OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Resources Research is 34. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Sand Production Prediction with Machine Learning using Input Variables from Geological and Operational Conditions in the Karazhanbas Oilfield, Kazakhstan	121
Effects of Active Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid on the Fracture Propagation and Structural Damage of Coal: Phenomena and Mechanisms	74
Advancing the Confidence in Parameterization for Coal Spontaneous Combustion Process: A Quantitative Study on Macro-kinetics	66
A New Method for Evaluating the Recoverability of Geothermal Fluid Under In Situ Conditions Based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance	65
Characteristics and Evolution of Water-Occurrence in Coal Based on a New Classification Method	61
Cracking Patterns and Damage Evolution Characteristics of Coal with Bedding Structures Under Liquid Nitrogen Cooling	60
A Framework for Data-Driven Mineral Prospectivity Mapping with Interpretable Machine Learning and Modulated Predictive Modeling	59
A Graph Convolutional Network Approach to Qualitative Classification of Hydrocarbon Zones Using Petrophysical Properties in Well Logs	57
Temperature Reduction Characteristics of Coal with Different Moisture Contents During Cryogenic Treatment	57
Experimental Investigation of Pore Pressure Effect on Coal Sample Permeability Under Different Temperatures	57
Characteristic Strength and Energy Evolution Law of Coal Treated by Ultrasonic Wave with Different Power Under Uniaxial Compression	56
Quantification of Water Resource Sustainability in Response to Drought Risk Assessment for Afghanistan River Basins	55
Decision Analysis and CO2–Enhanced Oil Recovery Development Strategies	53
Applications of Natural Language Processing to Geoscience Text Data and Prospectivity Modeling	53
Experimental Study on the Damage Evolution Behavior of Coal Under Dynamic Brazilian Splitting Tests Based on the Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar and the Digital Image Correlation	53
Multiscale Pore–Fracture Structure Characteristics of Deep Coal Reservoirs in the Eastern Margin of the Ordos Basin, China	50
Creep Behaviors of Extremely Soft and Fractured Coal Rock with Different Moisture Contents and Rare Secondary Creep Performance	46
Evolution of County Socio–Ecological Systems in Nature Reserves in Western China Over the Past 30 Years	46
Characteristics and Controlling Factors of Fluid Interlayer Crossflow through Fractures in Coal Measure Gas Reservoirs: Implication for Enhancing Production	45
Assessment of Coal Seam Strength Weakening During Carbon Sequestration: An Integrated Learning Approach	44
A Novel Magnetic Interpretational Perspective on Charmaleh Iron Deposit Through Improved Edge Detection Techniques and 3D Inversion Approaches	44
Multiple-Point Geostatistics-Based Three-Dimensional Automatic Geological Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis for Borehole Data	44
Influence of Aspect Ratio of Migration Space on Gas Migration and Accumulation Mechanisms of Different Types of Gas Reservoirs	43
Pan-Canadian Predictive Modeling of Lithium–Cesium–Tantalum Pegmatites with Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing	43
Evaluating Productivity in Opencast Mines: A Machine Learning Analysis of Drill-Blast and Surface Miner Operations	43

Process Description and Initiation Criteria of Coal and Gas Outbursts Based on Energy Principles	42
Dynamic Permeability Response and Pore-Fracture Structure Evolution of Deep Coal Reservoirs Under Stress Release	41
Thermal Generation Behavior, Key Groups and Disaster-Causing Mechanism of Unloaded Bulk Coal Under High Ground Temperature Conditions	41
Toward Precise Long-Term Rockburst Forecasting: A Fusion of SVM and Cutting-Edge Meta-heuristic Algorithms	39
Prediction of Dust Emission Due to Open Pit Mine Blasting Using a Hybrid Artificial Neural Network	39
Using Bayesian Neural Networks for Uncertainty Assessment of Ore Type Boundaries in Complex Geological Models	39
Metallogenic-Factor Variational Autoencoder for Geochemical Anomaly Detection by Ad-Hoc and Post-Hoc Interpretability Algorithms	39
Evolution Mechanism of Pore Structures of Organic-Rich Shale Under Tectonic Deformation: A Comparative Study Between Whole Rock and Kerogen Samples	36
Recognizing Multivariate Geochemical Anomalies Related to Mineralization by Using Deep Unsupervised Graph Learning	35
A Data-Driven Approach for Exploring Unconventional Lithium Resources in Devonian Sedimentary Brines, Alberta, Canada	34