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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Wetted two-grain boundaries in olivine aggregates and seismic velocities in the oceanic upper mantle	88
Clumped isotopes constrain thermogenic and secondary microbial methane origins in coal bed methane	86
Pressure- and temperature-dependent anharmonicity of MgO: Implications for the thermal conductivity of planetary mantles	82
Exhumation of ultra-high pressure (UHP) rocks modulated by rifted margin-subduction feedback: Implications for their preservation in old collisional orogens	73
The effect of salinity on water 17O/16O ratios in brines	69
Chondrites as thermal and mechanical archives of accretion processes in the Solar protoplanetary disk	65
Editorial Board	63
New evidence for a long Rhaetian from a Panthalassan succession (Wrangell Mountains, Alaska) and regional differences in carbon cycle perturbations at the Triassic-Jurassic transition	60
Formation of the massive bedded chert and coupled Silicon and Iron cycles during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition	57
Spatiotemporal dominance of afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation revealed by four decades of post-1973 Luhuo earthquake observations	56
Residence time of inertial particles in 3D thermal convection: Implications for magma reservoirs	54
Garnet clinopyroxenite formation via amphibole-dehydration in continental arcs: Evidence from Fe isotopes	53
What causes the spatiotemporal patterns of seismicity in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, central China?	52
Effect of the liquid-vacuum transition on the relative abundances of amino and fatty acids sought as biosignatures on icy ocean worlds	52
MgO miscibility in liquid iron	52
Earth's longest lava flows erupted from its largest igneous province: The submarine Ontong Java Plateau	51
Probing Cretaceous-Paleogene crustal thickness in southern Tibet using quartz-zircon chronobarometry	50
The extraterrestrial dust accretion rate on Earth at Dome C, Antarctica: a fresh look with 3He	49
Miocene decoupling of surface uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau interior (Türkiye) and its modern mountainous margins	49
Thermodynamic modelling and chronometric dating of melting and refertilization in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle	48
Contrasting Cu isotopes in mid-ocean ridge basalts and lower oceanic crust: Insights into the oceanic crustal magma plumbing systems	47
Decoupled oxygenation of the Ediacaran ocean and atmosphere during the rise of early animals	47
Zinc isotope evidence for carbonate alteration of oceanic crustal protoliths of cratonic eclogites	46
Sedimentary and crustal structure of the US Gulf Coast revealed by Rayleigh wave and teleseismic P coda data with implications for continent rifting	46
Accessory mineral microstructure and chronology reveals no evidence for late heavy bombardment on the asteroid 4-Vesta	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	44
Rock-ice avalanche flume experiments reveal a non-linear hillslope erosion rule governed by ice-content	43
A benthic source of isotopically heavy Ni from continental margins and implications for global ocean Ni isotope mass balance	43
Cadmium isotopic evidence for reduced deep-water marine primary productivity during the end-Permian mass extinction	43
Garnet as a reliable timekeeper in Archean polymetamorphic terranes	42
The complexity of water freezing under reduced atmospheric pressure	42
Decadal change of the Apulia microplate motion preceding the M 6.4, 26 November 2019 Durrës (Albania) earthquake	41
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	41
Cold subduction recorded by the 1.9 Ga Salma eclogite in Belomorian Province (Russia)	41
Transitions in subduction zone properties align with long-term topographic growth (Cascadia, USA)	40
Unexpectedly narrower track diameter at site of fission event	40
Editorial Board	40
Seismically-derived porosity of deep-sea sediments over the last 74 Ma in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Implications for paleo-climate	40
Editorial Board	40
Interference of ocean and land mass changes in seasonal crustal deformation of coastal stations: A case study in northern Australia	39
Evolutionary dynamics of redox-sensitive minerals reveal details and possible regulatory mechanisms of Earth's oxygenation events	39