OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Marine and Petroleum Geology is 36. 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
Origin and accumulation of natural gas in the Sinian-Cambrian reservoirs of the central Sichuan Basin, southwest China: Implications from both closed and semi-open pyrolysis experiments	94
Reconstruction of ancient sulfate‒methane transition depths using the concentrations and sulfur isotopic compositions of authigenic sulfide minerals in marine sediments	79
The formation of authigenic phosphorus minerals in cold-seep sediments from the South China Sea: Implications for carbon cycling below the sulfate-methane transition	76
Editorial Board	68
Bioturbated strata in the Upper Cretaceous Aruma Formation, central Saudi Arabia: An analog for aquifers and hydrocarbon reservoirs with large burrows	64
Impact of natural weathering on source rocks: ESI FT-ICR MS evidence from Triassic Chang 7 outcrop profile in Tongchuan City, Southern Ordos Basin (China)	63
Editorial Board	62
Sedimentology and reservoir characteristics of delta plain reservoirs: An example from Messinian Abu Madi Formation, Nile Delta	62
Noble gas characteristics of microbial gas in the Qaidam Basin, China: Implications for helium enrichment processes	60
Seismic stratigraphic analysis of the Pre-salt of Berbigão, Sururu, and Atapu fields, Santos Basin, Brazil	52
Syn-tectonic fluid-flow and fault-fluid interaction along bedding-parallel thrust faults: Evidence from the frontal zone of the Chuandong-Xiangexi fold-and-thrust belt in central South China	52
Semi-closed artificial thermal maturation of type I source rock with the presence of natural formation water: hydrocarbon generation and individual n-alkane stable carbon isotope partitioning pattern	52
U–Pb detrital zircon ages from late Eocene to early Oligocene Pinghu formation of the East China Sea Shelf Basin: Inferences on synergistic effects between East Asia offshore sedimentation and major r	50
Role of inherited fault reactivation in accommodating multistage deformation in the southwestern margin of the Ulleung Basin, East Sea (Sea of Japan): Insights from 3D seismic interpretation	50
Tracing Lower Cretaceous organic-rich units across the SW Barents Shelf	49
Cutting-edge reverse time migration imaging of the hydrocarbon deposits in the Outer Carpathian fold-thrust belt	49
Causal-Graph Lithology Classifier: Synergizing causal inference with graph neural networks for high-accuracy rock classification in well logging	49
Tectonostratigraphic development of the Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic in the Hoop Area, Barents Sea: Implications for understanding ultra-condensed reservoir units	49
Variability of frontally emergent and confined mass-transport complexes in the Qiongdongnan basin, northern South China sea: New perspectives from 2D and 3D seismic data	47
Corrigendum to “Effect of silica diagenesis on porosity evolution of deep gas shale reservoir of the Lower Paleozoic Wufeng-Longmaxi formations, Sichuan Basin” [Mar. Pet. Geol. 145 (2022) 105873]	44
Controls on reservoir quality of the Nanushuk Formation (Albian–Cenomanian), North Slope, Alaska	43
Astronomically forced cycles in Lower Carboniferous Luzhai Formation shales, Guizhong Depression, South China	42
Editorial Board	42
The upper Cambrian SPICE carbon isotope excursion from the Alborz Ranges, northeastern Iran	42
Deformation and kerogen macromolecular structure transformations of the Wufeng–Longmaxi shale under the control of the detachment layer	41

Origin and controls on shale oil enrichment of bedding-parallel fractures in the Chang 73 lacustrine shales, Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin	40
Provenance evolution of the Fushan Sag (Hainan Island, Southern China): Constraints from U-Pb geochronology on detrital zircons	40
Formation mechanisms of anomalously high reservoir quality in deep-buried volcaniclastic sandstones, central Junggar basin, northwestern China	39
Reconstructing hydrocarbon accumulation and burial history of Permian reservoirs in northwest Sichuan Basin, China: Integrated fluid inclusion thermometry and U-Pb dating	39
Productivity and organic carbon trends through the Wilcox Group in the deep Gulf of Mexico: Evidence for ventilation during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum	39
Genesis and geological significance of dolomite in shales of the first member of the cretaceous Qingshankou Formation, central depression, Songliao Basin, China	38
Geochemistry and petrography of shales from Brazilian Paleozoic basins: an example of the Parnaíba Basin, Devonian Pimenteiras Formation – A review	38
Crustal structure and tectonic evolution of the Newfoundland Ridge, Fogo Basin, and southern Newfoundland transform margin	37
Seismic chimneys as gas migration pathways and their role in hydrate accumulation: AVA insights from the Cauvery-mannar basin	36
Influence of contour currents on the flow dynamics and deposition patterns of turbidity currents in deep-sea channels	36
Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of initial Neotethys transgression deposits from the Cenomanian and Turonian in the Tarim Basin, western China	36
Diagenetic controls on sweet spots pore types and reservoir quality of Permian tight sandstones in the Ordos Basin, China	36