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 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
Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and geochemistry across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary transition at Carnduff, County Antrim, Northern Ireland	11
Zoophycos and related trace fossils from the Chefar El Ahmar Formation, Upper Emsian-Frasnian Ia-Ib (Ougarta, SW Algeria)	11
Mass flow and hydrofracturing during Late Devensian moraine emplacement, NE Scotland	10
†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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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