OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Journal of Earth Sciences is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction of global elevation data SRTM to the national elevation system in the territory of Vietnam	24
The Green Scrub Basalt and its association with the Lapstone Structural Complex, eastern New South Wales	20
Mid-Jurassic volcanism at Bokhara River and insights into metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle of the Thomson Orogen, eastern Australia	17
3D fault growth and linkage during multiphase rifting in the northern Perth Basin	17
Middle–Upper Pleistocene tephras in the Papua New Guinea highlands	16
Mid-Devonian basaltic magmatism and associated sedimentation: the Ooloo Hill Formation, central-eastern South Australia	14
Shoshonitic pluton and an associated base-metal deposit in the Tarom–Hashtjin metallogenic zone, NW Iran: implication for tectono-magmatic evolution and metallogenic considerations	11
Nundorite: a geological oddity of critical minerals significance from the Mount Arrowsmith Volcanics, northwestern NSW	9
Early Permian zircon ages from the P. confluens and P. pseudoreticulata spore-pollen zones in the southern Bonaparte and Canning basins, northwestern Australia	9
Terrane accretion, contractional deformation, almost continuous magmatism and mineralisation in the New Guinea Orogen	9
The Woolamai Granite of Phillip Island: S-, I- or A-type, stock or batholith?	9
Petrology and origin of a Devonian volcanic complex on Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia: multum in parvo	8
Diverse examples of sodic and sodic–calcic alteration in greenstone rocks and intrusions of the Kalgoorlie–Kurnalpi Rift, Yilgarn Craton: significance for gold mineralisation	8
Potential of hyperspectral-based geochemical predictions with neural networks for strategic and regional exploration improvement	8
Hydrothermal alteration and corresponding reservoir significance of the Permian Emeishan basaltic lavas, west Sichuan, China	8
Signature of lithology and alteration in velocity and density models across the Boda–Kaiser porphyry gold–copper camp, NSW	8
New trail-like features associated with microbial mats from the early Neoproterozoic Sirbu Shale Member (Upper Vindhyan Group), Vindhyan Basin, central India	8
The use of structural geology in the mineral exploration industry	7
Tsunami or storm? A high-level coastal boulder field on the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia	7
Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of the northern Great Australian Superbasin: insights from maximum depositional age constraints from the U–Pb detrital zircon record	6
Pinpointing regional unconformities in the Surat Basin, Australia, by statistical identification of neutron wireline log anomalies	6
Adelaide black granite: geomechanical characterisation for underground design	6
Correction	6
Syntectonic Late Devonian terrestrial sedimentation in the southern Bonaparte Basin, Western Australia	6
Constraints of alkaline magmatic evolution on the enrichment and mineralisation of rare-earth elements in the eastern part of the northern margin of the North China Craton: a case study of the Baerzhe	6

3D modelling of subsurface ancient volcanic successions: a workflow developed during regional reconstructions of the Cowal Igneous Complex in the Ordovician Macquarie Arc of NSW, Australia	6
Lower Cambrian volcanism in the Hawker Group and the Billy Creek Formation, Arrowie Basin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia	5
Evidence for probable temporal and thermal trends among Devonian granitic magmas in central Victoria, and the composition of the Selwyn Block	5
Stratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian–Ediacaran) Stuart Shelf, South Australia	5
Paleomagnetism of the southern New England Orogen: can apparently conflicting data sets be reconciled?	5
Mesoproterozoic age for andalusite in the lower Rocky Cape Group, northwest Tasmania	5
How to make gold	5
Tectono-stratigraphic units division for the Upper Cambrian through Upper Cretaceous successions of the Wadi Sirhan Basin, SE Jordan: a case study of stratigraphic features and implication for hydroca	5
Perkins Discontinuities: structurally controlled grade patterns diagnostic of epigenetic gold mineralisation at the deposit-scale	5
Paleogeography of Carboniferous and Permian coal formation in the Bohai Bay area, China	4
Segmentation characteristics of the strike-slip fault and their controls on the hydrocarbon accumulation and enrichment in the northern Tarim Basin, NW China	4
Lithium isotope composition of Ediacaran dolostones from the Nuccaleena and Doushantuo formations	4
Au–Cu and Cu–Au mineralisation in the Northern Paterson Province, Western Australia; new insights into an important intrusion-related gold district	4
A new discovery of 423.6 Ma Hongbaoshan gabbro in the Beishan area, NW China, and its geological significance	4
Browns Creek mine, Blayney, NSW—a transtensional strike-slip fault-hosted Au–Cu skarn deposit	4
Backthrusts in the Bowen Basin Folded Zone, eastern Australia: progressive intra-basin shortening or passive-roof thrusting?	4
Analogue modelling of a Tabberabberan fold-thrust belt in the Cobar region and implications for the origin of Cobar-type mineral deposits	4
Introduction to special issue on gold subsequent to the Gold24 symposium, Perth	4
Discovery of the Witwatersrand goldfields—contrasting opinions after 100 years	4
The Ediacaran Aquarium: insights from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park 1T-F Marine Ecosystem (Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite)	4
Composition of pre-Carboniferous siliciclastic rocks in Tasmania	4
Gold placer characteristics in marine sediments of Bayah, West Java, Indonesia	4
Fertile, alkalic intrusions, Karari–Whirling Dervish gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia	4
The age and origin of Sydney Harbour and the Parramatta River: the Cenozoic history of the coastal rivers of central New South Wales	4
Age and origin of the Ngankipari Formation in the Noarlunga and Willunga embayments, southern South Australia	3
The Cu isotope signature of sulfide mineralisation from the Tennant Creek and East Tennant Creek regions: implications for the use of Cu isotopes as a petrogenetic tracer	3
Reappraisal of the carbonate microfacies, depositional environments and biostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian Second Plain Creek Member, Mernmerna Formation, Flinders Ranges, South Australia	3
The Jiaodong gold deposits of the North China block—a possible Sulu terrane source	3
Ore textures and chemical constraints in the Serantak goldfield, northwest Borneo, Indonesia: implications for retrograde skarn occurrences	3
The Wattie Group of the Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia: a witness to the denudation of the Nuna-forming Isan/Chewings Orogeny	3
Germanium, indium, gallium and cadmium in zinc ores: a mineral system approach	3
Dinosaur and tree-line invasion of southeastern Australia during Cretaceous greenhouse spikes	3
Geochemical, U–Pb geochronological, and Hf isotopic characterisation and geological significance of late Caledonian granites in Gushan area of Dagelegou, East Kunlun, China	3
The Tasmanian Tyennan Domain–a structural synthesis and review with tectonic and dynamic implications for continental margin subduction and exhumation	3
Allanite geochronology in the Mount Isa Inlier	3
Tectonic controls on geomorphological dynamics and sediment dispersal in source-to-sink systems in the Qingdong Sag, Bohai Bay Basin	3
Detrital or reset? ⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar dating of mica from the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Ba	3
Influence of volcanic eruptions on the sedimentary filling of a continental rift basin: a case study of the Yingcheng Formation in the Changling faulted depression in the Songliao Basin, China	3
Geochemical and paleoenvironmental characteristics of upper Neoproterozoic ore-hosting black shales in the Bafq metallogenic zone, Central Iran	3
A Pb isotope model for the Proterozoic of northern Australia with a focus on the McArthur Basin	3
Spatial and temporal variations in the distribution of eastern Australian post-orogenic granites and related mineral deposits: metallogenic and tectonic significance	3
Towards quantifying uncertainties in geological models for mineral resource estimation through outside-in deposit-scale structural geological analysis	3
Sedimentary characteristics and controlling factors of a Pliocene shelf-edge delta in the Papuan Basin	3
Review of the Cambrian–Ordovician Wagonga Group, Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales South Coast, Australia: submarine slides, mélange and subduction	3
Origin and HFSE enrichment potential of a Late Cretaceous basalt to peralkaline rhyolite suite in central Queensland, Australia	3
Formation of Cu–Au porphyry deposits: hydraulic quartz veins, magmatic processes and constraints from chlorine	2
New metamorphic constraints on the Nova-Bollinger Ni–Cu deposit, Fraser Zone, Western Australia	2
Calcareous-nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Miocene Fatha Formation at the Miryas section, Qaradagh Mountain Series, Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq	2
Evolution of the Narooma Accretionary Complex, southeastern Australia: structure and regional significance	2
Regional tectonics, crustal deformation and contrasting batholith orientations in southeastern Australia: why is Late Devonian central Victoria different?	2

Petrogenesis of the Kalka, Ewarara and Gosse Pile layered intrusions, Musgrave Province, South Australia, and implications for magmatic sulfide prospectivity	2
Reply to Discussion by R. A. Henderson of ‘Kinematics of the Clarke River Shear Zone (northeastern Australia) and implications for the tectonic evolution of the Tasmanides’	2
Structural controls on post-rift magmatism in the Ceduna Sub-basin, Great Australian Bight	2
Geochemistry of seafloor surface sediment and submarine hydrothermal signature of Tomini Bay, Indonesia	2
How thick is the Strathbogie Complex?	2
Systematic trends in the substitution mechanisms of minor elements in cassiterite	2
Strong tides during Cryogenian glaciations: tidal rhythmites from early and late Cryogenian glacial successions and interglacial beds, South Australia	2
The critical role of deformation-assisted melt migration in the formation of oceanic core complexes	2
2730–2670 Ma rifting triggers sagduction prior to the onset of orogenesis at ca 2650 Ma: implications for gold mineralisation, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia	2
Pulsed melt flux controls the rheological evolution and widening of a melt-present high-strain zone	2
Characterisation of clay-hosted rare-earth element deposits in Australia: mineralogy, geochemistry and metallurgy	2
Zircon U–Pb age, whole-rock geochemistry and Nd–Sr–Pb isotope constraints on petrogenesis of the Eocene Zajkan gabbro–monzogranite intrusion, Tarom-Hashtjin magmatic belt, NW Iran	2
Outcrop to petrography scale and new age constraint of the Jatisamit Mélange in the Luk Ulo area, Central Java, Indonesia	2
Finding and identifying platinum group elements in the Eastman layered mafic intrusion	2
Orogens and detritus: unravelling the Mesoproterozoic tectonic geography of northern Australia through coupled detrital thermo- and geo-chronometers	2
Continental shelf evolution on a passive continental margin, southeast New South Wales, Australia	2
Response of Permian sediment provenance conversion in Hainan Island to the closure of the Eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean	2
Comment on ‘ The Ediacaran aquarium: insights from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park 1T-F marine ecosystem (Ediacara member, Rawnsley Quartzite)	2
Devonian ignimbrites of central Victoria: explosive magmas from multiple sources, and deep crustal structure in the Selwyn Block	2
Fluid inclusion characteristics and mechanisms of tin mineralisation in the Jialong tin polymetallic deposits, Jiuwandashan–Yuanbaoshan, northern Guangxi, China	2
The geology of the Twelve Apostles in the Port Campbell Embayment in southeast Australia	2
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria: a comment on emplacement	2
Detrital zircons and the magmatic history of Viti Levu, Fiji	2
Reply to Discussion of Clemens (2025) Regional tectonics, crustal deformation and contrasting batholith orientations in southeastern Australia: why is Late Devonian central Victoria different?	2
Evolution of diagenetic fluids in the deeply buried, upper Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Central Sichuan Basin, China	2
Major, trace and rare earth element geochemistry of the Permian Lucaogou oil shales, eastern Junggar Basin, NW China: implications for weathering, provenance and tectonic setting	2
Geology of the Mutis Complex, Miomaffo, West Timor	2
Segmentation and fault–monocline relationships in the Lapstone Structural Complex, Sydney Basin, New South Wales	2
A review of critical mineral resources in Australia	2
A mid-Permian mafic intrusion into wet marine sediments of the lower Shoalhaven Group and its significance in the volcanic history of the southern Sydney Basin	2
Revised stratigraphy and first geochronology of the Miocene submarine volcanic succession at Kennaook/Cape Grim, northwestern Tasmania	2
Characterisation of the tensile performance of bonding agents for the restoration of heritage dimension stone from southeast Australia	2
Eocene to Miocene sediment provenance features and evolution history of the western slope area in the Xihu Sag of the East China Sea Shelf Basin	1
Origin of porosity in evaporite platform dolostone in the middle Cambrian Shaelek Formation, NW Tarim Basin, China: constraints from petrology, mineralogy and geochemistry	1
Genesis of the Wilsons Promontory batholith of southeast Victoria, Australia: heterogeneities in the Proterozoic basement	1
Hydroclimatic extremes during the past 1400 years in the monsoonal ‘Top End’, Australia	1
Subsurface high-grading potential in Coal Seam Gas in eastern Australia	1
Cyclic tidalites and seismites at a submarine hydrothermal system for a 2450 Ma banded iron formation, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia	1
Shale gas potential of Ordovician marine Pingliang shale and Carboniferous–Permian transitional Taiyuan-Shanxi shales in the Ordos Basin, China	1
Paleomagnetism of the Acraman–Bunyeroo meteorite impact ejecta zone in the South Flinders Ranges region, South Australia	1
Tectono-stratigraphic evolution in the Paleocene Lishui Sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin	1
Aspidella and water escape structures from the ca 850 Ma (Tonian) Heavitree Formation, Amadeus Basin, Central Australia	1
P – T conditions of metamorphic and hydrothermal events at Tick Hill gold deposit, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia	1
Function and status of structural geology in the Resource industry	1
Were jellyfish stranded on a shoreline sand ca 850 million years ago in the Amadeus Basin of central Australia?	1
Age and style of intraplate basaltic volcanism at Stanley, northwest Tasmania, Australia	1
A mantle component in Neoarchean orogenic gold ore fluids with special reference to the Dharwar Craton, India	1
Quantifying weathering intensity using chemical proxies: a weathering index AFB	1
Igneous reasons why porphyry Cu–Au deposits are not magmatic	1
New age constraints for the Tommy Creek Domain of the Mount Isa Inlier, Australia	1
Paleocurrent and paleowind direction reconstruction research progress and perspectives: a review	1
Paragenetic and geological setting of the Starra iron oxide copper–gold deposits, Mount Isa Inlier, Queensland, Australia: constraints on IOCG deposit models	1
Blueschist emplacement in the Sepik Headwaters region, Papua New Guinea: field relations, petrology, isotopic dating and tectonic setting	1
Nature and evolution of diagenetic fluids in the deeply buried Cambrian Xiaoerbulake Formation, Tarim Basin, China	1
Integrated biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and geochronology of the lower Cambrian succession in the western Stansbury Basin, South Australia	1
Neoproterozoic backarc rift in the western Yangtze Block: constraints from the Daheba gabbro, Sichuan, China	1
An alternative to the fault-valve model	1
Discussion of R. T. Rodrigues, G. Rosenbaum & R. Abdullah (2024). Kinematics of the Clarke River Shear Zone (northeastern Australia) and implications for the tectonic evolution of the Tasmanides.	1
Archean and Paleoproterozoic zircons in Paleozoic sandstones in southern New Zealand: evidence for remnant Nuna supercontinent and Ur continent rocks within Zealandia	1
Crystallographic preferred orientation of quartz deformed at granulite conditions: the Kalinjala Shear Zone, Port Neill, South Australia	1
Sedimentary evolution and coal-accumulation model of delta plain: a case study of the Shanxi Formation in the S area, Southern Qinshui Basin, China	1
Evolution and extinction in a supercontinental world: did the breakup of Rodinia provide metazoans with evolutionary salvation?	1
The Permian Watershed tungsten deposit (northeast Queensland, Australia): fluid inclusion and stable isotope constraints	1
Tracing the age and alteration of placer gold from the Kurnalpi Terrane (Yilgarn Craton) using Pb isotopes	1
The isotope geochemistry of host rocks of the late Archean Guandi and Banshigou banded iron formations, southern Jilin Province: temporal and tectonic significance	1
Formation of the Lawn Hill Impact Structure	1
Lithogeochemical and sulfide trace-element systematics across the Permian–Triassic boundary, Perth Basin, Western Australia: constraints on the shallow marine environment during the end-Permian mass e	1
Alteration out of sight: a petrographic and HyLogger study of the McPhillamys gold deposit, east Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales	1
Dolomitisation under an arid climate at low sea-level: a case study of the Lei 4 Member of the Middle Triassic Leikoupo Formation, Western Sichuan Depression, China	1
Isotopic investigations of the Nova-Bollinger Ni–Cu–Co deposit in the Fraser Zone, Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia	1
A review of high-purity quartz for silicon production in Australia	1
The microscopic heterogeneity and fluid mobility of continental fine-grained sedimentary rocks in the fifth member of the Xujiahe Formation, central Sichuan Basin, China	1
Middle–Upper Ordovician conodonts from the Gunningbland area in central New South Wales with implications for regional correlations	1
Variability of syn-rift geometry in Pearl River Mouth Basin, China: implications for faulting patterns in two-phase rift basins	1
Mud volcanism phenomenon and giant gas field formation in the Eastern frontier boundary area between Indonesia and Australia	1
Intermittent connectivity determines the oxygenation in the Favenc and lower Wilton packages of the greater McArthur Basin, northern Australia	1