OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Sediment Research is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A review of ecological risk assessment and associated health risks with heavy metals in sediment from India	83
Distribution of heavy metals in water and sediment of an urban river in a developing country: A probabilistic risk assessment	70
From dredged sediment to supplementary cementitious material: characterization, treatment, and reuse	52
Soil erosion and sediment interception by check dams in a watershed for an extreme rainstorm on the Loess Plateau, China	51
Effects of length and application rate of rice straw mulch on surface runoff and soil loss under laboratory simulated rainfall	50
Impacts of land use and land cover changes on hydrological processes and sediment yield determined using the SWAT model	48
Combination of sensitivity and uncertainty analyses for sediment transport modeling in sewer pipes	47
Effect of shrub-grass vegetation coverage and slope gradient on runoff and sediment yield under simulated rainfall	46
Experimental assessment and prediction of temporal scour depth around a spur dike	45
Assessment of heavy metal contamination in the surficial sediments from the lower Meghna River estuary, Noakhali coast, Bangladesh	40
Erosion-control mechanism of sediment check dams on the Loess Plateau	33
Impact of anthropogenic activities on the sediment microbial communities of Baiyangdian shallow lake	31
Suspended sediment yield modeling in Mahanadi River, India by multi-objective optimization hybridizing artificial intelligence algorithms	29
Computational fluid dynamics modeling of abutment scour under steady current using the level set method	27
Comparative study of multilayer perceptron-stochastic gradient descent and gradient boosted trees for predicting daily suspended sediment load: The case study of the Mississippi River, U.S.	26
Response of nephelometric turbidity to hydrodynamic particle size of fine suspended sediment	25
Mineral composition and particle size distribution of river sediment and loess in the middle and lower Yellow River	23
Predicting soil erosion hazard in Lattakia Governorate (W Syria)	23
Soil and water conservation measures improve soil carbon sequestration and soil quality under cashews	21
Invisible face of COVID-19 pandemic on the freshwater environment: An impact assessment on the sediment quality of a cross boundary river basin in Turkey	20
Numerical modeling of local scour due to submerged wall jets using a strict vertex-based, terrain conformal, moving-mesh technique in OpenFOAM	18
Improved bridge pier collar for reducing scour	17
Key drivers of changes in the sediment loads of Chinese rivers discharging to the oceans	17
Modeling the effect of sediment concentration on the flow-like behavior of natural debris flow	17
A study on textural characteristics, heavy mineral distribution and grain-microtextures of recent sediment in the coastal area between the Sarada and Gosthani rivers, east coast of India	17

Abiotic predictors of fine sediment accumulation in lowland rivers	16
Vertical concentration profile of nonuniform sediment	16
Multivariate statistical methods and GIS based evaluation of the health risk potential and water quality due to arsenic pollution in the Kızılırmak River	16
Risk analysis for clustered check dams due to heavy rainfall	16
Hybrid meta-heuristic machine learning methods applied to landslide susceptibility mapping in the Sahel-Algiers	16
An improved formula for incipient sediment motion in vegetated open channel flows	15
Three-dimensional simulation of horseshoe vortex and local scour around a vertical cylinder using an unstructured finite-volume technique	15
Characteristics of sedimentation and channel adjustment linked to the Three Gorges Reservoir	15
Post-analysis simulation of the collapse of an open sabo dam of steel pipes subjected to boulder laden debris flow	15
A GPU-based numerical model coupling hydrodynamical and morphological processes	15
Chemical and spectroscopic characterization of humic substances from sediment and riparian soil of a highly polluted urban river (Suquía River, Córdoba, Argentina)	14
Impact of land use changes on catchment soil erosion and sediment yield in the northeastern China: A panel data model application	14
Adsorption of cobalt by using inorganic components of sediment samples from water bodies	14
Mass flows and river response in rapid uplifting regions – A case of lower Yarlung Tsangpo basin, southeast Tibet, China	14
Channel morphologic processes of a highly sinuous bend approaching neck cutoff by bank erosion in the middle Yangtze River	14
Sediment dynamics and temporal variation of runoff in the Yom River, Thailand	14
Spatial distribution, source apportionment, and associated risks of trace metals (As, Pb, Cr, Cd, and Hg) from a subtropical river, Gomti, Bangladesh	13
Multifractal features of the particle-size distribution of suspended sediment in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China	13
Modeling of climate change impacts on Lake Burullus, coastal lagoon (Egypt)	13
Geochemical modeling, fate distribution, and risk exposure of potentially toxic metals in the surface sediment of the Shyok suture zone, northern Pakistan	13
Valorization of harbor dredged sediment activated with blast furnace slag in road layers	12
Modelling the long-term geomorphic response to check dam failures in an alpine channel with CAESAR-Lisflood	12
Influence of external loading and halocline on phosphorus release from sediment in an artificial tidal lake	12
Grain-size end-members and environmentally sensitive grain-size components: A comparative study in the mud shelf depocenters off southern Brazil	12
Evaluation of the parameters affecting the roughness coefficient of sewer pipes with rigid and loose boundary conditions via kernel based approaches	12
Hydrodynamics and suspended particulate matter retention in macrotidal estuaries located in Amazonia-semiarid interface (Northeastern-Brazil)	11
Novel green technology for wastewater treatment: Geo-material/geopolymer applications for heavy metal removal from aquatic media	11
Large-eddy simulation of flash flood propagation and sediment transport in a dry-bed desert stream	11
Quasi-stationary flow structure in turbidity currents	11
A grain-size correction for metal pollution indexes in river sediments	11
Numerical modeling of local scour at a submerged weir with a downstream slope using a coupled moving-mesh and masked-element approach	11
Two-dimensional modeling of fine sediment transport with mixed sediment and consolidation: Application to the Gironde Estuary, France	11
Predictability performance enhancement for suspended sediment in rivers: Inspection of newly developed hybrid adaptive neuro-fuzzy system model	11
The settling of resuspended lake sediment related to physicochemical properties of particles of different sizes: Implication for environmental remediation	10
Stable channel analysis with sediment transport for rivers in Malaysia: A case study of the Muda, Kurau, and Langat rivers	10
Characteristic analysis of phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) in typical nutrient polluted lake sediment in Wuhan	10
3D numerical simulation of seagrass movement under waves and currents with GPUSPH	10
Sediment dynamics in the mudbank of the Yangtze River Estuary under regime shift of source and sink	10
Swimming behavior of juvenile silver carp near the separation zone of a channel confluence	10
Stochastic evolution of hydraulic geometry relations in the lower Yellow River of China under environmental uncertainties	10
Experimental study on the effect of bottomless structure in front of a bottom outlet on a sediment flushing cone	10
Circulation cells topology and their effect on migration pattern of different multi-bend meandering rivers	10
Collar performance in bridge pier scour with debris accumulation	9
Experimental investigation on scour topography around high-rise structure foundations	9
Grain size characteristics of surface sediment and its response to the dynamic sedimentary environment in Qiantang Estuary, China	9
Spatial analysis of bacteria in brackish lake sediment	9
Evaluation of sediment contamination in the Red Sea coastal area combining multiple pollution indices and multivariate statistical techniques	9
Sorption and desorption behavior of residual antidepressants and caffeine in freshwater sediment and sewage sludge	9
Design of sediment detention basins: Scaled model experiments and application	9
Deep learning long short-term memory combined with discrete element method for porosity prediction in gravel-bed rivers	9

Comparison of the sediment composition in relation to basic chemical, physical, and geological factors	9
Climatic and anthropogenic impacts on the decrease of sediment discharge to the Mediterranean coast from the largest river of Maghreb	8
The off-site implications of deforestation on sedimentation rates and pollution in Abkenar open water (Anzali Lagoon, Caspian Sea) using radionuclide techniques and sediment quality indices	8
Bioremediation perspective of historically contaminated sediment with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	8
Unique landslides (loess slide-flows) induced by an extreme rainstorm in 2018 on the Loess Plateau: A new geological hazard and erosion process	8
Nutrients and organic matter in the surface sediment of a submerged macrophyte zone in a eutrophic lake: Implications for lake management	8
Comparison of Pb(II) and Cd(II) micro-interfacial adsorption on fine sediment in the Pearl River Basin, China	8
Temporal trends of hydro-climatic variables and their relevance in water resource management	8
Characteristics of runoff and sediment yield for two typical erodible soils in southern China	8
Experimental study of the woody debris trapping efficiency of a steel pipe, open sabo dam	8
Temporal evolution of scour at bridge abutments in compound channels	7
Equilibrium relations for water and sediment transport in the Yellow River	7
Numerical investigation of the effect of seasonal variations of depth-of-closure on shoreline evolution	7
Key morphological changes and their linkages with stream power and land-use changes in the Upper Tapi River basin, India	7
Simulation of particles settling in power-law fluids by combined lattice Boltzmann-smoothed profile methods	7
Uniform and graded bed-load sediment transport in a degrading channel with non-equilibrium conditions	7
Sediment transport mechanisms and selective removal of soil particles under unsteady-state conditions in a sheet erosion system	7
Comparison of different turbulence models in predicting cohesive fluid mud gravity current propagation	7
Effects of hooked-collar on the local scour around a lenticular bridge pier	7
Multi-objective and multi-scheme research on water and sediment regulation potential of reservoirs in the upper Yellow River	7
Sediment organic matter source estimation and ecological classification in the semi-enclosed Batan Bay Estuary, Philippines	7
Numerical modeling of the propagation and morphological changes of turbidity currents using a cost-saving strategy of solution updating	7
Laboratory measurements of the fall velocity of fine sediment in an estuarine environment	7
Impacts of dams and land-use changes on hydromorphology of braided channels in the Lhasa River of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China	6
Numerical modeling of scour and deposition around permeable cylindrical structures	6
Numerical simulation of hydrodynamic characteristics and bedload transport in cross sections of two gravel-bed rivers based on one-dimensional lateral distribution method	6
Phosphate mineral accumulation in lake sediment to form a secondary phosphate source: A case study in lake sediment around Eppawala Phosphate Deposit (EPD) in Sri Lanka	6
Characteristics and variation law of wind-blown sand delivered to the Ningxia–Inner Mongolia reach of the Yellow River under a changing environment	6
Quantifying the actual sediment load flux into Lake Baikal: A case study of the main tributary – The Selenga River (Russia)	6
Implications of turbulent shear on clay floc break-up along the Atlantic estuary (Bouregreg), Morocco	6
Effect of extracellular polymeric substances on the phosphorus adsorption characteristics of sediment particles	6
Influence of diversion angle on water and sediment flow into diversion channel	6
Relationship between the equilibrium morphology of river islands and flow-sediment dynamics based on the theory of minimum energy dissipation	6
Erosion and runoff reduction potential of vetiver grass for hill slopes: A physical model study	6
Incipient sediment motion based on turbulent fluctuations	6
Diagenetic signatures in the deltaic and fluvial-estuarine Messinian sandstone reservoirs in the Nile Delta as a tool for high-resolution stratigraphic correlations	6
Interfacial instability of sand patterns induced by turbulent shear flow	6
Characterizing and identifying bedforms in the wandering reach of the lower Yellow River	6
Improved lakeshore sediment microenvironment and enhanced denitrification efficiency by natural solid carbon sources	5
Sediment budget and riverbed deformation in the uppermost part of the lower Yangtze River, China	5
Self-Organizing Maps for identification of zeolitic diagenesis patterns in closed hydrologic systems on the Earth and its implications for Mars	5
Flow fields around tandem and staggered piers on a mobile bed	5
Influence of surface roughness of dune bedforms on flow and turbulence characteristics	5
Long term sediment transport simulation of the Danube, Sava, and Tisa rivers	5
Sensitivity analysis of influencing parameters on slit-type barrier performance against debris flow using 3D-based numerical approach	5
Ability of soil bacterial composition as an indicator of levels of soil erosion in a badland	5
Multi-scale analysis for transport of fine settling particles through an ice-covered channel in a laminar flow condition	5
A laboratory investigation of bed-load transport of gravel sediments under dam break flow	5
Use of Large-Eddy Simulation for the bed shear stress estimation over a dune	5
Numerical simulation of sediment deposition and trapping efficiency estimation in settling basins, considering secondary flows	5
Application of Hausdorff fractal derivative to the determination of the vertical sediment concentration distribution	5
Spatial distribution of trace elements associated with organic carbon along the Beiyun River basin, Beijing, China	4
Comparison of the graphic and moment methods for analyzing grain-size distributions: A case study for the Chinese inner continental shelf seas	4
Porosity of bimodal and trimodal sediment mixtures	4
A new portable in situ flume for measuring critical shear stress on river beds	4
Inhibitability of soil loss and sediment concentration during consecutive rainfalls from experimental plots treated by endemic microorganisms	4
Impact of the blockage ratio on the transport of sediment in the presence of a hydrokinetic turbine: Numerical modeling of the interaction sediment and turbine	4
Experimental investigation on local shear stress and turbulence intensities over a rough non-uniform bed with and without sediment using 2D particle image velocimetry	4
Metals content in sediments of ephemeral streams with small reservoirs (the Negev Desert)	4
A time-splitting pressure-correction projection method for complete two-fluid modeling of a local scour hole	4
Temporal variations of sediment and morphological characteristics at a large confluence accounting for the effects of floodplain submergence	4
Process-based suspended sediment carrying capacity of silt-sand sediment in wave conditions	4
Spatial distribution and comparative evaluation of phosphorus release rate in benthic sediments of an estuary dam	4
Modeling the initiation of sediment motion under a wide range of flow conditions using a Geno-Mamdani Fuzzy Inference System method	4
The effects of adsorptive materials on microbial community composition and PAH degradation at the sediment cap–water interface	4
Thermal stability of soil organic carbon subjected to water erosion as a function of edaphic factors	4
Geochemical, mineralogical and textural nature of beach placers, north-east Sri Lanka: Implications for provenance and potential resource	4
Water and sediment geochemistry of an urban lake: Implications to weathering and anthropogenic activity	4
Two-dimensional modeling of channel evolution under the influence of large-scale river regulation works	4
Assessment of the impacts of land-use change and slope position on soil loss by magnetic susceptibility-based models	4
Experimental study on the effects of artificial bed roughness on turbidity currents over abrupt bed slope change	4
Characteristics of river discharge and its indirect effect on the tidal bore in the Qiantang River, China	4
Experimental investigation and prediction of free fall jet scouring using machine learning models	4
Effect of combining biogeotextile and vegetation cover on the protection of steep slope of highway in northern China: A runoff plot experiment	4
Composition, environment, and economic value of the Permian to Cretaceous coated grains from Zagros and the Persian Gulf	4
Numerical modeling of bedload and suspended load contributions to morphological evolution of the Seine Estuary (France)	4
Factors influencing the removal of fine non-cohesive sediment by vortex settling basin at small river abstraction works	4
Geographic distribution of arsenic contamination in the Himalayan Rivers flowing through Pakistan: Implications for its natural source and effects of anthropogenic activities	4
Effective transport width—A methodology to describe the spatial variability of bedload transport	4