OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Terra Nova is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Metallogenic age of the world‐class giant huoshaoyun non‐sulphide Zn–Pb deposit in Karakoram Area, Xinjiang, Northwest China	28
Referee List	26
Dispersal of endolithic microorganisms in vesicular volcanic rock: Distribution, settlement and pathways revealed by 3D X‐ray microscopy	26
Structural fabrics of carbon grains in a natural fault gouge reactivated by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake	17
Lithospheric Deformation of Far‐Field Terranes in Response to the India–Asia Collision	16
Thermal regime and slab dehydration beneath the Izu‐Bonin arc: Implications for fast and slow subduction earthquakes	16
The Stratigraphic Record: Cyclic or Stochastic?	15
Was the Formation of the North Anatolian Fault Influenced by the Aegean Extension?	12
Petrologic relationship between lamprophyres, carbonatites, and heavy rare‐earth element enriched breccias at Hicks Dome	12
Linking rifted margin crustal shape with the timing and volume of magmatism	12
Storage in the deep aquifer: Stochastic process in time and frequency domain using groundwater level response to seismic activation of the Tohoku earthquake, Japan, 2011	11
Pleistocene glaciomarine laminated muds in the Central Basin of the northwestern Ross Sea and their palaeoceanographic records	11
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Exhumation of the high‐pressure Richarddalen Complex in NW Svalbard: Insights from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology	10
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Refining vanadium hyper‐enrichment in black shales of the Late Devonian–Early Mississippian Bakken Formation (USA)	10
The effects of plateau subduction on plate bending, stress and intraplate seismicity	9
Hygrochronometry of punctuated metasomatic events during exhumation of the Cycladic blueschist unit (Syros, Greece)	9
Geophysical‐petrological modelling of the crust and upper mantle structure across the North‐South Gravity Lineament in NE China: Insights into the lithospheric thinning mechanism	9
Crustal block origins of the South Scotia Ridge	9
Discovery of a hidden Triassic Arc in the Southern South China Sea: Evidence for the breakaway of a ribbon continent with implications for the evolution of the Western Pacific margin	8
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Brittle basement deformation during the Caledonian Orogeny observed by K‐Ar geochronology of illite‐bearing fault gouge in west‐central Sweden	8
Potential and problems in evaluating secular changes in the diversity of animal‐substrate interactions at ichnospecies rank	8

Late Cretaceous geodynamics of the Palaeo‐Pacific plate inferred from basin inversion structures in the Songliao Basin (NE China)	8
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The mafic volcanic climax of the Paraná‐Etendeka Large Igneous Province as the trigger of the Weissert Event	7
Crustal anisotropy beneath southeast Tibet revealed by Pms arrival times	7
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Apparent Joint Swarms Formed by the Crack‐Jump Process	7
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Millennial‐Scale Slip Rates Along Blind Himalayan Frontal Thrust: Findings From Chalsa‐Gorubathan Recess in East‐Central Himalaya	6
The nature of the Late Syn‐rift Sag Basin (LSSB)	6
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Schist Belts of the Benin‐Nigeria Shield Reveal a Neoproterozoic History	6
Gondwana break‐up controlled by tectonic inheritance and mantle plume activity: Insights from Natal rift development (South Mozambique, Africa)	6
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A novel approach for quantifying similarities between different debris flow sites using field investigations and numerical modelling	6
Brief immersion of southern Australia by change in relative plate speed	6
In situ U–Pb geochronology of Pre‐Salt carbonates reveals links between diagenesis and regional tectonics	5
Continuous record of Upper Ordovician (Katian) to lower Silurian (Telychian) global δ¹³C excursions in the Williston Basin	5
Drainage Divide Migration in Response to Asymmetric Uplift at Eastern Qinling, China	5
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Complex iron and sulphate reducing Cretaceous sedimentary system revealed by extreme isotope values	5
Geo‐thermochronological analysis reveals transition from transverse to axial detrital inputs during Cretaceous rifting in the Songliao Basin, NE China	5
Physical modelling of earthquake precursor by the electro‐optical parameters of gabbro rock under compressive stress	5
Plate corner subduction and rapid localized exhumation: Insights from3Dcoupled geodynamic and geomorphological modelling	4
Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt and Early Alpine Relief Recorded by Calcite U–Pb Dating of an Uplifted Paleo‐Canyon (Vercors Massif, France)	4
Large landslide of the hyperarid Central Western Andes triggered during a humid period of the Late Pleistocene (ca. 19°S; northern Chile)	4
Large igneous provinces track fluctuations in subaerial exposure of continents across the Archean–Proterozoic transition	4
LA‐ICP‐MS U–Pb dating of calcite cement in Upper Triassic tight‐gas sandstone reservoirs, western Sichuan Basin, SW China	4
Water storage in cratonic mantle	4
Iron from continental weathering dictated soft‐part preservation during the Early Ordovician	4
In‐situ U‐Pb dating of calcite slickenfibre constraints on Cenozoic multiple‐phase faulting along the eastern segment of Chengkou Fault, Dabashan Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt	4
CO₂‐Rich Xenoliths at Mt. Vulture Volcano (Southern Italy): New Constraints on the Volcano Plumbing System	4
Crustal density structure and flexure mechanism of the Tarim Basin, China, constrained by latest in situ gravity observations	4
Analysing Temporal Variations in Radon Concentrations: Identifying Trends and Changes	4
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Direct dating rodingitization in the northern North China Craton using garnet U–Pb geochronometry	4
Monazite Beats Zircon Regarding Dating of Young Metamorphic Events—An Example From Polycyclic Granitic Gneiss of the Pohorje Mountains, Slovenia	4
Impact of tidal friction on the motion of lithospheric plates and earthquake activity	4
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Gravity field and geothermal structure of the Corsica‐Sardinia Block	4
The Fagradalsfjall and Sundhnúkur Fires of 2021–2024: A single magma reservoir under the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland?	4
Continental and island arc segmentation: Implications for retro‐arc and pro‐arc foreland basin and backarc basin geometries and sediment distributions	4
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Hydrous Asthenosphere Underneath the Northern Pannonian Basin	4
Fractal Analysis of Volcanic Earthquakes Ijen Volcano (Indonesia) and Its Implications	4
Holocene slip rates and their implications for seismic hazard along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust in western Himalayan Nahan salient	4