OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Taupō volcano's restless nature revealed by 42 years of deformation surveys, 1979–2021	68
Tsunami or storm deposit? A late Holocene sedimentary record from Swamp Bay, Rangitoto ki te Tonga/D'Urville Island, Aotearoa – New Zealand	48
Issue Information	15
Paleoearthquakes at the junction of the Tokomaru and Northern Ōhāriu faults, implications for fault interactions in the southern North Island, New Zealand	13
Detrital gold morphology and recycling around the early Miocene St Bathans paleovalley, Central Otago, New Zealand	10
Dust Deposition and Loess Accretion in New Zealand's South Island: Examining Links between Cold‐Climate Processes and Dust Production	10
Newly Discovered Active Faults in the Wairarapa Valley: Implications for Multi‐Fault Rupture and Kinematics in the Southern North Island, Aotearoa New Zealand	10
Late Holocene earthquakes on the Papatea Fault and its role in past earthquake cycles, Marlborough, New Zealand	10
Mineralogy and Formation of a Platinum Placer Deposit, Southern South Island, New Zealand	10
Physical and mechanical depth relationships of rocks from the Rotokawa Geothermal Reservoir, Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand	8
Tracking the Transition from Postseismic to Interseismic Deformation in Java, Indonesia, with Global Navigation Satellite System Data	8
Geoecology of limestone‐hosted dryland calcicolous plants, North Otago, New Zealand	8
Foraminiferal evidence for the provenance and flow history of turbidity currents triggered by the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand	8
Terrane and core complex architecture of the Otago Schist in the Dunstan and Cairnmuir Mountains, New Zealand, from U‐Pb and (U‐Th)/He zircon dating	8
Zealandia and Australia at Ordovician continental margins: reconciling their similar and differing detrital zircon provenances within Rodinia	8
Cretaceous tectonostratigraphy of ‘the Great Coverham section’ and adjacent areas, northeastern Waiau Toa/Clarence valley, New Zealand	7
Introduction to the Special Issue on Rainfall‐Induced Landscape Change in the SW Pacific: Landslides, Floods, and Multi‐Hazard Inter‐Relationships	7
InSAR Maps Peatlands in the Waikato Region of New Zealand	7
New Zealand Geological Timescale 2025	7
Towards a tectonic framework for normal faults in Waitematā Group rocks, North Island, Aotearoa‐New Zealand	6
Eocene Tectonic Change in the South Pacific Caused Exhumation of the Transantarctic Mountains in Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica	6
Taxonomy and taphonomy of Pliocene bulimoid land snails from Māngere, northern New Zealand, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species (Gastropoda: Bothriembryontidae: Placostylinae)	6
Progressive Thinning of Grounded Ice Sheet in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica, During the Late Quaternary	6
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Issue Information	6
A time‐dependent seismic hazard model following the Kaikōura M7.8 earthquake	5
Loess Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
Basanite cobbles in Pleistocene sediments in Central Otago and their implications for intraplate volcanism and Clutha River paleo‐drainage	5
Environmental evolution of cover deposits on chemically distinctive bare ground, New Zealand: review and temporal contexts	5
Microscale geochemical variations in metamorphic‐hydrothermal scheelite and insights into trace element sources (Otago Schist, New Zealand)	5
Identifying obscured faults in urban areas: insights from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand	5
A late Oligocene chiton fauna (Polyplacophora) from a rocky shore ecosystem, Cosy Dell, Southland, New Zealand	5
New records of hexanchiform sharks (Elasmobranchii: Neoselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica with comments on previous reports and described taxa	5
Mineralogy of Soil‐Free Bare Crusts on Native Dryland Plant Habitats in Mackenzie Basin, South Island, New Zealand	5
There is no geophysical evidence for the Mahuika Crater on the continental shelf southwest of New Zealand	4
Anatomy of an obducted ultramafic unit (Tiébaghi Massif – Peridotite Nappe – New Caledonia): Polyphase brittle tectonics constrained by fault‐slip data and crack seal mineralogy	4
Dissolved anthropogenic nitrogen at Macraes mine and contributions of rock nitrogen to Otago ecosystems, southern New Zealand	4
The communication of volcano information in New Zealand – a narrative review	4
The first Triassic elasmobranch teeth from the Southern Hemisphere (Canterbury, New Zealand)	4
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A diverse Late Pliocene fossil fauna and its paleoenvironment at Māngere, Auckland, New Zealand	4
Prediction of road blockages caused by rainfall‐induced landslides	4
Geometry and deformation of the sole of a large obducted ophiolitic unit: insights from surface geology and airborne electromagnetics – Peridotite Nappe, New Caledonia	4
Seismic Site Characterization and Vs30 Mapping in Semarang City, Indonesia using Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves	3
Lithospheric Delamination as the Trigger for Eruption of Metasomatised Asthenospheric Magma in Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica Since Miocene	3
Bioaccessible Trace Elements From South America's Primary Dust Source Region to Patagonian Coastal Environments	3
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Landslide Character and Hydrological Thresholds for Slope Failure Initiation on Volcanic Scoria Slopes: Case Study From Mt Hobson/Ōhinerau, Auckland, New Zealand	3
Hundalee Fault, North Canterbury, New Zealand: late Quaternary activity and regional tectonics	3
We're all in this together? Community resilience and recovery in Kaikōura following the 2016 Kaikōura‐Hurunui earthquake	3
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InSAR measurement of vertical land motion in New Zealand cities, and implications for sea‐level rise projections	3
Contrasting Effects of Aeolian Dust From Patagonia on Seawater Biogeochemistry According to Source Region	3
Fluid migration and permeability in evolving fault damage zones: a study of carbonate reservoir from Qingzhou, eastern China	3
Correction	3
Seasonal variability of isotopes and chemistry in a coastal firn core from the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica	3
Contemporaneous alkaline and subalkaline intraplate magmatism in the Dunedin Volcanic Group, NZ, caused by mantle heterogeneity	3
Rainfall‐triggered landslides from the January 2023 1‐in‐200 year storm at Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill, Auckland, New Zealand	2
Landslides triggered by the December 2021 Eastern Bays storm, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand	2
A quantitative assessment of GeoNet earthquake location quality in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
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New Zealand Active Faults Database: the high‐resolution dataset v2.0	2
Wind‐Driven Processes During Sea Ice Melt Season in the Ross Sea, Antarctica	2
Tectonic subsidence and uplift within Canterbury Basin, South Island, New Zealand	2
Fine and super‐fine gold in mine waste from a coastal placer in southern New Zealand	2
An Overview of Tsunami Hazards in the Southwest Pacific Ocean	2
Aeolian and Biogeochemical Transformations of Detrital Gold Morphology in the Pool Burn Basin, Central Otago, New Zealand	2
Geoecological evolution of New Zealand’s only inland salt lake	2
Introduction to the Kaikōura earthquake special issue	2
Late Quaternary activity of the NW Cardrona Fault, Otago, New Zealand	2
Composition and Miocene deformation of the lithospheric mantle adjacent to the Marlborough Fault System in North Canterbury	2
Landslide hazard and loss‐of‐life risk assessment for Muriwai, New Zealand following Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023	2

Nilsen Plateau, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: an update on the Gondwana stratigraphy and structure	2
Biodiverse Middle Eocene Molluscan Fauna From Kaeo, Northland, New Zealand	2
Geochemical and isotopic characterisation of trench sediment at the Hikurangi Margin from IODP sites U1518 and U1520	2
A review of hot sedimentary aquifer geothermal resources in Australia	2
Thermal infrared surveying of reactivated geothermal springs using an unmanned aerial vehicle at Waiwera, Auckland	2
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Records of the 5 March 2021 Raoul Island transoceanic tsunami around the Pacific Ocean	2
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A New Tarpon‐Like Fish (Elopomorpha, Megalopidae) With Exceptional Preservation and Unusual Features From the Paleogene of Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, New Zealand	1
Contrasting evolution of beach gold on two sides of an active orogen, Southern Alps, New Zealand	1
Magnetic and Granulometric Insights Into Dust Deposition Mechanisms in the Pampean Plains and Elevated Loess of Argentina	1
Assessment of Empirical CPT– V _s Correlations using Direct‐Push Crosshole Data from Shallow New Zealand Soil Deposits	1
Paleoseismology of the Long Valley Fault, Central Otago, New Zealand	1
Geochemical evolution of high‐pH sodic salt pans in Central Otago, New Zealand	1
Geothermal systems around the Southern Circum-Pacific: geology, energy resources, and exploration	1
Anthropogenic Hg‐Au residues from placer mining compared to natural Au‐Hg sources, South Island, New Zealand	1
Evolution of Pore Fluid Pressure in an Accretionary Outer Wedge Over Megathrust Earthquake Cycles: The Northern Cascadia Example	1
Lithostratigraphy of Paleozoic metasediments in southern Fiordland, New Zealand	1
A short trackway of tridactyl fossil footprints discovered in the Kaipara region of the North Island of New Zealand	1
Tectonically‐driven seabed rise and fall controlling temperate carbonate systems in a tide‐dominated multiple‐strait system: the example of unconformity‐bounded Neogene limestones (Northern Hawke's Ba	1
Re‐establishment of salt pan landscape features and endemic halophyte habitat, Central Otago, New Zealand	1
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Cambrian ocean floor crust preserved in the Takaka Terrane, New Zealand	1
Basal Melt Rate Over the Subglacial Lake Qilin Derived Through an Optimized 1‐D Steady‐State Thermodynamic Model	1
Microfabric Investigations of Peridotite Xenoliths From Edmonson Point, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica	1
Preliminary Palynostratigraphic Age Assessment of Victoria and Ferrar Group Deposits in the Central Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land, East Antarctica	1
Depositional rate, grain size and magnetic mineral sulfidization in turbidite sequences, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand	1
Spatial Resolution Impact Assessment for Long‐Term Population Monitoring of Adélie Penguin Guano	1
Numerical Simulations of Tsunamis Triggered by Puysegur Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Their Impact in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Correction	1
Subsurface structure revealed by ambient noise tomography in Hululais Geothermal Field, Indonesia	1
Assessment and development of empirical correlations between flat plate dilatometer and cone penetration tests for Auckland soils	1
Quantifying the Relative Impact of Atmospheric Variables and Polynya Dynamics on Fast Ice in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica	1
Sediment provenance in the Murchison and Maruia basins, Aotearoa/New Zealand: a record of Neogene strike‐slip displacement, convergence, and basement exhumation along the Australian–Pacific plate boun	1
Emplacement Age and Crustal Assimilation of Rift‐Related Mafic Magmatism in the Tiger Gabbro Complex, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica	1
Radiological Properties of Heavy Minerals in the Beach Sand Placer at Barrytown, New Zealand	1
The Ross–Delamerian Orogen in the southwest Pacific and Antarctica: an active plate boundary for Gondwana in the late Neoproterozoic and Cambrian	1
The potential for palaeoseismic and palaeoclimatic reconstructions from Lake Tennyson, North Canterbury, New Zealand	1
A review of tsunami hazard for southern Aotearoa New Zealand with implications for future research	1