OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geochemistry-Exploration Environment Analysis is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Implication of multifractal analysis for quantitative evaluation of mineral resources in the Central Kunlun area, Xinjiang, China	18
Critical raw materials associated with the lateritic bauxite and red mud in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	15
Whole rock lithogeochemical analysis of the Mount Read Volcanics: a new tool for geochemical exploration	14
Advancing exploration hydrogeochemistry using single particle inductively coupled plasma–time-of-flight mass spectrometry at the Bear Lodge alkaline complex, Wyoming, USA	14
Source analysis and contamination evaluation of potentially toxic elements in soil in typical high geological background areas at the county scale in northeastern Yunnan, China	10
Elemental baselines and deposition gradients in Sudbury, Canada: views from lichen, moss, snow, and soil	8
The role of total Na in the retention of microelements in soils on marine deposits	8
Tracing metal sources and groundwater flow paths in the Upper Animas River watershed using rare earth elements and stable isotopes	8
Accumulation and health risk of major and trace elements in a soil–medicinal plant system: a case study of the Chinese herbaceous peony ( Paeonia Lactiflora Pall.) grown	8
A Workflow for the Analysis of Multivariate Exploration Geochemical Data	7
Ionic geochemistry: enhanced soil analysis for mineral exploration via high-efficiency ligand-based mobile ion extraction with simultaneous detection of 57 elements in a single extraction	7
Thallium isotopes as indicators of ore mineralization at the Zn-rich sediment-hosted massive sulfide TL Deposit, British Columbia, Canada	7
Geochemical characteristics and indication of graphite deposits in Xinrong Region, Shanxi, China	6
Geochemical anomaly recognition using Shapley values and cell-wise outlier detection: a case study in the Yuanbo Nang District, Gansu Province, China	6
Geochemical and mineralogical soil survey of the conterminous USA: a project retrospective	5
Petrography and geochemical characterization of lithium-bearing pegmatites at Sambaru, Ikungi District, Central Tanzania	5
Optimization of a ligand-based simultaneous extraction protocol for 57 soil elements using response surface methodology: applications in mineral exploration and environmental geochemistry	5
Geochemical fingerprinting of a radon anomaly: high-resolution PCA–ANOVA case study, Castleisland, SW Ireland	5
Gold metallogeny in Iran; implications for gold exploration and conceptual modelling	5
Introduction to the thematic collection: applications of innovations in geochemical data analysis	4
Geology, geochemistry, mineralization and fluid inclusion characteristics of the SW of Hormuz Island banded iron formations, southern Iran	4
Concentrations, distribution, and potential sources of aluminum, arsenic, and lead in surface waters of the San Juan River watershed, USA	4
Removal performance and adsorption behaviour on Mg-based adsorbents in As(III) and F simultaneous removal as in comparison with As(V)	4
Behaviour of redox-sensitive elements (Ti, As, V and Fe) in clay pit samples with and without Al normalization	4
The National Geochemical Survey of Australia: review and impact	4

Mapping exploration targets through multifractal modelling of soil geochemical data in the Xiaohongshilazi Pb–Zn–(Ag) ore district, Jilin Province, NE China	4
New Analyses of Lake Sediments from Eastern Labrador: Implications for Exploration	4
Pyrite oxidation under a carbonate buffer and its environmental implications: a case study from the Shangmanggang gold deposit, SW China	4
Factor analysis in residual soils of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Spain): comparison between raw data, log-transformation data and compositional data	4
Gold exploration using groundwater in Western Australia	4
Soil gases in mineral exploration: a review and the potential for future developments	4
Improvement of geochemical prospectivity mapping using power spectrum–area fractal modelling of the multi-element mineralization factor (SAF-MF)	4
Biogeochemical mapping of the Cobar Basin using the needles of cypress pine ( Callitris glaucophylla )	3
Accounting of weathering enhancement by mafic mineral spreading for CO ₂ storage	3
Thermophysical properties and geochemical characteristics of granites in the Tengchong area: indications for resource potential of hot dry rocks	3
Stream sediment geochemistry in mineral exploration: a review of fine-fraction, clay-fraction, bulk leach gold, heavy mineral concentrate and indicator mineral chemistry	3
Multifractal properties of oil and gas indices in the Songnan Low Uplift of the Qiongdongnan Basin deepwater area	3
Review of till geochemistry and indicator mineral methods for mineral exploration in glaciated terrain	3
Morphometric and geological characterization with statistical correlations for 33 tributary drainage basins of the San Juan River watershed in the Four Corners region, USA	3
Spatial distribution, ecological risk and origin of soil heavy metals in Laoguanhe watershed of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project	3
Study on the direction effect of terrane accretive orogeny and biological evolution during the Jinning–Chengjiang period in the northwestern margin of the Yangtze block	3
Evaluation of magnetite as an indicator mineral for porphyry Cu exploration: a case study using bedrock and stream sediments at the Casino porphyry Cu–Au–Mo deposit, Yukon, Canada	3
Self-organizing map modelling and prospectivity mapping of surface geochemical data in Au and multi-metal mineral exploration: example from northern Finland	3
Editorial	3
Surface expression of Late Caledonian magmatic lithium concentration, in the Rhynie Chert, UK	3
Using sediment chemical fractions and multivariate statistics on water to identify sources, mobility, and bioavailability of aluminum in the Florida River near Durango, Colorado	3
Closure in concentration data: is it always such a hazard?	3
Experiences from 30 years of low-density geochemical mapping at the subcontinental to continental scale in Europe	2
Accumulation coefficient for exploration feature selection: a tool for ranking geochemical indicators and use in prospectivity mapping	2
Tracking the sources of metals to the San Juan River, Four Corners Region, USA: an introduction to the thematic collection	2
Monazite chemistry as an exploration tool for Cloncurry-style iron oxide–copper–gold deposits	2
Comparison of main and accompanying metals distribution patterns in newly documented deposits of the Northern Copper Belt in Poland	2
Gold in eskers and gyttja overlying auriferous till, Regnault deposit, Quebec	2
Adaptive instrument design strategy for collecting water, sediment samples and stage data in remote, ephemeral arroyos in the arid southwestern United States	2
Water geochemistry and quantitative estimation of its potential sources in 15 representative rivers, Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan	2
On the use of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy data for mineralogical investigations – constraints and application of a clustering method	2
Combined use of multiple external and internal standards in LA-ICP-MS analysis of bulk geological samples using lithium borate fused glass	2
Assessment of edible mushroom bioaccumulation via portable XRF and micro-XRF: implications for environmental impact assessment, food quality evaluation and mineral resource prospecting	2
Mineralogy and K–Ar geochronology of clay alteration associated with uranium mineralization in the Patterson Lake Corridor, Saskatchewan	2
Identification of multi-mineral-species geochemical anomalies using Bayesian maximum entropy and the spectrum separable module-constrained convolutional autoencoder	2
Combining neighbourhood component analysis with dictionary learning algorithms to improve the performance of dictionary learning models for geochemical anomaly detection	2
Advancing gold mineralization detection in northern New Brunswick through portable X-ray and micro-X-ray fluorescence spectrometry with multivariate compositional data analysis and clustering for path	1
Hyperspectral and whole-rock geochemical analysis of the Mt Weld REE deposit: new insights into geological evolution and REE enrichment	1
Application of humus geochemistry to mineral exploration in glaciated terrain: A review	1
Enhanced enrichment of rare earth elements during pedogenesis under subtropical climate	1
Reliability of NIR Chemometric Models: Methodology to Determine How Many Samples Are Required to Calibrate a Model for Accurate Prediction	1
Anisotropy of geochemical distributions characterized by irregular window-based local singularity analysis	1
Natural hydrogen exploration within Western European and the eastern Mediterranean ophiolites and ultramafic complexes	1
Applications of machine vision and machine learning for deposit characterization at the Castelo de Sonhos paleoplacer gold deposit, Brazil	1
Geochemical processes related to mined, milled or natural metal deposits in a rapidly changing global environment	1
Geochemical exploration for Au using groundwater in the deep Canadian Shield	1
Practical applications of quality assurance and quality control in mineral exploration, resource estimation and mining programmes: a review of recommended international practices	1
Modelling regional geochemistry and As–Bi–Co–Cu–Fe–Ni mineralization using G-BASE in the Lake District, UK	1
Geochemical dispersion evaluation by criterion-based backward elimination at the Glojeh polymetallic Au (Ag–Cu–Pb–Zn) vein deposit, NW Iran	1
Comparison of clustering methods in determining gold mineralization anomalies in the Janja area, Iran	1

Weathering as a control on the triple oxygen isotopes of groundwater-associated ferromanganese deposits: lessons from the Grimlock Ni–Co–Mn prospect, Northern Territory, Australia	1
Environmental geochemical characteristics of Xuanwei Formation coal and their controlling geological factors, with comments on the relationship with lung cancer incidence and distribution	1
Alteration assemblage characterization using machine learning applied to high-resolution drill-core images, hyperspectral data and geochemistry	1
Pollution risk assessment and spatial distribution of potentially hazardous elements in selenium-rich soils in the Menyuan Basin of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	1
Mineralogy from µXRF elemental maps: comparison of supervised and unsupervised methods	1
Distribution and attribute analysis of soil selenium in Hebei Province, China	1
Geochemical baselines and prospecting of lithium in southeastern Brazil: low-density stream sediment mapping across Minas Gerais and the Araçuaí Fold Belt	1