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Papers

(The TQCC of AAPG Bulletin is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Origin, migration pathways, and prediction of high carbon dioxide accumulations in the Lower Saxony Basin (northwestern Germany): Part II	68
The geology of injection-induced earthquakes in the Midland Basin region: Introduction	59
Depositional and lithological control on fractures in a steep, reefal carbonate margin: Lennard Shelf outcrops of the Canning Basin, Western Australia	42
A mechanical basis of fault-bend folding	31
Molecular dynamics simulation of the coupling and distribution patterns of CO2 sequestration and slit pore media	26
Novel diamondoid-based maturity models using naturally occurring petroleum fluids	25
Carrier beds as reservoirs	24
Carrier-bed plays in the Denver and Powder River Basins	22
Oil families, oil–source rock correlation, basin modeling, and implication for petroleum systems, Termit Basin, Niger	21
Chemostatistic allocation of shale oil production using acidic heterocompounds	18
Pore-scale electrical numerical simulation and new saturation model of fractured tight sandstone	18
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 2: Evaporite precipitation, physical modeling, basin evolution in honor of Bruno Vendeville	18
Metazoan-algal benthic ecosystems enhance automicritic slope boundstone: The Triassic Great Bank of Guizhou carbonate platform, Xiliang margin, China	17
Guizhou modern karsts as analogues for paleokarst reservoirs in the Shunbei oil field, Tarim Basin, China	17
Complex multiscale reservoir heterogeneity in a tidal depositional environment, Temblor Formation, West Coalinga field, California	17
Structural inheritance controls crustal-scale extensional fault-related folding in the Exmouth and Dampier Sub-basins, North West Shelf, Australia	16
Pore structure evolution characteristics of continental shale in China as indicated from thermal simulation experiments	16
Frequency, distribution, and mechanisms of evaporite karst drilling hazards in the western Delaware Basin: Learnings from historical high-density exploration in Culberson County, Texas	16
Karst topography paces the deposition of lower Permian, organic-rich, marine–continental transitional shales in the southeastern Ordos Basin, northwestern China	16
Geochemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons in source rocks of the Cretaceous Orange Basin	15
Reservoir characterization and comparison of seismicity-monitoring methods at West Seminole for CO2 utilization and storage	15
Hypogenic karstic cavities formed by tectonic-driven fluid mixing in the Ordovician carbonates from the Tarim Basin, northwestern China	14
Using high-resolution microresistivity image logs to reconstruct paleoenvironments and stratal architectures: An example from the McMurray Formation, Leismer area, northeastern Alberta, Canada	14
Heterogeneity in siliciclastic carrier beds: Implications for hydrocarbon migration and accumulation	14
The offshore Mancos play in the San Juan Basin as a component of the Mancos total petroleum system	14

Fluid evolution in deeply buried and karstified carbonate reservoirs of the central Tarim Basin, northwestern China	14
Giant pockmark-initiated deep-water slope channel complexes	13
Thermodynamic insights into the production of methane hydrate reservoirs from depressurization of pressure cores	13
M. King Hubbert and the rise and fall of peak oil theory	13
Application of a deep-water stratigraphic framework to the production of the Wolfcampian units in the Permian Basin	13
Laboratory study on microbial fractionation mechanisms of carbon and hydrogen isotopes in coalbed biomethane	12
A review of the Bakken petroleum systems in the United States and Canada: Recognizing the importance of the Middle Member play	12
A geochemical analysis of produced water(s) from the Wolfcamp formation in the Permian Delaware Basin, western Texas	12
An integrated correlation from platform to basin: Implications for understanding the Ediacaran succession of Oman	12
Pore structure characterization of middle- and high-ranked coal reservoirs in northern China	11
Salt deposition in ultradeep brine settings by dynamic inflow and evaporation	10
Organic petrology of the Upper Ordovician Red River kukersite tight oil and gas play, Williston Basin, North Dakota, United States	10
In situ stress state in the petroliferous Barmer Basin, northwestern India: A new geomechanical approach	10
A fracture-related deep Archean crystalline basement reservoir facilitated by thrusting and mineralogy: Newly discovered Bozhong 19-6 large gas field, offshore Bohai Bay Basin, China	10
The West Siberian Super Basin: The largest and most prolific hydrocarbon basin in the world	10
Tectonic relief evolution and large-scale karstification of an Ordovician supergiant reservoir, North Tarim uplift, northwestern China	10
Unconventional reservoir characterization by seismic inversion and machine learning of the Bakken Formation	10
Assessing and processing three-dimensional photogrammetry, sedimentology, and geophysical data to build high-fidelity reservoir models based on carbonate outcrop analogues	10
The evolution of the early Paleozoic carbonate platform in the Central uplift, Tarim Basin, northwestern China, and hydrocarbon accumulation	9
Factors controlling the formation of primary microbial gas in the upper Quaternary sediments of the Jiangsu–Zhejiang coastal plain, eastern China	9
Petrologic and geochemical characteristics of carbonate cements in the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation tight gas sandstone, western Sichuan Basin, China	9
Passageways for permeability: Geostatistical simulation of controls on the connectivity of vug-to-vug pore networks	9
A comparison of three-dimensional–printed porous rocks with nano x-ray computed tomography: Silica sand, gypsum powder, and resin	9
Geomechanical insights on the importance of mechanical stratigraphy to hydraulic fracture containment	9
Geology of the Johan Sverdrup field: A giant oil discovery and development project in a mature Norwegian North Sea basin	8
A cross-shape deep Boltzmann machine for petrophysical seismic inversion	8
Using x-ray computed tomography to estimate hydrate saturation in sediment cores from Green Canyon 955, northern Gulf of Mexico	8
Origins and habitats of supergiant fields: An interpretation	8
Aspects of salt diapirism and structural evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic basins at the West Iberian margin	8
Diagenetic alterations in Eocene, deeply buried volcaniclastic sandstones with implications for reservoir quality in the Huizhou depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin, China	8
The North West Shelf, Western Australia’s super basin, in the twenty-first century	8
Meter-scale lithofacies cycle and controls on variations in oil saturation, Wolfcamp A, Delaware and Midland Basins	8
Characteristics, evolution, and formation of pressure in the Sinian-Cambrian gas reservoirs of the Anyue gas field, Sichuan Basin, China	8
Geochemical characteristics, genetic types, and sources of gas accumulations in the northern Jizhong subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China	8
The battle between Frankenstein and Gilligan and the Law of Increasing Reservoir Complexification: What matters in three-dimensional reservoir characterization modeling?	8
Salt tectonics along a strike-slip fault system in the sub-Alpine chains of southeastern France, from the Triassic to the Oligocene	8
Sealing mechanisms in volcanic faulted reservoirs in Xujiaweizi extension, northern Songliao Basin, northeastern China	7
Automatic facies classification using convolutional neural network for three-dimensional outcrop data: Application to the outcrop of the mass-transport deposit	7
Structural geometry and evolution of the Carter-Knox structure, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma	7
Origin of Eocene lacustrine dolomite and evolution of multiple diagenetic fluids in the Huanghekou sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China	7
Mixed carbonate-clastic reservoir characterization of the mid-Cretaceous Mauddud Formation (Albian), north Kuwait - Implications for field development	7
Different scales of salt–sediment interaction during passive diapirism	7
Interpretation, characterization, and slip hazard assessment of faults in the Midland Basin, west Texas, United States	7
Why does it take so long to publish a paper in the <italic>AAPG Bulletin</italic>: Reply	7
Integration of diagenesis, porosity evolution, and oil emplacement in lacustrine tight sandstone reservoirs: A review with illustrative cases from the major oil-bearing basins in China	7
Petroleum system for the continuous oil play in the lacustrine Lower Triassic, Junggar Basin, China	7
Failure to launch: Fate of the Second White Specks as a resource play was preordained by its Late Cretaceous depositional setting	7
Petroleum system evaluation of the world’s deepest (>5000 m) volcanic reservoirs, Sichuan Basin, China	7
Three-dimensional seismic classification of salt structure morphologies across the Southern North Sea	7
Quantifying concretion distribution in shales of the Vaca Muerta-Quintuco system, Neuquén Basin, Argentina	7

Lithofacies control on the formation of deformation bands: An example from the Sherwood Sandstone Group (Induan–Anisian, Lower Triassic) in western England	6
Characterization of spatial relationships between fractures from different sets using K-function analysis	6
An empirical approach to estimating hydrocarbon column heights for improved predrill volume prediction in hydrocarbon exploration	6
The presalt Santos Basin, a super basin of the twenty-first century	6
Sensitivity analysis of geological rule-based subsurface model parameters on fluid flow	6
Diagenesis of the San Andres Formation in the Seminole unit in Central Basin platform, western Texas	6
Water depth–terrigenous input dynamic equilibrium controls the Eocene lacustrine shale laminae records in Jiyang depression, Bohai Bay Basin, East China	6
Shale brittleness prediction using machine learning - A Middle East basin case study	6
Introduction to Special Issue: Super basins: Selected case studies of the world’s greatest petroleum basins	6
A very unconventional hydrocarbon play: The Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation of northern Australia	6
A review of the genesis, evolution, and prediction of natural fractures in deep tight sandstones of China	6
Characterization of oils and potential source rocks in the Marietta Basin, Oklahoma and Texas	6
Application of random forest algorithm to predict lithofacies from well and seismic data in Balder field, Norwegian North Sea	6
Mapping natural oil seeps in the Middle Magdalena Basin (Colombia) using WorldView-3 satellite data	6
Molecular structure characterization of kerogen in contact metamorphic shales: Insights into the effect of graphitization on organic matter pores	6
Integrated approach to pore typing in complex carbonate reservoirs, Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan	6
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 1: Diapirism, deformation, dating, and exploration in honor of Bruno Vendeville and all the unsung heroes	6
Microfracture classification, quantification, and petrophysical behavior in the Tengiz and Korolev carbonate reservoirs, Kazakhstan	6