OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Proceedings of the Geologists Association is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
H.H. Swinnerton and crinoid palaeoecology	54
Uppermost Triassic to Lower Jurassic sediments of the island of Ireland and its surrounding basins	15
A ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Portland Limestone Formation (Late Jurassic, Tithonian) of southern England	13
Palaeosols from the Upper Triassic of South Wales	12
The Corallian Group (Upper Jurassic) of Wiltshire, England. 4. The Highworth Limestone and associated strata	12
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	10
Elephant seismicity: Ichnological and rock art perspectives from South Africa	10
Carbon isotopes, ammonites and earthquakes: Key Triassic-Jurassic boundary events in the coastal sections of south-east County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK	9
Lytoceratid ammonites from the Inferior Oolite Formation (Middle Jurassic, Aalenian and Bajocian) of Dorset (United Kingdom)	9
Editorial Board	8
An introduction to the Scottish mineral Geological Conservation Review sites	7
Algal microfacies in the Theniet Et Temar Formation (middle Oxfordian), Central Saharan Atlas, Algeria	7
New palaeontological evidence suggests an early Middle Pleistocene age for the lower levels of Sun Hole Cave, Cheddar, Somerset, UK	7
Book review	7
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
Book review	6
Late Eocene marginal marine deposits and paleoenvironment characterisation from the Maadi Formation (Northern Eastern Egypt)	6
Did William Smith (1769–1839), the father of biostratigraphy, discover a Jurassic pterosaur tooth?	6
Allogenic and autogenic controls on facies and stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Jurassic Mashabba Formation, Gebel Al-Maghara, North Sinai, Egypt	6
Lateglacial Interstadial to mid-Holocene stratigraphy and palynology at Pepper Arden Bottoms, North Yorkshire, UK	6
Late Devensian to Holocene environmental change, Loch Lomond, UK: A seismic sedimentary record of deglaciation, paraglacial and postglacial landscape evolution	6
New data on the stratigraphy, structure and petrology of the Precambrian/Cambrian inlier at Martley, Worcestershire	5
Book review	5
The heterodont bivalve Maghrebella forgemoli (Coquand, 1862) from Cenomanian of Batna, northeastern Algeria: Palaeobiogeography, biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment	5

Subsidence, not erosion: Revisiting the emplacement environment of the Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland	5
Late Cretaceous–Early Paleogene tectonic events in the “North–South Axis” of Central Tunisia	5
Ichnological evidence of marine incursions in the lacustrine–palustrine Bembridge Limestone Formation (Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England	5
Distribution of Devensian glacial erratics and related evidence elucidate complex ice flow changes across a former ice divide: Northern England	4
Geodiversity: a significant, multi-faceted and evolving, geoscientific paradigm rather than a redundant term	4
The influence of bedrock faulting and fracturing on sediment availability and Quaternary slope systems, Talla, Southern Uplands, Scotland, UK	4
Uppermost Triassic to Lower Jurassic stratigraphy in the Lough Foyle Basin of County Londonderry, Northern Ireland	4
Review on processes and management of saltmarshes across Great Britain	4
Geological and geomorphological influences on a recent debris flow event in the Ice-scoured Mountain Quaternary domain, western Scotland	4
Rock-slope failure scars on sandstone mountains in NW Scotland	4
Variations in esker morphology and internal architecture record time-transgressive deposition during ice margin retreat in Northern Ireland	4
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	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
Clay stratigraphy of the Lambeth Group of borehole IOD8R	4
Book review	3
Impact of the EECO on mammalian faunas: New Ypresian localities from Montpellier (France), a multidisciplinary approach	3
The aberrant crinoid Cyathidium (Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Cyrtocrinida) from lower Campanian phosphatic chalk in West Sussex (UK) and Picardie (France)	3
The Carnian Pluvial Episode: A damp squib for life on land?	3
Gordon Walkden (1944–2022)	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
A large pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic (lower Bajocian) of Rutland, United Kingdom	3
Latest Triassic terrestrial microvertebrate assemblages from caves on the Mendip palaeoisland, S.W. England, at Emborough, Batscombe and Highcroft Quarries	3
Soft-sediment deformation structures of tide origin: A case study from the late Miocene Tafna Basin (NW Algeria)	3
Book review	3
A new Early Cretaceous ommatine beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera: Archostemata) from Inner Mongolia, China	3
Observations on the geology of the country around Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire	3
Book review	3
The Culham Brickworks, Oxfordshire, England: New insights from 1852 on a puzzling Jurassic–Cretaceous section	3
Iron–titanium sands of the Atlantic beaches between Tan-Tan and Tarfaya (southwest Morocco): Characterisation and origin	3
Simon Richard Appleton Kelly (1949–2023)	3
Book Review	3
New records of rare ammonite species from the Inferior Oolite Formation (Middle Jurassic, Aalenian and Lower Bajocian) of Dorset	3
New insights into Neogene to Pleistocene tectono-sedimentary major events in northeastern Tunisia from surface and subsurface data	3
Chaperoning digital dinosaurs	2
The youngest dinosaur footprints from England and their palaeoenvironmental implications	2
The Clacton-on-Sea (Essex, UK) GCR site and SSSI: New data and continuing importance	2
Editorial – January 2022	2
The minerals ikaite and its pseudomorph glendonite: Historical perspective and legacies of Douglas Shearman and Alec K. Smith	2
Taxonomic addition to the early diverged parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Orussoidea) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber	2
Local and regional British journals: Natural history, geology, geography and ecology, their role and value	2
Skull roof anatomy of the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) acipenseriform †Gyrosteus mirabilis Woodward ex Agassiz, from Yorkshire, England, elucidates diversity of †Chondrosteidae	2
The oldest trilobites in Cambria: Early Cambrian trilobite faunas from the Llanberis Slates Formation, Gwynedd, North Wales	2
Non-marine gastropods from the Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in the Pingyi Basin, eastern China	2
Editorial Board	2
A reassessment of Arundian–Holkerian (Viséan) carbonates in South Cumbria, UK	2
Evaluation of the Late Messinian Abu Madi sandstone reservoirs in the West Al Khilala gas field, Onshore Nile Delta, Egypt	2
Scratch circles and circular purported ammoglyphs: Novel observations from the Cape south coast of South Africa	2
Possible limpet home scars on a nautiloid from the Belemnite Stone (Lower Jurassic) near Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK	2
Pliocene trace fossils from oyster substrates in the Nijar Basin, Betic Cordillera, southern Spain	2

Periglacial landforms and landscape development in southern England	2
Corrigendum: Crinoids and blastoids, platyceratid gastropods and time: A taphonomic progression	2
A ‘giant’ pterodactyloid pterosaur from the British Jurassic	2
Dinosaur material from the Lower Greensand Group of Upware, Cambridgeshire, and the age of ‘Wealden’ vertebrates from the ‘Bedfordshire Straits’	2
†Laticephalana liuyani gen. et sp. nov., a new bizarre roachoid of †Umenocoleidae (Insecta, Dictyoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	2
The curious case of Central Park's dinosaurs: The destruction of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' Paleozoic Museum revisited	2
Fossil echinoderms from the Triassic and Jurassic of Ireland	2
The fossil record's oldest known calculus (an enterolith of the gastrointestinal tract), from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic), UK	2
Barthélémy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741–1819) and his work on pozzolans and lime: A pioneer in sustainable building	2
Editorial Board	2
Quaternary palaeoecology and the historic environment: Challenges and opportunities for preserving England's wetlands	2