OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of South African Journal of Geology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The origin, nature and ﬂuid characteristics of the hydrothermal veining crosscutting the Yzerfontein gabbro-diorite, Cape Granite Suite, South Africa	14
A zircon trace element and Hf isotope geochemical study of syenites and carbonatite, exemplified by the Epembe alkaline carbonatite complex, Namibia	13
Mid-Ordovician subduction, obduction, and eduction in western Newfoundland; an eclogite problem	13
THE LAST FAREWELL	12
The depositional environment of the Koeris Formation in the Aggeneys-Gamsberg ore district, South Africa	10
Chronostratigraphic palaeo-climate phasing based on southern African wetlands: From the escarpment to the eastern seaboard	10
Okorusu tailings – Part I: General characterisation of superficial tailings	9
Heat flow in the Main Karoo Basin, South Africa	9
Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of late Quaternary colluvial slope deposits in southern Africa	8
Microbial mat-induced microfacies in clastic deposits – An overview	8
Cenozoic stratigraphy of South Africa: current challenges and future possibilities	8
Dedicated to the late Professor Nic Beukes (1945 - 2023)	8
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)	7
New palaeomagnetic results from the Mesoarchaean Nsuze flood basalts, South Africa	7
Atmospheric oxygenation at the onset of Earth’s Great Oxidation forced enhanced marine anoxia	7
Ascent and emplacement controls of mafic magmas in the mid crust − evidence from 3D modelling of basic bodies of the Koperberg Suite, Namaqualand	7
Manganese in South Africa: its mineral economics, geology and geometallurgy	6
A neural network application to assess magma diversity in the Etendeka igneous province, Namibia	6
A positive syn-fold test from the Neoarchaean Klipriviersberg Group of South Africa: Quo vadis Vaalbara?	6
Paradise lost: large mammal remains as a proxy for environmental change from MIS 6 to the Holocene in southern Africa	6
Geomechanical properties of the Permian black shales in the southern main Karoo Basin: lessons from compositional and petrophysical studies	5
Geochemical evolution of magmatic rocks in the Vioolsdrif Domain, Namibia	5
A proposed chronostratigraphic framework for the late Quaternary of southern Africa	5
Macroseismic analysis and the determination of a focal mechanism of the 31 October 2019, KwaZulu-Natal earthquake in South Africa	5
Correlations on the southern Kaapvaal Craton Margin, 1: Ventersdorp lavas transgressed the Doornberg lineament	5

Applying U-Pb chronometry and trace element geochemistry of apatite to carbonatite-phoscorite complexes – as exemplified by the 2.06 Ga Phalaborwa Complex, South Africa	5
Misinterpretation of zircon ages in layered intrusions	4
Detrital zircon ages and proposed provenance of the Koegas Subgroup of the Ghaap Group, and overlying Makganyene Formation, of the Postmasburg Group, Transvaal Supergroup	4
Application of modern seismic attributes in the characterisation of mass transport deposits: Orange Basin, South Africa	4
Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of a potential supra-detachment fault basin, Archaean Moodies Group (~3.22 Ga), central Barberton Greenstone Belt	4
The inﬂuence of humic substances on the weathering of PGE in chromitite of the Bushveld Complex: An experimental simulation of the weathering environment	4
Andrieslombaardite, RhSbS, a new platinum-group mineral from the platiniferous Onverwacht Pipe, Republic of South Africa	4
Petrology and spatial correlation of Black Belly tuff cone basalts, Tanzania	4
Towards disentangling climatic and tectonic changes of southernmost Africa using strontium isotope stratigraphy and clumped isotope thermometry	4
On the kinematics and timing of Rodinia breakup: a possible rift–transform junction of Cryogenian age at the southwest cape of Congo Craton (northwest Namibia)	4
Dryland dunes and other dryland environmental archives as proxies for Late Quaternary stratigraphy and environmental and climate change in southern Africa	4
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	4
The Greater Cederberg–False Bay Large Igneous Province in South Africa: A southern node of widespread magmatism associated with South Atlantic rifting	4