OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences is 17. 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
Elastic Thermobarometry	139
Where Has All the Carbon Gone?	120
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Introduction	74
The Once and Future Gas: Methane's Multifunctional Roles in Earth's Evolution and Potential as a Biosignature	49
Isotope Evolution of the Depleted Mantle	43
River Deltas and Sea-Level Rise	40
Neogene History of the Amazonian Flora: A Perspective Based on Geological, Palynological, and Molecular Phylogenetic Data	36
Stability of Ice Shelves and Ice Cliffs in a Changing Climate	36
Petrogenesis and Geodynamic Significance of Xenolithic Eclogites	32
Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models	32
Reconstructing Tropical Cyclone Activity from Sedimentary Archives	30
Wave Structuring in the Shock Compression of Geologic Matter at the Planetary and Laboratory Scales	29
The Geologic History of Plants and Climate in India	29
Biomarker Approaches for Reconstructing Terrestrial Environmental Change	26
Coccoliths as Recorders of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate over the Past 66 Million Years	24
Deciphering Temperature Seasonality in Earth's Ancient Oceans	23
On Dislocation Climb as an Important Deformation Mechanism for Planetary Interiors	23
Research on Teaching Geoscience with Virtual Field Experiences	22
Seismic Advances in Process Geomorphology	21
The Anatomy and Lethality of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province	21
The Hidden Hydrogeosphere: The Contribution of Deep Groundwater to the Planetary Water Cycle	20
Carbon Cycle–Climate Feedbacks in the Post-Paris World	20
Metal Isotopes in Mammalian Tissues	19
Civilization-Saving Science for the Twenty-First Century	18

Pleistocene Periglacial Processes and Landforms, Mid-Atlantic Region, Eastern United States	17
The Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition	17
Volcanic Outgassing of Volatile Trace Metals	17
A Systems Approach to Understanding How Plants Transformed Earth's Environment in Deep Time	17