OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of South African Journal of Geology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Okorusu tailings – Part I: General characterisation of superficial tailings	18
Ascent and emplacement controls of mafic magmas in the mid crust − evidence from 3D modelling of basic bodies of the Koperberg Suite, Namaqualand	12
Dr Hans Merensky and the beginning of platinum mining in the Bushveld Complex	12
Microbial mat-induced microfacies in clastic deposits – An overview	11
Cenozoic palaeodepositional conditions and terrigenous sediment influx in the Eyasi-Wembere Basin, Northeastern Tanzania: Insights from elemental proxies	10
Aspects of palaeo-shoreline silcrete formation, Makgadikgadi Pans, north-central Botswana	10
New details on the volcanic and tectonic evolution of the Mesoarchaean Dominion Group with special reference to the Syferfontein Formation in the Ottosdal area (South Africa)	6
Detrital zircon in Pleistocene aeolianite of the Isipingo Formation at Cape Vidal, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, gives age and Hf isotope signatures without provenance significance	6
New palaeomagnetic results from the Mesoarchaean Nsuze flood basalts, South Africa	6
Petroleum potential from Permian-Triassic strata of the Maniamba Basin, Mozambique: A preliminary characterisation	6
Andrieslombaardite, RhSbS, a new platinum-group mineral from the platiniferous Onverwacht Pipe, Republic of South Africa	5
The processing behaviour of the sphalerites from the Big Syncline deposit, South Africa	5
The inﬂuence of humic substances on the weathering of PGE in chromitite of the Bushveld Complex: An experimental simulation of the weathering environment	5
Uncovering the southern Bushveld Complex, using reflection seismic and gravity data	5
The Greater Cederberg–False Bay Large Igneous Province in South Africa: A southern node of widespread magmatism associated with South Atlantic rifting	5
Unearthing hidden Gold: The potential of refractory ores of the Vaal and Crystalkop reefs in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa	4
Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis of the West Rand Group, Witwatersrand Supergroup	4
Timing of deformation within the Southern Structural Domain of the Pongola basin, southeast margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: constraints from field mapping and contact relationships	4
A Review of the geological history of the Evander Basin with new insights into the deposition of the Kimberley Formation	4
Regional variance in alluvial sedimentation and revised stratigraphy of the Klipheuwel Group and Franschhoek Formation	4
Case study in the Northern Cape (Loopeng area), South Africa, confirming occurrence of a collapsible sand soil structure in transported soils	4
Impact structures and deposits of South Africa	3
Manganese carbonate-bearing mudstone of the Witwatersrand-Mozaan succession in southern Africa as evidence for bacterial manganese respiration and availability of free molecular oxygen in Mesoarchaean	3
Cyanobacteria-ferrihydrite aggregates, BIF sedimentation and implications for Archaean- Palaeoproterozoic seawater geochemistry	3
Phanerozoic palaeo-geothermal and exhumation constraints for Tanzanian cratonic rocks: Reconciling thermal conductivity of cover rocks and apatite fission track data from borehole samples	3

New constraints on the age of ore at Black Mountain mine, Bushmanland Ore District, South Africa	3
Petrogenesis of the Merensky Reef: The hydromagmatic (“Uppers”) model	3
Satellite imagery reveals the nature of the Archaean granite-greenstone basement of the Kruger National Park, South Africa, including the newly discovered Olifants River Greenstone Belt	3
The Merensky Reef in retrospect: a century of challenges, controversies, and conceptual shifts	3
Amphibolite facies metamorphism in lower Witwatersrand Supergroup rocks exposed in the Vredefort Dome – a Ventersdorp LIP connection	3
Palynomorph composition and palynofacies analysis of the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation in the north Western Desert of Egypt: Depositional palaeoenvironment and sequence stratigraphic implications	3
The Merensky Reef of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa: Mineral systems analysis of its emplacement and timing of the PGE-Ni-Cu mineralisation	3
Dedicated to the late Professor Nic Beukes (1945 - 2023)	3
A positive syn-fold test from the Neoarchaean Klipriviersberg Group of South Africa: Quo vadis Vaalbara?	2
Towards an astrochronological framework for the lower Paleoproterozoic Kuruman and Brockman Iron Formations	2
The geology of the Pan-African Saldania Belt, South Africa, and regional correlations	2
The Karoo Large Igneous Province	2
The depositional environment of the Koeris Formation in the Aggeneys-Gamsberg ore district, South Africa	2
The Pilanesberg Complex and related igneous rocks	2
U-Pb detrital zircon age determination and provenance of the lower Karoo succession from the Karoo Research Initiative (KARIN) borehole KWV-1, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	2
Does water transparency control the banding in shallow water iron formations?	2
Lateral uniformity of the Pyroxenite Marker Transition in the western Bushveld Complex, South Africa	2
The stratigraphy of the T’Goob Sequence (Aggeneys Subgroup) in the eastern Aggeneys Terrane, Namaqua Mobile Belt	2
The Tennis Ball Marker in the south-eastern Bushveld Complex: comparison with the Boulder Bed of the Western Bushveld Complex and proposed genesis by disaggregation of intrusive sills in processes aki	2
Assessing the geological relationships between the mafic-ultramafic intrusion in the Haib area and the Vuurdood Subsuite, Richtersveld Subprovince	2
The Keis Supergroup	2
The Puduhush gabbro in Griqualand West, South Africa: extendingca.1.89 to 1.83 Ga intraplate magmatism across the proto-Kalahari Craton	2
Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of a potential supra-detachment fault basin, Archaean Moodies Group (~3.22 Ga), central Barberton Greenstone Belt	2
Geomagnetic jerks observed in geomagnetic observatory data over southern Africa between 2017 and 2023	2
Mineral chemistry of the Beacon Heights Phonolite, an agpaitic ignimbrite in the Mesoproterozoic Pilanesberg alkaline complex, South Africa	1
Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of some metasedimentary units in the Jebba-Bode Saadu area southwestern Nigeria: Implications for northwest Africa – northeast Brazil connections in the Proterozoic	1
The Karoo Supergroup: Modern insights from the ancient archive of Gondwana	1
Petrogenesis of the Marginal Sill Phase and Lower Zone in the Eastern Limb of the Bushveld Complex: Incremental development of igneous layering and syn-magmatic emplacement of peridotite intrusions an	1
Tectonic setting and Pan-African structural evolution of the western Saldania Belt, South Africa	1
Characterisation of manganese occurrences in the Kalahari Manganese Field: Constraints from high-resolution 2D seismic surveys	1
Palaeomagnetic overprint records in the Neoproterozoic Damara Supergroup of northwestern Namibia	1
Petrogenesis of PGE mineralised intrusions in the floor of the northern Bushveld Complex	1
The Namaqua-Natal Province	1
O- and H-isotope record of Cape Town rainfall from 1996 to 2022: the effect of increasing temperature, and the ‘water crisis’ of 2015 to 2018	1
Lithostratigraphy of the Bumbeni Complex and its associated subdivisions, South Africa	1
PREFACE	1
Late Mesoproterozoic iron and manganese deposition on a deep-water carbonate platform (Penganga Group), Adilabad, India: Constraints from C, O and Sr isotopes	1
New diagenetic constraints for the interpretation of Neoarchaean stromatolitic dolostone geochemical composition and their palaeoenvironmental significance	1
Discovery of oil seeps in the Rukwa Rift Basin, Southwestern Tanzania: origin, thermal maturity, and palaeoredox conditions	1
Characterising the “Transvaal Jade” alteration front: Evidence for fluid-driven critical metal mobility in the Bushveld Complex	1
Review of the thermo-tectonic evolution of the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex with implications for conflicting published geodynamic models	1
Heat flow in the Main Karoo Basin, South Africa	1
Zircon xenocrysts obscured the zircon date for the lower Koras Group, southern Africa	1
Factors leading to sub-surface pan silcrete formation in north-central Botswana	1
Kimberlites and olivine lamproites of the Kalahari Craton and related diamond deposits	1
Geochemical evolution of magmatic rocks in the Vioolsdrif Domain, Namibia	1
A new interpretation of soft-sediment deformation features (SSDs) in the Parktown Formation (lower West Rand Group); the physical processes of deformation during deposition	1
Dissolution of synthetic diamonds to produce morphologies similar to natural diamonds: an experimental study	1
Further evidence for Cretaceous wildfires: macro-charcoal from the Malha Formation at Wadi Budra, west-central Sinai, Egypt	1
Using laboratory hyperspectral imaging for mineralogical mapping of Lefika la Noka tufa cores in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa	1

Manganese in South Africa: its mineral economics, geology and geometallurgy