OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Precambrian Research is 28. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Onset of plate tectonics by the Eoarchean	131
Hadean geodynamics and the nature of early continental crust	60
Assembly of the Siberian Craton: Constraints from Paleoproterozoic granitoids	57
Seaweeds through time: Morphological and ecological analysis of Proterozoic and early Paleozoic benthic macroalgae	53
The formation of Neoarchean continental crust in the south-east Superior Craton by two distinct geodynamic processes	47
How did the peripheral subduction drive the Rodinia breakup: Constraints from the Neoproterozoic tectonic process in the northern Tarim Craton	42
Eoarchean contrasting ultra-high-pressure to low-pressure metamorphisms (<250 to >1000 °C/GPa) explained by tectonic plate convergence in deep time	39
How diverse is the source? Age, provenance, reworking, and overprint of Precambrian meta-sedimentary rocks of West Gondwana, Cameroon, from zircon U-Pb geochronology	39
Neoarchean suprasubduction zone ophiolite discovered from the Miyun Complex: Implications for Archean–Paleoproterozoic Wilson cycle in the North China Craton	37
Dating and characterizing primary gas accumulation in Precambrian dolomite reservoirs, Central Sichuan Basin, China: Insights from pyrobitumen Re-Os and dolomite U-Pb geochronology	37
Episodic magmatism during the growth of a Neoproterozoic oceanic arc (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)	36
Neoproterozoic geochronology and provenance of the Adelaide Superbasin	36
Paleoarchean and Neoarchean Tonalite–Trondhjemite–Granodiorite (TTG) and granite magmatism in the Western Dharwar Craton, southern India: Implications for Archean continental growth and geodynamics	36
Characteristics and controlling factors of dolomite karst reservoirs of the Sinian Dengying Formation, central Sichuan Basin, southwestern China	36
Seawater carbon and strontium isotope variations through the late Ediacaran to late Cambrian in the Tarim Basin	35
A critical discussion of the subduction-collision model for the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí-West Congo orogen	35
Towards resolving the ‘jigsaw puzzle’ and age-fossil inconsistency within East Gondwana	34
Dom Feliciano Belt orogenic cycle tracked by its pre-collisional magmatism: The Tonian (ca. 800 Ma) Porto Belo Complex and its correlations in southern Brazil and Uruguay	34
A geochronological review of magmatism along the external margin of Columbia and in the Grenville-age orogens forming the core of Rodinia	34
Petrogenesis of Archean TTGs and potassic granites in the southern Yangtze Block: Constraints on the early formation of the Yangtze Block	33
Multi-proxy evidence for subduction of the Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean and Wilson cycle tectonics in the South Atlantic Brasiliano Orogenic System of Western Gondwana	33
Geochronology of the Volyn volcanic complex at the western slope of the East European Craton – Relevance to the Neoproterozoic rifting and the break-up of Rodinia/Pannotia	32
Early crustal evolution of the Yangtze Block: Constraints from zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope systematics of 3.1–1.9 Ga granitoids in the Cuoke Complex, SW China	32
Fifty years of the Eoarchean and the case for evolving uniformitarianism	31
The Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary: Evaluating stratigraphic completeness and the Great Unconformity	31

Quantitative petrographic differentiation of detrital vs diagenetic clay minerals in marine sedimentary sequences: Implications for the rise of biotic soils	30
Evidence for elevated and variable atmospheric oxygen in the Precambrian	29
Transient and stepwise ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Shuram Excursion: Insights from carbonate δ238U of northwestern Mexico	29