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 2020-04-01 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
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
Variations in esker morphology and internal architecture record time-transgressive deposition during ice margin retreat in Northern Ireland	8
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
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
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
Significance of crinoid preservation: Clare Shale Formation (Upper Carboniferous), Fisherstreet Bay, Doolin, County Clare, Ireland	6
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
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
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
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
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