OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soil & Sediment Contamination 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Effects of Mine Waste and Rain Water on the Structure of Bacteria Community of Paddy Soils	28
Environmental Fate and Dietary Risk Assessment Associated with Triafamone, Ethoxysulfuron and Their Metabolites in Rice Ecosystem	26
The Residual Impact of Goethite-Modified Biochar on Cadmium and Arsenic Uptake by Maize in Co-Contaminated Soil	17
Distribution Characteristics, Source Analysis and Risk Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Surface Sediment of Jieshi Bay, Shanwei, China	16
Distribution and Risk Assessment of VOCs in Road Dust Across Different Urban Areas	16
Empirical modelling of shear behavior of oil contaminated sand - geogrid interface	15
Effect of Organic Amendments on the Speciation of Chromium in Contaminated and Uncontaminated Soils	15
Assessment of Metal Contamination in Soil Adjacent to Mining Activities Using Some Indices	14
Connectivity of Geochemical Composition of Sediments and Soils in the Large Urban River Catchment	14
Does the long-term contamination of lead (PbII) affect the bioremediation mechanisms of Microbacterium oxydans strain CM3 and CM7?	13
Influence of Modified Biochar on Soil Fluoride and Cadmium Speciation and Their Bioavailability to Tea Seedling ( Camellia Sinensis L.)	13
Seasonal and Spatial Dynamics of Heavy Metal Contamination in Port-Adjacent Mangrove Sediments Along the Iranian Coast of Oman Sea: A Multi-Index Risk Assessment	11
A Review on the interaction between Nanoparticles and Toxic metals in Soil: Meta-analysis of their effects on soil, plants and human health	11
Leaching Characteristics of Glutaraldehyde and Organic Dyes Utilized in Tannery Industry in Soil	11
Temporal and Spatial Distribution and Risk Assessment of Volatile Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Soils of Typical Industrial Parks in Chongqing Under the “Dual Carbon” Background	10
Final Residues, Dissipation Dynamics and Dietary Risk Assessment of Cupric Nonyl Phenolsulfonate in Citrus and Soil	10
Pollution Characteristics, Risk Assessment and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Surface Sediments from the Cage Fish Farm of Poyang Lake, China	10
Chemical Structural Features Affecting the Soil Sorption of Sulfonylurea Herbicides	10
Synergistic application of rhizobacteria association and fertilizer for enrichment of Pennisetum purpureum growth and phytoextraction of arsenic in engineered wetland	10
Fractionation and Contamination Assessment of Zn, Cu, Fe, and Mn in the Sundarbans Mangrove Soils of Bangladesh	9
Removal of Metribuzin and Bentazon by LDH-HA Modified Material: Kinetic and Equilibrium Study	9
Assessment of the Levels of Pesticide Residues and Trace Metal Elements (TME) in Soils in the Cotton-Growing Region of North-West Benin	9
Mechanism of reduction and immobilization of Cr(VI) by application modified nano-zerovalent iron	9
Enhancement in Formation of Insoluble Arsenic Phases without Re-Leaching by Particle Size of Excavated Sediment with Iron Sulfate Heptahydrate	9
Geotechnical Behavior of Surfactant-Contaminated Soils	9

Distribution of Vanadium in the Surficial Sediments of Prydz Bay, Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean	9
Magnetic Susceptibility as Proxy for Metal Concentrations and Their Risk Levels in Vaigai River Sediment, Tamilnadu, India: Horizontal and Vertical Approach	8
Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soil During Ex-Situ Indirect Thermal Desorption	8
The Extraction and Characterization of Microplastics of Biocompost and Water Samples Collected from the Different Semi-Urban Agronurseries	8
Advanced Nanoparticles for Environmental Remediation of Emerging Pollutants: A Review	8
Contamination and Determinants of Potentially Toxic Elements in Road Dust Across Urban-Rural Gradient in Al-Qasim, Iraq	8
Stabilization and Solidification of a Clay Soil Contaminated with MTBE by Using MgO and Hydrated Lime	7
Assessing the Role of Soil Amendments on the Sorption-Desorption Behavior of Glufosinate-Ammonium Herbicide in Soils: Kinetic, Isothermal and Thermodynamic Investigations	7
Paleo Environmental Pollution Assessment of Erdek and Bandırma Bays in the Sea of Marmara, Türkiye	7
Ecological Risk Assessment, Spatial Distribution and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Sediments of Henan Reach of Yellow River, China	7
Microplastic contamination of coastal hill soils: Perspective of Rohingya Refugee camps in Bangladesh	7
Inner Sphere Adsorption Mechanisms for Arsenate and Lead on Goethite: Theoretical Implications in Contaminated Soil Recovery	7
Impact of Lead Contamination on Denitrification After Nitrate Addition to Soil: An Interaction Between Nitrogen Substrates, Denitrification Genes, and Microbial Community Structures	6
Potential of Using Land Snails (Eobania vermiculataandMonacha obstructa) for Monitoring the Essential and Non-Essential Heavy Metal in Ismailia City, Egypt	6
Impact of Portland cement and lime on the stabilization and shear strength characteristics of contaminated clay	6
Sorption and transport of atrazine for stable manure-amended agricultural soil from Kahramanmaraş, Turkey	6
Heavy Metal Contamination In Soil Around The Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant	6
The Distribution Characteristics and Risk Assessments of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Sediments of Sanshan Lake, China	6
Swelling Behavior of Bentonite- Sand Mixtures in the Presence of Organic Pore fluids	6
Spatial Distribution, Risk Assessment, and Provenance of Heavy Metals Contamination in the Sediments of the Gilgit River Basin, Northern Pakistan	6
Phytotoxic Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate, Dimethyl Phthalate, Diethyl Phthalate and Di-N-Octyl Phthalate on Malondialdehyde Content and Total Phenolic Content of Leaves and Roots of Edible Plants	6
Physicochemical Characteristics and Potentially Toxic Elements in Sediments of the Midstream of Citarum River Around Hydroelectric Power Plants	6
Trace Elements Contamination of Kilembe Copper Mine Catchment Soils in Kasese District, Western Uganda	6
Evaluation of Contamination and Ecological and Health Risk in Surface Soil and Crops Contaminated with Metalloids and Heavy Metals in Datun, China, “The World Tin Capital”	6
Evaluation of Coastal Sediments for Heavy Metal Contamination, Bhavnagar Coast, Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat, India	5
Pollution characteristics and risk assessment of heavy metals in the water and surface sediments of Wulungu Lake, Xinjiang China	5
Micrometalloid Accumulation in Mono- and Polyculture Agrosoils: Spatial Trends and Human Health Risk Assessment	5
Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in River Water and Sediment Surrounding Abandoned Coal Mining Areas: A Case Study of Yudong River in Guizhou Province	5
Forest Soil Exposed to Leachate as a New Source of DEHP-Degrading Rhodococcus	5
Assessment of contamination levels of heavy metals in the agricultural soils using ICP-OES	5
Remediation of Lubricant Contaminated Soils by Cavitation Microjet Shock Wave Soil Washing System with Ozonation	5
Heavy Metals Pollution in Various Grain Sizes Under Different Land-Use Types in Urban Surface Dust in Shenyang City, China	5
Pore Fluid Dielectric Constant Effect on Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Properties of Smectite and Kaolinite	5
Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils of Acıpayam Plain, Denizli, Türkiye	5
Influence of Potentially Toxic Elements and Physio-Chemical Parameters of Industrially Contaminated Soil on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity in BBN Corridor, Himachal Pradesh, India	5
Combined Remediation of Cadmium and Butyl Xanthate Composite Polluted Farmland Soil by Bifunctional Bacterial Consortium SDMC and Brassica napus : Effect and Mechanism	5
Sustainable Stabilization of Cadmium (Cd)-Contaminated Soil with Biochar-Cement: Evaluation of Strength, Leachability, Microstructural Characteristics, and Stabilization Mechanism	5
Potential ecological risk assessment of rare earth elements in sediments cores from the Oualidia lagoon, Morocco	5
Contamination of Arable Soil with Toxic Trace Elements (Tes) around Mine Sites and the Assessment of Associated Human Health Risks	5
Organochlorine Insecticide-Dicofol Resilience in Soil Ecosystems: Sorption, Persistence, and Fate Investigations	5
Modeling the Geotechnical Properties of Small Soil Samples of Oil Polluted Soil: The Power of Supervised Machine Learning Models	5
Effect of pH, Dissolved Organic Carbon, and Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate to Degradation of Fenobucarb Insecticide in Paddy Soil-Water System	4
Chemical Speciation, Contamination, Human Health Risk Assessment, and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Soils Composted with Swine Manure	4
Soil Quality Indices Based on Biological Properties to Assess Chemical Soil Degradation by Metal(loid)s	4
Biological Remediation of Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB)-Contaminated Soil Using the Vermicomposting Technology for the Management of Sewage Sludge Containing Eisenia fetida Earthworms	4
In Situ Remediation of TNT Red Water Contaminated Soil: Field Demonstration	4
A Spectrochemical Snapshot of Heavy Elements in Nile River Sediments: Line Intensity Calculation	4
Heavy metal enrichment and its ecotoxicological risk assessment in sediment cores from tropical backwater systems, Kalpakkam Coast, India	4
Variability of Metal(loid) Contamination in Road Dust from an Urban Park and a Traffic Intersection Between Two Rainfall Events and Its Implications	4
A Geostatistical Study of Heavy Metal Contamination and Soil Quality in Industrial Areas of Erode and Namakkal	4

Layered Double Hydroxides Reduce the Availability of Cadmium and Lead in Soil and the Content of Cadmium and Lead in Grain	4
Atrazine Sorption Kinetics of Two Mexican Agricultural Soils: Effect of Organic Matter	4
Characterization of Microplastics and Associated Heavy Metals in Urban Soils Affected by Anthropogenic Littering: Distribution, Spatial Variation, and Influence of Soil Properties	4
Spatial Variation, Ecological Risk, and Point Sources of Environmental Trace Metals in Lacustrine Ecosystems: An Assessment of Natural and Urban Inputs	4
Source Apportionment of Heavy Metals in Sediments of an Industrial Belt in Kochi (India) Using Positive Matrix Factorization	4
Urban Pruning Waste Biochar Enhances Lead, Cadmium, and Zinc Sorption: A Potential Strategy for Soil Liners in Ribeira Valley (Brazil)	3
Stabilization of Lead and Zinc Nitrate-Contaminated Low Plasticity Clayey Soil Using Metakaolin Geopolymer	3
Evaluation of the Pollution by the Potentially Toxic Elements in the Topsoils of a Semi-Industrial Zone, Northwestern Iran	3
Metal Geochemistry and Contamination Assessment of Tropical Mangrove Sediments	3
Ornamental Sunflower Varieties Inoculated with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) to Extract Lead (Pb) and Zinc (Zn) from a Mine Tailing	3
Light Rare Earth Elements in Freshly Deposited River Sediments of Ganga Alluvial Plain, Northern India: Geogenic Variability and Anthropogenic Influences	3
An Assessment of Metal Pollution in the Surface Sediments of an East Antarctic Lake	3
A Comprehensive Review of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soil Behavior, Geotechnical Properties and Potential Remediation	3
Assessment of heavy metal contamination and ecological risk of core sediments in a coastal wetland of India	3
Pollution Characteristics and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Soil of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Site	3
Drying Kinetics and Pollutant release Characteristics of Organic Contaminated Soil	3
Modulating Leaching Behavior of Boscalid Fungicide in Soil Through Organic Amendments	3
Analysis and Assessment of the Soil Environment Around a Plateau Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Plant	3
Heavy Metal Pollutants and Their Spatial Distribution in Surficial Sediments from the Gangetic Plains, Central, and Western Parts of India	3
Evaluation of Ferrous Ion Activated Persulfate and Hydrogen Peroxide for the Degradation of Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid Trichloroethylene - a One-Dimensional Column Study	3
Enrichment and Bioavailability of Phosphate in a Highly Urbanized Zone of Cochin Estuary, South India	3
Study on Amendment of Rapeseed Meal, Soybean Meal, and NPK Fertilizer as Biostimulants in Bioremediation of Diesel-Contaminated Soil by Autochthonous Microorganisms	3
Temporal Variations of PCBs and Their Estimated Air-Soil Exchange Fluxes Measured in Seven Sites in Bursa-Turkey	3
Ability of Urtica dioica L. to adsorb heavy metals (Pb, Cd, As, and Ni) from contaminated soils	3
Assessment of Soil Physico-Chemical Properties and Heavy Metals Concentrations from Major Abattoir Sites in Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria	3
Pb ²⁺ Leachability in the Cement-Based Solidified/Stabilized Contaminated Clay Under Saline and Alkaline Environments	3
Natural and Artificial Radionuclides in the Sediment, Water, and Fish Samples from the Sava River in Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia: Comparing Past and Recent Findings	3
Assessment of Nutrients and Heavy Metals in the Sediments of the Dali River and Wuding River	3
Risk Assessment of Trace Metals Using Chemical Speciation, Bioavailability, and Cluster Analysis Around Wadi EL Bey (Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia)	3
Mono and Competitive Adsorption-Desorption of Cd, Co, Cu, and Zn in Ten Agricultural and Greenhouse Soils	3
Spatial Distribution and Potential Ecological Risk Assessment of Trace Metals in Reclaimed Mine Soils in Abuakwa South Municipal, Ghana	3
Radioactivity and Heavy Metal Accumulation in Surface Sediment from the West Aegean Coast	3
Final Residue, Degradation Dynamics, and Dietary Risk Assessment of Bifenazate in Citrus and Soil	3