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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Forensic geology and gold traceability: a case study from the Yanomami Indigenous Land	87
Meteorites that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions	66
⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil	59
New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland	45
Marine eutrophication within the Tarim Platform in sync with Middle to Late Ordovician climatic cooling	39
Palaeomagnetic investigations across Hinlopenstretet border zone: from Caledonian metamorphosed rocks of Ny Friesland to foreland facies of Nordaustlandet (NE Svalbard)	36
Age and provenance of the Middle Jurassic Norphlet Formation of south Texas: stratigraphic relationship to the Louann Salt and regional significance	26
How do tectonics influence the initiation and evolution of submarine canyons? A case study from the Otway Basin, SE Australia	20
Cambrian (Stage 4–Drumian) non-trilobite arthropods from the Murero biota (Spain)	19
Geology, geochemistry and zircon SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology of Mesoarchean high-Mg granitoids: constraints on petrogenesis, emplacement timing and deformation of the Água Limpa suite in the Carajás Pro	19
Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon, SW England	17
Early Neoproterozoic (Tonian) subduction-related magmatism and tectonothermal activity in Shetland and northern mainland Scotland: implications for the tectonic evolution of NE Laurentia and Rodinia r	16
Reassessing the timing of high-strain deformation in the Strangways Metamorphic Complex, Central Australia, by in situ mica Rb–Sr and titanite U–Pb geochronology	15
Where and when the Palaeo-Asian Ocean was closed: new evidence from the Tuquan ophiolite	15
Granitoids record the final assembly of the China–Mongolia block	15
Using U–Pb carbonate dating to constrain the timing of extension and fault reactivation within the Bristol Channel Basin, SW England	15
The Life of Mary Anning, Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis: a Contemporary Biographical Memoir by George Roberts	15
Discoidal carbonaceous compressions from the early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation: a fossil example of microbial biofilm	14
Igneous layering and magma dynamics in alkaline intrusions: textural evidence for gravitational settling and compaction within cumulates	14
Improving quantitative ventifact analysis for climate investigations using the Dyngjusandur sandsheet in Iceland as a planetary analogue	14
Foreland deformation of Brasiliano orogens at the eastern and western margins of the São Francisco Craton: K-Ar illite dating of the Araçuaí and Brasília fold-and-thrust belts	14
Early Neoproterozoic magmatism and Caledonian metamorphism recorded by the Mårma terrane, Seve Nappe Complex, northern Swedish Caledonides	13
A conceptual geological model for offshore wind sites in former ice stream settings: the Utsira Nord site, North Sea	13
The Ouarzazate Supergroup and its plutonic keel: the relicts of an Ediacaran silicic large igneous province in North Africa	13
Multiple stages of continental rifting in Eastern Peninsular Malaysia: new insights from Jurassic–Cretaceous granitoids	13

Dolomitization process of oolites in the Lower Triassic Feixianguan Formation, northeastern Sichuan Basin, China: evidence from magnesium isotopes	12
Paleoproterozoic intrusive and sedimentary rocks of the Sidi Ifni Inlier (Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco) and their correlatives in West Africa–Amazonia	12
Early Cretaceous ocean-island basalt-type magmatism in northern Guangdong: implications for lithospheric thinning in the South China Block	12
Jurassic tectonics of northeastern Gondwana: evidence from the detrital zircon record of the Nambour Basin	11
Aeromagnetic data reveals buried Quaternary drainage patterns in the Gulf of St Lawrence (Canada)	11
High-precision U–Pb geochronology of the Lundy igneous complex: implications for North Atlantic volcanism and the far-field Paleocene–Eocene ash record	11
Indicative meanings of geological sea-level indicators in the Solent region and Sussex coast (south coast of England) and implications for uplift rates	11
Paleogene drainage system evolution in the NE Faroe–Shetland Basin	11
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	11
The making of Mt Everest: channel flow and low-angle normal faults in the compressional Himalayan orogen	11
Multiproxy sediment provenance analysis of two megafans in the Owambo Basin, northern Namibia	10
Enhanced chemical weathering of the continents promoted fast Late Cretaceous nearshore glaucony formation: implications from the Danubian Cretaceous Group, Germany	10
Modelling sulfate concentrations in the global ocean through Phanerozoic time	10
Ordovician tectonics and crustal evolution at the Gondwana margin (Central Iberian Zone)	10
Timescales of Barrovian metamorphism, ductile deformation, and near-isothermal decompression in the Lhagoi Kangri gneiss dome, south-central Tibet	10
Mars as a time machine to Precambrian Earth	10
Age, duration and spatial distribution of ocean shields and rejuvenated volcanism: Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, Eastern Canaries	10
Transpressional inversion and fold superimposition in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt, East African Orogenic Belt	10
Correction to: ‘Late Eocene Lu–Hf ages on Carayaca (Puerto Cabello) eclogites: reconstructing the history of the central Cordillera de la Costa, northern central Venezuela’ (2025) by Pindell	10
Long runout distance of a block breccia density flow along a half-graben axis: latest Jurassic rift climax in East Greenland	9
Interaction of surface processes and crustal flow in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis	9
A salty snapshot: extreme variations in basal erosion patterns preserved in a submarine channel	9
Timing and tectonic setting of sediment-hosted Pb–Zn mineralization in Palaeoproterozoic northern Australia: a review and comparison with Mississippi Valley- and Irish-type deposits	9
Recognition and characterization of small-scale sand injectites in seismic data: implications for reservoir development	8
A detective duo of apatite and zircon geochronology for East Avalonia, Johnston Complex, Wales	8
Direct dating of deposition and rift-related alteration of fossil-barren red bed units in the North Sea	8
Correlation and stratigraphic implications of the lowermost Cambrian small shelly fossils from new sites of South China	8
Palaeoenvironment and taphonomy of the Hypsilophodon Bed, Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight	8
In situ garnet Lu–Hf geochronology and constraints on metamorphism in the northernmost Norwegian Caledonides	8
Multiple carbon isotope excursions during the Carnian (Late Triassic) pluvial event: implications for global and regional perturbation	8
Post-collisional magmatism and crust–mantle interaction during Gondwana assembly: insights from the Araçuaí orogen, southeastern Brazil	8
Katian volcanism in Central Armorican Domain (France) and Central Iberian Zone (Portugal): a single monogenetic basaltic field?	8
3D structure and genesis of synrift uplift within the Baiyun Sag, northern South China Sea	8
JOGS Lagerstätten: Ediacaran soft-bodied fossils from the Nama Group	7
Revisiting Ediacaran to early Cambrian depositional history of western North China: did it remain passive until the mid-Paleozoic?	7
U–Pb detrital zircon ages from the Dhanjori and Chaibasa formations, Singhbhum Craton, eastern India, and its regional stratigraphic and global implications	7
Global volcano monitoring through the Normalized Hotspot Indices (NHI) system	7
Tracing Pb from Nolans Bore thorianite through Alice Springs thorite to radiogenic galena: EPMA and LA-ICP-MS study of time and space	7
U−Pb geochronology and microstructural analysis of apatite within a Proterozoic crustal-scale shear zone, Outer Hebrides, NW Scotland	7
Sulfur isotope fractionation derived from reaction-transport modelling in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific	7
Recognizing different types of ocean plate stratigraphy in the southeastern South Qilian Accretionary Belt, northeastern Tibet Plateau	7
Hf isotopes in detrital zircon grains of the Sierra Albarrana Domain (SW Iberian Massif): Eburnean v. Archean basement signatures	7
Late Eocene Lu–Hf ages on Carayaca (Puerto Cabello) eclogites: reconstructing the history of the central Cordillera de la Costa, northern central Venezuela	7
A gradual Proterozoic transition from an unstable stagnant lid to the modern plate tectonic system	7
Significance of c . 1 Ga granites from the South Delhi Fold Belt, NW India: implications for palaeogeographical reconstructions of Rodinia	6
Structural and geomorphological constraints on the activity of the Sparta Fault (Greece)	6
Pleistocene deformation of the Malargüe fold–thrust belt from structural modelling and geochronology of syntectonic sedimentation	6
Different effects of serpentinite-derived and slab-derived fluids on arc magmatism in the Chinese Eastern Tianshan: evidence from Mg–B isotopic systematics	6
Emplacement and landscape controls on ancient submarine volcanism: 3D seismic geomorphological analysis of Cretaceous volcanic activity in the Browse Basin, Australian North West Shelf	6
Architectural modelling of the fractal-like Ediacaran rangeomorph C harnia masoni	6

We don't know when plate tectonics began	6
Mid-Ordovician stratigraphy and volcanism in the Hølonda area, Scandinavian Caledonides: complex tectonomagmatic development following arc–continent collision near the Laurentian margin of Iapetus	6
Thermal history of the southern Antarctic Peninsula during Cenozoic oblique subduction	6
Monitoring CO ₂ , CO and CH ₄ , affected or not by ventilation and anthropogenic activities, in the galleries of the Underground R	6
Surface rupture history and 18 kyr long slip rate along the Pazarcık segment of the East Anatolian Fault	6
A Quaternary carbonate contourite drift system on the Eyre Terrace, Great Australian Bight: implications for the origin of prograding shelf-edge–upper slope clinoforms, southern Australian passive mar	6
Pedostratigraphic age model for Devonian red beds of NW China	6
New biostratigraphic data and U–Pb geochronology for the Middle Permian to Triassic succession of the South Qiangtang Block, Xizang	6
Jurassic tectonic regime transition of the southwestern Yangtze block, SW China: evidence from sedimentary provenance analysis	6
Mineral chemistry and melt evolution of the mantle wedge peridotites in the Late Cretaceous Zagros Belt ophiolites (Iran): clues for the subduction initiation-induced forearc magmatism	6
Is the Ibero-Armorican Arc primary or secondary? An analysis of the contraction required to form it by rotation around a vertical axis	5
Zacarias Au–(Ag–barite) deposit, Neoproterozoic Goiás magmatic arc, Brasília Orogen, Central Brazil: constraints on the metallogenesis of a gold-rich quartz–barite exhalite related to volcanogenic mas	5
Tectonic evolution of the Alxa region, NW China: from a Precambrian continental ribbon to a Paleozoic–early Triassic accretionary orogen	5
The journey of the Band-e-Zeyarat ophiolite (Makran Accretionary Wedge, SE Iran) from the mid-ocean ridge to the accretionary complex: new insights from its sedimentary cover and associated basaltic d	5
LPIA palaeo-fjords: new insights from northern Namibia	5
Metamorphosed mélange in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis: constraint for the India–Asia collision in the Eocene	5
Conditions of ultra-high temperature metamorphism and its retrogression in the Neoproterozoic Anápolis-Itauçu Complex of the Brasília Fold Belt	5
On the anatomy and structural control of a dyke swarm that fed caldera-forming ignimbrite eruptions	5
Intracontinental deformation around the fixed tip of the continental-scale, strike-slip Tan–Lu fault zone in eastern China	5
Record of Late Oligocene silicic volcanism in the Hrvatsko Zagorje Basin, Croatia: insights from U–Pb zircon geochronology and volcanology	5
An integrated convolutional neural network prediction framework for in situ shale oil content based on conventional logging data	5
Conjugate extrusion with dextral oblique-slip faulting in SE Tibet: new insights into Oligo-Miocene deformation	5
Morphometric analysis and taxonomy of the Idiognathodus sagittalis Kozitskaya, 1978 group and the I . swadei–I	5
The early evolution of the Neotethys in the eastern Mediterranean area: implication of new evidence from the Levant basin and margin	5
The impact of faulting-induced uplift and subsidence on terrace formation and abandonment: a case study of the Huangshui River, NE Tibetan Plateau	5
Under-thrusting of continental lithospheric mantle controls the architecture of crustal deformation: numerical modelling of the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	5
Synchronous Cretaceous magmatism and migmatization in the Lohit and Dibang valleys, easternmost Himalaya	5
The Charnwood Terrane revisited: an integrated petrogenetic and petrophysical model for crustal structure in southern Britain	5
Latest Oligocene adakitic rocks in western Iran: implications for early crustal thickening and tectonic evolution of the Iran Block	5
Vast sediment dispersal in an inland sea: detrital zircon geochronology of the lower Cambrian Mickwitzia Sandstone (southern Sweden) indicates a Timanian source	5
Geometric morphometric analysis of Idiognathodus species across the Atokan–Desmoinesian boundary in north-central New Mexico, USA	5
Significance of the Paleocene olistostrome–turbidite belt (Abant Formation) along the Intra-Pontide Suture, northern Turkey	4
A prototype Mars regolith simulant (P_TO_MARS-1) exploiting the geology of the Piedmont region (NW Italy)	4
Early Paleozoic ductile deformation of the South China Block: the polyphase shear zones in the eastern Jiangnan belt	4
Late Paleozoic intra-oceanic arc and its accretionary complex in East Junggar (NW China): implications for multiple arc amalgamation in the southern Altaids	4
In situ laser ablation Lu–Hf geochronology of garnet across the Western Gneiss Region: campaign-style dating of metamorphism	4
New holozoans with cellular resolution from the early Ediacaran Weng'an Biota, SW China	4
The High Arctic Large Igneous Province: first seismic-stratigraphic evidence for multiple Mesozoic volcanic pulses on the Lomonosov Ridge, central Arctic Ocean	4
Reassessing Gondwana rifting during the Early Cretaceous: biostratigraphic and tectonic implications of the Abaiara Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil	4
Constraining the relative positions of island arc terranes in the Canadian Cordillera using conodont oxygen isotope thermometry	4
Editorial	4
Drainage response to superimposed deformation of the Weiyuan anticline in the southwestern Sichuan basin, China	4
Paleozoic sedimentation and Caledonian terrane architecture in NW Svalbard: indications from U–Pb geochronology and structural analysis	4
The illite and organic matter archive of the Late Paleozoic–Mesozoic tectonothermal evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula	4
The Gogo Formation Lagerstätte: a view of Australia's first great barrier reef	4
Unravelling the complex record of magma flow and solidification in sills	4
Is plate tectonics a post-Archean phenomenon? A petrological perspective	4
Reply to discussion on ‘Acheulian and Tephra from Upland Western Maharashtra, (Deccan Volcanic Province), Peninsular India', by Deo et al. 2021 ( SP	4
Structural styles of the Tierra del Fuego fold–thrust belt foothills, Argentina	4
Origin and tectono-metamorphic history of the Riffelberg-Garten meta-sedimentary ophiolitic unit, Western Alps	4
Organic matter enrichment and palaeo-sedimentary environment reconstruction of lacustrine shale in the second member of the Middle Jurassic Qiketai Formation in the Shengbei Sub-sag, Turpan–Hami Basin	4
Structural evolution of the reactivated Møre–Trøndelag Fault Complex, Fosen Peninsula, Norway	4
Th–U–Pb dating of euhedral monazites in radiolarian-bearing deposits: implication for the tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Meliatic mélange in the Western Carpathians	4
Lithofacies and depositional model of organic-rich lacustrine mudstone: a case study of the second member of the Eocene Liushagang Formation in the Weixinan Sag, Beibuwan Basin, China	4
Fluid inclusion and stable isotope fingerprints of the Paraná emerald deposit, Borborema Province, northeastern Brazil: implications for a tectonic–magmatic origin	4
First identification of late Mesozoic intraplate magmatism in the Chinese north Tianshan: implications for the orogenic architecture and crustal evolution	4
Chemostratigraphy of the extrusive sequence of a Late Cretaceous Neotethyan ophiolite in southern Iran and its significance for the mode and tempo of subduction initiation magmatism and melt evolution	4
On the Statherian–Calymmian palaeogeography of northwestern Laurentia	4
Marine redox dynamics and biotic response to the mid-Silurian Ireviken Extinction Event in a mid-shelf setting	4
U–Pb ages from felsic rocks of the External Ligurian sedimentary mélange (Northern Apennine, Italy): tracing the pre-Jurassic history of the hyperextended Adria continental margin	4
Correction to: ‘Late Cenozoic sedimentary records of the uplift of the Karlik Mountains and aridification of the Hami Basin, Central Asia’ (2025), by D. Zhang et al.	4
Palmatolepis gracilis expansa Zone and Bispathodus aculeatus aculeatus Zone conodonts from the Three Lick Bed at the type locality, Ohio Shale, Upper	4
Anatomy of a 300 Myr old fjord in Namibia	4
Neotectonics on the Namuncurá (Burdwood) Bank: unveiling seafloor strike-slip processes along the North Scotia Ridge	4
Open–closed–open palaeofluid system conditions recorded in the tectonic vein networks of the Parmelan anticline (Bornes Massif, France)	4
Fold-and-thrust belts and associated basins: a perspective on their structure, sedimentation, and dynamics	4