OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Geological Society is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The 2023 Pazarcık (Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye) earthquake (M _w 7.7): implications for surface rupture dynamics along the East Anatolian Fault Zone	45
The Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa: integrating fossil and phylogenomic data	33
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	31
The grandest of them all: the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event and Earth's oxygenation	30
False biosignatures on Mars: anticipating ambiguity	27
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	25
The Devonian landscape factory: plant–sediment interactions in the Old Red Sandstone of Svalbard and the rise of vegetation as a biogeomorphic agent	25
In situ laser ablation Lu–Hf geochronology of garnet across the Western Gneiss Region: campaign-style dating of metamorphism	25
Debris-covered glacier systems and associated glacial lake outburst flood hazards: challenges and prospects	23
Contractional salt tectonics and role of pre-existing diapiric structures in the Southern Pyrenean foreland fold–thrust belt (Montsec and Serres Marginals)	23
Post-orogenic exhumation in the western Pyrenees: evidence for extension driven by pre-orogenic inheritance	20
A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale	20
Fuxianhuiids are mandibulates and share affinities with total-group Myriapoda	19
Unconformity development in retroarc foreland basins: implications for the geodynamics of Andean-type margins	19
The Xigaze ophiolite: fossil ultraslow-spreading ocean lithosphere in the Tibetan Plateau	17
Segmentation of the Caledonian orogenic infrastructure and exhumation of the Western Gneiss Region during transtensional collapse	17
Tracking Prototethyan assembly felsic magmatic suites in southern Yunnan (SW China): evidence for an Early Ordovician–Early Silurian arc–back-arc system	16
Paleozoic crustal evolution and tectonic switching in the Northeastern Tianshan: insights from zircon Hf isotopes of granitoids	16
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	16
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	16
A new stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of Scotland	15
The Nonesuch Formation Lagerstätte: a rare window into freshwater life one billion years ago	15
Terrestrial stratigraphical division in the Quaternary and its correlation	15
Secular changes in metamorphism and metamorphic cooling rates track the evolving plate-tectonic regime on Earth	14
The Serpukhovian in Britain: use of foraminiferal assemblages for dating and correlating	14

Testing the relationship between marine transgression and evolving island palaeogeography using 3D GIS: an example from the Late Triassic of SW England	14
Paleozoic sedimentation and Caledonian terrane architecture in NW Svalbard: indications from U–Pb geochronology and structural analysis	13
Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate	13
Palaeolatitudinal distribution of the Ediacaran macrobiota	13
Triassic evaporites: a vast reservoir of brines mobilized successively during rifting and thrusting in the Pyrenees	12
Thin-section detrital zircon geochronology mitigates bias in provenance investigations	12
Geochronology of Himalayan shear zones: unravelling the timing of thrusting from structurally complex fault rocks	12
Nature of the Cuvier Abyssal Plain crust, offshore NW Australia	11
Tectonic significance of the Variscan suture between Brunovistulia and the Bohemian Massif	11
Dynamic interplay of biogeochemical C, S and Ba cycles in response to the Shuram oxygenation event	11
Large-scale topography of the north Tibetan ranges as a proxy for contrasted crustal-scale deformation modes	11
Formation of wide-blocky calcite veins by extreme growth competition	10
Validity of geochemical signatures of abiotic hydrocarbon gases on Earth	10
Insights on the controls on floodplain-dominated fluvial successions: a perspective from the Early–Middle Miocene Santa Cruz Formation in Río Chalía (Patagonia, Argentina)	10
Metamorphism of the Buchan type-area, NE Scotland and its relation to the adjacent Barrovian domain	10
Were springline carbonates in the Kurkur–Dungul area (southern Egypt) deposited during glacial periods?	10
Terreneuvian bio- and chemostratigraphy of the South Sichuan Region (South China)	9
Exhumation of the crustal-scale Gaoligong strike-slip shear belt in SE Asia	9
The sulfur solubility minimum and maximum in silicate melt	9
Miocene tuffs from the Dinarides and Eastern Alps as proxies of the Pannonian Basin lithosphere dynamics and tropospheric circulation patterns in Central Europe	9
Origin of megacrysts by carbonate-bearing metasomatism: a case study for the Muskox kimberlite, Slave craton, Canada	8
Sketch-based interface and modelling of stratigraphy and structure in three dimensions	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
Cooling and exhumation of the Late Paleozoic Tulasu epithermal gold system, Western Tianshan, NW China: implications for preservation of Pre-Mesozoic epithermal deposits	8
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	8
Magnitude, timing, and rate of slip along the Atacama fault system, northern Chile: implications for Early Cretaceous slip partitioning and plate convergence	8
New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland	8
Transition to magma-driven rifting in the South Turkana Basin, Kenya: Part 1	8
Spatial heterogeneity of redox-sensitive trace metal enrichments in upper Ediacaran anoxic black shales	8
A new bivalved arthropod from the Cambrian (Stage 3) Qingjiang biota expands the palaeogeographical distribution and increases the diversity of Tuzoiidae	8
Red Sea rifting in central Egypt: constraints from the offshore Quseir province	8
Microbial and thermochemical controlled sulfur cycle in the Early Triassic sediments of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin	8
Mesozoic compressional to extensional tectonics in the Central East Iranian Microcontinent: evidence from the Boneh Shurow metamorphic core complex	8
Pre-Zanclean end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: new evidence from central Mediterranean reference sections	8
Thermal metamorphism on the Moon as recorded by the granulite suite	7
Tracking Proterozoic–Triassic sediment routing to western Laurentia via bivariate non-negative matrix factorization of detrital provenance data	7
Transport of mafic magma through the crust and sedimentary basins: Jameson Land, East Greenland	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
We don't know when plate tectonics began	7
A new high-resolution palaeotemperature record during the Middle–Late Ordovician transition derived from conodont δ ¹⁸ O palaeothermometry	7
Innovatiocaris , a complete radiodont from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte and its implications for the phylogeny of Radiodonta	7
Dating deformation: the role of atomic-scale processes	7
Global volcano monitoring through the Normalized Hotspot Indices (NHI) system	7
Transition to magma-driven rifting in the South Turkana Basin, Kenya: Part 2	7
Ordovician tectonics and crustal evolution at the Gondwana margin (Central Iberian Zone)	7
Two-phase intracontinental deformation mode in the context of India–Eurasia collision: insights from a structural analysis of the West Kunlun–Southern Junggar transect along the NW margin of the Tibet	7
Long duration of benthic ecological recovery from the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) mass extinction event in the Cleveland Basin, UK	6
Introduction: geology of fractured reservoirs	6
Sedimentology of the modern seasonal lower Ganges River with low inter-annual peak discharge variance, Bangladesh	6
The spatial distribution of igneous centres along the Norwegian Atlantic Margin (Møre and Vøring) and their relationship to magmatic plumbing systems	6

The largest arthropod in Earth history: insights from newly discovered Arthropleura remains (Serpukhovian Stainmore Formation, Northumberland, England)	6
Tabelliscolex (Cricocosmiidae: Palaeoscolecidomorpha) from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota and the evolution of seriation in Ecdysozoa	6
The Silurian inception of inland desert ecosystems: trace fossil evidence from the Mereenie Sandstone, Northern Territory, Australia	6
Pliocene river capture and incision of the northern Altiplano: Machu Picchu, Peru	6
Double-folding and thrust-front geometries associated with the Timanian and Caledonian orogenies in the Varanger Peninsula, Finnmark, North Norway	6
Spatial variation in provenance signal: identifying complex sand sourcing within a Carboniferous basin using multiproxy provenance analysis	6
New vauxiid sponges from the Chengjiang Biota and their evolutionary significance	6
Fluid–rock interactions along detachment faults during continental rifting and mantle exhumation: the case of the Urdach lherzolite body (North Pyrenees)	6
Inherited structure as a control on late Paleozoic and Mesozoic exhumation of the Tarbagatai Mountains, southeastern Kazakhstan	6
⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil	6
The origin of carbonatites from the eastern Armutlu Peninsula (NW Turkey)	5
Open–closed–open palaeofluid system conditions recorded in the tectonic vein networks of the Parmelan anticline (Bornes Massif, France)	5
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
Emplacement of the Little Minch Sill Complex, Sea of Hebrides Basin, NW Scotland	5
The role of subsidence and accommodation generation in controlling the nature of the aeolian stratigraphic record	5
Sedimentological responses to initial continental collision: triggering of sand injection and onset of mass movement in a syn-collisional trench basin, Saga, southern Tibet	5
Paleogene drainage system evolution in the NE Faroe–Shetland Basin	5
The Gogo Formation Lagerstätte: a view of Australia's first great barrier reef	5
U–Pb zircon age and mineralogy of the St Georgen halloysite tuff shed light on the timing of the middle Badenian (mid-Langhian) transgression, ash dispersal and palaeoenvironmental conditions in the s	5
Crystal entrainment from cool, low-silica rocks into hot, high-silica melts: diverse primary melt compositions at Taranaki volcano, New Zealand	5
Evidence from the U–Pb–Hf signatures of detrital zircons for a Baltican provenance for basal Old Red Sandstone successions, northern Scottish Caledonides	5
Thermal history of the southern Antarctic Peninsula during Cenozoic oblique subduction	5
Unravelling evidence for global climate change in Mississippian carbonate strata from the Derbyshire and North Wales Platforms, UK	5
Early Neoproterozoic magmatism and Caledonian metamorphism recorded by the Mårma terrane, Seve Nappe Complex, northern Swedish Caledonides	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
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
From electromagnetic to sediment textural maps: an integrated approach to unravel the intra-point-bar variability of sediment properties	5
Recognition and characterization of small-scale sand injectites in seismic data: implications for reservoir development	4
3D seismic classification of fluid escape pipes in the western Exmouth Plateau, North West Shelf of Australia	4
Arctic sediment routing during the Triassic: sinking the Arctic Atlantis	4
Sulfur isotopes as biosignatures for Mars and Europa exploration	4
Depositional sequences in northern Peru: new insights on the palaeogeographic and palaeotectonic reconstruction of western Gondwana during late Permian and Triassic	4
Discussion on ‘ Tabelliscolex (Cricocosmiidae: Palaeoscolecidomorpha) from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota and the evolution of seriation in Ecdysozoa’ by Shi	4
Surface rupture history and 18 kyr long slip rate along the Pazarcık segment of the East Anatolian Fault	4
Older than you think: using U–Pb calcite geochronology to better constrain basin-bounding fault reactivation, Inner Moray Firth Basin, western North Sea	4
Basin evolution in response to flat-slab subduction in the Altiplano	4
Developmental capacity and the early evolution of animals	4
Magnetostratigraphy of the Mercia Mudstone Group (Devon, UK): implications for regional relationships and chronostratigraphy in the Middle to Late Triassic of Western Europe	4
Caledonian hot zone magmatism in the ‘Newer Granites’: insight from the Cluanie and Clunes plutons, Northern Scottish Highlands	4
Tectonic processes and the evolution of the continental crust	4
Quo vadis Zeus : is there a Zas shear zone on Naxos Island, Aegean Sea, Greece? A review of metamorphic history and new kinematic data	4
Cretaceous magmatism in the Antarctic Peninsula and its tectonic implications	4
Reply to discussion on ‘From Pan-African transpression to Cadomian transtension at the West African margin: new U–Pb zircon ages from the Eastern Saghro Inlier (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)’ by Errami	4
A conceptual geological model for offshore wind sites in former ice stream settings: the Utsira Nord site, North Sea	4
Extension and early orogenic inversion along the basal detachment of a hyper-extended rifted margin: an example from the Central Pyrenees (France)	4
Footprints of the Alice Springs Orogeny preserved in far northern Australia: an application of multi-kinetic thermochronology in the Pine Creek Orogen and Arnhem Province	4
Timing of slip across the South Tibetan detachment system and Yadong–Gulu graben, Eastern Himalaya	4
Discussion on ‘From Pan-African transpression to Cadomian transtension at the West African margin: new U–Pb zircon ages from the Eastern Saghro Inlier (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)’ by Errami e	4
A new Cambrian frondose organism: ‘Ediacaran survivor’ or convergent evolution?	4
Evidence, or not, for the late Tonian break-up of Rodinia? The Dalradian Supergroup, Scotland	4
Fluid flow and syntectonic veining in an Ediacaran-Cambrian foreland fold–thrust zone, western margin of the São Francisco Craton, Brazil	4
Enhanced chemical weathering of the continents promoted fast Late Cretaceous nearshore glaucony formation: implications from the Danubian Cretaceous Group, Germany	4
On the Statherian–Calymmian palaeogeography of northwestern Laurentia	4
Seismotectonic role of transversal structures in the Plio-Quaternary evolution of the external Marche Apennines (Italy)	4
Seismic investigations around an aseismic Comorin ridge, Indian Ocean	4
Deep- versus shallow-marine sandstone provenance in the mid-Carboniferous Clare Basin, western Ireland	4
Tectonic evolution of a Paleoproterozoic diffuse cryptic suture zone in northern Fennoscandia and the correlation of northern Fennoscandia and southern Greenland	4
Is the Ibero-Armorican Arc primary or secondary? An analysis of the contraction required to form it by rotation around a vertical axis	4
Stable isotopes (δ ¹³ C, δ ¹⁸ O) and element ratios (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) of Jurassic belemnites, bivalves and brachiopods from the Neuqu	4
A gradual Proterozoic transition from an unstable stagnant lid to the modern plate tectonic system	4
‘Block and basin’ style rift basins: sedimentological insights from the Mississippian Fell Sandstone Formation	4