OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of AAPG Bulletin 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of Paleozoic source rocks in Kuwait	64
Impact of diagenesis on the pore evolution and sealing capacity of carbonate cap rocks in the Tarim Basin, China	43
Petroleum distribution in the Montney hybrid play: Source, carrier bed, and structural controls	37
Why does it take so long to publish a paper in the <italic>AAPG Bulletin</italic>?: Discussion	32
Depositional and lithological control on fractures in a steep, reefal carbonate margin: Lennard Shelf outcrops of the Canning Basin, Western Australia	28
Using clay microporosity to improve formation evaluation in potential residual oil zones: Cypress Sandstone, Illinois Basin	21
Lithofacies identification in cores using deep learning segmentation and the role of geoscientists: Turbidite deposits (Gulf of Mexico and North Sea)	21
Sedimentary evolution of a Late Triassic salt giant and a synchronous carbonate unit between the Peruvian Andean Cordillera and the Brazilian Amazonian foreland	20
Diagenetic alterations in Eocene, deeply buried volcaniclastic sandstones with implications for reservoir quality in the Huizhou depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin, China	18
Origin, migration pathways, and prediction of high carbon dioxide accumulations in the Lower Saxony Basin (northwestern Germany): Part II	17
From seep carbonates down to petroleum systems: An outcrop study from the southeastern France Basin	16
Novel diamondoid-based maturity models using naturally occurring petroleum fluids	15
Source rocks in foreland basins: A preferential context for the development of natural hydraulic fractures	15
Sedimentary and diagenetic archive of a deeply buried, upper Ediacaran microbialite reservoir, southwestern China	14
Brittleness modeling selects optimum stimulation zone in shaly source rocks in the Whangai Formation, New Zealand	13
Molecular and isotopic gas composition of the Devonian Berea Sandstone and implications for gas evolution, eastern Kentucky	13
Potential for CO2 sequestration in saline formations in the western offshore Netherlands: A preliminary study - Expanding carbon capture and storage beyond depleted fields	13
Identifying the key source rocks in heterogeneous saline lacustrine shales: Paleogene shales in the Dongpu depression, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China	13
Comparison of the morphology, facies, and reservoir quality of valley fills in the southern Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada	13
Spatial and vertical patterns of peak temperature in the Delaware Basin from Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material	10
Petrophysical property variations in overmature Marcellus Shale: Impliations for gas storage and producibility	10
Thermal history reconstruction from apatite fission-track analysis and vitrinite reflectance data of the Bongor Basin, the Republic of Chad	10
Risk assessment of mantle-derived CO2 in the East China Sea basins, China	10
Recommended practices in exploration assurance	10
Sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, northeastern British Columbia, Canada	10

Geologic models underpinning the 2018 US Geological Survey assessment of hydrocarbon resources in the Eagle Ford Group and associated Cenomanian–Turonian strata, United States Gulf Coast, Texas	10
Controlling factors of high-quality hydrocarbon source rocks developed in lacustrine shallow-water zone of the Junggar Basin, northwestern China	9
Fluvial reservoir architecture, directional heterogeneity and continuity, recognizing incised valley fills, and the case for nodal avulsion on a distributive fluvial system: Kern River field, Californ	9
Stratigraphic architecture of the 1420–1210 Ma Velkerri and Kyalla Formations (Beetaloo Sub-basin, Australia)	9
Impact of natural fractures on production from an unconventional shale: The Delaware Basin Wolfcamp shale	9
The whole petroleum system with ordered coexistence of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons: Case from the Junggar Basin, China	9
The etiology of carbonate porosity	9
Salt biostratigraphy: The Miocene palynological assemblages from the Wieliczka Formation, southern Poland	9
A mechanical basis of fault-bend folding	8
The evolution of the early Paleozoic carbonate platform in the Central uplift, Tarim Basin, northwestern China, and hydrocarbon accumulation	8
Effects of light hydrocarbons and extractable organic matter on the methane sorption capacity of shales	8
INDEX OF VOLUME 107 (2023)	8
Magnetic susceptibility variations in lower Paleozoic shales of the western Baltic Basin (northern Poland): A tool for regional stratigraphic correlations and the decoding of paleoenvironmental change	8
Tampico-Misantla: A premier super basin in waiting	8
The impact of CO2-enhanced oil recovery on oil production and lifespan of old oil pools: A Canadian example	8
Permeability field imaging: Mapping the geocritical crust’s permeability field	8
Geomechanical insights on the importance of mechanical stratigraphy to hydraulic fracture containment	8
Molecular dynamics simulation of the coupling and distribution patterns of CO2 sequestration and slit pore media	8
Study on microscale mechanical properties of minerals and organic matter in shale based on atomic force microscopy	8
Excess permeability in the Brazil pre-Salt: Nonmatrix types, concepts, diagnostic indicators, and reservoir implications	7
Origins of overpressure in the central Xihu depression of the East China Sea shelf basin	7
Geochemical and petrophysical characterization of potential gas shale reservoirs in the Lishu depression, southern Songliao Basin, northeastern China	7
Passageways for permeability: Geostatistical simulation of controls on the connectivity of vug-to-vug pore networks	7
Petrologic and geochemical characteristics of carbonate cements in the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation tight gas sandstone, western Sichuan Basin, China	7
Geology of the Johan Sverdrup field: A giant oil discovery and development project in a mature Norwegian North Sea basin	7
Carrier-bed plays in the Denver and Powder River Basins	7
Pore characteristics and evolution mechanisms of paralic shales from the Upper Permian Longtan Formation, southwestern China	7
Carbon dioxide storage efficiency involving the complex reservoir units associated with Irati and Rio Bonito Formations, Paraná Basin, Brazil	7
Geological evaluation of suprasalt carbon storage opportunities in the Silverpit Basin, United Kingdom Southern North Sea	7
A comparison of three-dimensional–printed porous rocks with nano x-ray computed tomography: Silica sand, gypsum powder, and resin	7
Origin of giant Ordovician cavern reservoirs in the Halahatang oil field in the Tarim Basin, northwestern China	7
Carrier beds as reservoirs	7
Characteristics, evolution, and formation of pressure in the Sinian-Cambrian gas reservoirs of the Anyue gas field, Sichuan Basin, China	7
Hydrocarbon trapping in hydrodynamic salinity gradients: Williston Basin case studies	6
Aspects of salt diapirism and structural evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic basins at the West Iberian margin	6
Introduction to Salt Basins Special Issue Volume 2: Evaporite precipitation, physical modeling, basin evolution in honor of Bruno Vendeville	6
Prestack inversion and amplitude variation with offset attributes as hydrocarbon indicators in carbonate rocks: A case study from the Illinois Basin	6
The North West Shelf, Western Australia’s super basin, in the twenty-first century	6
Gas-in-place prediction from quantifying organic matter– and mineral-hosted porosities in marine gas shales	6
Complex multiscale reservoir heterogeneity in a tidal depositional environment, Temblor Formation, West Coalinga field, California	6
Guizhou modern karsts as analogues for paleokarst reservoirs in the Shunbei oil field, Tarim Basin, China	6
Petroleum migration and accumulation in a shale oil system of the Upper Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation in the Songliao Basin, northeastern China	6
Lamina-scale diagenetic mass transfer in lacustrine organic-rich shales and impacts on shale oil reservoir formation	6
The main geological factors controlling the Wufeng-Longmaxi shale gas content	6
Reservoir characteristics of the Silurian Kepingtage Formation sandstones in the southern Tahe region, Tarim Basin	6
Oil families, oil–source rock correlation, basin modeling, and implication for petroleum systems, Termit Basin, Niger	5
Difference in overpressure environments for the western and central deep-water Gulf of Mexico	5
The analysis of the micro-occurrence state of irreducible water in anthracite fracture network based on digital core	5
Characterizing CO2 storage architecture using paleoenvironmental evidence from petrographic and diagenetic modeling	5
Using x-ray computed tomography to estimate hydrate saturation in sediment cores from Green Canyon 955, northern Gulf of Mexico	5

A depositional model for the Carbonera Formation, Llanos Foothills, Colombia, from workflow of a sequence stratigraphic framework and interpretation from well-log stacking patterns, well cuttings, and	5
Introduction to Special Issue: Geoscience Data Analytics and Machine Learning	5
Identification and distribution of hydraulic flow units of heterogeneous reservoir in Obaiyed gas field, Western Desert, Egypt: A case study	5
Three common statistical missteps we make in reservoir characterization	5
Sealing mechanisms in volcanic faulted reservoirs in Xujiaweizi extension, northern Songliao Basin, northeastern China	5
The effects of initial wedge taper on area-balancing restoration of a fold-thrust belt	5
Influence of structure on Mississippian paleotopography and distribution of Middle Pennsylvanian sandstone reservoirs on the Cherokee platform, northern Oklahoma	5
A cross-shape deep Boltzmann machine for petrophysical seismic inversion	5
Stratigraphic and sedimentary constraints on presalt carbonate reservoirs of the South Atlantic Margin, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil	5
Different scales of salt–sediment interaction during passive diapirism	5
The impact of organic pores on estimation of overpressure generated by gas generation in organic-rich shale: Example from Devonian Duvernay Shale, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin	5
Pore-scale electrical numerical simulation and new saturation model of fractured tight sandstone	5
Gas hydrates in Green Canyon Block 955, deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Part II, Insights and future challenges	5
Karst topography paces the deposition of lower Permian, organic-rich, marine–continental transitional shales in the southeastern Ordos Basin, northwestern China	5