OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ichnos-An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces is 4. 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
Metre-scale, upward-radiating burrow systems in Pleistocene aeolian sandstone, Cape South Coast, South Africa: a new ichnotaxon	22
Diving neoichnology: underwater fieldwork focusing on organism and seafloor ecosystem interactions	19
Teredolitesdriftwood from the Arkadelphia Formation–Midway Group Contact (K–Pg), Malvern, Arkansas, USA	17
Trace fossils of hypersaline environment and its implication in identifying tidal inundation boundary in Great Rann of Kachchh, Western India	11
Report of 18 ^th International Ichnofabric Workshop, 26-31 May 2025 in Granada (Spain)	8
First record of a small stegosaur footprint (cf.Stegopodus) from the ?Upper Jurassic-?Lower Cretaceous red beds of the Middle Atlas, Morocco	7
Trace fossils on megafaunal bone remains from Quaternary natural tank deposits of Brazil: A case study in João Cativo Paleontological site, Megafauna Valley, Brazil	7
The role of neoichnology in environmental geoscience	7
Taphonomic overprinting on the late Palaeozoic terrestrial plant–animal interactions: a noise in the record	6
Ichnology of a tropical delta and associated strandplain: the Oligocene–Miocene Ciénaga de Oro Formation of Colombia	6
The paleoichnofauna in bones of Brazilian Quaternary cave deposits and the proposition of two new ichnotaxa	6
Morphology of Radhostium carpaticum Plička and Říha, 1989 in new finds from the Outer Western Carpathians (Upper Cretaceous – Eocene flysch deposits of the Biele Karpaty Mountains, Slovakia)	6
Unraveling stratigraphic complexities of transgressive surfaces with trace fossil omission suites and juxtaposed softground suites	6
New ichnospecies and redescription of Caedichnus Stafford et al., 2015, traces indicative of durophagous predation	5
The impacts of diagenesis on bioturbated ramp deposits: A study of Arab-D outcrops in Wadi Malham, Central Saudi Arabia	5
Review of 17th international ichnofabric workshop, 23–25 October 2023 in Faxe (Denmark)	5
Invertebrate trace fossils from Paleogene fluvial strata in Western Washington, USA	5
Sclerobionts on Oscillopha dichotoma (Bayle, 1849) from the Campanian Gurpi Formation, Zagros Basin (SW Iran)	5
A brief overview of deep-sea neoichnology: recent advances and prospects for interpreting the trace fossil record	4
Possible shod-hominin tracks on South Africa’s Cape coast	4
Plant stem trace fossils from fluvial deposits of the Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana, USA	4
Psammichnites from the Pennsylvanian Rod El-Hamal Formation of Egypt: revisiting paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic patterns of distribution of late Paleozoic ichnospeci	4
First record of Linichnus Jacobsen & Bromley, 2009, and Nihilichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006, in the Itaboraí Basin (early Eocene), in Sou	4
A gar-bitten vertebrate coprolite from the Neogene of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA, and a new ichnospecies of Machichnus Mikuláš et al., 2006	4
Well-preserved Piscichnus waitemata in tidal-flat deposits of the Miocene Shirahama Formation, southwestern Japan and its ichnological, palaeoecological,	4

Decoupling fossil trackways from trackmaker identity in locomotion studies