OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Italian Journal of Geosciences is 1. 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
Geochemistry and 40Ar/39Ar ages of late Cenozoic basaltic rocks from Gharyan Volcanic Province, NW Libya	15
Jurassic to Quaternary reactivation of inherited structures in the central Apennines	13
Probable rhabdodontid track from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland and associated tetrapod ichnotaxa	12
Geological map, balanced and restored cross-sections, and 3D geological model of the Monte Fema area, Umbria-Marche Apennines (Italy)	9
Original visual imaging in Marsili’s (1658–1730) geology and mapping	8
Early Eocene tectono-sedimentary evolution of northern Calabria: hints from the Paludi formation (Sila Greca)	7
Implementation of gravity and magnetic methods for understanding the structural configuration of the Neogene Lower Chelif Basin (LCB), Northern Algerian Margin	7
The Fornovolasco area (Alpi Apuane, Northern Apennines): a review and update on its Palaeozoic succession, middle Permian magmatism, and tectonic setting	6
Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of a deep-water foreland basin: a case study from the Marnoso-arenacea basin, central Italy	6
Depositional history of middle Miocene intrabasinal highs in the marnoso-arenacea foredeep (Tuscan-Romagna Apennines, Italy)	6
Plume-related, syn-rift, Neogene volcanism, the interplay with structure in Thailand and comparison with the East African Rift	6
Hydrothermal generation of hydrocarbons in basement rocks, Southern Tuscany	6
Dating the growth strata of the Gran Sasso thrust: reassessing the age of the major thrust in the central Apennines, Italy	6
A Case Study of Multidisciplinary Surface Faulting Assessment in the Urbanized Fucino Basin, Italy	5
The stratigraphy of seep-impacted sediment in the “Verghereto marls” (Santa Sofia, Italy): insights into the Late Miocene evolution of the Romagna foredeep	5
Hot metamorphic complex in the Foreland Zone of the Variscan chain: insights from the Monte Filau orthogneiss (SW Sardinia), Italy	5
Characterization of the Grigna karst aquifer (Northern Italy) by springs monitoring and tracer tests	5
Geoscience studies in the Maltese Islands: a gateway to the Central Mediterranean region	4
Unreported Fe and Pb-Cu slag heaps in Populonia hinterland (Tuscany, Italy): quick geochemical discrimination and mapping	4
Quaternary slip rates and seismic hazard of the Gafsa intraplate fault system (southern Atlas, Tunisia)	4
The role of modelling of site conditions and amplification in seismic hazard and risk assessment at urban scale. The case of Thessaloniki, Greece	4
First record of Tripneustes gahardensis (Seunes, 1896) in the Oran region (northwestern Algeria)	4
Life, science, and faith of Antonio Stoppani in the bicentenary of his birth	4
Fracture analyser: a Python toolbox for the 2D analysis of fracture patterns	4
From the Tethyan Margin to Alpine Orogeny across the Northern African margin: Geodynamics, Tectonosedimentary Evolution, and Georesources	4

Differentiating sauropod from thyreophoran tracks: insights from the Late Jurassic Villette Tracksite (Jura, France)	4
Storm-dominated shallow marine trace fossils of the Lower Devonian Teferguenite Formation (Saoura valley, Algeria)	3
Structural styles at the junction between the Eastern Atlas Fold and Thrust Belt and the northern Sahel-Gulf of Hammamet foreland basin (Tunisia)	3
A new section of Upper Pleistocene alluvial-colluvial deposits in the foothills of the Marche Ridge (Northern Apennines, central Italy)	3
Time-space variations in the East African Rift magmatism: the role of different mantle domains	3
Early Cretaceous palynoflora from palaeotropics of NE Africa (correlation and significance): an example from the Shushan Basin, Egypt	3
Multiple observations on the preservation of dinosaur tracks in a lacustrine to fluvial setting (Late Cretaceous, El Molino Formation; Parque Nacional de Toro Toro, Bolivia)	3
Dating deformation by the 40Ar/39Ar method: a review	3
Insight into a rift volcanism with the petrogenesis of ultramafic enclaves and the host basalts: Kula Volcanic Field, Western Anatolia, Turkey	3
Fractionation of the major, trace, and rare Earth elements of the NE Gondwana Fortunian Salab Formation of Jordan controlled by provenance, chemical weathering, and hydraulic sorting	3
Evolution of karst and landscape of the Lessini Veronesi Mountains (Venetian Prealps, north-east Italy) from the Paleogene to the Present	3
Geological map of the San Giuliano Lake (Southern Italy): new stratigraphic and sedimentological data	2
When stones tell about humans: a presumed anthropomorphic sandstone sculpture found in the Marche Apennines of central Italy	2
Role of the pre-orogenic rifting and preexisting Mesozoic salt tectonics on the deformation of the Southern Atlas front of Tunisia	2
Minero-petrographic characterisation of Palatine Hill’s Central Cryptoporticus foundation materials: implications for structural stability and conservation	2
Dead, discovered, copied and forgotten: history and description of the first discovered ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Italy	2
A Syracusan hypothesis on the origin of the Riace Bronzes: new investigations and a historical-scientific revision of literature data through an interdisciplinary geological-archaeological approach	2
Mapping urban limit conditions in the perspective of disaster risk prevention and land management	2
Beyond the Stromer’s Riddle: the impact of lumping and splitting hypotheses on the systematics of the giant predatory dinosaurs from northern Africa	2
In situ garnet U-Pb dating of granulitized eclogites from NE Sardinia, Italy	2
Missing link on the western Paleotethys configuration: Stratigraphic constraints on the truncated Triassic “Gornjak” sequence (eastern Serbia, Balkan/Carpathian hinterland)	2
Monitoring fluid characteristics in Barite mineralisation: a multivariate statistical and thermodynamic investigation from the Dadağlı Field, Kahramanmaraş	2
The first record of Cretaceous mammaliform and dinosaur track assemblages from South China	2
The geosciences perspective on seismic response assessment and application to risk mitigation - Guest Editorial	2
The Northern Atlas fold-and-thrust belt of Tunisia: structural style and hydrocarbon occurrences based on surface and subsurface data	2
Optimizing microbiological techniques for strengthening sandy and eroded soils to combat desertification	2
Ichnological review of the theropod footprints from the Lavini di Marco tracksite (Lower Jurassic, Southern Alps, NE Italy)	1
The precarious life of Early Career Geoscientists: data and perspectives from the Italian Academia	1
Leave tracks, not bones – a diverse Middle Jurassic dinosaur fauna from Denmark, revealed only by tracks	1
The Last Glaciation in Valchiavenna (Italian Alps): maximum ice elevation data and recessional glacial deposits and landforms	1
“il Casone-Monte delle Fate” olistostrome in the middle Eocene of the Eastern External Ligurian Unit (Monti della Tolfa, northern Latium, Italy): new constraints on the geodynamic evolution of the nor	1
Messinian seep-carbonates marking the transition to the evaporite deposits in the Romagna sector of the northern Apennines (Italy)	1
Reviving Megaraptor namunhuaiquii (Dinosauria, Theropoda): the synergy of art and science for the life reconstruction of ancient species	1
Evidence of a biodiversity crises documented on a peritidal carbonate succession from western Tethys (Sicily): new data on the End Triassic Mass Extinction	1
The abbot Alberto Fortis and the elephant bones from Romagnano: the early development of the concepts of biostratinomy and taphonomy sensu lato	1
Structural style of the southern part of the N-S axis in the Central Tunisian Atlassic foreland: tectonic implications	1
Tectonic control of thermal springs, gas vents and travertine deposition in Bagni di San Filippo and Campiglia d’Orcia area (Monte Amiata Volcano-Geothermal area, Italy)	1
Redescription of Schizobrissus mauritanicus Pomel, 1885, on the basis of new topotypic material from the Lower Miocene of the Oran region (northwestern Algeria)	1