OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of AAPG Bulletin is 5. 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
Evaluation of Paleozoic source rocks in Kuwait	66
Why does it take so long to publish a paper in the <italic>AAPG Bulletin</italic>?: Discussion	49
Petroleum distribution in the Montney hybrid play: Source, carrier bed, and structural controls	49
Depositional and lithological control on fractures in a steep, reefal carbonate margin: Lennard Shelf outcrops of the Canning Basin, Western Australia	41
Lithofacies identification in cores using deep learning segmentation and the role of geoscientists: Turbidite deposits (Gulf of Mexico and North Sea)	30
Sedimentary evolution of a Late Triassic salt giant and a synchronous carbonate unit between the Peruvian Andean Cordillera and the Brazilian Amazonian foreland	24
Diagenetic alterations in Eocene, deeply buried volcaniclastic sandstones with implications for reservoir quality in the Huizhou depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin, China	23
Origin, migration pathways, and prediction of high carbon dioxide accumulations in the Lower Saxony Basin (northwestern Germany): Part II	22
From seep carbonates down to petroleum systems: An outcrop study from the southeastern France Basin	21
Source rocks in foreland basins: A preferential context for the development of natural hydraulic fractures	17
Novel diamondoid-based maturity models using naturally occurring petroleum fluids	15
Carbon dioxide storage efficiency involving the complex reservoir units associated with Irati and Rio Bonito Formations, Paraná Basin, Brazil	15
The evolution of the early Paleozoic carbonate platform in the Central uplift, Tarim Basin, northwestern China, and hydrocarbon accumulation	14
Comparison of the morphology, facies, and reservoir quality of valley fills in the southern Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada	14
Petrophysical property variations in overmature Marcellus Shale: Impliations for gas storage and producibility	13
Potential for CO2 sequestration in saline formations in the western offshore Netherlands: A preliminary study - Expanding carbon capture and storage beyond depleted fields	13
Risk assessment of mantle-derived CO2 in the East China Sea basins, China	13
Sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, northeastern British Columbia, Canada	13
Geologic models underpinning the 2018 US Geological Survey assessment of hydrocarbon resources in the Eagle Ford Group and associated Cenomanian–Turonian strata, United States Gulf Coast, Texas	13
Spatial and vertical patterns of peak temperature in the Delaware Basin from Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material	12
Recommended practices in exploration assurance	11
The etiology of carbonate porosity	11
Stratigraphic architecture of the 1420–1210 Ma Velkerri and Kyalla Formations (Beetaloo Sub-basin, Australia)	11
Impact of natural fractures on production from an unconventional shale: The Delaware Basin Wolfcamp shale	11
Carrier-bed plays in the Denver and Powder River Basins	10

Fluvial reservoir architecture, directional heterogeneity and continuity, recognizing incised valley fills, and the case for nodal avulsion on a distributive fluvial system: Kern River field, Californ	10
The whole petroleum system with ordered coexistence of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons: Case from the Junggar Basin, China	10
A mechanical basis of fault-bend folding	10
Salt biostratigraphy: The Miocene palynological assemblages from the Wieliczka Formation, southern Poland	10
Controlling factors of high-quality hydrocarbon source rocks developed in lacustrine shallow-water zone of the Junggar Basin, northwestern China	10
Permeability field imaging: Mapping the geocritical crust’s permeability field	10
Magnetic susceptibility variations in lower Paleozoic shales of the western Baltic Basin (northern Poland): A tool for regional stratigraphic correlations and the decoding of paleoenvironmental change	9
Geomechanical insights on the importance of mechanical stratigraphy to hydraulic fracture containment	9
Effects of light hydrocarbons and extractable organic matter on the methane sorption capacity of shales	9
Molecular dynamics simulation of the coupling and distribution patterns of CO2 sequestration and slit pore media	9
The impact of CO2-enhanced oil recovery on oil production and lifespan of old oil pools: A Canadian example	9
INDEX OF VOLUME 107 (2023)	9
Origin of giant Ordovician cavern reservoirs in the Halahatang oil field in the Tarim Basin, northwestern China	9
Modeling the evolution of pore pressure from deep wastewater injection in the Midland Basin, Texas	8
Pore pressure thresholds associated with seismogenic fault slip in the Midland Basin, west Texas, United States	8
Pore characteristics and evolution mechanisms of paralic shales from the Upper Permian Longtan Formation, southwestern China	8
Characteristics and diagenetic model of hyperpycnite reservoirs in the gentle slope of a lacustrine rift basin: A case study from the third member of the Eocene Shahejie Formation, Bonan sag, Bohai Ba	8
The geology of injection-induced earthquakes in the Midland Basin region: Introduction	8
Carrier beds as reservoirs	8
Paleogene lacustrine tight shale oil system, Huanghua subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin: Sweet spot delineation, production breakthrough, and implications	8
Geochemical and petrophysical characterization of potential gas shale reservoirs in the Lishu depression, southern Songliao Basin, northeastern China	8
Water–rock interactions with constraints of diffusion and their implications for mesodiagenesis in adjacent sandstone and mudstone	8
Petrologic and geochemical characteristics of carbonate cements in the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation tight gas sandstone, western Sichuan Basin, China	7
Characteristics, evolution, and formation of pressure in the Sinian-Cambrian gas reservoirs of the Anyue gas field, Sichuan Basin, China	7
A comparison of three-dimensional–printed porous rocks with nano x-ray computed tomography: Silica sand, gypsum powder, and resin	7
Passageways for permeability: Geostatistical simulation of controls on the connectivity of vug-to-vug pore networks	7
Factors controlling the formation of primary microbial gas in the upper Quaternary sediments of the Jiangsu–Zhejiang coastal plain, eastern China	7
Excess permeability in the Brazil pre-Salt: Nonmatrix types, concepts, diagnostic indicators, and reservoir implications	7
Origins of overpressure in the central Xihu depression of the East China Sea shelf basin	7
Lamina-scale diagenetic mass transfer in lacustrine organic-rich shales and impacts on shale oil reservoir formation	7
Hydrocarbon-charge history of hydrothermally altered reservoirs: The Tailai gas field, eastern Sichuan Basin, China	7
Geology of the Johan Sverdrup field: A giant oil discovery and development project in a mature Norwegian North Sea basin	7
Geological evaluation of suprasalt carbon storage opportunities in the Silverpit Basin, United Kingdom Southern North Sea	7
Thermal history reconstruction from apatite fission-track analysis and vitrinite reflectance data of the Bongor Basin, the Republic of Chad	6
Tampico-Misantla: A premier super basin in waiting	6
Hydrocarbon trapping in hydrodynamic salinity gradients: Williston Basin case studies	6
Study on microscale mechanical properties of minerals and organic matter in shale based on atomic force microscopy	6
Petroleum migration and accumulation in a shale oil system of the Upper Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation in the Songliao Basin, northeastern China	6
Complex multiscale reservoir heterogeneity in a tidal depositional environment, Temblor Formation, West Coalinga field, California	6
Aspects of salt diapirism and structural evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic basins at the West Iberian margin	6
Using clay microporosity to improve formation evaluation in potential residual oil zones: Cypress Sandstone, Illinois Basin	6
Impact of diagenesis on the pore evolution and sealing capacity of carbonate cap rocks in the Tarim Basin, China	6
Guizhou modern karsts as analogues for paleokarst reservoirs in the Shunbei oil field, Tarim Basin, China	6
Different scales of salt–sediment interaction during passive diapirism	6
Sedimentary and diagenetic archive of a deeply buried, upper Ediacaran microbialite reservoir, southwestern China	6
The main geological factors controlling the Wufeng-Longmaxi shale gas content	6
The North West Shelf, Western Australia’s super basin, in the twenty-first century	6
Identifying the key source rocks in heterogeneous saline lacustrine shales: Paleogene shales in the Dongpu depression, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China	6
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 2: Evaporite precipitation, physical modeling, basin evolution in honor of Bruno Vendeville	6
A cross-shape deep Boltzmann machine for petrophysical seismic inversion	5

Opening-mode fracturing and cementation during hydrocarbon generation in shale: An example from the Barnett Shale, Delaware Basin, West Texas	5
Three common statistical missteps we make in reservoir characterization	5
Oil families, oil–source rock correlation, basin modeling, and implication for petroleum systems, Termit Basin, Niger	5
Geochemical characteristics, genetic types, and sources of gas accumulations in the northern Jizhong subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China	5
Volumetric effects of decompression following natural hydraulic fracturing in shale during expulsion of hydrocarbons: The case of the Baltic Basin (northern Poland)	5
North Alaska Super Basin: Petroleum systems of the central Alaskan North Slope, United States	5
Prestack inversion and amplitude variation with offset attributes as hydrocarbon indicators in carbonate rocks: A case study from the Illinois Basin	5
Identification and distribution of hydraulic flow units of heterogeneous reservoir in Obaiyed gas field, Western Desert, Egypt: A case study	5
The impact of organic pores on estimation of overpressure generated by gas generation in organic-rich shale: Example from Devonian Duvernay Shale, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin	5
Petroleum system for the continuous oil play in the lacustrine Lower Triassic, Junggar Basin, China	5
Characterizing CO2 storage architecture using paleoenvironmental evidence from petrographic and diagenetic modeling	5
Introduction to Special Issue: Geoscience Data Analytics and Machine Learning	5
Pore-scale electrical numerical simulation and new saturation model of fractured tight sandstone	5
Stratigraphic and sedimentary constraints on presalt carbonate reservoirs of the South Atlantic Margin, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil	5
Difference in overpressure environments for the western and central deep-water Gulf of Mexico	5
Origins and habitats of supergiant fields: An interpretation	5
Mixed carbonate-clastic reservoir characterization of the mid-Cretaceous Mauddud Formation (Albian), north Kuwait - Implications for field development	5
Influence of structure on Mississippian paleotopography and distribution of Middle Pennsylvanian sandstone reservoirs on the Cherokee platform, northern Oklahoma	5
Effects of extractable organic matter from mature lacustrine shale on the pore structure and their implications	5