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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Onset of plate tectonics by the Eoarchean	143
Hadean geodynamics and the nature of early continental crust	69
Assembly of the Siberian Craton: Constraints from Paleoproterozoic granitoids	66
The formation of Neoarchean continental crust in the south-east Superior Craton by two distinct geodynamic processes	57
Seaweeds through time: Morphological and ecological analysis of Proterozoic and early Paleozoic benthic macroalgae	57
Dating and characterizing primary gas accumulation in Precambrian dolomite reservoirs, Central Sichuan Basin, China: Insights from pyrobitumen Re-Os and dolomite U-Pb geochronology	41
How diverse is the source? Age, provenance, reworking, and overprint of Precambrian meta-sedimentary rocks of West Gondwana, Cameroon, from zircon U-Pb geochronology	41
Seawater carbon and strontium isotope variations through the late Ediacaran to late Cambrian in the Tarim Basin	41
Characteristics and controlling factors of dolomite karst reservoirs of the Sinian Dengying Formation, central Sichuan Basin, southwestern China	40
Neoproterozoic geochronology and provenance of the Adelaide Superbasin	40
Eoarchean contrasting ultra-high-pressure to low-pressure metamorphisms (<250 to >1000 °C/GPa) explained by tectonic plate convergence in deep time	40
Towards resolving the ‘jigsaw puzzle’ and age-fossil inconsistency within East Gondwana	39
A critical discussion of the subduction-collision model for the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí-West Congo orogen	38
A geochronological review of magmatism along the external margin of Columbia and in the Grenville-age orogens forming the core of Rodinia	38
Multi-proxy evidence for subduction of the Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean and Wilson cycle tectonics in the South Atlantic Brasiliano Orogenic System of Western Gondwana	36
Fifty years of the Eoarchean and the case for evolving uniformitarianism	35
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	34
Quantitative petrographic differentiation of detrital vs diagenetic clay minerals in marine sedimentary sequences: Implications for the rise of biotic soils	34
Petrogenesis of Archean TTGs and potassic granites in the southern Yangtze Block: Constraints on the early formation of the Yangtze Block	34
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	33
Evidence for elevated and variable atmospheric oxygen in the Precambrian	32
Geochronology and petrogenesis of the TTG gneisses and granitoids from the Central Bundelkhand granite-greenstone terrane, Bundelkhand Craton, India: Implications for Archean crustal evolution and cra	32
The Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary: Evaluating stratigraphic completeness and the Great Unconformity	31
In situ U-Pb dating and geochemical characterization of multi-stage dolomite cementation in the Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Central Sichuan Basin, China: Constraints on diagenetic, hydrothermal and	31
Transient and stepwise ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Shuram Excursion: Insights from carbonate δ238U of northwestern Mexico	30

Pre-Neoproterozoic continental growth of the Yangtze Block: From continental rifting to subduction–accretion	29
An assemblage of macroscopic and diversified carbonaceous compression fossils from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang Formation in western Shandong, North China	28
The Sveconorwegian orogeny – Reamalgamation of the fragmented southwestern margin of Fennoscandia	28
Zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope systematics of Transvaal Supergroup – Constraints for the geodynamic evolution of the Kaapvaal Craton and its hinterland between 2.65 and 2.06 Ga	28