OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soil & Sediment Contamination is 3. 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
Interactive Effects of Potassium and Mycorrhizal Fungi on Glomalin and Biochemical Responses of Sunflower Grown in a Pb and Zn Contaminated Soil	30
The Residual Impact of Goethite-Modified Biochar on Cadmium and Arsenic Uptake by Maize in Co-Contaminated Soil	23
Assessment of Metal Contamination in Soil Adjacent to Mining Activities Using Some Indices	21
Environmental Fate and Dietary Risk Assessment Associated with Triafamone, Ethoxysulfuron and Their Metabolites in Rice Ecosystem	13
Influence of Modified Biochar on Soil Fluoride and Cadmium Speciation and Their Bioavailability to Tea Seedling ( Camellia Sinensis L.)	12
Distribution Characteristics, Source Analysis and Risk Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Surface Sediment of Jieshi Bay, Shanwei, China	10
The Effects of Mine Waste and Rain Water on the Structure of Bacteria Community of Paddy Soils	10
Distribution and Risk Assessment of VOCs in Road Dust Across Different Urban Areas	10
Does the long-term contamination of lead (PbII) affect the bioremediation mechanisms of Microbacterium oxydans strain CM3 and CM7?	10
Empirical modelling of shear behavior of oil contaminated sand - geogrid interface	10
Geotechnical Behavior of Surfactant-Contaminated Soils	9
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	9
A Review on the interaction between Nanoparticles and Toxic metals in Soil: Meta-analysis of their effects on soil, plants and human health	9
Mechanism of reduction and immobilization of Cr(VI) by application modified nano-zerovalent iron	9
Connectivity of Geochemical Composition of Sediments and Soils in the Large Urban River Catchment	9
Effect of Organic Amendments on the Speciation of Chromium in Contaminated and Uncontaminated Soils	9
Temporal and Spatial Distribution and Risk Assessment of Volatile Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Soils of Typical Industrial Parks in Chongqing Under the “Dual Carbon” Background	8
Pollution Characteristics, Risk Assessment and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Surface Sediments from the Cage Fish Farm of Poyang Lake, China	8
Leaching Characteristics of Glutaraldehyde and Organic Dyes Utilized in Tannery Industry in Soil	8
Final Residues, Dissipation Dynamics and Dietary Risk Assessment of Cupric Nonyl Phenolsulfonate in Citrus and Soil	8
The Extraction and Characterization of Microplastics of Biocompost and Water Samples Collected from the Different Semi-Urban Agronurseries	7
Fractionation and Contamination Assessment of Zn, Cu, Fe, and Mn in the Sundarbans Mangrove Soils of Bangladesh	7
Distribution of Vanadium in the Surficial Sediments of Prydz Bay, Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean	7
Advanced Nanoparticles for Environmental Remediation of Emerging Pollutants: A Review	7
Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soil During Ex-Situ Indirect Thermal Desorption	7

Assessment of the Levels of Pesticide Residues and Trace Metal Elements (TME) in Soils in the Cotton-Growing Region of North-West Benin	7
Chemical Structural Features Affecting the Soil Sorption of Sulfonylurea Herbicides	7
Enhancement in Formation of Insoluble Arsenic Phases without Re-Leaching by Particle Size of Excavated Sediment with Iron Sulfate Heptahydrate	6
Removal of Metribuzin and Bentazon by LDH-HA Modified Material: Kinetic and Equilibrium Study	6
Ecological Risk Assessment, Spatial Distribution and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Sediments of Henan Reach of Yellow River, China	6
Magnetic Susceptibility as Proxy for Metal Concentrations and Their Risk Levels in Vaigai River Sediment, Tamilnadu, India: Horizontal and Vertical Approach	6
Inner Sphere Adsorption Mechanisms for Arsenate and Lead on Goethite: Theoretical Implications in Contaminated Soil Recovery	6
Microplastic contamination of coastal hill soils: Perspective of Rohingya Refugee camps in Bangladesh	6
Optimization and Simulation of Process Parameters in Biosorption of Heavy Metals by Alcaligenes faecalis Strain UBI (MT107249) Isolated from Soil of Local Mining Area in North-West Nigeria	6
Contamination and Determinants of Potentially Toxic Elements in Road Dust Across Urban-Rural Gradient in Al-Qasim, Iraq	6
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”	5
Trace Elements Adsorption from Solutions and Acid Mine Drainage Using Agricultural By-products	5
Occurrence, Origin, Ecological and Human Health Risks of Organochlorine Pesticides in Soils from Selected Urban, Suburban and Rural Storm Water Reservoirs	5
Assessing the Role of Soil Amendments on the Sorption-Desorption Behavior of Glufosinate-Ammonium Herbicide in Soils: Kinetic, Isothermal and Thermodynamic Investigations	5
Potential of Using Land Snails (Eobania vermiculataandMonacha obstructa) for Monitoring the Essential and Non-Essential Heavy Metal in Ismailia City, Egypt	5
Ecological risk assessment of Toxic heavy Metal(loid)s in surface sediment of Zarivar International Wetland: an indices analysis approach	5
Sorption and transport of atrazine for stable manure-amended agricultural soil from Kahramanmaraş, Turkey	5
Spatial Distribution, Risk Assessment, and Provenance of Heavy Metals Contamination in the Sediments of the Gilgit River Basin, Northern Pakistan	5
Impact of Lead Contamination on Denitrification After Nitrate Addition to Soil: An Interaction Between Nitrogen Substrates, Denitrification Genes, and Microbial Community Structures	5
Trace Elements Contamination of Kilembe Copper Mine Catchment Soils in Kasese District, Western Uganda	5
Swelling Behavior of Bentonite- Sand Mixtures in the Presence of Organic Pore fluids	5
Evaluation of Coastal Sediments for Heavy Metal Contamination, Bhavnagar Coast, Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat, India	5
Gibberellic Acid Treatment Improved Pyrene Phytoremediation Efficiency of Ridge Gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.) In Soil	5
Stabilization and Solidification of a Clay Soil Contaminated with MTBE by Using MgO and Hydrated Lime	5
Paleo Environmental Pollution Assessment of Erdek and Bandırma Bays in the Sea of Marmara, Türkiye	5
Impact of Portland cement and lime on the stabilization and shear strength characteristics of contaminated clay	5
The Distribution Characteristics and Risk Assessments of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Sediments of Sanshan Lake, China	5
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	5
Modeling the Geotechnical Properties of Small Soil Samples of Oil Polluted Soil: The Power of Supervised Machine Learning Models	4
Remediation of Lubricant Contaminated Soils by Cavitation Microjet Shock Wave Soil Washing System with Ozonation	4
Influence of Potentially Toxic Elements and Physio-Chemical Parameters of Industrially Contaminated Soil on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity in BBN Corridor, Himachal Pradesh, India	4
Contamination of Arable Soil with Toxic Trace Elements (Tes) around Mine Sites and the Assessment of Associated Human Health Risks	4
Organochlorine Insecticide-Dicofol Resilience in Soil Ecosystems: Sorption, Persistence, and Fate Investigations	4
Sustainable Stabilization of Cadmium (Cd)-Contaminated Soil with Biochar-Cement: Evaluation of Strength, Leachability, Microstructural Characteristics, and Stabilization Mechanism	4
Heavy Metals Pollution in Various Grain Sizes Under Different Land-Use Types in Urban Surface Dust in Shenyang City, China	4
Pore Fluid Dielectric Constant Effect on Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Properties of Smectite and Kaolinite	4
Pollution characteristics and risk assessment of heavy metals in the water and surface sediments of Wulungu Lake, Xinjiang China	4
Potential ecological risk assessment of rare earth elements in sediments cores from the Oualidia lagoon, Morocco	4
Assessment of contamination levels of heavy metals in the agricultural soils using ICP-OES	4
EDXRF Detection of Trace Elements in Salt Marsh Sediment of Bangladesh and Probabilistic Ecological Risk Assessment	3
Effect of pH, Dissolved Organic Carbon, and Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate to Degradation of Fenobucarb Insecticide in Paddy Soil-Water System	3
A Spectrochemical Snapshot of Heavy Elements in Nile River Sediments: Line Intensity Calculation	3
Modulating Leaching Behavior of Boscalid Fungicide in Soil Through Organic Amendments	3
Drying Kinetics and Pollutant release Characteristics of Organic Contaminated Soil	3
Ability of Urtica dioica L. to adsorb heavy metals (Pb, Cd, As, and Ni) from contaminated soils	3
Chemical Speciation, Contamination, Human Health Risk Assessment, and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Soils Composted with Swine Manure	3
In Situ Remediation of TNT Red Water Contaminated Soil: Field Demonstration	3
Layered Double Hydroxides Reduce the Availability of Cadmium and Lead in Soil and the Content of Cadmium and Lead in Grain	3
Soil Quality Indices Based on Biological Properties to Assess Chemical Soil Degradation by Metal(loid)s	3
Stabilization of Lead and Zinc Nitrate-Contaminated Low Plasticity Clayey Soil Using Metakaolin Geopolymer	3

Analysis and Assessment of the Soil Environment Around a Plateau Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Plant	3
Biological Remediation of Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB)-Contaminated Soil Using the Vermicomposting Technology for the Management of Sewage Sludge Containing Eisenia fetida Earthworms	3
Characterization of Microplastics and Associated Heavy Metals in Urban Soils Affected by Anthropogenic Littering: Distribution, Spatial Variation, and Influence of Soil Properties	3
Evaluation of the Pollution by the Potentially Toxic Elements in the Topsoils of a Semi-Industrial Zone, Northwestern Iran	3
Investigation of microbial community changes in petroleum polluted sediments during hydrocarbons degradation	3
Spatial Variation, Ecological Risk, and Point Sources of Environmental Trace Metals in Lacustrine Ecosystems: An Assessment of Natural and Urban Inputs	3
Pollution Characteristics and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Soil of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Site	3
Variability of Metal(loid) Contamination in Road Dust from an Urban Park and a Traffic Intersection Between Two Rainfall Events and Its Implications	3