OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Episodes is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review - On the Edge of Eternity	84
Red pyterlite from Virolahti in southeastern Finland: a unique heritage stone with a classic rapakivi texture applied in historic and modern architecture	68
The hydrochemical mechanism of multiple types of geothermal water in the same fault zone in western Guangdong, Southern China	53
Environmental impact of sewage water disposable sites using remote sensing and geochemical studies in West Girga, Sohag, Egypt	34
Women in Geology: An Historical Review	31
Participatory strategies applied for the geoconservation of speleological heritage at the Napo Sumaco Geopark (Ecuador)	28
Application and limitations of the authigenic ¹⁰Be/⁹Be dating and meteoric ¹⁰Be inventory in Bouse Formation along the lower Colorado River corridor, southwestern USA	27
Redefinition of the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) and new Standard Auxiliary Boundary Stratotype (SABS) for the base of Wuchiapingian Stage (Lopingian Series, Permian) in South China	21
The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Barremian Stage at Río Argos (Caravaca, SE Spain)	17
Microplastics in soil and groundwater of Korea: Occurrence, characteristics and risk assessment	17
The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch	15
The ICS international chronostratigraphic chart this decade	14
Why knowledge graphs are essential for harmonizing heterogeneous geologic time scales	12
Delineation of groundwater potential map using GIS and MCDM in Geumgang River basin, South Korea	12
A method for terrain slope model selection considering aleatory uncertainty	12
Characteristics of relative tectonic activity in the Longchuan River Basin, central Yunnan: evidence from digital elevation model-based geomorphological analysis	11
U-Pb zircon chronological constraints for three stages of synorogenic plutonic magmatism of the Greater Caucasus Svaneti segment, Georgia	9
REE fractionation and supergene enrichment in the laterite of the Oman mountains: geochemical and environmental implications	7
The making of "Classical" Karst: Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić, (inter)nationalism, and the emergence of karst sciences, 1870–1914	7
Lithostratigraphic revision of the siliciclastic-dominated basal Taebaek Group (lower–middle Cambrian), Eastern Korea	7
Establishing a GIS-SMCDA model of sustainable eco-tourism development in Pahang, Malaysia	6
Microstructures of spinel peridotite xenoliths from Baker Rocks in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: evolution of lithospheric mantle around the Transantarctic Mountains	6
Mapping the geology of South America	6
On delineating basement architecture of Eastern Yilgarn Craton using image manipulation techniques on potential field anomalies	5
The Jeokjung–Chogye structure: a buried impact crater on the Korean Peninsula	5

Not an author but an increasingly proficient secretary	5
Book Review - The collections of the Geological Archives of the University of Vienna – a place of preservation, remembrance and research	5
IUGS-60^th Women in the early years: Vera Lafferty and the beginnings of Episodes	5
Book Review - Stratigraphy: A Modern Synthesis by Andrew D. Miall	5
Preliminary hydrogeological implications using structural analysis and cave mapping: a case study of the Pachnes Thrust, Central Lefka Ori, Crete	5
A multi-technique approach to characterize the composition and color of the fossil remains of the “Húmera Paleontological Site” from Spain	4
The history and current status of IUGS-COGE: two decades of progress in Global Geoscience Education	4
The potential of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) layers as Anthropocene strata	4
Upper Permian paleoclimate of the Sino-Korean block: an example from the Gohan Formation (Korea) in the eastern margin and a synthesis	4
Geoscience education in Malaysian primary and secondary schools: perspectives from new tertiary students	4
Towards a comprehensive understanding of the “Origin, distribution, and biogeochemistry of arsenic in the Altiplano-Puna plateau of South America” with the IGCP-707 project	4
The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Langhian Stage and of the Middle Miocene Subseries	4
The XIII International Geological Congress of 1922 in Brussels (Belgium): between wounds of the Great War and theory passed under silence	4
Perceptions of pre-university students in Malaysia on geoscience discipline	4
GIS-based methodology for mapping and modeling microbialite deposits in high mountain lakes and wetlands of Central Andes (Catamarca, Northwestern Argentina)	4
A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch	4
Petrography and classification of Elephant Moraine 14017 (EET 14017): a new primitive LL3.05 ordinary chondrite from Antarctica	3
Unearthing shear-controlled mineralization in the Neoarchean Rengali Province of the eastern Indian shield – geological, geochemical and geophysical perspective	3
Fault controlled oxidation: a key role for ferrian chromite formation - an overview from Indian chromite fields	3
Geoscience education in Ghana: status and recommendations	3
Spanish Geology Olympiad winners: What they think about their geology learning and the Olympics experience? A prospective study	3
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction and organic matter characterization of the upper litra formation, Western Affiband Anticline, Pakistan	3
Deep learning based detection of debris flow areas using Mask-RCNN and PCA: insights from the Uluborlu Basin, Türkiye	3
Landforms and sediments developed during the recent recession of debris-covered Ponkar Glacier, Nepal	3
Submarine geohazards and mitigation concept for offshore wind	3
Determination of impervious surface areas using remote sensing indices: a case of Ankara	3
Extending our heartfelt thanks to our reviewers for their support in 2023	3
Petrophysical characterization and structural assessment of reservoir heterogeneity in the South Meleiha Concession, Western Desert, Egypt	3
Post-tsunami geological field survey	3
Coupling deformation mechanism of geological stratification and metro tunnel structure in deep quaternary sedimentary area	2
Dr. Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte	2
Sacred landscapes and indigenous geoconservation in Nigeria: integrating traditional knowledge for sustainable geoheritage	2
Standard Auxiliary Boundary Stratotype (SABS) approved to support the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)	2
Petrology and quartz grain microtextures of marine shoreline sands from the Punta Arenas area, southernmost Chile and King George Island, Antarctica and implications for their depositional history	2
Integrated machine learning and continuous wavelet transform analysis for characterizing heterogeneous gas sands in the Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan	2
Detection of fault location and paleoseismic evidence in the cultural heritage site around Gyeongju, SE Korea	2
Uniformitarianism, and its converse ‘the key to fully documenting the present is the past’ – principles and case studies that are applicable at various scales	2
Zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes from granulites and gneisses from Kabbaldurga, in the Dharwar Craton, South India: Implications for Mesoarchean magmatic charnockite in the crustal evolutiona	2
Indicative significance of bacterial hopane carbon isotopes in sedimentary organic matter for oil source correlation, palaeoecological reconstruction, and palaeoclimatic change	2
African trends in research promoting geoheritage, geoconservation, geotourism, and geoparks: state of the art and future challenges	2
Application of weathering indices to sedimentary records on Mars: preliminary results	2
Assessing shale gas potential through classification of geochemical and mechanical properties of reservoir facies in the Upper Devonian shale succession, Liard Basin, Canada	2
Recent Advances in Korean Geosciences	2
The Standard Auxiliary Boundary Stratotype: a proposed replacement for the Auxiliary Stratotype Point in supporting a Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)	2
Differences in ordovician oil and gas reservoir formation in the Tahe area and surrounding regions	2
Georges Cuvier's appeal for international collaboration, 1800	2
Prediction of Paleoclimate of Eocene Salt, Kohat Basin, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	2