OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Proceedings of the Geologists Association is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Corallian Group (Upper Jurassic) of Wiltshire, England. 4. The Highworth Limestone and associated strata	15
Palaeosols from the Upper Triassic of South Wales	14
A new modern Hydrolithon-like coralline red alga from the Upper Ordovician of Estonia	13
H.H. Swinnerton and crinoid palaeoecology	13
A ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Portland Limestone Formation (Late Jurassic, Tithonian) of southern England	13
Uppermost Triassic to Lower Jurassic sediments of the island of Ireland and its surrounding basins	12
Elephant seismicity: Ichnological and rock art perspectives from South Africa	11
Lytoceratid ammonites from the Inferior Oolite Formation (Middle Jurassic, Aalenian and Bajocian) of Dorset (United Kingdom)	10
A new “slime star” (Echinodermata, Asteroidea, Velatida) from the Upper Cretaceous Chalk of the United Kingdom	10
First occurrence of azhdarchoid pterosaurs in the Gault Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Albian) of England, United Kingdom with a brief review of Gault pterosaurs	8
Aspects of the deglaciation of the Lochaber Glacial Lakes area, western Scottish Highlands	8
Stratigraphical and sedimentological insights into the Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) Teniet El Klakh Formation, Western Saharan Atlas, Algeria	7
Editorial Board	7
Lateglacial Interstadial to mid-Holocene stratigraphy and palynology at Pepper Arden Bottoms, North Yorkshire, UK	7
Algal microfacies in the Theniet Et Temar Formation (middle Oxfordian), Central Saharan Atlas, Algeria	7
Liquefaction geo-hazard in the Fethiye Basin at the edge of Hellenic Trench	7
Editorial Board	7
Carbon isotopes, ammonites and earthquakes: Key Triassic-Jurassic boundary events in the coastal sections of south-east County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK	7
Book review	7
An introduction to the Scottish mineral Geological Conservation Review sites	7
The geometry of the Lower Greensand sand body near Nuneham Courtney, Oxfordshire, England	6
Book review	6
New dinosaur tracks from the Middle Jurassic red beds of the Middle Atlas (Morocco): Application of photogrammetry to ichnology and conservation of geological heritage	6
New palaeontological evidence suggests an early Middle Pleistocene age for the lower levels of Sun Hole Cave, Cheddar, Somerset, UK	6
Late Devensian to Holocene environmental change, Loch Lomond, UK: A seismic sedimentary record of deglaciation, paraglacial and postglacial landscape evolution	6

Allogenic and autogenic controls on facies and stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Jurassic Mashabba Formation, Gebel Al-Maghara, North Sinai, Egypt	5
Late Cretaceous–Early Paleogene tectonic events in the “North–South Axis” of Central Tunisia	5
Book review	5
Petrogenesis of lava from Saka (Guercif, Morocco): Source characterization and magma evolution	5
The heterodont bivalve Maghrebella forgemoli (Coquand, 1862) from Cenomanian of Batna, northeastern Algeria: Palaeobiogeography, biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment	5
New data on the stratigraphy, structure and petrology of the Precambrian/Cambrian inlier at Martley, Worcestershire	5
Ichnological evidence of marine incursions in the lacustrine–palustrine Bembridge Limestone Formation (Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England	5
Did William Smith (1769–1839), the father of biostratigraphy, discover a Jurassic pterosaur tooth?	5
Uppermost Triassic to Lower Jurassic stratigraphy in the Lough Foyle Basin of County Londonderry, Northern Ireland	5
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	5
Distribution of Devensian glacial erratics and related evidence elucidate complex ice flow changes across a former ice divide: Northern England	4
The influence of bedrock faulting and fracturing on sediment availability and Quaternary slope systems, Talla, Southern Uplands, Scotland, UK	4
Latest Triassic terrestrial microvertebrate assemblages from caves on the Mendip palaeoisland, S.W. England, at Emborough, Batscombe and Highcroft Quarries	4
Iron–titanium sands of the Atlantic beaches between Tan-Tan and Tarfaya (southwest Morocco): Characterisation and origin	4
A detailed investigation into the legacy of glacial readvances and ice-dammed lakes around Sellafield, West Cumbria: Implications for 3D modelling, hydrogeology and ground engineering	4
First record of serpulid aggregations and possible serpulid reefs from the Aptian (Cretaceous) of Algeria	4
The aberrant crinoid Cyathidium (Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Cyrtocrinida) from lower Campanian phosphatic chalk in West Sussex (UK) and Picardie (France)	4
Rock-slope failure scars on sandstone mountains in NW Scotland	4
Clay stratigraphy of the Lambeth Group of borehole IOD8R	4
Soft-sediment deformation structures of tide origin: A case study from the late Miocene Tafna Basin (NW Algeria)	4
New insights into Neogene to Pleistocene tectono-sedimentary major events in northeastern Tunisia from surface and subsurface data	3
A ‘giant’ pterodactyloid pterosaur from the British Jurassic	3
An assessment of sediment noise modelling on the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: Implications for aquifer-eustasy	3
Book Review	3
A large pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic (lower Bajocian) of Rutland, United Kingdom	3
Book review	3
Facies, diagenesis, and palaeo-environment significances of the Plio-Quaternary fluvio-lacustrine deposits of Ain Cheggag region, Sais foreland basin, Morocco	3
Editorial Board	3
Simon Richard Appleton Kelly (1949–2023)	3
A new Early Cretaceous ommatine beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera: Archostemata) from Inner Mongolia, China	3
Impact of the EECO on mammalian faunas: New Ypresian localities from Montpellier (France), a multidisciplinary approach	3
RETRACTED: First description of 'Eophyton' tool marks from the Mesozoic of the southern Tethys margin, Algeria	3
Observations on the geology of the country around Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire	3
The oldest trilobites in Cambria: Early Cambrian trilobite faunas from the Llanberis Slates Formation, Gwynedd, North Wales	3
The Culham Brickworks, Oxfordshire, England: New insights from 1852 on a puzzling Jurassic–Cretaceous section	3
The Carnian Pluvial Episode: A damp squib for life on land?	3
Book review	3
Gordon Walkden (1944–2022)	3
Editorial Board	3