OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geochemistry-Exploration Environment Analysis 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
Petrography and geochemical characterization of lithium-bearing pegmatites at Sambaru, Ikungi District, Central Tanzania	13
Introduction to the thematic collection: a review of continental-scale geochemical mapping projects in Australia, Europe, and the conterminous United States	12
Soil gases in mineral exploration: a review and the potential for future developments	11
On the use of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy data for mineralogical investigations – constraints and application of a clustering method	11
Comparison of lithium borate fusion and four-acid digestions for the determination of whole-rock chemistry – implications for lithogeochemistry and mineral exploration	10
Gold exploration using groundwater in Western Australia	7
Environmental geochemical characteristics of Xuanwei Formation coal and their controlling geological factors, with comments on the relationship with lung cancer incidence and distribution	7
Mapping exploration targets through multifractal modelling of soil geochemical data in the Xiaohongshilazi Pb–Zn–(Ag) ore district, Jilin Province, NE China	6
Geochemical characteristics of rare earth elements (REEs) in soils developed on different parent materials, in the Baoshan area, Yunnan Province, SW China	6
Improvement of geochemical prospectivity mapping using power spectrum–area fractal modelling of the multi-element mineralization factor (SAF-MF)	6
Application of exploration geochemistry data to identify anomalies in the plateau region: a case study from the Xiongcun district in the Gangdese metallogenic belt, Tibet, China	6
Study on the direction effect of terrane accretive orogeny and biological evolution during the Jinning–Chengjiang period in the northwestern margin of the Yangtze block	6
Graph convolutional network for lithological classification and mapping using stream sediment geochemical data and geophysical data	5
Multifractal properties of oil and gas indices in the Songnan Low Uplift of the Qiongdongnan Basin deepwater area	5
Implication of multifractal analysis for quantitative evaluation of mineral resources in the Central Kunlun area, Xinjiang, China	5
Synthesis of a Fe/Ca-based phosphate material and its application for adsorption of uranium ions from aqueous solution	5
Application of multivariate geostatistical simulation and fractal analysis for detection of rare-earth element geochemical anomalies in the Esfordi phosphate mine, Central Iran	5
Combined use of multiple external and internal standards in LA-ICP-MS analysis of bulk geological samples using lithium borate fused glass	4
Geochemistry of natural acid rock drainage in the Mt Evans area, Anaconda–Pintler Range, Montana, USA	4
Critical raw materials associated with the lateritic bauxite and red mud in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	4
Experiences from 30 years of low-density geochemical mapping at the subcontinental to continental scale in Europe	4
Anthropogenic influence on groundwater geochemistry in Horn Creek Watershed near the Orphan Mine in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA	4
Modelling spatial uncertainty of geochemical anomalies using fractal and sequential indicator simulation methods	3
Removal performance and adsorption behaviour on Mg-based adsorbents in As(III) and F simultaneous removal as in comparison with As(V)	3
Fluid sources in basement-hosted unconformity–uranium ore systems: tourmaline chemistry and boron isotopes from the Patterson Lake corridor deposits, Canada	3

Fluid evolution along the Patterson Lake corridor in the southwestern Athabasca Basin: constraints from fluid inclusions and implications for unconformity-related uranium mineralization	3
Geology, geochemistry, mineralization and fluid inclusion characteristics of the SW of Hormuz Island banded iron formations, southern Iran	3
Weathering as a control on the triple oxygen isotopes of groundwater-associated ferromanganese deposits: lessons from the Grimlock Ni–Co–Mn prospect, Northern Territory, Australia	3
Identification of multi-mineral-species geochemical anomalies using Bayesian maximum entropy and the spectrum separable module-constrained convolutional autoencoder	3
Development of a laser ablation ICP-MS method for the analysis of fluid inclusions associated with volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits	3
Combining neighbourhood component analysis with dictionary learning algorithms to improve the performance of dictionary learning models for geochemical anomaly detection	3
Investigation of geochemical characteristics and hydrothermal alteration zone mapping supported by remote sensing of a porphyry copper prospect, southeastern Iran: integrated applications to explorati	3
Behaviour of redox-sensitive elements (Ti, As, V and Fe) in clay pit samples with and without Al normalization	3
Near real-time management of spectral interferences with portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometers: application to Sc quantification in nickeliferous laterite ores	3
The waste rock of the Touro copper deposit in Galicia, Spain: challenges for its environmental characterization	3
Hydrogeochemistry of porphyry-related solutes in ground and surface waters; an example from the Casino Cu–Au–Mo deposit, Yukon, Canada	3
Whole rock lithogeochemical analysis of the Mount Read Volcanics: a new tool for geochemical exploration	3
Overview of surficial geochemistry and indicator mineral surveys and case studies from the Geological Survey of Canada's GEM Program	2
Small-scale field evaluation of geochemical blending of waste rock to mitigate acid rock drainage potential	2
Source analysis and contamination evaluation of potentially toxic elements in soil in typical high geological background areas at the county scale in northeastern Yunnan, China	2
Tracing metal sources and groundwater flow paths in the Upper Animas River watershed using rare earth elements and stable isotopes	2
Glacial dispersal of indicator minerals from the Brazil Lake lithium–caesium–tantalum pegmatites, SW Nova Scotia, Canada	2
The Kuh Toto volcanic-hosted copper deposit, Semnan Province, Iran: geochemical, fluid inclusion, and C and O isotopic studies	2
Pollution risk assessment and spatial distribution of potentially hazardous elements in selenium-rich soils in the Menyuan Basin of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	2
Pyrite oxidation under a carbonate buffer and its environmental implications: a case study from the Shangmanggang gold deposit, SW China	2
Identification of stream sediment geochemical anomalies in lithologically complex regions: case study of Cu mineralization in Hunan province, SE China	2
Comparison of main and accompanying metals distribution patterns in newly documented deposits of the Northern Copper Belt in Poland	2
Practical applications of quality assurance and quality control in mineral exploration, resource estimation and mining programmes: a review of recommended international practices	2
Natural hydrogen exploration within Western European and the eastern Mediterranean ophiolites and ultramafic complexes	2
The effect of filtration size on the geochemistry of groundwater samples from a massive sulfide deposit at the Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick, Canada	2
Comparison of clustering methods in determining gold mineralization anomalies in the Janja area, Iran	1
Investigating nanoparticle pathfinder geochemistry in stream sediments using single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry: a case study at the Sundance gold mineralization, Wyoming, US	1
The role of total Na in the retention of microelements in soils on marine deposits	1
Suitability of surficial media for Ni–Cu–PGE exploration in an established mining camp: a case study from the South Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Canada	1
The National Geochemical Survey of Australia: review and impact	1
Lithogeochemistry in exploration for intrusion-hosted magmatic Ni–Cu–Co deposits	1
Silver, cobalt and nickel mineralogy and geochemistry of shale ore in the sediment-hosted stratiform Nowa Sól copper–silver deposit, SW Poland	1
Factor analysis in residual soils of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Spain): comparison between raw data, log-transformation data and compositional data	1
Geochemistry and environmental effects of rare-earth elements in laterites from Yunnan province, SW China	1
Thallium enrichment mechanism and geological significance of the Xiangquan thallium deposit in Anhui Province, China	1
New methodological approach for deep penetrating geochemistry and environmental studies, Part 2: field determination of Co(II)/Ni(II) and Pb(II)/Zn(II) of on-site soil extractions by electrochemical s	1
Reactivation mechanisms and related-porosity enhancement of shear zones in the context of basement-hosted uranium mineralization: case of the Spitfire discovery in the Patterson Lake corridor, Canada	1
Accumulation and health risk of major and trace elements in a soil–medicinal plant system: a case study of the Chinese herbaceous peony ( Paeonia Lactiflora Pall.) grown	1
Application of principal component analysis and a spectrum-area fractal model to identify geochemical anomalies associated with vanadium mineralization in northeastern Jiangxi Province, South China	1
Mineralogy and K–Ar geochronology of clay alteration associated with uranium mineralization in the Patterson Lake Corridor, Saskatchewan	1
Effectiveness of LOF, iForest and OCSVM in detecting anomalies in stream sediment geochemical data	1
Review of till geochemistry and indicator mineral methods for mineral exploration in glaciated terrain	1
Geochemical dispersion evaluation by criterion-based backward elimination at the Glojeh polymetallic Au (Ag–Cu–Pb–Zn) vein deposit, NW Iran	1
Gold in eskers and gyttja overlying auriferous till, Regnault deposit, Quebec	1
Hydrothermal alteration and elemental mass balance for the Surda Copper Deposit, Singhbhum Shear Zone, Eastern India: implications for both copper and magnetite–apatite mineralization	1
John Somerville Tooms (1927–2021)	1
Alteration and mineralization features of the Akcal epithermal gold deposit, Biga Peninsula, Western Anatolia, Turkey: evidence for low-sulfidation Au–Ag–Sb mineralization	1
Multi-element geochemical analyses on ultrafine soils in Western Australia – towards establishing abundance ranges in mineral exploration settings	1
Introduction to the thematic collection: applications of innovations in geochemical data analysis	1
Petrology of Precambrian metagranites and heavy mineral chemistry of the Olounou area within the Cameroon mineral belt (Ntem complex, South Cameroon): relationships with the Fe mineralization	1

Lead, zinc and arsenic contamination of pit lake waters in the Zeida abandoned mine (High Moulouya, Morocco)	1
Quantitative analysis of Li, Na and K in single-element standard solutions using portable laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy	1
Formation of the high-grade Triple R uranium deposit revealed by Fe and S isotopes in pyrite	1
Effect of freeze–thaw cycles on soil physicochemical properties and fractions of Pb and Cr in the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau	1
Elemental inheritance evaluation for geochemical elements in soil of the Daliangshan area, China	1