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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of Fluid Pressure Development on Hydrothermal Mineralization via Cellular Automaton Simulation	140
2025 Andrei Borisovich Vistelius Research Award: Anirudh Prabhu	71
Teaching Transient Groundwater Flow Modeling in a Confined Aquifer with Excel and ChatGPT	56
Lithology Identification of UAV Oblique Photography Images Based on Semantic Segmentation Neural Network Algorithm	53
The Grid-Free Spatial Kernel Predictor for Huge Observation Sets	47
Optimization of Subsurface Flow Operations Using a Dynamic Proxy Strategy	35
Drill Pattern Optimisation for Large Complex Blasts to Improve Fragmentation and Dig Efficiency	33
Perspective: Variable-Specific Cartogram-Based Spatiotemporal Visualization is a Way Forward	32
Incorporating Geological Knowledge into Deep Learning to Enhance Geochemical Anomaly Identification Related to Mineralization and Interpretability	31
Mathematical Geosciences Best Paper Award 2021	29
A Cox Rate-and-State Model for Monitoring Seismic Hazard in the Groningen Gas Field	25
Three-Dimensional Inversion of Gravity Data Using the Levy PDF for Depth Weighting and a Rank Order Smoothing Constraint	24
Uncertainty Quantification of Deep Learning Algorithms for Lithological Mapping	24
Geologically Constrained Convolutional Neural Network for Mineral Prospectivity Mapping	24
Improving Geochemical Anomaly Recognition Associated with Mineralization via Geological Knowledge Interacting Reinforcement Learning	21
Geophysical Logging Curve Reconstruction Based on Diff-Mamba Modeling	21
Advanced KNN Approaches for Explainable Seismic-Volcanic Signal Classification	20
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
Upscaling Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Porosity Bounds by Using High-Resolution Micro-CT Images in Andesitic Rock Samples	19
Co-simulation of Geological Facies and Ore Grades in the Molaoi Polymetallic Orebody, Greece: A Geostatistical Application Using Advanced Modeling Techniques	18
Insights in Hierarchical Clustering of Variables for Compositional Data	17
Lithofacies Identification and Classification Based on Least Squares Support Vector Machine Optimized by Sparrow Search Algorithm	17
Generalized Conditioning of Generative Artificial Intelligence for History Matching Subsurface Models	16

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

Dual-Branch Convolutional Neural Network and Its Post Hoc Interpretability for Mapping Mineral Prospectivity	5
Data Conditioning for Subsurface Models with Single-Image Generative Adversarial Network (SinGAN)	5
Lithology Identification of Imbalanced Well Log Data Based on Diffusion Model and Multiscale CNN	5
Causal Discovery and Deep Learning Algorithms for Detecting Geochemical Patterns Associated with Gold-Polymetallic Mineralization: A Case Study of the Edongnan Region	5
Modelling the Influence of Erosive Fluidization on the Morphology of Fluid Flow and Escape Structures	5
Hybrid Empirical-Data-Driven Neural Network for Predicting Air-Entry Value in Unsaturated Soils	5
A Statistical Study of Latent Diffusion Models for Geological Facies Modeling	5
Automated Machine Learning-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping for the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China	5
Geographically Optimal Similarity	5
Seasonal Signal Extraction from GPS Coordinate Time Series Using Low-Rank Matrix Approximation Based on Nonconvex Log-Sum Function Minimization	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
Enhancing Slope Stability Prediction Using Fuzzy and Neural Frameworks Optimized by Metaheuristic Science	5
GenAI Minimum Acceptance Checks: Static and Dynamic Model-Checking of Conditioning Generative Artificial Intelligence Models for Subsurface Modeling	5
A General Framework for Hierarchical Compression-Based Modelling	5
Targeting Method of Estimating Number of Undiscovered Mineral Deposits	4
DoEHypOpt: An Efficient Approach of Hyperparameter Optimization in Machine Learning Using Design of Experiments Applied on Multivariate Permeability Modeling	4
Geological Mapping Using Direct Sampling and a Convolutional Neural Network Based on Geochemical Survey Data	4
CurvRBF: Mean Curvature-Controllable Radial Basis Functions for Implicit Geological Modeling	4
Long-Term Copper Production to 2100	4
A Constrained Divisive-Compositional Approach to Micropalaeontological Ecozonation	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
Special Issue: Data-Driven Discovery in Geosciences: Opportunities and Challenges	4
Mapping the Evolution of Mathematical Geoscience Research with Big Literature Data and Context-Aware Text Mining	4
The Anomaly Detector, Semi-supervised Classifier, and Supervised Classifier Based on K-Nearest Neighbors in Geochemical Anomaly Detection: A Comparative Study	4
Mineral Resource Disclosure with Probabilistic Models	4
A Kernel-Based Non-parametric Approach for Data Gaussian Anamorphosis	4
A Three-Dimensional Geological Structure Modeling Framework and Its Application in Machine Learning	4
Domain Adversarial Neural Network for Mapping Mineral Prospectivity	4
Geologically Constrained Multi-scale Graph Convolutional Network Modeling of Stream Sediment Geochemical Data	4
Data-Driven Spectral Methods for Stochastic Surrogate Modeling and Efficient Data Assimilation in Subsurface Flows	4
Improving Mineral Prospectivity Model Generalization: An Example from Orogenic Gold Mineralization of the Sturgeon Lake Transect, Ontario, Canada	3
Parameter Estimation for a Mixed Copula Based on Renyi Entropy: A Case Study of Annual Precipitation	3
Extension of Fourier Neural Operator from Three-Dimensional (x, y, t) to Four-Dimensional (x, y, z, t) Subsurface Flow Simulation	3
HLF-SASR: A High–Low Frequency Guided Structure-Aware Super-Resolution Network for Digital Rock Images	3
Unpacking Occupational Health Data in the Service Sector: From Bayesian Networking and Spatial Clustering to Policy-Making	3
Fracture Network Characterization Using Gibbs Marked Point Processes and Bayesian Inference	3
Donald E Myers (1931–2025): Honoring a Life of Dedication as Scholar, Mentor and Friend	3
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
Uncertainty Quantification in Tomographic Inversion of Near-Surface Seismic Refraction Data	3
Advanced Geostatistics for Environmental Applications: geoENV2024	3
Optimization of Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Systems Using a Genetic Algorithm	3
Updating Local Anisotropies with Template Matching During Geostatistical Seismic Inversion	3
KNN-GCN: A Deep Learning Approach for Slope-Unit-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Incorporating Spatial Correlations	3
Acknowledgement of Reviewers for 2023	3
And the 2024 Krumbein Medalist of the IAMG is…	3
The Many Forms of Co-kriging: A Diversity of Multivariate Spatial Estimators	3
Monitoring Mining Activity and Vegetation Recovery in Rare Earth Element Mining Areas	3
Big Data Mining on Galena Geochemistry Using Machine Learning Algorithms: Implications for Metallogenic Discrimination	3
Special Issue: Geostatistics Toronto 2021	3
From Fault Likelihood to Fault Networks: Stochastic Seismic Interpretation Through a Marked Point Process with Interactions	3
Hybrid Iterative Ensemble Smoother for History Matching of Hierarchical Models	3
Improved Fracture Segmentation from Unwrapped Drill-Core Images Using an Innovative Two-Stage Segmentation Approach	3
Optimal One-Dimensional Subsurface Sampling via Effective Sample Size and Latin Hypercube Integration	3
Seismic Pre-stack Inversion Using Iterative, Nonlinear Quasi-Second-Order Optimization Techniques	2
The Hidden Variable in Sampling Protocols: A Review of Liberation Evolution through Subsampling and Comminution	2
Machine Learning-Based Mapping for Mineral Exploration	2
The Editor’s Best Reviewer Awards 2021	2
Quaternions for Rotations in Paleomagnetism	2
2025 Andrei Borisovich Vistelius Research Award: Guoxiong Chen	2
A Comparative Analysis of Sampling Variance: Classical vs. Multi-Component Estimation of the Fundamental Sampling Error for a Gold Ore	2
Generalized Solution for Double-Porosity Flow Through a Graded Excavation Damaged Zone	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
Estimating Contaminated Soil Volumes Using a Generative Neural Network: A Hydrocarbon Case in France	2
Robust Optimization under Geological Uncertainty Using a TransUNet-Based Surrogate Model with EnOpt Algorithm	2
Three-Dimensional Spatial Reconstruction of Buried Peat Based on Legacy Borehole Data	2
Subdivide and Conquer: Adapting Non-Manifold Subdivision Surfaces to Surface-Based Representation and Reconstruction of Complex Geological Structures	2
Lithology Classification Based on Well Log Data: A Benchmark for Machine Learning Models	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
Generative Adversarial Network Applied to Ore Type Modeling in Complex Geological Environments	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
Sparse Spectrum Representation of Gaussian Process Regression for Modeling Nonstationary Geo-Data from Limited Measurements	2
Unified Multi-structural Element Modeling Methods Using Icosahedral Discrete Global Grid Systems	2
Well Log-Based Prediction of Elemental Composition: A Machine Learning Approach for Classifying Stratigraphic Members in the Epeiric Homoclinal Ramps	2
Geostatistical Analysis of Seabed Sediment Type: A Compositional Approach with Non-Euclidean Distance Metrics	2
A Novel Method for Constructing Hexagonal Global Hierarchical Encoding Structures Using a Semi-Regular Tiling Model	2