OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Earth and Planetary Science Letters is 39. 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
Editorial Board	97
Effect of the liquid-vacuum transition on the relative abundances of amino and fatty acids sought as biosignatures on icy ocean worlds	80
Unexpectedly narrower track diameter at site of fission event	75
Insights into the environment surrounding the subduction megathrust using teleseismic P-to-S and P-to-P scattered phases	70
Garnet as a reliable timekeeper in Archean polymetamorphic terranes	64
High diversity did not prevent extinction of a major Paleozoic brachiopod clade	62
Barium isotopes in stromatolites through deep-time: A novel tracer for metal cycling in the photic zone	57
Probing Cretaceous-Paleogene crustal thickness in southern Tibet using quartz-zircon chronobarometry	56
Spatiotemporal dominance of afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation revealed by four decades of post-1973 Luhuo earthquake observations	55
MgO miscibility in liquid iron	54
Strong potassium uptake in surface sediments of the Changjiang River Estuary and the East China Sea: Implications for authigenic processes and the marine potassium budget	54
Miocene decoupling of surface uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau interior (Türkiye) and its modern mountainous margins	52
Cadmium isotopic evidence for reduced deep-water marine primary productivity during the end-Permian mass extinction	51
Editorial Board	50
Large sulfur isotope fractionation during abiotic consumption of hydrogen sulfide after cessation of bacterial growth in batch culture experiments of sulfate reducing bacteria	50
Editorial Board	50
Seismically-derived porosity of deep-sea sediments over the last 74 Ma in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Implications for paleo-climate	49
A benthic source of isotopically heavy Ni from continental margins and implications for global ocean Ni isotope mass balance	49
The effect of salinity on water 17O/16O ratios in brines	48
The extraterrestrial dust accretion rate on Earth at Dome C, Antarctica: a fresh look with 3He	47
Residence time of inertial particles in 3D thermal convection: Implications for magma reservoirs	46
Decoupled oxygenation of the Ediacaran ocean and atmosphere during the rise of early animals	46
Earth's longest lava flows erupted from its largest igneous province: The submarine Ontong Java Plateau	46
Chondrites as thermal and mechanical archives of accretion processes in the Solar protoplanetary disk	45
Reconstruction of the Virtual Geomagnetic Pole (VGP) path at high latitude for the last 22 kyr: The role of radial field flux patches as VGP attractor	45

Rapid pre-explosion increase in dome extrusion rate at La Soufrière, St. Vincent quantified from synthetic aperture radar backscatter	44
Wetted two-grain boundaries in olivine aggregates and seismic velocities in the oceanic upper mantle	43
He, Ne, and Ar isotope systematics in Chang’e-5 plagioclase reveal diffusive loss and reirradiation processes	43
Uranium-series comminution ages constrain large catchment erosion and its response to climate change: A case study from the Changjiang	41
Continued continental weathering during snowball earth mitigated greenhouse gas buildup and prolonged global glaciation	41
Frictional power dissipation in a seismic ancient fault	40
The fate of incipient carbonate melts in the genesis of intraplate basalts	40
Accessory mineral microstructure and chronology reveals no evidence for late heavy bombardment on the asteroid 4-Vesta	40
Thresholds in the controls of denudation rates: A global analysis of tectonic, climatic and biological factors based on machine learning	40
The complexity of water freezing under reduced atmospheric pressure	40
Thermodynamic modelling and chronometric dating of melting and refertilization in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle	40
Inheritance of depleted mantle 186Os signatures in Tibetan ophiolitic chromitites	39
Along-strike variations in the fossil subduction zone of the Western Alps revealed by the CIFALPS seismic experiments and their implications for exhumation of (ultra-) high-pressure rocks	39
Formation of the massive bedded chert and coupled Silicon and Iron cycles during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition	39
Contrasting Cu isotopes in mid-ocean ridge basalts and lower oceanic crust: Insights into the oceanic crustal magma plumbing systems	39
Clumped isotopes constrain thermogenic and secondary microbial methane origins in coal bed methane	39