OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lethaia 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Smithian and Spathian palaeontological records of the Vikinghøgda Formation in Central Spitsbergen	54
Crowded Trichophycus ichnofabrics in the early Ordovician successions of central Iran: insight into the Ordovician radiation	19
Early ontogeny and other possible molluscan traits in hyolith biology and anatomy	12
Enhanced juvenile mortality of orbitolinids (larger benthic foraminifera) in the late early Aptian of the Langshan Formation, Tibet: a possible link to OAE1a?	11
Mineralogy of Oligocene fossil wood, bone and associated sediments from the Petrified Forest protected area, New Cairo, Egypt	10
Influence of substrate size and morphology on skeletobiont assemblages: a case study from the Middle Devonian brachiopods of Morocco	9
Discovery of plant cuticles in phyllite, late Pennsylvanian Southern Anthracite Field, eastern Pennsylvania, USA: a new research resource?	9
Silicified pedunculate kutorginate brachiopods from the Cambrian (Stage 4) of Jordan	8
New taphonomic and sedimentological insights into the preservation of high-relief Ediacaran fossils at Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland	7
Linear morphometry and shell growth of the bivalve Tagelus plebeius as an indicator for salinity in Holocene South American estuaries	7
Palaeoenvironmental study of benthic foraminifera from the late Pleistocene Puente de Pascua Formation type locality, Buenos Aires province, Argentina	7
Ferruginous casts of bromalites in kaolin beds: microbial ferrihydrite‐goethite transformation as early stage taphonomy in lacustrine and riparian sediments	7
Revisiting the aerobic capacity of Notosuchia (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia)	7
Evaluating the role of coastal hypoxia on the transient expansion of microencruster intervals during the early Aptian	6
The fossil record of lepidopteran caterpillars in Dominican and Mexican amber	6
Shell microstructures of latest Permian Rugosochonetidae (Brachiopoda): evidence from SEM‐ and CT‐scanned shell materials	6
Eurypterid morphology and implications for ecdysis and evolutionary longevity	5
Identification of conodont fossils in pelagic deep‐sea siliceous sedimentary rocks using laboratory‐based X‐ray computed microtomography	5
Environmental interpretation of giant trace fossils from the lower Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of the Iberian Chain (Spain) from lithofacies, microfossil and ichnofossil assemblages	4
Carboniferous–Permian conodonts and the age of the lower Cutler Group in the Bears Ears National Monument and vicinity, Utah, USA	4
Articulated and dislocated infaunal echinoids as unique markers of hypoxic environments from the Miocene of Central Paratethys	4
Taphonomic and reworking processes isolating cephalopod septa and chamber fillings	4
Interspecies and intraspecific variability in the trilobites Duyunaspis and Balangia from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of Jianhe, South	4
Diversity and palaeoecology of Australia's southern-most sauropods, Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia	4
Is there any evidence for the presence of extensive fibrolamellar complex in Notosuchia? New data on Araripesuchus wegeneri	4

Early Cretaceous pterosaur guano deposit from central Oregon, USA	3
Quaternary environmental evolution of the Argentinean Pampa Deprimida based on mollusc and ostracod analysis	3
Newly discovered Wuchiapingian to Olenekian conodonts from the Longgar area, southern Lhasa Terrane and their palaeobiogeographical implications	3
Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs	3
Bioerosion, encrustation, and taphonomic pathways of Nummulites tests and the palaeoenvironmental implications: Oligocene interval of the Kutch Basin, India	3
Thalassinoides and Olenichnus in the Terreneuvian carbonates of the Igarka Uplift, NW Siberian Platform	3
The Skyberg Lagerstätte from the Mjøsa area, Norway: a rare window into the late early Cambrian biodiversityof Scandinavia	3
Late Quaternary terrigenous plant and coaly fragments found at the Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait: implications for postglacial plant colonization at Svalbard	3
Cirrus versus radice: a brief study of confused crinoid terminology	3
A demineralized osteostracan fossil from the Silurian Kalana Lagerstätte of Estonia: revealing its internal anatomy and uncovering a unique type of fossilization	3
Nothosaur tracks from the Middle Triassic of Spain suggest a global distribution for distinctive swim track assemblages	3
Comparison of sclerobiont communities between three brachiopod host species from the Upper Ordovician Fairview Formation, Eastern USA	3
Palaeoenvironmental analysis of bivalve-dominated concentrations from the lower‒middle Miocene succession, Gebel Gharra, Cairo-Suez District, Egypt	3
Nautilid beaks: unsuspected disparity and palaeoecological interpretation	3
Upper Viséan foraminiferal and algal diversity at Benburb, Northern Ireland as a tool of high-resolution biostratigraphy, and correlation of Late Viséan-Early Serpukhovian successions in Ireland and B	3