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Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis
H-index 11

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

1467-7873

Published by: Geological Society of London

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/geea

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 321 34 48 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 40
Documents by Best Scientists*: 55
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 52
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.401
Impact Factor: 1.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Geochemistry-exploration Environment Analysis?

The discussions in the journal mainly cover the fields of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Mineralization (geology), Soil water and Environmental chemistry. While Geochemistry-exploration Environment Analysis focused on Geochemistry, it was also able to explore topics like Bedrock and Groundwater. The studies in Mineralogy featured incorporate elements of Aqua regia, Carbonate, Sediment and Mineral.

Geochemistry-exploration Environment Analysis connects research in Sediment with the related topic of Hydrology. Drainage basin is a focus of the presented Hydrology works and it dives deep in Drainage basin. It focuses on Mineralization (geology) research as part of the broader topic of Hydrothermal circulation.

Some problems in Soil water that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Contamination and Extraction (chemistry). The research on Environmental chemistry featured in it combines topics in other fields like Tailings, Smelting, Metal, Pollution and Mercury (element). The study on Weathering featured in it expounds on the topic of Saprolite in particular.

  • Geochemistry (44.71%)
  • Mineralogy (27.95%)
  • Mineralization (geology) (17.67%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Routine quantitative multi-element analysis of sulphide minerals by laser ablation ICP-MS: Standard development and consideration of matrix effects (187 citations)
  • The interpretation of geochemical survey data (178 citations)
  • Finding deeply buried deposits using geochemistry (152 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Geochemistry-exploration Environment Analysis:

The most cited publications tackle a plethora of topics, such as Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Soil water, Sediment and Environmental chemistry. The journal articles address concerns in Geochemistry which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Bedrock and Mineralization (geology), Hydrothermal circulation. The Soil water research tackled in the published papers is interrelated with Pollution which concerns subjects like Mining engineering.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Ecology
  • Statistics
  • Mineral

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Geochemistry-exploration Environment Analysis is mainly concerned with subjects like Geochemistry, Uranium, Uranium ore, Structural basin and Sulfide. The journal addresses concerns in Geochemistry which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Mineralization (geology), Fluid inclusions and China. The journal holds forums on Uranium that merges themes from other disciplines such as Inorganic chemistry and Shear zone.

While it mainly focused on Sulfide studies, it also tackled the scientific discipline of interrelated fields such as

  • Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry which intersects with area such as Groundwater, Sulfide minerals, Carbonate minerals and Filtration,
  • Tailings which intersects with area such as Environmental chemistry, Fraction (chemistry), Arsenic, Water quality and Leaching (agriculture).. The tackled Plateau research is interrelated with Water content which concerns subjects like Soil water. Geochemistry-exploration Environment Analysis focuses on Mineralogy but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Phosphate mining, Multivariate statistics and Matrix (geology).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Interpretation of buried basement in the southwestern Athabasca Basin, Canada, from integrated geophysical and geological datasets (4 citations)
  • Efficiency of acid digestion procedures for geochemical analysis of tungsten mining wastes (3 citations)
  • Structural evolution and related implications for uranium mineralization in the Patterson Lake corridor, southwestern Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada (3 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Geochemistry-exploration Environment Analysis (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Gwendy E.M. Hall (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Matthew I. Leybourne (17 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Christopher J. Oates (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Clifford R. Stanley (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Robert G. Garrett (14 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Geochemistry-exploration Environment Analysis (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Geological Survey of Canada (83 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (55 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Queen's University (37 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • United States Geological Survey (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Acadia University (21 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 6.06% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 32.26% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.68% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 12.90% of all publications and 45.16% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • State-of-the-art analysis of geochemical data for mineral exploration

    E. C. Grunsky;E. C. Grunsky;P. de Caritat;P. de Caritat

    (2020)
    151 Citations
  • Recent advances in the application of mineral chemistry to exploration for porphyry copper–gold–molybdenum deposits: detecting the geochemical fingerprints and footprints of hypogene mineralization and alteration

    David R. Cooke;Paul Agnew;Pete Hollings;Michael Baker

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Geochemical exploration for lithium in NE Iran using the geochemical mapping prospectivity index, staged factor analysis, and a fractal model

    Hassan Saadati;Peyman Afzal;Habibollah Torshizian;Ali Solgi

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • The National Geochemical Survey of Australia: review and impact

    (2022)
    21 Citations
  • Fluid evolution along the Patterson Lake corridor in the southwestern Athabasca Basin: constraints from fluid inclusions and implications for unconformity-related uranium mineralization

    M. Rabiei;G. Chi;E. G. Potter;V. Tschirhart

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • The use of pXRF for light element geochemical analysis: a review of hardware design limitations and an empirical investigation of air, vacuum, helium flush and detector window technologies

    Cameron Adams;Christabel Brand;Michael Dentith;Marco Fiorentini

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Quantitative prediction of prospectivity for Pb–Zn deposits in Guangxi (China) by back-propagation neural network and fuzzy weights-of-evidence modelling

    (2022)
    16 Citations
  • Classification of pyrite types using fractal and stepwise factor analyses in the Chah Zard gold-silver epithermal deposit, Central Iran

    Hossein Kouhestani;Majid Ghaderi;Peyman Afzal;Khin Zaw

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • Modeling spatial uncertainty of geochemical anomalies using fractal and sequential indicator simulation methods

    (2022)
    13 Citations
  • Hydrogeochemistry of porphyry-related solutes in ground and surface waters; an example from the Casino Cu–Au–Mo deposit, Yukon, Canada

    (2022)
    12 Citations

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