OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of South African Journal of Geology 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Okorusu tailings – Part I: General characterisation of superficial tailings	18
Aspects of palaeo-shoreline silcrete formation, Makgadikgadi Pans, north-central Botswana	12
Ascent and emplacement controls of mafic magmas in the mid crust − evidence from 3D modelling of basic bodies of the Koperberg Suite, Namaqualand	12
Dr Hans Merensky and the beginning of platinum mining in the Bushveld Complex	12
Cenozoic palaeodepositional conditions and terrigenous sediment influx in the Eyasi-Wembere Basin, Northeastern Tanzania: Insights from elemental proxies	11
New details on the volcanic and tectonic evolution of the Mesoarchaean Dominion Group with special reference to the Syferfontein Formation in the Ottosdal area (South Africa)	10
Detrital zircon in Pleistocene aeolianite of the Isipingo Formation at Cape Vidal, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, gives age and Hf isotope signatures without provenance significance	6
Andrieslombaardite, RhSbS, a new platinum-group mineral from the platiniferous Onverwacht Pipe, Republic of South Africa	6
Microbial mat-induced microfacies in clastic deposits – An overview	6
Petroleum potential from Permian-Triassic strata of the Maniamba Basin, Mozambique: A preliminary characterisation	6
New palaeomagnetic results from the Mesoarchaean Nsuze flood basalts, South Africa	6
The inﬂuence of humic substances on the weathering of PGE in chromitite of the Bushveld Complex: An experimental simulation of the weathering environment	5
Uncovering the southern Bushveld Complex, using reflection seismic and gravity data	5
The Greater Cederberg–False Bay Large Igneous Province in South Africa: A southern node of widespread magmatism associated with South Atlantic rifting	5
The processing behaviour of the sphalerites from the Big Syncline deposit, South Africa	5
New constraints on the age of ore at Black Mountain mine, Bushmanland Ore District, South Africa	4
A Review of the geological history of the Evander Basin with new insights into the deposition of the Kimberley Formation	4
Timing of deformation within the Southern Structural Domain of the Pongola basin, southeast margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: constraints from field mapping and contact relationships	4
Regional variance in alluvial sedimentation and revised stratigraphy of the Klipheuwel Group and Franschhoek Formation	4
Amphibolite facies metamorphism in lower Witwatersrand Supergroup rocks exposed in the Vredefort Dome – a Ventersdorp LIP connection	4
Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis of the West Rand Group, Witwatersrand Supergroup	4
Case study in the Northern Cape (Loopeng area), South Africa, confirming occurrence of a collapsible sand soil structure in transported soils	4
Predictive modelling of manganese ore textures from a selectively sampled drill core dataset: A case study of the Paling Pan ferruginous manganese deposit, Postmasburg Manganese Field	3
Manganese carbonate-bearing mudstone of the Witwatersrand-Mozaan succession in southern Africa as evidence for bacterial manganese respiration and availability of free molecular oxygen in Mesoarchaean	3
Palynomorph composition and palynofacies analysis of the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation in the north Western Desert of Egypt: Depositional palaeoenvironment and sequence stratigraphic implications	3

Petrogenesis of the Merensky Reef: The hydromagmatic (“Uppers”) model	3
Phanerozoic palaeo-geothermal and exhumation constraints for Tanzanian cratonic rocks: Reconciling thermal conductivity of cover rocks and apatite fission track data from borehole samples	3
The Merensky Reef of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa: Mineral systems analysis of its emplacement and timing of the PGE-Ni-Cu mineralisation	3
Unearthing hidden Gold: The potential of refractory ores of the Vaal and Crystalkop reefs in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa	3
Dedicated to the late Professor Nic Beukes (1945 - 2023)	3
The Merensky Reef in retrospect: a century of challenges, controversies, and conceptual shifts	3
Cyanobacteria-ferrihydrite aggregates, BIF sedimentation and implications for Archaean- Palaeoproterozoic seawater geochemistry	3
Impact structures and deposits of South Africa	3
The Karoo Large Igneous Province	2
The geology of the Pan-African Saldania Belt, South Africa, and regional correlations	2
The Puduhush gabbro in Griqualand West, South Africa: extendingca.1.89 to 1.83 Ga intraplate magmatism across the proto-Kalahari Craton	2
A positive syn-fold test from the Neoarchaean Klipriviersberg Group of South Africa: Quo vadis Vaalbara?	2
The Tennis Ball Marker in the south-eastern Bushveld Complex: comparison with the Boulder Bed of the Western Bushveld Complex and proposed genesis by disaggregation of intrusive sills in processes aki	2
PREFACE	2
The stratigraphy of the T’Goob Sequence (Aggeneys Subgroup) in the eastern Aggeneys Terrane, Namaqua Mobile Belt	2
Geomagnetic jerks observed in geomagnetic observatory data over southern Africa between 2017 and 2023	2
The Goedgenoeg Formation, partition from the Makwassie Formation, Platberg Group, Ventersdorp Supergroup	2
The depositional environment of the Koeris Formation in the Aggeneys-Gamsberg ore district, South Africa	2
The Pilanesberg Complex and related igneous rocks	2
Towards an astrochronological framework for the lower Paleoproterozoic Kuruman and Brockman Iron Formations	2
The Keis Supergroup	2
Satellite imagery reveals the nature of the Archaean granite-greenstone basement of the Kruger National Park, South Africa, including the newly discovered Olifants River Greenstone Belt	2
Lateral uniformity of the Pyroxenite Marker Transition in the western Bushveld Complex, South Africa	2
Does water transparency control the banding in shallow water iron formations?	2
Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of a potential supra-detachment fault basin, Archaean Moodies Group (~3.22 Ga), central Barberton Greenstone Belt	2
Assessing the geological relationships between the mafic-ultramafic intrusion in the Haib area and the Vuurdood Subsuite, Richtersveld Subprovince	2
U-Pb detrital zircon age determination and provenance of the lower Karoo succession from the Karoo Research Initiative (KARIN) borehole KWV-1, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	2
Dissolution of synthetic diamonds to produce morphologies similar to natural diamonds: an experimental study	1
Further evidence for Cretaceous wildfires: macro-charcoal from the Malha Formation at Wadi Budra, west-central Sinai, Egypt	1
Characterisation of manganese occurrences in the Kalahari Manganese Field: Constraints from high-resolution 2D seismic surveys	1
Kimberlites and olivine lamproites of the Kalahari Craton and related diamond deposits	1
Zircon xenocrysts obscured the zircon date for the lower Koras Group, southern Africa	1
The Karoo Supergroup: Modern insights from the ancient archive of Gondwana	1
Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of some metasedimentary units in the Jebba-Bode Saadu area southwestern Nigeria: Implications for northwest Africa – northeast Brazil connections in the Proterozoic	1
Using laboratory hyperspectral imaging for mineralogical mapping of Lefika la Noka tufa cores in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa	1
Tectonic setting and Pan-African structural evolution of the western Saldania Belt, South Africa	1
A new interpretation of soft-sediment deformation features (SSDs) in the Parktown Formation (lower West Rand Group); the physical processes of deformation during deposition	1
Palaeomagnetic overprint records in the Neoproterozoic Damara Supergroup of northwestern Namibia	1
Manganese in South Africa: its mineral economics, geology and geometallurgy	1
Heat flow in the Main Karoo Basin, South Africa	1
Mineral chemistry of the Beacon Heights Phonolite, an agpaitic ignimbrite in the Mesoproterozoic Pilanesberg alkaline complex, South Africa	1
Lithostratigraphy of the Bumbeni Complex and its associated subdivisions, South Africa	1
Late Mesoproterozoic iron and manganese deposition on a deep-water carbonate platform (Penganga Group), Adilabad, India: Constraints from C, O and Sr isotopes	1
New diagenetic constraints for the interpretation of Neoarchaean stromatolitic dolostone geochemical composition and their palaeoenvironmental significance	1
Characterising the “Transvaal Jade” alteration front: Evidence for fluid-driven critical metal mobility in the Bushveld Complex	1
Petrogenesis of PGE mineralised intrusions in the floor of the northern Bushveld Complex	1
Review of the thermo-tectonic evolution of the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex with implications for conflicting published geodynamic models	1
The Namaqua-Natal Province	1
O- and H-isotope record of Cape Town rainfall from 1996 to 2022: the effect of increasing temperature, and the ‘water crisis’ of 2015 to 2018	1
Factors leading to sub-surface pan silcrete formation in north-central Botswana	1

Geochemical evolution of magmatic rocks in the Vioolsdrif Domain, Namibia	1
Discovery of oil seeps in the Rukwa Rift Basin, Southwestern Tanzania: origin, thermal maturity, and palaeoredox conditions	1
Petrogenesis of the Marginal Sill Phase and Lower Zone in the Eastern Limb of the Bushveld Complex: Incremental development of igneous layering and syn-magmatic emplacement of peridotite intrusions an	1