OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contaminant Hydrology is 9. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mesoporous activated carbon as a green adsorbent for the removal of heavy metals and Congo red: Characterization, adsorption kinetics, and isotherm studies	117
Geochemical evolution and tracing of groundwater salinization using different ionic ratios, multivariate statistical and geochemical modeling approaches in a typical semi-arid basin	70
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	70
Removal of paracetamol from aqueous solution by activated carbon and silica. Experimental and computational study	68
Understanding the factors contributing to groundwater salinity in the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh, India	52
Long-term behavior of PFAS in contaminated agricultural soils in Germany	50
Air-water interfacial adsorption coefficients for PFAS when present as a multi-component mixture	50
Review on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) migration from wastewater	49
Effectiveness of groundwater heavy metal pollution indices studies by deep-learning	47
Modeling cross model non-Newtonian fluid flow in porous media	46
Adsorptive and photocatalytic remediation of hazardous organic chemical pollutants in aqueous medium: A review	44
Physics-informed deep learning for prediction of CO2 storage site response	42
A field study to assess the role of air-water interfacial sorption on PFAS leaching in an AFFF source area	40
Removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in conventional drinking water treatment processes	34
Impacts of water temperature on phosphorus release of sediments under flowing overlying water	32
Is thermal use of groundwater a pollution?	29
Investigation of microplastic pollution in Torghabeh River sediments, northeast of Iran	29
Removal performance and optimisation of pharmaceutical micropollutants from synthetic domestic wastewater by hybrid treatment	29
A multidisciplinary approach for delineating wastewater flow paths in shallow groundwater aquifers: A case study in the southeastern part of the Nile Delta, Egypt	29
Application of chitosan-alginate bio composite for adsorption of malathion from wastewater: Characterization and response surface methodology	28
Numerical modeling of water pollution by products of chemical reactions from the activities of industrial facilities at variable and constant temperatures of the environment	26
Predicting methane solubility in water and seawater by machine learning algorithms: Application to methane transport modeling	26
Ofloxacin adsorptive interaction with rice husk ash: Parametric and exhausted adsorbent disposability study	26
Deep eutectic solvent functionalized rice husk ash for effective adsorption of ofloxacin from aqueous environment	25
Vulnerability of groundwater from elevated nitrate pollution across India: Insights from spatio-temporal patterns using large-scale monitoring data	25

Field-scale demonstration of in situ immobilization of heavy metals by injecting iron oxide nanoparticle adsorption barriers in groundwater	25
Fibrous microplastics released from textiles: Occurrence, fate, and remediation strategies	25
Groundwater fauna downtown – Drivers, impacts and implications for subsurface ecosystems in urban areas	24
The prediction of longitudinal dispersion coefficient in natural streams using LS-SVM and ANFIS optimized by Harris hawk optimization algorithm	24
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	24
Effectiveness and comparison of physical barriers on seawater intrusion and nitrate accumulation in upstream aquifers	23
Pump-and-treat configurations with vertical and horizontal wells to remediate an aquifer contaminated by hexavalent chromium	23
Application of analytical hierarchical process, multi-influencing factor, and geospatial techniques for groundwater potential zonation in a semi-arid region of western India	22
A review of spatial Markov models for predicting pre-asymptotic and anomalous transport in porous and fractured media	22
Preliminary investigations of microplastic pollution in karst systems, from surface watercourses to cave waters	22
Sources and pollution path identification of PAHs in karst aquifers: an example from Liulin karst water system, northern China	21
Contamination presence and dynamics at a polluted site: Spatial analysis of integrated data and joint conceptual modeling approach	21
Semi-empirical modelling of hydraulic conductivity of clayey soils exposed to deionized and saline environments	20
Spatial and temporal distributions of microplastics and their macroscopic relationship with algal blooms in Chaohu Lake, China	20
Modeling uranium and 226Ra mobility during and after an acidic in situ recovery test (Dulaan Uul, Mongolia)	20
Identifying the source and transformation of riverine nitrates in a karst watershed, North China: Comprehensive use of major ions, multiple isotopes and a Bayesian model	19
The influence of porous media heterogeneity on smouldering remediation	19
Mechanistic insight into the adsorption of mercury (II) on the surface of red mud supported nanoscale zero-valent iron composite	19
The reduction and fate of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in microbial fuel cell (MFC) during treatment of livestock wastewater	19
Hydraulic conductivity of soil-bentonite backfill comprised of SHMP-amended Ca-bentonite to Cr(VI)-impacted groundwater	19
Impact of diffuse layer processes on contaminant forward and back diffusion in heterogeneous sandy-clayey domains	19
Evolution of groundwater chemistry in coastal aquifers of the Jiangsu, east China: Insights from a multi-isotope (δ2H, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr, and δ11B) approach	19
Predictive modeling of selected trace elements in groundwater using hybrid algorithms of iterative classifier optimizer	19
Large scale occurrence of aluminium-rich shallow groundwater in the Pearl River Delta after the rapid urbanization: Co-effects of anthropogenic and geogenic factors	19
Assessment of groundwater vulnerability using integrated remote sensing and GIS techniques for the West Bengal coast, India	18
Assessment of chlorinated ethenes degradation after field scale injection of activated carbon and bioamendments: Application of isotopic and microbial analyses	18
Impacts of water table fluctuations on actual and perceived natural source zone depletion rates	18
Gadolinium based contrast agents (GBCAs): Uniqueness, aquatic toxicity concerns, and prospective remediation	17
Development of Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods for Reduction of Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers Using SEAWAT Code	17
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	17
Isotopic and hydrochemical evidence for the salinity origin in the coastal aquifers of the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou, China	17
Delineating the impact of urbanization on the hydrochemistry and quality of groundwater wells in Aba, Nigeria	17
Effective desalination of brackish groundwater using zeolitized diatomite/kaolinite geopolymer as low-cost inorganic membrane; Siwa Oasis in Egypt as a realistic case study	16
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	16
An analytical model for one-dimensional diffusion of degradable contaminant through a composite geomembrane cut-off wall	16
Diffusion of perfluoroalkyl acids through clay-rich soil	16
Combinations of multivariate statistical analysis and analytical hierarchical process for indexing surface water quality under arid conditions	16
Assessing the impact of water infiltration on LNAPL mobilization in sand column using simplified image analysis method	16
Comparison of methods to estimate air-water interfacial areas for evaluating PFAS transport in the vadose zone	15
Exploring the combined interplays: Effects of cypermethrin and microplastic exposure on the survival and antioxidant physiology of Astacus leptodactylus	15
Health risk assessment of groundwater nitrogen pollution in Yinchuan plain	15
Impact of matrix diffusion on the migration of groundwater plumes for Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) and other non-degradable compounds	15
Macroalgae for biomonitoring of trace elements in relation to environmental parameters and seasonality in a sub-tropical mangrove estuary	15
Green metal oxides coated biochar nanocomposites preparation and its utilization in vertical flow constructed wetlands for reactive dye removal: Performance and kinetics studies	15
Utilize gadolinium as environmental tracer for surface water-groundwater interaction in Karst	15
Groundwater quality and human health risk assessment in selected coastal and floodplain areas of Bangladesh	15
Spatiotemporal analysis of land use pattern and stream water quality in southern Alberta, Canada	15
A novel concept for estimating the contaminant mass discharge of chlorinated ethenes emanating from clay till sites	14
Evaluating the impact of back diffusion on groundwater cleanup time	14
Experimental study of thermally enhanced recovery of high-viscosity DNAPL in saturated porous media under non-isothermal conditions	14

Assessment of heavy metal pollution in Nigerian surface freshwaters and sediment: A meta-analysis using ecological and human health risk indices	14
The importance of transects for characterizing aged organic contaminant plumes in groundwater	14
Reactive transport modelling to investigate multi-scale waste rock weathering processes	14
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	14
A novel co-processed olive tree leaves biomass for lead adsorption from contaminated water	14
Effective decontamination of Ca2+ and Mg2+ hardness from groundwater using innovative muscovite based sodalite in batch and fixed-bed column studies; dynamic and equilibrium studies	13
Refinement of the gradient method for the estimation of natural source zone depletion at petroleum contaminated sites	13
Simulated leaching of PFAS from land-applied municipal biosolids at agricultural sites	13
Identifying remedial solutions through optimal bioremediation design under real-world field conditions	13
Environmental tracers and groundwater residence time indicators reveal controls of arsenic accumulation rates beneath a rapidly developing urban area in Patna, India	13
Groundwater quality changes in peri-urban areas of the Walloon region of Belgium	13
Spatiotemporal variation and driving factors of water quality in Yunnan-Guizhou plateau lakes, China	13
Sorption and biodegradation parameters of selected pharmaceuticals in laboratory column experiments	13
Individual and combined impact of microplastics and lead acetate on the freshwater shrimp (Caridina fossarum): Biochemical effects and physiological responses	12
Effects of different cropping systems on ammonia nitrogen load in a typical agricultural watershed of South China	12
Tracking NSZD mass removal rates over decades: Site-wide and local scale assessment of mass removal at a legacy petroleum site	12
Experiment and multicomponent model based analysis on the effect of flow rate and nitrate concentration on denitrification in low-permeability media	12
An interval multi-objective fuzzy-interval credibility-constrained nonlinear programming model for balancing agricultural and ecological water management	12
Subsurface transport of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)-stabilized nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI): Numerical and statistical analysis	12
Experimental study of foam propagation and stability in highly permeable porous media under lateral water flow: Diverting groundwater for application to soil remediation	12
Influence of aquifer heterogeneity on sea level rise-induced seawater intrusion: A probabilistic approach	12
Gaussian process regression to determine water content of methane: Application to methane transport modeling	12
An approach for runoff and sediment nexus analysis under multi-flow conditions in a hyper-concentrated sediment river, Southwest China	12
Potential effects on groundwater quality associated with infiltrating stormwater through dry wells for aquifer recharge	11
3D modelling of solute transport and mixing during managed aquifer recharge with an infiltration basin	11
Effectiveness of two lightweight aggregates for the removal of heavy metals from contaminated urban stormwater	11
Employing waste to manage waste: Utilizing waste biomaterials for the elimination of hazardous contaminant [Cr(VI)] from aqueous matrices	11
Reactive transport modeling of pollutants in heterogeneous layered paddy soils: a) Cadmium migration and vertical distributions	11
Simultaneous identification of contaminant sources and hydraulic conductivity field by combining geostatistics method with self-organizing maps algorithm	11
The link between microcystin levels in groundwater and surface Nile water, and assessing their potential risk to human health	11
Assessment of heavy metals and radionuclides in groundwater and associated human health risk appraisal in the vicinity of Rooppur nuclear power plant, Bangladesh	11
Regional agricultural water resources management with respect to fuzzy return and energy constraint under uncertainty: An integrated optimization approach	11
The Mass Transfer Index (MTI): A semi-empirical approach for quantifying transport of solutes in variably saturated porous media	10
Multi-objective optimization for optimal extraction of groundwater from a nitrate-contaminated aquifer considering economic-environmental issues: A case study	10
Water quality assessment of Remeți watercourse, Maramureș, Romania, located in a NATURA 2000 protected area subjected to anthropic pressure	10
Optimum concentration of fly ash nanoparticles to stabilize CO2 foams for aquifer and soil remediation	10
Mass fluxes of dissolved arsenic discharging to the Meghna River are sufficient to account for the mass of arsenic in riverbank sediments	10
Monitoring of in-situ chemical oxidation for remediation of diesel-contaminated soil with electrical resistivity tomography	10
Potential risk of eutrophication in the deepest lake of Southwest China: Insights from phosphorus enrichment in bottom water	10
Optimized stacking, a new method for constructing ensemble surrogate models applied to DNAPL-contaminated aquifer remediation	10
Projections of meteorological drought based on CMIP6 multi-model ensemble: A case study of Henan Province, China	10
Phytoextraction of anthropogenic heavy metal contamination of the Blesbokspruit wetland: Potential of wetland macrophytes	10
A dual-randomness bi-level interval multi-objective programming model for regional water resources management	10
Effects of large-scale heterogeneity and temporally varying hydrologic processes on estimating immobile pore space: A mesoscale-laboratory experimental and numerical modeling investigation	10
Evaluating the contribution of different environmental drivers to changes in evapotranspiration and soil moisture, a case study of the Wudaogou Experimental Station	10
Using MODFLOW and RT3D to simulate diffusion and reaction without discretizing low permeability zones	10
Adsorption performance of phosphate in water by mixed precursor base geopolymers	10
Freeze-thaw cycles lead to enhanced colloid-facilitated Pb transport in a Chernozem soil	9
Reconstructing the release history of a contaminant source with different precision via the ensemble smoother with multiple data assimilation	9
Physically simulating the effect of lateral vapor source-building separation on soil vapor intrusion: Influences of surface pavements and soil heterogeneity	9
Transport of silica encapsulated DNA microparticles in controlled instantaneous injection open channel experiments	9
A review of microplastic threat mitigation in Asian lentic environments	9
A novel two-step approach for optimal groundwater remediation by coupling extreme learning machine with evolutionary hunting strategy based metaheuristics	9
Assessment of human health risk from potentially toxic elements and predicting groundwater contamination using machine learning approaches	9
Temporal flow variations interact with spatial physical heterogeneity to impact solute transport in managed river corridors	9
A pore-scale investigation of the effect of nanoparticle injection on properties of sandy porous media	9
Hydrochemical analysis and groundwater suitability for drinking and irrigation in an arid agricultural area of the Northwest China	9
Measuring and modeling nanoparticle transport by foam in porous media	9