OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Marine Micropaleontology is 4. 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
Morphometric analysis of coccolithophore genus Reticulofenestra: Insights into taxonomy and evolution during late Eocene to early Oligocene	19
Macroecology, macroevolution, and paleoecology of Ostracoda	18
Integrated statistical analysis of calcareous nannofossil and elemental geochemistry of an outcrop from of the eastern Cenomanian Western Interior Seaway: Novel insights of shallow marine paleoceanogr	16
The record of marine ingression in western Gondwana from Devonian conodonts in the Amazonas and Solimões basins, Brazil	16
Corrigendum to <‘Evolution of Neogene fossil ceratoliths (Coccolithophores) by duplication title of article’> <[Marine Micropaleontology 201 (2025) Article 102530]>	15
Enhanced sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) retrieval from Antarctic diatoms	14
An endemic conodont fauna of Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) age from the Santa Gertrudis Formation, southwestern Gondwanan margin and its paleobiogeographic relationships	14
Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Pirabas Formation (Neogene, Pará State-Brazil)	14
Benthic ostracod diversity and biogeography in an urbanized seascape	14
Changes in calcareous nannofossil assemblages linked to dramatic climate change over the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Taramsa Section, Central Nile Valley, Egypt	13
Nutrients and hydrography explain the composition of recent Mediterranean planktonic foraminiferal assemblages	13
The influence of submarine canyons-related processes on recent benthic foraminiferal distribution, Espírito Santo Basin, Southeastern Brazil	13
Testing an indirect palaeo-seagrass indicator: Benthic foraminifera from the Lower Pleistocene Posidonia meadow of Fauglia (Tuscany, Italy)	12
Merging databases for CNN image recognition, increasing bias or improving results?	11
Extraction of calcareous dacryoconarid microfossils from limestones and mudrocks by surfactants paired with freeze-thaw processing	11
Linkages between modern benthic foraminiferal assemblages and environmental conditions at continental slope depths: From Baffin Bay to the Labrador Sea	10
Are there marine sedimentary losses and transgressions in the Southeast Bohai Sea during MIS 2-MIS 3?	10
Conodonts paleobiogeographic dynamic of the Pennsylvanian epicontinental sea Itaituba-Piauí, in the northern intracratonic Brazilian basins, Western Gondwana	10
Marine and marginal marine Ostracoda as proxies in geoarchaeology	10
Editorial Board	10
Adaptation of mobile mounting technique for calcareous nannofossil slides	10
Carbon isotope study of conodont elements: Applications and limitations	9
Paleocene–Eocene boundary in the Gabal El-Gir, east Qena, Egypt: Paleoenvironment and sequence stratigraphy interpretations	9
New insights into the Barremian–lower Aptian calcareous nannofossils of the Mediterranean Tethys: Chronostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications	8
Editorial Board	8

Modern benthic foraminifera distribution in littoral environments of Bahía Samborombón	8
Patterns of morphological variation in coiling forms of the foraminifera Pulleniatina obliquiloclata across the Pleistocene 2.1–1.7 Ma interval coiling events, Solomon Sea	8
Foraminifera in temperate fjords strongly affected by glacial meltwater, Tierra del Fuego, South America	8
Ostracods in databases: State of the art, mobilization and future applications	8
Calcareous Nannofossil variability controlled by Milankovitch and sub-Milankovitch periodicity in the Monte San Nicola section (Gelasian GSSP / MIS 100–104)	8
Foraminiferal insights into the complexities of the turbidity currents triggered by the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, New Zealand	8
Lower Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils and their biostratigraphic and paleoceanographic implications in Southern Tibet	7
Editorial Board	7
Comparison of sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) extraction and shotgun metagenomic library preparation techniques	7
Constraining calcification habitat using oxygen isotope measurements in tropical planktonic foraminiferal tests from surface sediments	7
Benthic foraminifera distribution and sedimentary environmental evolution of a carbonate platform: A case study of the Guadalupian (middle Permian) in eastern Sichuan Basin	7
Santonian deep sea benthic foraminifera from IODP Site U1513, Mentelle Basin (SW Australia): Reactions of benthic foraminiferal assemblages to surface water cooling at southern high latitudes	7
Editorial Board	7
Palaeobiological significance of chitinozoan clusters with parallel vesicles	7
Editorial Board	6
Conodont size in time and space: Beyond the temperature-size rule	6
Implications of finding Peraclis spp. in the Holocene sediments of the northeastern Arabian Sea	6
Microboring variability in bioclasts from a carbonate platform and a mixed carbonate ramp: Paleoenvironmental implications (Upper Triassic, Slovenia)	6
Radiolarian and Phaeodarian high-rank assemblage change through time in the Scotia Sea: A paleo-genomics approach (IODP Exp. 382)	6
Paleoecological and paleobiogeographic implications of a seagrass-indicating foralgal skeletal assemblage: Retracing the Burdigalian Quilon Limestone (Kerala Basin, SW India)	6
Migration of oceanic fronts in the Pacific Southern Ocean during the Mid-Pleistocene transition	6
Seasonal patterns of coccolithophores in the ultra-oligotrophic South-East Levantine Basin, Eastern Mediterranean Sea	6
A 9000-year marine diatom assemblage reconstruction off Eastern Tasmania, Australia, using microfossil and molecular methods	6
Larger porcelaneous foraminifera with a common ancestor: the Neogene Indo-Pacific Flosculinella and Alveolinella (Alveolinoidea)	6
New paleocene calcareous nannofossils: Carlamuelleria, Davidbukrya, Mauriceblackia, Noelia and Senelia	6
Corrigendum to “Microbial-dominated dendrolites in the Zhangxia Formation of the Cambrian Miaolingian: A case study of the Dongping section, Shandong Province, eastern China” [Marine Micropaleontology	6
Mg/Ca ratios in ostracode genera Sarsicytheridea and Paracyprideis: A potential paleotemperature proxy for Arctic and subarctic continental shelf and slope waters	5
The biphasic life cycle of the non-spinose planktonic foraminifera is characterised by an aberrant coiling signature	5
Response of bay ostracod assemblages to Late Holocene sea-level, centennial-scale climate, and human-induced factors in northeast Beppu Bay, Japan	5
Distribution of Miocene dinoflagellate cysts in the paralic basins of Tunisia: Paleogeographic and paleoecological reconstruction and eustatic movements	5
Distribution of modern benthic foraminiferal assemblages across the Northeast Greenland continental shelf	5
Editorial Board	5
Synergic role of frontal migration and silicic acid concentration in driving diatom productivity in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean over the past 350 ka	5
Benthic foraminifera biomass on the continental slope and São Paulo plateau of Santos Basin (SE Brazil): Comparison of different estimation methods	5
Microfossil fragmentation across the Paleocene-Eocene transition at ODP Site 1209 (North Pacific): Implication for reconstructing nannofossil fluxes.	5
Palynological approach to identifying the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary and paleoenvironmental evolution in the southeastern continental shelf, East Sea	5
Progress, challenges and future directions in marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst research: New insights from an international workshop	5
Palaeoceanographic and palaeoenvironmental controls on late Quaternary benthic foraminifera of the western continental slope of South Africa	5
Foram3D: A pipeline for 3D synthetic data generation and rendering of foraminifera for image analysis and reconstruction	5
Machine Learning for identification and classification of Foraminifera: Testing on monothalamids	5
Silicoflagellate evolution through the Cenozoic	5
Pseudofurnishius (Conodonta) from the Triassic Drežnica section, Bosnia and Herzegovina	5
Relative abundance and biometry of Bolivina ordinaria on the northern continental slope of the Pelotas basin during the late Quaternary	5
Editorial Board	4
Upper Ocean variations at IODP Hole U1505C in the northern South China Sea and their response to the East Asian Monsoon during the middle Miocene	4
The 4GFOR model – Coupling 4G early diagenesis and benthic foraminiferal ecology	4
Extant benthic foraminifera from the Indonesian seas: An update of what we know so far and implications for future studies	4
New dinoflagellate cyst species of the Areoligeraceae, Ceratiaceae, Gonyaulacaceae, and Peridiniaceae from the Santonian–Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Nanaimo Group, British Columbia, Canada	4
Editorial Board	4
Integrated stratigraphy of the lower Eocene successions on the southern Tethys margin (Egypt): Emphases on the hyperthermal events	4

Using foraminifera to assess changes in marine coastal habitats of Caribbean Panama since the Middle Holocene	4
Recent deep-sea nematodes and agglutinated foraminifera select specific grains and bioclasts from their environments: Ecological implications	4
Changes in paleoenvironmental conditions during the Late Jurassic of the western Neo-Tethys: Calcareous nannofossils and geochemistry	4
Deep learning object detection for fossil diatom counting: assessing the impact of fossil preservation and intraspecific morphological variation	4
The Permian-Triassic Merrillina (conodont) in South China and its ecological significance	4
Editorial Board	4
Unveiling the Permian and Triassic record of drilling predation on ostracods	4
Editorial Board	4