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Mine drainage and remediation techniques

Mine drainage and remediation techniques is a research topic within Environmental Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the remediation and biogeochemical aspects of acid mine drainage, covering topics such as sulfate-reducing bacteria, metal removal mechanisms, passive treatment in bioreactors, geochemistry, mineralogy, and environmental impacts. The research explores various options for preventing, treating, and recovering resources from acid mine drainage, with a particular emphasis on the ecological and biotechnological approaches.

  • Remediation
  • Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria
  • Metal Removal
  • Bioreactors
  • Sulfide Precipitation
  • Passive Treatment
  • Geochemistry
  • Mineralogy
  • Wetlands
  • Environmental Impacts
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mine drainage and remediation techniques

Which countries lead Mine drainage and remediation techniques research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 289 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 United States 289 works
  3. 3 India 146 works
  4. 4 Canada 142 works
  5. 5 Australia 114 works
  6. 6 Spain 104 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 99 works
  8. 8 Brazil 90 works
  9. 9 Germany 87 works
  10. 10 South Africa 83 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 52.2%United States: 12.0%India: 6.1%Canada: 5.9%6 others listed: 23.9%52%largest
China1,262 · 52.2%United States289 · 12.0%India146 · 6.1%Canada142 · 5.9%6 others listed578 · 23.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Mine drainage and remediation techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Mine drainage and remediation techniques research, followed by Central South University and China University of Mining and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 87 works
  2. 2 Central South UniversityChina 60 works
  3. 3 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 58 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 37 works
  5. 5 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 35 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 33 works
  7. 7 China University of GeosciencesChina 30 works
  8. 8 Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 27 works
  9. 9 China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China 23 works
  10. 10 Universidad de HuelvaSpain 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mine drainage and remediation techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mine drainage and remediation techniques include Michaël Grätzel, Sudhir Kumar and Mark A. Bradford.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations
  3. 3 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  4. 4 John Hardy United Kingdom 243k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  7. 7 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  8. 8 Menachem Elimelech United States 151k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Mine drainage and remediation techniques?

The most cited paper in Mine drainage and remediation techniques is "Mehlich 3 soil test extractant: A modification of Mehlich 2 extractant" (Adolf Mehlich, 1984), with 5,643 citations. Next come "Significant Acidification in Major Chinese Croplands" (3,961) and "Equilibrium and nonequilibrium oxygen isotope effects in synthetic carbonates" (2,642).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mehlich 3 soil test extractant: A modification of Mehlich 2 extractant Adolf Mehlich · Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis Dec 1984 5,643
2 Significant Acidification in Major Chinese Croplands Jingheng Guo, Xu Liu, Ying Zhang et al. · Science 11 Feb 2010 3,961
3 Equilibrium and nonequilibrium oxygen isotope effects in synthetic carbonates Sang‐Tae Kim, James R. O’Neil · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Aug 1997 2,642
4 The ecology and biotechnology of sulphate-reducing bacteria Gerard Muyzer, Alfons J. M. Stams · Nature Reviews Microbiology ReviewOpen access 7 May 2008 2,481
5 Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment Gene W. Tyson, Jarrod Chapman, Philip Hugenholtz et al. · Nature Feb 2004 2,466
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Mine drainage and remediation techniques research done?

The largest centres of Mine drainage and remediation techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Changsha (China), Wuhan (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Huelva and Xuzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 278 works
  2. 2 ChangshaChina 80 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 75 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 62 works
  5. 5 XuzhouChina 60 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 54 works
  7. 7 KunmingChina 38 works
  8. 8 GuiyangChina 34 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 34 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HuelvaES · 21.0 works57×
  2. XuzhouCN · 60.5 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mine drainage and remediation techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mine drainage and remediation techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Central South University and China University of Mining and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 18.8%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Scienc…China University of …Central South Univer…China University of …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 84.024.8%14.9×35 +78.6%
2Central South UniversityChina 76.014.4%10.3×60 +41.4%
3China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 73.612.9%24.6×58 +130.2%
4China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China 71.518.5%26.3×23 +74.1%
5Northeastern UniversityChina 67.823.7%6.6×18 +30.2%
6Université Mohammed VI PolytechniqueMorocco 67.821.0%37.4×10 +259.6%
7China University of GeosciencesChina 65.912.9%22.1×30 +13.8%
8Liaoning Technical UniversityChina 61.626.2%21.2×11 +135.1%
9Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.513.8%15.7×27 +123.2%
10South China University of TechnologyChina 58.719.8%4.4×15 +26.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Mine drainage and remediation techniques, country by country

Is Mine drainage and remediation techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mine drainage and remediation techniques.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Mine drainage and remediation techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Mine drainage and remediation techniques over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Mine drainage and remediation techniques10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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