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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Implication of multifractal analysis for quantitative evaluation of mineral resources in the Central Kunlun area, Xinjiang, China	14
Whole rock lithogeochemical analysis of the Mount Read Volcanics: a new tool for geochemical exploration	13
Hydrogeochemistry of porphyry-related solutes in ground and surface waters; an example from the Casino Cu–Au–Mo deposit, Yukon, Canada	10
Critical raw materials associated with the lateritic bauxite and red mud in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	9
Advancing exploration hydrogeochemistry using single particle ICP-(Time of Flight)-MS at the Bear Lodge alkaline complex, Wyoming USA	9
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
Tracing metal sources and groundwater flow paths in the Upper Animas River watershed using rare earth elements and stable isotopes	6
Thallium isotopes as indicators of ore mineralization at the Zn-rich sediment-hosted massive sulfide TL Deposit, British Columbia, Canada	6
The role of total Na in the retention of microelements in soils on marine deposits	6
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	6
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	6
Tellus regional stream water geochemistry: environmental and mineral exploration applications	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
Gold metallogeny in Iran; implications for gold exploration and conceptual modelling	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
Geochemical anomaly recognition using Shapley values and cell-wise outlier detection: a case study in the Yuanbo Nang District, Gansu Province, China	5
Removal performance and adsorption behaviour on Mg-based adsorbents in As(III) and F simultaneous removal as in comparison with As(V)	4
Petrography and geochemical characterization of lithium-bearing pegmatites at Sambaru, Ikungi District, Central Tanzania	4
Soil gases in mineral exploration: a review and the potential for future developments	4
Gold exploration using groundwater in Western Australia	4
Behaviour of redox-sensitive elements (Ti, As, V and Fe) in clay pit samples with and without Al normalization	4
Improvement of geochemical prospectivity mapping using power spectrum–area fractal modelling of the multi-element mineralization factor (SAF-MF)	4
Mapping exploration targets through multifractal modelling of soil geochemical data in the Xiaohongshilazi Pb–Zn–(Ag) ore district, Jilin Province, NE China	4

Accounting of weathering enhancement by mafic mineral spreading for CO ₂ storage	3
Pyrite oxidation under a carbonate buffer and its environmental implications: a case study from the Shangmanggang gold deposit, SW China	3
Small-scale field evaluation of geochemical blending of waste rock to mitigate acid rock drainage potential	3
Editorial	3
Review of till geochemistry and indicator mineral methods for mineral exploration in glaciated terrain	3
The National Geochemical Survey of Australia: review and impact	3
Factor analysis in residual soils of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Spain): comparison between raw data, log-transformation data and compositional data	3
Morphometric and geologic characterization with statistical correlations for thirty-three tributary drainage basins of the San Juan River watershed in the Four Corners Region, USA	3
Introduction to the thematic collection: applications of innovations in geochemical data analysis	3
Geology, geochemistry, mineralization and fluid inclusion characteristics of the SW of Hormuz Island banded iron formations, southern Iran	3
Biogeochemical mapping of the Cobar Basin using the needles of cypress pine ( Callitris glaucophylla )	3
Thermophysical properties and geochemical characteristics of granites in the Tengchong area: indications for resource potential of hot dry rocks	2
Surface expression of Late Caledonian magmatic lithium concentration, in the Rhynie Chert, UK	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
Comparison of main and accompanying metals distribution patterns in newly documented deposits of the Northern Copper Belt in Poland	2
Overview of surficial geochemistry and indicator mineral surveys and case studies from the Geological Survey of Canada's GEM Program	2
Self-organizing map modelling and prospectivity mapping of surface geochemical data in Au and multi-metal mineral exploration: example from northern Finland	2
Spatial distribution, ecological risk and origin of soil heavy metals in Laoguanhe watershed of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project	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
Combined use of multiple external and internal standards in LA-ICP-MS analysis of bulk geological samples using lithium borate fused glass	2
Identification of multi-mineral-species geochemical anomalies using Bayesian maximum entropy and the spectrum separable module-constrained convolutional autoencoder	2
Monazite chemistry as an exploration tool for Cloncurry-style iron oxide-copper-gold deposits	2
Multifractal properties of oil and gas indices in the Songnan Low Uplift of the Qiongdongnan Basin deepwater area	2
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	2
Stream sediment geochemistry in mineral exploration: a review of fine-fraction, clay-fraction, bulk leach gold, heavy mineral concentrate and indicator mineral chemistry	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
Water geochemistry and quantitative estimation of its potential sources in 15 representative rivers, Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan	2
Comparison of clustering methods in determining gold mineralization anomalies in the Janja area, Iran	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
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
Gold in eskers and gyttja overlying auriferous till, Regnault deposit, Quebec	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
Enhanced enrichment of rare earth elements during pedogenesis under subtropical climate	1
Modelling Regional Geochemistry and As-Bi-Co-Cu-Fe-Ni Mineralisation Using G-BASE in the Lake District, UK	1
Distribution and attribute analysis of soil selenium in Hebei Province, China	1
Fluid sources in basement-hosted unconformity–uranium ore systems: tourmaline chemistry and boron isotopes from the Patterson Lake corridor deposits, Canada	1
Geochemical dispersion evaluation by criterion-based backward elimination at the Glojeh polymetallic Au (Ag–Cu–Pb–Zn) vein deposit, NW Iran	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
Mineralogy and K–Ar geochronology of clay alteration associated with uranium mineralization in the Patterson Lake Corridor, Saskatchewan	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
Practical applications of quality assurance and quality control in mineral exploration, resource estimation and mining programmes: a review of recommended international practices	1
Anisotropy of geochemical distributions characterized by irregular window-based local singularity analysis	1
Assessing soil contamination by potentially toxic elements in artisanal and small-scale gold mining sites of the Adamawa Region, Cameroon	1
Natural hydrogen exploration within Western European and the eastern Mediterranean ophiolites and ultramafic complexes	1
Tracking the sources of metals to the San Juan River, Four Corners Region, USA: an introduction to the thematic collection	1
Adaptive instrument design strategy for collecting water, sediment samples and stage data in remote, ephemeral arroyos in the arid southwestern United States	1

Identification of stream sediment geochemical anomalies in lithologically complex regions: case study of Cu mineralization in Hunan province, SE China	1
Geochemistry of natural acid rock drainage in the Mt Evans area, Anaconda–Pintler Range, Montana, USA	1
Google Earth-aided visualization and interpretation of geochemical survey data	1
GEMAS: adaptation of weathering indices for European agricultural soil derived from carbonate parent materials	1