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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Geodiversity: a significant, multi-faceted and evolving, geoscientific paradigm rather than a redundant term	43
A review of Citizen Science within the Earth Sciences: potential benefits and obstacles	43
Fish and crab coprolites from the latest Triassic of the UK: From Buckland to the Mesozoic Marine Revolution	15
Review on processes and management of saltmarshes across Great Britain	14
Zoophycos and related trace fossils from the Chefar El Ahmar Formation, Upper Emsian-Frasnian Ia-Ib (Ougarta, SW Algeria)	11
Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and geochemistry across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary transition at Carnduff, County Antrim, Northern Ireland	11
Mass flow and hydrofracturing during Late Devensian moraine emplacement, NE Scotland	10
Edentulous pterosaurs from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of eastern England with a review of Ornithostoma Seeley, 1871	9
Do soft sediment deformations in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic of the UK record seismic activity during the break-up of Pangea?	9
The minerals ikaite and its pseudomorph glendonite: Historical perspective and legacies of Douglas Shearman and Alec K. Smith	9
†Laticephalana liuyani gen. et sp. nov., a new bizarre roachoid of †Umenocoleidae (Insecta, Dictyoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	9
Life and death in the Jurassic seas of Dorset, Southern England	9
Variations in esker morphology and internal architecture record time-transgressive deposition during ice margin retreat in Northern Ireland	8
Geological and geomorphological influences on a recent debris flow event in the Ice-scoured Mountain Quaternary domain, western Scotland	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
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
Ammonites from the Lias Group (Lower Jurassic, Sinemurian and Pliensbachian) of White Park Bay, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland	7
Carbon isotopes, ammonites and earthquakes: Key Triassic-Jurassic boundary events in the coastal sections of south-east County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK	7
Investigating lithic scatters in arid environments: The Early and Middle Stone Age in Namibia	7
The youngest records of mosasaurid reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous of the South-Western Desert in Egypt	7
Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian bone beds at Westbury Garden Cliff, near Gloucester, UK	7
The first Surijokocixiidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from the Triassic of China	7
New haramiyidan and reptile fossils from a Rhaetian bedded sequence close to the famous ‘Microlestes’ Quarry of Holwell, UK	6
The Kula–Salihli UNESCO Geopark: Spectacular records of Quaternary volcanism, fluvial and landscape evolution and Quaternary environmental change	6
The Wessex Formation (Wealden Group, Lower Cretaceous) of Swanage Bay, southern England	6

Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian basal bone bed of Saltford, near Bath, SW England	6
Revisiting climate change and palaeoenvironments in the Purbeck Limestone Group (Tithonian – Berriasian) of Durlston Bay, southern UK	6
Palaeoecological patterns of change in marine invertebrate faunas across the End-Triassic mass extinction event: Evidence from Larne, Northern Ireland	6
Control of the Paleogene sedimentary record of the Anglo-Paris Basin by both the Iceland mantle plume and the Massif Central hotspot	5
Trypanites and associated bivalve borings in an Upper Albian hardground from the Eastern Saharan Atlas (Algeria)	5
Uppermost Triassic to Lower Jurassic sediments of the island of Ireland and its surrounding basins	5
Logging the Lambeth Group Upper Shelly Beds for the Thames Tideway Tunnel in London, UK: More than just “dark grey clay with shells”	5
Is the tilt of the Thames valley towards the east caused by a distal lobe of the Icelandic mantle plume?	5
Geosite condition monitoring in the UK 1999–2019	5
Loess in Britain and Ireland: Formation, modification and environmental significance, a review in memory of John Catt (1937–2017)	5
Evaluation of the Late Messinian Abu Madi sandstone reservoirs in the West Al Khilala gas field, Onshore Nile Delta, Egypt	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
Microencruster-microbial-cement framework of the Upper Jurassic reef developed on the slope of the intra-Tethyan carbonate platform (Bulgaria)	4
Detrital zircon U-Pb ages and source of the late Palaeocene Thanet Formation, Kent, SE England	4
Deploying augmented reality to help engage the public with palaeontological applications	4
Two new striking braconid genera (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber	4
The first tetrapod track recorded from the Rhaetian in the British Isles	4
Differentiation of diamictons (glacigenic – non-glacigenic) using microstructure abundancies and types	4
Allogenic and autogenic controls on facies and stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Jurassic Mashabba Formation, Gebel Al-Maghara, North Sinai, Egypt	4
Re-interpretation of ‘hummocky moraine’ in the Gaick, Scotland, as erosional remnants: Implications for palaeoglacier dynamics	4
The abnormally large “hushes” of Teesdale, North Pennines, England: Differentiating mining legacy and natural landforms in glaciated Carboniferous bedrock terrain	3
Platycrinitid (Monobathrida) crinoid columnals from the Permian of Timor: Form, function, protection and intimate associations	3
A diverse trace-fossil assemblage from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Teniet El Klakh Formation (western Saharan Atlas, Algeria)	3
New palaeontological evidence suggests an early Middle Pleistocene age for the lower levels of Sun Hole Cave, Cheddar, Somerset, UK	3
Gastrochaenolites ornatus Kelly and Bromley and other trace fossils on a Middle Miocene omission surface from the Aures Massif, Algeria	3
Algal microfacies in the Theniet Et Temar Formation (middle Oxfordian), Central Saharan Atlas, Algeria	3
The thoracican cirripede genus Concinnalepas Gale, 2014 (Crustacea) from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of southern England and northern France	3
Distribution of Devensian glacial erratics and related evidence elucidate complex ice flow changes across a former ice divide: Northern England	3
The heterodont bivalve Maghrebella forgemoli (Coquand, 1862) from Cenomanian of Batna, northeastern Algeria: Palaeobiogeography, biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment	3
A new species of thorny lacewing (Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae: Paraberothinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber with novel raptorial foreleg structure	3
The value of English geoconservation sites in understanding historical collections of lower and middle palaeolithic artefacts	3
Glacitectonic evidence of ice sheet interaction and retreat across the western part of Dogger Bank (North Sea) during the Last Glaciation	3
Biotic response to the latest Cenomanian drowning and OAE2: A case study from the Eastern Desert of Egypt	3
Geology and microvertebrate faunas of the Rhaetian Westbury Formation of Doniford Bay, Somerset	3
Fossil echinoderms from the Triassic and Jurassic of Ireland	3
Lower Jurassic (Hettangian–Pliensbachian) microfossil biostratigraphy of the Ballinlea-1 well, Rathlin Basin, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom	3
Does geodiversity correlate with land use/land cover diversity? A case study of Birbhum district, West Bengal, India	3
A truly gigantic pliosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian) of England	3
The condition, use and future of the UK's largest accessible dinosaur tracksite at Spyway Quarry, Dorset	3
Chapter 4 Scottish mineral Geological Conservation Review sites – Magmatic and skarn minerals	3
First dinosaur remains from Ireland	3
Two new genera of belytine wasps (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber	3
Latest Triassic terrestrial microvertebrate assemblages from caves on the Mendip palaeoisland, S.W. England, at Emborough, Batscombe and Highcroft Quarries	2
A reassessment of Arundian–Holkerian (Viséan) carbonates in South Cumbria, UK	2
Dinosaur material from the Lower Greensand Group of Upware, Cambridgeshire, and the age of ‘Wealden’ vertebrates from the ‘Bedfordshire Straits’	2
Palaeoecological records as a guide for fire management in Killarney National Park, Ireland	2
Use of drones to analyse sedimentary successions exposed in the foreshore	2
Late Eocene marginal marine deposits and paleoenvironment characterisation from the Maadi Formation (Northern Eastern Egypt)	2
Facies, diagenesis, and palaeo-environment significances of the Plio-Quaternary fluvio-lacustrine deposits of Ain Cheggag region, Sais foreland basin, Morocco	2

The residual geological information in Liangzhu jades: Implications for their provenance	2
Oxfordian plug-shaped trace fossils from northwestern Algeria	2
Conserving Quaternary geoheritage in Northern Ireland	2
Iron–titanium sands of the Atlantic beaches between Tan-Tan and Tarfaya (southwest Morocco): Characterisation and origin	2
Subsidence, not erosion: Revisiting the emplacement environment of the Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland	2
Quaternary Earth-science and Palaeolithic conservation initiatives in the Tejo (Tagus), Portugal: Comparison with the Lower Thames, UK	2
Did William Smith (1769–1839), the father of biostratigraphy, discover a Jurassic pterosaur tooth?	2
Quaternary palaeoecology and the historic environment: Challenges and opportunities for preserving England's wetlands	2
New records of rare ammonite species from the Inferior Oolite Formation (Middle Jurassic, Aalenian and Lower Bajocian) of Dorset	2
A small theropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lias Group of Charmouth, Dorset	2
An overview of scientific research on geoheritage in Morocco	2
The Clacton-on-Sea (Essex, UK) GCR site and SSSI: New data and continuing importance	2
Carboniferous wildfire revisited: Wildfire, post-fire erosion and deposition in a Mississippian crater lake	2
The youngest dinosaur footprints from England and their palaeoenvironmental implications	2
A marine microvertebrate fauna from a temporary exposure of the Atherfield Clay Formation, Reigate, Surrey	2
Chaperoning digital dinosaurs	2
Sunken lanes in southern England: A review	2
Quaternary sea level landforms and sediments in southern England: Description of Geological Conservation Review sites	2
‘Filament’ marker beds in the Karababa-A Member (Turonian) of the Arabian platform, SE Turkey: Palaeo-environmental significance, stratigraphy and correlation potential	2
Enigmatic rocks and sarsen stones of the West Sussex Coastal Plain, southern Britain	2
Thomas Webster's Tulip Alcyonium (Lamellaecylindrica, trace fossil) in the Upper Greensand Formation (Albian) of the Isle of Wight	2
Uppermost Triassic to Lower Jurassic stratigraphy in the Lough Foyle Basin of County Londonderry, Northern Ireland	1
Significance of the trace fossil Macaronichnus from the Cenomanian low-latitude nearshore deposits of the Saharan Atlas, Algeria	1
Non-marine gastropods from the Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in the Pingyi Basin, eastern China	1
Crinoids and blastoids, platyceratid gastropods and time: A taphonomic progression	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
Recognising geodiversity and encouraging geoconservation—Some lessons from Callander, Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, Scotland	1
Palaeoecology of Late Triassic marine assemblages from the proto-Atlantic Basin (Ayamonte, SW Spain)	1
The sedimentology, ichnology and invertebrate palaeontology of the late Silurian Downton Bone Bed	1
Encrustation of crinoid holdfasts and pluricolumnals from the Pridoli (upper Silurian) of Saaremaa Island, Estonia	1
Excavating the ‘Rutland Sea Dragon’: The largest ichthyosaur skeleton ever found in the UK (Whitby Mudstone Formation, Toarcian, Lower Jurassic)	1
A new neoselachian shark from the marine Early Cretaceous of Southern England	1
Crinoid columns as hard substrates: Salthill Quarry (Mississippian, lower Carboniferous), Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK	1
Ichnological evidence of marine incursions in the lacustrine–palustrine Bembridge Limestone Formation (Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England	1
A Romano-British puddingstone quarry in the Hertfordshire Chilterns	1
New U-series dates from Stump Cross Caverns, Yorkshire, UK, and constraints on the age of the Banwell Bone Cave Mammal Assemblage Zone	1
Periglacial landforms and landscape development in southern England	1
Local and regional British journals: Natural history, geology, geography and ecology, their role and value	1
Elucidating hydrological complexity and climate-influenced diagenesis during the early Carboniferous of South Wales	1
Two intriguing pluricolumnals (Crinoidea) from the Lower Palaeozoic of Powys and Shropshire	1
The oldest trilobites in Cambria: Early Cambrian trilobite faunas from the Llanberis Slates Formation, Gwynedd, North Wales	1
Valuing the Quaternary – Nature conservation and geoheritage	1
Elephant seismicity: Ichnological and rock art perspectives from South Africa	1
Microfacies and age of the Ceahlău Massif carbonate olistoliths (Eastern Carpathians, Romania): Remnants of a lowermost Cretaceous carbonate platform	1
A Coelophysoidea (Dinosauria, Theropoda) femur from the Tytherington fissures (Rhaetian, Late Triassic), Bristol, UK	1
Biodiversity changes of the Ordovician trilobites in the middle Yangtze region of South China	1
Clay stratigraphy of the Lambeth Group of borehole IOD8R	1
H.H. Swinnerton and crinoid palaeoecology	1
Distinctive azhdarchoid pterosaur jaws from the mid-Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand of eastern England and the Kem Kem Group of Morocco	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
Terrestrial carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Eocene–Oligocene transition, Petrockstowe and Bovey basins, Devon, UK	1
Diverse Lophoctenium burrows from the Upper Devonian (Famennian V and VI) of Algeria	1
First record of the trace fossil Renichnus arcuatus Mayoral, 1987 in the Pliocene of Sidi Brahim (Lower Chelif Basin, NW Algeria)	1
The Late Quaternary sediment successions of Llangorse Lake, south Wales	1
An introduction to the Scottish mineral Geological Conservation Review sites	1
The discovery of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province in 1870s, and the leading role of Aleksander Czekanowski	1
The anatomically preserved Early Carboniferous flora of Pettycur, Fife, Scotland	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
The curious case of Central Park's dinosaurs: The destruction of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' Paleozoic Museum revisited	1
Palaeozoic micro-pelmatozoan thecae from the bedload of the River Maas (province of Limburg, the Netherlands)	1
New small reptile remains from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia increase morphological diversity of sphenodontids (Lepidosauria)	1
Chapter 2 Scottish mineral Geological Conservation Review Sites – Magmatic Minerals	1
The Caledonian Structures of Shetland – Funzie and Norwick Geological Conservation Review sites	1