OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geochemistry-Exploration Environment Analysis is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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
Advancing exploration hydrogeochemistry using single particle inductively coupled plasma–time-of-flight mass spectrometry at the Bear Lodge alkaline complex, Wyoming, USA	14
Whole rock lithogeochemical analysis of the Mount Read Volcanics: a new tool for geochemical exploration	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	11
The role of total Na in the retention of microelements in soils on marine deposits	9
Tracing metal sources and groundwater flow paths in the Upper Animas River watershed using rare earth elements and stable isotopes	8
A Workflow for the Analysis of Multivariate Exploration Geochemical Data	8
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	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
Elemental baselines and deposition gradients in Sudbury, Canada: views from lichen, moss, snow, and soil	7
Thallium isotopes as indicators of ore mineralization at the Zn-rich sediment-hosted massive sulfide TL Deposit, British Columbia, Canada	6
Geochemical anomaly recognition using Shapley values and cell-wise outlier detection: a case study in the Yuanbo Nang District, Gansu Province, China	6
Gold metallogeny in Iran; implications for gold exploration and conceptual modelling	6
Optimization of a ligand-based simultaneous extraction protocol for 57 soil elements using response surface methodology: applications in mineral exploration and environmental geochemistry	6
Improvement of geochemical prospectivity mapping using power spectrum–area fractal modelling of the multi-element mineralization factor (SAF-MF)	5
Geochemical fingerprinting of a radon anomaly: high-resolution PCA–ANOVA case study, Castleisland, SW Ireland	5
Mapping exploration targets through multifractal modelling of soil geochemical data in the Xiaohongshilazi Pb–Zn–(Ag) ore district, Jilin Province, NE China	5
Geochemical and mineralogical soil survey of the conterminous USA: a project retrospective	5
Gold exploration using groundwater in Western Australia	5
Petrography and geochemical characterization of lithium-bearing pegmatites at Sambaru, Ikungi District, Central Tanzania	5
Soil gases in mineral exploration: a review and the potential for future developments	4
Removal performance and adsorption behaviour on Mg-based adsorbents in As(III) and F simultaneous removal as in comparison with As(V)	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

Concentrations, distribution, and potential sources of aluminum, arsenic, and lead in surface waters of the San Juan River watershed, US	4
New Analyses of Lake Sediments from Eastern Labrador: Implications for Exploration	4
The National Geochemical Survey of Australia: review and impact	4
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
Behaviour of redox-sensitive elements (Ti, As, V and Fe) in clay pit samples with and without Al normalization	4
LocatOre: Pathways to Mineral Discoveries through Computer-Based Modelling of Geochemical Data – Case studies of chlorite vectoring at the Batu Hijau and Ujina porphyry copper deposits	4
Stream sediment geochemistry in mineral exploration: a review of fine-fraction, clay-fraction, bulk leach gold, heavy mineral concentrate and indicator mineral chemistry	3
Closure in concentration data: is it always such a hazard?	3
On the use of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy data for mineralogical investigations – constraints and application of a clustering method	3
Editorial	3
Thermophysical properties and geochemical characteristics of granites in the Tengchong area: indications for resource potential of hot dry rocks	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
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
Multifractal properties of oil and gas indices in the Songnan Low Uplift of the Qiongdongnan Basin deepwater area	3
Combining neighbourhood component analysis with dictionary learning algorithms to improve the performance of dictionary learning models for geochemical anomaly detection	3
Review of till geochemistry and indicator mineral methods for mineral exploration in glaciated terrain	3
Accounting of weathering enhancement by mafic mineral spreading for CO ₂ storage	3
Surface expression of Late Caledonian magmatic lithium concentration, in the Rhynie Chert, UK	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
Monazite chemistry as an exploration tool for Cloncurry-style iron oxide–copper–gold deposits	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
Biogeochemical mapping of the Cobar Basin using the needles of cypress pine ( Callitris glaucophylla )	3
Self-organizing map modelling and prospectivity mapping of surface geochemical data in Au and multi-metal mineral exploration: example from northern Finland	3
Mineralogy and K–Ar geochronology of clay alteration associated with uranium mineralization in the Patterson Lake Corridor, Saskatchewan	2
Comparison of main and accompanying metals distribution patterns in newly documented deposits of the Northern Copper Belt in Poland	2
Accumulation coefficient for exploration feature selection: a tool for ranking geochemical indicators and use in prospectivity mapping	2
Adaptive instrument design strategy for collecting water, sediment samples and stage data in remote, ephemeral arroyos in the arid southwestern United States	2
Tracking the sources of metals to the San Juan River, Four Corners Region, USA: an introduction to the thematic collection	2
Identification of multi-mineral-species geochemical anomalies using Bayesian maximum entropy and the spectrum separable module-constrained convolutional autoencoder	2
Combined use of multiple external and internal standards in LA-ICP-MS analysis of bulk geological samples using lithium borate fused glass	2
Gold in eskers and gyttja overlying auriferous till, Regnault deposit, Quebec	2
Hyperspectral and whole-rock geochemical analysis of the Mt Weld REE deposit: new insights into geological evolution and REE enrichment	2
Alteration assemblage characterization using machine learning applied to high-resolution drill-core images, hyperspectral data and geochemistry	2
Experiences from 30 years of low-density geochemical mapping at the subcontinental to continental scale in Europe	2
Water geochemistry and quantitative estimation of its potential sources in 15 representative rivers, Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan	2
Geochemical processes related to mined, milled or natural metal deposits in a rapidly changing global environment	2
Enhanced enrichment of rare earth elements during pedogenesis under subtropical climate	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