OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Terra Nova is 3. 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
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Structural fabrics of carbon grains in a natural fault gouge reactivated by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake	25
Metallogenic age of the world‐class giant huoshaoyun non‐sulphide Zn–Pb deposit in Karakoram Area, Xinjiang, Northwest China	24
Referee List	24
Dispersal of endolithic microorganisms in vesicular volcanic rock: Distribution, settlement and pathways revealed by 3D X‐ray microscopy	16
Lithospheric Deformation of Far‐Field Terranes in Response to the India–Asia Collision	15
Linking rifted margin crustal shape with the timing and volume of magmatism	15
Thermal regime and slab dehydration beneath the Izu‐Bonin arc: Implications for fast and slow subduction earthquakes	15
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Storage in the deep aquifer: Stochastic process in time and frequency domain using groundwater level response to seismic activation of the Tohoku earthquake, Japan, 2011	13
Petrologic relationship between lamprophyres, carbonatites, and heavy rare‐earth element enriched breccias at Hicks Dome	13
Exhumation of the high‐pressure Richarddalen Complex in NW Svalbard: Insights from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology	12
Pleistocene glaciomarine laminated muds in the Central Basin of the northwestern Ross Sea and their palaeoceanographic records	12
Late Cretaceous geodynamics of the Palaeo‐Pacific plate inferred from basin inversion structures in the Songliao Basin (NE China)	11
Geophysical‐petrological modelling of the crust and upper mantle structure across the North‐South Gravity Lineament in NE China: Insights into the lithospheric thinning mechanism	11
The effects of plateau subduction on plate bending, stress and intraplate seismicity	11
Crustal block origins of the South Scotia Ridge	10
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Hygrochronometry of punctuated metasomatic events during exhumation of the Cycladic blueschist unit (Syros, Greece)	10
Brittle basement deformation during the Caledonian Orogeny observed by K‐Ar geochronology of illite‐bearing fault gouge in west‐central Sweden	10
Discovery of a hidden Triassic Arc in the Southern South China Sea: Evidence for the breakaway of a ribbon continent with implications for the evolution of the Western Pacific margin	10
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Potential and problems in evaluating secular changes in the diversity of animal‐substrate interactions at ichnospecies rank	9
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Refining vanadium hyper‐enrichment in black shales of the Late Devonian–Early Mississippian Bakken Formation (USA)	9

The mafic volcanic climax of the Paraná‐Etendeka Large Igneous Province as the trigger of the Weissert Event	8
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Apparent Joint Swarms Formed by the Crack‐Jump Process	8
A kinematic reconstruction of Iberia using intracontinental strike‐slip corridors	8
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Crustal anisotropy beneath southeast Tibet revealed by Pms arrival times	7
The nature of the Late Syn‐rift Sag Basin (LSSB)	6
In situ U–Pb geochronology of Pre‐Salt carbonates reveals links between diagenesis and regional tectonics	6
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Gondwana break‐up controlled by tectonic inheritance and mantle plume activity: Insights from Natal rift development (South Mozambique, Africa)	6
A novel approach for quantifying similarities between different debris flow sites using field investigations and numerical modelling	6
Brief immersion of southern Australia by change in relative plate speed	6
Schist Belts of the Benin‐Nigeria Shield Reveal a Neoproterozoic History	6
Continuous record of Upper Ordovician (Katian) to lower Silurian (Telychian) global δ¹³C excursions in the Williston Basin	5
Drainage Divide Migration in Response to Asymmetric Uplift at Eastern Qinling, China	5
Physical modelling of earthquake precursor by the electro‐optical parameters of gabbro rock under compressive stress	5
Geo‐thermochronological analysis reveals transition from transverse to axial detrital inputs during Cretaceous rifting in the Songliao Basin, NE China	5
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Monazite Beats Zircon Regarding Dating of Young Metamorphic Events—An Example From Polycyclic Granitic Gneiss of the Pohorje Mountains, Slovenia	5
Complex iron and sulphate reducing Cretaceous sedimentary system revealed by extreme isotope values	5
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Continental and island arc segmentation: Implications for retro‐arc and pro‐arc foreland basin and backarc basin geometries and sediment distributions	5
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Water storage in cratonic mantle	4
Impact of tidal friction on the motion of lithospheric plates and earthquake activity	4
LA‐ICP‐MS U–Pb dating of calcite cement in Upper Triassic tight‐gas sandstone reservoirs, western Sichuan Basin, SW China	4
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When did the Pyrenean shortening end? Insight from U–Pb geochronology of syn‐faulting calcite (Corbières area, France)	4
Iron from continental weathering dictated soft‐part preservation during the Early Ordovician	4
Direct dating rodingitization in the northern North China Craton using garnet U–Pb geochronometry	4
Gravity field and geothermal structure of the Corsica‐Sardinia Block	4
Ridge jump reorientation of the South China Sea revealed by high‐resolution magnetic data	4
Large igneous provinces track fluctuations in subaerial exposure of continents across the Archean–Proterozoic transition	4
In‐situ U‐Pb dating of calcite slickenfibre constraints on Cenozoic multiple‐phase faulting along the eastern segment of Chengkou Fault, Dabashan Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt	4
The Fagradalsfjall and Sundhnúkur Fires of 2021–2024: A single magma reservoir under the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland?	4
Crustal density structure and flexure mechanism of the Tarim Basin, China, constrained by latest in situ gravity observations	4
Hydrous Asthenosphere Underneath the Northern Pannonian Basin	4
Holocene slip rates and their implications for seismic hazard along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust in western Himalayan Nahan salient	4
Large landslide of the hyperarid Central Western Andes triggered during a humid period of the Late Pleistocene (ca. 19°S; northern Chile)	3
Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt and Early Alpine Relief Recorded by Calcite U–Pb Dating of an Uplifted Paleo‐Canyon (Vercors Massif, France)	3
Quantifying the Rhythm of Ice Accumulation in East Antarctica With Varying Temperature	3
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The origin of Upper Permian basinal dolomites in SW Poland: Impact of ascending brines	3
High authigenic Co enrichment in the non‐euxinic buff‐grey and black shale of the Chandarpur Group, Chhattisgarh Supergroup: Implication for the late Mesoproterozoic shallow marine redox condition	3
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Analysing Temporal Variations in Radon Concentrations: Identifying Trends and Changes	3
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List of Reviewers	3

Triassic detrital records in the western Dian‐Qiong suture, South China: Implications for the eastern Paleo‐Tethys evolution	3
Red or green: Overprinting of the climatic signal in Miocene sediments, South China Sea (IODP Expedition 368, Site U1502)	3
Degassing of soil gas radon and its implication to fault activity in the western margin of the Ordos Block, China	3
Early onset of Pyrenean collision (97–90 Ma) evidenced by U–Pb dating on calcite (Provence, SE France)	3
CO₂‐Rich Xenoliths at Mt. Vulture Volcano (Southern Italy): New Constraints on the Volcano Plumbing System	3
Low‐temperature thermochronology and the timing of motion on detachment faults	3
Plate corner subduction and rapid localized exhumation: Insights from3Dcoupled geodynamic and geomorphological modelling	3
Predictable time preservation on passive continental margins revealed from forward stratigraphic models	3
Constraining the Timing of the Closure of the Intra‐Pontide Ocean by U–Pb Dating of Syntectonic Calcite	3
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