OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mathematical Geosciences is 2. 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
Effects of Fluid Pressure Development on Hydrothermal Mineralization via Cellular Automaton Simulation	135
2025 Andrei Borisovich Vistelius Research Award: Anirudh Prabhu	68
Teaching Transient Groundwater Flow Modeling in a Confined Aquifer with Excel and ChatGPT	55
The Grid-Free Spatial Kernel Predictor for Huge Observation Sets	53
Incorporating Geological Knowledge into Deep Learning to Enhance Geochemical Anomaly Identification Related to Mineralization and Interpretability	47
Drill Pattern Optimisation for Large Complex Blasts to Improve Fragmentation and Dig Efficiency	41
Optimization of Subsurface Flow Operations Using a Dynamic Proxy Strategy	33
Lithology Identification of UAV Oblique Photography Images Based on Semantic Segmentation Neural Network Algorithm	32
Mathematical Geosciences Best Paper Award 2021	31
Perspective: Variable-Specific Cartogram-Based Spatiotemporal Visualization is a Way Forward	31
Three-Dimensional Inversion of Gravity Data Using the Levy PDF for Depth Weighting and a Rank Order Smoothing Constraint	28
Geophysical Logging Curve Reconstruction Based on Diff-Mamba Modeling	24
Uncertainty Quantification of Deep Learning Algorithms for Lithological Mapping	24
A Cox Rate-and-State Model for Monitoring Seismic Hazard in the Groningen Gas Field	24
Improving Geochemical Anomaly Recognition Associated with Mineralization via Geological Knowledge Interacting Reinforcement Learning	23
Advanced KNN Approaches for Explainable Seismic-Volcanic Signal Classification	21
Geologically Constrained Convolutional Neural Network for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping	21
Upscaling Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Porosity Bounds by Using High-Resolution Micro-CT Images in Andesitic Rock Samples	19
Efficient Approximations of Effective Permeability of Fractured Porous Media Using Machine Learning: A Computational Geometry Approach	19
Construction and Application of a Knowledge Graph for Iron Deposits Using Text Mining Analytics and a Deep Learning Algorithm	19
Pore Structure Characteristics and Their Diagenetic Influence: A Case Study of Paleogene Sandstones from the Pinghu and Huagang Formations in the Xihu Depression, East China Sea Basin	19
Co-simulation of Geological Facies and Ore Grades in the Molaoi Polymetallic Orebody, Greece: A Geostatistical Application Using Advanced Modeling Techniques	18
Lithofacies Identification and Classification Based on Least Squares Support Vector Machine Optimized by Sparrow Search Algorithm	17
Insights in Hierarchical Clustering of Variables for Compositional Data	16
Prediction of Heterogeneous Shale Lithology in the Kaijiang–Liangping Trough Based on Dream Optimization Algorithm and Support Vector Machine	16

SeisGAN: Improving Seismic Image Resolution and Reducing Random Noise Using a Generative Adversarial Network	15
A Spatially Aware Evidential Deep Learning Framework for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping and Uncertainty Evaluation	15
Implicit Difference Solution for One-Dimensional Consolidation of Unsaturated Soil: Numerical Verification and Application to Soil-Cushion System	14
Acknowledgement of Reviewers for 2022	13
Generalized Conditioning of Generative Artificial Intelligence for History Matching Subsurface Models	13
Empirical Orthogonal Maps (EOM) and Principal Spatial Patterns: Illustration for Octopus Distribution Off Mauritania Over the Period 1987–2017	13
A Spline-Based Regularized Method for the Reconstruction of Complex Geological Models	12
Uncertainty Propagation in Deep Gaussian Process Networks	12
A Novel Progressive Many-Objective Optimization Approach for Engineering-Controllable Parameters of an Enhanced Geothermal System in the Gonghe Basin, China	12
Compression-based Facies Modelling	12
An Improved Anticipated Learning Machine for Daily Runoff Prediction in Data-Scarce Regions	12
Robust Optimal Well Control using an Adaptive Multigrid Reinforcement Learning Framework	12
Permeability Sensitivity of Coupled Electrical and Hydraulic Data in Unconfined Aquifers	11
Pore Pressure Uncertainty Characterization Coupling Machine Learning and Geostatistical Modelling	11
Geological Knowledge-Embedding Transfer-Learning Architecture for Geochemical Anomaly Identification	11
Numerical Simulation of a Thermal-Hydraulic-Chemical Multiphase Flow Model for $$\hbox {CO}_2$$ Sequestration in Saline Aquifers	11
Robust Statistical Processing of Long-Time Data Series to Estimate Soil Water Content	11
Ensemble and Self-supervised Learning for Improved Classification of Seismic Signals from the Åknes Rockslope	11
Seismic Data Denoising Using a Self-Supervised Deep Learning Network	11
Sedimentary Stratigraphic Uncertainty: A Quantitative Analysis Framework Based on Information Theory and Stochastic Processes	11
A Local Parameterization-Based Probabilistic Cooperative Coevolutionary Algorithm for History Matching	11
Tracing Sedimentary Origins in Multivariate Geochronology via Constrained Tensor Factorization	10
Estimating Rock Composition from Replicate Geochemical Analyses: Theory and Application to Magmatic Rocks of the GeoPT Database	10
Fractal Dimension of Fracture Network: A Review and New Observations	10
Deep Mineral Prospectivity Prediction via Integration of Spatiotemporal Dynamics Simulations with Long Short-Term Memory Networks: A Case Study of the Tongshan Deposit, China	9
Crucial Geochemical Signal Identification for Cu-Fertile Magmas in Paleo-Tethyan Arc Based on Machine Learning	9
Uniform Conditioning Applied to the Selective Mining Unit as an Alternative to Localized Uniform Conditioning	9
A Comparison Between Bayesian and Ordinary Kriging Based on Validation Criteria: Application to Radiological Characterisation	9
Bayesian Decomposition Modelling: An Interpretable Nonlinear Approach for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping	8
Geostatistical Predictive Model of Drought Severity: A Case Study of Southern Portugal	8
Three-Dimensional Latent Diffusion Models for Parameterizing and History Matching Facies Systems Under Hierarchical Uncertainty	8
Probabilistic Modeling and Uncertainty Simulations of National-Scale Hydrostratigraphic Models: An Example from Denmark	8
2025 Andrei Borisovich Vistelius Research Award: Lijing Wang	8
Guidelines for Conducting Sensitivity Analyses in Process Simulations for Solid Earth Geosciences	7
Graph Deep Learning Model for Mapping Mineral Prospectivity	7
Coal Seam Geological Implicit Modeling with Fault Networks and Kinematic Parameters	7
An Uncertainty Analysis Method Based on a Globally Optimal Truth Discovery Model for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping	7
Estimation of Reservoir Fracture Properties from Seismic Data Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods	7
Uncertainty Quantification in Geostatistical Modelling of Saltwater Intrusion at a Coastal Aquifer System	7
Evaluating the Stability of Deep Learning Latent Feature Space for Subsurface Modeling	7
Probabilistic Integration of Geomechanical and Geostatistical Inferences for Mapping Natural Fracture Networks	6
Lithology Identification of Imbalanced Well Log Data Based on Diffusion Model and Multiscale CNN	6
MWD Data-Based Marble Quality Class Prediction Models Using ML Algorithms	6
Variational Autoencoder or Generative Adversarial Networks? A Comparison of Two Deep Learning Methods for Flow and Transport Data Assimilation	6
Geographically Optimal Similarity	6
Principal Component Analysis for Distributions Observed by Samples in Bayes Spaces	6
Prediction of Soil Parameters of Waste Fibers with Hybrid Metaheuristic Algorithm	6
Generative Adversarial Networks for Improved Three-Dimensional Reservoir Modeling: Image Processing-Inspired Approaches and their Effects on Different Well Data Levels	6
Causal Discovery and Deep Learning Algorithms for Detecting Geochemical Patterns Associated with Gold-Polymetallic Mineralization: A Case Study of the Edongnan Region	5
Geostatistical Characterization of Climate Extremes Dynamics: The Drought Phenomenon	5

Enhancing Slope Stability Prediction Using Fuzzy and Neural Frameworks Optimized by Metaheuristic Science	5
And the 2022 Krumbein Medalist of the IAMG is…	5
shinyNORRRM: A Cross-Platform Software to Calculate the CIPW Norm	5
Hybrid Empirical-Data-Driven Neural Network for Predicting Air-Entry Value in Unsaturated Soils	5
Modelling the Influence of Erosive Fluidization on the Morphology of Fluid Flow and Escape Structures	5
Extended Multiple Interacting Continua (E-MINC) Model Improvement with a K-Means Clustering Algorithm Based on an Equi-dimensional Discrete Fracture Matrix (ED-DFM) Model	5
Data Conditioning for Subsurface Models with Single-Image Generative Adversarial Network (SinGAN)	5
Targeting Method of Estimating Number of Undiscovered Mineral Deposits	5
A General Framework for Hierarchical Compression-Based Modelling	5
Seasonal Signal Extraction from GPS Coordinate Time Series Using Low-Rank Matrix Approximation Based on Nonconvex Log-Sum Function Minimization	5
A Statistical Study of Latent Diffusion Models for Geological Facies Modeling	5
Dual-Branch Convolutional Neural Network and Its Post Hoc Interpretability for Mapping Mineral Prospectivity	5
A Constrained Divisive-Compositional Approach to Micropalaeontological Ecozonation	5
GenAI Minimum Acceptance Checks: Static and Dynamic Model-Checking of Conditioning Generative Artificial Intelligence Models for Subsurface Modeling	4
Automated Machine Learning-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping for the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China	4
Special Issue: Data-Driven Discovery in Geosciences: Opportunities and Challenges	4
Data-Driven Spectral Methods for Stochastic Surrogate Modeling and Efficient Data Assimilation in Subsurface Flows	4
CurvRBF: Mean Curvature-Controllable Radial Basis Functions for Implicit Geological Modeling	4
DoEHypOpt: An Efficient Approach of Hyperparameter Optimization in Machine Learning Using Design of Experiments Applied on Multivariate Permeability Modeling	4
A Permeability Prediction Model of Single-Peak NMR T2 Distribution in Tight Sandstones: A Case Study on the Huangliu Formation, Yinggehai Basin, China	4
Domain Adversarial Neural Network for Mapping Mineral Prospectivity	4
Long-Term Copper Production to 2100	4
A Three-Dimensional Geological Structure Modeling Framework and Its Application in Machine Learning	4
A Kernel-Based Non-parametric Approach for Data Gaussian Anamorphosis	4
Mineral Resource Disclosure with Probabilistic Models	4
Geological Mapping Using Direct Sampling and a Convolutional Neural Network Based on Geochemical Survey Data	4
Mapping the Evolution of Mathematical Geoscience Research with Big Literature Data and Context-Aware Text Mining	4
A Riemannian Tool for Clustering of Geo-Spatial Multivariate Data	3
Towards a Synergistic Progressive Ensemble Framework for Automatic Post-Earthquake Landslide Recognition and Susceptibility Assessment	3
Spatial Multivariate Morphing Transformation	3
Special Issue: Geostatistics Toronto 2021	3
Big Data Mining on Galena Geochemistry Using Machine Learning Algorithms: Implications for Metallogenic Discrimination	3
Monitoring Mining Activity and Vegetation Recovery in Rare Earth Element Mining Areas	3
Hybrid Iterative Ensemble Smoother for History Matching of Hierarchical Models	3
The Many Forms of Co-kriging: A Diversity of Multivariate Spatial Estimators	3
Well Log-Based Prediction of Elemental Composition: A Machine Learning Approach for Classifying Stratigraphic Members in the Epeiric Homoclinal Ramps	3
Acknowledgement of Reviewers for 2023	3
Randomized Tensor Decomposition for Large-Scale Data Assimilation Problems for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration	3
Improved Fracture Segmentation from Unwrapped Drill-Core Images Using an Innovative Two-Stage Segmentation Approach	3
Updating Local Anisotropies with Template Matching During Geostatistical Seismic Inversion	3
Optimization of Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Systems Using a Genetic Algorithm	3
Advanced Geostatistics for Environmental Applications: geoENV2024	3
Parameter Estimation for a Mixed Copula Based on Renyi Entropy: A Case Study of Annual Precipitation	3
KNN-GCN: A Deep Learning Approach for Slope-Unit-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Incorporating Spatial Correlations	3
Improving Mineral Prospectivity Model Generalization: An Example from Orogenic Gold Mineralization of the Sturgeon Lake Transect, Ontario, Canada	3
Donald E Myers (1931–2025): Honoring a Life of Dedication as Scholar, Mentor and Friend	3
Geostatistical Analysis of Seabed Sediment Type: A Compositional Approach with Non-Euclidean Distance Metrics	3
From Fault Likelihood to Fault Networks: Stochastic Seismic Interpretation Through a Marked Point Process with Interactions	3
Unpacking Occupational Health Data in the Service Sector: From Bayesian Networking and Spatial Clustering to Policy-Making	3
HLF-SASR: A High–Low Frequency Guided Structure-Aware Super-Resolution Network for Digital Rock Images	3
Extension of Fourier Neural Operator from Three-Dimensional (x, y, t) to Four-Dimensional (x, y, z, t) Subsurface Flow Simulation	3
The Anomaly Detector, Semi-supervised Classifier, and Supervised Classifier Based on K-Nearest Neighbors in Geochemical Anomaly Detection: A Comparative Study	3
Uncertainty Quantification in Tomographic Inversion of Near-Surface Seismic Refraction Data	3
Three-Dimensional Spatial Reconstruction of Buried Peat Based on Legacy Borehole Data	3
And the 2024 Krumbein Medalist of the IAMG is…	3
A Comparative Analysis of Sampling Variance: Classical vs. Multi-Component Estimation of the Fundamental Sampling Error for a Gold Ore	2
A New Non-stationary High-order Spatial Sequential Simulation Method	2
A New Numerical Simulation Framework to Model the Electric Interfacial Polarization Effects and Corresponding Impacts on Complex Dielectric Permittivity Measurements in Sedimentary Rocks	2
A Novel Method for Constructing Hexagonal Global Hierarchical Encoding Structures Using a Semi-Regular Tiling Model	2
Unified Multi-structural Element Modeling Methods Using Icosahedral Discrete Global Grid Systems	2
2025 Andrei Borisovich Vistelius Research Award: Guoxiong Chen	2
Robust Optimization under Geological Uncertainty Using a TransUNet-Based Surrogate Model with EnOpt Algorithm	2
The Hidden Variable in Sampling Protocols: A Review of Liberation Evolution through Subsampling and Comminution	2
Unbiased Proxy Calibration	2
Generalized Solution for Double-Porosity Flow Through a Graded Excavation Damaged Zone	2
Sparse Spectrum Representation of Gaussian Process Regression for Modeling Nonstationary Geo-Data from Limited Measurements	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: How do Big Data, AI, and ML Challenge Geostatistical and Bayesian Formalisms?	2
Copula-based Modeling of Sea Surface Temperature and Chlorophyll-a Distributions	2
Occurrence Apparent Velocities for Identification and Quantification of Space–Time Clustering Precursory to a Large Earthquake. Application to Large (M > 7.0) Earthquakes in Southern California and	2
Seismic Pre-stack Inversion Using Iterative, Nonlinear Quasi-Second-Order Optimization Techniques	2
Machine Learning-Based Mapping for Mineral Exploration	2
Generative Adversarial Network Applied to Ore Type Modeling in Complex Geological Environments	2
Estimating Contaminated Soil Volumes Using a Generative Neural Network: A Hydrocarbon Case in France	2
The Editor’s Best Reviewer Awards 2021	2
Subdivide and Conquer: Adapting Non-Manifold Subdivision Surfaces to Surface-Based Representation and Reconstruction of Complex Geological Structures	2
Quaternions for Rotations in Paleomagnetism	2