OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geology is 32. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
ERRATUM: Across-strike asymmetry of the Andes orogen linked to the age and geometry of the Nazca plate	149
Geoelectric evidence for a wide spatial footprint of active extension in central Colorado	88
Origin of Archean Pb isotope variability through open-system Paleoarchean crustal anatexis	81
Cenozoic sediment bypass versus Laramide exhumation and erosion of the Eagle Ford Group: Perspective from modelling of organic and inorganic proxy data (Maverick Basin, Texas, USA)	73
Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?	65
Two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extinction	57
ERRATUM: Inception of ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions: Morphostructural analysis and dynamics in the early back-arc extension of the northern Okinawa Trough	51
Hydrological fluctuations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China, over the past millennium	51
To rush into the secret house of death: The fate of a Tournaisian plant	48
Tonian true polar wander events recorded by paleolatitudinal variations of South China and its Southern Hemispheric position in Rodinia	45
Seafloor spreading and the delivery of sulfur and metals to Earth’s oceans	44
Clues on the Australasian impact crater site inferred from detailed mineralogical study of a monazite inclusion in a Muong Nong tektite: COMMENT	43
Determining the age and origin of a Tertiary karstic system by in situ U-Pb geochronology on speleothems	42
Extreme erosion by submarine slides	41
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subduction	41
An invasion model for the start of Paleo-Pacific subduction	39
The mechanical genesis of “fairy circle” depressions	38
Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography	37
Crustal architectural controls on critical metal ore systems in South China based on Hf isotopic mapping	36
Paleoclimates inform on a weakening and amplitude-reduced East Asian winter monsoon in the warming future	36
Tracing black shales in the source of a porphyry Mo deposit using molybdenum isotopes	36
Unveiling “too-old” radiocarbon ages at Serapeo (Pozzuoli) enhances understanding of the present unrest crisis at Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy	36
Disconformity-controlled hydrothermal dolomitization and cementation during basin evolution: Upper Triassic carbonates, UAE	35
Shearing-enhanced deep fluid circulation induces seismic anisotropy in the lower crust at slow-spreading oceanic ridges	35
Past eruptions of a newly discovered active, shallow, silicic submarine volcano near Tokyo Bay, Japan	34

A water transport system across the mantle transition zone beneath western North America as imaged by electrical conductivity data	34
Unusually fracture-free seafloor in the southern North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Iberia explained through compounding tectonic inheritance since the Paleoproterozoic	34
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole	34
Spatio-temporal evolution of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field, Aegean Sea	34
Oxygen isotope evidence for progressively assimilating trans-crustal magma plumbing systems in Iceland	33
Magma mingling and ascent in the minutes to hours before an explosive eruption as recorded by banded pumice	33
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification	32
Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean and the rise of Scandinavian mountains	32