OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mid-Jurassic volcanism at Bokhara River and insights into metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle of the Thomson Orogen, eastern Australia	19
Middle–Upper Pleistocene tephras in the Papua New Guinea highlands	14
Correction of global elevation data SRTM to the national elevation system in the territory of Vietnam	12
Nundorite: a geological oddity of critical minerals significance from the Mount Arrowsmith Volcanics, northwestern NSW	11
Mid-Devonian basaltic magmatism and associated sedimentation: the Ooloo Hill Formation, central-eastern South Australia	10
Early Permian zircon ages from the P. confluens and P. pseudoreticulata spore-pollen zones in the southern Bonaparte and Canning basins, northwestern Australia	10
Shoshonitic pluton and an associated base-metal deposit in the Tarom–Hashtjin metallogenic zone, NW Iran: implication for tectono-magmatic evolution and metallogenic considerations	8
Basaltic dykes and their xenoliths from the Gerroa–Kiama region, southern Sydney Basin, New South Wales: evidence for multiple intrusive episodes	8
The Woolamai Granite of Phillip Island: S-, I- or A-type, stock or batholith?	8
The use of structural geology in the mineral exploration industry	8
Potential of hyperspectral-based geochemical predictions with neural networks for strategic and regional exploration improvement	7
Lithospheric evolution, thermo-tectonic history and source-rock maturation in the Gippsland Basin, Victoria, southeastern Australia	7
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria	7
Tsunami or storm? A high-level coastal boulder field on the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula, South 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
Hydrothermal alteration and corresponding reservoir significance of the Permian Emeishan basaltic lavas, west Sichuan, China	6
Adelaide black granite: geomechanical characterisation for underground design	5
Syntectonic Late Devonian terrestrial sedimentation in the southern Bonaparte Basin, Western Australia	5
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	5
Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of the northern Great Australian Superbasin: insights from maximum depositional age constraints from the U–Pb detrital zircon record	5
A method to collect representative samples from water-driven percussion drilling techniques: examples from RoXplorer ^® coiled tubing drill rig	5
Evidence for probable temporal and thermal trends among Devonian granitic magmas in central Victoria, and the composition of the Selwyn Block	4
Scientific ocean drilling in the Australasian region: a review	4
Discovery of the Witwatersrand goldfields—contrasting opinions after 100 years	4
Lower Cambrian volcanism in the Hawker Group and the Billy Creek Formation, Arrowie Basin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia	4

New insights on the age and stratigraphy of the Cisuralian succession in the Cooper Basin, Australia, based on U–Pb CA-TIMS dating of volcanic air-fall tuffs	4
Mesoproterozoic age for andalusite in the lower Rocky Cape Group, northwest Tasmania	4
Towards a glacial subdivision of the Ediacaran Period, with an example of the Boston Bay Group, Massachusetts	4
Stratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian–Ediacaran) Stuart Shelf, South Australia	4
Controlling factors of hydrocarbon accumulation and differential distribution in the western Qaidam Basin, Tibet Plateau	4
Lithium isotope composition of Ediacaran dolostones from the Nuccaleena and Doushantuo formations	4
Fertile, alkalic intrusions, Karari–Whirling Dervish gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia	4
Early Devonian volcanic facies, central Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales: implications for tectonic and metallogenic models	3
Geochemical and paleoenvironmental characteristics of upper Neoproterozoic ore-hosting black shales in the Bafq metallogenic zone, Central Iran	3
Composition of pre-Carboniferous siliciclastic rocks in Tasmania	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 Ediacaran Aquarium: insights from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park 1T-F Marine Ecosystem (Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite)	3
Zircons from the Wambidgee Serpentinite Belt, southern Lachlan Orogen: evidence for oceanic crust at the Cambrian–Ordovician boundary	3
Browns Creek mine, Blayney, NSW—a transtensional strike-slip fault-hosted Au–Cu skarn deposit	3
Towards quantifying uncertainties in geological models for mineral resource estimation through outside-in deposit-scale structural geological analysis	3
Fan-delta facies architecture, morphological evolution and sediment delivery in the Oligocene Dongying Formation of the Nanpu Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China	3
A Pb isotope model for the Proterozoic of northern Australia with a focus on the McArthur Basin	3
A new discovery of 423.6 Ma Hongbaoshan gabbro in the Beishan area, NW China, and its geological significance	3
The Tasmanian Tyennan Domain–a structural synthesis and review with tectonic and dynamic implications for continental margin subduction and exhumation	3
The age and origin of Sydney Harbour and the Parramatta River: the Cenozoic history of the coastal rivers of central New South Wales	3
Paleogeography of Carboniferous and Permian coal formation in the Bohai Bay area, China	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
Mafic intrusions in southwestern Australia related to supercontinent assembly or breakup?	3
Paleomagnetic testing of the Lachlan Orocline hypothesis: Overprinting of remanence in Paleozoic rocks of the Lachlan Orogen in southeast Australia	3
Allanite geochronology in the Mount Isa Inlier	3
Segmentation characteristics of the strike-slip fault and their controls on the hydrocarbon accumulation and enrichment in the northern Tarim Basin, NW China	3
Provenance of sandstones in the Hastings Block, southern New England Orogen: implications for tectonic setting	3
Analogue modelling of a Tabberabberan fold-thrust belt in the Cobar region and implications for the origin of Cobar-type mineral deposits	3
Gold placer characteristics in marine sediments of Bayah, West Java, Indonesia	3
A review of the occurrence of and potential for jade in the New Guinea Mobile Belt	3
Ore textures and chemical constraints in the Serantak goldfield, northwest Borneo, Indonesia: implications for retrograde skarn occurrences	2
A review of critical mineral resources in Australia	2
Evolution of diagenetic fluids in the deeply buried, upper Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Central Sichuan Basin, China	2
Geochemistry of seafloor surface sediment and submarine hydrothermal signature of Tomini Bay, Indonesia	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
Response of Permian sediment provenance conversion in Hainan Island to the closure of the Eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean	2
Devonian ignimbrites of central Victoria: explosive magmas from multiple sources, and deep crustal structure in the Selwyn Block	2
Sedimentary characteristics and controlling factors of a Pliocene shelf-edge delta in the Papuan Basin	2
The Wattie Group of the Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia: a witness to the denudation of the Nuna-forming Isan/Chewings Orogeny	2
Germanium, indium, gallium and cadmium in zinc ores: a mineral system approach	2
Fluid inclusion and stable isotope constraints on the genesis of epithermal base-metal veins in the Armaqan Khaneh mining district, Tarom-Hashtjin metallogenic belt, NW Iran	2
Age of magmatism and alteration of basaltic rocks cored at the base of IODP Site U1513, Naturaliste Plateau, southwestern Australia	2
Petrogenesis of the Kalka, Ewarara and Gosse Pile layered intrusions, Musgrave Province, South Australia, and implications for magmatic sulfide prospectivity	2
Finding and identifying platinum group elements in the Eastman layered mafic intrusion	2
Detrital zircons and the magmatic history of Viti Levu, Fiji	2
Revised stratigraphy and first geochronology of the Miocene submarine volcanic succession at Kennaook/Cape Grim, northwestern Tasmania	2
The critical role of deformation-assisted melt migration in the formation of oceanic core complexes	2
Tectonic controls on geomorphological dynamics and sediment dispersal in source-to-sink systems in the Qingdong Sag, Bohai Bay Basin	2
Systematic trends in the substitution mechanisms of minor elements in cassiterite	2
Quartz oxygen isotopes from Tick Hill area in Mount Isa Inlier: indication of a regional fluid overprint	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
Geology of the Mutis Complex, Miomaffo, West Timor	2
Mid-Phanerozoic microbialite forms and associated facies in the northern Perth Basin, Western Australia, and their relationship to the end-Permian mass extinction	2
Orogens and detritus: unravelling the Mesoproterozoic tectonic geography of northern Australia through coupled detrital thermo- and geo-chronometers	2
The interplay of structure and metamorphism at Broken Hill, NSW, Australia	2
Calcareous-nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Miocene Fatha Formation at the Miryas section, Qaradagh Mountain Series, Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq	2
Detrital or reset? ⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar dating of mica from the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Ba	2
Formation of Cu–Au porphyry deposits: hydraulic quartz veins, magmatic processes and constraints from chlorine	2
Dinosaur and tree-line invasion of southeastern Australia during Cretaceous greenhouse spikes	2