OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Structural Geology is 21. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Thickness of an extensional plate-boundary shear zone in the mantle: Implications for tectonic controls on strain localization and transient strain rates	70
Microstructure of garnet in calc-silicate rocks from Cheongsong, South Korea: Effects of fluid and deformation	55
Fracture ellipticity as a measure of chemical reaction-controlled fracture growth	43
Control of crustal deformation on orogenic Au mineralization in Himalaya: A case study from Buzhu	39
Active strike-slip faulting, diapirism and seismic hazards. The case of the Kareh Bas fault and the associated Dandenjan salt extrusion in the zagros Mountains, SW Iran	37
Relationships between intensity of deformation induced Cr–Al chemical zoning and geometrical properties of spinel: An approach applying machine learning analyses	37
Complexity analysis of three-dimensional stochastic discrete fracture networks with fractal and multifractal techniques	34
Development and passive exhumation of high-pressure shear zones (Blueschist Unit, Syros): Insights from quartz and columnar calcite microstructures	32
Controls of dolomitization and bed thickness on fracture networks in Lower Carboniferous carbonates in southern Belgium	32
Enhanced structural analysis through a hybrid analogue-digital mapping approach: Integrating field and UAV survey with microtomography to characterize metamorphic rocks	32
Naturally deformed polymineralic rocks provide quantitative rheological information	31
EBSD: Towards a better understanding of the role of deformation in the formation of schistose hypogene high-grade iron ore	31
Sustained strain localisation and coeval brittle-ductile deformation in an exhuming low-grade shear zone: Insights from the Saih Hatat Window (NE Oman)	29
Structural architecture and maturity of Val d’Agri faults, Italy: Inferences from natural and induced seismicity	28
The spatial distributions of mineralisation	25
Multi-layers: Do incompetent horizons always act as thrust flats?	24
Deformation, crustal melting and magmatism in the crustal-scale East-Variscan Shear Zone (Aiguilles-Rouges and Mont-Blanc massifs, Western Alps)	24
Thrust vs. fold nappes: Mechanical and geometrical controls from 2D numerical simulations and applications to a recumbent fold of the Pyrenees	23
Multi-millennia slip rate relationships between closely spaced across-strike faults: Temporal earthquake clustering of the Skinos and Pisia Faults, Greece, from in situ 36Cl cosmogenic exposure dating	22
Corrigendum to “A simple computer program for calculating stress and strain rate in 2D viscous inclusion-matrix systems” [J. Struct. Geol. 160 (2022) 104617]	22
Matrix deformation of marls in a foreland fold-and-thrust belt: The example of the eastern Jaca basin, southern Pyrenees	22
Lateral and vertical growth and linkage of normal faults in Bozhong8-4 structure of Western Bozhong Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China	21