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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A second progonocimicid (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha) from the middle Cretaceous Kachin amber of Myanmar	22
Unraveling the Early Devonian provenance of the Longmenshan region through detrital zircon records: Implications for floral differentiation in South China	17
Anatomy of Stigmaria asiatica Jongmans et Gothan from the Asselian (lowermost Permian) of Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, North China	16
Earliest upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) record of bivalve Pinna (Pinnidae) from the Kopet-Dagh Basin, northeastern Iran and its possible predators	15
Impact of the onset of Late Cretaceous Deccan volcanism on flora and climate: Palynofloral and megafloral evidence	14
Caenogastropoda and Stylommatophora (Gastropoda) from the mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber of East Asia	13
New Jurassic notocupedins (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae) from the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau	13
New record of Brachyoxylon wood from the Lower Cretaceous of Qingyuan, southeastern China and its palaeoclimatic implications	13
New fossil woods from the middle Eocene climate optimum of north-central Turkey	12
Small cornulitids from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of Estonia	11
Early Permian (Asselian) flora from the Talchir Formation, Son Basin, India: Biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental implications	10
Holocene palaeoenvironments of southern Sikhote-Alin Mountains (southern Far East), reconstructed from palaeontological data	10
Can the occurrence of the ammonite genus Hildoglochiceras Spath serve as an early Tithonian marker event?	10
New material of Brachyhyops neimongolensis (Artiodactyla, Entelodontidae) from the upper Eocene in Jeminay, Xinjiang, China	9
Middle to late Maastrichtian planktonic foraminifera from the Gongzha section in Dingri area, southern Xizang, China	9
Editorial Board	9
Widespread Thalassinoides facies from the upper Silurian of South China: A case study from the northwestern Hunan Province, middle to upper Yangtze Block	9
Book review	9
Parasitic hump-backed flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Miocene ambers	9
Conodonts across the Lochkovian/Pragian boundary in central Guangxi, South China	8
New Ediacaran tubular fossils from southern Shaanxi, China	8
Editorial Board	8
First record of Soergelia (Bovidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from East Asia: Implications for its taxonomy, evolution, and dispersal history	8
Editorial Board	8
First Caliscelidae planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	8

The bivalved arthropod Caudicaella aff. bispinata from the Heatherdale Shale (Cambrian Stage 3), South Australia	8
New fishes from the Viséan–Serpukhovian boundary beds (Carboniferous) of the Verkhnyaya Kardailovka section (South Urals, Russia)	8
Integrated biostratigraphy for the Santonian/Campanian boundary interval, the Kurdistan Region, northeast Iraq	8
Anatomy and paleoclimatic implications of Cenozoic Coryphoideae palm wood species in Egypt	8
Middle Ordovician trilobites from the Zhongpu Formation, Yongdeng, Gansu and their palaeobiogeographic implications from quantitative morphometric analysis	8
A new Trapa from the middle Miocene of Zhangpu, Fujian, southeastern China	8
Macroalgal fossil Longfengshania from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang and Jiuliqiao formations in western Shandong and northern Anhui, North China	7
Palaeoenvironmental implications of a turritelline-dominated assemblage from Upper Cretaceous carbonate rocks of Narmada Basin, India	7
Filling the middle Floian–early Darriwilian gap in the stromatoporoid record: Discovery of an early Darriwilian stromatoporoid from Qaidam, China	7
Palynological succession in Gzhelian No. 8 Thick Coal of the Taiyuan Formation, Ordos Basin, North China	7
Deposition of fluorite in xylem cells of a new enigmatic seed plant from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil	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
Review and update on the applications of inertinite macerals in coal geology, paleoclimatology, and paleoecology	7
Coniferous woods from the Albian (Piedra Clavada Formation) of Argentine Patagonia	7
Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic changes during the Late Cretaceous and Cretaceous–Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary transition in Tattofte, External Rif, northwestern Morocco: implications from dinoflage	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Traces of horse leech (Haemopis sanguisuga) from neoichnological experiments	7
Taxonomy and evolutionary implications of a new fossil stonefly family (Insecta, Plecoptera) from Middle Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar	7
… and the devil is in the details: A response to Furió et al. (2024)	7
On the systematic position of the Early Cretaceous fern genus “Athyrium”	7
Miocene Equisetum tubers from the Wulan Basin, Northeast Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and their paleoecological significance	6
A gorgonopsian from the Wutonggou Formation (Changhsingian, Permian) of Turpan Basin, Xinjiang, China	6
Taxonomy and significance of the Aptian ammonite complex Vergunniceras Thomel, 1980 and Paracheloniceras Collignon, 1962, and a new subfamily Paracheloniceratinae	6
A probable hyalonematid sponge (Hexactinellida: Amphidiscophora) from the Middle Ordovician of the Builth Inlier, Wales	6
New larval records of the extinct hard tick Compluriscutula vetulum (Arachnida: Ixodida) from Burmese amber, with notes on its morphology	6
Actinopterygians from the continental Permian–Triassic boundary section at Babiy Kamen (Kuznetsk Basin, Siberia, Russia)	6
Terreneuvian skeletonized microfossils from the Central Iberian Zone (Spain) and correlation of the Fortunian Stage throughout southwestern Europe	6
Editorial Board	6
Upper Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) radiolarians from Rybaki Section, Moscow Region, Central Russia	6
Potential pollinators and paleoecological aspects of Eocene Ludwigia (Onagraceae) from Eckfeld, Germany	6
FossilMorph: A new tool for fossil automatic measurement and statistical analysis	6
New material of heteromorph ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous of Lhozhag County, southern Tibet and its biostratigraphic implications	6
Hybodontiform sharks from Middle Triassic Chang 7 Member of the Ordos Basin, Shaanxi, North China: palaeobiological and palaeoecological significances	6
A new genus of Neoliodidae (Acariformes: Oribatida) from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber and Azarliodes andreneli n. comb.	6
A basal member of Capitosauria from the Lower Triassic Heshanggou Formation, China	5
New records of barklice (Psocodea, Empheriidae) from the Bqaatouta and Baskinta amber (early Barremian, Early Cretaceous) in Lebanon	5
New fossils reveal the Paleogene establishment of relict Craigia (Malvaceae) in its extant range	5
Lebanese amber: A glimpse into the origins of Recent terrestrial biodiversity	5
A new late Katian (Late Ordovician) trilobite association from Zhenxiong, northeastern Yunnan, Southwest China and its palaeoecological implications	5
A new skull of early cetacean Remingtonocetus harudiensis from the Eocene of Kutch Basin, India	5
The disappearance of European dirk-toothed cats	5
A new silicified plectorthoid brachiopod from the upper Furongian (Stage 10) Ninmaroo Formation at Black Mountain, western Queensland, Australia	5
Radula heinrichsii (Radulaceae, Porellales), a leafy liverwort from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar	5
Short-term climate and vegetation dynamics in Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) during early Eocene	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
Fossilized soft tissues in tentaculitids from the Upper Devonian of Armenia: Towards solving the mystery of their phylogenetic affinities	5
Middle to Upper Ordovician stable carbon isotope stratigraphy and sedimentary facies in the Shunbei and Tahe areas, northern-central Tarim, China	5
Phylogenetic evolution of Neorotalia mecatepecensis to Miogypsinidae from Rajamandala Formation, West Java, Indonesia	5
Systematic revision of Onaraspis Öpik, 1968 (Trilobita) and related genera from Cambrian Series 2 of the Iberian Chains (Northeast Spain)	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
Devonian Lingulichnus and in situ lingulids: Taphonomy and paleoenvironments of preservation	5
Benthic foraminiferal insights into Middle Jurassic paleoenvironmental dynamics along the Neotethyan margin: From regional transitions to supra-regional trends	5
Late Darriwilian–early Katian (Ordovician) ostracods of northeastern Yunnan, Southwest China	5
Guangyuanichnus majianus n. igen. n. isp., a large, complex burrow system from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Formation of the northwestern Yangtze platform, South China	5
Fossil involucres and a nutlet of Ostrya (Betulaceae) from the upper Eocene of Shaanxi and their biogeographic implications	5
Lutetian–Bartonian (Middle Eocene) micropalaeontology, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Mengen Coal Basin, Northwest Türkiye (Turkey)	5
Dinocrocuta gigantea from the Upper Miocene site of Eldari, Azerbaijan	5
Editorial Board	5
Paleoecological insights from coprolites and their inclusions from the Permian Rio do Rasto Formation, Brazil	5
First complete Niobe yangtzeensis Lu, 1975 (Asaphidae, Trilobita) from the Middle Ordovician of South China, and its systematic and palaeogeographic implications	5
New data on the Cambrian–Ordovician (Tremadocian) conodont biostratigraphy of Guizhou Province, Southwest China	5
Microclots in early Paleoproterozoic stromatolites from Dashiling Formation, Wutai, North China: Implications for microbial calcification and atmospheric CO2 levels during Great Oxidation Event	4
No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. (2023)	4
Glabrobournonia Morris and Skelton (Rudist, Bivalvia) from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of Türkiye: Taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography	4
Provenance analysis of Cenozoic conglomerates: Insights from Lower Cretaceous radiolarians in chert clasts from the Xigaze area, southern Tibet	4
Preliminary investigation of Paleocene warming events in the lower Zongpu Formation at the Chaqiela section, Gamba, southern Xizang (Tibet)	4
The age and depositional environments of the lower Karoo Moatize Coalfield of Mozambique: insights into the postglacial history of central Gondwana	4
Additions to the Jurassic mecopteran assemblages from the Ordos and Jiyuan basins, north-central China	4
A cranium of “Gazella” nihensis from Pliocene of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the differentiation of early Antilopina	4
First record of plant-plant facilitative interaction from the Moscovian (Pennsylvanian, upper Carboniferous) of North China	4
Diversity and discrimination of large ornithopods revealed through their tracks (Lower Cretaceous, Spain): A phenetic correlation approach	4
Cretaceous–Paleogene palynodebris from two offshore cores in Cape Basin, South Atlantic Ocean and their paleoenvironmental implications	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Devonian–Carboniferous transition in various facies of Northeast Laurussia (North Urals)	4
First fossil record of Brachyptera (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) in Eocene Baltic amber	4
A novel gymnosperm reproductive organ from the Jurassic of China	4
Early Cretaceous radiolarian assemblages in mélange of Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone in the Saga area, southern Xizang	4
First fossil record of Canarium (Burseraceae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian, southeastern China and its paleoecological implications	4
The Paleocene soritid foraminifer Mardinella daviesi (Henson, 1950) from southeastern Turkey	4
First jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	4
X-ray micro-computed tomography of minute hooded beetles (Coleoptera: Corylophidae) reveals its hidden paleodiversity in the Eocene Baltic amber	4
Palaeoenvironmental implications of Baiera hallei Sze from the Middle Jurassic in Shaanxi Province, China	4
New fossil material of Chelus (Testudines: Chelidae) from the Middle Miocene of Peru	4
Zonation and biofacies of the Early Mississippian conodonts from Baoshan, Yunnan, Southwest China	4
Hydrodynamics and sliding posture analysis of the Cambrian arthropod Ercaicunia multinodosa	4
Cretaceous climate variations indicated by palynoflora in South China	4