OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology is 27. 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
Sedimentology and geochemistry of Carboniferous-Permian marine-continental transitional shales in the eastern Ordos Basin, North China	50
Spatio-temporal distribution of Quaternary loess across Central Asia	45
The turnover of dental microwear texture: Testing the” last supper” effect in small mammals in a controlled feeding experiment	45
Influence of palaeoclimate and hydrothermal activity on organic matter accumulation in lacustrine black shales from the Lower Cretaceous Bayingebi Formation of the Yin’e Basin, China	42
Zircon U Pb age constraints on the mid-Cretaceous Hkamti amber biota in northern Myanmar	40
Environmental response to volcanic activity and its effect on organic matter enrichment in the Permian Lucaogou Formation of the Malang Sag, Santanghu Basin, Northwest China	40
Uplands, lowlands, and climate: Taphonomic megabiases and the apparent rise of a xeromorphic, drought-tolerant flora during the Pennsylvanian-Permian transition	39
Rare earth element geochemistry of carbonates as a proxy for deep-time environmental reconstruction	36
Abrupt warming in the latest Permian detected using high-resolution in situ oxygen isotopes of conodont apatite from Abadeh, central Iran	35
Origin of loess deposits in the North Tian Shan piedmont, Central Asia	35
Evidence of widespread wildfires in coal seams from the Middle Jurassic of Northwest China and its impact on paleoclimate	33
Permanent closure of the Tethyan Seaway in the northwestern Iranian Plateau driven by cyclic sea-level fluctuations in the late Middle Miocene	32
Variable redox conditions as an evolutionary driver? A multi-basin comparison of redox in the middle and later Cambrian oceans (Drumian-Paibian)	31
Advances of sclerochronology research in the last decade	31
Sedimentary environment and organic enrichment mechanisms of lacustrine shale: A case study of the Paleogene Shahejie Formation, Qikou Sag, Bohai Bay Basin	30
New bioclimatic models for the quaternary palaearctic based on insectivore and rodent communities	29
Increased frequency of extreme precipitation events in the North Atlantic during the PETM: Observations and theory	29
Geochemistry and molybdenum isotopes of the basal Datangpo Formation: Implications for ocean-redox conditions and organic matter accumulation during the Cryogenian interglaciation	29
A review of retrieving pristine rare earth element signatures from carbonates	29
Elevational differences in Holocene thermal maximum revealed by quantitative temperature reconstructions at ~30° N on eastern Tibetan Plateau	29
Late Paleozoic (Late Mississippian–Middle Permian) sediment provenance and dispersal in western equatorial Pangea	29
Millennial-scale variability of Indian summer monsoon during the last 42 kyr: Evidence based on foraminiferal Mg/Ca and oxygen isotope records from the central Bay of Bengal	28
No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event: A single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic	28
Timing of the Meso-Tethys Ocean opening: Evidence from Permian sedimentary provenance changes in the South Qiangtang Terrane, Tibetan Plateau	28
Pre-cenozoic evolution of the northern Qilian Orogen from zircon geochronology: Framework for early growth of the northern Tibetan Plateau	28

Cretaceous climates: Mapping paleo-Köppen climatic zones using a Bayesian statistical analysis of lithologic, paleontologic, and geochemical proxies	28
Early Oligocene vegetation and climate of southwestern China inferred from palynology	27
Sequence biostratigraphic framework for the Oligocene to Pliocene of Malaysia: High-frequency depositional cycles driven by polar glaciation	27
Woody dicot leaf traits as a palaeoclimate proxy: 100 years of development and application	27