OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Geology is 5. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Two Major Transitions in Earth History: Evidence of Two Lithospheric Strength Thresholds	18
Comparative Analysis of the Sedimentary Cover Units of the Jurassic Western Tethys Ophiolites in the Northern Apennines and Western Alps (Italy): Processes of the Formation of Mass-Transport and Chaot	14
The Segmented Zambezi Sedimentary System from Source to Sink: 1. Sand Petrology and Heavy Minerals	12
Early Paleozoic Arc Magmatism and Accretionary Orogenesis in the Indochina Block, Southeast Asia	10
The Segmented Zambezi Sedimentary System from Source to Sink: 2. Geochemistry, Clay Minerals, and Detrital Geochronology	10
Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Lower Jurassic Mafic Rock Suites in the External Rif Belt, and Chemical Geodynamics of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in Northwest Morocco	10
Multiple Hydrothermal Iron-Formation Upgrading Events in Southeastern São Francisco Craton	9
River Terrace Evidence of Tectonic Processes in the Eastern North American Plate Interior, South Anna River, Virginia	9
Postcollisional Ferani Volcanics from North Arabian–Nubian Shield (South Sinai, Egypt): Petrogenesis and Implication for Ediacaran (607–593 Ma) Geodynamic Evolution	9
Calcareous Nannofossil Stratigraphy across the Paleocene-Eocene Transition at the Gunnah Section, Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt	8
Origins and Scales of Compositional Variations in Crustally Derived Granitic Rocks: The Example of the Dartmoor Pluton in the Cornubian Batholith of Southwest Britain	7
Carnian (Upper Triassic) Lavas and Tuffites from the Mersin Mélange: Evidence for Intraoceanic Arc Rifting in the Northern Neotethys	7
New Sr-Nd Isotope Data Record Juvenile and Ancient Crust-Mantle Melt Interactions in the Vijayan Complex, Sri Lanka	7
Water Content and Deformation of the Lower Crust beneath the Siberian Craton: Evidence from Granulite Xenoliths	7
Mesozoic Unroofing History of the Dabie Orogen, Eastern China: Evidence from Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Sediments in the Hefei Basin	6
Proterozoic High-Temperature–Low-Pressure Metamorphism in the Mahakoshal Belt, Central Indian Tectonic Zone (India): Structure, Metamorphism, U-Th-Pb Monazite Geochronology, and Tectonic Implications	6
Cretaceous Forearc Sedimentation and Contemporary Basin Tectonics in Northwestern Borneo: New Sedimentological Insights from Pedawan Formation, Kuching Zone, East Malaysia	6
Tso Morari Eclogites, Eastern Ladakh: Isotopic and Elemental Constraints on Their Protolith, Genesis, and Tectonic Setting	6
Fingerprints of the Kerguelen Mantle Plume in Southern Tibet: Evidence from Early Cretaceous Magmatism in the Tethyan Himalaya	6
Tracing Late-Stage Fluid Sources and Vein Formation within Ophiolitic Mélanges from the Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya	5
Young and Old Granulites: A Volatile Connection	5
Mineralogical and Geochemical Constraints on the Postcollisional Mafic Magmatism in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: An Example from the El-Bakriya Area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt	5
Magmatic Tempos in Large Hot Orogens in Comparison with Continental Margin Arcs	5
Rio Apa Block: A Juvenile Crustal Fragment in the Southwest Amazonian Craton and Its Implications for Columbia Supercontinent Reconstitution	5
Revised Provenance, Depositional Environment, and Maximum Depositional Age for the Baraboo (<ca. 1714 Ma) and Dake (<ca. 1630 Ma) Quartzites, Baraboo Hills, Wisconsin	5

Integrating Petrography, X-Ray Fluorescence, and U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology to Interpret Provenance of the Mississippian Hartselle Sandstone, USA