OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences is 24. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Where Has All the Carbon Gone?	174
Elastic Thermobarometry	144
	137
Introduction	106
The Once and Future Gas: Methane's Multifunctional Roles in Earth's Evolution and Potential as a Biosignature	78
Isotope Evolution of the Depleted Mantle	53
River Deltas and Sea-Level Rise	50
Stability of Ice Shelves and Ice Cliffs in a Changing Climate	48
Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models	46
Petrogenesis and Geodynamic Significance of Xenolithic Eclogites	43
Neogene History of the Amazonian Flora: A Perspective Based on Geological, Palynological, and Molecular Phylogenetic Data	43
Wave Structuring in the Shock Compression of Geologic Matter at the Planetary and Laboratory Scales	38
Biomarker Approaches for Reconstructing Terrestrial Environmental Change	37
Reconstructing Tropical Cyclone Activity from Sedimentary Archives	37
The Geologic History of Plants and Climate in India	33
Coccoliths as Recorders of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate over the Past 66 Million Years	32
On Dislocation Climb as an Important Deformation Mechanism for Planetary Interiors	30
Research on Teaching Geoscience with Virtual Field Experiences	30
Seismic Advances in Process Geomorphology	30
The Anatomy and Lethality of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province	28
Metal Isotopes in Mammalian Tissues	26
Deciphering Temperature Seasonality in Earth's Ancient Oceans	26
Carbon Cycle–Climate Feedbacks in the Post-Paris World	25
Pleistocene Periglacial Processes and Landforms, Mid-Atlantic Region, Eastern United States	25
The Hidden Hydrogeosphere: The Contribution of Deep Groundwater to the Planetary Water Cycle	25

A Systems Approach to Understanding How Plants Transformed Earth's Environment in Deep Time	24
Civilization-Saving Science for the Twenty-First Century	24