OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Geological Society is 5. 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
Quantifying deformation processes in the SE Pyrenees using U–Pb dating of fracture-filling calcites	28
The 2023 Pazarcık (Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye) earthquake (M _w 7.7): implications for surface rupture dynamics along the East Anatolian Fault Zone	26
Patterns of Silurian deformation and magmatism during sinistral oblique convergence, northern Scottish Caledonides	24
The nature and origins of decametre-scale porosity in Ordovician carbonate rocks, Halahatang oilfield, Tarim Basin, China	24
The Shibantan Lagerstätte: insights into the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition	24
Evolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France	23
False biosignatures on Mars: anticipating ambiguity	21
Accommodation of India–Asia convergence via strike-slip faulting and block rotation in the Qilian Shan fold–thrust belt, northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	21
The Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa: integrating fossil and phylogenomic data	21
Post-orogenic exhumation in the western Pyrenees: evidence for extension driven by pre-orogenic inheritance	20
Contractional salt tectonics and role of pre-existing diapiric structures in the Southern Pyrenean foreland fold–thrust belt (Montsec and Serres Marginals)	20
The Devonian landscape factory: plant–sediment interactions in the Old Red Sandstone of Svalbard and the rise of vegetation as a biogeomorphic agent	20
Glaciomarine sequence stratigraphy in the Mississippian Río Blanco Basin, Argentina, southwestern Gondwana. Basin analysis and palaeoclimatic implications for the Late Paleozoic Ice Age during the Tou	20
Basement reservoir plumbing: fracture aperture, length and topology analysis of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland	20
Unroofing the Ladakh Batholith: constraints from autochthonous molasse of the Indus Basin, NW Himalaya	19
The grandest of them all: the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event and Earth's oxygenation	19
Spatial and temporal influence of Pacific subduction on South China: geochemical migration of Cretaceous mafic–intermediate rocks	19
Debris-covered glacier systems and associated glacial lake outburst flood hazards: challenges and prospects	18
Long silence on the East Anatolian Fault Zone (Southern Turkey) ends with devastating double earthquakes (6 February 2023) over a seismic gap: implications for the seismic potential in the Eastern Med	18
Lateral variability in strain along the toewall of a mass transport deposit: a case study from the Makassar Strait, offshore Indonesia	17
In situ laser ablation Lu–Hf geochronology of garnet across the Western Gneiss Region: campaign-style dating of metamorphism	17
A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale	17
The Xigaze ophiolite: fossil ultraslow-spreading ocean lithosphere in the Tibetan Plateau	16
Unconformity development in retroarc foreland basins: implications for the geodynamics of Andean-type margins	15
Tracking Prototethyan assembly felsic magmatic suites in southern Yunnan (SW China): evidence for an Early Ordovician–Early Silurian arc–back-arc system	15

Provenance evolution of Oligocene–Pliocene foreland deposits in the Dezful embayment to constrain Central Zagros exhumation history	14
Terrestrial stratigraphical division in the Quaternary and its correlation	14
Age and origin of accreted ocean plate stratigraphy in the North Qilian belt, NE Tibet Plateau: evidence from microfossils and geochemistry of cherts and siltstones	14
Fuxianhuiids are mandibulates and share affinities with total-group Myriapoda	14
Carboniferous to Early Triassic magmatism and accretion in Alxa (NW China): implications for accretionary orogenesis of the southern Altaids	14
The Atud gabbro–diorite complex: glimpse of the Cryogenian mixing, assimilation, storage and homogenization zone beneath the Eastern Desert of Egypt	14
Paleozoic crustal evolution and tectonic switching in the Northeastern Tianshan: insights from zircon Hf isotopes of granitoids	14
Segmentation of the Caledonian orogenic infrastructure and exhumation of the Western Gneiss Region during transtensional collapse	13
Geochemistry of macrofossil, bulk rock and secondary calcite in the Early Jurassic strata of the Llanbedr (Mochras Farm) drill core, Cardigan Bay Basin, Wales, UK	12
Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate	12
Anatomy of two Permian greenschist- to blueschist-facies tectonic mélanges in the Solonker Suture Zone (Inner Mongolia, northeastern China): evidence for divergent double subduction and soft collision	12
Paleozoic sedimentation and Caledonian terrane architecture in NW Svalbard: indications from U–Pb geochronology and structural analysis	12
The Serpukhovian in Britain: use of foraminiferal assemblages for dating and correlating	12
The Nonesuch Formation Lagerstätte: a rare window into freshwater life one billion years ago	12
A new stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of Scotland	11
Dynamic interplay of biogeochemical C, S and Ba cycles in response to the Shuram oxygenation event	11
Linking surface and subsurface volcanic stratigraphy in the Turkana Depression of the East African Rift system	11
Tectonic significance of the Variscan suture between Brunovistulia and the Bohemian Massif	11
Testing the relationship between marine transgression and evolving island palaeogeography using 3D GIS: an example from the Late Triassic of SW England	10
Structural controls on the location, geometry and longevity of an intraplate volcanic system: the Tuatara Volcanic Field, Great South Basin, New Zealand	10
The Paleogene ophiolite conundrum of the Iran–Iraq border region	10
Age of the Sääksjärvi impact structure, Finland: reconciling the timing of small impacts in crystalline basement with regional basin development	10
Geochronology of Himalayan shear zones: unravelling the timing of thrusting from structurally complex fault rocks	10
Palaeolatitudinal distribution of the Ediacaran macrobiota	10
Thin-section detrital zircon geochronology mitigates bias in provenance investigations	10
Brachiopod-dominated communities and depositional environment of the Guanshan Konservat-Lagerstätte, eastern Yunnan, China	9
Formation of wide-blocky calcite veins by extreme growth competition	9
The enigma of the Albian Gap: spatial variability and the competition between salt expulsion and extension	9
Triassic evaporites: a vast reservoir of brines mobilized successively during rifting and thrusting in the Pyrenees	9
Validity of geochemical signatures of abiotic hydrocarbon gases on Earth	9
Insights on the controls on floodplain-dominated fluvial successions: a perspective from the Early–Middle Miocene Santa Cruz Formation in Río Chalía (Patagonia, Argentina)	9
Nature of the Cuvier Abyssal Plain crust, offshore NW Australia	8
Large-scale topography of the north Tibetan ranges as a proxy for contrasted crustal-scale deformation modes	8
Microbial and thermochemical controlled sulfur cycle in the Early Triassic sediments of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin	8
Dynamo-thermal subsidence and sag–salt section deposition as magma-rich rifted margins move off plume centres along incipient lines of break-up	8
Secular changes in metamorphism and metamorphic cooling rates track the evolving plate-tectonic regime on Earth	8
Were springline carbonates in the Kurkur–Dungul area (southern Egypt) deposited during glacial periods?	8
Spatial heterogeneity of redox-sensitive trace metal enrichments in upper Ediacaran anoxic black shales	8
Origin of megacrysts by carbonate-bearing metasomatism: a case study for the Muskox kimberlite, Slave craton, Canada	8
Mesozoic compressional to extensional tectonics in the Central East Iranian Microcontinent: evidence from the Boneh Shurow metamorphic core complex	7
Pre-Zanclean end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: new evidence from central Mediterranean reference sections	7
Pliocene river capture and incision of the northern Altiplano: Machu Picchu, Peru	7
A new bivalved arthropod from the Cambrian (Stage 3) Qingjiang biota expands the palaeogeographical distribution and increases the diversity of Tuzoiidae	7
New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland	7
Terreneuvian bio- and chemostratigraphy of the South Sichuan Region (South China)	7
Cooling and exhumation of the Late Paleozoic Tulasu epithermal gold system, Western Tianshan, NW China: implications for preservation of Pre-Mesozoic epithermal deposits	7
Metamorphism of the Buchan type-area, NE Scotland and its relation to the adjacent Barrovian domain	7
Deep-water sand-fairway mapping as a tool for tectonic restoration: decoding Miocene central Mediterranean palaeogeography using the Numidian turbidites of southern Italy	7
Magnitude, timing, and rate of slip along the Atacama fault system, northern Chile: implications for Early Cretaceous slip partitioning and plate convergence	7
Sketch-based interface and modelling of stratigraphy and structure in three dimensions	7

Thermal metamorphism on the Moon as recorded by the granulite suite	7
Fracture attribute and topology characteristics of a geothermal reservoir: Southern Negros, Philippines	7
Miocene tuffs from the Dinarides and Eastern Alps as proxies of the Pannonian Basin lithosphere dynamics and tropospheric circulation patterns in Central Europe	7
U–Pb age constraints on the protolith, cooling and exhumation of a Variscan middle crust migmatite complex from the Central Iberian Zone: insights into the Variscan metamorphic evolution and Ediacaran	7
Nd isotope record of ocean closure archived in limestones of the Devonian–Carboniferous carbonate platform, Greater Karatau, southern Kazakhstan	7
New sequence stratigraphic framework on a ‘passive’ margin: implications for the post-break-up depositional environment and onset of glaciomarine conditions in NE Greenland	7
Transition to magma-driven rifting in the South Turkana Basin, Kenya: Part 1	6
A new high-resolution palaeotemperature record during the Middle–Late Ordovician transition derived from conodont δ ¹⁸ O palaeothermometry	6
Global volcano monitoring through the Normalized Hotspot Indices (NHI) system	6
Spatial variation in provenance signal: identifying complex sand sourcing within a Carboniferous basin using multiproxy provenance analysis	6
Ordovician tectonics and crustal evolution at the Gondwana margin (Central Iberian Zone)	6
The sulfur solubility minimum and maximum in silicate melt	6
The Silurian inception of inland desert ecosystems: trace fossil evidence from the Mereenie Sandstone, Northern Territory, Australia	6
Tracking Proterozoic–Triassic sediment routing to western Laurentia via bivariate non-negative matrix factorization of detrital provenance data	6
Inherited structure as a control on late Paleozoic and Mesozoic exhumation of the Tarbagatai Mountains, southeastern Kazakhstan	6
Seismogenic fault system of the M _w 6.4 November 2019 Albania earthquake: new insights into the structural architecture and active tectonic setting of the outer Alba	5
The largest arthropod in Earth history: insights from newly discoveredArthropleuraremains (Serpukhovian Stainmore Formation, Northumberland, England)	5
Timing and stratigraphic evolution of a Miocene foreland unroofing sequence in the Austral–Magallanes Basin during Southern Patagonian Andes uplift	5
Evaporite palynology: a case study of the Permian (Lopingian) Zechstein Sea	5
Late Carboniferous dextral transpressional reactivation of the crustal-scale Walls Boundary Fault, Shetland: the role of pre-existing structures and lithological heterogeneities	5
Unravelling evidence for global climate change in Mississippian carbonate strata from the Derbyshire and North Wales Platforms, UK	5
Exhumation of the crustal-scale Gaoligong strike-slip shear belt in SE Asia	5
Palaeogeographical evolution of the Rattray Volcanic Province, Central North Sea	5
K-bentonites in Ordovician–Silurian transition from South China: implications for tectonic evolution in the northern margin of Gondwana	5
Nature and significance of rift-related, near-surface fissure-fill networks in fractured carbonates below regional unconformities	5
Long duration of benthic ecological recovery from the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) mass extinction event in the Cleveland Basin, UK	5
New vauxiid sponges from the Chengjiang Biota and their evolutionary significance	5
Sediment supply on the West Greenland passive margin: redirection of a large pre-glacial drainage system	5
Fluid–rock interactions along detachment faults during continental rifting and mantle exhumation: the case of the Urdach lherzolite body (North Pyrenees)	5
The Gogo Formation Lagerstätte: a view of Australia's first great barrier reef	5
Double-folding and thrust-front geometries associated with the Timanian and Caledonian orogenies in the Varanger Peninsula, Finnmark, North Norway	5
A thermal event in the Dolpo region (Nepal): a consequence of the shift from orogen perpendicular to orogen parallel extension in central Himalaya?	5
Exceptional preservation of two new early rossellid sponges: the dominant species in the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota of China	5
Tabelliscolex(Cricocosmiidae: Palaeoscolecidomorpha) from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota and the evolution of seriation in Ecdysozoa	5
The role of subsidence and accommodation generation in controlling the nature of the aeolian stratigraphic record	5
Transition to magma-driven rifting in the South Turkana Basin, Kenya: Part 2	5
Sedimentology of the modern seasonal lower Ganges River with low inter-annual peak discharge variance, Bangladesh	5
Red Sea rifting in central Egypt: constraints from the offshore Quseir province	5
Emplacement of the Little Minch Sill Complex, Sea of Hebrides Basin, NW Scotland	5