OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ichnos-An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Metre-scale, upward-radiating burrow systems in Pleistocene aeolian sandstone, Cape South Coast, South Africa: a new ichnotaxon	22
Teredolitesdriftwood from the Arkadelphia Formation–Midway Group Contact (K–Pg), Malvern, Arkansas, USA	21
Diving neoichnology: underwater fieldwork focusing on organism and seafloor ecosystem interactions	21
Report of 18 ^th International Ichnofabric Workshop, 26-31 May 2025 in Granada (Spain)	11
Trace fossils on megafaunal bone remains from Quaternary natural tank deposits of Brazil: A case study in João Cativo Paleontological site, Megafauna Valley, Brazil	10
The role of neoichnology in environmental geoscience	8
Ichnofabric analysis of deep-ocean sediment cores from the South Atlantic ocean: Eocene–Oligocene transition (IODP expeditions 390 and 393)	7
Morphology of Radhostium carpaticum Plička and Říha, 1989 in new finds from the Outer Western Carpathians (Upper Cretaceous – Eocene flysch deposits of the Biele Karpaty Mountains, Slovakia)	7
First record of a small stegosaur footprint (cf.Stegopodus) from the ?Upper Jurassic-?Lower Cretaceous red beds of the Middle Atlas, Morocco	7
Ichnology of a tropical delta and associated strandplain: the Oligocene–Miocene Ciénaga de Oro Formation of Colombia	7
Trace fossils of hypersaline environment and its implication in identifying tidal inundation boundary in Great Rann of Kachchh, Western India	7
Unraveling stratigraphic complexities of transgressive surfaces with trace fossil omission suites and juxtaposed softground suites	6
Sclerobionts on Oscillopha dichotoma (Bayle, 1849) from the Campanian Gurpi Formation, Zagros Basin (SW Iran)	6
Taphonomic overprinting on the late Palaeozoic terrestrial plant–animal interactions: a noise in the record	6
Review of 17th international ichnofabric workshop, 23–25 October 2023 in Faxe (Denmark)	6
The impacts of diagenesis on bioturbated ramp deposits: A study of Arab-D outcrops in Wadi Malham, Central Saudi Arabia	6
New ichnospecies and redescription of Caedichnus Stafford et al., 2015, traces indicative of durophagous predation	6
The paleoichnofauna in bones of Brazilian Quaternary cave deposits and the proposition of two new ichnotaxa	6
A gar-bitten vertebrate coprolite from the Neogene of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA, and a new ichnospecies of Machichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006	5
Psammichnites from the Pennsylvanian Rod El-Hamal Formation of Egypt: revisiting paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic patterns of distribution of late Paleozoic ichnospeci	5
First record of Linichnus Jacobsen & Bromley, 2009, and Nihilichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006, in the Itaboraí Basin (early Eocene), in Sou	5
Invertebrate trace fossils from Paleogene fluvial strata in Western Washington, USA	5
A brief overview of deep-sea neoichnology: recent advances and prospects for interpreting the trace fossil record	5
Decoupling fossil trackways from trackmaker identity in locomotion studies	4
Well-preserved Piscichnus waitemata in tidal-flat deposits of the Miocene Shirahama Formation, southwestern Japan and its ichnological, palaeoecological,	4

Plant stem trace fossils from fluvial deposits of the Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana, USA	4
Possible shod-hominin tracks on South Africa’s Cape coast	4
Neoichnology of Rhinella dorbignyi (Bufonidae) burrows: improving the recognition and interpretation of toad burrows	4