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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The 2023 Pazarcık (Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye) earthquake (M _w 7.7): implications for surface rupture dynamics along the East Anatolian Fault Zone	36
Quantifying deformation processes in the SE Pyrenees using U–Pb dating of fracture-filling calcites	29
The Shibantan Lagerstätte: insights into the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition	27
The Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa: integrating fossil and phylogenomic data	26
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	25
False biosignatures on Mars: anticipating ambiguity	24
The grandest of them all: the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event and Earth's oxygenation	24
The Devonian landscape factory: plant–sediment interactions in the Old Red Sandstone of Svalbard and the rise of vegetation as a biogeomorphic agent	24
Contractional salt tectonics and role of pre-existing diapiric structures in the Southern Pyrenean foreland fold–thrust belt (Montsec and Serres Marginals)	23
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	23
Evolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France	23
Debris-covered glacier systems and associated glacial lake outburst flood hazards: challenges and prospects	22
Basement reservoir plumbing: fracture aperture, length and topology analysis of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland	22
In situ laser ablation Lu–Hf geochronology of garnet across the Western Gneiss Region: campaign-style dating of metamorphism	21
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	21
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	17
Segmentation of the Caledonian orogenic infrastructure and exhumation of the Western Gneiss Region during transtensional collapse	17
Lateral variability in strain along the toewall of a mass transport deposit: a case study from the Makassar Strait, offshore Indonesia	17
The Xigaze ophiolite: fossil ultraslow-spreading ocean lithosphere in the Tibetan Plateau	16
Tracking Prototethyan assembly felsic magmatic suites in southern Yunnan (SW China): evidence for an Early Ordovician–Early Silurian arc–back-arc system	16
Unconformity development in retroarc foreland basins: implications for the geodynamics of Andean-type margins	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
Terrestrial stratigraphical division in the Quaternary and its correlation	15

Paleozoic crustal evolution and tectonic switching in the Northeastern Tianshan: insights from zircon Hf isotopes of granitoids	15
Brachiopod-dominated communities and depositional environment of the Guanshan Konservat-Lagerstätte, eastern Yunnan, China	14
The Serpukhovian in Britain: use of foraminiferal assemblages for dating and correlating	14
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	14
The Nonesuch Formation Lagerstätte: a rare window into freshwater life one billion years ago	13
A new stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of Scotland	13
Testing the relationship between marine transgression and evolving island palaeogeography using 3D GIS: an example from the Late Triassic of SW England	13
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	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
Linking surface and subsurface volcanic stratigraphy in the Turkana Depression of the East African Rift system	12
Palaeolatitudinal distribution of the Ediacaran macrobiota	12
Dynamic interplay of biogeochemical C, S and Ba cycles in response to the Shuram oxygenation event	11
Nature of the Cuvier Abyssal Plain crust, offshore NW Australia	11
Large-scale topography of the north Tibetan ranges as a proxy for contrasted crustal-scale deformation modes	11
Geochronology of Himalayan shear zones: unravelling the timing of thrusting from structurally complex fault rocks	11
Tectonic significance of the Variscan suture between Brunovistulia and the Bohemian Massif	11
Age of the Sääksjärvi impact structure, Finland: reconciling the timing of small impacts in crystalline basement with regional basin development	10
Secular changes in metamorphism and metamorphic cooling rates track the evolving plate-tectonic regime on Earth	10
Validity of geochemical signatures of abiotic hydrocarbon gases on Earth	10
Triassic evaporites: a vast reservoir of brines mobilized successively during rifting and thrusting in the Pyrenees	10
Thin-section detrital zircon geochronology mitigates bias in provenance investigations	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 enigma of the Albian Gap: spatial variability and the competition between salt expulsion and extension	9
Were springline carbonates in the Kurkur–Dungul area (southern Egypt) deposited during glacial periods?	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
Formation of wide-blocky calcite veins by extreme growth competition	9
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
Microbial and thermochemical controlled sulfur cycle in the Early Triassic sediments of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin	8
Terreneuvian bio- and chemostratigraphy of the South Sichuan Region (South China)	8
Spatial heterogeneity of redox-sensitive trace metal enrichments in upper Ediacaran anoxic black shales	8
Miocene tuffs from the Dinarides and Eastern Alps as proxies of the Pannonian Basin lithosphere dynamics and tropospheric circulation patterns in Central Europe	8
Magnitude, timing, and rate of slip along the Atacama fault system, northern Chile: implications for Early Cretaceous slip partitioning and plate convergence	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
The sulfur solubility minimum and maximum in silicate melt	8
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
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	7
Metamorphism of the Buchan type-area, NE Scotland and its relation to the adjacent Barrovian domain	7
Pliocene river capture and incision of the northern Altiplano: Machu Picchu, Peru	7
New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland	7
Thermal metamorphism on the Moon as recorded by the granulite suite	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
Ordovician tectonics and crustal evolution at the Gondwana margin (Central Iberian Zone)	7
A new bivalved arthropod from the Cambrian (Stage 3) Qingjiang biota expands the palaeogeographical distribution and increases the diversity of Tuzoiidae	7
Exhumation of the crustal-scale Gaoligong strike-slip shear belt in SE Asia	7
Tracking Proterozoic–Triassic sediment routing to western Laurentia via bivariate non-negative matrix factorization of detrital provenance data	7

Transition to magma-driven rifting in the South Turkana Basin, Kenya: Part 2	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
Global volcano monitoring through the Normalized Hotspot Indices (NHI) system	6
The Silurian inception of inland desert ecosystems: trace fossil evidence from the Mereenie Sandstone, Northern Territory, Australia	6
The spatial distribution of igneous centres along the Norwegian Atlantic Margin (Møre and Vøring) and their relationship to magmatic plumbing systems	6
Dating deformation: the role of atomic-scale processes	6
Spatial variation in provenance signal: identifying complex sand sourcing within a Carboniferous basin using multiproxy provenance analysis	6
Transport of mafic magma through the crust and sedimentary basins: Jameson Land, East Greenland	6
Inherited structure as a control on late Paleozoic and Mesozoic exhumation of the Tarbagatai Mountains, southeastern Kazakhstan	6
Red Sea rifting in central Egypt: constraints from the offshore Quseir province	6
Tabelliscolex (Cricocosmiidae: Palaeoscolecidomorpha) from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota and the evolution of seriation in Ecdysozoa	6
A new high-resolution palaeotemperature record during the Middle–Late Ordovician transition derived from conodont δ ¹⁸ O palaeothermometry	6
Fluid–rock interactions along detachment faults during continental rifting and mantle exhumation: the case of the Urdach lherzolite body (North Pyrenees)	6
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	6
Critically stressed fractures: analysis of the Shaikan Field, Kurdistan Region of Iraq	5
Thermal history of the southern Antarctic Peninsula during Cenozoic oblique subduction	5
The largest arthropod in Earth history: insights from newly discovered Arthropleura remains (Serpukhovian Stainmore Formation, Northumberland, England)	5
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
Sediment supply on the West Greenland passive margin: redirection of a large pre-glacial drainage system	5
Innovatiocaris , a complete radiodont from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte and its implications for the phylogeny of Radiodonta	5
Sedimentology of the modern seasonal lower Ganges River with low inter-annual peak discharge variance, Bangladesh	5
Open–closed–open palaeofluid system conditions recorded in the tectonic vein networks of the Parmelan anticline (Bornes Massif, France)	5
Double-folding and thrust-front geometries associated with the Timanian and Caledonian orogenies in the Varanger Peninsula, Finnmark, North Norway	5
K-bentonites in Ordovician–Silurian transition from South China: implications for tectonic evolution in the northern margin of Gondwana	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
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
Unravelling evidence for global climate change in Mississippian carbonate strata from the Derbyshire and North Wales Platforms, UK	5
The Gogo Formation Lagerstätte: a view of Australia's first great barrier reef	5
⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil	5
Emplacement of the Little Minch Sill Complex, Sea of Hebrides Basin, NW Scotland	5
Crystal entrainment from cool, low-silica rocks into hot, high-silica melts: diverse primary melt compositions at Taranaki volcano, New Zealand	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
Long duration of benthic ecological recovery from the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) mass extinction event in the Cleveland Basin, UK	5
Introduction: geology of fractured reservoirs	5
The role of subsidence and accommodation generation in controlling the nature of the aeolian stratigraphic record	5
Late Carboniferous dextral transpressional reactivation of the crustal-scale Walls Boundary Fault, Shetland: the role of pre-existing structures and lithological heterogeneities	5
Outcrop-scale manifestations of reactivation during multiple superimposed rifting and basin inversion events: the Devonian Orcadian Basin, northern Scotland	5