OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Earth-Science Reviews is 61. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco	345
Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe	261
Lower Palaeozoic-Paleogene geological development of a deep-water rift (Güzelsu Corridor) along the northern continental margin of the Southern Neotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region: Evidence	256
Fringed Patagonian tableland: One of Earth's largest and oldest landslide terrains	256
Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation	251
Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates	236
A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?	230
Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC	223
Research status and prospects of CO2 geological sequestration technology from onshore to offshore: A review	220
Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the Western Block of North China: A new model	201
Representing the role of soil moisture on erosion resistance in sediment models: Challenges and opportunities	165
Lithospheric weakspots, not hotspots: New England-Quebec and Shenandoah anorogenic magmatism in the context of global plate tectonics, intraplate stress and LIPs	159
Sardinia and the Alpine cycle: A tectono-sedimentary history at the Western Tethys edge	146
Comment on the paper by Barreca et al.: “The Strait of Messina: Seismotectonics and the source of the 1908 earthquake” [Earth-Science Reviews 218, 2021, 103685]	140
Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland	135
Cycles of ∼32.5 My and ∼26.2 My in correlated episodes of continental flood basalts (CFBs), hyper-thermal climate pulses, anoxic oceans, and mass extinctions over the last 260 My: Connections between	126
Thermally driven organic-inorganic interactions in sedimentary basins: A review from source rocks to reservoirs	122
Geologic, geomorphic, tectonic, and paleoclimatic controls on the distribution and preservation of Chicxulub distal ejecta: A global perspective	122
Plate tectonic modelling and the energy transition	122
Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds	113
Moraine-dammed glacial lakes and threat of glacial debris flows in South-East Kazakhstan	112
Review of sediment connectivity: Conceptual connotations, characterization indicators, and their relationships with soil erosion and sediment yield	107
CO2 sequestration in geological formations: Insights into mineral reactions and reservoir dynamics	107
Early–middle Permian ecosystems of equatorial Pangaea: Integrated multi-stratigraphic and palaeontological review of the Permian of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean)	104
Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition	100

A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models	96
A review of new detrital zircon U-Pb ages from the Mogok area of Myanmar: Implications for the stratigraphy and early tectonic evolution of the Mogok Metamorphic Belt (MMB)	96
Valley incision chronologies from alluvium-filled cave systems	95
Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole	93
The Samail subduction zone dilemma: Geochronology of high-pressure rocks from the Saih Hatat window, Oman, reveals juxtaposition of two subduction zones with contrasting thermal histories	93
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates	89
Comment on “Early Archean biogeochemical iron cycling and nutrient availability: New insights from a 3.5 Ga land-sea transition” by Clark M. Johnson, Xin-Yuan Zheng, Tara Djokic, Martin J. Van Kranend	87
Influence of continental rifting on sedimentation and its provenance and geodynamic implications: An example from late Paleoproterozoic Chandil Formation, eastern India	87
Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review	87
The DC and AC global electric circuits and climate	86
Evolution mechanisms, impacts, and variations of the vortices originated from the Tibetan Plateau	86
Dynamics of Tethyan marine de‑oxygenation and relationship to S-N-P cycles during the Permian-Triassic boundary crisis	85
Early paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the Eastern Arctic and Siberia: Review of paleomagnetic and geologic data for the De Long Islands	85
Secular variability of the thermal regimes of continental flood basalts in large igneous provinces since the Late Paleozoic: Implications for the supercontinent cycle	84
Research progress and current application of weak turbulence and turbulence intermittency in stable boundary layers	84
The Egéré Paleo-Mesoproterozoic rifted passive margin of the LATEA metacraton (Central Hoggar, Tuareg Shield, Algeria) subducted and exhumed during the Pan-African orogeny: U-Pb zircon ages, P-T-t pat	83
Source-to-sink reconstruction of early Paleozoic Western Gondwana mega-scale alluvial systems	82
Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history	81
Nitrogen contamination and bioremediation in groundwater and the environment: A review	79
A continental review of Australia's Cenozoic megafans and associated large accretionary fluvial systems	78
Multistage plate subduction controls intraplate volcanism and cratonic lithospheric thinning in Northeast Asia	77
Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments	74
Antarctic mineral resources: Looking to the future of the Environmental Protocol	74
Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps	73
Incorporating cross-scale insights into colloid-facilitated radionuclide transport in fractured rocks: A critical review	72
The End-Devonian Hangenberg Event and its aftermath in South China: Stratigraphic and sedimentary records from shallow to deep water facies	71
What water color parameters could be mapped using MODIS land reflectance products: A global evaluation over coastal and inland waters	70
Sulfuric acid caves of the world: A review	68
Quantitative paleogeographical reconstructions and basin evolution of South China during the Ordovician	65
Neoarchean SSZ and MOR ultra-/high-pressure ophiolitic mélanges of the Eastern Hebei Complex, North China Craton: Dynamics of an Archean paleo-subduction zone	64
Antarctica ice sheet basal melting enhanced by high mantle heat	63
Subduction initiation as recorded in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc	63
Clay minerals on Mars: An up-to-date review with future perspectives	63
Quantification and uncertainty of global upland soil methane sinks: Processes, controls, model limitations, and improvements	62
Ultramafic-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: an overlooked sub-class of VMS deposit forming in complex tectonic environments	61
Metallogeny of Late Paleozoic lode gold mineralization of western Tien Shan: From orogenic shortening to intracontinental strike-slip shearing	61
Formation mechanism and geophysical properties of fracture-filling gas hydrate in the host sediments: A comprehensive review	61
Nature of the northern Indian plate margin during the assembly of supercontinent Columbia: was it a part of a double subduction?	61