OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of Earth Sciences is 3. 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
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
Early Permian zircon ages from the P. confluens and P. pseudoreticulata spore-pollen zones in the southern Bonaparte and Canning basins, northwestern Australia	9
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 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
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
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
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
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
A Pb isotope model for the Proterozoic of northern Australia with a focus on the McArthur Basin	3