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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Distribution Characteristics, Source Analysis and Risk Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Surface Sediment of Jieshi Bay, Shanwei, China	54
Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals and Health Risk Assessment in Taro ( Colocasia Esculenta) Grown with Mine-Affected Irrigation Water in the Atiwa East Mun	39
Effect of Organic Amendments on the Speciation of Chromium in Contaminated and Uncontaminated Soils	24
Connectivity of Geochemical Composition of Sediments and Soils in the Large Urban River Catchment	22
The Effects of Mine Waste and Rain Water on the Structure of Bacteria Community of Paddy Soils	20
The Residual Impact of Goethite-Modified Biochar on Cadmium and Arsenic Uptake by Maize in Co-Contaminated Soil	20
Distribution and Risk Assessment of VOCs in Road Dust Across Different Urban Areas	20
Assessment of Metal Contamination in Soil Adjacent to Mining Activities Using Some Indices	19
Environmental Fate and Dietary Risk Assessment Associated with Triafamone, Ethoxysulfuron and Their Metabolites in Rice Ecosystem	18
Assessment of Natural Radioactivity and Radiological Hazards in Abiotic and Biogenic Marine Matrices of St. Martin’s Island, Bangladesh	17
Influence of Modified Biochar on Soil Fluoride and Cadmium Speciation and Their Bioavailability to Tea Seedling ( Camellia Sinensis L.)	16
Final Residues, Dissipation Dynamics and Dietary Risk Assessment of Cupric Nonyl Phenolsulfonate in Citrus and Soil	16
Synergistic application of rhizobacteria association and fertilizer for enrichment of Pennisetum purpureum growth and phytoextraction of arsenic in engin	16
Temporal and Spatial Distribution and Risk Assessment of Volatile Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Soils of Typical Industrial Parks in Chongqing Under the “Dual Carbon” Background	14
Toxic Landscapes from Mines to Lives: Are Health Hazards Getting Amplified?	13
Assessment of the Levels of Pesticide Residues and Trace Metal Elements (TME) in Soils in the Cotton-Growing Region of North-West Benin	13
Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Mine Dump Soils Using Agroforestry Trees	12
Leaching Characteristics of Glutaraldehyde and Organic Dyes Utilized in Tannery Industry in Soil	11
Geotechnical Behavior of Surfactant-Contaminated Soils	10
Field determination of labile Cu and Pb in contaminated soils by using diffusive gradients in thin film technique	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
Pollution Characteristics, Risk Assessment and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Surface Sediments from the Cage Fish Farm of Poyang Lake, China	10
Soil Quality Evaluation and Characterization of the Attendant Non-Carcinogenic and Carcinogenic Risks Around a Carbonate Rock Quarry Region in Ebonyi State Southeastern Nigeria	10
Chemical Structural Features Affecting the Soil Sorption of Sulfonylurea Herbicides	10
The Extraction and Characterization of Microplastics of Biocompost and Water Samples Collected from the Different Semi-Urban Agronurseries	9

Removal of Metribuzin and Bentazon by LDH-HA Modified Material: Kinetic and Equilibrium Study	9
Fractionation and Contamination Assessment of Zn, Cu, Fe, and Mn in the Sundarbans Mangrove Soils of Bangladesh	9
Contamination and Determinants of Potentially Toxic Elements in Road Dust Across Urban-Rural Gradient in Al-Qasim, Iraq	9
Advanced Nanoparticles for Environmental Remediation of Emerging Pollutants: A Review	9
A Study of the Level of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Soils Near Durgapur Industrial Area, West Bengal, India	9
Inner Sphere Adsorption Mechanisms for Arsenate and Lead on Goethite: Theoretical Implications in Contaminated Soil Recovery	8
Effect of Eco-Friendly Geopolymer on Permeability of Clay Soils Under Freeze-Thaw Cycles	8
Ecological Risk Assessment, Spatial Distribution and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Sediments of Henan Reach of Yellow River, China	8
Enhancement in Formation of Insoluble Arsenic Phases without Re-Leaching by Particle Size of Excavated Sediment with Iron Sulfate Heptahydrate	8
Magnetic Susceptibility as Proxy for Metal Concentrations and Their Risk Levels in Vaigai River Sediment, Tamilnadu, India: Horizontal and Vertical Approach	8
Heavy Metal Pollution, Source Apportionment and Human Health Risk Assessment: A Case Study of Soil in Bohai New Area Industrial Park	8
Sorption and transport of atrazine for stable manure-amended agricultural soil from Kahramanmaraş, Turkey	8
A Comprehensive Review of Leachate Contaminations in the Arabian Gulf Region	8
Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soil During Ex-Situ Indirect Thermal Desorption	8
Stabilization and Solidification of a Clay Soil Contaminated with MTBE by Using MgO and Hydrated Lime	8
Heavy Metal Contamination In Soil Around The Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant	8
Contamination and risk assessments of mercury in tailing and sediment from Birim river along artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities, Ghana	7
Paleo Environmental Pollution Assessment of Erdek and Bandırma Bays in the Sea of Marmara, Türkiye	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”	7
Physicochemical Characteristics and Potentially Toxic Elements in Sediments of the Midstream of Citarum River Around Hydroelectric Power Plants	7
Combined Remediation of Cadmium and Butyl Xanthate Composite Polluted Farmland Soil by Bifunctional Bacterial Consortium SDMC and Brassica napus : Effect and Mechanism	7
Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination and Pollution Indices in Agricultural Soils of Hebron Governorate, Palestine	7
Impact of Lead Contamination on Denitrification After Nitrate Addition to Soil: An Interaction Between Nitrogen Substrates, Denitrification Genes, and Microbial Community Structures	7
The Effective Dose in Specific Organs and Excess Lifetime Cancer Risk Due to Soil ²²² Rn in iraq/Baghdad, with Simultaneous Analysis Of	7
Is Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition Suitable for Remediating Gasoline-Contaminated Soils with Contrasting Properties?	7
Evaluation of Coastal Sediments for Heavy Metal Contamination, Bhavnagar Coast, Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat, India	7
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	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
The Distribution Characteristics and Risk Assessments of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Sediments of Sanshan Lake, China	7
Trace Elements Contamination of Kilembe Copper Mine Catchment Soils in Kasese District, Western Uganda	7
Remediation of Lubricant Contaminated Soils by Cavitation Microjet Shock Wave Soil Washing System with Ozonation	6
Forest Soil Exposed to Leachate as a New Source of DEHP-Degrading Rhodococcus	6
Micrometalloid Accumulation in Mono- and Polyculture Agrosoils: Spatial Trends and Human Health Risk Assessment	6
Heavy Metals Pollution in Various Grain Sizes Under Different Land-Use Types in Urban Surface Dust in Shenyang City, China	6
Modeling the Geotechnical Properties of Small Soil Samples of Oil Polluted Soil: The Power of Supervised Machine Learning Models	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
Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils of Acıpayam Plain, Denizli, Türkiye	6
Sustainable Stabilization of Cadmium (Cd)-Contaminated Soil with Biochar-Cement: Evaluation of Strength, Leachability, Microstructural Characteristics, and Stabilization Mechanism	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
Organochlorine Insecticide-Dicofol Resilience in Soil Ecosystems: Sorption, Persistence, and Fate Investigations	6
Contamination of Arable Soil with Toxic Trace Elements (Tes) around Mine Sites and the Assessment of Associated Human Health Risks	6
Evaluating the risk of heavy metals in the cultivated maize land around an abandoned coal mine in southwest Guizhou, China	6
Effect of pH, Dissolved Organic Carbon, and Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate to Degradation of Fenobucarb Insecticide in Paddy Soil-Water System	5
In Situ Remediation of TNT Red Water Contaminated Soil: Field Demonstration	5
A Spectrochemical Snapshot of Heavy Elements in Nile River Sediments: Line Intensity Calculation	5
Layered Double Hydroxides Reduce the Availability of Cadmium and Lead in Soil and the Content of Cadmium and Lead in Grain	5
Soil Quality Indices Based on Biological Properties to Assess Chemical Soil Degradation by Metal(loid)s	5
Characterization of Microplastics and Associated Heavy Metals in Urban Soils Affected by Anthropogenic Littering: Distribution, Spatial Variation, and Influence of Soil Properties	5
Assessment of contamination levels of heavy metals in the agricultural soils using ICP-OES	5

Source Apportionment of Heavy Metals in Sediments of an Industrial Belt in Kochi (India) Using Positive Matrix Factorization	5
Atrazine Sorption Kinetics of Two Mexican Agricultural Soils: Effect of Organic Matter	5
Integrated Approaches for Attenuation of Cr(VI) Toxicity in Chromite Mine Waste	5
Evaluation of the Pollution by the Potentially Toxic Elements in the Topsoils of a Semi-Industrial Zone, Northwestern Iran	5
Pore Fluid Dielectric Constant Effect on Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Properties of Smectite and Kaolinite	5
A Geostatistical Study of Heavy Metal Contamination and Soil Quality in Industrial Areas of Erode and Namakkal	5
Chemical Speciation, Contamination, Human Health Risk Assessment, and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Soils Composted with Swine Manure	5
Heavy metal enrichment and its ecotoxicological risk assessment in sediment cores from tropical backwater systems, Kalpakkam Coast, India	5
Variability of Metal(loid) Contamination in Road Dust from an Urban Park and a Traffic Intersection Between Two Rainfall Events and Its Implications	5
Stabilization of Lead and Zinc Nitrate-Contaminated Low Plasticity Clayey Soil Using Metakaolin Geopolymer	4
Heavy Metal Contamination and Ecological Risk Assessment in the Sediments of a Braided River System	4
Radioactivity and Heavy Metal Accumulation in Surface Sediment from the West Aegean Coast	4
Analysis and Assessment of the Soil Environment Around a Plateau Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Plant	4
Hydroclimatic Drivers of Soil Microplastic Pollution in Landfills: Insights from an Urban City of Bangladesh	4
Microplastic Pollution in Wular Lake, Kashmir-India (Ramsar Site): First Report and Associated Risk Assessments	4
Analyses of Heavy Metals in Wastewater Irrigated Soil and Their Health Risk Assessment	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
Pb ²⁺ Leachability in the Cement-Based Solidified/Stabilized Contaminated Clay Under Saline and Alkaline Environments	4
Assessment of Soil Physico-Chemical Properties and Heavy Metals Concentrations from Major Abattoir Sites in Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria	4
Heavy Metal Pollutants and Their Spatial Distribution in Surficial Sediments from the Gangetic Plains, Central, and Western Parts of India	4
Final Residue, Degradation Dynamics, and Dietary Risk Assessment of Bifenazate in Citrus and Soil	4
Spatial Variation, Ecological Risk, and Point Sources of Environmental Trace Metals in Lacustrine Ecosystems: An Assessment of Natural and Urban Inputs	4
Microplastics: An In-Depth Analysis of Its Fate, Environmental Impact, Implications, and Innovative Remediation Strategies	4
Urban Pruning Waste Biochar Enhances Lead, Cadmium, and Zinc Sorption: A Potential Strategy for Soil Liners in Ribeira Valley (Brazil)	4
Metal Geochemistry and Contamination Assessment of Tropical Mangrove Sediments	4
Spatial Distribution, Sources Identification, Pollution Assessment and Statistical Mapping of Heavy Metals in Sediments from Mangla Lake, Azad Jammu and Kashmir	4
Pollution Characteristics and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Soil of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Site	4
Assessment of Nutrients and Heavy Metals in the Sediments of the Dali River and Wuding River	4
Electrokinetic-Adsorption Remediation of Cadmium-Contaminated Soil Using Modified Sludge Biochar HPC/SS	4
Modulating Leaching Behavior of Boscalid Fungicide in Soil Through Organic Amendments	4
Assessment of Heavy Metals in Road Dust from a Strategically Important Motorway in Equatorial Climate	4