OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Interpretation-A Journal of Subsurface Characterization is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Subsurface weakness zone detection via unsupervised machine learning	24
Geochemical characteristics of lacustrine source rocks and oil-source correlation of the Yanchang Formation in the Zizhou area, Ordos Basin	22
Characteristics and genesis of reef-bank complexes in deep shelf facies: A case study of the Middle-Late Jurassic in the northern Amu Darya Basin, Central Asia	21
Fault feature enhancement in seismic data based on steerable pyramid tensor voting	14
Decoding subsurface dynamics: Advanced ground-penetrating radar data processing for geologic insights	10
Normal fault reactivation induced by hydraulic fracturing: Poroelastic effects	10
Comparative Analysis of Angle Gather Extraction Methods for AVO Inversion Using Accurate Zoeppritz Equation	10
Pore pressure prediction using S-wave velocity based on rock-physics modeling	10
Implication of fast shear wave azimuth and critically stressed fractures in a coalbed methane reservoir	8
Introduction to special section: Machine learning for image-based geologic interpretation	8
Hydrocarbon generation and expulsion of the Fengcheng Formation in the Mahu sag, Junggar Basin, China: Implications for shale oil resource potential	8
Study on the characteristics and influencing factors of Chang 7 ultralow-porosity and low-permeability reservoirs in the Heshui area, Ordos Basin	7
Assessment of critically stressed fractures due to water injection — A case study from the Devonian clastic reservoir of the Berkaoui Field, Algeria	6
S-wave seismic data interpretation for gas reservoir at Sanhu area, Qaidam Basin, west China	6
Multiattribute analytics of polka-dot anomalies in the Yeongil Bay, South Korea	6
Seismic interpretation of sandstone-type uranium deposits in the Songliao Basin, Northeast China	6
Gas accumulation in the presalt reservoirs of the Ordovician Majiagou Formation from the northern Ordos Basin, Northwest China: Insights from integrated fluid inclusion analysis and petrography charac	6
Hydraulic fracturing in the overpressured, isotropically stressed Cane Creek Unit, Paradox Basin	6
Application of Yu’s wavelet and supervirtual seismic refraction interferometry to enhance first arrivals: A case study from Kuche Mountain	6
Deep reflection seismic data for improved imaging of crust structure: 2D case study of the southwest subbasin in the South China Sea	6
Amplitude variation with azimuth direct inversion for effective pressure-sensitivity parameters in horizontal transversely isotropic media	5
Example of well-imaged fault networks that connect deep injection zones to intra-basement seismogenic faults: Interpretation and characterization	5
In situ stress field prediction based on seismic data in the Sijiazhuang mining area	5
Introduction to special section: South China Sea deep structures and tectonics	5
Synchrosqueezing voices through deep neural networks for horizon interpretation	5

Study on the pore structure and fractal characteristics on shale rock and isolated organic matter in lacustrine shales from the Changling fault depression in the Songliao Basin, China	5
Use of resistivity and density borehole image logs to identify and distribute facies in the Pikka unit — A case study from the Nanushuk Formation, North Slope, Alaska	5
Characteristics and controlling factors of petroliferous reservoirs in the Permian Lower Urho Formation, western Mahu Slope, Junggar Basin, Northwest China	5
An effective multiphysics toolkit for lithium prospecting: From geophysics to the static reservoir model in the Pozuelos salt flat, Argentina	5
Neogene shale-detached extension and contraction linked system in the Akal Fold and Thrust Belt, Southeast Mexico	5
Use of multibeam bathymetry and backscatter to improve seabed geochemical surveys — Part 1: Historical review, technical description, and best practices	4
Well trajectory optimization of ultradeep and high-pressure drilling engineering based on high in situ stress as the main control factor: A case study from the Ordovician carbonate reservoir in the Sh	4
Introduction to special section: Distributed fiber optic sensing	4
Triggering mechanisms and the evolution of different types of mass transport deposits: A case study of the Quaternary Qiongdongnan Basin, South China Sea	4
Introduction to special section: Geological and geophysical interpretation follow-up papers from IMAGE 2023 and IMAGE 2024	4
Prediction of tight sandstone reservoirs by multiwave joint prestack inversion technology: A case study of the Qiulin area in the Sichuan Basin	4
Integration of deep-learning fault segmentation, horizontal transverse isotropy analysis, and ambient microseismic methods to enhance fracture prediction in the Crisol Anticline, Colombia	4
4D seismic attribute integration: A technique for enhanced reservoir fluid movement analysis	4
Hidden hydrosphere under the Caspian Sea: Geophysical evidence and sea-level influence	4
Quantitative 3D seismic interpretation of Silurian reef structures in southern Ontario, Canada	4
Revealing the hidden faults of the Oklahoma basement through unsupervised machine-learning methods and the integration of earthquake data	4
Benefits of integrating seismic and gravity data in a subsalt environment: A case study at block BM-C-33, deepwater Campos Basin, offshore Brazil	4
Hydrocarbon source correlation and multiphase accumulation in the northern Kuqa Thrust Belt: Implications from geochemical fingerprinting and tectono-thermal evolution of the Dibei Field, NW China	4
Machine learning and seismic attributes for petroleum prospect generation and evaluation: An example from offshore Australia	4
Evaluation model of shale-adsorbed gas considering clay and water saturation	4
Classification and well-log identification of lithofacies of continental shale oil reservoirs in Chang 7-3 submember of the Triassic Yanchang Formation in the Longdong area of the Ordos Basin, China	4
Poroelasticity and rock-physics templates	4
Offshore microtremor array measurements for a wind farm site investigation	4
Reservoir-oriented migrated seismic image improvement and poststack seismic inversion using well-seismic mistie	4
Modeling mobile shales under contraction: Critical analyses of new analog simulations of shale tectonics and comparison with salt-bearing systems	3
Uncertainty assessment in unsupervised machine-learning methods for deepwater channel seismic facies using outcrop-derived 3D models and synthetic seismic data	3
Anisotropy estimation from deviated wells: uncertainties and their implications — A case study	3
Quantitative identification of lithofacies by integrating diverse geophysical data in the Late Holocene False River point bar complex, Louisiana, USA	3
Identification of flow units using the gas flow experiments and static data in heterogeneous oolitic reservoirs of the Puguang gas field	3
In appreciation of reviewers and editors	3
Insights on the structural framework of the Egyptian Eastern Desert derived from edge detectors of gravity data	3
The role of mobile muds in basin form and fill in the tectonic and sedimentologically complex region of the Southeastern Margin of the Caribbean Plate, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies	3
Characterization of a fluvial deltaic salt-influenced system for CO2 storage using seismic poststack inversion and self-organizing maps in the upper Miocene, Onshore Louisiana	3
Challenges and best practices in interpreting crosswell strain signals to monitor multicrew zipper-fracturing operations	3
Automatic conditioning of marine seismic angle stack data with a convolutional neural network	3
Introduction to special section: CO2 geologic storage and utilization: Recent advances and future perspectives	3
Machine learning delineation of buried igneous features from the offshore Otway Basin in southeast Australia	3
Using a synthetic data trained convolutional neural network for predicting subresolution thin layers from seismic data	3
3D magnetic anomaly inversion reveals deep magnetic structures and tectonic evolution of the Yangtze River Basin, China	3
Multiple trend integration method based on depositional model and its application in glutenite reservoir modeling	3
In appreciation of reviewers and editors	3
Characterizing the “sweet spot” region in shale gas reservoirs based on prestack seismic inversion and multiscale fracture prediction	3
Innovative polygon trend analysis application for rainfall trends analysis in the Mekerra watershed (Northwest of Algeria)	3
Gravity and magnetic field features and the prospects of iron deposits in the eastern Hebei province, China	3
Characterizing petroleum in source-rock core samples using HRGC data	3
Can I, should I be a reviewer?	3
A novel frequency-dependent inversion method for fluid factor and brittleness index in tight sandstone reservoirs	3
Neural net detection of seismic features related to gas hydrates and free gas accumulations on the northern U.S. Atlantic margin	3
Strategic deep aquifer valley characterization using an integrated geophysical approach (Central Tunisia, southern Mediterranean arid province)	2
Investigation of the main drivers influencing sediment property change and coastal erosion in Central Vietnam	2

Seismic expression of shallow-water carbonate structures through geologic time	2
Characteristics and main controlling factors of dolomite reservoirs in the Upper Cambrian Sanshanzi Formation, eastern Ordos Basin, China	2
Improving the classification of rock samples with diffusion probabilistic machine learning	2
Provenance characteristics from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic era and their implications for basin-mountain system evolution in the southwestern Junggar Basin: Insights from field outcrop observations	2
Prediction of grain shoal reservoirs via seismic forward modeling and waveform classification: Application to the northern slope of the central Sichuan Uplift, Sichuan Basin, SW China	2
Gravity field and crustal structure of the Eastern Arm of Sulawesi and the Banggai Archipelago, Eastern Indonesia	2
Seismic facies-controlled porosity prediction in a tight sandstone reservoir based on the XGBoost algorithm	2
Sparry calcite identification in shale reservoirs by data augmentation and attention-based machine-learning algorithms	2
Unraveling the depths: Serpentinite distribution and hydrogen potential in the subduction zones of northwest South America	2
A deep learning framework for seismic facies classification	2
Pore structure analysis of tight reservoirs in the He-8 Member of Upper Paleozoic in the southwestern Ordos Basin, China	2
Oil-source correlation in the Yangjiang Uplift, South China Sea: A comparative analysis of mathematical and fingerprint methods	2
Visualizing subtle structural and stratigraphic features on 3D seismic-reflection data: A case study from offshore Libya	2
Unraveling the hidden relationships between seismic multiattributes, well-dynamic data, and Brazilian pre-salt carbonate reservoirs productivity: A shallow versus deep machine-learning approach	2
Heterogeneous characteristics and controlling factors of oil bearing of the Chang 7 shale in the Ordos Basin	2
Interpreting coal component content in logging data by combining gray relational analysis and hybrid neural network	2
Semi-supervised Workflow to Generate Petrofacies Logs from Thin Sections and XRF Data	2
Sand architecture interpretation and modeling with few wells in the offshore — Case study of X36 area in the Xihu Depression, East China Sea, China	2
Gas-bearing prediction in tight sandstone reservoirs based on multinetwork integration	2
The La Luna Formation, Venezuela: A prospective unconventional reservoir	2
Myth busting: Was Pulau Tiga really first created by a mud volcano eruption in 1897?	2
Introduction to the special section: Energy diversification — Natural resources beyond fossil fuels	2
The microdistribution of fluid and its effect on pore structure in shale: A case study of lacustrine Chang 7 shale, Ordos Basin	2
Quantification of the nonlinear effect in a seismic signal using Holo-Hilbert spectral analysis	2
Prediction and research of fracture distribution characteristics of the Chang 8 reservoir in Zhenjing area, Ordos Basin	2
Unraveling multilayer CO2 plumes using the entire wavefield: Case study from the Sleipner storage site	2
Distance and quadrant trace method for quantitative seismic interpretation: Theory and application to a synthetic amplitude variation with offset data catalog	2
Characteristics of Permian igneous rocks and their petroleum geology implications in the northern part of central Sichuan, Sichuan Basin, China	2
Inversion of acoustic logs to predict secondary porosity and pore aspect ratios for characterizing flow zones at borehole and field scales in a south Florida Aquifer	2
Estimation of net-to-gross ratio and net pay from seismic amplitude-variation-with-offset using Bayesian inversion	2
Seismic response analysis and distribution prediction of source rocks in a survey of the South China Sea	2
Backthrust play of the Chernyshev swell, Timan-Pechora Basin: Reentry into a legacy exploration site based on multidisciplinary study	2
Signal processing methods for crosswell electromagnetic imaging system	2
SV-P illumination with P sources and vertical geophones	2
Seismic prediction method for fractured gas-bearing reservoirs based on high-order amplitude variation with angle and azimuth attributes	2
Multiple seismic attributes fusion approach with support vector regression and forward simulation for sand body prediction and sedimentary facies interpretation — A case of the X gas field in Xihu Sag	2
Seismic reservoir characterization of the Gassum Formation in the Stenlille aquifer gas storage, Denmark — Part 1	2
Origin of horsetail faults in an extensional regime using physical experiments for the Linnan Sag	2
Seismic modeling for addressing seismic interpretation challenges in fluid escape pipes: a case study from the Loyal Field, Faroe-Shetland Basin	2
Simultaneous seismic inversion study for channel sandstone identification, northern part of the Eastern Shelf, King County, North-Central Texas	2
Pore and fracture pressures prediction — A new geomechanic approach in deepwater salt overthrusts: Case histories from the Gulf of Mexico	2