OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geotechnique Letters 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Award-winning paper in 2022	34
Laboratory assessment of rubber grid-reinforced ballast under impact testing	16
A modified state parameter for identifying flow liquefaction in aeolian sand	15
Intrinsic permeabilities of transparent soil under various aqueous environmental conditions	14
Undrained trapdoor and tunnel face stability revisited	14
Scalp-and-replacement of oversize particles on internal stability erosion assessment	14
Adaptivity of plate anchors to restrain the impact of seabed trenching	13
Shear creep behaviour of soil–structure interfaces under thermal cyclic loading	13
Effect of eccentricity on ultimate lateral unit earth pressure of tetrapod piles in clay	12
Rate-dependency of residual shear strength of soils: implications for landslide evolution	12
A mixed formulation of limit analysis for seismic slope stability	12
si-PiNet: a novel stress integration method for elastoplastic models	11
Structure evaluation of a tropical residual soil under wide range of compaction conditions	11
Application of the unified CPT method for driven piles to layered deposits	11
Experimental investigation of the effect of train load on mechanical properties of rock	10
Sulfoaluminate cement-based double-liquid material grouting in fractured rock	9
Non-destructive assessment of sample homogeneity in resedimented fine-grained soils by low-field NMR-spectroscopy	8
Effects of ultrasonic oscillations on permeability of rocks during the paraffinic oil flow	8
Rigorous lower and upper bounds for the generalised failure loads of pile groups	8
X-ray microstructural insight into the mechanical behaviour of ligth-weight cemented soils	7
Optimising an output of a slip line field using a chaotic swamp optimisation algorithm	7
Editorial	6
A two-scale study on the influence of biopolymer enhancement on drying granular materials	6
Theoretical model for the effect of porosity on correlations of point load tests of rocks	6
Géotechnique Letters: Referees 2022	6

Effect of drag rates on drag embedment anchor penetration for cable burial risk assessment	6
Novel procedure for measuring the saturation of the pore-pressure system in piezocone tips	6
Discrete element method based analysis of soil disturbance induced by different penetration devices	5
Effect of interface conditions on mudmat bearing capacity under V–H–M loading	5
A novel fibre-optic pore pressure sensor for soil element testing	5
Assessing temperature dependence of soil water adsorption strength by molecular simulation	5
Stress-dependent irreversible volumetric contraction of sand due to thermal cycles	4
Analytical solutions for head-anchored piles for landslide stabilisation	4
Numerical assessment of effects of strain rate on the critical state of crushable sand	4
Particle shape descriptors as a tool for classification of grain breakage	4
Coupled effects of stress state and void ratio on thermal conductivity of saturated soils	4
Effect of initial normal stress on shear-induced non-linear fluid flow through fractures	4
Seismic stability charts for three-dimensional rock slopes using Hoek–Brown criterion	4
A new grouting cable without a core tube used for reinforcement of fractured rock mass	3
Simplified DEM approach for complex reef limestone structures and pore characteristics	3
Géotechnique Letters: Referees 2021	3
A new random field finite-element limit analysis approach for undrained soils	3
Characteristic time and length scales for subsurface mineralisation	3
Cyclic failure of interfaces between sand and snakeskin-inspired surfaces	3
Further modification of a generalised 3D Hoek–Brown criterion: the GZZ criterion	3
Three-dimensional dynamic behaviour of embankments on liquefiable ground	3
Relating cone penetration resistance to sand state using the material point method	3
Small-strain stiffness and dynamic properties of well-graded gravel–rubber mixtures	3
Static response of vertically loaded pile in inhomogeneous soil	3
Effects of particle morphology on pore structure and SWRC of granular soils	3
Numerical analysis of the deep soil failure mechanism for perimeter pile groups	3
A study of the multi-scale compression behaviour of a sand immersed in a viscous liquid	3
Low-carbon erosion mitigation using bio-stimulating MICP	3
A simple discrete approach to explore the response of swelling and softening particles	3
Snakeskin-inspired patterns for frictional anisotropic behaviour of split set rock bolts	3
Development and application of indoor digital drilling test systems	3
Energy pile skin friction at interface in clays under temperature cycles	2
Microscale investigation of bentonite distribution in pore spaces of sand after infiltration of stabilising solution	2
Effect of saturation confining pressure on accessible density and shear behaviour of sandy silt tailings	2
Optimised screw pile design for offshore jacket foundations in medium–dense sand	2
Coriolis effect mitigation for single particle motion in centrifugal hypergravity field	2
Sustainable pervious concrete pile for liquefaction and reliquefaction mitigation	2
Fish anchor diving behaviour: confirmation through field tests in the Swan River	2
Mechanical behaviour of sand in simple shear at low stress levels and small strains	2
Three-dimensional limit analysis with Lade–Duncan criterion	2
Insights into void ratio redistribution during undrained monotonic shearing of Malaysian kaolin	2
Sand improvement by microbial-induced carbonate precipitation with casein micelles	2
Permeability of polymer-modified kaolinite and fly ash–kaolinite mixtures	2
A simple procedure for freezing triaxial test specimens and determining the final moisture content after liquefaction	2
Liquefaction triggering of non-saturated sandy soils	2
Effects of initial water content on compression behaviour of municipal sewage sludge	2
Pipe piles and split-cables: reinforcing weak mine pits	2
Cyclically thermally-activated pile under combined axial/horizontal loads in clay	2
Multi-scale damage mechanisms of siltstone under combined dry–wet cycling and cyclic loading	2
Strength and stiffness anisotropy of 3D-printed coarse root analogues for small-scale physical modelling	2

Variation of the mass susceptibility of sandstone after high-temperature heating	2
Site response analysis of liquefiable soil employing continuous wavelet transforms	2
Critical state shear strength at concrete–sand–bentonite slurry interfaces: mix proportions and rate effects	2
A simple method to reduce mesh dependency in modelling landslides involving brittle soils	1
Saturated hydraulic conductivity of construction wastes for potential replacement of sand blanket	1
Kinetic to capillary flow transition during drilling fluid injection through porous medium	1
Vertical non-linear Darcy seepage characteristics of coarse upper and fine lower saturated sand	1
Competing effects of wetting and volume change on G in compacted loess	1
Growth, trends and prevalent topics in geotechnical engineering (1998–2022) using topic modelling	1
Cyclic mobility following plastic strain accumulation in sand	1
Influence of the Poisson effect on the stress dependence of the elastic moduli of soil	1
Effects of cross-correlations between soil properties on pullout capacity of strip anchors	1
Influence of load idealisation on strain and pore pressure accumulation in clay	1
Pore-space characterisation of Tamusu mudstone based on FIB-SEM	1
A new method for producing uniform, loose, initially unsaturated specimens	1
Morphology-driven saturated hydraulic conductivity in hydrophobised sands	1
A simple approach for assessing the quality of bender elements	1
Improved damage model with thermal-mechanical effects based on modified M-C criterion	1
Composite ellipsoids to model charge anisotropy in particle-scale simulations of kaolinite	1
The morphological characteristics of caved strata in an abandoned gob under multiseam	1
Effect of base roughness on flow behaviour and size segregation in dry granular flows	1
An energy-based criterion for defining slope failure considering the coupling effect of groundwater table and impact loading	1
Suppression of surface charge and its effect on sedimentation and fabric of kaolinite clay	1
Elemental mapping by micro X-ray fluorescence to assess binder distribution of improved soils	1
Award-winning paper in 2020	1
Coupling of hydraulic loading and surcharge pressure during suffusion in sandy gravels	1
Laboratory large-scale pullout investigation of the twisted steel strip reinforcement system	1
Award-winning paper in 2021	1
Assessing the undrained strength cross-anisotropy of three tailings types	1
Comparing laboratory and field samples of lime–cement-improved Norwegian clay	1
Elastoplastic solution for cylindrical cavity contraction in unsaturated soils	1
Bender-element-based penetrometers for measuring shear wave velocity and shear strength	1
Flow path tortuosity in saturated porous media comprising idealised spherical particles	1
Numerical investigation on influence of dispersed rock particles on bimslope stability	1
Novel experimental method for rate-independent triaxial tests under partial drainage condition	1
Numerical study on the damage evolution of UHPC lining in LRC gas storage	1
Modulus weighting method for stiffness estimations of suction caissons in layered soils	1
Distributed acoustic sensing in soil for infrastructure monitoring	1
Finite-element analysis of ultimate lateral pressure of snowflake pile in undrained clay	1
Role of the particle size and shape dispersion on stress transmission and strain energy storage	1