OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A cluster-based multiparametric similarity test for the compartmentalization of crystalline rocks into structural domains	38
Mechanical properties and acoustic emission response of carbonate fault breccias: a study from Greece	25
Using numerical modelling to test the geological and groundwater conceptual understanding of a complex, layered aquifer: a case study from the Fell Sandstone, Northumbria	22
Granites of Dublin, Ireland: Uniaxial Compression Strength, Point Load Index and Correlation Analysis	20
Estimation of rock mass deformability based on empirical relations for Ghezel Ozan dam site in the north of Iran	16
Anisotropic flow characteristics in single-fractured tensile and shear fractures in granite subjected to various confining stress	15
Understanding the behaviour of seismically derived Poisson's ratio in near-surface characterization	11
Unravelling the influencing hydrogeological factors contributing to land subsidence in the Tianjin Plain of China using a multi-scale geographically weighted regression model and monitoring data	10
Thermo-fluid–mechanical numerical simulations of surface subsidence at the site of underground coal gasification	10
EMODnet Geology: pan-European assessment of coastal resilience and vulnerability	8
A40 Brecon bypass landslide: investigation, remediation and asset management for climate resilience	8
A single multi-scale and multi-sourced semi-automated lineament detection technique for detailed structural mapping with applications to geothermal energy exploration	8
Investigating the response of groundwater and streamflow to rainfall in a tropical catchment using non-parametric methods	7
Sandstone-body geometry and hydrostratigraphy of the northern High Plains Aquifer system, USA	7
Application of geophysical and hydrogeological analyses to predict water and hydrocarbon entry to the T5 Tunnel, west Iran	7
The impact of wide-graded debris flow on sediment-trap dams in the Tibetan Plateau: an experimental study	6
Record of a pioneering geothermal borehole in London	6
Book review	6
Discussion on ‘Strength and permeability properties of sodium silicate–glyoxal stabilized silt and fine sand’ by ( QJEGH , 55, qjegh2021-115)	6
Debris flow at Luib on the A87 strategic road: Isle of Skye, Scotland	5
Photographic feature: The Southwell Topple – reassessment of a very large coastal toppling failure on the Isle of Portland, UK	5
Remediating the sky: the role of geoenvironmental engineers and applied geoscientists in geochemical carbon dioxide removal	5
The deformation history of southern England, and its implications for ground engineering in the London Basin	5
Development of a drought-resilient water supply from dolomitized limestones of the Irish Midlands	5
Research on correlation and cost optimization of the downstream mining operations with rock blasting results	5

Study on the instability characteristics and precursor signals of rockburst in ancient fluvial sedimentary microfacies coal seam	5
Hydrogeology of a landslide: a case study in the Montagne de Reims (Paris basin, France)	5
In situ thermal remediation application in South Africa: a case study incorporating sustainable remediation principles	5
The role of engineering geology in delivering the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals	5
Law of overburden and surface deformation in roof cutting and backfilling mining under thin bedrock in shallow buried coal seam	5
Experimental study of the effect of bound water on the shear strength and structural units of Malan loess	4
Analysis of physical and mechanical properties of granite under different cooling methods under high-temperatures thermal cycles	4
The influence of weathering on index properties and undrained shear strength for the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the Lias Group at a site near Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK	4
Engineering geomorphology of coastal landslides at Limestone Downs, North Island, New Zealand	4
Using hydrogeological data to characterize regional Chalk flow processes in East Kent	4
Dissolved sulfate δ ³⁴ S and the origin of sulfate in coal mine waters; NE England	4
Contribution of temperature measurements to the hydrogeological model in the Snowy 2.0 deep tunnels	4
Laboratory simulation of gypsum rock dissolution at different pressures, water-flow velocities and pH ranges	4
Geological structures beneath the River Thames in London: findings from the Thames Tideway Tunnel investigations	4
A note on the analysis of groundwater travel times for injection–abstraction doublets	4
Impact liquefaction mechanism of sandy silt with a change in impact energy	4
Swelling evolution mechanism for argillaceous slate in a hydrochemical environment	4
Study on water inrush risk of overlying old goaf water in fully mechanized caving mining of lower coal group	4
Potential leakage paths at the dams constructed on karst terrains in Iran	4
Introduction to the 18th Glossop Lecture	3
Determining the appropriate sealing conditions through a permeability and groutability evaluation: a case study of the Sivaki Dam, Iran	3
Construction geological logging of the Thames Tideway Tunnel beneath central London: unearthing the ground truth	3
Natural attenuation of dissolved petroleum fuel constituents in a fractured Chalk aquifer: contaminant mass balance with probabilistic analysis	3
Geological and geotechnical evaluation of the tunnel site of the Koto Hydropower Project, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	3
Geological influence on the index properties variability and shear strength probability density functions	3
Drilling into mines for heat: geological synthesis of the UK Geoenergy Observatory in Glasgow and implications for mine water heat resources	3
Investigation of Earthquake Damages and Seismic Slope Displacements in Open Irrigation Channels using the Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian Method	3
Experimental investigation of temperature effects on the physical and mechanical properties of red sandstone	3
Generic modelling to develop thermal yield nomograms for coaxial deep borehole heat exchangers (DBHEs)	3
A comparison of three methods to assess natural source zone depletion at paved fuel retail sites	3
The John Mitchell Lecture 2022: thinking conceptually about groundwater problems	3
Editorial 2023	3
Chloride in the Chalk aquifer of East Anglia, UK. Part 2: causes of elevated chloride in freshwater	3
Preliminary Analysis of Failure Characteristics and Evolution of the Zongling Collapse Group	3
Influences of bedding angle and soaking time on the mechanical behaviour of silty mudstone: laboratory testing and theoretical modelling	2
Analysis of energy dissipation characteristics and numerical simulation of surrounding rock control for backfill combinations with different ash/sand ratios	2
Experimental investigation of physical and tensile mechanical properties of granite after different heating and cooling treatments	2
Chloride in the Chalk aquifer of East Anglia, UK. Part 1: distribution of chloride in brackish and saline groundwater	2
Spatial characterization of seabed environmental conditions and geotechnical properties for the development of marine renewable energy in Sweden	2
Study of ground investigation data along the Brunei Temburong Bridge alignment	2
The impact of facies variability within the Harwich Formation on ground engineering in the London area, UK	2
Natural and anthropogenic halite karst subsidence in north Cheshire, UK; comparison of Rostherne Mere, Melchett Mere, Tatton Mere and their surroundings	2
Hydrogeological insights from groundwater ice formation on the Niagara Escarpment, Hamilton, Canada	2
The John Mitchell Lecture 2023: road asset, socio-economic and fatality risk from debris flow	2
Experimental study of the effects of fracture number on the creep and acoustic emission characteristics of sandstone	2
Integrated fault identification in granite tunnel based on the analysis of structural and mineral characteristics of rock masses: a case study	2
Integration of conventional well logs and core samples to predict porosity of tight reservoir: a case study from Ordos Basin	2
The geotechnical behaviour and microstructural characteristics of the alkaline residue/cement-stabilized expansive soil under wetting–drying cycles	2
Characterization and behaviour of soils: actual objectives and requirements	2
Distinguishing sources of ammonium in groundwater at former gasworks sites using nitrogen isotopes	2

Analytical expressions of hydraulic conductivity intervals for steady flow to a single pumping well in an unconfined aquifer	2
Rudolph Glossop (1902–1993): the founding of the Engineering Group of the Geological Society of London	2
Exploring the impact of fracture interaction on connectivity and flow channelling using grown fracture networks	2
Some of the geological challenges and opportunities associated with the dynamics of the Cenozoic East African Rift System	2
Investigation of planar sliding deformation and analysis of the damage mechanism of a rocky landslide in Yaoping triggered by highway excavation in Hubei, China	2
Permanent displacement characteristics of landslides taking into consideration the frequency and energy behaviour of historical seismic ground motions	2
Investigating seepage paths at the Golfaraj earthen dam, NW Iran	2
A century of urban landslides: the legacy and consequences of altering riverbank landscapes	2
A new toolbox for managing sites affected by light non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs)	2
Multi-scale investigation on the stability of soil–gravel mixture slopes using imaging analyses	2
Preliminary investigation of emerging suburban landsliding in Gisborne, New Zealand	2
Geological characterization and failure analysis of a catastrophic landslide in volcaniclastic soils: the Banjarnegara–Jemblung Landslide (Indonesia)	2
Evaluating risk in reservoir accumulation landslides: the role of instability pattern uncertainty	2
Parameters updating and calibrated double-yield model methods to simulate the compaction behaviour of waste rock backfill materials in coal mine gob	2
Initial assessment of soil liquefaction potential for selected sites in Hilla city, Babylon Governorate, Iraq	2
Rudolph (Silas) Glossop: some fragments and family memories	2
The importance of early data collection in quarry development consent applications; linking hydrogeological assessment to the decision makers’ legal framework, a case study	1
Developing an in situ , hydromechanical coupling, true triaxial rock compression tester and investigating the deformation patterns of reservoir bank slopes	1
Why the future of rock mass classification systems requires revisiting their empirical past	1
The 18th Glossop Lecture: variability and ground hazards: how does the ground get to be ‘unexpected’?	1
Managing a potential conflict between the protection of geological sites and the need to safeguard essential road infrastructure: the Coverack North Coast Protection Scheme and palaeo-Moho in Cornwall	1
Variations of thermal properties with water content and density of residual and basaltic sands from Chile	1
The effect of initial water content on the swelling pressure of soils	1
Reply to discussion on ‘Predicting tunnel-boring machine penetration rate utilizing geomechanical properties’ by Karrari et al. 2022 ( QJEGH	1
Litho-structural control on rock slope failures at Garmaksla, Billefjorden coastline, Svalbard	1
Spatial distribution law of landslides and landslide susceptibility assessment in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis region	1
Introduction to the 24th Glossop Lecture	1
Review of groundwater flow and contaminant transport modelling approaches for the Sherwood Sandstone aquifer, UK; insights from analogous successions worldwide	1
Reducing future climate impact on rural transport infrastructure in developing countries; the role of engineering geology	1
Cross-scale study of pore fractal characteristics and the pore structure of weathered granite	1
Evaluation method for the intactness of tunnel face surrounding rock based on tunnel face images	1
Introduction to the 21st Glossop Lecture	1
Geological mapping by thermal inertia derived from long-term maximum and minimum temperatures in ASTER data	1
A discontinuity roughness parameter combined with shear failure mechanism and its correlation with JRC	1
Innovative use of change detection in large numbers of satellite scenes, with geological applications	1
Hydrogeology of southeastern coastal parts of Great Nicobar Island, India: development of an integrated conceptual model for a hitherto unexplored island in the Indian Ocean	1
Book review Introducing Hydrogeology , by Nicholas Robins . Dunedin Academic Press, Edinburgh, 2020, £14.99, paperback, 107 pp., ISBN: 978	1
Engineering geomorphological reconnaissance of the December 2018 Waimata Valley mud volcano eruption, Gisborne, New Zealand	1
Damage evolution process and damage precursor law under cyclic splitting action of different types of rocks	1
Strength and permeability properties of sodium silicate–glyoxal-stabilized silt and fine sand	1
Depositional environment and aquifer properties of the Sherwood Sandstone Group in the Cleveland Basin based on investigations at Woodsmith Mine	1
Subaqueous landslides associated with historical road improvements in steep glaciated terrain, Loch Lomond, western Scotland	1
Rock joint detection from borehole imaging logs based on grey-level co-occurrence matrix and Canny edge detector	1
Study of the strength properties and micromechanisms of nano-Al ₂ O ₃ -modified predisintegrated carbonaceous mudstone based on or	1
Investigation of strain-softening behaviours and development of constitutive model of red clays in Guiyang, China	1
A new calculation method for hydrogeological parameters from unsteady-flow pumping tests with a circular constant water-head boundary of finite scale	1
Rock joint detection from 3D point clouds based on colour space	1
The relationship between mechanical properties and mineralogical composition of some sedimentary rocks	1
A levee breach induced by internal erosion in Western Australia	1
Book review Soft clay engineering and ground improvement, by J. Ameratunga, N. Sivakugan and B.M. Das, CRC Press, 2021, £64.99, e-book, 480 pp., ISBN 9780429455544	1
Structure of the Plio-Quaternary coastal aquifer (Mediterranean Basin, Tunisia): insights from gravity and seismic analysis	1
Shrinkage properties of natural and diesel oil-contaminated fine soils from central Poland	1
Thermal damage and acoustic emission characteristics of granite based on Brazilian splitting test	1
The effect of weathering on the variation of geotechnical properties of a granitic rock from Chile	1
Influence of cooling method on tensile properties and damage constitutive model of layered sandstone after high temperature	1
Comparison of existing joint orientation parameters and their effect on rock erodibility in dam spillways	1
Rock mass deterioration model of bank slope based on high-precision 3D multiperiod point clouds in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China	1
Discussion on ‘Predicting tunnel-boring machine penetration rate utilizing geomechanical properties’ by Karrari et al. 2022 ( QJEGH , 55,	1
Stability analysis before and after support of a multi-stage structural surfaces landslide mass	1
Measuring ground surface elevation changes in a slow-moving colluvial landslide using combinations of regional airborne lidar, UAV lidar and UAV photogrammetric surveys	1