OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Geochemical Exploration is 26. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	104
Spatial heterogeneity and driving factors of temperature sensitivity of soil respiration (Q10) at national scale	97
Valorization of sulfide rich tailings with nature-based solutions for pasture lands	93
Application of portable X-ray and micro-X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to characterize alteration and mineralization within various gold deposits hosted in southern New Brunswick, Canada	80
Numerical simulation-based targeting of the Au mineralization within the Hongbu Altered Rock type gold deposit, Eastern Shandong Peninsula, China	80
Potential contamination of stream waters by ultramafic mining sediments: Identification of geochemical makers (New Caledonia)	66
Use of porphyry indicator zircons (PIZs) in the sedimentary record as an exploration tool for covered porphyry copper deposits in the Atacama Desert, Chile	49
Mineral chemistry in apatite from heavy mineral concentrate samples as a prospecting tool for carbonatites in the Angico dos Dias region, BA/PI border, Brazil	43
Mineral exploration and regional surface geochemical datasets: An anomaly detection and k-means clustering exercise applied on laterite in Western Australia	42
Mineralogy and geochemistry of altered Emeishan basaltic volcaniclastics with respect to their critical element mineralization	41
Incorporation of geological constraints and semivariogram scaling law into geostatistical modeling of metal contents in hydrothermal deposits for improved accuracy	41
Editorial Board	40
New insights into the origin and depositional setting of the Haerdaban Pb Zn deposit, Chinese western Tianshan: Evidence from geology, chert geochemistry, and detrital zircon U Pb geochronology	34
Isotopic study (U Pb, Sm Nd, and Pb Pb) of rocks and auriferous mineralizations from the Volta Grande do Xingu deposits, Bacajá Domain, Amazonian craton	32
Geothermometrical calculations of thermal waters affected by secondary processes: The case of Sierra Elvira (Spain)	32
Fractional precipitation of copiapite-halotrichite efflorescent salts on Au Cu mine tailings under semi-arid climates in northern Chile	32
A high-performance extreme gradient boosting outlier detection framework for integrating the outputs of diverse anomaly detectors for detecting mineralization-related geochemical anomalies	31
The difference in hydrochemical characteristics of geothermal water between the eastern and western parts of the Wugongshan area and its genetic mechanism	30
Modelling geochemical indices from hyperspectral drill core data from the Eucla Basin basement	29
New near-mine prospecting approach using multivariate analysis and reflectance spectroscopy to define surface footprint: A case study of the Pequizão Gold Deposit, Crixás Greenstone Belt, Central Braz	29
Distribution dynamics and health risks of polyaromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals in the anthropogenically impacted Omi-Asoro Stream, Nigeria	29
Magnetite chemistry of the Sarkuh Porphyry Cu deposit, Urumieh–Dokhtar Magmatic Arc (UDMA), Iran: A record of deviation from the path sulfide mineralization in the porphyry copper systems	28
Utilizing thiourea-modified biochars to mitigate toxic metal pollution and promote mustard (Brassica campestris) plant growth in contaminated soils	28
The efficiency of fractal techniques in geochemical anomaly delineation within BLEG and <180 μm stream sediments in Western Turkey	27
Mineral prediction research using the Geology-based Cyclic Adversarial Network for Anomaly Detection	26

Mineralized-anomaly identification based on potential-enhanced positive-unlabeled bagging: A case study from Guangxi gold ore province