OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geology is 31. 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
Anoxic depositional overprinting of 238U/235U in calcite: When do carbonates tell black shale tales?	104
ERRATUM: Across-strike asymmetry of the Andes orogen linked to the age and geometry of the Nazca plate	70
Geoelectric evidence for a wide spatial footprint of active extension in central Colorado	56
Determining the age and origin of a Tertiary karstic system by in situ U-Pb geochronology on speleothems	53
An invasion model for the start of Paleo-Pacific subduction	51
Extreme erosion by submarine slides	51
Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?	48
A new model for the growth of normal faults developed above pre-existing structures: COMMENT	47
To rush into the secret house of death: The fate of a Tournaisian plant	45
Hydrological fluctuations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China, over the past millennium	44
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)	44
Ice-crystal traces imply ephemeral freezing in early Permian equatorial Pangea	44
Origin of Archean Pb isotope variability through open-system Paleoarchean crustal anatexis	44
Paleoclimates inform on a weakening and amplitude-reduced East Asian winter monsoon in the warming future	41
Volcanic origin of the mercury anomalies at the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition of Bidart, France	41
ERRATUM: Inception of ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions: Morphostructural analysis and dynamics in the early back-arc extension of the northern Okinawa Trough	41
Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography	37
Two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extinction	36
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subduction	36
Tracing black shales in the source of a porphyry Mo deposit using molybdenum isotopes	35
Seafloor spreading and the delivery of sulfur and metals to Earth’s oceans	35
Crustal architectural controls on critical metal ore systems in South China based on Hf isotopic mapping	34
Contemporary and future dust sources and emission fluxes from gypsum- and quartz-dominated eolian systems, New Mexico and Texas, USA	34
Identifying crystal accumulation and melt extraction during formation of high-silica granite	34
The mechanical genesis of “fairy circle” depressions	33

Curved orogenic belts, back-arc basins, and obduction as consequences of collision at irregular continental margins	33
Erratum	33
Crystal plasticity enhances trace element mobility in garnet	32
Past eruptions of a newly discovered active, shallow, silicic submarine volcano near Tokyo Bay, Japan	32
Orbital control of Pleistocene euxinia in Lake Magadi, Kenya	31
Morphologic signatures of autogenic waterfalls: A case study in the San Gabriel Mountains, California	31
Hot atmospheric formation of carbonate accretionary lapilli at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, Brazos River, Texas, from clumped isotope thermometry	31