OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies is 2. 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 multiple stable isotopes for tracking regional and organic authenticity of plant products in Hesse, Germany	7
Assessment of natural radioactivity levels in rice samples and their implications for radiological protection	7
The stable isotope composition of hoarfrost	6
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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