation: insights from a low-cost collector in SE England	3
Different continuous freshwater contributions to submarine groundwater discharge at a coastal peatland, southern Baltic Sea	3
Deuterium in drinking water and its effects on cancer and longevity	3
Spatial distribution of stable isotopes (¹⁸O and²H) in precipitation and groundwater in Iran	3
Unravelling the history of mountain belts through U–Pb and Lu–Hf dating of zircon and ⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar dating of detrital white mica:	3
Isotopes as recorders of environmental change.Special issue related to ESIR 2023 – Workshop XVI of the European Society for Isotope Research, Graz, Austria	3
Stable H–O and radiogenic Sr isotopic ratios in bottled water in South Korea	2
Annual effective dose estimation of radon in drinking water sources of Nizampur basin, North Western Pakistan	2
Assessment of intake of ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb isotopes from cow’s milk in Poland	2
Assessment of the level and risk of radioactive hazards in coastal sediments in northern Vietnam	2
Deep learning insights into spatial patterns of stable isotopes in Iran’s precipitation: a novel approach to climatological mapping	2
Quantifying the contribution of evaporation from Lake Taihu to precipitation with an isotope-based method	2
Nitrate isotopes ( δ ¹⁵ N, δ ¹⁸ O) in precipitation: best practices from an international co	2
Topographic influence on ecohydrology in volcanic watersheds of the western Pacific monsoon area: evidence from water stable isotope composition of meteoric water, thermal water, and plants	2
Using ¹³ C enriched acetate in isotope labelling incubation experiments: a note of caution	2
Food sources for camptandriid crabs in an arid mangrove ecosystem of the Persian Gulf: a stable isotope approach	2
Ursus spelaeus (Rosenmüller, 1794) during the MIS 3: new evidence from the Cioclovina Uscată Cave and radiocarbon age overview for the Carpathians*	2
A case study on seasonal and annual average indoor radon, thoron, and their progeny level in Kohima district, Nagaland, India	2
Measurement of plasma protein and whole body protein metabolism using [ ¹⁵ N]glycine in a young adult man – a pilot study	2
Characterizing wine terroir using strontium isotope ratios: a review	2
Assessing soil erosion in a semiarid ecosystem in Central Argentina using ¹³⁷ Cs and ⁷ Be measurements	2
The stable isotope hydrology of Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada with implications for evaluating the water budget of wild horses	2
Stable isotope patterns of German rivers with aspects on scales, continuity and network status	2
Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotope ratios of striped dolphins and short-finned pilot whales stranded in Hokkaido, northern Japan, compared with those of other cetaceans stranded and hunted in	1
Isotope hydrology of the intermontane Elk Valley, British Columbia: an assessment of water resources around coal mining operations	1
How do precipitation events modify the stable isotope ratios in leaf water at Lhasa on the southern Tibetan Plateau?	1
Towards the compatibility of stable isotope data: review of related concepts, recent progress with reference materials and current challenges	1
Non-invasive determination of critical dissolved oxygen thresholds for stress physiology in fish using triple-oxygen stable isotopes and aquatic respirometry	1
Correction	1
Depth profiles of soil organic carbon isotopes across a lithosequence: implications for drivers of soil δ¹³C vertical changes	1
The first indoor radon mapping in the Campania region, Italy	1
Preparation of high-precision CO₂ with known triple oxygen isotope for oxygen isotope analysis	1
Measurement of age-dependent radiation ingestion doses due to gross alpha and gross beta exposure from medicinal plants	1
Effect of water deficit stress during fruit cultivation on the carbon stable isotopes of organic acids in Japanese apricots and liqueur prepared from these fruits	1
Applicability of self-consistent reaction field (SCRF) method to DFT estimation of hydrogen isotope separation factors in reversible processes	1
Automated rapid triple-isotope (δ¹⁵N, δ¹⁸O, δ¹⁷O) analyses of nitrate by Ti(III) reduction and N₂O laser spectrometry	1
Efficacy of zeolites in radon adsorption: state of the art and development of an optimized approach	1
Estimation of natural radioactivity and radiological hazards in river sediments (sand) used as building materials in South Africa	1
Isotopic history of seawater: the stable isotope character of the global ocean at present and in the geological past	1
Observing the water handling in humans to resolve the role of the interstitium: preliminary results of the usability of deuterium oxide and bio-impedance analysis – a pilot analysis	1
A density functional theory (DFT) study on reduced partition function ratios of oxygen species adsorbed on a Pt₁₉ cluster and oxygen isotope effects	1
Strontium isotopic and hydrochemical characteristics of shallow groundwater and lake water in the Badain Jaran Desert, North China	1
Determination of nitrate sources in a karst plateau reservoir based on nitrogen and oxygen isotopes	1
Enhancing hydrological insight: isotopic methods revealing groundwater–surface water interactions in the Lower Quang Tri River Group, Vietnam	1
Assessment of radiological hazards of soils from the city of Bitola (Macedonia) and its environs	1
Monitoring of stable isotope composition of precipitation reveals thunderstorm dynamics	1
A comprehensive study of the parameters affecting the stable isotopes in the precipitation of the Bangkok metropolitan area using model-based statistical approaches	1

Application of Tradescantia -based test systems for the assessment of genotoxic effects of environmental radioactivity of undisturbed mountain soils (Aragats Massif, Arm	1
Can stable isotopes quantify soil carbon build-up from organic fertilizers?	1
Nitrate isotopes reveal N-cycled waters in a spring-fed agricultural catchment	1
The role of continental evapotranspiration on water vapour isotopic variability in the troposphere	1
New method for simultaneous determination of dissolved organic carbon and its stable carbon isotope ratio in liquid samples: environmental applications	1
Microscale δ ³⁴ S and δ ¹⁸ O variations of barite as an archive for fluid mixing and microbial sulphur metabolisms in igneous rock	1
Radiation risk assessment of quarry pit soil as construction material in Abeokuta, Nigeria: implications for environmental and public health	1