OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Proceedings of the Geologists Association is 3. 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
A review of Citizen Science within the Earth Sciences: potential benefits and obstacles	37
Geodiversity: a significant, multi-faceted and evolving, geoscientific paradigm rather than a redundant term	36
First inventory and assessment of the Geoheritage of Zagora province from the project Bani Geopark (South-Eastern Morocco)	15
Late Triassic island dwarfs? Terrestrial tetrapods of the Ruthin fissure (South Wales, UK) including a new genus of procolophonid	15
Fish and crab coprolites from the latest Triassic of the UK: From Buckland to the Mesozoic Marine Revolution	14
Review on processes and management of saltmarshes across Great Britain	13
Bottom-up strategy for the use of geological heritage by local communities: Approach in the “Litoral del Biobío” Mining Geopark project (Chile)	12
Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and geochemistry across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary transition at Carnduff, County Antrim, Northern Ireland	11
Mass flow and hydrofracturing during Late Devensian moraine emplacement, NE Scotland	9
Edentulous pterosaurs from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of eastern England with a review of Ornithostoma Seeley, 1871	9
The minerals ikaite and its pseudomorph glendonite: Historical perspective and legacies of Douglas Shearman and Alec K. Smith	9
Beginning of Mesozoic marine overstep of the Mendips: The Rhaetian and its fauna at Hapsford Bridge, Vallis Vale, Somerset, UK	8
Zoophycos and related trace fossils from the Chefar El Ahmar Formation, Upper Emsian-Frasnian Ia-Ib (Ougarta, SW Algeria)	8
†Laticephalana liuyani gen. et sp. nov., a new bizarre roachoid of †Umenocoleidae (Insecta, Dictyoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	8
The age and formation mechanisms of Late Triassic fissure deposits, Gloucestershire, England: Comments on Mussini, G. et al. (2020). Anatomy of a Late Triassic Bristol fissure: Tytherington fissure 2	8
Variations in esker morphology and internal architecture record time-transgressive deposition during ice margin retreat in Northern Ireland	8
Absence of regional stratigraphic hiatus in the late Carboniferous (Asturian - Stephanian) in the northern Variscan foreland: a review of the bio- and lithostratigraphical evidence in central england	8
Do soft sediment deformations in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic of the UK record seismic activity during the break-up of Pangea?	8
Life and death in the Jurassic seas of Dorset, Southern England	7
Palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of Early Cretaceous belemnites from the northern high latitudes	7
Geological and geomorphological influences on a recent debris flow event in the Ice-scoured Mountain Quaternary domain, western Scotland	7
Ammonites from the Lias Group (Lower Jurassic, Sinemurian and Pliensbachian) of White Park Bay, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland	7
Investigating lithic scatters in arid environments: The Early and Middle Stone Age in Namibia	7
The first Surijokocixiidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from the Triassic of China	7
Carbon isotopes, ammonites and earthquakes: Key Triassic-Jurassic boundary events in the coastal sections of south-east County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK	6

The youngest records of mosasaurid reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous of the South-Western Desert in Egypt	6
Significance of crinoid preservation: Clare Shale Formation (Upper Carboniferous), Fisherstreet Bay, Doolin, County Clare, Ireland	6
New haramiyidan and reptile fossils from a Rhaetian bedded sequence close to the famous ‘Microlestes’ Quarry of Holwell, UK	5
Observations of the dinoflagellate Wetzeliella in Sparnacian facies (Eocene) near Epernay, France, and a note on tricky acmes of Apectodinium	5
Uppermost Triassic to Lower Jurassic sediments of the island of Ireland and its surrounding basins	5
Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian basal bone bed of Saltford, near Bath, SW England	5
The Kula–Salihli UNESCO Geopark: Spectacular records of Quaternary volcanism, fluvial and landscape evolution and Quaternary environmental change	5
Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian bone beds at Westbury Garden Cliff, near Gloucester, UK	5
Control of the Paleogene sedimentary record of the Anglo-Paris Basin by both the Iceland mantle plume and the Massif Central hotspot	5
Palaeoecological patterns of change in marine invertebrate faunas across the End-Triassic mass extinction event: Evidence from Larne, Northern Ireland	5
The Callander (Auchenlaich) moraine: A new site report for the Western Highland Boundary block of the Quaternary of Scotland Geological Conservation Review (GCR)	4
Allogenic and autogenic controls on facies and stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Jurassic Mashabba Formation, Gebel Al-Maghara, North Sinai, Egypt	4
Two new striking braconid genera (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber	4
Identification and implications of the London Clay Formation divisions from an engineering perspective	4
Evidence of wildfire in the British Isles during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition: Revealing spatiotemporal patterns and controls	4
Revisiting climate change and palaeoenvironments in the Purbeck Limestone Group (Tithonian – Berriasian) of Durlston Bay, southern UK	4
Geosite condition monitoring in the UK 1999–2019	4
Logging the Lambeth Group Upper Shelly Beds for the Thames Tideway Tunnel in London, UK: More than just “dark grey clay with shells”	4
Microencruster-microbial-cement framework of the Upper Jurassic reef developed on the slope of the intra-Tethyan carbonate platform (Bulgaria)	4
The Wessex Formation (Wealden Group, Lower Cretaceous) of Swanage Bay, southern England	4
Deploying augmented reality to help engage the public with palaeontological applications	4
Reply to Walkden, Fraser and Simms (2021): The age and formation mechanisms of Late Triassic fissure deposits, Gloucestershire, England: Comments on Mussini, G., Whiteside, D. I., Hildebrandt C. and B	4
Loess in Britain and Ireland: Formation, modification and environmental significance, a review in memory of John Catt (1937–2017)	4
Two new genera of belytine wasps (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber	3
The Harwich Formation in London – The legacy of Chris King	3
A new ammonite fauna from the Walpenites horizon of the upper Aptian (Lower Cretaceous), Isle of Wight, southern England	3
Differentiation of diamictons (glacigenic – non-glacigenic) using microstructure abundancies and types	3
The value of English geoconservation sites in understanding historical collections of lower and middle palaeolithic artefacts	3
Chapter 4 Scottish mineral Geological Conservation Review sites – Magmatic and skarn minerals	3
Foraminifera of the Gault Clay Formation: An update	3
The first tetrapod track recorded from the Rhaetian in the British Isles	3
Detrital zircon U-Pb ages and source of the late Palaeocene Thanet Formation, Kent, SE England	3
The ‘coprolite’ bearing Woburn Sands Formation, Lower Greensand Group (Aptian) at Upware, Cambridgeshire, UK	3
Lower Jurassic (Hettangian–Pliensbachian) microfossil biostratigraphy of the Ballinlea-1 well, Rathlin Basin, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom	3
A truly gigantic pliosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian) of England	3
Some observations on the geological history of the holoplanktonic gastropods	3
Is the tilt of the Thames valley towards the east caused by a distal lobe of the Icelandic mantle plume?	3
A remarkable dropstone from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England	3
Re-interpretation of ‘hummocky moraine’ in the Gaick, Scotland, as erosional remnants: Implications for palaeoglacier dynamics	3
Fossil echinoderms from the Triassic and Jurassic of Ireland	3
Platycrinitid (Monobathrida) crinoid columnals from the Permian of Timor: Form, function, protection and intimate associations	3
A review of Raymond Casey’s contribution to Jurassic stratigraphy	3
New palaeontological evidence suggests an early Middle Pleistocene age for the lower levels of Sun Hole Cave, Cheddar, Somerset, UK	3
Biotic response to the latest Cenomanian drowning and OAE2: A case study from the Eastern Desert of Egypt	3
Trypanites and associated bivalve borings in an Upper Albian hardground from the Eastern Saharan Atlas (Algeria)	3
First dinosaur remains from Ireland	3