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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Middle–Upper Pleistocene tephras in the Papua New Guinea highlands	21
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	14
Nundorite: a geological oddity of critical minerals significance from the Mount Arrowsmith Volcanics, northwestern NSW	12
Early Permian zircon ages from the P. confluens and P. pseudoreticulata spore-pollen zones in the southern Bonaparte and Canning basins, northwestern Australia	9
The Woolamai Granite of Phillip Island: S-, I- or A-type, stock or batholith?	9
Mid-Devonian basaltic magmatism and associated sedimentation: the Ooloo Hill Formation, central-eastern South Australia	9
The use of structural geology in the mineral exploration industry	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
Potential of hyperspectral-based geochemical predictions with neural networks for strategic and regional exploration improvement	8
Basaltic dykes and their xenoliths from the Gerroa–Kiama region, southern Sydney Basin, New South Wales: evidence for multiple intrusive episodes	8
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria	7
Syntectonic Late Devonian terrestrial sedimentation in the southern Bonaparte Basin, Western Australia	7
Lithospheric evolution, thermo-tectonic history and source-rock maturation in the Gippsland Basin, Victoria, southeastern Australia	7
Hydrothermal alteration and corresponding reservoir significance of the Permian Emeishan basaltic lavas, west Sichuan, China	7
Tsunami or storm? A high-level coastal boulder field on the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia	7
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	6
Adelaide black granite: geomechanical characterisation for underground design	6
Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of the northern Great Australian Superbasin: insights from maximum depositional age constraints from the U–Pb detrital zircon record	6
Scientific ocean drilling in the Australasian region: a review	5
Pinpointing regional unconformities in the Surat Basin, Australia, by statistical identification of neutron wireline log anomalies	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
Evidence for probable temporal and thermal trends among Devonian granitic magmas in central Victoria, and the composition of the Selwyn Block	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
Correction	5

How to make gold	5
Fertile, alkalic intrusions, Karari–Whirling Dervish gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia	5
A method to collect representative samples from water-driven percussion drilling techniques: examples from RoXplorer ^® coiled tubing drill rig	5
Lower Cambrian volcanism in the Hawker Group and the Billy Creek Formation, Arrowie Basin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia	5
Paleomagnetism of the southern New England Orogen: can apparently conflicting data sets be reconciled?	5
Stratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian–Ediacaran) Stuart Shelf, South Australia	5
Mesoproterozoic age for andalusite in the lower Rocky Cape Group, northwest Tasmania	4
Perkins Discontinuities: structurally controlled grade patterns diagnostic of epigenetic gold mineralisation at the deposit-scale	4
Au–Cu and Cu–Au mineralisation in the Northern Paterson Province, Western Australia; new insights into an important intrusion-related gold district	4
Lithium isotope composition of Ediacaran dolostones from the Nuccaleena and Doushantuo formations	4
Towards a glacial subdivision of the Ediacaran Period, with an example of the Boston Bay Group, Massachusetts	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
Discovery of the Witwatersrand goldfields—contrasting opinions after 100 years	4
Controlling factors of hydrocarbon accumulation and differential distribution in the western Qaidam Basin, Tibet Plateau	4
Backthrusts in the Bowen Basin Folded Zone, eastern Australia: progressive intra-basin shortening or passive-roof thrusting?	4
Zircons from the Wambidgee Serpentinite Belt, southern Lachlan Orogen: evidence for oceanic crust at the Cambrian–Ordovician boundary	4
A Pb isotope model for the Proterozoic of northern Australia with a focus on the McArthur Basin	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
Provenance of sandstones in the Hastings Block, southern New England Orogen: implications for tectonic setting	3
The Ediacaran Aquarium: insights from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park 1T-F Marine Ecosystem (Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite)	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
Geochemical and paleoenvironmental characteristics of upper Neoproterozoic ore-hosting black shales in the Bafq metallogenic zone, Central Iran	3
Germanium, indium, gallium and cadmium in zinc ores: a mineral system approach	3
Mafic intrusions in southwestern Australia related to supercontinent assembly or breakup?	3
Towards quantifying uncertainties in geological models for mineral resource estimation through outside-in deposit-scale structural geological analysis	3
Gold placer characteristics in marine sediments of Bayah, West Java, Indonesia	3
A new discovery of 423.6 Ma Hongbaoshan gabbro in the Beishan area, NW China, and its geological significance	3
Browns Creek mine, Blayney, NSW—a transtensional strike-slip fault-hosted Au–Cu skarn deposit	3
The Tasmanian Tyennan Domain–a structural synthesis and review with tectonic and dynamic implications for continental margin subduction and exhumation	3
Allanite geochronology in the Mount Isa Inlier	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
Age and origin of the Ngankipari Formation in the Noarlunga and Willunga embayments, southern South Australia	3
Analogue modelling of a Tabberabberan fold-thrust belt in the Cobar region and implications for the origin of Cobar-type mineral deposits	3
Paleogeography of Carboniferous and Permian coal formation in the Bohai Bay area, China	3
Composition of pre-Carboniferous siliciclastic rocks in Tasmania	3
Early Devonian volcanic facies, central Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales: implications for tectonic and metallogenic models	3
Dinosaur and tree-line invasion of southeastern Australia during Cretaceous greenhouse spikes	3
A review of the occurrence of and potential for jade in the New Guinea Mobile Belt	3
Orogens and detritus: unravelling the Mesoproterozoic tectonic geography of northern Australia through coupled detrital thermo- and geo-chronometers	2
Detrital zircons and the magmatic history of Viti Levu, Fiji	2
Finding and identifying platinum group elements in the Eastman layered mafic intrusion	2
The interplay of structure and metamorphism at Broken Hill, NSW, Australia	2
Age of magmatism and alteration of basaltic rocks cored at the base of IODP Site U1513, Naturaliste Plateau, southwestern Australia	2
Review of the Cambrian–Ordovician Wagonga Group, Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales South Coast, Australia: submarine slides, mélange and subduction	2
Sedimentary characteristics and controlling factors of a Pliocene shelf-edge delta in the Papuan Basin	2
Revised stratigraphy and first geochronology of the Miocene submarine volcanic succession at Kennaook/Cape Grim, northwestern Tasmania	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
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
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
Evolution of diagenetic fluids in the deeply buried, upper Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Central Sichuan Basin, China	2

A review of critical mineral resources in Australia	2
Calcareous-nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Miocene Fatha Formation at the Miryas section, Qaradagh Mountain Series, Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq	2
Formation of Cu–Au porphyry deposits: hydraulic quartz veins, magmatic processes and constraints from chlorine	2
Ore textures and chemical constraints in the Serantak goldfield, northwest Borneo, Indonesia: implications for retrograde skarn occurrences	2
Tectonic controls on geomorphological dynamics and sediment dispersal in source-to-sink systems in the Qingdong Sag, Bohai Bay Basin	2
The critical role of deformation-assisted melt migration in the formation of oceanic core complexes	2
Devonian ignimbrites of central Victoria: explosive magmas from multiple sources, and deep crustal structure in the Selwyn Block	2
Response of Permian sediment provenance conversion in Hainan Island to the closure of the Eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean	2
Petrogenesis of the Kalka, Ewarara and Gosse Pile layered intrusions, Musgrave Province, South Australia, and implications for magmatic sulfide prospectivity	2
Geochemistry of seafloor surface sediment and submarine hydrothermal signature of Tomini Bay, Indonesia	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
Systematic trends in the substitution mechanisms of minor elements in cassiterite	2
The Jiaodong gold deposits of the North China block—a possible Sulu terrane source	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
The Wattie Group of the Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia: a witness to the denudation of the Nuna-forming Isan/Chewings Orogeny	2
Quartz oxygen isotopes from Tick Hill area in Mount Isa Inlier: indication of a regional fluid overprint	2
Outcrop to petrography scale and new age constraint of the Jatisamit Mélange in the Luk Ulo area, Central Java, Indonesia	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
Paragenetic and geological setting of the Starra iron oxide copper–gold deposits, Mount Isa Inlier, Queensland, Australia: constraints on IOCG deposit models	1
How thick is the Strathbogie Complex?	1
An alternative to the fault-valve model	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
New age constraints for the Tommy Creek Domain of the Mount Isa Inlier, Australia	1
Fluid inclusion characteristics and mechanisms of tin mineralisation in the Jialong tin polymetallic deposits, Jiuwandashan–Yuanbaoshan, northern Guangxi, China	1
2730–2670 Ma rifting triggers sagduction prior to the onset of orogenesis at ca 2650 Ma: implications for gold mineralisation, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia	1
New metamorphic constraints on the Nova-Bollinger Ni–Cu deposit, Fraser Zone, Western Australia	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
Igneous reasons why porphyry Cu–Au deposits are not magmatic	1
Tectono-stratigraphic evolution in the Paleocene Lishui Sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin	1
Blueschist emplacement in the Sepik Headwaters region, Papua New Guinea: field relations, petrology, isotopic dating and tectonic setting	1
Middle–Upper Ordovician conodonts from the Gunningbland area in central New South Wales with implications for regional correlations	1
Alteration out of sight: a petrographic and HyLogger study of the McPhillamys gold deposit, east Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales	1
Archean and Paleoproterozoic zircons in Paleozoic sandstones in southern New Zealand: evidence for remnant Nuna supercontinent and Ur continent rocks within Zealandia	1
Paleocurrent and paleowind direction reconstruction research progress and perspectives: a review	1
Variability of syn-rift geometry in Pearl River Mouth Basin, China: implications for faulting patterns in two-phase rift basins	1
Subsurface high-grading potential in Coal Seam Gas in eastern Australia	1
Holocene freshwater history of the Lower River Murray and its terminal lakes, Alexandrina and Albert, South Australia, and its relevance to contemporary environmental management	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
Pore development in terrestrial shale reservoirs: the Permian Lucaogou Formation, Junggar Basin, northwestern China	1
Crystallographic preferred orientation of quartz deformed at granulite conditions: the Kalinjala Shear Zone, Port Neill, South Australia	1
Characterisation of the tensile performance of bonding agents for the restoration of heritage dimension stone from southeast Australia	1
Geology of the Mutis Complex, Miomaffo, West Timor	1
Genesis of the Wilsons Promontory batholith of southeast Victoria, Australia: heterogeneities in the Proterozoic basement	1
Tracing the age and alteration of placer gold from the Kurnalpi Terrane (Yilgarn Craton) using Pb isotopes	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
Neoproterozoic backarc rift in the western Yangtze Block: constraints from the Daheba gabbro, Sichuan, China	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
Isotopic investigations of the Nova-Bollinger Ni–Cu–Co deposit in the Fraser Zone, Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia	1
P – T conditions of metamorphic and hydrothermal events at Tick Hill gold deposit, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia	1
Cyclic tidalites and seismites at a submarine hydrothermal system for a 2450 Ma banded iron formation, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia	1
Function and status of structural geology in the Resource industry	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
Segmentation and fault–monocline relationships in the Lapstone Structural Complex, Sydney Basin, New South Wales	1
Potential field modelling and U–Pb geochronology reveal the pluton emplacement dynamics of the Lower Devonian Tarnagulla Granodiorite, southeast Australia	1
Strong tides during Cryogenian glaciations: tidal rhythmites from early and late Cryogenian glacial successions and interglacial beds, South Australia	1
Aspidella and water escape structures from the ca 850 Ma (Tonian) Heavitree Formation, Amadeus Basin, Central Australia	1
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria: a comment on emplacement	1
Nature and evolution of diagenetic fluids in the deeply buried Cambrian Xiaoerbulake Formation, Tarim Basin, China	1
Shale gas potential of Ordovician marine Pingliang shale and Carboniferous–Permian transitional Taiyuan-Shanxi shales in the Ordos Basin, China	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
Performance measurements of machine learning and different neural network designs for prediction of geochemical properties based on hyperspectral core scans	1
Regional tectonics, crustal deformation and contrasting batholith orientations in southeastern Australia: why is Late Devonian central Victoria different?	1
Integrated biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and geochronology of the lower Cambrian succession in the western Stansbury Basin, South Australia	1