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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Cyclical variations of fluid sources and stress state in a shallow megathrust-zone mélange	26
Quantifying deformation processes in the SE Pyrenees using U–Pb dating of fracture-filling calcites	25
The nature and age of basement host rocks and fissure fills in the Lancaster field fractured reservoir, West of Shetland	25
Patterns of Silurian deformation and magmatism during sinistral oblique convergence, northern Scottish Caledonides	22
Evolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France	22
The Shibantan Lagerstätte: insights into the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition	21
The nature and origins of decametre-scale porosity in Ordovician carbonate rocks, Halahatang oilfield, Tarim Basin, China	21
Post-orogenic exhumation in the western Pyrenees: evidence for extension driven by pre-orogenic inheritance	20
Basement reservoir plumbing: fracture aperture, length and topology analysis of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland	20
Weathering history and landscape evolution of Western Ghats (India) from ⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar dating of supergene K–Mn oxides	19
The Devonian landscape factory: plant–sediment interactions in the Old Red Sandstone of Svalbard and the rise of vegetation as a biogeomorphic agent	19
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	18
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	18
Spatial and temporal influence of Pacific subduction on South China: geochemical migration of Cretaceous mafic–intermediate rocks	17
A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale	16
Structural evolution and medium-temperature thermochronology of central Madagascar: implications for Gondwana amalgamation	16
Mid-crustal deformation in a continental margin orogen: structural evolution and timing of the Famatinian Orogeny, NW Argentina	15
Unroofing the Ladakh Batholith: constraints from autochthonous molasse of the Indus Basin, NW Himalaya	15
Contractional salt tectonics and role of pre-existing diapiric structures in the Southern Pyrenean foreland fold–thrust belt (Montsec and Serres Marginals)	15
Lateral variability in strain along the toewall of a mass transport deposit: a case study from the Makassar Strait, offshore Indonesia	15
Unconformity development in retroarc foreland basins: implications for the geodynamics of Andean-type margins	14
The grandest of them all: the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event and Earth's oxygenation	14
Geochronology and geochemistry of the Tabaquito batholith (Frontal Cordillera, Argentina): geodynamic implications and temporal correlations in the SW Gondwana margin	14
Fuxianhuiids are mandibulates and share affinities with total-group Myriapoda	14
False biosignatures on Mars: anticipating ambiguity	14

Unravelling the Neoproterozoic accretionary history of Oman, using an array of isotopic systems in zircon	14
Carboniferous to Early Triassic magmatism and accretion in Alxa (NW China): implications for accretionary orogenesis of the southern Altaids	13
In situ laser ablation Lu–Hf geochronology of garnet across the Western Gneiss Region: campaign-style dating of metamorphism	13
The Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa: integrating fossil and phylogenomic data	13
Paleozoic crustal evolution and tectonic switching in the Northeastern Tianshan: insights from zircon Hf isotopes of granitoids	13
High-resolution carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Lower and Middle Ordovician succession of the Yangtze Platform, China: implications for global correlation	13
Polygenetic mélanges: a glimpse on tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric recycling in convergent margins	12
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	12
Layering and structural inheritance controls on fault zone structure in three dimensions: a case study from the northern Molasse Basin, Switzerland	12
Tracking Prototethyan assembly felsic magmatic suites in southern Yunnan (SW China): evidence for an Early Ordovician–Early Silurian arc–back-arc system	12
Debris-covered glacier systems and associated glacial lake outburst flood hazards: challenges and prospects	11
Segmentation of the Caledonian orogenic infrastructure and exhumation of the Western Gneiss Region during transtensional collapse	11
Dynamic interplay of biogeochemical C, S and Ba cycles in response to the Shuram oxygenation event	11
The Atud gabbro–diorite complex: glimpse of the Cryogenian mixing, assimilation, storage and homogenization zone beneath the Eastern Desert of Egypt	11
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	11
Terrestrial stratigraphical division in the Quaternary and its correlation	11
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	10
Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate	10
The Serpukhovian in Britain: use of foraminiferal assemblages for dating and correlating	10
The Nonesuch Formation Lagerstätte: a rare window into freshwater life one billion years ago	10
Recognition and significance of c. 800 Ma upper amphibolite to granulite facies metamorphism in metasedimentary rocks from the NW margin of the Yangtze Block	10
Provenance evolution of Oligocene–Pliocene foreland deposits in the Dezful embayment to constrain Central Zagros exhumation history	10
Evolution of a shear zone before, during and after melting	10
A new stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of Scotland	10
Thin-section detrital zircon geochronology mitigates bias in provenance investigations	10
The enigma of the Albian Gap: spatial variability and the competition between salt expulsion and extension	9
Geochronology of Himalayan shear zones: unravelling the timing of thrusting from structurally complex fault rocks	9
Paleozoic sedimentation and Caledonian terrane architecture in NW Svalbard: indications from U–Pb geochronology and structural analysis	9
Brachiopod-dominated communities and depositional environment of the Guanshan Konservat-Lagerstätte, eastern Yunnan, China	9
Basement–cover relationships and deformation in the Northern Paraguai Belt, central Brazil: implications for the Neoproterozoic–early Paleozoic history of western Gondwana	9
A multidisciplinary approach to sediment provenance analysis of the late Silurian–Devonian Lower Old Red Sandstone succession, northern Midland Valley Basin, Scotland	9
The Paleogene ophiolite conundrum of the Iran–Iraq border region	9
The Xigaze ophiolite: fossil ultraslow-spreading ocean lithosphere in the Tibetan Plateau	9
Formation of wide-blocky calcite veins by extreme growth competition	9
Spatial heterogeneity of redox-sensitive trace metal enrichments in upper Ediacaran anoxic black shales	8
Age of the Sääksjärvi impact structure, Finland: reconciling the timing of small impacts in crystalline basement with regional basin development	8
Linking surface and subsurface volcanic stratigraphy in the Turkana Depression of the East African Rift system	8
Nature of the Cuvier Abyssal Plain crust, offshore NW Australia	8
Testing the relationship between marine transgression and evolving island palaeogeography using 3D GIS: an example from the Late Triassic of SW England	8
The nature and age of Mesoproterozoic strike-slip faulting based on Re–Os geochronology of syntectonic copper mineralization, Assynt Terrane, NW Scotland	8
Microbial and thermochemical controlled sulfur cycle in the Early Triassic sediments of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin	8
Tectonic significance of the Variscan suture between Brunovistulia and the Bohemian Massif	8
Cenozoic exhumation of the Neoproterozoic Sanfang batholith in South China	8
Structural controls on the location, geometry and longevity of an intraplate volcanic system: the Tuatara Volcanic Field, Great South Basin, New Zealand	8
Miocene tuffs from the Dinarides and Eastern Alps as proxies of the Pannonian Basin lithosphere dynamics and tropospheric circulation patterns in Central Europe	7
Palaeolatitudinal distribution of the Ediacaran macrobiota	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
Sketch-based interface and modelling of stratigraphy and structure in three dimensions	7
Validity of geochemical signatures of abiotic hydrocarbon gases on Earth	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

Insights on the controls on floodplain-dominated fluvial successions: a perspective from the Early–Middle Miocene Santa Cruz Formation in Río Chalía (Patagonia, Argentina)	7
Secular changes in metamorphism and metamorphic cooling rates track the evolving plate-tectonic regime on Earth	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
Fracture attribute and topology characteristics of a geothermal reservoir: Southern Negros, Philippines	7
Triassic evaporites: a vast reservoir of brines mobilized successively during rifting and thrusting in the Pyrenees	7
Pliocene river capture and incision of the northern Altiplano: Machu Picchu, Peru	7
Were springline carbonates in the Kurkur–Dungul area (southern Egypt) deposited during glacial periods?	7
Large-scale topography of the north Tibetan ranges as a proxy for contrasted crustal-scale deformation modes	7
Dynamo-thermal subsidence and sag–salt section deposition as magma-rich rifted margins move off plume centres along incipient lines of break-up	6
Global volcano monitoring through the Normalized Hotspot Indices (NHI) system	6
A new bivalved arthropod from the Cambrian (Stage 3) Qingjiang biota expands the palaeogeographical distribution and increases the diversity of Tuzoiidae	6
⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar mica dating of late Cenozoic sediments in SE Tibet: implications for sediment recycling and drainage evolution	6
The 2023 Pazarcık (Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye) earthquake (M _w 7.7): implications for surface rupture dynamics along the East Anatolian Fault Zone	6
Magnitude, timing, and rate of slip along the Atacama fault system, northern Chile: implications for Early Cretaceous slip partitioning and plate convergence	6
Mesozoic compressional to extensional tectonics in the Central East Iranian Microcontinent: evidence from the Boneh Shurow metamorphic core complex	6
Origin of megacrysts by carbonate-bearing metasomatism: a case study for the Muskox kimberlite, Slave craton, Canada	6
Nd isotope record of ocean closure archived in limestones of the Devonian–Carboniferous carbonate platform, Greater Karatau, southern Kazakhstan	6
Nature and significance of rift-related, near-surface fissure-fill networks in fractured carbonates below regional unconformities	5
New vauxiid sponges from the Chengjiang Biota and their evolutionary significance	5
Pre-Zanclean end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: new evidence from central Mediterranean reference sections	5
Transition to magma-driven rifting in the South Turkana Basin, Kenya: Part 2	5
Ordovician tectonics and crustal evolution at the Gondwana margin (Central Iberian Zone)	5
Emplacement of the Little Minch Sill Complex, Sea of Hebrides Basin, NW Scotland	5
Thermal metamorphism on the Moon as recorded by the granulite suite	5
Exceptional preservation of two new early rossellid sponges: the dominant species in the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota of China	5
Tracking Proterozoic–Triassic sediment routing to western Laurentia via bivariate non-negative matrix factorization of detrital provenance data	5
Evaporite palynology: a case study of the Permian (Lopingian) Zechstein Sea	5
Detailed internal structure and along-strike variability of the core of a plate boundary fault: the Highland Boundary fault, Scotland	5
Unravelling evidence for global climate change in Mississippian carbonate strata from the Derbyshire and North Wales Platforms, UK	5
Palaeogeographical evolution of the Rattray Volcanic Province, Central North Sea	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
Transition to magma-driven rifting in the South Turkana Basin, Kenya: Part 1	5
Reconstructing the terrestrial flora and marine plankton of the Middle Devonian of Spain: implications for biotic interchange and palaeogeography	5
Sediment supply on the West Greenland passive margin: redirection of a large pre-glacial drainage system	5
Inherited structure as a control on late Paleozoic and Mesozoic exhumation of the Tarbagatai Mountains, southeastern Kazakhstan	5
Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology and Lu–Hf isotopic analysis of the Neoproterozoic Penglai Group and their comparisons with coeval sedimentary strata of the southeastern North China Craton: provenan	5