OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Earth-Science Reviews is 65. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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	316
A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models	238
Plate tectonic modelling and the energy transition	237
Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco	233
Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds	231
Sardinia and the Alpine cycle: A tectono-sedimentary history at the Western Tethys edge	218
Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates	216
Lithospheric weakspots, not hotspots: New England-Quebec and Shenandoah anorogenic magmatism in the context of global plate tectonics, intraplate stress and LIPs	214
Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition	212
Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland	195
Geologic, geomorphic, tectonic, and paleoclimatic controls on the distribution and preservation of Chicxulub distal ejecta: A global perspective	160
Thermally driven organic-inorganic interactions in sedimentary basins: A review from source rocks to reservoirs	147
Comment on the paper by Barreca et al.: “The Strait of Messina: Seismotectonics and the source of the 1908 earthquake” [Earth-Science Reviews 218, 2021, 103685]	146
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)	136
Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe	129
Crustal melting and suprasolidus phase equilibria: From first principles to the state-of-the-art	127
Valley incision chronologies from alluvium-filled cave systems	120
Evolution of the East Gondwana convergent margin in Antarctica, southern Australia and New Zealand from the Neoproterozoic to latest Devonian	120
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	117
Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC	116
Jolts in the Jade factory: A route for subduction fluids and their implications for mantle wedge seismicity	115
A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?	114
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	112
Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review	109
Representing the role of soil moisture on erosion resistance in sediment models: Challenges and opportunities	105

Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole	104
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates	104
Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the Western Block of North China: A new model	101
Review of sediment connectivity: Conceptual connotations, characterization indicators, and their relationships with soil erosion and sediment yield	100
Early–middle Permian ecosystems of equatorial Pangaea: Integrated multi-stratigraphic and palaeontological review of the Permian of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean)	99
Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation	98
Fringed Patagonian tableland: One of Earth's largest and oldest landslide terrains	96
Research status and prospects of CO2 geological sequestration technology from onshore to offshore: A review	96
Dynamics of Tethyan marine de‑oxygenation and relationship to S-N-P cycles during the Permian-Triassic boundary crisis	95
Moraine-dammed glacial lakes and threat of glacial debris flows in South-East Kazakhstan	95
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	90
Influence of continental rifting on sedimentation and its provenance and geodynamic implications: An example from late Paleoproterozoic Chandil Formation, eastern India	90
Secular variability of the thermal regimes of continental flood basalts in large igneous provinces since the Late Paleozoic: Implications for the supercontinent cycle	87
Some notes on the interpretation and reliability of malacological proxies in paleotemperature reconstructions from loess- comments to Obreht et al.'s “A critical reevaluation of paleoclimate proxy rec	85
Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments	84
Neoarchean SSZ and MOR ultra-/high-pressure ophiolitic mélanges of the Eastern Hebei Complex, North China Craton: Dynamics of an Archean paleo-subduction zone	84
Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps	83
Multistage plate subduction controls intraplate volcanism and cratonic lithospheric thinning in Northeast Asia	83
Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history	83
Source-to-sink reconstruction of early Paleozoic Western Gondwana mega-scale alluvial systems	81
Sulfidic anoxia in the oceans during the Late Ordovician mass extinctions – insights from molybdenum and uranium isotopic global redox proxies	80
The End-Devonian Hangenberg Event and its aftermath in South China: Stratigraphic and sedimentary records from shallow to deep water facies	80
Sulfuric acid caves of the world: A review	80
Quantitative paleogeographical reconstructions and basin evolution of South China during the Ordovician	79
Subduction initiation as recorded in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc	79
Early paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the Eastern Arctic and Siberia: Review of paleomagnetic and geologic data for the De Long Islands	75
What water color parameters could be mapped using MODIS land reflectance products: A global evaluation over coastal and inland waters	75
A continental review of Australia's Cenozoic megafans and associated large accretionary fluvial systems	75
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	74
The DC and AC global electric circuits and climate	73
Research progress and current application of weak turbulence and turbulence intermittency in stable boundary layers	72
Evolution mechanisms, impacts, and variations of the vortices originated from the Tibetan Plateau	71
Paleogeographic evolution of a Carboniferous–Permian sea in the southernmost part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, NW China: Evidence from microfacies, provenance and paleobiogeography	70
Incorporating cross-scale insights into colloid-facilitated radionuclide transport in fractured rocks: A critical review	69
Schwertmannite: A review of its occurrence, formation, structure, stability and interactions with oxyanions	69
Antarctic mineral resources: Looking to the future of the Environmental Protocol	68
Nitrogen contamination and bioremediation in groundwater and the environment: A review	68
Clay minerals on Mars: An up-to-date review with future perspectives	67
The Devonian System in northwestern Gondwana: Focus on Colombia	66
Impacts of fungus-growing termites on surficial geology parameters: A review	66
Metallogeny of Late Paleozoic lode gold mineralization of western Tien Shan: From orogenic shortening to intracontinental strike-slip shearing	65