OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Earth-Science Reviews is 64. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Lithospheric weakspots, not hotspots: New England-Quebec and Shenandoah anorogenic magmatism in the context of global plate tectonics, intraplate stress and LIPs	350
Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds	342
Fringed Patagonian tableland: One of Earth's largest and oldest landslide terrains	272
Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation	178
Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco	173
Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland	163
A review of new detrital zircon U-Pb ages from the Mogok area of Myanmar: Implications for the stratigraphy and early tectonic evolution of the Mogok Metamorphic Belt (MMB)	159
Geologic, geomorphic, tectonic, and paleoclimatic controls on the distribution and preservation of Chicxulub distal ejecta: A global perspective	152
Lower Palaeozoic-Paleogene geological development of a deep-water rift (Güzelsu Corridor) along the northern continental margin of the Southern Neotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region: Evidence	152
Plate tectonic modelling and the energy transition	145
Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the Western Block of North China: A new model	141
Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition	140
The closure of a marginal sea: from subduction to collision in the southern South China Sea	138
A systematic review of carbon sink pathways and deployment strategies	135
Understanding how fire impacts soil carbon and nutrient cycling: Toward standardized reporting of fire metrics for the integrated plant-soil system	131
Thermally driven organic-inorganic interactions in sedimentary basins: A review from source rocks to reservoirs	120
Nickel: Geochemistry, biochemistry and its role in chemical and biological evolutions	120
Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe	113
Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates	110
Review of sediment connectivity: Conceptual connotations, characterization indicators, and their relationships with soil erosion and sediment yield	108
Cycles of ∼32.5 My and ∼26.2 My in correlated episodes of continental flood basalts (CFBs), hyper-thermal climate pulses, anoxic oceans, and mass extinctions over the last 260 My: Connections between	105
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates	103
Innovations in underground hydrogen storage with multiphysics simulations, optimization, and monitoring: A review	97
A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?	96
Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review	95

Research status and prospects of CO2 geological sequestration technology from onshore to offshore: A review	94
Sardinia and the Alpine cycle: A tectono-sedimentary history at the Western Tethys edge	89
Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC	88
Valley incision chronologies from alluvium-filled cave systems	88
The Samail subduction zone dilemma: Geochronology of high-pressure rocks from the Saih Hatat window, Oman, reveals juxtaposition of two subduction zones with contrasting thermal histories	88
Multi-train roll waves, antidunes and bars in inclined flumes	87
A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models	87
CO2 sequestration in geological formations: Insights into mineral reactions and reservoir dynamics	83
Dynamics of Tethyan marine de‑oxygenation and relationship to S-N-P cycles during the Permian-Triassic boundary crisis	81
Early paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the Eastern Arctic and Siberia: Review of paleomagnetic and geologic data for the De Long Islands	80
The supercontinent cycle seen from a hafnium isotope perspective in the Mongolian Accretionary Collage	78
The Egéré Paleo-Mesoproterozoic rifted passive margin of the LATEA metacraton (Central Hoggar, Tuareg Shield, Algeria) subducted and exhumed during the Pan-African orogeny: U-Pb zircon ages, P-T-t pat	77
What water color parameters could be mapped using MODIS land reflectance products: A global evaluation over coastal and inland waters	77
The End-Devonian Hangenberg Event and its aftermath in South China: Stratigraphic and sedimentary records from shallow to deep water facies	76
Tectonic influence on the characteristics of contourite systems	76
A continental review of Australia's Cenozoic megafans and associated large accretionary fluvial systems	75
Research progress and current application of weak turbulence and turbulence intermittency in stable boundary layers	75
The DC and AC global electric circuits and climate	72
Petrogenetic interpretation of Archean low δ18O zircon: Implications for origin of continental crust on early Earth	72
Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history	70
Antarctic mineral resources: Looking to the future of the Environmental Protocol	70
Multistage plate subduction controls intraplate volcanism and cratonic lithospheric thinning in Northeast Asia	69
Hybrid volcanic rocks from Alech Hills, Saurashtra, western India- insight into the role of magma mixing in the evolution of Late Cretaceous Deccan Traps Volcanic Province	69
Evolution mechanisms, impacts, and variations of the vortices originated from the Tibetan Plateau	69
Sulfuric acid caves of the world: A review	69
Clay minerals on Mars: An up-to-date review with future perspectives	68
Quantitative paleogeographical reconstructions and basin evolution of South China during the Ordovician	68
Incorporating cross-scale insights into colloid-facilitated radionuclide transport in fractured rocks: A critical review	68
Comment on “Early Archean biogeochemical iron cycling and nutrient availability: New insights from a 3.5 Ga land-sea transition” by Clark M. Johnson, Xin-Yuan Zheng, Tara Djokic, Martin J. Van Kranend	68
Source-to-sink reconstruction of early Paleozoic Western Gondwana mega-scale alluvial systems	67
Neoarchean SSZ and MOR ultra-/high-pressure ophiolitic mélanges of the Eastern Hebei Complex, North China Craton: Dynamics of an Archean paleo-subduction zone	67
Planetary albedo and reflected shortwave flux: Basic characteristics, mechanisms of change and future projections	67
Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps	67
Subduction initiation as recorded in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc	67
Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments	67
Massive Jurassic slab break-off revealed by a multidisciplinary reappraisal of the Chon Aike silicic large igneous province	66
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of offshore Chinese Basins and its response to geodynamic processes of the East Asian Continental Margin	66
Global-scale constraints on the origins of aerosol iron using stable iron isotopes: A review	65
Review of paleoseismological records along the North Anatolian Fault (NW Türkiye), 1991–2025 CE	65