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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Implication of multifractal analysis for quantitative evaluation of mineral resources in the Central Kunlun area, Xinjiang, China	14
Advancing exploration hydrogeochemistry using single particle inductively coupled plasma–time-of-flight mass spectrometry at the Bear Lodge alkaline complex, Wyoming, USA	13
Whole rock lithogeochemical analysis of the Mount Read Volcanics: a new tool for geochemical exploration	13
Critical raw materials associated with the lateritic bauxite and red mud in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	10
Hydrogeochemistry of porphyry-related solutes in ground and surface waters; an example from the Casino Cu–Au–Mo deposit, Yukon, Canada	10
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	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	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
The role of total Na in the retention of microelements in soils on marine deposits	7
Tellus regional stream water geochemistry: environmental and mineral exploration applications	6
Thallium isotopes as indicators of ore mineralization at the Zn-rich sediment-hosted massive sulfide TL Deposit, British Columbia, Canada	6
Tracing metal sources and groundwater flow paths in the Upper Animas River watershed using rare earth elements and stable isotopes	6
Geochemical anomaly recognition using Shapley values and cell-wise outlier detection: a case study in the Yuanbo Nang District, Gansu Province, China	5
Geochemical evaluation of the in situ regolith at Madengi Hill, Dodoma, Tanzania: implications for bedrock mapping and delineating gold mineralization targets	5
Geochemical fingerprinting of a radon anomaly: high-resolution PCA–ANOVA case study, Castleisland, SW Ireland	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
Mapping exploration targets through multifractal modelling of soil geochemical data in the Xiaohongshilazi Pb–Zn–(Ag) ore district, Jilin Province, NE China	5
Gold metallogeny in Iran; implications for gold exploration and conceptual modelling	5
Geochemical characteristics and indication of graphite deposits in Xinrong Region, Shanxi, China	5
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	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
Introduction to the thematic collection: applications of innovations in geochemical data analysis	4
Soil gases in mineral exploration: a review and the potential for future developments	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
Gold exploration using groundwater in Western Australia	4
Improvement of geochemical prospectivity mapping using power spectrum–area fractal modelling of the multi-element mineralization factor (SAF-MF)	4
Geology, geochemistry, mineralization and fluid inclusion characteristics of the SW of Hormuz Island banded iron formations, southern Iran	4
Small-scale field evaluation of geochemical blending of waste rock to mitigate acid rock drainage potential	4
Thermophysical properties and geochemical characteristics of granites in the Tengchong area: indications for resource potential of hot dry rocks	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
Stream sediment geochemistry in mineral exploration: a review of fine-fraction, clay-fraction, bulk leach gold, heavy mineral concentrate and indicator mineral chemistry	3
Biogeochemical mapping of the Cobar Basin using the needles of cypress pine ( Callitris glaucophylla )	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
Surface expression of Late Caledonian magmatic lithium concentration, in the Rhynie Chert, UK	3
Self-organizing map modelling and prospectivity mapping of surface geochemical data in Au and multi-metal mineral exploration: example from northern Finland	3
Factor analysis in residual soils of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Spain): comparison between raw data, log-transformation data and compositional data	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
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
Editorial	3
Combined use of multiple external and internal standards in LA-ICP-MS analysis of bulk geological samples using lithium borate fused glass	2
Monazite chemistry as an exploration tool for Cloncurry-style iron oxide-copper-gold deposits	2
Using sediment chemical fractions and multivariate statistics on water to identify sources, mobility, and bioavailability of aluminum in the Florida River near Durango, Colorado	2
Identification of multi-mineral-species geochemical anomalies using Bayesian maximum entropy and the spectrum separable module-constrained convolutional autoencoder	2
Identification of stream sediment geochemical anomalies in lithologically complex regions: case study of Cu mineralization in Hunan province, SE China	2
Comparison of main and accompanying metals distribution patterns in newly documented deposits of the Northern Copper Belt in Poland	2
On the use of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy data for mineralogical investigations – constraints and application of a clustering method	2
Closure in concentration data: is it always such a hazard?	2
Combining neighbourhood component analysis with dictionary learning algorithms to improve the performance of dictionary learning models for geochemical anomaly detection	2
Experiences from 30 years of low-density geochemical mapping at the subcontinental to continental scale in Europe	2
Mineralogy and K–Ar geochronology of clay alteration associated with uranium mineralization in the Patterson Lake Corridor, Saskatchewan	2
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	2
Multifractal properties of oil and gas indices in the Songnan Low Uplift of the Qiongdongnan Basin deepwater area	2
Water geochemistry and quantitative estimation of its potential sources in 15 representative rivers, Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan	2
Overview of surficial geochemistry and indicator mineral surveys and case studies from the Geological Survey of Canada's GEM Program	2
Gold in eskers and gyttja overlying auriferous till, Regnault deposit, Quebec	2
Pollution risk assessment and spatial distribution of potentially hazardous elements in selenium-rich soils in the Menyuan Basin of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	1
Assessing soil contamination by potentially toxic elements in artisanal and small-scale gold mining sites of the Adamawa Region, Cameroon	1
Google Earth-aided visualization and interpretation of geochemical survey data	1
Geochemical dispersion evaluation by criterion-based backward elimination at the Glojeh polymetallic Au (Ag–Cu–Pb–Zn) vein deposit, NW Iran	1
Advancing Gold Mineralization Detection in Northern New Brunswick Through Portable X-ray and Micro-X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry with Multivariate Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA) and Clustering f	1
Geochemical processes related to mined, milled or natural metal deposits in a rapidly changing global environment	1
Comparison of groundwater composition from the Monturaqui and Punta Negra Basins, northern Chile: implications for porphyry copper exploration	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
Tracking the sources of metals to the San Juan River, Four Corners Region, USA: an introduction to the thematic collection	1
The effect of biosecurity heat treatment on soils: implications for soil analytical methods and mineral exploration	1
Modelling Regional Geochemistry and As-Bi-Co-Cu-Fe-Ni Mineralisation Using G-BASE in the Lake District, UK	1
Anisotropy of geochemical distributions characterized by irregular window-based local singularity analysis	1
Comparison of clustering methods in determining gold mineralization anomalies in the Janja area, Iran	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
Accumulation coefficient for exploration feature selection: A tool for ranking geochemical indicators and use in prospectivity mapping	1

Enhanced enrichment of rare earth elements during pedogenesis under subtropical climate	1
Practical applications of quality assurance and quality control in mineral exploration, resource estimation and mining programmes: a review of recommended international practices	1
Mineralogy from µXRF elemental maps: comparison of supervised and unsupervised methods	1
GEMAS: adaptation of weathering indices for European agricultural soil derived from carbonate parent materials	1
Distribution and attribute analysis of soil selenium in Hebei Province, China	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 exploration for gold using groundwater in the deep Canadian Shield	1
Assessment of edible mushroom bioaccumulation via portable XRF and micro-XRF: implications for environmental impact assessment, food quality evaluation and mineral resource prospecting	1
Adaptive instrument design strategy for collecting water, sediment samples and stage data in remote, ephemeral arroyos in the arid southwestern United States	1
Fluid sources in basement-hosted unconformity–uranium ore systems: tourmaline chemistry and boron isotopes from the Patterson Lake corridor deposits, Canada	1