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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Residual Impact of Goethite-Modified Biochar on Cadmium and Arsenic Uptake by Maize in Co-Contaminated Soil	25
Environmental Fate and Dietary Risk Assessment Associated with Triafamone, Ethoxysulfuron and Their Metabolites in Rice Ecosystem	23
Influence of Modified Biochar on Soil Fluoride and Cadmium Speciation and Their Bioavailability to Tea Seedling ( Camellia Sinensis L.)	15
The Effects of Mine Waste and Rain Water on the Structure of Bacteria Community of Paddy Soils	14
Effect of Organic Amendments on the Speciation of Chromium in Contaminated and Uncontaminated Soils	13
Distribution Characteristics, Source Analysis and Risk Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Surface Sediment of Jieshi Bay, Shanwei, China	13
Does the long-term contamination of lead (PbII) affect the bioremediation mechanisms of Microbacterium oxydans strain CM3 and CM7?	12
Interactive Effects of Potassium and Mycorrhizal Fungi on Glomalin and Biochemical Responses of Sunflower Grown in a Pb and Zn Contaminated Soil	11
Assessment of Metal Contamination in Soil Adjacent to Mining Activities Using Some Indices	11
Empirical modelling of shear behavior of oil contaminated sand - geogrid interface	11
Connectivity of Geochemical Composition of Sediments and Soils in the Large Urban River Catchment	11
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
Leaching Characteristics of Glutaraldehyde and Organic Dyes Utilized in Tannery Industry in Soil	10
Distribution and Risk Assessment of VOCs in Road Dust Across Different Urban Areas	10
Mechanism of reduction and immobilization of Cr(VI) by application modified nano-zerovalent iron	10
Final Residues, Dissipation Dynamics and Dietary Risk Assessment of Cupric Nonyl Phenolsulfonate in Citrus and Soil	10
Fractionation and Contamination Assessment of Zn, Cu, Fe, and Mn in the Sundarbans Mangrove Soils of Bangladesh	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
Chemical Structural Features Affecting the Soil Sorption of Sulfonylurea Herbicides	9
Assessment of the Levels of Pesticide Residues and Trace Metal Elements (TME) in Soils in the Cotton-Growing Region of North-West Benin	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
Enhancement in Formation of Insoluble Arsenic Phases without Re-Leaching by Particle Size of Excavated Sediment with Iron Sulfate Heptahydrate	8
Geotechnical Behavior of Surfactant-Contaminated Soils	8
Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soil During Ex-Situ Indirect Thermal Desorption	8
Pollution Characteristics, Risk Assessment and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Surface Sediments from the Cage Fish Farm of Poyang Lake, China	8

Distribution of Vanadium in the Surficial Sediments of Prydz Bay, Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean	8
Contamination and Determinants of Potentially Toxic Elements in Road Dust Across Urban-Rural Gradient in Al-Qasim, Iraq	7
Magnetic Susceptibility as Proxy for Metal Concentrations and Their Risk Levels in Vaigai River Sediment, Tamilnadu, India: Horizontal and Vertical Approach	7
The Extraction and Characterization of Microplastics of Biocompost and Water Samples Collected from the Different Semi-Urban Agronurseries	7
Microplastic contamination of coastal hill soils: Perspective of Rohingya Refugee camps in Bangladesh	7
Inner Sphere Adsorption Mechanisms for Arsenate and Lead on Goethite: Theoretical Implications in Contaminated Soil Recovery	7
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	7
Ecological Risk Assessment, Spatial Distribution and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Sediments of Henan Reach of Yellow River, China	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
Paleo Environmental Pollution Assessment of Erdek and Bandırma Bays in the Sea of Marmara, Türkiye	6
Advanced Nanoparticles for Environmental Remediation of Emerging Pollutants: A Review	6
Assessing the Role of Soil Amendments on the Sorption-Desorption Behavior of Glufosinate-Ammonium Herbicide in Soils: Kinetic, Isothermal and Thermodynamic Investigations	6
Impact of Lead Contamination on Denitrification After Nitrate Addition to Soil: An Interaction Between Nitrogen Substrates, Denitrification Genes, and Microbial Community Structures	6
Removal of Metribuzin and Bentazon by LDH-HA Modified Material: Kinetic and Equilibrium Study	6
Sorption and transport of atrazine for stable manure-amended agricultural soil from Kahramanmaraş, Turkey	6
Stabilization and Solidification of a Clay Soil Contaminated with MTBE by Using MgO and Hydrated Lime	6
Trace Elements Contamination of Kilembe Copper Mine Catchment Soils in Kasese District, Western Uganda	5
Impact of Portland cement and lime on the stabilization and shear strength characteristics of contaminated clay	5
Physicochemical Characteristics and Potentially Toxic Elements in Sediments of the Midstream of Citarum River Around Hydroelectric Power Plants	5
Sustainable Stabilization of Cadmium (Cd)-Contaminated Soil with Biochar-Cement: Evaluation of Strength, Leachability, Microstructural Characteristics, and Stabilization Mechanism	5
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	5
Contamination of Arable Soil with Toxic Trace Elements (Tes) around Mine Sites and the Assessment of Associated Human Health Risks	5
Influence of Potentially Toxic Elements and Physio-Chemical Parameters of Industrially Contaminated Soil on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity in BBN Corridor, Himachal Pradesh, India	5
Potential of Using Land Snails (Eobania vermiculataandMonacha obstructa) for Monitoring the Essential and Non-Essential Heavy Metal in Ismailia City, Egypt	5
Evaluation of Coastal Sediments for Heavy Metal Contamination, Bhavnagar Coast, Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat, India	5
Remediation of Lubricant Contaminated Soils by Cavitation Microjet Shock Wave Soil Washing System with Ozonation	5
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
Modeling the Geotechnical Properties of Small Soil Samples of Oil Polluted Soil: The Power of Supervised Machine Learning Models	5
Assessment of contamination levels of heavy metals in the agricultural soils using ICP-OES	5
Organochlorine Insecticide-Dicofol Resilience in Soil Ecosystems: Sorption, Persistence, and Fate Investigations	5
Spatial Distribution, Risk Assessment, and Provenance of Heavy Metals Contamination in the Sediments of the Gilgit River Basin, Northern Pakistan	5
Swelling Behavior of Bentonite- Sand Mixtures in the Presence of Organic Pore fluids	5
The Distribution Characteristics and Risk Assessments of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Sediments of Sanshan Lake, China	5
Pollution characteristics and risk assessment of heavy metals in the water and surface sediments of Wulungu Lake, Xinjiang China	5
Forest Soil Exposed to Leachate as a New Source of DEHP-Degrading Rhodococcus	5
Potential ecological risk assessment of rare earth elements in sediments cores from the Oualidia lagoon, Morocco	5
Pore Fluid Dielectric Constant Effect on Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Properties of Smectite and Kaolinite	5
Heavy Metals Pollution in Various Grain Sizes Under Different Land-Use Types in Urban Surface Dust in Shenyang City, China	5
Heavy metal enrichment and its ecotoxicological risk assessment in sediment cores from tropical backwater systems, Kalpakkam Coast, India	4
Chemical Speciation, Contamination, Human Health Risk Assessment, and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in Soils Composted with Swine Manure	4
Modulating Leaching Behavior of Boscalid Fungicide in Soil Through Organic Amendments	4
A Spectrochemical Snapshot of Heavy Elements in Nile River Sediments: Line Intensity Calculation	4
Effect of pH, Dissolved Organic Carbon, and Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate to Degradation of Fenobucarb Insecticide in Paddy Soil-Water System	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
Evaluation of the Pollution by the Potentially Toxic Elements in the Topsoils of a Semi-Industrial Zone, Northwestern Iran	4
In Situ Remediation of TNT Red Water Contaminated Soil: Field Demonstration	4
A Geostatistical Study of Heavy Metal Contamination and Soil Quality in Industrial Areas of Erode and Namakkal	4
Characterization of Microplastics and Associated Heavy Metals in Urban Soils Affected by Anthropogenic Littering: Distribution, Spatial Variation, and Influence of Soil Properties	4
Soil Quality Indices Based on Biological Properties to Assess Chemical Soil Degradation by Metal(loid)s	4
Layered Double Hydroxides Reduce the Availability of Cadmium and Lead in Soil and the Content of Cadmium and Lead in Grain	4

Assessment of Soil Physico-Chemical Properties and Heavy Metals Concentrations from Major Abattoir Sites in Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria	3
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	3
Biological Remediation of Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB)-Contaminated Soil Using the Vermicomposting Technology for the Management of Sewage Sludge Containing Eisenia fetida Earthworms	3
Stabilization of Lead and Zinc Nitrate-Contaminated Low Plasticity Clayey Soil Using Metakaolin Geopolymer	3
Assessment of heavy metal contamination and ecological risk of core sediments in a coastal wetland of India	3
Risk Assessment of Trace Metals Using Chemical Speciation, Bioavailability, and Cluster Analysis Around Wadi EL Bey (Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia)	3
A Comprehensive Review of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soil Behavior, Geotechnical Properties and Potential Remediation	3
Assessment of Nutrients and Heavy Metals in the Sediments of the Dali River and Wuding River	3
Pollution Characteristics and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Soil of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Site	3
Final Residue, Degradation Dynamics, and Dietary Risk Assessment of Bifenazate in Citrus and Soil	3
Drying Kinetics and Pollutant release Characteristics of Organic Contaminated Soil	3
Study on Amendment of Rapeseed Meal, Soybean Meal, and NPK Fertilizer as Biostimulants in Bioremediation of Diesel-Contaminated Soil by Autochthonous Microorganisms	3
Metal Geochemistry and Contamination Assessment of Tropical Mangrove Sediments	3
An Assessment of Metal Pollution in the Surface Sediments of an East Antarctic Lake	3
Content, Distribution, and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Sandy Soils of the Ancient Yellow River Course	3
Spatial Variation, Ecological Risk, and Point Sources of Environmental Trace Metals in Lacustrine Ecosystems: An Assessment of Natural and Urban Inputs	3
Analysis and Assessment of the Soil Environment Around a Plateau Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Plant	3
Ability of Urtica dioica L. to adsorb heavy metals (Pb, Cd, As, and Ni) from contaminated soils	3
Pb ²⁺ Leachability in the Cement-Based Solidified/Stabilized Contaminated Clay Under Saline and Alkaline Environments	3
Radioactivity and Heavy Metal Accumulation in Surface Sediment from the West Aegean Coast	3
Heavy Metal Pollutants and Their Spatial Distribution in Surficial Sediments from the Gangetic Plains, Central, and Western Parts of India	3
Enrichment and Bioavailability of Phosphate in a Highly Urbanized Zone of Cochin Estuary, South India	3