OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Gondwana Research is 63. 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
Geochronology and petrogenesis of Eocene gabbros and granitic rocks of the eastern Gangdese belt, southern Tibet: Implications for the timing of India-Asia collision	308
Comment to “Deep subduction of felsic rocks hosting UHP lenses in the central Saxonian Erzgebirge: Implications for UHP terrane exhumation” by	289
Nature of early Mesoproterozoic magmatism in the Qilian-North Qaidam tectonic belt, NW China: Implications for prolonged extension processes and transition from Columbia to Rodinia	269
Building resilience in the face of natural disasters: ICT, fossil fuel use, and sustainable development in an emerging economy	243
Inter-cratonic geochronological and geochemical correlations of the Derim Derim–Galiwinku/Yanliao reconstructed Large Igneous Province across the North Australian and North China cratons	231
Seafloor tectonics in Northeast Atlantic Ocean and South China Sea: Preface	212
Origin of microplates under oblique subduction system in New Guinea: Inferences from gravity and magnetic data	209
Editorial Board (IFC)	192
Carbon isotope stratigraphy of Precambrian iron formations and possible significance for the early biological pump	185
An Ordovician ophiolitic complex in West Junggar, NW China: Implications for subduction initiation and oceanic arc evolution of the Paleo-Asian Ocean	162
Quantifying the formation pathways of nitrate in size-segregated aerosols during winter haze pollution	156
U-Pb geochronology of the Silurian-Devonian Bega Batholith, south-eastern Australia: Insights into the origin and development of I-type granites	154
Air quality change and public perception during the COVID-19 lockdown in India	151
Population aging, renewable energy budgets and environmental sustainability: Does health expenditures matter?	146
A three-dimensional coupled thermo-hydro model for geothermal development in discrete fracture networks of hot dry rock reservoirs	144
One-billion-year-old epibionts highlight symbiotic ecological interactions in early eukaryote evolution	142
Volcanism at the end of continental rifting: The Cretaceous syn-rift to post-rift transition in the Songliao Basin (NE China)	141
The Far-Field imprint of the late Paleozoic Ice Age, its demise, and the onset of a dust-house climate across the Eastern Shelf of the Midland Basin, Texas	139
Using U-Pb detrital zircon systematics to constrain the architecture and provenance of the Ronda peridotites’ crustal hanging wall, S Spain	138
The South Armenian Block: Gondwanan origin and Tethyan evolution in space and time	125
Editorial Board (IFC)	115
Origin and evolution of a porphyry-skarn-stratabound system: constraints from geology, magmatic-hydrothermal zircon U–Pb and molybdenite Re–Os geochronology, and in situ S isotopes of the Dongguashan	111
IBM-type forearc magmatism in the Qilian Orogen records evolution from a continental to an intra-oceanic arc system in the Proto-Tethyan Ocean	108
Detrital zircon U-Pb provenance analysis of Precambrian and Paleozoic strata from southwestern Brazil: Assessment of potential Grenvillian sediment input and Amazonian-Laurentian tectonic interaction	105
Episodic intra-continental reactivation during collapse of a collisional orogen: The Damara Belt, Namibia	103

Geochronology and sediment provenance of the Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin, Australia: Implications for the palaeogeography of eastern Gondwana	103
The Late Paleozoic Ice Age in western equatorial Pangea: Context for complex interactions among aeolian, alluvial, and shoreface sedimentary environments during the Late Pennsylvanian – early Permian	102
The heterogeneous impact of geopolitical risk and environment-related innovations on greenhouse gas emissions: The role of nuclear and renewable energy in the circular economy	101
Crustal structure beneath the Zhongsha Block and the adjacent abyssal basins, South China Sea: New insights into rifting and initiation of seafloor spreading	100
High-temperature hydrothermal resource exploration and development: Comparison with oil and gas resource	100
Two-stage rollbacks of the paleo-Pacific plate beneath the Cathaysia block during Cretaceous: Insights from A-type granites and volcanic rocks	99
From Rodinian passive margin to peri-Siberian continental arc: Evidence from the multiphase Neoproterozoic–early Paleozoic magmatic record of the Zavkhan Block in the Mongolian Collage	98
Multi-mineral geochronology of kimberlites, kamafugites and alkaline-carbonatite rocks, SW São Francisco Craton, Brazil: Appraisal of intrusion ages	97
Hazard assessment model of ground subsidence coupling AHP, RS and GIS – A case study of Shanghai	96
HIRM variation in the Ganzi loess of the eastern Tibetan Plateau since the last interglacial period and its paleotemperature implications for the source region	95
Bioavailability and toxicity of microplastics to zooplankton	93
Global perspectives on radium isotopes in subsurface brines	93
How does green technology innovation affect green growth in ASEAN-6 countries? Evidence from advance panel estimations	92
Editorial Board (IFC)	87
Characterizing coal gas reservoirs: A multiparametric evaluation based on geological and geophysical methods	87
A Paleozoic history of Armorica recounted through anorogenic to vaugneritic magmatism	84
The role of crustal thickness on magma composition in arcs: An example from the pre-Andean, South American Cordillera	82
Two occurrences of paired metamorphic belts in central Inner Mongolia, China: Implications for two-stage subduction of the Paleo-Asian Ocean	82
Lithospheric architecture below the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt and adjoining Archean cratons: Imprints of India-Antarctica collision tectonics	81
Potential impacts of future climate on the spatio-temporal variability of landslide susceptibility in Iran using machine learning algorithms and CMIP6 climate-change scenarios	78
The Late Carboniferous to Early Permian high silica magmatism in the Southern Mongolia: Implications for tectonic evolution and continental growth	77
Differential post-mineralization thermal evolution of the Jiaodong and Liaodong Areas, Eastern China: An indicator of regional tectonic activity	77
Crustal magnetotelluric imaging of a Paleoproterozoic graphitic suture zone, Curnamona Province, Australia	77
Marine Fe cycling linked to dynamic redox variability, biological activity and post-depositional mineralization in the 1.1 Ga Mesoproterozoic Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania	75
Constraints on Earth’s atmospheric evolution from a gas-aqueous partition of fluid inclusion volatiles	73
Reassessment of heat flow in West–Central China: Implications for the extent of the high heat flow region	72
Contrasting collision-induced far-field orogenesis controlled by thermo-rheological properties of the composite terrane	72
Zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopes and geochemistry of granitoids in central Tibet: Bringing the missing Early Jurassic subduction events to light	71
U-Pb in-situ SIMS baddeleyite and zircon dates and thermodynamic modeling of the Mangabal Complex: Indications of asthenospheric mantle influence in the formation of layered intrusions of the Brasília	70
Emplacement and evolution of zoned plutons: Multiproxy isotopic and geochemical evidence from the peraluminous Laojunshan leucogranite suite, southwestern China, and implications on the regional geody	69
Zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopes reveal the crustal evolution of the SW Angolan Shield (Congo Craton)	69
Asymmetric nexus between renewable energy, economic progress, and ecological issues: Testing the LCC hypothesis in the context of sustainability perspective	69
Geodynamic mechanism and classification of basins in the Earth system	68
Mesozoic contractional deformation in central East Asia: Constraints from deformation and sedimentary record of the Helanshan fold and thrust belt, North China Craton	67
Past, present and future global influence and technological applications of iron-bearing metastable nanominerals	67
Pollution level and distribution characteristics of heavy metals and microplastics in the soils from the Qionghai Lake Wetland, Southwest China	65
Energy, environment and sustainability: Future directions	65
Counterclockwise P-T-t path, cyclic crustal anatexis and magmatic tempo in accretionary orogens: A case study in the Devonian arc of Central Patagonia, Argentina	64