Othman Fallatah

926 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 576 citations indexed

About

Othman Fallatah is a scholar working on Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Geochemistry and Petrology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Othman Fallatah has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 576 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, 7 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Othman Fallatah's work include Radioactivity and Radon Measurements (7 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (7 papers) and Radioactive contamination and transfer (4 papers). Othman Fallatah is often cited by papers focused on Radioactivity and Radon Measurements (7 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (7 papers) and Radioactive contamination and transfer (4 papers). Othman Fallatah collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and United States. Othman Fallatah's co-authors include Mohammad Shamsudduha, Debra Perrone, Hansjörg Seybold, Ying Fan, Richard G. Taylor, Scott Jasechko, James W. Kirchner, Mohamed Ahmed, A. S. Akanda and Emad Ghandourah and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Othman Fallatah

20 papers receiving 562 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally

2024 253 citations Scott Jasechko, Hansjörg Seybold et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Othman Fallatah Saudi Arabia	10	173	152	130	112	89	20	576
Landon J. S. Halloran Switzerland	14	111 0.6×	206 1.4×	78 0.6×	29 0.3×	51 0.6×	30	492
Xinyi Wang China	15	48 0.3×	73 0.5×	102 0.8×	342 3.1×	168 1.9×	62	780
Abdulaziz M. Al‐Bassam Saudi Arabia	16	188 1.1×	280 1.8×	320 2.5×	16 0.1×	48 0.5×	36	629
Marco Pola Italy	13	42 0.2×	168 1.1×	105 0.8×	21 0.2×	41 0.5×	38	439
Atsunao Marui Japan	13	103 0.6×	265 1.7×	160 1.2×	36 0.3×	100 1.1×	69	592
Thierry Labasque France	19	190 1.1×	476 3.1×	391 3.0×	61 0.5×	58 0.7×	29	794
Travis McLing United States	13	66 0.4×	384 2.5×	194 1.5×	12 0.1×	71 0.8×	44	735
Taehee Kim South Korea	10	46 0.3×	300 2.0×	87 0.7×	48 0.4×	62 0.7×	45	472
Rébecca Hochreutener France	13	70 0.4×	350 2.3×	135 1.0×	14 0.1×	98 1.1×	17	650

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fallatah, Othman, et al.. (2025). Determination of radioactivity concentrations in phosphate ore and fertilizer to assess their radiological impacts using gamma spectrometry technique in Saudi Arabia. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 197(11). 1181–1181. 1 indexed citations

Al‐Hadeethi, Yas, et al.. (2024). Examination of radiation shielding features of Bi2O3 modified Lithium Zinc Silicate glass system. Radiation Physics and Chemistry. 226. 112291–112291. 1 indexed citations

Hafiz, Abdul, et al.. (2024). Malaria during COVID-19 Travel Restrictions in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 9(5). 112–112. 3 indexed citations

Jasechko, Scott, Hansjörg Seybold, Debra Perrone, et al.. (2024). Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally. Nature. 625(7996). 715–721. 253 indexed citations breakdown →

Al‐Hadeethi, Yas, et al.. (2024). Tailoring glass characteristics: Unveiling the impact of PbO and ZnO in Titanium-Barium borate glasses for advanced radiation protection. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 212. 111069–111069. 24 indexed citations

Fallatah, Othman, et al.. (2024). Adsorption rate of uranium and thorium isotopes in soil and plants grown in a high background radiation area. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. 60(4). 417–427. 1 indexed citations

Fallatah, Othman, et al.. (2023). Determination of Uranium Concentrations and 234U/238U Isotopic Ratios in Plants and the Groundwater Used in Their Cultivation in an Area with High Background Radiation. Sustainability. 15(2). 1590–1590. 7 indexed citations

Fallatah, Othman, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of Groundwater Quality and Suitability for Irrigation Purposes and Human Consumption in Saudi Arabia. Water. 15(13). 2352–2352. 20 indexed citations

Fallatah, Othman, et al.. (2023). Study of hydrogeochemical factors affecting groundwater quality used for land reclamation: application of multivariate statistical analysis. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 37(12). 4719–4735. 5 indexed citations

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Fallatah, Othman, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of Environmental Radioactivity and Hazard Impacts Saudi Arabia Granitic Rocks Used as Building Materials. Minerals. 13(2). 165–165. 8 indexed citations

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Fallatah, Othman, et al.. (2022). Factors controlling groundwater radioactivity in arid environments: An automated machine learning approach. The Science of The Total Environment. 830. 154707–154707. 14 indexed citations

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Ghandourah, Emad, Hitesh Panchal, Othman Fallatah, et al.. (2022). Performance enhancement and economic analysis of pyramid solar still with corrugated absorber plate and conventional solar still: A case study. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. 35. 101966–101966. 74 indexed citations

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Ghandourah, Emad, Ahmed Amine Daikh, Abdulsalam M. Alhawsawi, Othman Fallatah, & Mohamed A. Eltaher. (2022). Bending and Buckling of FG-GRNC Laminated Plates via Quasi-3D Nonlocal Strain Gradient Theory. Mathematics. 10(8). 1321–1321. 26 indexed citations

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Fallatah, Othman, et al.. (2021). Radiochemical technique optimization to measure uranium and thorium by α-spectrometry. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 328(3). 1077–1083. 8 indexed citations

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Aboud, Essam, et al.. (2021). Radiation hazards in selected areas in the Adham Governorate, southwest of Saudi Arabia. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 14(23). 3 indexed citations

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Mehboob, Khurram, et al.. (2020). Radioactivity and Radiation Hazard Indices Assessment for Phosphate Rock Samples from Al-Jalamid, Turaif, Umm Wu’al, and As-Sanam, Saudi Arabia. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 46(1). 779–792. 10 indexed citations

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Fallatah, Othman. (2019). Groundwater Quality Patterns and Spatiotemporal Change in Depletion in the Regions of the Arabian Shield and Arabian Shelf. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 45(1). 341–350. 24 indexed citations

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Fallatah, Othman, Mohamed Ahmed, Dawn Cardace, Thomas B. Boving, & A. S. Akanda. (2018). Assessment of modern recharge to arid region aquifers using an integrated geophysical, geochemical, and remote sensing approach. Journal of Hydrology. 569. 600–611. 54 indexed citations

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Akanda, A. S., et al.. (2017). Leveraging Earth Observations to Improve Data Resolution and Tracking of Sustainable Development Goals in Water Resources and Public Health. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Fallatah, Othman, Mohamed Ahmed, Himanshu Save, & A. S. Akanda. (2017). Quantifying temporal variations in water resources of a vulnerable middle eastern transboundary aquifer system. Hydrological Processes. 31(23). 4081–4091. 39 indexed citations

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