OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contaminant Hydrology is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mesoporous activated carbon as a green adsorbent for the removal of heavy metals and Congo red: Characterization, adsorption kinetics, and isotherm studies	67
Removal of paracetamol from aqueous solution by activated carbon and silica. Experimental and computational study	48
A novel Hybrid Wavelet-Locally Weighted Linear Regression (W-LWLR) Model for Electrical Conductivity (EC) Prediction in Surface Water	45
Subsurface transport potential of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs): Column experiments and modeling	45
Modeling of the groundwater flow system in excavated areas of an abandoned mine	44
Geochemical evolution and tracing of groundwater salinization using different ionic ratios, multivariate statistical and geochemical modeling approaches in a typical semi-arid basin	43
Air-water interfacial adsorption coefficients for PFAS when present as a multi-component mixture	39
Review on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) migration from wastewater	37
Estimation of groundwater pollution levels and specific ionic sources in the groundwater, using a comprehensive approach of geochemical ratios, pollution index of groundwater, unmix model and land use	36
Effectiveness of groundwater heavy metal pollution indices studies by deep-learning	34
Modeling cross model non-Newtonian fluid flow in porous media	30
Long-term behavior of PFAS in contaminated agricultural soils in Germany	30
Nitrate contamination and source apportionment in surface and groundwater in Ghana using dual isotopes (15N and 18O-NO3) and a Bayesian isotope mixing model	30
Impact of groundwater flow on methane gas migration and retention in unconsolidated aquifers	24
Charge interactions, reaction kinetics and dimensionality effects on electrokinetic remediation: A model-based analysis	23
Understanding the factors contributing to groundwater salinity in the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh, India	23
Removal performance and optimisation of pharmaceutical micropollutants from synthetic domestic wastewater by hybrid treatment	22
Physics-informed deep learning for prediction of CO2 storage site response	22
Ofloxacin adsorptive interaction with rice husk ash: Parametric and exhausted adsorbent disposability study	22
Integrated hydrogeophysical modelling and data assimilation for geoelectrical leak detection	22
What are the main factors influencing the presence of faecal bacteria pollution in groundwater systems in developing countries?	22
Adsorptive and photocatalytic remediation of hazardous organic chemical pollutants in aqueous medium: A review	22
Competitive and synergic sorption of carbamazepine, citalopram, clindamycin, fexofenadine, irbesartan and sulfamethoxazole in seven soils	21
Is thermal use of groundwater a pollution?	21
Saponin foam for soil remediation: On the use of polymer or solid particles to enhance foam resistance against oil	20

Impacts of water temperature on phosphorus release of sediments under flowing overlying water	20
Deep eutectic solvent functionalized rice husk ash for effective adsorption of ofloxacin from aqueous environment	20
Surfactant flooding makes a comeback: Results of a full-scale, field implementation to recover mobilized NAPL	19
Removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in conventional drinking water treatment processes	19
The prediction of longitudinal dispersion coefficient in natural streams using LS-SVM and ANFIS optimized by Harris hawk optimization algorithm	19
Field-scale demonstration of in situ immobilization of heavy metals by injecting iron oxide nanoparticle adsorption barriers in groundwater	19
A multidisciplinary approach for delineating wastewater flow paths in shallow groundwater aquifers: A case study in the southeastern part of the Nile Delta, Egypt	18
Predicting methane solubility in water and seawater by machine learning algorithms: Application to methane transport modeling	18
Evolution of groundwater chemistry in coastal aquifers of the Jiangsu, east China: Insights from a multi-isotope (δ2H, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr, and δ11B) approach	17
A field study to assess the role of air-water interfacial sorption on PFAS leaching in an AFFF source area	17
Co-transport of chromium(VI) and bentonite colloidal particles in water-saturated porous media: Effect of colloid concentration, sand gradation, and flow velocity	17
Impact of mineralogy and wettability on pore-scale displacement of NAPLs in heterogeneous porous media	16
A review of spatial Markov models for predicting pre-asymptotic and anomalous transport in porous and fractured media	15
Modeling mass transfer for adsorptive removal of Pb(II) onto phosphate modified ordered mesoporous carbon (OMC)	15
Significance of validation for karst aquifers’ vulnerability assessments: Antalya Travertine Plateau (Turkey) application	15
Isotopic and hydrochemical evidence for the salinity origin in the coastal aquifers of the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou, China	15
Submarine groundwater discharge as sources for dissolved nutrient fluxes in Coleroon river estuary, Bay of Bengal, India	15
New insights into the selective adsorption mechanism of cationic and anionic dyes using MIL-101(Fe) metal-organic framework: Modeling and interpretation of physicochemical parameters	14
Long-term geophysical monitoring of an abandoned dumpsite area in a Guarani Aquifer recharge zone	14
Dynamics of major and trace elements during seawater intrusion in a coastal sedimentary aquifer impacted by anthropogenic activities	14
Two-dimensional analytical solution for VOC vapor migration through layered soil laterally away from the edge of contaminant source	14
The influence of porous media heterogeneity on smouldering remediation	14
Pump-and-treat configurations with vertical and horizontal wells to remediate an aquifer contaminated by hexavalent chromium	14
Assessment of zeolite and compost-zeolite mixture as permeable reactive materials for the removal of lead from a model acidic groundwater	14
Impact of diffuse layer processes on contaminant forward and back diffusion in heterogeneous sandy-clayey domains	14
Application of chitosan-alginate bio composite for adsorption of malathion from wastewater: Characterization and response surface methodology	13
Impacts of water table fluctuations on actual and perceived natural source zone depletion rates	13
Numerical modeling of water pollution by products of chemical reactions from the activities of industrial facilities at variable and constant temperatures of the environment	13
Utilize gadolinium as environmental tracer for surface water-groundwater interaction in Karst	13
Dispersion modeling in pore networks: A comparison of common pore-scale models and alternative approaches	13
The efficient removal of bisphenol A from aqueous solution using an assembled nanocomposite of zero-valent iron nanoparticles/graphene oxide/copper: Adsorption isotherms, kinetic, and thermodynamic st	13
Remediation of BTEX plume in a continuous flow model using zeolite-PRB	13
Assessment of groundwater vulnerability using integrated remote sensing and GIS techniques for the West Bengal coast, India	13
Pollution characteristics of aromatic hydrocarbons in the groundwater of China	13
Hydraulic conductivity of soil-bentonite backfill comprised of SHMP-amended Ca-bentonite to Cr(VI)-impacted groundwater	13
Nitrate distribution under the influence of seasonal hydrodynamic changes and human activities in Huixian karst wetland, South China	13
Semi-empirical modelling of hydraulic conductivity of clayey soils exposed to deionized and saline environments	13
Scale dependence of effective geochemical rates in weathering mine waste rock	13
Meshfree radial point collocation-based coupled flow and transport model for simulation of multispecies linked first order reactions	13
Field experiments of surface water to groundwater recharge to characterize the mobility of uranium and vanadium at a former mill tailing site	12
Groundwater fauna downtown – Drivers, impacts and implications for subsurface ecosystems in urban areas	12
Experiment and multicomponent model based analysis on the effect of flow rate and nitrate concentration on denitrification in low-permeability media	12
Long-term mass flux assessment of a DNAPL source area treated using bioremediation	12
Predictive modeling of selected trace elements in groundwater using hybrid algorithms of iterative classifier optimizer	12
Nano-TiO2 enhances the adsorption of Cd(II) on biological soil crusts under mildly acidic conditions	12
Contamination presence and dynamics at a polluted site: Spatial analysis of integrated data and joint conceptual modeling approach	12
Effectiveness and comparison of physical barriers on seawater intrusion and nitrate accumulation in upstream aquifers	12
Transport characteristics of DNA-tagged silica colloids as a colloidal tracer in saturated sand columns; role of solution chemistry, flow velocity, and sand grain size	12
Temporal analysis of the microbial communities in a nitrate-contaminated aquifer and the co-occurrence of anammox, n-damo and nitrous-oxide reducing bacteria	12
Sources and pollution path identification of PAHs in karst aquifers: an example from Liulin karst water system, northern China	12

Evaluating the impact of back diffusion on groundwater cleanup time	11
Modeling uranium and 226Ra mobility during and after an acidic in situ recovery test (Dulaan Uul, Mongolia)	11
Regional agricultural water resources management with respect to fuzzy return and energy constraint under uncertainty: An integrated optimization approach	11
Simultaneous removal of nitrate, copper and hexavalent chromium from water by aluminum-iron alloy particles	11
The importance of transects for characterizing aged organic contaminant plumes in groundwater	11
Experimental study of thermally enhanced recovery of high-viscosity DNAPL in saturated porous media under non-isothermal conditions	11
The reduction and fate of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in microbial fuel cell (MFC) during treatment of livestock wastewater	11
Etched glass micromodel for laboratory simulation of NAPL recovery mechanisms by surfactant solutions in fractured rock	11
Groundwater quality changes in peri-urban areas of the Walloon region of Belgium	11
Vulnerability of groundwater from elevated nitrate pollution across India: Insights from spatio-temporal patterns using large-scale monitoring data	10
An analytical model for one-dimensional diffusion of degradable contaminant through a composite geomembrane cut-off wall	10
Diffusion of perfluoroalkyl acids through clay-rich soil	10
3D modelling of solute transport and mixing during managed aquifer recharge with an infiltration basin	10
Spatiotemporal analysis of land use pattern and stream water quality in southern Alberta, Canada	10
An iterative strategy for contaminant source localisation using GLMA optimization and Data Worth on two synthetic 2D Aquifers	10
Effect of multiple factors on the adsorption of Cd in an alluvial soil from Xiba, China	10
Experimentally based pore network modeling of NAPL dissolution process in heterogeneous porous media	10
New insights from modelling and estimation of mass transfer parameters in fixed-bed adsorption of Bisphenol A onto carbon materials	10
Reactive transport modeling of pollutants in heterogeneous layered paddy soils: a) Cadmium migration and vertical distributions	10
Mechanistic insight into the adsorption of mercury (II) on the surface of red mud supported nanoscale zero-valent iron composite	10
Adsorption of bentazone and imazapyc from water by using functionalized silica: Experimental and computational analysis	10
Assessment of chlorinated ethenes degradation after field scale injection of activated carbon and bioamendments: Application of isotopic and microbial analyses	10
Combinations of multivariate statistical analysis and analytical hierarchical process for indexing surface water quality under arid conditions	10
Experimental investigation and simulation of nitrogen transport in a subsurface infiltration system under saturated and unsaturated conditions	10
Groundwater contaminant source characterization with simulation model parameter estimation utilizing a heuristic search strategy based on the stochastic-simulation statistic method	9
The link between microcystin levels in groundwater and surface Nile water, and assessing their potential risk to human health	9
Delineating the impact of urbanization on the hydrochemistry and quality of groundwater wells in Aba, Nigeria	9
Impact of matrix diffusion on the migration of groundwater plumes for Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) and other non-degradable compounds	9
Application of analytical hierarchical process, multi-influencing factor, and geospatial techniques for groundwater potential zonation in a semi-arid region of western India	9
Identifying remedial solutions through optimal bioremediation design under real-world field conditions	9
Pore-scale dynamics of nanofluid-enhanced NAPL displacement in carbonate rock	9
Assessing the impact of water infiltration on LNAPL mobilization in sand column using simplified image analysis method	9
Chlorinated ethene plume evolution after source thermal remediation: Determination of degradation rates and mechanisms	9
Sorption of selenium species onto phlogopite and calcite surfaces: DFT studies	9
The application of surfactant colloidal gas aphrons to remediate contaminated soil: A review	9
Effects of different cropping systems on ammonia nitrogen load in a typical agricultural watershed of South China	9
Sorption and biodegradation parameters of selected pharmaceuticals in laboratory column experiments	9
An approach for runoff and sediment nexus analysis under multi-flow conditions in a hyper-concentrated sediment river, Southwest China	9
Reactive transport modelling to investigate multi-scale waste rock weathering processes	9
Experimental and numerical assessment of saltwater recession in coastal aquifers by constructing check dams	9
Impact of solute charge and diffusion coefficient on electromigration and mixing in porous media	8
Reactive transport modeling of produced water disposal into dolomite saline aquifers: Controls of barium transport	8
Long-term cometabolic transformation of 1,1,1-trichloroethane and 1,4-dioxane by Rhodococcus rhodochrous ATCC 21198 grown on alcohols slowly produced by orthosilicates	8
Investigation on gas permeability of compacted GMZ bentonite with consideration of variations in liquid saturation, dry density and confining pressure	8
Effects of large-scale heterogeneity and temporally varying hydrologic processes on estimating immobile pore space: A mesoscale-laboratory experimental and numerical modeling investigation	8
An interval multi-objective fuzzy-interval credibility-constrained nonlinear programming model for balancing agricultural and ecological water management	8
Solute transport modelling to manage groundwater pollution from surface water resources	8
Environmental tracers and groundwater residence time indicators reveal controls of arsenic accumulation rates beneath a rapidly developing urban area in Patna, India	8
Spatial and temporal distributions of microplastics and their macroscopic relationship with algal blooms in Chaohu Lake, China	8
Preliminary investigations of microplastic pollution in karst systems, from surface watercourses to cave waters	8
Accumulation of DNAPL waste in subsurface clayey lenses and layers	8
Potential effects on groundwater quality associated with infiltrating stormwater through dry wells for aquifer recharge	8
Employing waste to manage waste: Utilizing waste biomaterials for the elimination of hazardous contaminant [Cr(VI)] from aqueous matrices	8
Preferential flow modelling of chlorpyrifos leaching in two arid soils of irrigated agricultural production areas in Argentine Patagonia	8
Effectiveness of two lightweight aggregates for the removal of heavy metals from contaminated urban stormwater	8