OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering is 40. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pore-scale heterogeneity of tight gas sandstone: Origins and impacts	232
Low-permeability reservoir sample wettability characterization at multiple scales: Pore-, micro- and macro-contact angles	176
Investigation on the thermal cracking of shale under different cooling modes	152
Effect of CO2 solution on Portland cement paste under flowing, migration, and static conditions	120
Three-dimensional discrete element modeling of the shear behavior of cemented hydrate-bearing sands	110
Natural gas origin of Langgu Sag in Jizhong Depression, Bohai Bay Basin: Insight from hydrous pyrolysis experiments of gold tube	103
Corrigendum to “Stress-sensitivity mechanisms and its controlling factors of saline-lacustrine fractured tight carbonate reservoir” [J. Nat. Gas Sci. Eng. 88 (2021) 103864]	102
Investigation of chia based copper oxide nanofluid for water based drilling fluid: An experimental approach	83
Reclaiming degraded mixed monoethanolamine and N-methyldiethanolamine solvent in carbon dioxide capture process	82
Microstructure characterization of kerogen in mature shale: Molecular investigation of micropore development	79
Automated approach to reservoir zonation: A case study from the Upper Permian Dalan (Khuff) carbonate ramp, Persian Gulf	79
Correlation between adsorbed methane concentration and pore structure of organic-rich black shale from the Liard Basin, Canada	78
Permeability changes in mining-damaged coal: A review of mathematical models	77
In situ SAXS study on the evolution of coal nanopore structures with uniaxial compressive stress	71
External corrosion of oil and gas pipelines: A review of failure mechanisms and predictive preventions	71
Study of natural gas emission from a hole on underground pipelines using optimal design-based CFD simulations: Developing comprehensive soil classified leakage models	69
Dynamics of coalbed methane emission from coal cores under various stress paths and its application in gas extraction in mining-disturbed coal seam	67
Prediction of Methane Leakage Through Primary Cement Barrier in the High Island OPD, Gulf of Mexico	65
Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracturing process with consideration of fluid–solid interaction in shale rock	60
Construction of selective gas permeation channels in polymeric membranes using nanocage tuned ionic liquid/MIL-53 (Al) filler nanoparticles for effective CO2 separation	59
Editorial Board	57
Four-layer model of hydrate slurry flow in pipes considering rheological properties	57
Effects of pressure control on droplet size distribution and flow regimes in gas–liquid cylindrical cyclone	56
Fully coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical model of pore pressure propagation around borehole with dynamic mudcake growth	54
Evaluating a natural gas pipeline steel for blended hydrogen service	54

Effect of structural features of sedimentary cover on gas composition of permafrost table in northern West Siberia	52
A rock fabric classification method based on the grey level co-occurrence matrix and the Gaussian mixture model	52
Daily production prediction for coalbed methane based on Bayesian temporal matrix factorization	51
Editorial Board	49
Impact of water saturation on gas permeability in shale: Experimental and modelling	48
Analysis of micropore size distribution using Dubinin's theory of volume filling - Effect of particle size on pore characterization of organic-rich Indian shales	48
Strength behaviours of methane hydrate-bearing marine sediments in the South China Sea	46
Effect of wettability of shale on CO2 sequestration with enhanced gas recovery in shale reservoir: Implications from molecular dynamics simulation	45
Feasibility analysis of a single-well retreating horizontal cavern for natural gas storage in bedded salt rock	44
The role of storage systems in hydrogen economy: A review	43
Permeability evolution of defective wellbore cement under geologic carbon sequestration conditions by means of varying-radius pipeline modeling	43
Correlation analysis of pipeline corrosion and liquid accumulation in gas gathering station based on computational fluid dynamics	43
Effect of overburden spatial variability on field-scale geomechanical modeling of potential CO2 storage site Smeaheia, offshore Norway	43
Subsidence above gas storage in salt caverns predicted with viscoelastic theory	42
Numerical simulation and analysis of thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviors of hydraulic fracturing in naturally fractured formation using a THM-XFEM coupling model	41
Water influence on micro and homogenized modulus of shale	40
Study of D-limonene as novel green hydraulic fracturing surfactant in shale gas reservoir	40
Numerical simulation of sectional hydraulic reaming for methane extraction from coal seams	40
Formation processes of gas condensate reservoirs in the Baiyun Depression: Insights from geochemical analyses and basin modeling	40
Large-scale empirical study on the momentum equation’s inertia term	40