OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Science is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Late Neoarchean magmatic – metamorphic event and crustal stabilization in the North China Craton	31
Presentation and applications of mixing elements and dissolved isotopes in rivers (MEANDIR), a customizable MATLAB model for Monte Carlo inversion of dissolved river chemistry	20
Reconsidering the uplift history and peneplanation of the northern Lhasa terrane, Tibet	18
Constraints on surface temperature 3.4 billion years ago based on triple oxygen isotopes of cherts from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, and the problem of sample selection	16
Simulating meteoric and mixing zone carbonate diagenesis with a two-dimensional reactive transport model	16
A process-based ecosystem model (Paleo-BGC) to simulate the dynamic response of Late Carboniferous plants to elevated O₂ and aridification	16
Deciphering paleogeography from orogenic architecture: Constructing orogens in a future supercontinent as thought experiment	15
The complexities of Mesoarchean to late Paleoproterozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Qixia area, eastern North China Craton: Geology, geochemistry and SHRIMP U-Pb zircon dating	12
India in the Nuna to Gondwana supercontinent cycles: Clues from the north Indian and Marwar Blocks	12
Late Paleozoic tectonic transition from subduction to collision in the Chinese Altai and Tianshan (Central Asia): New geochronological constraints	10
On carbon burial and net primary production through Earth's history	10
Determination of an intracontinental transform system along the southern Central Asian orogenic belt in the latest Paleozoic	10
Rock weathering and nutrient cycling along an erodosequence	10
Interpreting silicon isotopes in the Critical Zone	8
Carbon cycle evolution before and after the Great Oxidation of the atmosphere	8
Zircon U-Pb geochronology and Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry of Blue Ridge basement in the eastern Great Smoky Mountains, U.S.A.: Implications for the Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the southeastern La	8
Reconstructing lost plates of the Panthalassa Ocean through paleomagnetic data from circum-Pacific accretionary orogens	8
Weathering intensity and lithium isotopes: A reactive transport perspective	8
Quantifying biotic and abiotic Si fluxes in the Critical Zone with Ge/Si ratios along a gradient of erosion rates	8
The role of vegetation in setting strontium stable isotope ratios in the Critical Zone	8
Understanding the isotopic composition of sedimentary sulfide: A multiple sulfur isotope diagenetic model for Aarhus Bay	7
Detrital zircon provenance of the Archean Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa and Eswatini	6
Early Cretaceous solar cycles recorded in lacustrine laminations in North China	6
From Gondwana rifting to Alpine orogeny: Detrital zircon geochronologic and provenance signals from the Kopet Dagh Basin (NE Iran)	5
Paleoaltimetry of the Western Andes in Northern Chile (∼18.5–19.5°S)	5

A Laurentian cratonic reference from the distal Proterozoic basement of Western Newfoundland using tandem in situ and isotope dilution U-pb zircon and titanite geochronology	5
The complex response of continental silicate rock weathering to the colonization of the continents by vascular plants in the Devonian	5
Silurian-Devonian tectonic evolution of mid-coastal Maine, U.S.A.: Details of polyphase orogenic processes	5
Proterozoic-Mesozoic development of the Quanji block from northern Tibet and the cratonic assembly of eastern Asia	5
Tectonics and foreland basin development at the leading edge of the Humber Arm Allochthon, western Newfoundland, Canadian Appalachians	5
Determining the origin of inclusions in garnet: Challenges and new diagnostic criteria	5
The role of the solid earth in regulating atmospheric O₂ levels	5