OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geothermics is 29. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Extraction turbines and feed-heating in geothermal binary plants: A thermodynamic performance assessment	122
Geochemical and isotope constraints on the hydrogeology and geochemistry of the geothermal waters in the Shandong Peninsula, China	100
Friction and stability of granite faults in the Gonghe geothermal reservoir and implications for injection-induced seismicity	89
Editorial Board	79
Ian Thain (July 1937 - April 2021)	74
Understanding the latent needs of diverse stakeholders unfamiliar with geothermal energy	68
Corrosion inhibitors and lubricants characterization using the Rock-Eval® Shale Play™ method: Case studies to determine the origin of geothermal scales	67
Pathé geothermal power plant, Hidalgo, Mexico: A comprehensive retrospective assessment of the first plant of its kind in the Americas	67
An influence of geothermal water, temperature and pressure on the hydration of multicomponent cement binders	61
Preface: Enhanced Geothermal Systems – Recent Progress	56
Combining direct ground cooling with ground-source heat pumps and district heating: Borehole sizing and land area requirements	55
Life cycle assessment of the Theistareykir geothermal power plant in Iceland	50
A multiscale recurrent neural network model for predicting energy production from geothermal reservoirs	43
The 2017 Pohang, South Korea, Mw 5.4 main shock was either natural or triggered, but not induced	42
Assessment of installation suitability of a vertical closed loop ground source heat pump system in regional scale	42
Geothermal heat pump solutions for frost heave control in railway subgrades	40
Lithium prospectivity and capacity assessment in Northern Germany	40
Hydrogen emission characteristics of Changbaishan Volcano: Spatial and temporal distribution and genesis	39
Findability of geothermal energy websites in seven EU countries and Iceland	36
Ground thermal conductivity estimation using the thermal response test with a horizontal ground heat exchanger	35
Design and optimization of deep coaxial borehole heat exchangers for cold sedimentary basins	33
Cyclic CO2 storage and geothermal energy extraction using a huff and puff technique in the Basal Cambrian Sandstone Unit, Canada	33
Evaluation of energy extraction from a geothermal resource in central Alberta, Canada using different well configurations	32
Fluid-CO2 injection impact in a geothermal reservoir: Evaluation with 3-D reactive transport modeling	31
Scaling in fractured geothermal carbonate reservoir rocks: An experimental approach	30

Permeability estimating beyond boreholes from electrical conductivity data determined from magnetotelluric sounding: Soultz-sous-Forêts site (France) case study	30
Structures and fluid flows inferred from the microseismic events around a low-resistivity anomaly in the Kakkonda geothermal field, Northeast Japan	30
Editorial Board	29
Techno-economic analysis of evaporative cooling enhancement methods of a 21 MW air-cooled geothermal power plant	29
Editorial Board	29
Granitoids of the western Himalaya and Karakoram as potential geothermal reservoirs – A petrological, geochemical and petrophysical study	29