OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Proceedings of the Geologists Association is 1. 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
A review of Citizen Science within the Earth Sciences: potential benefits and obstacles	37
Geodiversity: a significant, multi-faceted and evolving, geoscientific paradigm rather than a redundant term	35
Late Triassic island dwarfs? Terrestrial tetrapods of the Ruthin fissure (South Wales, UK) including a new genus of procolophonid	15
First inventory and assessment of the Geoheritage of Zagora province from the project Bani Geopark (South-Eastern Morocco)	14
Review on processes and management of saltmarshes across Great Britain	13
Fish and crab coprolites from the latest Triassic of the UK: From Buckland to the Mesozoic Marine Revolution	13
Bottom-up strategy for the use of geological heritage by local communities: Approach in the “Litoral del Biobío” Mining Geopark project (Chile)	12
Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and geochemistry across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary transition at Carnduff, County Antrim, Northern Ireland	11
Glacial conditioning and paraglacial sediment reworking in Glen Croe (the Rest and be Thankful), western Scotland	11
Mass flow and hydrofracturing during Late Devensian moraine emplacement, NE Scotland	9
Edentulous pterosaurs from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of eastern England with a review of Ornithostoma Seeley, 1871	9
The minerals ikaite and its pseudomorph glendonite: Historical perspective and legacies of Douglas Shearman and Alec K. Smith	9
Variations in esker morphology and internal architecture record time-transgressive deposition during ice margin retreat in Northern Ireland	8
Zoophycos and related trace fossils from the Chefar El Ahmar Formation, Upper Emsian-Frasnian Ia-Ib (Ougarta, SW Algeria)	8
†Laticephalana liuyani gen. et sp. nov., a new bizarre roachoid of †Umenocoleidae (Insecta, Dictyoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	8
The age and formation mechanisms of Late Triassic fissure deposits, Gloucestershire, England: Comments on Mussini, G. et al. (2020). Anatomy of a Late Triassic Bristol fissure: Tytherington fissure 2	8
Beginning of Mesozoic marine overstep of the Mendips: The Rhaetian and its fauna at Hapsford Bridge, Vallis Vale, Somerset, UK	8
Absence of regional stratigraphic hiatus in the late Carboniferous (Asturian - Stephanian) in the northern Variscan foreland: a review of the bio- and lithostratigraphical evidence in central england	8
Do soft sediment deformations in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic of the UK record seismic activity during the break-up of Pangea?	8
Geological and geomorphological influences on a recent debris flow event in the Ice-scoured Mountain Quaternary domain, western Scotland	7
The first Surijokocixiidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from the Triassic of China	7
Investigating lithic scatters in arid environments: The Early and Middle Stone Age in Namibia	7
Palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of Early Cretaceous belemnites from the northern high latitudes	7
Life and death in the Jurassic seas of Dorset, Southern England	7
Significance of crinoid preservation: Clare Shale Formation (Upper Carboniferous), Fisherstreet Bay, Doolin, County Clare, Ireland	6

Ammonites from the Lias Group (Lower Jurassic, Sinemurian and Pliensbachian) of White Park Bay, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland	6
Carbon isotopes, ammonites and earthquakes: Key Triassic-Jurassic boundary events in the coastal sections of south-east County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK	6
The youngest records of mosasaurid reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous of the South-Western Desert in Egypt	6
Landscape evolution of Dartmoor, SW England: A review of evidence-based controversies and their wider implications for geoscience	6
Observations of the dinoflagellate Wetzeliella in Sparnacian facies (Eocene) near Epernay, France, and a note on tricky acmes of Apectodinium	5
Palaeoecological patterns of change in marine invertebrate faunas across the End-Triassic mass extinction event: Evidence from Larne, Northern Ireland	5
Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian bone beds at Westbury Garden Cliff, near Gloucester, UK	5
Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian basal bone bed of Saltford, near Bath, SW England	5
The Kula–Salihli UNESCO Geopark: Spectacular records of Quaternary volcanism, fluvial and landscape evolution and Quaternary environmental change	5
New haramiyidan and reptile fossils from a Rhaetian bedded sequence close to the famous ‘Microlestes’ Quarry of Holwell, UK	5
Pleistocene landscape evolution in the Avon valley, southern Britain: Optical dating of terrace formation and Palaeolithic archaeology	5
Uppermost Triassic to Lower Jurassic sediments of the island of Ireland and its surrounding basins	5
Control of the Paleogene sedimentary record of the Anglo-Paris Basin by both the Iceland mantle plume and the Massif Central hotspot	5
The Wessex Formation (Wealden Group, Lower Cretaceous) of Swanage Bay, southern England	4
Geosite condition monitoring in the UK 1999–2019	4
Two new striking braconid genera (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber	4
The Callander (Auchenlaich) moraine: A new site report for the Western Highland Boundary block of the Quaternary of Scotland Geological Conservation Review (GCR)	4
Reply to Walkden, Fraser and Simms (2021): The age and formation mechanisms of Late Triassic fissure deposits, Gloucestershire, England: Comments on Mussini, G., Whiteside, D. I., Hildebrandt C. and B	4
Identification and implications of the London Clay Formation divisions from an engineering perspective	4
Evidence of wildfire in the British Isles during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition: Revealing spatiotemporal patterns and controls	4
Allogenic and autogenic controls on facies and stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Jurassic Mashabba Formation, Gebel Al-Maghara, North Sinai, Egypt	4
Logging the Lambeth Group Upper Shelly Beds for the Thames Tideway Tunnel in London, UK: More than just “dark grey clay with shells”	4
Microencruster-microbial-cement framework of the Upper Jurassic reef developed on the slope of the intra-Tethyan carbonate platform (Bulgaria)	4
The value of English geoconservation sites in understanding historical collections of lower and middle palaeolithic artefacts	3
Deploying augmented reality to help engage the public with palaeontological applications	3
Biotic response to the latest Cenomanian drowning and OAE2: A case study from the Eastern Desert of Egypt	3
Loess in Britain and Ireland: Formation, modification and environmental significance, a review in memory of John Catt (1937–2017)	3
A remarkable dropstone from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England	3
A diverse lower Cambrian (series 2) non - trilobite fauna containing a burgess shale type element, from the Llanberis Slate of Penrhyn Quarry, North Wales	3
Differentiation of diamictons (glacigenic – non-glacigenic) using microstructure abundancies and types	3
The ‘coprolite’ bearing Woburn Sands Formation, Lower Greensand Group (Aptian) at Upware, Cambridgeshire, UK	3
Lower Jurassic (Hettangian–Pliensbachian) microfossil biostratigraphy of the Ballinlea-1 well, Rathlin Basin, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom	3
A truly gigantic pliosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian) of England	3
An archaic-beetle ‘Jaws’ from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Archostemata)	3
Trypanites and associated bivalve borings in an Upper Albian hardground from the Eastern Saharan Atlas (Algeria)	3
Is the tilt of the Thames valley towards the east caused by a distal lobe of the Icelandic mantle plume?	3
Re-interpretation of ‘hummocky moraine’ in the Gaick, Scotland, as erosional remnants: Implications for palaeoglacier dynamics	3
The first tetrapod track recorded from the Rhaetian in the British Isles	3
Fossil echinoderms from the Triassic and Jurassic of Ireland	3
A litho-tectonic event stratigraphy from dynamic Late Devensian ice flow of the North Sea Lobe, Tunstall, east Yorkshire, UK	3
Platycrinitid (Monobathrida) crinoid columnals from the Permian of Timor: Form, function, protection and intimate associations	3
A review of Raymond Casey’s contribution to Jurassic stratigraphy	3
New palaeontological evidence suggests an early Middle Pleistocene age for the lower levels of Sun Hole Cave, Cheddar, Somerset, UK	3
Some observations on the geological history of the holoplanktonic gastropods	3
Foraminifera of the Gault Clay Formation: An update	3
First dinosaur remains from Ireland	3
Two new genera of belytine wasps (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber	3
The Harwich Formation in London – The legacy of Chris King	3
Revisiting climate change and palaeoenvironments in the Purbeck Limestone Group (Tithonian – Berriasian) of Durlston Bay, southern UK	3
A new ammonite fauna from the Walpenites horizon of the upper Aptian (Lower Cretaceous), Isle of Wight, southern England	3

Glacitectonic evidence of ice sheet interaction and retreat across the western part of Dogger Bank (North Sea) during the Last Glaciation	2
A new scorpion from a Permian peat swamp in Inner Mongolia, China	2
A small theropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lias Group of Charmouth, Dorset	2
Detrital zircon U-Pb ages and source of the late Palaeocene Thanet Formation, Kent, SE England	2
An overview of scientific research on geoheritage in Morocco	2
Quaternary Earth-science and Palaeolithic conservation initiatives in the Tejo (Tagus), Portugal: Comparison with the Lower Thames, UK	2
Selsey and Bracklesham, West Sussex: A case study of the impact of coastal management on foreshore exposures and geological conservation	2
Chaperoning digital dinosaurs	2
Use of drones to analyse sedimentary successions exposed in the foreshore	2
Sunken lanes in southern England: A review	2
Book Review	2
New records of rare ammonite species from the Inferior Oolite Formation (Middle Jurassic, Aalenian and Lower Bajocian) of Dorset	2
The stratigraphy of the Cretaceous (Albian stage) Gault and Upper Greensand formations: Dorset to Buckinghamshire and the western Weald, UK	2
The dawn of the Cretaceous Period in the English South Midlands	2
Asteroids (Echinodermata) from the Crackers Member (lower Aptian, Deshayesites forbesi Zone) on the Isle of Wight (UK), with a revision of fossil Pseudarchasteridae	2
The heterodont bivalve Maghrebella forgemoli (Coquand, 1862) from Cenomanian of Batna, northeastern Algeria: Palaeobiogeography, biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment	2
Conserving Quaternary geoheritage in Northern Ireland	2
Dinosaur material from the Lower Greensand Group of Upware, Cambridgeshire, and the age of ‘Wealden’ vertebrates from the ‘Bedfordshire Straits’	2
Distribution of Devensian glacial erratics and related evidence elucidate complex ice flow changes across a former ice divide: Northern England	2
Quaternary palaeoecology and the historic environment: Challenges and opportunities for preserving England's wetlands	2
A new species of thorny lacewing (Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae: Paraberothinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber with novel raptorial foreleg structure	2
‘Filament’ marker beds in the Karababa-A Member (Turonian) of the Arabian platform, SE Turkey: Palaeo-environmental significance, stratigraphy and correlation potential	2
The residual geological information in Liangzhu jades: Implications for their provenance	2
First description of sharks’ teeth from the Ferruginous Sands Formation (Aptian, Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight	2
The thoracican cirripede genus Concinnalepas Gale, 2014 (Crustacea) from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of southern England and northern France	2
Palaeoecological records as a guide for fire management in Killarney National Park, Ireland	2
Geology and microvertebrate faunas of the Rhaetian Westbury Formation of Doniford Bay, Somerset	2
The abnormally large “hushes” of Teesdale, North Pennines, England: Differentiating mining legacy and natural landforms in glaciated Carboniferous bedrock terrain	2
Additional evidence for very large wing-span pterosaurs in the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, Barremian) of southern England	2
A diverse trace-fossil assemblage from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Teniet El Klakh Formation (western Saharan Atlas, Algeria)	2
Chapter 4 Scottish mineral Geological Conservation Review sites – Magmatic and skarn minerals	2
A Coelophysoidea (Dinosauria, Theropoda) femur from the Tytherington fissures (Rhaetian, Late Triassic), Bristol, UK	1
Gamma-ray log correlation and interpretation of Fitton’s and Casey’s stratigraphy with offshore borehole 99/16-1	1
A marine microvertebrate fauna from a temporary exposure of the Atherfield Clay Formation, Reigate, Surrey	1
Chapter 2 Scottish mineral Geological Conservation Review Sites – Magmatic Minerals	1
A mammal fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum of Croydon, London, UK	1
H.H. Swinnerton and crinoid palaeoecology	1
Subsidence, not erosion: Revisiting the emplacement environment of the Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland	1
Oxfordian plug-shaped trace fossils from northwestern Algeria	1
Did William Smith (1769–1839), the father of biostratigraphy, discover a Jurassic pterosaur tooth?	1
Crinoid columns as hard substrates: Salthill Quarry (Mississippian, lower Carboniferous), Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK	1
Does geodiversity correlate with land use/land cover diversity? A case study of Birbhum district, West Bengal, India	1
Crinoids and blastoids, platyceratid gastropods and time: A taphonomic progression	1
Recognising geodiversity and encouraging geoconservation—Some lessons from Callander, Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, Scotland	1
Revision of the Early Cretaceous genus Paraspiticeras Kilian, 1910 (Ancyloceratoidea, Ammonoidea)	1
Petrographical and chemical properties of building stone, plaster and mortar used in Güvercinkayası Settlement (Asia Minore): An overview of material usage habits in the Middle Chalcolithic period	1
Clay stratigraphy of the Lambeth Group of borehole IOD8R	1
First occurrence of azhdarchoid pterosaurs in the Gault Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Albian) of England, United Kingdom with a brief review of Gault pterosaurs	1
A new neoselachian shark from the marine Early Cretaceous of Southern England	1
A brief review of the Late Cretaceous “Oceanic Red Beds” of the North Sea offshore region	1
Distinctive azhdarchoid pterosaur jaws from the mid-Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand of eastern England and the Kem Kem Group of Morocco	1
Biodiversity changes of the Ordovician trilobites in the middle Yangtze region of South China	1
The Caledonian Structures of Shetland – Funzie and Norwick Geological Conservation Review sites	1
New thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Portland and Purbeck Groups (Tithonian–Berriasian) of Dorset, United Kingdom	1
The youngest dinosaur footprints from England and their palaeoenvironmental implications	1
Subdivision of the Kimmeridgian Autissiodorensis Zone (Upper Jurassic, UK)	1
Late Eocene marginal marine deposits and paleoenvironment characterisation from the Maadi Formation (Northern Eastern Egypt)	1
Non-marine gastropods from the Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in the Pingyi Basin, eastern China	1
Two intriguing pluricolumnals (Crinoidea) from the Lower Palaeozoic of Powys and Shropshire	1
Facies, diagenesis, and palaeo-environment significances of the Plio-Quaternary fluvio-lacustrine deposits of Ain Cheggag region, Sais foreland basin, Morocco	1
An introduction to the Scottish mineral Geological Conservation Review sites	1
The oldest trilobites in Cambria: Early Cambrian trilobite faunas from the Llanberis Slates Formation, Gwynedd, North Wales	1
Iron–titanium sands of the Atlantic beaches between Tan-Tan and Tarfaya (southwest Morocco): Characterisation and origin	1
The curious case of Central Park's dinosaurs: The destruction of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' Paleozoic Museum revisited	1
Enigmatic rocks and sarsen stones of the West Sussex Coastal Plain, southern Britain	1
Evaluation of the Late Messinian Abu Madi sandstone reservoirs in the West Al Khilala gas field, Onshore Nile Delta, Egypt	1
Thomas Webster's Tulip Alcyonium (Lamellaecylindrica, trace fossil) in the Upper Greensand Formation (Albian) of the Isle of Wight	1
A reassessment of Arundian–Holkerian (Viséan) carbonates in South Cumbria, UK	1
Seismically induced dewatering structures in the oldest (Rhaetian, Triassic) part of the Blue Lias formation at Lyme Regis, UK	1
A new exposure of the North Curry Sandstone Member (Dunscombe Mudstone Formation, Mercia Mudstone Group: Carnian, Triassic), near Taunton, Somerset (UK): The location of Charles Moore's vertebrate spe	1
Palaeozoic micro-pelmatozoan thecae from the bedload of the River Maas (province of Limburg, the Netherlands)	1
Uppermost Triassic to Lower Jurassic stratigraphy in the Lough Foyle Basin of County Londonderry, Northern Ireland	1
A Romano-British puddingstone quarry in the Hertfordshire Chilterns	1
Gastrochaenolites ornatus Kelly and Bromley and other trace fossils on a Middle Miocene omission surface from the Aures Massif, Algeria	1
Elucidating hydrological complexity and climate-influenced diagenesis during the early Carboniferous of South Wales	1
The Late Quaternary sediment successions of Llangorse Lake, south Wales	1
Palaeoecology of Late Triassic marine assemblages from the proto-Atlantic Basin (Ayamonte, SW Spain)	1
The discovery of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province in 1870s, and the leading role of Aleksander Czekanowski	1
Latest Triassic terrestrial microvertebrate assemblages from caves on the Mendip palaeoisland, S.W. England, at Emborough, Batscombe and Highcroft Quarries	1
Microfacies and age of the Ceahlău Massif carbonate olistoliths (Eastern Carpathians, Romania): Remnants of a lowermost Cretaceous carbonate platform	1