OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Geological Society is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Leaching behaviour of arsenic in coal under the action of mine water	66
Geometric morphometric analysis of Idiognathodus species across the Atokan–Desmoinesian boundary in north-central New Mexico, USA	48
Forensic geology and gold traceability: a case study from the Yanomami Indigenous Land	47
Xenotime reveals Caledonian hydrothermal overprint on Neoproterozoic Cu mineralization, East Greenland	35
Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of salt-influenced normal fault systems: an example from the Coffee-Soil Fault, Danish North Sea	30
Unsupervised classification applications in enhancing lithological mapping and geological understanding: a case study from Northern Ireland	29
Metamorphosed mélange in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis: constraint for the India–Asia collision in the Eocene	27
⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil	26
Surface rupture history and 18 kyr long slip rate along the Pazarcık segment of the East Anatolian Fault	23
On the anatomy and structural control of a dyke swarm that fed caldera-forming ignimbrite eruptions	20
U–Pb zircon–rutile dating of the Llangynog Inlier, Wales: constraints on an Ediacaran shallow-marine fossil assemblage from East Avalonia	19
The early history of the Neotethys archived in the ophiolitic mélange of northwestern Croatia	18
Different effects of serpentinite-derived and slab-derived fluids on arc magmatism in the Chinese Eastern Tianshan: evidence from Mg–B isotopic systematics	18
Tracing fluid exsolution and hydrothermal alteration signature of the Mufushan Nb–Ta–(Li–Be–Cs) deposit, South China: an apatite perspective	17
Late Paleozoic magmatism and foreland deformation associated with opening and closing of marginal basins in the North Patagonian Andes	16
Geochemistry and magmatic petrology of meta-ophiolites from the Bajgan Complex (Makran Accretionary Prism, SE Iran): new insights on the nature of the Early Cretaceous Middle East Neotethys	16
The Cuesta de Rahue Basement Inlier (Southern Neuquén Precordillera, Argentina): a Devonian to Triassic polyphase orogenic record in northern Patagonia	13
A geochemical and isotopic outline on the Alto Moxotó Terrane: a record of the best-preserved Paleoproterozoic crust in the central Borborema province, NE Brazil	12
Vast sediment dispersal in an inland sea: detrital zircon geochronology of the lower Cambrian Mickwitzia Sandstone (southern Sweden) indicates a Timanian source	12
Biostratigraphy v. geophysics; correlation of Middle Turonian chalks in the Anglo-Paris Basin	12
Red Sea rifting in central Egypt: constraints from the offshore Quseir province	12
Geologically and geophysically constrained kinematic model of the interaction between Mongolian and Kazakhstan collages and the Junggar Block indentation	12
Reproductive organs of a Grylloidea fossil from the Cretaceous Araripe Basin, Brazil	12
Remobilization of inverted normal faults drives active extension in the axial zone of the southern Apennine mountain belt (Italy)	12
Tectonic significance of a supra-ophiolitic sedimentary cover succession, Unst, Shetland, Scottish Caledonides: insights from the U–Pb–Hf detrital zircon record	11

LPIA palaeo-fjords: new insights from northern Namibia	11
New stratigraphic and palaeontological data from carbonates related to the Vourinos–Pindos ophiolite emplacement: implications for the provenance of the ophiolites (Hellenides)	10
Monitoring CO ₂ , CO and CH ₄ , affected or not by ventilation and anthropogenic activities, in the galleries of the Underground R	10
Double-folding and thrust-front geometries associated with the Timanian and Caledonian orogenies in the Varanger Peninsula, Finnmark, North Norway	10
Thermal history of the southern Antarctic Peninsula during Cenozoic oblique subduction	10
How do tectonics influence the initiation and evolution of submarine canyons? A case study from the Otway Basin, SE Australia	10
Detecting the late Frasnian semichatovae Event on the deep shelf of north Gondwana	10
Emplacement and landscape controls on ancient submarine volcanism: 3D seismic geomorphological analysis of Cretaceous volcanic activity in the Browse Basin, Australian North West Shelf	10
Geometrical restoration of a late Neoproterozoic depositional framework and an intrabasinal unconformity in the Laurentian margin Dalradian Supergroup, Grampian Highlands, Scotland	9
Extensional settings favour initial REE enrichment in the parent granites of ion-adsorption REE deposits: implications from Late Permian to Triassic granites in South China	9
Dating deformation: the role of atomic-scale processes	9
Effects of differential tectonic activities on overpressure evolution in the deep-water area of the Qiongdongnan Basin: implications for gas hydrate accumulation	9
The early evolution of the Neotethys in the eastern Mediterranean area: implication of new evidence from the Levant basin and margin	9
Magnetic fabric of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy mélanges: a tool for unravelling protracted histories of oceanic plates from seafloor spreading to tectonic emplacement into accretionary wedges	9
From electromagnetic to sediment textural maps: an integrated approach to unravel the intra-point-bar variability of sediment properties	9
Conjugate extrusion with dextral oblique-slip faulting in SE Tibet: new insights into Oligo-Miocene deformation	8
Timing of closure of the Jilin-Heilongjiang Ocean: constraints from zircon U–Pb and Ar–Ar dating of the Heilongjiang Complex in NE China	8
Field geology, petrology and geochronology of pluton–dyke systems: emplacement conditions of the Trapecio and Ushuaia peninsula dyke swarms (Fuegian Andes) and their relations with tectonics	8
Marine eutrophication within the Tarim Platform in sync with Middle to Late Ordovician climatic cooling	8
Two-phase intracontinental deformation mode in the context of India–Eurasia collision: insights from a structural analysis of the West Kunlun–Southern Junggar transect along the NW margin of the Tibet	8
Geology, geochemistry and zircon SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology of Mesoarchean high-Mg granitoids: constraints on petrogenesis, emplacement timing and deformation of the Água Limpa suite in the Carajás Pro	8
Magma accumulation underneath Laacher See volcano from detrital zircon in modern streams	8
Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon, SW England	8
Latest Oligocene adakitic rocks in western Iran: implications for early crustal thickening and tectonic evolution of the Iran Block	8
Pleistocene deformation of the Malargüe fold–thrust belt from structural modelling and geochronology of syntectonic sedimentation	8
Early Neoproterozoic (Tonian) subduction-related magmatism and tectonothermal activity in Shetland and northern mainland Scotland: implications for the tectonic evolution of NE Laurentia and Rodinia r	8
Deep- versus shallow-marine sandstone provenance in the mid-Carboniferous Clare Basin, western Ireland	8
Mineral chemistry and melt evolution of the mantle wedge peridotites in the Late Cretaceous Zagros Belt ophiolites (Iran): clues for the subduction initiation-induced forearc magmatism	8
Using U–Pb carbonate dating to constrain the timing of extension and fault reactivation within the Bristol Channel Basin, SW England	7
The timing of vein hosted copper mineralization and its structural setting in the Upper Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of Southwest Ireland	7
Meteorites that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions	7
Large-scale variability in style and magnitude of footwall rift-related unconformities, northern Carnarvon Basin, offshore NW Australia	7
Is the Ibero-Armorican Arc primary or secondary? An analysis of the contraction required to form it by rotation around a vertical axis	7
Jurassic tectonic regime transition of the southwestern Yangtze block, SW China: evidence from sedimentary provenance analysis	7
Basin evolution in response to flat-slab subduction in the Altiplano	7
Palaeomagnetic investigations across Hinlopenstretet border zone: from Caledonian metamorphosed rocks of Ny Friesland to foreland facies of Nordaustlandet (NE Svalbard)	7
New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland	7
Coherent underplating of HP–LT blueschist packages and basement during Hellenic subduction recorded by zircon U–Pb data, Pelion, Greece	7
The Revsegg and Kvitenut allochthons, Scandinavian Caledonides: origins and evolution in the Caledonian Wilson cycle	7
Organic geochemistry of in situ thermal-based analyses on Mars: the importance and influence of minerals	7
Age and provenance of the Middle Jurassic Norphlet Formation of south Texas: stratigraphic relationship to the Louann Salt and regional significance	7
Superimposed Variscan and Alpine deformation in the basement rocks of southern Andorra, central Pyrenees	6
The ad 79 Vesuvius eruption revisited: Plinian and post-Plinian falls	6
Multiple stages of continental rifting in Eastern Peninsular Malaysia: new insights from Jurassic–Cretaceous granitoids	6
The tectonostratigraphic evolution of a Miocene half-graben, Kerio Valley Basin, East African Rift of Kenya: analysis of a 3 km thick volcano-sedimentary succession	6
Exhumation of the crustal-scale Gaoligong strike-slip shear belt in SE Asia	6
The Charnwood Terrane revisited: an integrated petrogenetic and petrophysical model for crustal structure in southern Britain	6
Early Neoproterozoic magmatism and Caledonian metamorphism recorded by the Mårma terrane, Seve Nappe Complex, northern Swedish Caledonides	6
Underthrusting of continental lithospheric mantle controls architecture of crustal deformation: Numerical modeling of the northern margin of the Tibetan plateau	6
Zircon U–Pb dating and geochemistry of intrusive rocks in the Shangdan suture zone of the Qinling Orogenic Belt: petrogenesis and tectonic implications	6

Debris-slides, olistoliths and turbidites: keys to understanding the tectonostratigraphic affinities of a terrane block in a young orogenic belt, Timor-Leste	6
Cambrian ages for metavolcanic rocks in the Lower Köli Nappes, Swedish Caledonides: implications for the status of the Virisen arc terrane	6
Detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf analyses of Silurian–Devonian sediments in the Sukhothai Terrane, northern Thailand: implications for the Mid-Paleozoic arc belt	6
A new stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of Scotland	5
Rift propagation in south Tibet controlled by under-thrusting of India: a case study of the Tangra Yumco graben (south Tibet)	5
Lithofacies and depositional model of organic-rich lacustrine mudstone: a case study of the second member of the Eocene Liushagang Formation in the Weixinan Sag, Beibuwan Basin, China	5
Geochronology and thermal history of the Mount Everest massif	5
The illite and organic matter archive of the Late Palaeozoic to Mesozoic tectonothermal evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula	5
Salt extrusion kinematics: insights from existing data, morphology and InSAR modelling of the active emergent Anguru diapir in the Zagros fold and thrust belt, Iran	5
Seismic investigations around an aseismic Comorin ridge, Indian Ocean	5
Migration and tectonic implications of Late Jurassic mafic magmatism in South China	5
The making of slab breakoff	5
Intracontinental deformation around the fixed tip of the continental-scale, strike-slip Tan–Lu fault zone in eastern China	5
Granitioids record the final assembly of the China-Mongolia Block	5
Silicate weathering, land plants and cooling in the late Silurian and early Devonian	5
The impact of faulting-induced uplift and subsidence on terrace formation and abandonment: a case study of the Huangshui River, NE Tibetan Plateau	5
Strike-slip overprinting of initial co-axial shortening within the toe region of a submarine landslide and a model for basal shear surface growth: a case study from the Angoche Basin, offshore Mozambi	5
Early Cretaceous ocean-island basalt-type magmatism in northern Guangdong: implications for lithospheric thinning in the South China Block	5
The journey of the Band-e-Zeyarat ophiolite (Makran Accretionary Wedge, SE Iran) from the mid-ocean ridge to the accretionary complex: new insights from its sedimentary cover and associated basaltic d	5
Record of Late Oligocene silicic volcanism in the Hrvatsko Zagorje Basin, Croatia: insights from U–Pb zircon geochronology and volcanology	5
The Life of Mary Anning, Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis: a Contemporary Biographical Memoir by George Roberts	5
Paleozoic sedimentation and Caledonian terrane architecture in NW Svalbard: indications from U–Pb geochronology and structural analysis	5
Improving quantitative ventifact analysis for climate investigations using the Dyngjusandur sandsheet in Iceland as a planetary analogue	5
Constraining the exhumation history of the northwestern margin of Tibet with a comparison to the adjacent Pamir	5
Significance of the Paleocene olistostrome–turbidite belt (Abant Formation) along the Intra-Pontide Suture, northern Turkey	5
Age and origin of accreted ocean plate stratigraphy in the North Qilian belt, NE Tibet Plateau: evidence from microfossils and geochemistry of cherts and siltstones	5
A new bivalved arthropod from the Cambrian (Stage 3) Qingjiang biota expands the palaeogeographical distribution and increases the diversity of Tuzoiidae	5
The spatial distribution of igneous centres along the Norwegian Atlantic Margin (Møre and Vøring) and their relationship to magmatic plumbing systems	4
Virtual outcrop-based analysis of channel and crevasse splay sandstone body architecture in the Middle Jurassic Ravenscar Group, Yorkshire, NE England	4
Tectonic evolution of the Alxa region, NW China: from a Precambrian continental ribbon to a Paleozoic–early Triassic accretionary orogen	4
Discoidal carbonaceous compressions from the early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation: a fossil example of microbial biofilm	4
Comprehensive assessment of A-type granite from south Sinai, Egypt: geochemistry, zircon geochemistry and geochronology	4
Mississippian olistostromes of Iberia revisited: tectonic drivers of synorogenic carbonate platform/reef destruction	4
The sulfur isotopic consequence of seawater sulfate distillation preserved in the Neoproterozoic Sete Lagoas post-glacial carbonate, eastern Brazil	4
Primary tissues dominated ground-level trunk diameter in Sigillaria : evidence from the Wuda Tuff, Inner Mongolia	4
The Gogo Formation Lagerstätte: a view of Australia's first great barrier reef	4
Early Jurassic and Late Cretaceous plagiogranites in Nain–Baft ophiolitic mélange zone in Iran: remnants of rift–drift and SSZ evolution of a Neotethyan seaway	4
Palmatolepis gracilis expansa Zone and Bispathodus aculeatus aculeatus Zone conodonts from the Three Lick Bed at the type locality, Ohio Shale, Upper	4
Beyond the Akiyoshi Orogeny: unravelling overturned structures and tectonic processes in the Permian accretionary complex of the Mine-Akiyoshidai area, Yamaguchi, western Japan	4
Where and when the Palaeo-Asian Ocean was closed: new evidence from the Tuquan ophiolite	4
An integrated convolutional neural network prediction framework for in situ shale oil content based on conventional logging data	4
Fold-and-thrust belts and associated basins: a perspective on their structure, sedimentation, and dynamics	4
Reassessing the timing of high-strain deformation in the Strangways Metamorphic Complex, Central Australia, by in situ mica Rb–Sr and titanite U–Pb geochronology	4
Facies models for rocky shorelines and their application to transgressed basement highs in the North Sea	4
The assembly of Pangaea: geodynamic conundrums revisited	4
Jurassic tectonics of northeastern Gondwana: evidence from the detrital zircon record of the Nambour Basin	4
Coupling of X-ray fluorescence and strontium isotopes to track the influence of brine in continental deposits: study of Oligocene sediments in the Digne area (SE basin, France)	4
High-precision U–Pb geochronology of the Lundy igneous complex: implications for North Atlantic volcanism and the far-field Paleocene–Eocene ash record	4
The Ouarzazate Supergroup and its plutonic keel: the relicts of an Ediacaran silicic large igneous province in North Africa	4
A conceptual geological model for offshore wind sites in former ice stream settings: the Utsira Nord site, North Sea	4
Probably proximal pebbles? An outcrop-constrained quantitative analysis of clast transport distances in the lower Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, UK	4
An Early Permian transpressional continental arc and arc–arc collision recorded in the Baidunzi Complex, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, NW China	4
The Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa: integrating fossil and phylogenomic data	4
The naming of the Permian System	4
Metamorphic and chronological records of early Permian continental collision in Beni Bousera granulites (Internal Rif belt): implications for the tectonic evolution of northern Morocco during Pangea c	4
Discussion on ‘ Tabelliscolex (Cricocosmiidae: Palaeoscolecidomorpha) from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota and the evolution of seriation in Ecdysozoa’ by Shi	4
Early Paleozoic intermediate igneous rocks in the Dunhuang Block, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: geochronology, petrogenesis, and implications for tectonic evolution	4
Exceptionally preserved burrows of ichnogenus Asterosoma from the lower Silurian of south China: systematic ichnology, palaeoecology and implications for ecosystem recov	4