OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The topographic evolution of the Tibetan Region as revealed by palaeontology	30
Review of Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary sections in the Rhenish Slate Mountains (Germany)	21
Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in China	17
The Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in the United States	15
Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sections in Iran	12
Global review of the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary: an introduction	12
The Devonian/Carboniferous boundary interval in Poland: multidisciplinary studies in pelagic (Holy Cross Mountains and Sudetes) and ramp (Western Pomerania) successions	12
A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	11
The Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary around the globe: a complement	11
The Devonian-Carboniferous transition at Borkewehr near Wocklum (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany) – a potential GSSP section	10
Geology and lithology of the Tagay-1 section at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia), and description of Aplodontidae, Mylagaulidae and Sciuridae (Rodentia, Mammalia)	10
The Devonian–Carboniferous boundary in Belgium and surrounding areas	9
Palaeodietary traits of large mammals from the middle Miocene of Gračanica (Bugojno Basin, Bosnia-Herzegovina)	9
The proboscidean fauna (Mammalia) from the middle Miocene lignites of Gračanica near Bugojno (Bosnia–Herzegovina)	8
Drowning, extinction, and subsequent facies development of the Devonian Hönne Valley Reef (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)	8
The foraminiferal zonal scale of the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary beds in Russia and Western Kazakhstan and its correlation with ammonoid and conodont scales	8
Palaeomagnetic data from the late Cenozoic Tagay section (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	8
Pteridophytes as primary colonisers after catastrophic events through geological time and in recent history	8
The recolonisation of volcanically disturbed Eocene habitats of Central Europe: the maar lakes of Messel and Offenthal (SW Germany) compared	7
Recent advances in the study of the ferns from Middle Jurassic Baiyanghe flora of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China	7
The Hushoot Shiveetiin gol section (Baruunhuurai Terrane, Mongolia): sedimentology and facies from a Late Devonian island arc setting	7
Taxonomy, palaeoecology and stratigraphy of the middle Miocene mollusk fauna from the Gračanica coal pit near Bugojno in Bosnia and Herzegovina	7
Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): A preliminary report	7
Late Devonian (Famennian) phacopid trilobites from western Mongolia	7
Life at the continental–marine interface: palaeoenvironments and biota of the Alcobaça Formation (Late Jurassic, Central Portugal), with a formal definition of the unit appended	7

Amphilagus plicadentis (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	7
The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)	7
Gliridae and Eomyidae (Rodentia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	7
A terrestrial Devonian-Carboniferous boundary section in East Greenland	7
A new window to the fossil herpetofauna of India: amphibians and snakes from the Miocene localities of Kutch (Gujarat)	7
The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America	7
Late Devonian ostracods (Crustacea) from the Hushoot Shiveetiin gol section (Baruunhuurai Terrane, Mongolia) and their palaeoenvironmental implication and palaeobiogeographic relationship	6
Late early to early middle Eocene climate and vegetation change at Tastakh Lake (northern Yakutia, eastern Siberia)	6
Wildfire during deposition of the “Illinger Flözzone” (Heusweiler-Formation, “Stephanian B”, Kasimovian–Ghzelian) in the Saar-Nahe Basin (SW-Germany)	6
A fossil aphidlion preserved together with its prey in 40 million-year-old Baltic amber	6
Famennian crinoids and blastoids (Echinodermata) from Mongolia	6
Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene climate dynamics in western North America based on a new pollen record from paleo-Lake Idaho	6
Palynofacies as a palaeoenvironment and hydrocarbon source potential assessment tool: An example from the Cretaceous of north Western Desert, Egypt	6
Linking modern-day relicts to a Miocene mangrove community of western Amazonia	6
The northernmost Eurasian Miocene beavers: Euroxenomys (Castoridae, Mammalia) from Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal (Eastern Siberia)	6
Brachiopods from the historical type area of the Viséan Stage (Carboniferous, Mississippian; Belgium) and the Visé fauna: preliminary remarks	6
Introduction to the special issue “The drowning swamp of Gračanica (Bosnia-Herzegovina)—a diversity hotspot from the middle Miocene in the Bugojno Basin”	6
Palaeoenvironmental conditions for the natural vulcanization of the Eocene “monkeyhair” laticifers from Geiseltal, Germany, as elucidated by Raman spectroscopy	5
Cricetodontinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	5
The anthracotheres from northern Junggar Basin and their palaeoclimatic significance in relation to the Tibetan Plateau	5
New finds from San Teodoro Cave: an updating of the Middle Pleistocene fossil record from Acquedolci (north-eastern Sicily)	5
Facies, magnetic susceptibility and timing of the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval (Xom Nha Formation, Central Vietnam)	5
Climate and vegetation change during the Upper Siwalik—a study based on the palaeobotanical record of the eastern Himalaya	5
35 million-year-old solid-wood-borer beetle larvae support the idea of stressed Eocene amber forests	5
Middle Jurassic palaeoclimate changes within the central Ordos Basin based on palynological records	5
The stratigraphy of latest Devonian and earliest Carboniferous rocks in Ireland	5