OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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(The median citation count of Earth Sciences History is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
EARLY THEORIES AND PRACTICALITIES ON GOLD OCCURRENCE IN AUSTRALIA	4
PREFACE: HIDDEN HISTORIES REVEALED IN SCIENTIFIC REVISION OF PALEONTOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS1	2
THE ROCK AND MINERAL COLLECTIONS OF ALBERT BRUN (1857–1939), PHARMACIST AND VOLCANOLOGIST IN GENEVA	2
GEOLOGISTS AS COLONIAL SCOUTS: THE ROGERS EXPEDITION TO OTAVI AND TSUMEB, NAMIBIA, 1892–1895	1
“AN ENORMOUS FOSSIL ANIMAL AND ALMOST PERFECT SKELETON” PREFACE TO THE SYMPOSIUM TRANSACTIONS	1
LEONARDO DA VINCI’S AND NICOLAUS STENO’S GEOLOGY	1
EDUARD SUESS AND PALAEONTOLOGY: HIS ILLUSTRATIONS	1
CONTENTS	1
AN OVERVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRATIGRAPHY IN ITALY DURING THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES: FROM STENO TO ARDUINO	1
BOOK REVIEWS	1
THE SOUTH DOES ALSO EXIST: THE CONTINENTAL DRIFT DEBATE IN THE ACCOUNT OF THE SOUTH-AFRICAN PALEOBOTANIST EDNA PLUMSTEAD	1
THE NEWBERRY-WHITTLESEY CONTROVERSY AND ITS PROTAGONISTS: BACKGROUND, ARGUMENTS, AND OUTCOME OF A BITTER FEUD	1
ALBERT KOCH’S HYDRARCHOS: A HOAX OR A BONA FIDE COLLECTION OF BONES	1
Book Reviews	1
ARTURO ISSEL (1842–1922): THE MAN FROM GENOA BEHIND THE TYRRHENIAN STAGE OF THE PLEISTOCENE	1
HISTORY OF THE MEGALOSAURUS TYPE MATERIAL ON PUBLIC DISPLAY	0
ADVERTISEMENTS	0
MINING PENCILS, SCULPTING GRAPHITE: THE SIBERIAN EXPEDITION OF J.-P. ALIBERT (1844–1857) AND THE EVOLVING 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE RELATED TO EARTH SCIENCES	0
MAPPING BASUTOLAND: CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GEOLOGISTS GORDON MURRAY STOCKLEY AND ALEXANDER LOGIE DU TOIT (1938–1946)	0
Letters from the President, Treasurer, Secretary and Editor's Introduction	0
DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND ON THE TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS WILLIAM SMITH USED AS MANUSCRIPT MAPS IN THE FIELD AND ON HIS PUBLISHED MAPS	0
Book Reviews	0
ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ZHOUKOUDIAN TEAM AND CHINESE-WESTERN INTERACTION SURROUNDING THE PEKING MAN DISCOVERY	0
IMAGINARY MEGALOSAURS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE	0
GEORGE BELLAS GREENOUGH’S GENERAL SKETCH OF THE PHYSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF BRITISH INDIA (1854, 1855): ITS PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, VARIANTS AND SURVIVORSHIP	0

NO PUBLICATION, NO FAME: REASSESSING ARNOLD GUYOT’S (1807–1884) PIONEERING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GLACIAL THEORY	0
CLARA EHRENBERG (1838–1915), AN EARLY WOMAN MICROPALEONTOLOGIST: HER CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE WITH AN OUTLOOK ON INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE RESEARCH	0
THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF MEGALOSAURUS BUCKLANDII IN PALEOART	0
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MUSEUM IN ANTEBELLUM U.S. WESTERN TERRITORIAL EXPLORATION: PART 2. THE ROLES OF HAYDEN AND MEEK IN A PARADIGM SHIFT IN GEOLOGIC AND PALEONTOLOGIC STUDIES	0
MYSTERY IN MIDDLE PARK: RELOCATING THE SITE OF COLORADO’S FIRST DINOSAUR DISCOVERY	0
HISTORY OF STRATIGRAPHY, TRAVELS AND MINING: SOME ITALIAN PERSPECTIVES	0
ARTIST’S IRON-BASED NATURAL EARTH PIGMENTS OF TUSCANY (MONTE AMIATA VOLCANO, ITALY)	0
GENDER, PLACE AND THE VALIDATION OF KNOWLEDGE: THE TRANSNATIONAL DEBATE ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF THE CHILEAN EARTHQUAKES OF 1822 AND 1835 ON LAND ELEVATION	0
Letters from the President, Treasurer, Secretary and Editor's Introduction	0
THE RUSH STARTED HERE, PART III: ‘THE STREETS ARE PAVED WITH GOLD’—SPECULATION, GREED, AND DISAPPOINTMENT, 1849–2010	0
ADVERTISEMENTS	0
PREHNITE – THE FIRST MINERAL DISCOVERED IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE FIRST NAMED AFTER A PERSON	0
‘AN EVENING OF MUCH ÉCLAT’: THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF PLESIOSAURUS AND MEGALOSAURUS	0
THEORIES OF THE EARTH AND ‘PLUTONISM’ IN THE INTRODUZIONE ALLA GEOLOGIA BY THE ITALIAN GEOLOGIST SCIPIONE BREISLAK (1811)	0
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE PENINSULA: WILLIAM HEALEY DALL AND FLORIDA	0
Letters from the President, Treasurer, Secretary and Editor's Introduction	0
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	0
UNEARTHING THE BUCKLAND ARCHIVE AT OUMNH: AN ARCHIVIST’S INSIGHTS	0
SCARS ON THE SHIELD: CARLYLE BEALS, PETER MILLMAN, AND THE BEGINNING OF THE CANADIAN METEORITE CRATER PROGRAM, 1950–1960	0
RECORDING THE FACTS: HENRY DE LA BECHE’S MAPS AS DATA REPOSITORIES	0
PLATE 6 OF THE GEOLOGY OF RUSSIA: PRODUCT OF A ‘GENIUS OF COMBINATION’	0
THE SOCIETY, THE SAVANTS, AND THE SCIENTIST: A GLIMPSE AT THE SOCIÉTÉ GÉOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE THROUGH THE ACTIVITY OF THE FOUNDING MEMBER NÉRÉE BOUBÉE (1830-1860)	0
PHYSIOGRAPHIC LANDFORM CARTOGRAPHY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CONTRIBUTIONS BY ARMIN K. LOBECK (1921) AND ERWIN RAISZ (1939)	0
A HISTORY OF 20TH CENTURY GRAPTOLITE STUDIES IN MALAYSIA: THE ROLE OF CLIVE RODERICK JONES	0
DR. THOMAS ANTISELL (1817–1893): 19th CENTURY MEDICAL GEOLOGIST	0
MINING, ALCHEMY, AND THE CHANGING CONCEPT OF MINERALS FROM ANTIQUITY TO EARLY MODERNITY	0
PLATE TECTONICS IN PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH SCIENCE TEXTBOOKS: FROM THE 1960s TO THE 1980s	0
PREPARATION TECHNIQUES: FROM SINGLE BONE FRAGMENTS TO MOUNTED SKELETONS—MODELS, HYBRID EPISTEMIC OBJECTS, AND THE QUESTION OF EVIDENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF 19TH-CENTURY MOA FINDS	0
BOOK REVIEWS	0
THE RAILROAD SURVEYS (1853–1855): EARLY GEOLOGICAL MAPPING IN CALFORNIA BY WILLIAM BLAKE AND THOMAS ANTISELL	0
THE HISTORY OF MINERALOGY AND GEMOLOGY IN IRAN	0
BRITISH MILITARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF MALTA, PART 1: NINETEENTH CENTURY FOUNDATIONS	0
THE FAR SHOALS OF NEPTUNISM: WILLIAM H. KEATING AND THE ST. PETER SANDSTONE IN THE AMERICAN MIDWEST	0
MILITARY GEOLOGY: AN AMERICAN TERM OF WORLD WAR I RE-DEFINED FOR THE BRITISH ARMY AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II	0
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	0
J. R. LOGAN AND THE ORIGIN OF THE TROPICAL INSELBERGS KNOWN AS NUBBINS (OR KNOLLS)	0
BRITISH MILITARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF MALTA, PART 2: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939–1945	0
THE FIRST NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL MAPS: DENISON OLMSTED AND ELISHA MITCHELL, 1821–1842	0
A GENTLE GRADUALIST IN A CATASTROPHISTS’ WORLD: REINHOLD SEEMANN’S TECTONIC THEORY OF RIES IMPACT CRATER (GERMANY)	0
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	0
BOOK REVIEWS	0
GORDON LYALL PAVER (1913–1988) AND 42ND GEOLOGICAL SECTION, SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEER CORPS: MILITARY GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS IN WORLD WAR II SUPPORTING BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS: PART 1, THE EAST AFRICAN C	0
THEODOR POSEWITZ AND HIS BORNEO (1889) – THE FIRST GEOLOGICAL MONOGRAPH OF THE ISLAND	0
THE FRENCH FOUNDATIONS OF HUTTON’S THEORY OF THE EARTH, PART TWO: HUTTON’S DEBTS TO ROUELLE	0
‘THE MOST WONDERFUL WONDER EVER DISCOVERED’: MARY ANNING’S 1823 PLESIOSAURUS	0
INFLUENCE OF GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN THE COSMOVISION OF THE MAPUCHE NATIVE PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL CHILE	0
BONES BEFORE BUCKLAND: DISCOVERIES OF DINOSAUR BONES IN STONESFIELD BEFORE BUCKLAND’S DESCRIPTION OF MEGALOSAURUS IN 1824	0
THE EARLY HISTORY OF MAGNETIC EXPLORATION IN NORTH AMERICA	0
THE PINK ROCKS OF CARLO CRIVELLI (CIRCA 1489)	0
SOME CHARACTERISTICS AND CAUSES OF CHANGES IN THE RATE OF DISCOVERY OF NEW MINERALS SINCE 1800	0

ORIGINS AND OUTCOMES OF THE 1961 SEPM/AAPG CARBONATE ROCK CLASSIFICATION SYMPOSIUM	0
WESTERN EXPLORERS AND VOLCANIC HEAT IN HAWAIʻI	0
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF MATHEMATICAL GEOLOGY AS DEFINED BY VISTELIUS	0
GORDON LYALL PAVER (1913–1988) AND 42ND GEOLOGICAL SECTION, SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEER CORPS: MILITARY GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS IN WORLD WAR II SUPPORTING BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS: PART 2, NORTH AFRICA, THE	0
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE DE FILIPPI EXPEDITION (1913–1914) TO THE GEOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE AKSAI CHIN REGION (WESTERN HIMALAYA)	0
THE ROLES PLAYED BY ‘OUTSIDERS’ IN THE DISCOVERY, DESCRIPTION AND NAMING OF FOSSIL REPTILES IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND IN THE 1820S: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE	0
BOOK REVIEWS1	0
Letters from the President, Treasurer, Secretary and Editor's Introduction	0
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: OVERLOOKED EVIDENCE CONCERNING JAMES CROLL (1821–1890)	0
‘EX PEDE HERCULEM’: SLOTHS, SLAVERY, AND SOUTHERN FOSSIL COLLECTION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY	0
THE GEOLOGICAL MAP OF BRAZIL, 1938–1940: THE FIRST GEOLOGY OF BRAZIL WRITTEN BY BRAZILIANS	0
LETTERS FROM THE PRESIDENT, TREASURER, SECRETARY AND EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION	0
EARLY EUROPEAN WOMEN IN SEISMOLOGY	0
CONTENTS, LETTERS FROM THE PRESIDENT, TREASURER, SECRETARY AND EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	0
ON ‘RE-TREADING’ EARLY GEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK	0
CONTENTS	0
THE 1824 MEGALOSAURUS PRINTS IN CONTEXT: MARY MORLAND, WILLIAM BUCKLAND AND EARLY LITHOGRAPHY AT THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY	0
CONTENTS	0
ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF SANDSTONES	0
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	0
ADVERTISEMENTS	0
PROMOTING MILITARY GEOLOGY FOR 200 YEARS: SENIOR GEOLOGISTS OF THE BRITISH ARMY 1826 TO 2026	0
ADVERTISEMENTS	0
BORROWED ILLUSTRATIONS OF GLOSSOPETRAE WITH SHARK’S HEAD: STENO AND THE VATICAN COLLECTION OF MERCATI	0
Letters from the President, Treasurer, Secretary and Editor's Introduction	0
A COMPLEMENTARY NOTE TO WELWITSCH’S MAP OF TRAVELLERS IN AFRICA	0
HENRY DE LA BECHE’S 1829–1830 LITHOGRAPH, DURIA ANTIQUIOR	0
CONTENTS	0
ALBERT C. KOCH’S MISSOURIUM AND THE DEBATE OVER THE CONTEMPORANEITY OF HUMANS AND THE PLEISTOCENE MEGAFAUNA OF NORTH AMERICA	0
THE GEOLOGICAL TRAVELS OF ACHILLE DE ZIGNO IN THE DOLOMITES DURING THE SPRING OF 1846	0
‘THE NUCLEAR SITING CONTROVERSY’ IN 1970S ITALY: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GEOLOGY, NUCLEAR POWER AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE	0
OPALIZED WOOD FROM CLOVER CREEK, IDAHO: HOW AN 1895 FOSSIL TREE DISCOVERY BECAME THE STANDARD OF QUALITY FOR WOOD-OPAL IN MINERALOGICAL COLLECTIONS	0
THE DINOTHERIUM AND THE ACROPOLIS: ALBERT GAUDRY’S RECONSTRUCTION OF THE EXTINCT FAUNA OF ATTICA AND THE MAKING OF GREECE INTO A EUROPEAN STATE (1850s–1860s)	0
RICHARD OWEN’S DINOSAURIA IN CONTEXT: THE RHETORIC, POLITICS AND LEGACY OF THE DINOSAURS	0
THE IMPORTANCE OF FOSSILS AND THEIR COLLECTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN STRATIGRAPHY	0
‘PERSONS OF THE HIGHEST WEIGHT IN THE COUNTRY’: WILLIAM BUCKLAND’S EMPLOYMENT OF PATRONAGE IN THE SERVICE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE	0
THE “WORLD’S GREATEST MINERAL LOCALITY”: HAIǁOM, NDONGA, HERERO, AND THE EARLY COLONIAL HISTORIES OF TSUMEB, NAMIBIA	0
‘AWAKENING’ FOSSILS IN CHINA: INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS IN PUBLISHING PALAEONTOLOGIA SINICA	0