OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Earth Sciences 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
Elemental and isotopic tracing of mineral infillings from various microstructures of a fault system into fine-grained sediments: which interacting fluids?	30
Ernst Haeckel’s present of the first two volumes of Das Antlitz der Erde by Eduard Suess to his friend Dr. Paul von Ritter: Why is it important?	27
Geochemical characterization of a possible siderite deposit in the Abor volcano-sedimentary sequence of the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis	24
Skeletal–cement–microbial reefs in the Pennsylvanian: a case study in Guizhou, South China	21
Traces of intra-oceanic arcs recorded in sandstones of eastern Kazakhstan: implications from U–Pb detrital zircon ages, geochemistry, and Nd–Hf isotopes	20
Numerical 3D modeling of burial and temperature history, source rock maturity, and hydrocarbon generation in the onshore northeastern Netherlands	19
An event-duration based rainfall threshold model for landslide prediction in Uttarkashi region, North-West Himalayas, India	18
Against the tide: southeast to northwest shelf-edge progradation in the southeastern margin of Lake Pannon, Banat (Serbia and Romania)	18
Terpenoids in resinites from middle Cretaceous karst infillings in the Rhenish Massif (Rhineland, Germany): botanical source and preservation	18
Subduction–exhumation cycle recorded by calcite deformation microstructures: blueschist-facies metacarbonates and kinematic implications for deformation of the Meliata Unit (Western Carpathians)	16
Establishment of the relationship between rock strength and topography: a novel approach to river morphometric analysis decoupling rock erodibility from active tectonics	16
The potential of polycyclic aromatic compounds as indicators for soil contamination by open-pit mining and utilization of lignite: a case study at Ptolemaida basin, Greece	15
Ice rafts, debris flows and slumps along a glaciated basin margin: the Carboniferous El Imperial Formation in the San Rafael basin, western Argentina	15
Detrital zircon and rutile geochronology, geochemistry and provenance of Cambrian sandstones of Iranian Azerbaijan: implications for the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian evolution of the northern Gondwana marg	15
Petrogenesis of a late-stage calc-alkaline granite in a giant S-type batholith: geochronology and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopes from the Nomatsaus granite (Donkerhoek batholith), Namibia	14
Petrological and chemical evidence for polybaric differentiation across the preserved middle crustal plutonic column of the Famatinian arc, Argentina	14
Middle and Late Devonian paleogeography of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco)	14
Tectonic evolution of the north Lhasa subterrane: insights from early Cretaceous marine strata in the Asuo area, central Tibet	14
Magnetic fabrics and emplacement mechanisms of Valpaços and Freixo de Numão Variscan granites (Northern Portugal)	14
Biochemically induced diagenesis of Jurassic micrite: evidence from phase analysis, carbon, oxygen, and strontium isotopes (Franconian Alb, Germany)	13
Landslide susceptibility mapping using the uncertain and parameter free density-based clustering (UPFDBCAN) algorithm	13
Fragmentary records from the breakup of Rodinia to the closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean: new evidence from the Gicha Complex in the middle Sanjiang Tethyan Orogen, SW China	13
Laevaptychi as reliable paleotemperature archives: high-resolution stable isotope compositions of Kimmeridgian (Jurassic) lamellar structured aspidoceratid lower mandibles from Zengővárkony (Mecsek Mo	13
Strain localization instabilities and the genesis of multiple axes of seafloor spreading in the Carmen basin, southern Gulf of California	12
Organic geochemical study of Aleksinac oil shale	12

Geochemistry and petrology of metapyroxenite and metagabbro associated with Neoproterozoic serpentinites in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: fragments of a fore-arc ophiolite	12
First successful in-situ LA-ICPMS U–Pb dating of recrystallized, metamorphic sulfate constraints deformation phases on western Crete, Greece	11
Tectonic vs. climate controls on the evolution of a miocene intermontane basin, Patagonian Andean foreland, Argentina	11
From biomolecules and organic matter to sedimentary environments and basin analysis: a special issue in honour of Ralf Littke—an introduction	11
Petrogenesis and geochemical evolution of Chole basalts, Southeastern Ethiopian Plateau	11
Sedimentology and detrital zircon geochronology of the Nanpihe Formation in the central zone of the Changning–Menglian Belt in western Yunnan, China: revealing an allochthon emplaced during the closur	10
Correction to: An andesitic sill complex in the Southern Permian Basin: volcanogenetic model and stratigraphic implications	10
Influence of volcanism on the development of black shales in the Chang 7 Member of Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin	10
Petrology, geochemistry, and source of the emplacement model of the Paleoproterozoic Tiébélé Granite Pluton, Burkina Faso (West-Africa): contribution to mineral exploration	10
Kinematic partitioning in the Southern Andes (39° S–46° S) inferred from lineament analysis and reassessment of exhumation rates	10
Metaconglomerate in the Pinerolo Unit (Dora Maira Massif, Western Alps): a key outcrop for Alpine geology and training structural geologists	9
Imaging seismic wave-fields with AlpArray and neighboring European networks	9
The voyage of the ‘Guyot Stone’ from the Swiss Alps to Neuchâtel and Princeton	9
Pressure–temperature–deformation–time path of a deformed garnet-bearing granite from the Paleoproterozoic Tandilia Belt, Río de la Plata Craton of Argentina	9
Non-silicate needles and metals in peridotites from Himalayan ophiolite, Western Ladakh, India: evidence of deep Earth origin	9
Impact of mechanical stratification on the structural style of the Lublin Basin, SE Poland: results of seismic interpretation and implications for quantification of deformation within the frontal part	9
Evolution of diagenetic conditions and burial history in Buntsandstein Gp. fractured sandstones (Upper Rhine Graben) from in-situ δ18O of quartz and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of K-feldspar overgrowths	9
Paleogene granite from offshore of Morocco (DSDP Leg 79): crustal recycling at a passive continental margin of NW Africa	9
Geochronology and geochemistry of Early Cretaceous bimodal volcanic rocks from Erguna Massif, NE China: evidence for the back-arc extension of the Mongol–Okhotsk orogenic belt	9
REE mineralization related to carbonatites and alkaline magmatism in the northern Tarim basin, NW China: implications for a possible Permian large igneous province	8
Correction to: Late Neogene evolution of the Peruvian margin and its ecosystems: a synthesis from the Sacaco record	8
Magma evolution and mineralization of the Baixintan magmatic Ni–Cu sulfide deposit in Eastern Tianshan, Northwestern China	8
Enigmatic well-characterized remanent magnetization of silicified Lower Devonian rocks from the Tadrart area (Murzuq basin, SE Algeria)	8
A cumulate syenite in the upper part of the Hongge-layered mafic–ultramafic intrusion, Emeishan large igneous province, SW China	8
The composite Triassic–Eocene Poshteh pluton, eastern Iran, an Eo-Cimmerian element south of the main Paleotethys suture	8
Aseismic slip on the active Sabz-Pushan and Sepidar thrusts, Iran: microstructural and kinematics evidence of the slickenline fibre creep	8
Altaids and accretionary orogenesis: preface	8
Tectonics and fluvial dynamism affecting the Tiber River in Prehistoric Rome	8
Dolomitization of Late Norian carbonate deposits of restricted basin facies in the Keszthely Mts., Transdanubian Range, Hungary	8
The detrital zircon record of Variscan to post-Variscan tectonosedimentary and magmatic processes in the Tauern Window (Eastern Alps)	8
Paleocurrent analysis and paleogeography of the Biele Karpaty Unit (Magura Nappe, Outer Western Carpathians)	8
Reassessing the polyphase Neoproterozoic evolution of the Punta del Este Terrane, Dom Feliciano Belt, Uruguay	7
How Alpine seismicity relates to lithospheric strength	7
Quantification of physical and chemical paleoweathering at the microscale: a new concept	7
A vestige of an Ediacaran magmatic arc in southeast France and its significance for the northern Gondwana margin	7
Late Carboniferous Schlingen in the Gotthard nappe (Central Alps) and their relation to the Variscan evolution	7
Metavolcanic formations in the Paraautochthonous Triassic successions of the Bükk Mts, NE Hungary	7
Tracing the cryptic Sardic (Ordovician) metamorphism across Alpine Europe: the Krndija region in the Slavonian Mountains, Croatia	7
Collision with Gondwana or with Baltica? Ordovician magmatic arc volcanism in the Marmarosh Massif (Eastern Carpathians, Ukraine)	7
Mazongshan ophiolite in the Beishan Orogen, NW China: relicts of the major branch of Paleo-Asian oceanic crust	7
Magmatic source, petrogenesis, and tectonic setting of the Concepción del Oro Igneous Complex: a geochemical and isotopic (Rb–Sr and Sm–Nd) study of a late complex of the Cretaceous–Eocene Mexican Mag	7
Stratigraphic distribution and structural characteristics of the Meso-Neoproterozoic in southern Ordos Basin, China	7
Deformation temperature, differential stress, and strain rate variation across the Bomdila Gneiss, western Arunachal Himalaya, India	6
Correction to: In search of historical roots of the extraterrestrial impact theory, II: Two unknown German pioneers from the 1850s, Ludwig Pfeil and Karl Reichenbach	6
Generation of Neogene adakitic-like magmas in the Argentine Puna-Eastern Cordillera transition: the Huachichocana Subvolcanic Complex	6
Regional mudstone compaction trends in the Vienna Basin: top seal assessment and implications for uplift history	6
No sediment transport across the Tethys ocean during the latest Cretaceous: detrital zircon record from the Pontides and the Anatolide–Tauride Block	6
Carbon dioxide emissions from Aiken Spring in a Mars-analog desert region of the Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau	6
Formation of baryte and celestine during supergene processes on sedimentary rock outcrops	6
Implications for sedimentary transport processes in southwestern Africa: a combined zircon morphology and age study including extensive geochronology databases	6

Is there activity switching among the continental transform faults in the Eastern Mediterranean region?	6
Liquefaction-induced structures, Hammam Faroun Block, Gulf of Suez rift, Egypt: possible rift-related Neogene seismites	6
Reuniting the Ötztal Nappe: the tectonic evolution of the Schneeberg Complex	6
Characterization of the palaeoenvironmental conditions in the Pannonian Basin during the last 34 mys related to the formation of haematitic and kaolinitic sedimentary rocks	6
From Cadomian back-arc basin to Rheic Ocean closure: the geochronological records of the Kurtoğlu Massif, eastern Sakarya Zone, Turkey	6
Correction: Neoarchean continental crust evolution of the southern North China Craton: constrains from geochronology and geochemistry of the Dengfeng complex in the Jishan area	6
The low-grade basement at Península La Carmela, Chilean Patagonia: new data for unraveling the pre-Permian basin nature of the Eastern Andean Metamorphic Complex	6
Geochronology and petrogenesis of the Pan-African granitoids from Mbondo-Ngazi Tina in the Adamawa-Yadé Domain, Central Cameroon	6
Detrital zircon geochronology of middle Paleozoic to lower Mesozoic strata from Hainan: implications for sedimentary provenance and tectonic evolution of Hainan	6
In situ white mica Rb/Sr geochronology of the Leszczyniec metaigneous complex, West Sudetes: evidence of upper plate deformation at the onset of Variscan collision	6
Mineral chemistry and monazite chemical Th–U–total Pb dating of the Wadi Muweilha muscovite pegmatite, Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: constraints on its origin and geodynamic evolution relative to t	5
Structural significance of the Alvand mantled granite-gneiss dome exhumation within the Zagros hinterland fold-and-thrust belt, Iran	5
Carbonaceous compressions in echinoderms: insights from fossils and diagenetic experiments	5
Multidisciplinary analyses of the rupture characteristic of the June 14, 2020, Mw 5.9 Kaynarpınar (Karlıova, Bingöl) earthquake reveal N70E-striking active faults along the Yedisu Seismic Gap of the N	5
Reconstruction of the thermal history of the northwestern part of the Brunovistulicum	5
Late Oligocene—Early Miocene shortening in the Thrace Basin, northern Aegean	5
Polymetamorphic P–T evolution of the andalusite–garnet–staurolite–sillimanite-bearing schist from the Cushamen Complex (Argentina)	5
Terminal Holocene palaeolake mud pans (playas) of Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt: palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic implications	5
Input and preservation of organic matter in the Upper Permian shale from the Lower Yangtze Platform, South China: evidence from organic and inorganic geochemistry	5
3D basin modeling of the Lower Saxony Basin, Germany: the role of overpressure in Mesozoic claystones with implications for nuclear waste storage	5
Paleontological and lithological evidence of the late Karpatian to early Badenian marine succession from Medvednica Mountain (Croatia), Central Paratethys	5
Structural styles and tectonic evolution of Cretaceous to Cenozoic faults in the Linhe Depression of Hetao Basin, China: implications for petroleum traps	5
Characterisation of an artesian groundwater system in the Valle de Iglesia in the Central Andes of Argentina	5
Subsurface structure of Bali Island inferred from magnetic and gravity modeling: new insights into volcanic activity and migration of volcanic centers	5
Relationship between channel flow initiation and crustal viscosity in convergent settings: an analog modeling approach	5
Structural and geochemical constraints on the genesis of the Kuangshanchang carbonate-hosted zinc–lead deposit, Huize district, southwestern Yangtze Craton	5
Sidi Safi Messinian coral reef (Tafna Basin, northwestern Algeria)	5
Asymmetric development of the Himalaya: quantitative evidence from strain analysis in Kimin-Ziro-Tamen area, Arunachal Lesser Himalaya, India	5
An ancient analogue of carbonate beach complex: the Upper Triassic limestones of Tran Formation, southwestern Bulgaria	5
U–Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry of mafic and intermediate dykes in the İstanbul–Zonguldak Tectonic Unit (NW Turkey): evidence for Devonian and Carboniferous magmatism and the north-subducti	5
Crustal structure of Northeast India as evidenced by receiver function imaging: tectonic and geodynamic implications	5
Thrust tectonics in the Wetterstein and Mieming mountains, and a new tectonic subdivision of the Northern Calcareous Alps of Western Austria and Southern Germany	4
Age and tectonic setting of Mesozoic extension constrained by the first volcanic events in the Eastern Cordillera and Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia	4
REE behavior in warm and cold subducting oceanic crust	4
Multiscale structural analysis of an Epiligurian wedge-top basin: insights into the syn- to post-orogenic evolution of the Northern Apennines accretionary wedge (Italy)	4
Organic geochemical characteristics and organic matter accumulation of the Eocene lacustrine source rock in the Yingxi area, Western Qaidam Basin, China	4
Long-term formation of barren skarn in a Triassic extensional setting: implications for the provenance of the Uppermost Unit of Crete, Greece	4
Effect of Precambrian basement structure on heat flow distribution in Eastern Arabia	4
Geochronology and geochemistry of igneous rocks of the Dassa region, Central-Benin: evidence of an Ediacaran emplacement of alkali-calcic and alkaline plutonic and volcanic magmas	4
Initiation of the Unazuki Belt, Southwest Japan, during the Carboniferous as an island arc system along the North China Craton	4
Polyphase Permo-Carboniferous magmatism adjacent to the Intra-Sudetic Fault: constraints from U–Pb SHRIMP zircon study of felsic subvolcanic intrusions in the Intra-Sudetic Basin, SW Poland	4
Genesis: early life survived in the Polar Circles by precipitating banded iron formation (~ 3.7–1.85 Ga) followed by stratified ferruginous siliciclasts until ~ 580 Ma, when tectonically shifted to lo	4
Ground surface displacements and stress localization driven by dual magma chamber dynamics: analytical and numerical model estimates	4
Correction to: Against the tide: southeast to northwest shelf-edge progradation in the southeastern margin of Lake Pannon, Banat (Serbia and Romania)	4
Active tectonics and paleoseismicity of a transverse lineament in the Fabriano valley, Umbria-Marche Apennine (central Italy)	4
Field geology and provenance analyses of the Ganqimaodu accretionary complex (Inner Mongolia, China): implications for early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt	4
Editorial	4
Development and structure of karstification of the Dong Van Karst Plateau UNESCO Global Geopark, North Vietnam based on cave survey data	4
Lithogenesis of a phosphatized tephra marker horizon in the Eocene Messel maar lake	4
Kalimantan hydroclimate variability since the last glacial period	4
Cu and Pb–Zn–Ba deposits in the Great Duchy of Luxembourg: role of brines penetrating the basement and place in the post-Variscan tectonic history of Western Europe	4
Development and physical characteristics of the Irish shelf-edge Macnas Mounds, Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic	4
The Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB): terrestrial, cosmic, or both?	4
Microstructural BIB-SEM investigation of Upper Cretaceous Jordanian carbonate-rich oil shales bearing type II-S kerogen	4
Stellar calcite aggregates infill dissolution cavities of marcasite in Khoman Chalk near K/Pg boundary: implications of diagenesis in open marine Tethys shelf, Egypt	4
Tectonic setting of the Neoarchean Qingyuan greenstone belt in the North China Craton: evidence from whole-rock geochemistry and zircon U–Pb geochronology	4
Variations of yields and molecular and isotopic compositions in gases generated from Miocene strata of the Carpathian Foredeep (Poland) as determined by hydrous pyrolysis	4
Dating of polyhalite: a difficult 40Ar/39Ar dating tool of diagenetic to very low-grade metamorphic processes	4
Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks in the southeastern margin of the Songliao Basin, NE China: implications for the geodynamic evolution of Paleo-Pacific Ocean	4
Decoupling of Mg from Sr–Nd isotopic compositions in Variscan subduction-related plutonic rocks from the Bohemian Massif: implications for mantle enrichment processes and genesis of orogenic ultrapota	4
3D thermal and rheological models of the southern Río de la Plata Craton (Argentina): implications for the initial stage of the Colorado rifting and the evolution of Sierras Australes	4
Triassic evaporites and the structural architecture of the External Hellenides and Albanides (SE Europe): controls on the petroleum and geoenergy systems of Greece and Albania	4
A drill-hole, geological and geophysical data-based 3D model for target generation in Neves-Corvo mine region, Portugal	4
Petrogenesis and geochemistry of the successive granitic events in the eastern Arabian Shield: implications for tectonic evolution and crustal thickening	4
Correction: An early Cambrian post-rift basin within the Baltica–Iapetus passive margin (north-central Scandinavian Caledonides)	4
Chert concretions of Oued El Khasfa, Tunisia: a North African stratigraphic marker horizon for Lower Eocene strata	4
Lower cretaceous missing volcanic arc. A migrating arc, central Patagonian cordillera, Chile: Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology	4
Integrating facies, mineralogy, and paleomagnetism to constrain the age and provenance of Paleozoic siliciclastic sedimentary rocks along the northern Gondwana margin: insights from the Araba and Naqu	4
Alkaline rocks of the Bobaomby volcanic field point to a petrogenetic link between Comoros and northern Madagascar lithosphere	4
Zircon U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS constraints on the chronology of the Late Carboniferous–early Permian continental Döhlen Basin and its correlation with the Thuringian Forest Basin (Central and Eastern Germany)	4
Geochemistry and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopes of granodiorites in the northern Alxa area: implications for the Middle–Late Devonian tectonic evolution of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt	4
Is the Yermak Plateau a continental fragment from North America? Constraints from Cretaceous and early Eocene magmatic events	4
Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Eocene–Oligocene interval in the Pabdeh Formation in southwestern Iran	4
Onset of the Miocene Chaco foreland basin: depositional conditions, provenance and paleogeographic implications of the Tranquitas Formation (Argentina)	4
Kinematics, strain pattern, and temperature environment of the Yeba shear zone and multistage structural evolution of the Yeba Group	4
Organic geochemistry and origin of bitumen seeps in the Upper Permian (Zechstein) bituminous anhydrite in a Cu–Ag mine in western Poland	4