OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soil & Sediment Contamination is 4. 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
Assessment of Metal Contamination in Soil Adjacent to Mining Activities Using Some Indices	42
Assessment of Natural Radioactivity and Radiological Hazards in Abiotic and Biogenic Marine Matrices of St. Martin’s Island, Bangladesh	37
Distribution Characteristics, Source Analysis and Risk Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Surface Sediment of Jieshi Bay, Shanwei, China	21
Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals and Health Risk Assessment in Taro ( Colocasia Esculenta) Grown with Mine-Affected Irrigation Water in the Atiwa East Mun	20
Distribution and Risk Assessment of VOCs in Road Dust Across Different Urban Areas	18
The Effects of Mine Waste and Rain Water on the Structure of Bacteria Community of Paddy Soils	18
Influence of Modified Biochar on Soil Fluoride and Cadmium Speciation and Their Bioavailability to Tea Seedling ( Camellia Sinensis L.)	15
Effect of Organic Amendments on the Speciation of Chromium in Contaminated and Uncontaminated Soils	15
Environmental Fate and Dietary Risk Assessment Associated with Triafamone, Ethoxysulfuron and Their Metabolites in Rice Ecosystem	15
The Residual Impact of Goethite-Modified Biochar on Cadmium and Arsenic Uptake by Maize in Co-Contaminated Soil	15
Connectivity of Geochemical Composition of Sediments and Soils in the Large Urban River Catchment	15
A Review on the interaction between Nanoparticles and Toxic metals in Soil: Meta-analysis of their effects on soil, plants and human health	14
Final Residues, Dissipation Dynamics and Dietary Risk Assessment of Cupric Nonyl Phenolsulfonate in Citrus and Soil	13
Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Mine Dump Soils Using Agroforestry Trees	13
Leaching Characteristics of Glutaraldehyde and Organic Dyes Utilized in Tannery Industry in Soil	13
Pollution Characteristics, Risk Assessment and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Surface Sediments from the Cage Fish Farm of Poyang Lake, China	12
Toxic Landscapes from Mines to Lives: Are Health Hazards Getting Amplified?	11
Assessment of the Levels of Pesticide Residues and Trace Metal Elements (TME) in Soils in the Cotton-Growing Region of North-West Benin	11
Temporal and Spatial Distribution and Risk Assessment of Volatile Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Soils of Typical Industrial Parks in Chongqing Under the “Dual Carbon” Background	11
Chemical Structural Features Affecting the Soil Sorption of Sulfonylurea Herbicides	10
Seasonal and Spatial Dynamics of Heavy Metal Contamination in Port-Adjacent Mangrove Sediments Along the Iranian Coast of Oman Sea: A Multi-Index Risk Assessment	10
Geotechnical Behavior of Surfactant-Contaminated Soils	10
Synergistic application of rhizobacteria association and fertilizer for enrichment of Pennisetum purpureum growth and phytoextraction of arsenic in engin	9
Contamination and Determinants of Potentially Toxic Elements in Road Dust Across Urban-Rural Gradient in Al-Qasim, Iraq	9
Field determination of labile Cu and Pb in contaminated soils by using diffusive gradients in thin film technique	9

Enhancement in Formation of Insoluble Arsenic Phases without Re-Leaching by Particle Size of Excavated Sediment with Iron Sulfate Heptahydrate	9
Fractionation and Contamination Assessment of Zn, Cu, Fe, and Mn in the Sundarbans Mangrove Soils of Bangladesh	9
The Extraction and Characterization of Microplastics of Biocompost and Water Samples Collected from the Different Semi-Urban Agronurseries	8
A Study of the Level of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Soils Near Durgapur Industrial Area, West Bengal, India	8
Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soil During Ex-Situ Indirect Thermal Desorption	8
Inner Sphere Adsorption Mechanisms for Arsenate and Lead on Goethite: Theoretical Implications in Contaminated Soil Recovery	8
Magnetic Susceptibility as Proxy for Metal Concentrations and Their Risk Levels in Vaigai River Sediment, Tamilnadu, India: Horizontal and Vertical Approach	8
Effect of Eco-Friendly Geopolymer on Permeability of Clay Soils Under Freeze-Thaw Cycles	8
Removal of Metribuzin and Bentazon by LDH-HA Modified Material: Kinetic and Equilibrium Study	7
Ecological Risk Assessment, Spatial Distribution and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Sediments of Henan Reach of Yellow River, China	7
Heavy Metal Contamination In Soil Around The Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant	7
Sorption and transport of atrazine for stable manure-amended agricultural soil from Kahramanmaraş, Turkey	7
Distribution of Vanadium in the Surficial Sediments of Prydz Bay, Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean	7
Heavy Metal Pollution, Source Apportionment and Human Health Risk Assessment: A Case Study of Soil in Bohai New Area Industrial Park	7
Assessing the Role of Soil Amendments on the Sorption-Desorption Behavior of Glufosinate-Ammonium Herbicide in Soils: Kinetic, Isothermal and Thermodynamic Investigations	7
Spatial Distribution, Risk Assessment, and Provenance of Heavy Metals Contamination in the Sediments of the Gilgit River Basin, Northern Pakistan	7
Microplastic contamination of coastal hill soils: Perspective of Rohingya Refugee camps in Bangladesh	7
Advanced Nanoparticles for Environmental Remediation of Emerging Pollutants: A Review	7
Paleo Environmental Pollution Assessment of Erdek and Bandırma Bays in the Sea of Marmara, Türkiye	7
Impact of Lead Contamination on Denitrification After Nitrate Addition to Soil: An Interaction Between Nitrogen Substrates, Denitrification Genes, and Microbial Community Structures	7
Stabilization and Solidification of a Clay Soil Contaminated with MTBE by Using MgO and Hydrated Lime	7
Evaluation of Contamination and Ecological and Health Risk in Surface Soil and Crops Contaminated with Metalloids and Heavy Metals in Datun, China, “The World Tin Capital”	6
Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination and Pollution Indices in Agricultural Soils of Hebron Governorate, Palestine	6
The Distribution Characteristics and Risk Assessments of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Sediments of Sanshan Lake, China	6
The Effective Dose in Specific Organs and Excess Lifetime Cancer Risk Due to Soil ²²² Rn in iraq/Baghdad, with Simultaneous Analysis Of	6
Remediation of Lubricant Contaminated Soils by Cavitation Microjet Shock Wave Soil Washing System with Ozonation	6
Influence of Potentially Toxic Elements and Physio-Chemical Parameters of Industrially Contaminated Soil on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity in BBN Corridor, Himachal Pradesh, India	6
Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in River Water and Sediment Surrounding Abandoned Coal Mining Areas: A Case Study of Yudong River in Guizhou Province	6
Phytotoxic Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate, Dimethyl Phthalate, Diethyl Phthalate and Di-N-Octyl Phthalate on Malondialdehyde Content and Total Phenolic Content of Leaves and Roots of Edible Plants	6
Impact of Portland cement and lime on the stabilization and shear strength characteristics of contaminated clay	6
Physicochemical Characteristics and Potentially Toxic Elements in Sediments of the Midstream of Citarum River Around Hydroelectric Power Plants	6
Organochlorine Insecticide-Dicofol Resilience in Soil Ecosystems: Sorption, Persistence, and Fate Investigations	6
Forest Soil Exposed to Leachate as a New Source of DEHP-Degrading Rhodococcus	6
Sustainable Stabilization of Cadmium (Cd)-Contaminated Soil with Biochar-Cement: Evaluation of Strength, Leachability, Microstructural Characteristics, and Stabilization Mechanism	6
Heavy Metals Pollution in Various Grain Sizes Under Different Land-Use Types in Urban Surface Dust in Shenyang City, China	6
Potential of Using Land Snails (Eobania vermiculataandMonacha obstructa) for Monitoring the Essential and Non-Essential Heavy Metal in Ismailia City, Egypt	6
Contamination and risk assessments of mercury in tailing and sediment from Birim river along artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities, Ghana	6
Trace Elements Contamination of Kilembe Copper Mine Catchment Soils in Kasese District, Western Uganda	6
Evaluation of Coastal Sediments for Heavy Metal Contamination, Bhavnagar Coast, Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat, India	6
Combined Remediation of Cadmium and Butyl Xanthate Composite Polluted Farmland Soil by Bifunctional Bacterial Consortium SDMC and Brassica napus : Effect and Mechanism	6
Micrometalloid Accumulation in Mono- and Polyculture Agrosoils: Spatial Trends and Human Health Risk Assessment	6
Pore Fluid Dielectric Constant Effect on Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Properties of Smectite and Kaolinite	6
A Geostatistical Study of Heavy Metal Contamination and Soil Quality in Industrial Areas of Erode and Namakkal	5
In Situ Remediation of TNT Red Water Contaminated Soil: Field Demonstration	5
Characterization of Microplastics and Associated Heavy Metals in Urban Soils Affected by Anthropogenic Littering: Distribution, Spatial Variation, and Influence of Soil Properties	5
Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils of Acıpayam Plain, Denizli, Türkiye	5
Assessment of contamination levels of heavy metals in the agricultural soils using ICP-OES	5
Modeling the Geotechnical Properties of Small Soil Samples of Oil Polluted Soil: The Power of Supervised Machine Learning Models	5
Heavy metal enrichment and its ecotoxicological risk assessment in sediment cores from tropical backwater systems, Kalpakkam Coast, India	5
A Spectrochemical Snapshot of Heavy Elements in Nile River Sediments: Line Intensity Calculation	5

Evaluating the risk of heavy metals in the cultivated maize land around an abandoned coal mine in southwest Guizhou, China	5
Layered Double Hydroxides Reduce the Availability of Cadmium and Lead in Soil and the Content of Cadmium and Lead in Grain	5
Chemical Speciation, Contamination, Human Health Risk Assessment, and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Soils Composted with Swine Manure	5
Effect of pH, Dissolved Organic Carbon, and Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate to Degradation of Fenobucarb Insecticide in Paddy Soil-Water System	5
Contamination of Arable Soil with Toxic Trace Elements (Tes) around Mine Sites and the Assessment of Associated Human Health Risks	5
Atrazine Sorption Kinetics of Two Mexican Agricultural Soils: Effect of Organic Matter	4
Variability of Metal(loid) Contamination in Road Dust from an Urban Park and a Traffic Intersection Between Two Rainfall Events and Its Implications	4
Spatial Variation, Ecological Risk, and Point Sources of Environmental Trace Metals in Lacustrine Ecosystems: An Assessment of Natural and Urban Inputs	4
Integrated Approaches for Attenuation of Cr(VI) Toxicity in Chromite Mine Waste	4
Assessment of Soil Physico-Chemical Properties and Heavy Metals Concentrations from Major Abattoir Sites in Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria	4
Pb ²⁺ Leachability in the Cement-Based Solidified/Stabilized Contaminated Clay Under Saline and Alkaline Environments	4
Source Apportionment of Heavy Metals in Sediments of an Industrial Belt in Kochi (India) Using Positive Matrix Factorization	4
Analyses of Heavy Metals in Wastewater Irrigated Soil and Their Health Risk Assessment	4
Microplastics: An In-Depth Analysis of Its Fate, Environmental Impact, Implications, and Innovative Remediation Strategies	4
Stabilization of Lead and Zinc Nitrate-Contaminated Low Plasticity Clayey Soil Using Metakaolin Geopolymer	4
Natural and Artificial Radionuclides in the Sediment, Water, and Fish Samples from the Sava River in Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia: Comparing Past and Recent Findings	4
Heavy Metal Contamination and Ecological Risk Assessment in the Sediments of a Braided River System	4
Pollution Characteristics and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Soil of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Site	4
Soil Quality Indices Based on Biological Properties to Assess Chemical Soil Degradation by Metal(loid)s	4
Modulating Leaching Behavior of Boscalid Fungicide in Soil Through Organic Amendments	4
Microplastic Pollution in Wular Lake, Kashmir-India (Ramsar Site): First Report and Associated Risk Assessments	4
Urban Pruning Waste Biochar Enhances Lead, Cadmium, and Zinc Sorption: A Potential Strategy for Soil Liners in Ribeira Valley (Brazil)	4
Evaluation of the Pollution by the Potentially Toxic Elements in the Topsoils of a Semi-Industrial Zone, Northwestern Iran	4
Final Residue, Degradation Dynamics, and Dietary Risk Assessment of Bifenazate in Citrus and Soil	4