OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics is 2. 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
Surficial redistribution of gold and arsenic from the Rise and Shine Shear Zone, Otago, New Zealand	36
Microscale geochemical variations in metamorphic-hydrothermal scheelite and insights into trace element sources (Otago Schist, New Zealand)	29
A time-dependent seismic hazard model following the Kaikōura M7.8 earthquake	24
Cambrian ocean floor crust preserved in the Takaka Terrane, New Zealand	19
Episodes of seabed rise and rapid drowning controlling the development of regressive and transgressive rhodolithic limestones in a tectonically-active subduction setting (Early Miocene, Wairarapa regi	18
Environmental evolution of cover deposits on chemically distinctive bare ground, New Zealand: review and temporal contexts	18
Latest Oligocene sea urchin fragments (Cidaroida, Echinodermata) from Hokianga, Northland, New Zealand	17
Lateral, longitudinal, and temporal variation in trench-slope basin fill: examples from the Neogene Akitio sub-basin, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand	15
Landslides triggered by the December 2021 Eastern Bays storm, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand	14
New records of hexanchiform sharks (Elasmobranchii: Neoselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica with comments on previous reports and described taxa	13
Integrating petrology, biogeochemistry, hyperspectral and thermal remote sensing for constraining the shallow hydrology of geothermal systems: Waiotapu Geothermal Field, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zeala	11
Limited role of present-day onshore freshwater recharge in the emplacement of offshore freshened groundwater in the Canterbury Bight, New Zealand	11
New Zealand’s offshore sedimentary basins	10
Geochemical and isotopic characterisation of trench sediment at the Hikurangi Margin from IODP sites U1518 and U1520	9
The paleotsunami record of the Auckland region and implications for understanding tsunami hazards	7
Palaeogeographic evolution of Zealandia: mid-Cretaceous to present	7
Stratigraphy and mineralogy of tailings at Macraes gold mine, southern New Zealand	7
Early postseismic slip of the 21 November 2022 Mw 5.6 Cianjur, Indonesia, earthquake based on GPS measurements	7
Tsunami or storm deposit? A late Holocene sedimentary record from Swamp Bay, Rangitoto ki te Tonga/D’Urville Island, Aotearoa – New Zealand	6
Basanite cobbles in Pleistocene sediments in Central Otago and their implications for intraplate volcanism and Clutha River paleo-drainage	6
A revised paleoseismological record of late Holocene ruptures on the Kekerengu Fault following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake	6
Paleoseismology of the Hyde Fault, Otago, New Zealand	6
A late Oligocene chiton fauna (Polyplacophora) from a rocky shore ecosystem, Cosy Dell, Southland, New Zealand	5
Alluvial fans and fan deltas in the Paparoa Formation, Greymouth Basin: a new rift model	5
Geological controls on locally elevated arsenic in the Glenorchy area, Otago, New Zealand	5

Stratigraphy and vegetation signals from an upland, landslide-dammed, paleolake during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition, Waipaoa Sedimentary System, Hikurangi Margin, eastern North Island, New	5
Tridymite formation as a direct consequence of explosive volcanism – evidence preserved in tuffisite veins and concurrently erupted volcanic ash	5
Microfossil evidence for a possible maar crater and tuff ring beneath Rangitoto Volcano, Auckland, New Zealand	5
Litho- and biostratigraphy of a late Oligocene–Early Miocene succession in the Weber area, southern Hawke’s Bay, and implications for early Hikurangi subduction-margin evolution	5
Nilsen Plateau, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: an update on the Gondwana stratigraphy and structure	5
Taupō volcano’s restless nature revealed by 42 years of deformation surveys, 1979–2021	5
Sediment provenance in the Murchison and Maruia basins, Aotearoa/New Zealand: a record of Neogene strike-slip displacement, convergence, and basement exhumation along the Australian–Pacific plate boun	5
Controls on the architectural evolution of deep-water channel overbank sediment wave fields: insights from the Hikurangi Channel, offshore New Zealand	5
A new basin depth map of the fault-bound Wellington CBD based on residual gravity anomalies	4
A detailed biostratigraphic framework for 0–1.2 Ma Quaternary sediments of north-eastern Zealandia	4
A possible Jurassic age for the New Caledonia Trough and implications for Zealandia’s history	4
Landslide preparation by forestry activity in a region of high erosion rates: Waingake Landslide, northeast New Zealand	4
Pleistocene marine terraces of the Wellington south coast – their distribution across multiple active faults at the southern Hikurangi subduction margin, Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Landslides in the Transantarctic Mountains: lower Jurassic and older strata displaced in late Mesozoic to late Cenozoic time	4
There is no geophysical evidence for the Mahuika Crater on the continental shelf southwest of New Zealand	4
The communication of volcano information in New Zealand – a narrative review	4
Prediction of road blockages caused by rainfall-induced landslides	4
Latest Cretaceous and Paleocene biostratigraphy and paleogeography of northern Zealandia, IODP Site U1509, New Caledonia Trough, southwest Pacific	4
Insights into temporal earthquake clustering from the Settlement Fault, southeastern Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Roger Cooper: paleobiologist and geologist	4
Paleoearthquakes at the junction of the Tokomaru and Northern Ōhāriu faults, implications for fault interactions in the southern North Island, New Zealand	4
Landslide hazard and loss-of-life risk assessment for Muriwai, New Zealand following Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023	4
Distributed displacement on the Papatea fault from the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake and implications for hazard planning	4
The first Triassic elasmobranch teeth from the Southern Hemisphere (Canterbury, New Zealand)	4
A diverse Late Pliocene fossil fauna and its paleoenvironment at Māngere, Auckland, New Zealand	3
Introduction to the special issue on Volcanism in Zealandia and the SW Pacific	3
An initial assessment of short-term eruption forecasting options in New Zealand	3
Seafloor pockmarks on the South Westland margin of the South Island/Te Waipounamu, Aotearoa New Zealand	3
Fine and super-fine gold in mine waste from a coastal placer in southern New Zealand	3
Decarbonising primary industries with geothermal heat – a pathway to greater direct use	3
Composition-based estimates of the thermal properties of New Zealand basement rocks	3
Structural evolution, segmentation and activity of the onshore-offshore Waimea-Flaxmore Fault System in south-eastern Tasman Bay, South Island, New Zealand	3
A tectonic reconstruction model for Aotearoa-New Zealand from the mid-Late Cretaceous to the present day	3
Cover successions on early Paleozoic basement in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica – evidence for Cretaceous plant-bearing rocks at South Polar latitudes	3
Quaternary uplift and fault movement near Waitomo, North Island, New Zealand	3
A new ‘Southern Giant Crab’ from a miocene continental slope palaeoenvironment at Taranaki, North Island, New Zealand	3
Anatomy of an obducted ultramafic unit (Tiébaghi Massif – Peridotite Nappe – New Caledonia): Polyphase brittle tectonics constrained by fault-slip data and crack seal mineralogy	2
Assessment and development of empirical correlations between flat plate dilatometer and cone penetration tests for Auckland soils	2
Detrital zircon provenance of Permian to Triassic Gondwana sequences, Zealandia and eastern Australia	2
Five years after the 14 November 2016 Kaikōura Tsunami in Aotearoa-New Zealand: insights from recent research	2
Late Holocene earthquakes on the Papatea Fault and its role in past earthquake cycles, Marlborough, New Zealand	2
Geometry and deformation of the sole of a large obducted ophiolitic unit: insights from surface geology and airborne electromagnetics – Peridotite Nappe, New Caledonia	2
Origin and evolution of nephrites, diopsidites and giant diopside crystals from the contact zones of the Pounamu Ultramafics, Westland, New Zealand	2
Detrital gold morphology and recycling around the early Miocene St Bathans paleovalley, Central Otago, New Zealand	2
⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of Quaternary volcanic rocks in Samoa	2
Contrasting geology and mineralogy of evaporative encrustations in salt-tolerant ecosystems, Maniototo basin, Central Otago, New Zealand	2
Understanding sedimentary systems and processes of the Hikurangi subduction margin; from Trench to Back-Arc. Volume 2	2
Structure and topology of a brittle-ductile fault swarm at Crawford Knob, Franz Josef, New Zealand	2
Tectonic subsidence and uplift within Canterbury Basin, South Island, New Zealand	2
A new early Miocene archaic dolphin (Odontoceti, Cetacea) from New Zealand, and brain evolution of the Odontoceti	2

Tephrochronology in Aotearoa New Zealand