OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Marine and Petroleum Geology is 34. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Tracing Lower Cretaceous organic-rich units across the SW Barents Shelf	79
Tectonostratigraphic development of the Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic in the Hoop Area, Barents Sea: Implications for understanding ultra-condensed reservoir units	73
Role of inherited fault reactivation in accommodating multistage deformation in the southwestern margin of the Ulleung Basin, East Sea (Sea of Japan): Insights from 3D seismic interpretation	69
Rift-enhanced foredeep and contractional tectonics interplay in the outer Albanides	66
Editorial Board	64
Seismic chimneys as gas migration pathways and their role in hydrate accumulation: AVA insights from the Cauvery-mannar basin	60
Variability of frontally emergent and confined mass-transport complexes in the Qiongdongnan basin, northern South China sea: New perspectives from 2D and 3D seismic data	59
Controls on reservoir quality of the Nanushuk Formation (Albian–Cenomanian), North Slope, Alaska	58
The upper Cambrian SPICE carbon isotope excursion from the Alborz Ranges, northeastern Iran	55
The formation of authigenic phosphorus minerals in cold-seep sediments from the South China Sea: Implications for carbon cycling below the sulfate-methane transition	54
Editorial Board	54
Cutting-edge reverse time migration imaging of the hydrocarbon deposits in the Outer Carpathian fold-thrust belt	54
Formation mechanism of carbonate cement in tight sandstone reservoirs in the depression zone of foreland basin and its impact on reservoir heterogeneity: The upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation in Wester	53
Corrigendum to “Effect of silica diagenesis on porosity evolution of deep gas shale reservoir of the Lower Paleozoic Wufeng-Longmaxi formations, Sichuan Basin” [Mar. Pet. Geol. 145 (2022) 105873]	50
Reconstruction of ancient sulfate‒methane transition depths using the concentrations and sulfur isotopic compositions of authigenic sulfide minerals in marine sediments	49
Mineralogy and pore characteristics of marine gas hydrate-bearing sediments in the northern South China Sea	48
Astronomically forced cycles in Lower Carboniferous Luzhai Formation shales, Guizhong Depression, South China	48
Interaction between magmatism and polygonal faults revealed by three-dimensional seismic data in the Zhongjiannan Basin, South China Sea	48
Geochemistry and petrography of shales from Brazilian Paleozoic basins: an example of the Parnaíba Basin, Devonian Pimenteiras Formation – A review	47
Noble gas characteristics of microbial gas in the Qaidam Basin, China: Implications for helium enrichment processes	45
Influence of contour currents on the flow dynamics and deposition patterns of turbidity currents in deep-sea channels	44
Crustal structure and tectonic evolution of the Newfoundland Ridge, Fogo Basin, and southern Newfoundland transform margin	44
Diagenetic controls on sweet spots pore types and reservoir quality of Permian tight sandstones in the Ordos Basin, China	42
Complex in-situ stress distributions in ultra-deep marine carbonate reservoirs: 3D numerical simulation in the Yuemanxi Block, Tarim Basin	40
Impact of natural weathering on source rocks: ESI FT-ICR MS evidence from Triassic Chang 7 outcrop profile in Tongchuan City, Southern Ordos Basin (China)	40

Origin and accumulation of natural gas in the Sinian-Cambrian reservoirs of the central Sichuan Basin, southwest China: Implications from both closed and semi-open pyrolysis experiments	40
Deformation and kerogen macromolecular structure transformations of the Wufeng–Longmaxi shale under the control of the detachment layer	39
Methane leakage from abandoned wells in the Dutch North Sea	39
Vertical heterogeneity of Gulong shale oil governed by the OM precursors and oil accumulation: Implications for shale oil exploration in the Songliao Basin, Northeastern China	37
Positive and negative effects of marine transgression on the quality of lacustrine source rocks in the Upper Cretaceous Songliao Basin, China	36
Seismic stratigraphic analysis of the Pre-salt of Berbigão, Sururu, and Atapu fields, Santos Basin, Brazil	35
U–Pb detrital zircon ages from late Eocene to early Oligocene Pinghu formation of the East China Sea Shelf Basin: Inferences on synergistic effects between East Asia offshore sedimentation and major r	35
Productivity and organic carbon trends through the Wilcox Group in the deep Gulf of Mexico: Evidence for ventilation during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum	35
Provenance evolution of the Fushan Sag (Hainan Island, Southern China): Constraints from U-Pb geochronology on detrital zircons	34
Causal-Graph Lithology Classifier: Synergizing causal inference with graph neural networks for high-accuracy rock classification in well logging	34
Formation mechanisms of anomalously high reservoir quality in deep-buried volcaniclastic sandstones, central Junggar basin, northwestern China	34