OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geobios is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A spatangoid echinoid assemblage from the Gutingkeng Formation (Early Pleistocene) of Taiwan and its paleoenvironmental and geological implications	18
Morphology and growth factors of the Cambrian oncoids in the Shuangquan section, China	16
Dormice (Rodentia, Gliridae) from the Middle Miocene of Hambach 6C, Northwest Germany	11
Tsuga leaves from the Neogene Baoshan Basin in southwest China and their palaeoecological implications	10
A link of the Late Miocene giraffid migration pathway from the peri-Aegean lands to the northeastern Eurasian areas	10
Suidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late Miocene hominoid locality of Alsótelekes (Hungary)	10
Zooarchaeological study of pigs during the Holocene at El Portalón (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)	10
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	8
Biostratigraphic and structural research in the Guedelhinha–Lançadoiras–Algaré sector in the context of the geology of the Neves–Corvo mine region, Iberian Pyrite Belt	8
The purported record of an epibiontic rhabdopleurid in the early Ordovician Fezouata biota of Morocco, with a discussion about benthic pterobranchs (Hemichordata) in the Lagerstätte	8
Newly discovered Middle Jurassic dinosaur tracks in the Baladeh region and faunal changes in northern Iran	8
Environmental and vegetation dynamics through the Oligocene to Early Miocene of North Africa (Egypt)	7
New planktonic foraminiferal record across the Aptian–Albian transition in Interior Fars, Zagros Basin, SW Iran: Implication for latest Aptian paleogeography along the southern shallower Neo-Tethys	7
First palynological record from Corcovado, central Patagonia, Argentina: Evidence for an age between the late Eocene and the Miocene	7
Blender as a tool for palaeoichnological research: Case study from Lark Quarry	7
The Ordovician bioclaustration revolution	7
Yuexiconcha nov. gen. – A resilifer-bearing palaeotaxodont (Bivalvia, Protobranchia) from the Ordovician of Guangdong, South China	7
A rare ‘flat-headed’ pachycephalosaur (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae) from West Texas, USA, with morphometric and heterochronic considerations	7
The Eastern Mediterranean fish fauna from the Piacenzian deposits of Polis Graben (Cyprus Island)	7
Updating the fauna and age of the Neogene-Quaternary large mammal sites of Greece	7
Middle and Upper Ordovician linguliformean and craniiformean brachiopods from the Brabant Massif, Belgium: Infaunal giants, encrusting forms and durophagy	7
Improved paired light and scanning electron microscope imaging technique for identifying nannofossils in Arctic sediments	7
Systematics, taphonomy and palaeobiogeography of a balaenopterid (Cetacea, Mysticeti) from the Early Pleistocene of southern Italy	6
Editorial Board	6

The rodent fauna from Prat de Cest (Aude, France) and its biochronological implications for the Early Miocene	6
The equids from Liventsovka and other localities of the Khaprovskii Faunal Complex, Russia: A revision	6
Craniocervical morphological integration in birds	6
Early Miocene gull-like birds (Charadriiformes: Laridae) from New Zealand	6
Lower Ordovician Trilobites from SE Sardinia (Italy): A new record of the “Taihungshania bioprovince”	6
Tremadocian (Ordovician) trilobites from the Brabant Massif (Belgium): Palaeogeographical and palaeoecological implications	6
New machaeridian data from the Upper Ordovician of Scotland: Palaeoecological and global palaeobiogeographical implications	6
Megaglomerospora lealiae nov. gen., nov. sp. from the upper Carboniferous of Portugal: the largest glomeromycotan fungal spores	5
Editorial Board	5
Aspects of diversity, paleobiology, and morphology of wing-propelled diving birds	5
Palaehoplophorini glyptodonts (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) from the Puerto Madryn Formation (Late Miocene), Argentine Patagonia: Diversity and biochronological implications in southern South America	5
Description of new Pliocene to Early Pleistocene deer (Cervidae, Mammalia) remains from the Siwalik Hills in Pakistan with a discussion on paleobiogeography of cervids from the Indian subcontinent	5
Pyritized preservation of chancelloriids from the Cambrian Stage 3 of South China and implications for biomineralization	4
New fossil Asian palm civets (Carnivora, Viverridae) from the Siwaliks of Pakistan	4
New evidence for Early Miocene palaeoenvironmental changes in the North Croatian Basin: Insights implicated by microfossil assemblages	4
Shelly coprolites record durophagous predation in the Late Ordovician Bohdalec Formation (Katian; Prague Basin, Czech Republic)	4
Macaronichnus ‘co-occurrence’ in offshore transition settings: Discussing the role of tidal versus fluid muds influence	4
Editorial Board	4
Aptian–Albian shallow-marine carbonate successions of the Geyik Dağı and the Anamas Dağ areas (Central Taurides, Turkey): Benthic foraminiferal assemblages and “Palaeocornuloculina” taurica nov. sp. (	4
New caenagnathid (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) dinosaur specimens from middle and upper Campanian strata of West Texas	3
New material of the small raoellid artiodactyl Metkatius kashmiriensis Kumar and Sahni, 1985 (Mammalia) from the middle Eocene of the Kalakot area, Rajouri District, Jammu and Kashmir, India	3
Editorial Board	3
Messelornithids and messelornithid-like birds from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)	3
Study of the shape and size in lower molars of Toxodon platensis (Mammalia: Toxodontidae) of the Late Pleistocene of South America	3
Editorial Board	3
A new rodent chronology for the late Neogene of Spain	3
Borophagine canids of the Monarch Mill Formation (Middle Miocene), Nevada, U.S.A.	3
Middle Ordovician brachiopods from Tagoat, Co. Wexford, SE Ireland: Dapingian diversity drivers	3
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a Neogene diatomite deposit from La Pampa Province (Argentina)	3
Early Pliocene Spalacinae from the locality of Afşar, western Turkey	3
Editorial Board	3
High-accuracy in the classification of butchery cut marks and crocodile tooth marks using machine learning methods and computer vision algorithms	3
Jean-Christophe Balouet (12 november 1956 – 30 march 2021)	3
Book review	3
Book review	3
Latest Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid assemblages in Utah (western USA basin) and their implications for regional biostratigraphy, biogeography and placement of the Smithian/Spathian boundary	3
A new pustulose bivalve from the Late Ordovician of the Prague Basin (Czech Republic) and remarks on the diversification of pteriomorphids	3
New avian remains from the early Eocene of La Borie, southern France	3
First magnetostratigraphic results in the Aïn Beni Mathar-Guefaït Basin, Northern High Plateaus (Morocco): The Pliocene-Pleistocene Dhar Iroumyane composite section	3
Diversity of the pterodactyloid ichnites of Crayssac (Lower Tithonian, Late Jurassic, southwestern France)	3
The early Oligocene Caniformia (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the standard level MP23 in the ‘Phosphorites du Quercy’, Occitanie, southwestern France	3