OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geochemistry-Exploration Environment Analysis is 3. 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
On the use of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy data for mineralogical investigations – constraints and application of a clustering method	11
Soil gases in mineral exploration: a review and the potential for future developments	11
Comparison of lithium borate fusion and four-acid digestions for the determination of whole-rock chemistry – implications for lithogeochemistry and mineral exploration	10
Environmental geochemical characteristics of Xuanwei Formation coal and their controlling geological factors, with comments on the relationship with lung cancer incidence and distribution	7
Gold exploration using groundwater in Western Australia	7
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
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
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
Graph convolutional network for lithological classification and mapping using stream sediment geochemical data and geophysical data	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
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
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