OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of Earth Sciences is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A review of lithogeochemical dispersion haloes of LCT pegmatites, and their application to rare metal exploration, with special reference to lithium in an Australian context	14
The Ediacaran Aquarium: insights from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park 1T-F Marine Ecosystem (Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite)	12
Paleogene carbonate ramp development in the Kohat Basin of northwestern Pakistan	11
Paleocurrent and paleowind direction reconstruction research progress and perspectives: a review	10
The origin of mafic–ultramafic rocks and felsic plutons along the Clarke River suture zone: implications for porphyry exploration in the northern Tasmanides	10
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria: a comment on emplacement	10
The age and origin of Sydney Harbour and the Parramatta River: the Cenozoic history of the coastal rivers of central New South Wales	8
2730–2670 Ma rifting triggers sagduction prior to the onset of orogenesis at ca 2650 Ma: implications for gold mineralisation, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia	8
Mid-Jurassic volcanism at Bokhara River and insights into metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle of the Thomson Orogen, eastern Australia	8
Analogue modelling of a Tabberabberan fold-thrust belt in the Cobar region and implications for the origin of Cobar-type mineral deposits	6
Strain localisation and transcurrent reactivation in the granulite facies Kalinjala Shear Zone at Port Neill, South Australia	6
Characterisation of the tensile performance of bonding agents for the restoration of heritage dimension stone from southeast Australia	6
Blueschist emplacement in the Sepik Headwaters region, Papua New Guinea: field relations, petrology, isotopic dating and tectonic setting	6
Performance measurements of machine learning and different neural network designs for prediction of geochemical properties based on hyperspectral core scans	6
Assessment of two grainsize methods for peat sediments and their paleoenvironmental significance: the Yueliangwan Peatland in northeast Asia	5
Basin provenance and its control on mineralisation within the Early Devonian Cobar Basin, western Lachlan Orogen, eastern Australia	5
Correction of global elevation data SRTM to the national elevation system in the territory of Vietnam	5
Middle–Upper Pleistocene tephras in the Papua New Guinea highlands	5
Zircons from the Wambidgee Serpentinite Belt, southern Lachlan Orogen: evidence for oceanic crust at the Cambrian–Ordovician boundary	5
Geotourism and geoparks for sustainable rural development and poverty alleviation: Huanggang Dabieshan UNESCO Global Geopark, China	4
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	4
Convergence and transpression along the paleo-Pacific margin of Australia during the Paleozoic: insights from the Pinnak Sandstone at Mallacoota, northeast Victoria	4
Segmentation characteristics of the strike-slip fault and their controls on the hydrocarbon accumulation and enrichment in the northern Tarim Basin, NW China	4
Late Quaternary history of the Gumants catchment, Papua New Guinea	4
Fluid inclusion characteristics and mechanisms of tin mineralisation in the Jialong tin polymetallic deposits, Jiuwandashan–Yuanbaoshan, northern Guangxi, China	4

Gold placer characteristics in marine sediments of Bayah, West Java, Indonesia	4
Geology, geochemistry and depositional history of the Port Campbell Limestone on the eastern flank of the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia	4
Provenance of sandstones in the Hastings Block, southern New England Orogen: implications for tectonic setting	4
Devonian–Carboniferous regional deformation in the northeastern Lachlan Orogen, southeastern Australia	4
Strong tides during Cryogenian glaciations: tidal rhythmites from early and late Cryogenian glacial successions and interglacial beds, South Australia	3
Dating initial crystallisation of some Devonian plutons in central Victoria and geological implications	3
Mid-Devonian basaltic magmatism and associated sedimentation: the Ooloo Hill Formation, central-eastern South Australia	3
Composition of pre-Carboniferous siliciclastic rocks in Tasmania	3
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria: Response to comments by C. D. Branch	3
Browns Creek mine, Blayney, NSW—a transtensional strike-slip fault-hosted Au–Cu skarn deposit	3
Shoshonitic pluton and an associated base-metal deposit in the Tarom–Hashtjin metallogenic zone, NW Iran: implication for tectono-magmatic evolution and metallogenic considerations	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
Paleogeography of Carboniferous and Permian coal formation in the Bohai Bay area, China	3
The early Ediacaran lower Wilpena Group of the Adelaide Superbasin, South Australia: a review of its stratigraphy and bounding ‘disconformity sequences’	3
Igneous reasons why porphyry Cu–Au deposits are not magmatic	3
The Woolamai Granite of Phillip Island: S-, I- or A-type, stock or batholith?	3
The growth and size of orogenic gold systems: probability and dynamical behaviour	3
New metamorphic constraints on the Nova-Bollinger Ni–Cu deposit, Fraser Zone, Western Australia	3
How thick is the Strathbogie Complex?	3
Segmentation and fault–monocline relationships in the Lapstone Structural Complex, Sydney Basin, New South Wales	3
Mafic intrusions in southwestern Australia related to supercontinent assembly or breakup?	2
The Permian Watershed tungsten deposit (northeast Queensland, Australia): fluid inclusion and stable isotope constraints	2
Shale brittleness within the Paleoproterozoic Isa Superbasin succession in the South Nicholson region, Northern Australia	2
The use of structural geology in the mineral exploration industry	2
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	2
Provenance of lower Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in Tasmania and Waratah Bay, southern Victoria: constraints from detrital zircon hafnium isotopes and trace-element geochemistry	2
Lithofacies characteristics and sedimentary model of a gravelly braided river-dominated fan: a case study of modern Poplar River alluvial fan (northwest Junggar Basin, China)	2
Nundorite: a geological oddity of critical minerals significance from the Mount Arrowsmith Volcanics, northwestern NSW	2
A review of the occurrence of and potential for jade in the New Guinea Mobile Belt	2
Pore development in terrestrial shale reservoirs: the Permian Lucaogou Formation, Junggar Basin, northwestern China	2
Function and status of structural geology in the Resource industry	2
A Pb isotope model for the Proterozoic of northern Australia with a focus on the McArthur Basin	2
A review of major rare earth element and yttrium deposits in China	2
The spatial and temporal occurrence and significance of dinoflagellates and other marine fossils within onshore coal measures, Gippsland Basin, Australia	2
Early Permian zircon ages from the P. confluens and P. pseudoreticulata spore-pollen zones in the southern Bonaparte and Canning basins, northwestern Australia	2
Basaltic dykes and their xenoliths from the Gerroa–Kiama region, southern Sydney Basin, New South Wales: evidence for multiple intrusive episodes	2
The Tasmanian Tyennan Domain–a structural synthesis and review with tectonic and dynamic implications for continental margin subduction and exhumation	2
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	2
A new discovery of 423.6 Ma Hongbaoshan gabbro in the Beishan area, NW China, and its geological significance	2
Correction	2
Quantifying and characterising metal concentrations in Derwent Estuary sediments using portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry	2
2020 Reviewers	2
Towards quantifying uncertainties in geological models for mineral resource estimation through outside-in deposit-scale structural geological analysis	2
Germanium, indium, gallium and cadmium in zinc ores: a mineral system approach	2
3D geometry of the Dugald River Shear Zone, Mount Isa Inlier, Australia	2
Triaxial stress and failure modes in hydrothermal mineral systems	2
Hyperspectral data as a proxy for porosity estimation of carbonate rocks	2
Allanite geochronology in the Mount Isa Inlier	2
In situ calcite U–Pb geochronology of carbonate and clastic sedimentary rocks from the Canning Basin, Western Australia	2
Geochemical and palynological records of rapid climatic change from the early to late Aptian: evidence from the Jiaolai Basin, eastern China	2

Petrogenesis of the Hoy lava field, a long-lived continental mafic volcanic province in eastern Australia	2
Refining the depositional model of the lower Permian Carynginia Formation in the northern Perth Basin: anatomy of an ancient mouth bar	2
2020 Reviewers	2
Origins of clay-rich strata in Cenozoic paleochannel deposits: an example from Suttor Formation, Queensland	2