OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geotechnique Letters 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Award-winning paper in 2022	31
A modified state parameter for identifying flow liquefaction in aeolian sand	15
Shear creep behaviour of soil–structure interfaces under thermal cyclic loading	14
Impact of chemical weathering on microstructures and mechanical properties of karstic limestone	14
Laboratory assessment of rubber grid-reinforced ballast under impact testing	14
Undrained trapdoor and tunnel face stability revisited	13
Intrinsic permeabilities of transparent soil under various aqueous environmental conditions	12
A mixed formulation of limit analysis for seismic slope stability	12
Adaptivity of plate anchors to restrain the impact of seabed trenching	12
Rate-dependency of residual shear strength of soils: implications for landslide evolution	11
Structure evaluation of a tropical residual soil under wide range of compaction conditions	11
Effect of eccentricity on ultimate lateral unit earth pressure of tetrapod piles in clay	11
Effects of ultrasonic oscillations on permeability of rocks during the paraffinic oil flow	10
si-PiNet: a novel stress integration method for elastoplastic models	10
Experimental investigation of the effect of train load on mechanical properties of rock	10
Application of the unified CPT method for driven piles to layered deposits	10
Sulfoaluminate cement-based double-liquid material grouting in fractured rock	8
Rigorous lower and upper bounds for the generalised failure loads of pile groups	8
X-ray microstructural insight into the mechanical behaviour of ligth-weight cemented soils	8
Non-destructive assessment of sample homogeneity in resedimented fine-grained soils by low-field NMR-spectroscopy	8
Editorial	7
Optimising an output of a slip line field using a chaotic swamp optimisation algorithm	7
Investigation on the attractive forces controlling clay particles' interactions	7
Failure mechanism of joint-separated granite reinforced by three-dimensional printed bolt	7
Novel procedure for measuring the saturation of the pore-pressure system in piezocone tips	7

Theoretical model for the effect of porosity on correlations of point load tests of rocks	6
A novel fibre-optic pore pressure sensor for soil element testing	6
Géotechnique Letters: Referees 2022	6
A two-scale study on the influence of biopolymer enhancement on drying granular materials	6
Low-carbon erosion mitigation using bio-stimulating MICP	5
Effect of interface conditions on mudmat bearing capacity under V–H–M loading	5
Three-dimensional dynamic behaviour of embankments on liquefiable ground	5
Assessing temperature dependence of soil water adsorption strength by molecular simulation	5
Stress-dependent irreversible volumetric contraction of sand due to thermal cycles	5
Coupled effects of stress state and void ratio on thermal conductivity of saturated soils	5
A study of the multi-scale compression behaviour of a sand immersed in a viscous liquid	4
Seismic stability charts for three-dimensional rock slopes using Hoek–Brown criterion	4
Simplified DEM approach for complex reef limestone structures and pore characteristics	4
Numerical analysis of the deep soil failure mechanism for perimeter pile groups	4
Géotechnique Letters: Referees 2021	4
Using discrete-element method hindcasting of screw pile performance for practical design	4
Particle shape descriptors as a tool for classification of grain breakage	4
Further modification of a generalised 3D Hoek–Brown criterion: the GZZ criterion	4
Effect of initial normal stress on shear-induced non-linear fluid flow through fractures	4
Numerical assessment of effects of strain rate on the critical state of crushable sand	4
Development and application of indoor digital drilling test systems	3
Relating cone penetration resistance to sand state using the material point method	3
Permeability of polymer-modified kaolinite and fly ash–kaolinite mixtures	3
Snakeskin-inspired patterns for frictional anisotropic behaviour of split set rock bolts	3
A simple procedure for freezing triaxial test specimens and determining the final moisture content after liquefaction	3
Strength and stiffness anisotropy of 3D-printed coarse root analogues for small-scale physical modelling	3
Effects of particle morphology on pore structure and SWRC of granular soils	3
A simple discrete approach to explore the response of swelling and softening particles	3
Static response of vertically loaded pile in inhomogeneous soil	3
Cyclic failure of interfaces between sand and snakeskin-inspired surfaces	3
Coriolis effect mitigation for single particle motion in centrifugal hypergravity field	3
Sustainable pervious concrete pile for liquefaction and reliquefaction mitigation	3
A new grouting cable without a core tube used for reinforcement of fractured rock mass	3
Small-strain stiffness and dynamic properties of well-graded gravel–rubber mixtures	3
The pyrite heave problem: new insights from trace-element analysis	3
Effect of saturation confining pressure on accessible density and shear behaviour of sandy silt tailings	3
Dynamic properties of Toyoura sand in reliquefaction tests	3
Evaluation of microstructural strength of bio-cemented sand crust using rheometry	3
Role of the particle size and shape dispersion on stress transmission and strain energy storage	2
Energy pile skin friction at interface in clays under temperature cycles	2
Liquefaction triggering of non-saturated sandy soils	2
Fish anchor diving behaviour: confirmation through field tests in the Swan River	2
Optimised screw pile design for offshore jacket foundations in medium–dense sand	2
Effects of initial water content on compression behaviour of municipal sewage sludge	2
A new method for producing uniform, loose, initially unsaturated specimens	2
Microscale investigation of bentonite distribution in pore spaces of sand after infiltration of stabilising solution	2
Cyclically thermally-activated pile under combined axial/horizontal loads in clay	2
Insights into void ratio redistribution during undrained monotonic shearing of Malaysian kaolin	2
Multi-scale damage mechanisms of siltstone under combined dry–wet cycling and cyclic loading	2
Site response analysis of liquefiable soil employing continuous wavelet transforms	2

Finite-element analysis of ultimate lateral pressure of snowflake pile in undrained clay	2
Pipe piles and split-cables: reinforcing weak mine pits	2
Assessing the undrained strength cross-anisotropy of three tailings types	2
Three-dimensional limit analysis with Lade–Duncan criterion	2
Variation of the mass susceptibility of sandstone after high-temperature heating	2
Sand improvement by microbial-induced carbonate precipitation with casein micelles	2
An innovative method to simulate stress-induced velocity changes in anisotropic rocks	2
Critical state shear strength at concrete–sand–bentonite slurry interfaces: mix proportions and rate effects	2