OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Science 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A case of Ampferer-type subduction and consequences for the Alps and the Pyrenees	39
Late Neoarchean magmatic – metamorphic event and crustal stabilization in the North China Craton	31
Continuous continental growth as constrained by the sedimentary record	22
Presentation and applications of mixing elements and dissolved isotopes in rivers (MEANDIR), a customizable MATLAB model for Monte Carlo inversion of dissolved river chemistry	19
Reconsidering the uplift history and peneplanation of the northern Lhasa terrane, Tibet	16
A process-based ecosystem model (Paleo-BGC) to simulate the dynamic response of Late Carboniferous plants to elevated O₂ and aridification	16
Simulating meteoric and mixing zone carbonate diagenesis with a two-dimensional reactive transport model	16
Constraints on surface temperature 3.4 billion years ago based on triple oxygen isotopes of cherts from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, and the problem of sample selection	16
Deciphering paleogeography from orogenic architecture: Constructing orogens in a future supercontinent as thought experiment	15
India in the Nuna to Gondwana supercontinent cycles: Clues from the north Indian and Marwar Blocks	12
The complexities of Mesoarchean to late Paleoproterozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Qixia area, eastern North China Craton: Geology, geochemistry and SHRIMP U-Pb zircon dating	11
Late Paleozoic tectonic transition from subduction to collision in the Chinese Altai and Tianshan (Central Asia): New geochronological constraints	10
Rock weathering and nutrient cycling along an erodosequence	10
Determination of an intracontinental transform system along the southern Central Asian orogenic belt in the latest Paleozoic	10
Interpreting silicon isotopes in the Critical Zone	8
Carbon cycle evolution before and after the Great Oxidation of the atmosphere	8
Zircon U-Pb geochronology and Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry of Blue Ridge basement in the eastern Great Smoky Mountains, U.S.A.: Implications for the Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the southeastern La	8
Reconstructing lost plates of the Panthalassa Ocean through paleomagnetic data from circum-Pacific accretionary orogens	8
Weathering intensity and lithium isotopes: A reactive transport perspective	8
Quantifying biotic and abiotic Si fluxes in the Critical Zone with Ge/Si ratios along a gradient of erosion rates	8
On carbon burial and net primary production through Earth's history	8
Understanding the isotopic composition of sedimentary sulfide: A multiple sulfur isotope diagenetic model for Aarhus Bay	7
The role of vegetation in setting strontium stable isotope ratios in the Critical Zone	7
The complex response of continental silicate rock weathering to the colonization of the continents by vascular plants in the Devonian	5
Determining the origin of inclusions in garnet: Challenges and new diagnostic criteria	5

Detrital zircon provenance of the Archean Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa and Eswatini	5
A Laurentian cratonic reference from the distal Proterozoic basement of Western Newfoundland using tandem in situ and isotope dilution U-pb zircon and titanite geochronology	5
From Gondwana rifting to Alpine orogeny: Detrital zircon geochronologic and provenance signals from the Kopet Dagh Basin (NE Iran)	5
Paleoaltimetry of the Western Andes in Northern Chile (∼18.5–19.5°S)	5
The role of the solid earth in regulating atmospheric O₂ levels	5
Silurian-Devonian tectonic evolution of mid-coastal Maine, U.S.A.: Details of polyphase orogenic processes	5
Proterozoic-Mesozoic development of the Quanji block from northern Tibet and the cratonic assembly of eastern Asia	5
Early Cretaceous solar cycles recorded in lacustrine laminations in North China	5
Exploring multiple steady states in Earth's long-term carbon cycle	4
Avalonian arc-to-platform transition in southeastern New England: U-Pb geochronology and stratigraphy of Ediacaran Cambridge “argillite,” Boston Basin, Massachusetts, USA	4
Tectonics and foreland basin development at the leading edge of the Humber Arm Allochthon, western Newfoundland, Canadian Appalachians	4
Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of TTG granitoids from the Daqingshan Complex of the Khondalite Belt, North China Craton	4
A highly dynamic hot hydrothermal system in the subduction environment: Geochemistry and geochronology of jadeitite and associated rocks of the Sierra del Convento mélange (eastern Cuba)	4
Large-strain Elastic and Elasto-Plastic Formulations for Host-Inclusion Systems and Their Applications in Thermobarometry and Geodynamics	4
Unravelling the P-T-t history of three high-grade metamorphic events in the Epupa Complex, NW Namibia: Implications for the Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic evolution of the Congo Craton	4
Redox constraints on a Cenozoic imbalance in the organic carbon cycle	4
Late Permian plume and Neoproterozoic subduction-modified mantle interaction: Insights from geochronology and Sr-Nd-O isotopes of mafic dikes of the western Emeishan large igneous province	3
The Assabet barcode: Mesoproterozoic detrital zircons in Neoproterozoic strata from Mauritania, West Africa	3
⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and LA-ICP-MS U–Pb geochronology for the New England portion of the Early Cretaceous New England-Quebec igneous province: Implications for the postrift evolution of the	3
The LSU campus mounds, with construction beginning at ∼11,000 BP, are the oldest known extant man-made structures in the Americas	3
An Early Paleoproterozoic back-arc system along the southern margin of the Yinshan Block: Evidence from a newly-defined bimodal volcanic sequence in the Daqingshan Complex, Khondalite Belt	3
Clumped isotope constraints on warming and precipitation seasonality in Mongolia following Altai uplift	3
Early carboniferous rifting of the Harlik arc in the Eastern Tianshan (NW China): Response to rollback in the southern Altaids?	3
Cyclicity of multistage anatexis of deeply subducted continental crust during the North Qaidam orogeny: Tracing the source, timescale, and evolution of pulsed melts	3
Geodynamic environment of the ca. 3800 Ma Outer Arc Group, Isua (Greenland)	3
Zn²⁺-Pb²⁺-doped calcite shrub fabrics: Abiotic morphogenesis of travertine-like dripstone encrustation at the Jersey Zinc Mine, southeastern British Columbia	2
Solubility product constants for natural dolomite (0–200 °C) through a groundwater-based approach using the USGS produced water database	2
An early Paleozoic active continental margin basin along the southern Chinese Altai: Evidence from high-grade paragneisses in the Fuyun region	2
Timing and Nd-Hf isotopic mapping of early Mesozoic granitoids in the Qinling Orogen, central China: Implication for architecture, nature and processes of the orogen	2
Multiphase ophiolite formation in the Northern Altyn Tagh Orogen, southeastern Tarim	2
Post-depositional transformations in sedimentary rocks and implications for paleoenvironmental studies: evidence from the Mesoproterozoic (∼1.1 Ga) of the Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania	2
Neoarchean basement, mantle enrichment and crustal extraction in central Asia: petrogenesis of 2.5 Ga amphibolite and metadiorite in NE China	2
Origin and magmatic evolution of late Neoproterozoic post-accretion high-K calc-alkaline adakitic volcanics in the northern Arabian–Nubian Shield	2
Terrestrial biomarker isotope records of late Quaternary climate and source-to-sink sediment transport processes in southwestern Taiwan	2
A comparative study of clay mineral authigenesis in terrestrial and martian lakes; an Australian example	2