OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Earth-Science Reviews is 62. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	307
A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models	227
Plate tectonic modelling and the energy transition	227
Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco	223
Fringed Patagonian tableland: One of Earth's largest and oldest landslide terrains	221
Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds	211
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	209
Lithospheric weakspots, not hotspots: New England-Quebec and Shenandoah anorogenic magmatism in the context of global plate tectonics, intraplate stress and LIPs	208
Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates	204
Valley incision chronologies from alluvium-filled cave systems	188
Review of sediment connectivity: Conceptual connotations, characterization indicators, and their relationships with soil erosion and sediment yield	143
Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe	136
Sardinia and the Alpine cycle: A tectono-sedimentary history at the Western Tethys edge	136
Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the Western Block of North China: A new model	131
Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation	123
Geologic, geomorphic, tectonic, and paleoclimatic controls on the distribution and preservation of Chicxulub distal ejecta: A global perspective	120
Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole	119
Thermally driven organic-inorganic interactions in sedimentary basins: A review from source rocks to reservoirs	118
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]	114
Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review	113
Jolts in the Jade factory: A route for subduction fluids and their implications for mantle wedge seismicity	111
Representing the role of soil moisture on erosion resistance in sediment models: Challenges and opportunities	110
Research status and prospects of CO2 geological sequestration technology from onshore to offshore: A review	110
Moraine-dammed glacial lakes and threat of glacial debris flows in South-East Kazakhstan	105
Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC	103

New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates	102
Evolution of the East Gondwana convergent margin in Antarctica, southern Australia and New Zealand from the Neoproterozoic to latest Devonian	101
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	97
Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland	95
Crustal melting and suprasolidus phase equilibria: From first principles to the state-of-the-art	95
Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition	94
Early–middle Permian ecosystems of equatorial Pangaea: Integrated multi-stratigraphic and palaeontological review of the Permian of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean)	92
A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?	91
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)	88
Dynamics of Tethyan marine de‑oxygenation and relationship to S-N-P cycles during the Permian-Triassic boundary crisis	87
Influence of continental rifting on sedimentation and its provenance and geodynamic implications: An example from late Paleoproterozoic Chandil Formation, eastern India	85
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	83
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	83
Secular variability of the thermal regimes of continental flood basalts in large igneous provinces since the Late Paleozoic: Implications for the supercontinent cycle	83
Source-to-sink reconstruction of early Paleozoic Western Gondwana mega-scale alluvial systems	82
Antarctic mineral resources: Looking to the future of the Environmental Protocol	82
The End-Devonian Hangenberg Event and its aftermath in South China: Stratigraphic and sedimentary records from shallow to deep water facies	81
Early paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the Eastern Arctic and Siberia: Review of paleomagnetic and geologic data for the De Long Islands	81
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	80
The DC and AC global electric circuits and climate	78
Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history	77
A continental review of Australia's Cenozoic megafans and associated large accretionary fluvial systems	76
Sulfidic anoxia in the oceans during the Late Ordovician mass extinctions – insights from molybdenum and uranium isotopic global redox proxies	76
Incorporating cross-scale insights into colloid-facilitated radionuclide transport in fractured rocks: A critical review	76
What water color parameters could be mapped using MODIS land reflectance products: A global evaluation over coastal and inland waters	75
Evolution mechanisms, impacts, and variations of the vortices originated from the Tibetan Plateau	73
Research progress and current application of weak turbulence and turbulence intermittency in stable boundary layers	71
Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments	71
Multistage plate subduction controls intraplate volcanism and cratonic lithospheric thinning in Northeast Asia	70
Sulfuric acid caves of the world: A review	69
Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps	69
Clay minerals on Mars: An up-to-date review with future perspectives	68
Neoarchean SSZ and MOR ultra-/high-pressure ophiolitic mélanges of the Eastern Hebei Complex, North China Craton: Dynamics of an Archean paleo-subduction zone	68
Quantitative paleogeographical reconstructions and basin evolution of South China during the Ordovician	67
Schwertmannite: A review of its occurrence, formation, structure, stability and interactions with oxyanions	67
Nitrogen contamination and bioremediation in groundwater and the environment: A review	64
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	63
Subduction initiation as recorded in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc	62
The geomorphology of monoclinal scarps associated with interstratal-dissolution fronts in evaporite formations, illustrated with the Upper Jurassic Arab and Hith formations in Ar Riyadh and Central Sa	62