OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Journal of Earth Sciences is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Middle–Upper Pleistocene tephras in the Papua New Guinea highlands	20
Correction of global elevation data SRTM to the national elevation system in the territory of Vietnam	15
Mid-Jurassic volcanism at Bokhara River and insights into metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle of the Thomson Orogen, eastern Australia	12
Nundorite: a geological oddity of critical minerals significance from the Mount Arrowsmith Volcanics, northwestern NSW	12
Mid-Devonian basaltic magmatism and associated sedimentation: the Ooloo Hill Formation, central-eastern South Australia	10
The Woolamai Granite of Phillip Island: S-, I- or A-type, stock or batholith?	9
Early Permian zircon ages from the P. confluens and P. pseudoreticulata spore-pollen zones in the southern Bonaparte and Canning basins, northwestern Australia	8
Basaltic dykes and their xenoliths from the Gerroa–Kiama region, southern Sydney Basin, New South Wales: evidence for multiple intrusive episodes	8
Shoshonitic pluton and an associated base-metal deposit in the Tarom–Hashtjin metallogenic zone, NW Iran: implication for tectono-magmatic evolution and metallogenic considerations	8
Tsunami or storm? A high-level coastal boulder field on the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia	8
Hydrothermal alteration and corresponding reservoir significance of the Permian Emeishan basaltic lavas, west Sichuan, China	7
Lithospheric evolution, thermo-tectonic history and source-rock maturation in the Gippsland Basin, Victoria, southeastern Australia	7
The use of structural geology in the mineral exploration industry	7
Potential of hyperspectral-based geochemical predictions with neural networks for strategic and regional exploration improvement	7
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria	6
Syntectonic Late Devonian terrestrial sedimentation in the southern Bonaparte Basin, Western Australia	6
Scientific ocean drilling in the Australasian region: a review	5
A method to collect representative samples from water-driven percussion drilling techniques: examples from RoXplorer ^® coiled tubing drill rig	5
Adelaide black granite: geomechanical characterisation for underground design	5
Stratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian–Ediacaran) Stuart Shelf, South Australia	5
Lower Cambrian volcanism in the Hawker Group and the Billy Creek Formation, Arrowie Basin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia	5
3D modelling of subsurface ancient volcanic successions: a workflow developed during regional reconstructions of the Cowal Igneous Complex in the Ordovician Macquarie Arc of NSW, Australia	5
New insights on the age and stratigraphy of the Cisuralian succession in the Cooper Basin, Australia, based on U–Pb CA-TIMS dating of volcanic air-fall tuffs	5
Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of the northern Great Australian Superbasin: insights from maximum depositional age constraints from the U–Pb detrital zircon record	5
Constraints of alkaline magmatic evolution on the enrichment and mineralisation of rare-earth elements in the eastern part of the northern margin of the North China Craton: a case study of the Baerzhe	5

Evidence for probable temporal and thermal trends among Devonian granitic magmas in central Victoria, and the composition of the Selwyn Block	4
Controlling factors of hydrocarbon accumulation and differential distribution in the western Qaidam Basin, Tibet Plateau	4
The age and origin of Sydney Harbour and the Parramatta River: the Cenozoic history of the coastal rivers of central New South Wales	4
Lithium isotope composition of Ediacaran dolostones from the Nuccaleena and Doushantuo formations	4
How to make gold	4
Fertile, alkalic intrusions, Karari–Whirling Dervish gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia	4
The Ediacaran Aquarium: insights from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park 1T-F Marine Ecosystem (Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite)	4
Zircons from the Wambidgee Serpentinite Belt, southern Lachlan Orogen: evidence for oceanic crust at the Cambrian–Ordovician boundary	4
Paleomagnetism of the southern New England Orogen: can apparently conflicting data sets be reconciled?	4
Discovery of the Witwatersrand goldfields—contrasting opinions after 100 years	4
Towards a glacial subdivision of the Ediacaran Period, with an example of the Boston Bay Group, Massachusetts	4
Provenance of sandstones in the Hastings Block, southern New England Orogen: implications for tectonic setting	4
Mesoproterozoic age for andalusite in the lower Rocky Cape Group, northwest Tasmania	4
Browns Creek mine, Blayney, NSW—a transtensional strike-slip fault-hosted Au–Cu skarn deposit	3
Gold placer characteristics in marine sediments of Bayah, West Java, Indonesia	3
Backthrusts in the Bowen Basin Folded Zone, eastern Australia: progressive intra-basin shortening or passive-roof thrusting?	3
A review of the occurrence of and potential for jade in the New Guinea Mobile Belt	3
Geochemical and paleoenvironmental characteristics of upper Neoproterozoic ore-hosting black shales in the Bafq metallogenic zone, Central Iran	3
Dinosaur and tree-line invasion of southeastern Australia during Cretaceous greenhouse spikes	3
Paleogeography of Carboniferous and Permian coal formation in the Bohai Bay area, China	3
Analogue modelling of a Tabberabberan fold-thrust belt in the Cobar region and implications for the origin of Cobar-type mineral deposits	3
Geochemical, U–Pb geochronological, and Hf isotopic characterisation and geological significance of late Caledonian granites in Gushan area of Dagelegou, East Kunlun, China	3
Fan-delta facies architecture, morphological evolution and sediment delivery in the Oligocene Dongying Formation of the Nanpu Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China	3
Allanite geochronology in the Mount Isa Inlier	3
The Tasmanian Tyennan Domain–a structural synthesis and review with tectonic and dynamic implications for continental margin subduction and exhumation	3
Composition of pre-Carboniferous siliciclastic rocks in Tasmania	3
A new discovery of 423.6 Ma Hongbaoshan gabbro in the Beishan area, NW China, and its geological significance	3
Segmentation characteristics of the strike-slip fault and their controls on the hydrocarbon accumulation and enrichment in the northern Tarim Basin, NW China	3
A Pb isotope model for the Proterozoic of northern Australia with a focus on the McArthur Basin	3
Paleomagnetic testing of the Lachlan Orocline hypothesis: Overprinting of remanence in Paleozoic rocks of the Lachlan Orogen in southeast Australia	3
Reappraisal of the carbonate microfacies, depositional environments and biostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian Second Plain Creek Member, Mernmerna Formation, Flinders Ranges, South Australia	3
Response of Permian sediment provenance conversion in Hainan Island to the closure of the Eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean	2
Major, trace and rare earth element geochemistry of the Permian Lucaogou oil shales, eastern Junggar Basin, NW China: implications for weathering, provenance and tectonic setting	2
Mid-Phanerozoic microbialite forms and associated facies in the northern Perth Basin, Western Australia, and their relationship to the end-Permian mass extinction	2
Geochemistry of seafloor surface sediment and submarine hydrothermal signature of Tomini Bay, Indonesia	2
The Jiaodong gold deposits of the North China block—a possible Sulu terrane source	2
Tectonic controls on geomorphological dynamics and sediment dispersal in source-to-sink systems in the Qingdong Sag, Bohai Bay Basin	2
Germanium, indium, gallium and cadmium in zinc ores: a mineral system approach	2
Fluid inclusion and stable isotope constraints on the genesis of epithermal base-metal veins in the Armaqan Khaneh mining district, Tarom-Hashtjin metallogenic belt, NW Iran	2
Towards quantifying uncertainties in geological models for mineral resource estimation through outside-in deposit-scale structural geological analysis	2
Devonian ignimbrites of central Victoria: explosive magmas from multiple sources, and deep crustal structure in the Selwyn Block	2
Formation of Cu–Au porphyry deposits: hydraulic quartz veins, magmatic processes and constraints from chlorine	2
Holocene freshwater history of the Lower River Murray and its terminal lakes, Alexandrina and Albert, South Australia, and its relevance to contemporary environmental management	2
Calcareous-nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Miocene Fatha Formation at the Miryas section, Qaradagh Mountain Series, Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq	2
Detrital zircons and the magmatic history of Viti Levu, Fiji	2
Petrogenesis of the Kalka, Ewarara and Gosse Pile layered intrusions, Musgrave Province, South Australia, and implications for magmatic sulfide prospectivity	2
Finding and identifying platinum group elements in the Eastman layered mafic intrusion	2
Geology of the Mutis Complex, Miomaffo, West Timor	2
Detrital or reset? ⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar dating of mica from the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Ba	2
Ore textures and chemical constraints in the Serantak goldfield, northwest Borneo, Indonesia: implications for retrograde skarn occurrences	2

Early Devonian volcanic facies, central Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales: implications for tectonic and metallogenic models	2
Sedimentary characteristics and controlling factors of a Pliocene shelf-edge delta in the Papuan Basin	2
The interplay of structure and metamorphism at Broken Hill, NSW, Australia	2
Characterisation of the tensile performance of bonding agents for the restoration of heritage dimension stone from southeast Australia	2
Revised stratigraphy and first geochronology of the Miocene submarine volcanic succession at Kennaook/Cape Grim, northwestern Tasmania	2
Orogens and detritus: unravelling the Mesoproterozoic tectonic geography of northern Australia through coupled detrital thermo- and geo-chronometers	2
2730–2670 Ma rifting triggers sagduction prior to the onset of orogenesis at ca 2650 Ma: implications for gold mineralisation, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia	2
Zircon U–Pb age, whole-rock geochemistry and Nd–Sr–Pb isotope constraints on petrogenesis of the Eocene Zajkan gabbro–monzogranite intrusion, Tarom-Hashtjin magmatic belt, NW Iran	2
Evolution of diagenetic fluids in the deeply buried, upper Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Central Sichuan Basin, China	2
The critical role of deformation-assisted melt migration in the formation of oceanic core complexes	2
The Wattie Group of the Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia: a witness to the denudation of the Nuna-forming Isan/Chewings Orogeny	2
Systematic trends in the substitution mechanisms of minor elements in cassiterite	2
Mafic intrusions in southwestern Australia related to supercontinent assembly or breakup?	2
A review of critical mineral resources in Australia	2
Fluid inclusion characteristics and mechanisms of tin mineralisation in the Jialong tin polymetallic deposits, Jiuwandashan–Yuanbaoshan, northern Guangxi, China	2
Quartz oxygen isotopes from Tick Hill area in Mount Isa Inlier: indication of a regional fluid overprint	2
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria: a comment on emplacement	2
Age of magmatism and alteration of basaltic rocks cored at the base of IODP Site U1513, Naturaliste Plateau, southwestern Australia	2
Pore development in terrestrial shale reservoirs: the Permian Lucaogou Formation, Junggar Basin, northwestern China	1
Dolomitisation under an arid climate at low sea-level: a case study of the Lei 4 Member of the Middle Triassic Leikoupo Formation, Western Sichuan Depression, China	1
Formation of the Lawn Hill Impact Structure	1
Performance measurements of machine learning and different neural network designs for prediction of geochemical properties based on hyperspectral core scans	1
Integrated biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and geochronology of the lower Cambrian succession in the western Stansbury Basin, South Australia	1
Outcrop to petrography scale and new age constraint of the Jatisamit Mélange in the Luk Ulo area, Central Java, Indonesia	1
Aspidella and water escape structures from the ca 850 Ma (Tonian) Heavitree Formation, Amadeus Basin, Central Australia	1
Genesis of the Wilsons Promontory batholith of southeast Victoria, Australia: heterogeneities in the Proterozoic basement	1
Improving geological logging of drill holes using geochemical data and data analytics for mineral exploration in the Gawler Ranges, South Australia	1
Were jellyfish stranded on a shoreline sand ca 850 million years ago in the Amadeus Basin of central Australia?	1
An alternative to the fault-valve model	1
Strong tides during Cryogenian glaciations: tidal rhythmites from early and late Cryogenian glacial successions and interglacial beds, South Australia	1
Paragenetic and geological setting of the Starra iron oxide copper–gold deposits, Mount Isa Inlier, Queensland, Australia: constraints on IOCG deposit models	1
Function and status of structural geology in the Resource industry	1
Segmentation and fault–monocline relationships in the Lapstone Structural Complex, Sydney Basin, New South Wales	1
New age constraints for the Tommy Creek Domain of the Mount Isa Inlier, Australia	1
Crystallographic preferred orientation of quartz deformed at granulite conditions: the Kalinjala Shear Zone, Port Neill, South Australia	1
Igneous reasons why porphyry Cu–Au deposits are not magmatic	1
Paleocurrent and paleowind direction reconstruction research progress and perspectives: a review	1
Isotopic investigations of the Nova-Bollinger Ni–Cu–Co deposit in the Fraser Zone, Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia	1
Regional tectonics, crustal deformation and contrasting batholith orientations in southeastern Australia: why is Late Devonian central Victoria different?	1
Late Ordovician subsurface carbonates and fossil assemblages from the area immediately west and northwest of Peak Hill in central New South Wales and their regional correlation	1
Nature and evolution of diagenetic fluids in the deeply buried Cambrian Xiaoerbulake Formation, Tarim Basin, China	1
Potential field modelling and U–Pb geochronology reveal the pluton emplacement dynamics of the Lower Devonian Tarnagulla Granodiorite, southeast Australia	1
Tectono-stratigraphic evolution in the Paleocene Lishui Sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin	1
Shale gas potential of Ordovician marine Pingliang shale and Carboniferous–Permian transitional Taiyuan-Shanxi shales in the Ordos Basin, China	1
A review of major rare earth element and yttrium deposits in China	1
The isotope geochemistry of host rocks of the late Archean Guandi and Banshigou banded iron formations, southern Jilin Province: temporal and tectonic significance	1
How thick is the Strathbogie Complex?	1
A mid-Permian mafic intrusion into wet marine sediments of the lower Shoalhaven Group and its significance in the volcanic history of the southern Sydney Basin	1
Middle–Upper Ordovician conodonts from the Gunningbland area in central New South Wales with implications for regional correlations	1
Matangkaka manganese deposit, Ambitle Island, Feni Island Group, Papua New Guinea: a Quaternary epithermal stratabound manganese oxide deposit	1
The premature decay of rifting processes in the northern South China Sea (38–33.9 Ma): insight from 3D seismic and its interpretation of the Lufeng Sag of the Pearl River Mouth Basin	1
Blueschist emplacement in the Sepik Headwaters region, Papua New Guinea: field relations, petrology, isotopic dating and tectonic setting	1
P – T conditions of metamorphic and hydrothermal events at Tick Hill gold deposit, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia	1
Paleomagnetism of the Acraman–Bunyeroo meteorite impact ejecta zone in the South Flinders Ranges region, South Australia	1
A review of high-purity quartz for silicon production in Australia	1
Cyclic tidalites and seismites at a submarine hydrothermal system for a 2450 Ma banded iron formation, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia	1
Structure of an accreted intra-oceanic arc: potential-field model of a crustal cross-section through the Macquarie Arc, Lachlan Orogen, southeastern Australia	1
Lithogeochemical and sulfide trace-element systematics across the Permian–Triassic boundary, Perth Basin, Western Australia: constraints on the shallow marine environment during the end-Permian mass e	1
Archean and Paleoproterozoic zircons in Paleozoic sandstones in southern New Zealand: evidence for remnant Nuna supercontinent and Ur continent rocks within Zealandia	1
Subsurface high-grading potential in Coal Seam Gas in eastern Australia	1
Variability of syn-rift geometry in Pearl River Mouth Basin, China: implications for faulting patterns in two-phase rift basins	1
New metamorphic constraints on the Nova-Bollinger Ni–Cu deposit, Fraser Zone, Western Australia	1