OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment is 20. 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
Cracking of unsaturated clays using a newly developed small-beam bending apparatus and analysis by digital image correlation	59
Experimental study on seepage–corrosion coupling characteristics of a single fracture in limestone subjected to acid mine drainage	40
Assessing swelling-induced damage in shale samples during triaxial testing	39
Proxy-based Bayesian inversion of strain tensor data measured during well tests	35
Effects of rate-dependent behavior of sandstone on performance of gas storage in aquifer	32
The hydro-mechanical characteristics and micro-structure of loess enhanced by microbially induced carbonate precipitation	31
How geomechanical attributes control the morphology of stylolites in carbonate sequences? A case from Permian–Triassic gas reservoirs in the Persian Gulf	29
The impacts of scaled capillary pressure combined with coupled flow and geomechanics on gas hydrate deposits	29
Comparative analysis of quasi-static penetration characteristics of slotted granite and intact granite	28
Fractal characteristics of rocks and mesoscopic fractures at different loading rates	26
Post-mining related reactivation potential of faults hosted in tight reservoir rocks around flooded coal mines, eastern Ruhr Basin, Germany	26
Shear strength and shear stiffness analysis of compacted Wyoming-type bentonite	26
Field tests on the prediction of heating power requirements for deicing in Jiangyin, China	25
Temperature dependence of soil-structure interface behaviour in the context of thermally-activated piles: A review	24
Effects of thermophysical parameters of fracturing fluid on hot dry rock damage in hydraulic fracturing	23
Coupling of a water permeability function with a bounding surface hydromechanical model for unsaturated soils	23
Influence of stress-level due to self-weight on the hydraulic conductivity of permeable concrete for geotechnical applications	23
Experimental and constitutive modeling of the anisotropic mechanical properties of shale subjected to thermal treatment	21
AC-assisted microbially induced carbonate precipitation for sand reinforcement: An experimental study	20
Engineering soil barriers to minimise annual shrinkage/swelling in plastic clays	20
Flow-geomechanics coupling constrains fault geometry in induced earthquakes	20
Modeling of coupled processes in full-scale engineered barrier system performance experiment at Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Japan	20
Single fluid-driven crack propagation in analogue rock assisted by chemical environment	20