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 2021-06-01 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
Tsunami or storm? A high-level coastal boulder field on the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia	8
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
Potential of hyperspectral-based geochemical predictions with neural networks for strategic and regional exploration improvement	7
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
Syntectonic Late Devonian terrestrial sedimentation in the southern Bonaparte Basin, Western Australia	6
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria	6
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria: a comment on emplacement	2
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
Formation of Cu–Au porphyry deposits: hydraulic quartz veins, magmatic processes and constraints from chlorine	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
Calcareous-nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Miocene Fatha Formation at the Miryas section, Qaradagh Mountain Series, Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq	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
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
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
Revised stratigraphy and first geochronology of the Miocene submarine volcanic succession at Kennaook/Cape Grim, northwestern Tasmania	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
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
Quartz oxygen isotopes from Tick Hill area in Mount Isa Inlier: indication of a regional fluid overprint	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
Age of magmatism and alteration of basaltic rocks cored at the base of IODP Site U1513, Naturaliste Plateau, southwestern Australia	2