OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Palaeoworld 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Unraveling the Early Devonian provenance of the Longmenshan region through detrital zircon records: Implications for floral differentiation in South China	21
Earliest upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) record of bivalve Pinna (Pinnidae) from the Kopet-Dagh Basin, northeastern Iran and its possible predators	15
New record of Brachyoxylon wood from the Lower Cretaceous of Qingyuan, southeastern China and its palaeoclimatic implications	14
Small cornulitids from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of Estonia	13
New fossil woods from the middle Eocene climate optimum of north-central Turkey	13
Sedimentary facies and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Oligocene larger-benthic-foraminifera-dominated Qom Formation in the northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway	13
Unique lowermost Cambrian small shelly fossils (SSFs) from eastern Yunnan, South China: implications for the early diversification history of animals	12
Editorial Board	11
Benthic primary producers in exceptionally preserved Cambrian biotas of North China	11
Anatomy of Stigmaria asiatica Jongmans et Gothan from the Asselian (lowermost Permian) of Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, North China	11
Caenogastropoda and Stylommatophora (Gastropoda) from the mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber of East Asia	11
Oldhamia radiata: the trace of an undermat miner from the Cambrian Series 2 Xinji Formation, western Henan, North China	10
Lower Jurassic corals from the Pamir Mountains, Central Asia	10
Widespread Thalassinoides facies from the upper Silurian of South China: A case study from the northwestern Hunan Province, middle to upper Yangtze Block	10
New fishes from the Viséan–Serpukhovian boundary beds (Carboniferous) of the Verkhnyaya Kardailovka section (South Urals, Russia)	9
Conodonts across the Lochkovian/Pragian boundary in central Guangxi, South China	9
The bivalved arthropod Caudicaella aff. bispinata from the Heatherdale Shale (Cambrian Stage 3), South Australia	9
Book review	9
Parasitic hump-backed flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Miocene ambers	9
Integrated biostratigraphy for the Santonian/Campanian boundary interval, the Kurdistan Region, northeast Iraq	8
New Ediacaran tubular fossils from southern Shaanxi, China	8
Macroalgal fossil Longfengshania from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang and Jiuliqiao formations in western Shandong and northern Anhui, North China	8
The evolution of Nyctereutes (Carnivora: Canidae) in the Nihewan Basin, Hebei, northern China	8
Palaeoenvironmental implications of a turritelline-dominated assemblage from Upper Cretaceous carbonate rocks of Narmada Basin, India	8
Editorial Board	8

First report of Schizopholis (Lingulata, Brachiopoda) from the Tsinghsutung Formation (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) in Guizhou, China	8
A Miocene flora from the Toupi Formation in Jiangxi Province, southeastern China	8
A new Trapa from the middle Miocene of Zhangpu, Fujian, southeastern China	7
Editorial Board	7
On the systematic position of the Early Cretaceous fern genus “Athyrium”	7
A gorgonopsian from the Wutonggou Formation (Changhsingian, Permian) of Turpan Basin, Xinjiang, China	7
Review and update on the applications of inertinite macerals in coal geology, paleoclimatology, and paleoecology	7
Dating of Early Triassic Chaohu Fauna by precise U-Pb age constraints: Temporal calibration of the emergence and first radiation of Mesozoic marine reptiles	7
A new odonatan (Stenophlebiidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Sinuiju Formation of North Phyongan Province, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	7
Terreneuvian skeletonized microfossils from the Central Iberian Zone (Spain) and correlation of the Fortunian Stage throughout southwestern Europe	7
First Caliscelidae planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	7
First record of organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang Formation of the Tumen Group in western Shandong, North China	7
FossilMorph: A new tool for fossil automatic measurement and statistical analysis	7
Actinopterygians from the continental Permian–Triassic boundary section at Babiy Kamen (Kuznetsk Basin, Siberia, Russia)	7
A new skull of early cetacean Remingtonocetus harudiensis from the Eocene of Kutch Basin, India	6
Editorial Board	6
Hybodontiform sharks from Middle Triassic Chang 7 Member of the Ordos Basin, Shaanxi, North China: palaeobiological and palaeoecological significances	6
Taxonomy and evolutionary implications of a new fossil stonefly family (Insecta, Plecoptera) from Middle Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar	6
New material of heteromorph ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous of Lhozhag County, southern Tibet and its biostratigraphic implications	6
Middle to Upper Ordovician stable carbon isotope stratigraphy and sedimentary facies in the Shunbei and Tahe areas, northern-central Tarim, China	6
Editorial Board	6
Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic changes during the Late Cretaceous and Cretaceous–Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary transition in Tattofte, External Rif, northwestern Morocco: implications from dinoflage	6
Guangyuanichnus majianus n. igen. n. isp., a large, complex burrow system from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Formation of the northwestern Yangtze platform, South China	6
New larval records of the extinct hard tick Compluriscutula vetulum (Arachnida: Ixodida) from Burmese amber, with notes on its morphology	6
Miocene Equisetum tubers from the Wulan Basin, Northeast Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and their paleoecological significance	6
A probable hyalonematid sponge (Hexactinellida: Amphidiscophora) from the Middle Ordovician of the Builth Inlier, Wales	6
New fossils reveal the Paleogene establishment of relict Craigia (Malvaceae) in its extant range	5
Beetle or roach: systematic position of the enigmatic Umenocoleidae based on new material from Zhonggou Formation in Jiuquan, Northwest China, and a morphocladistic analysis	5
Fossilized soft tissues in tentaculitids from the Upper Devonian of Armenia: Towards solving the mystery of their phylogenetic affinities	5
Radula heinrichsii (Radulaceae, Porellales), a leafy liverwort from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar	5
A new Devonian species of the enigmatic Carboniferous conodont Dollymae	5
Editorial Board	5
Lutetian–Bartonian (Middle Eocene) micropalaeontology, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Mengen Coal Basin, Northwest Türkiye (Turkey)	5
The oldest giant lacewings (Neuroptera: Kalligrammatidae) from the Lower Jurassic of Germany	5
Potential pollinators and paleoecological aspects of Eocene Ludwigia (Onagraceae) from Eckfeld, Germany	5
First complete Niobe yangtzeensis Lu, 1975 (Asaphidae, Trilobita) from the Middle Ordovician of South China, and its systematic and palaeogeographic implications	5
A new late Katian (Late Ordovician) trilobite association from Zhenxiong, northeastern Yunnan, Southwest China and its palaeoecological implications	5
New data on the Cambrian–Ordovician (Tremadocian) conodont biostratigraphy of Guizhou Province, Southwest China	5
Editorial Board	5
Upper Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) radiolarians from Rybaki Section, Moscow Region, Central Russia	5
Phylogenetic evolution of Neorotalia mecatepecensis to Miogypsinidae from Rajamandala Formation, West Java, Indonesia	5
Type and evolution of the Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous basin at the northern margin of the Lhasa Block: constraints of sedimentary characteristics and provenance tracing based on zircon U-Pb ages	5
Short-term climate and vegetation dynamics in Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) during early Eocene	5
The sedimentary facies and tectono-stratigraphic successions of the Carboniferous–Lower Permian deposits in western South Qiangtang Block: Implication for a rifting process on the Gondwana margin	5
Late Darriwilian–early Katian (Ordovician) ostracods of northeastern Yunnan, Southwest China	5
Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous palynology of the CSDP-2 Borehole in the southern Yellow Sea, China	4
Editorial Board	4
No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. (2023)	4
Gondolelloid multielement conodont apparatus (Scythogondolella) from the Lower Triassic of Jiangsu, East China, revealed by high-resolution X-ray microtomography	4
Diversity and discrimination of large ornithopods revealed through their tracks (Lower Cretaceous, Spain): A phenetic correlation approach	4

First fossil record of Brachyptera (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) in Eocene Baltic amber	4
The Paleocene soritid foraminifer Mardinella daviesi (Henson, 1950) from southeastern Turkey	4
Hydrodynamics and sliding posture analysis of the Cambrian arthropod Ercaicunia multinodosa	4
First jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	4
Foraminiferal biozonation, biostratigraphy and trans-basinal correlation of the Oligo-Miocene Qom Formation, Iran (northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway)	4
Ginkgoites manchurica from the Lower Cretaceous Shahezi Formation of Liaoning, China, and its palaeoclimate implications	4
Vegetation dynamics in the Early–Middle Pennsylvanian coal swamps of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Coalfield, France	4
Palaeoenvironmental implications of Baiera hallei Sze from the Middle Jurassic in Shaanxi Province, China	4
Devonian–Carboniferous transition in various facies of Northeast Laurussia (North Urals)	4
Cretaceous climate variations indicated by palynoflora in South China	4
The age and depositional environments of the lower Karoo Moatize Coalfield of Mozambique: insights into the postglacial history of central Gondwana	4
A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah	4
Paleogene ostracodes from the Dawenkou Basin, East China and their biostratigraphic significance for the age of mineral resources	4
First fossil record of Canarium (Burseraceae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian, southeastern China and its paleoecological implications	4
Oceanic redox evolution across the end-Permian mass extinction at Penglaitan section, South China	4
Preliminary results on reproductive organs and in situ spores of an early land plant Tichavekia grandis Pšenička et al. from Přídolí (upper Silurian) of the Prague Basin, Czech Republic	4
Editorial Board	4
First record of plant-plant facilitative interaction from the Moscovian (Pennsylvanian, upper Carboniferous) of North China	4
A novel gymnosperm reproductive organ from the Jurassic of China	4
A cranium of “Gazella” nihensis from Pliocene of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the differentiation of early Antilopina	4
Provenance analysis of Cenozoic conglomerates: Insights from Lower Cretaceous radiolarians in chert clasts from the Xigaze area, southern Tibet	4
The disappearance of European dirk-toothed cats	4
Stigmaria: on the substrate before in the substrate	4
Zonation and biofacies of the Early Mississippian conodonts from Baoshan, Yunnan, Southwest China	4
X-ray micro-computed tomography of minute hooded beetles (Coleoptera: Corylophidae) reveals its hidden paleodiversity in the Eocene Baltic amber	4