OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Geochemistry and Health is 30. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Groundwater quality for potable and irrigation uses and associated health risk in southern part of Gu’an County, North China Plain	71
Trace elements contamination in groundwater and associated human health risk in the industrial region of southern Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, India	63
Spatial distribution of quality of groundwater and probabilistic non-carcinogenic risk from a rural dry climatic region of South India	62
Impact factors of the accumulation, migration and spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment	61
Distribution, risk assessment, and source apportionment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using positive matrix factorization (PMF) in urban soils of East India	60
Trace metals contamination in groundwater and implications on human health: comprehensive assessment using hydrogeochemical and geostatistical methods	60
Revealing drinking water quality issues and possible health risks based on water quality index (WQI) method in the Shanmuganadhi River basin of South India	56
Climate change and its effect on groundwater quality	54
A critical analysis of wastewater use in agriculture and associated health risks in Pakistan	47
Ecological risk assessment and source apportionment of heavy metals contamination: an appraisal based on the Tellus soil survey	47
Concentration of heavy metals in street dust: an implication of using different geochemical background data in estimating the level of heavy metal pollution	45
Residual pollutants in treated pulp paper mill wastewater and their phytotoxicity and cytotoxicity in Allium cepa	41
Occurrence, abundance, and distribution of microplastics pollution: an evidence in surface tropical water of Klang River estuary, Malaysia	40
An integrated approach to explore the suitability of nitrate-contaminated groundwater for drinking purposes in a semiarid region of India	40
Temporal and spatial assessment of groundwater contamination with nitrate by nitrate pollution index (NPI) and GIS (case study: Fasarud Plain, southern Iran)	39
Health effect and risk assessment of the populations exposed to different arsenic levels in drinking water and foodstuffs from four villages in arsenic endemic Gaighata block, West Bengal, India	36
Global footprints of organochlorine pesticides: a pan-global survey	36
Arsenic toxicity in livestock growing in arsenic endemic and control sites of West Bengal: risk for human and environment	36
Microbes involved in arsenic mobilization and respiration: a review on isolation, identification, isolates and implications	35
Active pharmaceutical ingredients in Malaysian drinking water: consumption, exposure, and human health risk	35
Core–shell nanostructures: a simplest two-component system with enhanced properties and multiple applications	34
Insights on the bioremediation technologies for pesticide-contaminated soils	34
Source apportionment of water pollutants in the upstream of Yangtze River using APCS–MLR	34
Potential human health hazard due to bioavailable heavy metal exposure via consumption of plants with ethnobotanical usage at the largest chromite mine of India	33
Ecological security and health risk assessment of soil heavy metals on a village-level scale, based on different land use types	32

Ecological environment quality evaluation and evolution analysis of a rare earth mining area under different disturbance conditions	32
Environmental and human health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in soils around the largest coal-fired power station in Southern Russia	31
Health risk assessment of heavy metals and strontium in groundwater used for drinking and cooking in 58 villages of Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh, India	31
A kinetic and thermodynamic investigation into the removal of methyl orange from wastewater utilizing fly ash in different process configurations	30
Mechanisms of arsenic contamination associated with hydrochemical characteristics in coastal alluvial aquifers using multivariate statistical technique and hydrogeochemical modeling: a case study in R	30