OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geology is 31. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Anoxic depositional overprinting of 238U/235U in calcite: When do carbonates tell black shale tales?	100
Crustal architectural controls on critical metal ore systems in South China based on Hf isotopic mapping	69
ERRATUM: Across-strike asymmetry of the Andes orogen linked to the age and geometry of the Nazca plate	53
Geoelectric evidence for a wide spatial footprint of active extension in central Colorado	52
Determining the age and origin of a Tertiary karstic system by in situ U-Pb geochronology on speleothems	50
Hydrological fluctuations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China, over the past millennium	48
An invasion model for the start of Paleo-Pacific subduction	48
Extreme erosion by submarine slides	47
Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?	46
Cenozoic sediment bypass versus Laramide exhumation and erosion of the Eagle Ford Group: Perspective from modelling of organic and inorganic proxy data (Maverick Basin, Texas, USA)	44
A new model for the growth of normal faults developed above pre-existing structures: COMMENT	44
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subduction	44
Origin of Archean Pb isotope variability through open-system Paleoarchean crustal anatexis	44
To rush into the secret house of death: The fate of a Tournaisian plant	44
Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography	42
Ice-crystal traces imply ephemeral freezing in early Permian equatorial Pangea	41
Two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extinction	39
Volcanic origin of the mercury anomalies at the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition of Bidart, France	39
Paleoclimates inform on a weakening and amplitude-reduced East Asian winter monsoon in the warming future	37
Contemporary and future dust sources and emission fluxes from gypsum- and quartz-dominated eolian systems, New Mexico and Texas, USA	35
Curved orogenic belts, back-arc basins, and obduction as consequences of collision at irregular continental margins	34
Tracing black shales in the source of a porphyry Mo deposit using molybdenum isotopes	34
Erratum	34
Identifying crystal accumulation and melt extraction during formation of high-silica granite	34
Seafloor spreading and the delivery of sulfur and metals to Earth’s oceans	34

Hot atmospheric formation of carbonate accretionary lapilli at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, Brazos River, Texas, from clumped isotope thermometry	33
Past eruptions of a newly discovered active, shallow, silicic submarine volcano near Tokyo Bay, Japan	33
Crystal plasticity enhances trace element mobility in garnet	33
Xenoliths reveal a hot Moho and thin lithosphere at the Cordillera-craton boundary of western Canada	32
Morphologic signatures of autogenic waterfalls: A case study in the San Gabriel Mountains, California	32
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification	32
Near-constant retreat rate of a terrestrial margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation	31
Magma mingling and ascent in the minutes to hours before an explosive eruption as recorded by banded pumice	31
Accumulation of windblown sand in impact craters on Mars	31