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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Implication of multifractal analysis for quantitative evaluation of mineral resources in the Central Kunlun area, Xinjiang, China	13
Hydrogeochemistry of porphyry-related solutes in ground and surface waters; an example from the Casino Cu–Au–Mo deposit, Yukon, Canada	12
Whole rock lithogeochemical analysis of the Mount Read Volcanics: a new tool for geochemical exploration	11
Critical raw materials associated with the lateritic bauxite and red mud in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	10
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	8
The role of total Na in the retention of microelements in soils on marine deposits	8
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	8
Ionic geochemistry: enhanced soil analysis for mineral exploration via high-efficiency ligand-based mobile ion extraction with simultaneous detection of 57 elements in a single extraction	6
Geochemistry and environmental effects of rare-earth elements in laterites from Yunnan province, SW China	6
Tracing metal sources and groundwater flow paths in the Upper Animas River watershed using rare earth elements and stable isotopes	6
Geochemical exploration for buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralization using mobile U and Pb isotopes: case study of the REB deposit, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming	5
Gold metallogeny in Iran; implications for gold exploration and conceptual modelling	5
Tellus regional stream water geochemistry: environmental and mineral exploration applications	5
Thallium isotopes as indicators of ore mineralization at the Zn-rich sediment-hosted massive sulfide TL Deposit, British Columbia, Canada	5
Geochemical Fingerprinting of a Radon Anomaly: High-Resolution PCA–ANOVA Case Study, Castleisland (SW Ireland)	5
Geochemical evaluation of the in situ regolith at Madengi Hill, Dodoma, Tanzania: implications for bedrock mapping and delineating gold mineralization targets	4
Improvement of geochemical prospectivity mapping using power spectrum–area fractal modelling of the multi-element mineralization factor (SAF-MF)	4
Petrography and geochemical characterization of lithium-bearing pegmatites at Sambaru, Ikungi District, Central Tanzania	4
Geochemical and mineralogical soil survey of the conterminous USA: a project retrospective	4
Mapping exploration targets through multifractal modelling of soil geochemical data in the Xiaohongshilazi Pb–Zn–(Ag) ore district, Jilin Province, NE China	4
Gold exploration using groundwater in Western Australia	4
Geochemical characteristics and indication of graphite deposits in Xinrong Region, Shanxi, China	4
Geochemical anomaly recognition using Shapley values and cell-wise outlier detection: a case study in the Yuanbo Nang District, Gansu Province, China	4
Soil gases in mineral exploration: a review and the potential for future developments	4
Behaviour of redox-sensitive elements (Ti, As, V and Fe) in clay pit samples with and without Al normalization	3

Geology, geochemistry, mineralization and fluid inclusion characteristics of the SW of Hormuz Island banded iron formations, southern Iran	3
Factor analysis in residual soils of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Spain): comparison between raw data, log-transformation data and compositional data	3
Accounting of weathering enhancement by mafic mineral spreading for CO ₂ storage	3
Removal performance and adsorption behaviour on Mg-based adsorbents in As(III) and F simultaneous removal as in comparison with As(V)	3
Small-scale field evaluation of geochemical blending of waste rock to mitigate acid rock drainage potential	3
Review of till geochemistry and indicator mineral methods for mineral exploration in glaciated terrain	3
The National Geochemical Survey of Australia: review and impact	3
Pyrite oxidation under a carbonate buffer and its environmental implications: a case study from the Shangmanggang gold deposit, SW China	3
Introduction to the thematic collection: applications of innovations in geochemical data analysis	3
Editorial	3
Morphometric and geologic characterization with statistical correlations for thirty-three tributary drainage basins of the San Juan River watershed in the Four Corners Region, USA	3
Self-organizing map modelling and prospectivity mapping of surface geochemical data in Au and multi-metal mineral exploration: example from northern Finland	2
Spatial distribution, ecological risk and origin of soil heavy metals in Laoguanhe watershed of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project	2
Closure in concentration data: Is it always such a hazard?	2
Combining neighbourhood component analysis with dictionary learning algorithms to improve the performance of dictionary learning models for geochemical anomaly detection	2
Combined use of multiple external and internal standards in LA-ICP-MS analysis of bulk geological samples using lithium borate fused glass	2
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	2
Thermophysical properties and geochemical characteristics of granites in the Tengchong area: indications for resource potential of hot dry rocks	2
Surface expression of Late Caledonian magmatic lithium concentration, in the Rhynie Chert, UK	2
On the use of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy data for mineralogical investigations – constraints and application of a clustering method	2
Experiences from 30 years of low-density geochemical mapping at the subcontinental to continental scale in Europe	2
Identification of stream sediment geochemical anomalies in lithologically complex regions: case study of Cu mineralization in Hunan province, SE China	2
Multifractal properties of oil and gas indices in the Songnan Low Uplift of the Qiongdongnan Basin deepwater area	2
Stream sediment geochemistry in mineral exploration: a review of fine-fraction, clay-fraction, bulk leach gold, heavy mineral concentrate and indicator mineral chemistry	2
Evaluation of magnetite as an indicator mineral for porphyry Cu exploration: a case study using bedrock and stream sediments at the Casino porphyry Cu–Au–Mo deposit, Yukon, Canada	2
Identification of multi-mineral-species geochemical anomalies using Bayesian maximum entropy and the spectrum separable module-constrained convolutional autoencoder	2
Comparison of main and accompanying metals distribution patterns in newly documented deposits of the Northern Copper Belt in Poland	2
Overview of surficial geochemistry and indicator mineral surveys and case studies from the Geological Survey of Canada's GEM Program	2
Lead, zinc and arsenic contamination of pit lake waters in the Zeida abandoned mine (High Moulouya, Morocco)	1
Practical applications of quality assurance and quality control in mineral exploration, resource estimation and mining programmes: a review of recommended international practices	1
Anisotropy of geochemical distributions characterized by irregular window-based local singularity analysis	1
New methodological approach for deep penetrating geochemistry and environmental studies, Part 1: on-site soil extraction of trace and rare earth elements	1
Pollution risk assessment and spatial distribution of potentially hazardous elements in selenium-rich soils in the Menyuan Basin of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	1
Enhanced enrichment of rare earth elements during pedogenesis under subtropical climate	1
Mineralogy and K–Ar geochronology of clay alteration associated with uranium mineralization in the Patterson Lake Corridor, Saskatchewan	1
Water geochemistry and quantitative estimation of its potential sources in 15 representative rivers, Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan	1
Fluid sources in basement-hosted unconformity–uranium ore systems: tourmaline chemistry and boron isotopes from the Patterson Lake corridor deposits, Canada	1
Google Earth-aided visualization and interpretation of geochemical survey data	1
GEMAS: adaptation of weathering indices for European agricultural soil derived from carbonate parent materials	1
Natural hydrogen exploration within Western European and the eastern Mediterranean ophiolites and ultramafic complexes	1
Comparison of clustering methods in determining gold mineralization anomalies in the Janja area, Iran	1
Environmental geochemical characteristics of Xuanwei Formation coal and their controlling geological factors, with comments on the relationship with lung cancer incidence and distribution	1
Alteration assemblage characterization using machine learning applied to high-resolution drill-core images, hyperspectral data and geochemistry	1
Assessment of edible mushroom bioaccumulation via portable- and micro-XRF: implications for environmental impact assessment, food quality evaluation, and mineral resource prospecting	1
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	1
Comparison of groundwater composition from the Monturaqui and Punta Negra Basins, northern Chile: implications for porphyry copper exploration	1
Distribution and attribute analysis of soil selenium in Hebei Province, China	1
Geochemical dispersion evaluation by criterion-based backward elimination at the Glojeh polymetallic Au (Ag–Cu–Pb–Zn) vein deposit, NW Iran	1
Geochemistry of natural acid rock drainage in the Mt Evans area, Anaconda–Pintler Range, Montana, USA	1
Geochemical processes related to mined, milled or natural metal deposits in a rapidly changing global environment	1

Adaptive instrument design strategy for collecting water, sediment samples and stage data in remote, ephemeral arroyos in the arid southwestern United States	1
Gold in eskers and gyttja overlying auriferous till, Regnault deposit, Quebec	1