OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Earth Sciences is 5. 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
Paleocurrent analysis and paleogeography of the Biele Karpaty Unit (Magura Nappe, Outer Western Carpathians)	34
Liquefaction-induced structures, Hammam Faroun Block, Gulf of Suez rift, Egypt: possible rift-related Neogene seismites	25
Ice rafts, debris flows and slumps along a glaciated basin margin: the Carboniferous El Imperial Formation in the San Rafael basin, western Argentina	25
Landslide susceptibility mapping using the uncertain and parameter free density-based clustering (UPFDBCAN) algorithm	23
Petrogenesis and geochemical evolution of Chole basalts, Southeastern Ethiopian Plateau	22
Fragmentary records from the breakup of Rodinia to the closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean: new evidence from the Gicha Complex in the middle Sanjiang Tethyan Orogen, SW China	21
Organic geochemical study of Aleksinac oil shale	21
Tracing magma genesis and post-emplacement processes of aplites in the Mikir Massif, Northeast India: implementing fractal dimension and lacunarity analyses to decode textural heterogeneity	19
Petrological and chemical evidence for polybaric differentiation across the preserved middle crustal plutonic column of the Famatinian arc, Argentina	19
Genesis: early life survived in the Polar Circles by precipitating banded iron formation (~ 3.7–1.85 Ga) followed by stratified ferruginous siliciclasts until ~ 580 Ma, when tectonically shifted to lo	18
Petrogenesis, SHRIMP U–Pb age, and tectonic implication of post-collisional volcanic rocks from the Kandalaksha-Kolvitsa granulite belt (Kola Region, NW Russia)	18
Is the Yermak Plateau a continental fragment from North America? Constraints from Cretaceous and early Eocene magmatic events	17
Correction: An early Cambrian post-rift basin within the Baltica–Iapetus passive margin (north-central Scandinavian Caledonides)	16
Zircon U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS constraints on the chronology of the Late Carboniferous–early Permian continental Döhlen Basin and its correlation with the Thuringian Forest Basin (Central and Eastern Germany)	15
Holocene paleoseismicity of the Mörtsjö fault system, Hälsingland, central Sweden	15
An early Cambrian post-rift basin within the Baltica–Iapetus passive margin (north-central Scandinavian Caledonides)	13
Geochemistry and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopes of granodiorites in the northern Alxa area: implications for the Middle–Late Devonian tectonic evolution of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt	13
Episodic magmatism at the Permian/Triassic crisis boundary and its linkage to underlying source rocks: constraints from conodont-based high-resolution geochemical proxies in marine carbonate successio	13
Geographical distribution and cementation characteristics of beachrocks in the tropical Asian region	12
Relation between partial melting, granulite metamorphism, crystallization, deformation of leucosome and the influence of these processes on the cooling of the root of a hot orogen	12
Rift domains and structural framework of the northwestern Red Sea basin, Egypt	11
Editorial Expression of Concern: Organic matter characteristics and hydrocarbon generation potential of the Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous succession in the Mesopotamian Foredeep Basin, Iraq	11
Correction: Terpenoids in resinites from middle Cretaceous karst infillings in the Rhenish Massif (Rhineland, Germany): botanical source and preservation	11
Reconsidering Carboniferous–Permian continental paleoenvironments in eastern equatorial Pangea: facies and sequence stratigraphy investigations in the Autun Basin (France)	11
Holocene hydroclimatic changes inferred from a mountainous lake sedimentary record on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	10

Results of the first real-time monitoring of CO2-rich mineral waters and mofettes in the volcanic fields of the Eifel	10
Structure of the Muruntau gold ore region in the Kyzyl-Kum desert (Central Asia)	10
Geochronology, petrogenesis and geodynamic implications of the Early–Middle Jurassic granites of the southern Zhangguangcai Range (NE China)	10
Aeolian and fluvial processes influence on dust storms of Hormuz Strait and Makran coastal plains (SE Iran); insight from geomorphic landforms, and sediment texture and mineralogy	10
Magmatic evolution of the migrating central Urumieh–Dokhtar arc, Iran: implications for magma production	10
Deformation of salt structures by ice-sheet loading: insights into the controlling parameters from numerical modelling	9
Early Permian bimodal magmatism and tectonic evolution of the easternmost Paleo-Asian orogenic system	9
Gas composition and environmental implications of fluid inclusions in Paleogene Gypsum, Lanzhou Basin	9
Fast arc retreat in the eastern Mediterranean: constraints from late Campanian forearc deposits (Donousa, Greece)	9
New insights into Cadomian basin evolution and stratigraphic affiliation of sedimentary units of Saxo-Thuringia, Germany: Part 2—detrital zircon U–Pb ages	9
Extensional magmatism caused by strain partitioning: insights from the mafic dikes hosted in Biesituobie batholith in West Junggar, CAOB	9
Estimating the variations and trends of surface skin temperature across the Indus River Basin	8
Geometrical analysis of the 3-D structure of the western Tauern Window (European Eastern Alps)	8
Detrital composition controlling sandstone diagenesis: the example of the Triassic Bunter sandstone, Germany	8
Stable carbon and oxygen isotope records in a Middle Jurassic carbonate sequence: implications for paleoenvironment, and sea-level fluctuation, central Saudi Arabia	8
Contact metamorphism and dolomitization overprint on Cambrian carbonates from the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberian Massif): implications to Sr-chronology of carbonate rocks	8
Exploration of crustal deformation and tectonic interactions in Mexico based on continuous GPS data	8
Tectonic uplift of the Tianshan Mountains since Quaternary: evidence from magnetostratigraphy of the Yili Basin, northwestern China	8
Comment on “Variable structural styles and tectonic evolution of an ancient backstop boundary: the Pieniny Klippen Belt of the Western Carpathians” by Plašienka et al. (2020)	8
Remote sensing, petrogenesis and tectono-magmatic evolution of the Wadi Queh-Wadi Abu Shigeili area: a window into the transitional history of the central Egyptian-Nubian Shield from pre-plate collisi	8
Control of anatectic source rock and melt segregation on metal fertility of W–Sn granites in Sirohi region, NW India	8
Post-Variscan thermal history of the Boskovice Basin (Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic) based on thermochronology data	8
U–Pb–Hf isotope and shape systematics of detrital zircon populations from the Badenweiler–Lenzkirch Zone, Black Forest (Germany): new constraints on sediment deposition, provenance and Variscan evolut	8
Main drivers of drainage pattern development in onshore Makran Accretionary Wedge, SE Iran	8
Generation of multiple low-K granitic magmas in the eastern Qilian orogen, NE Tibetan Plateau: implications for granite genesis and pluton construction	8
Monazite and zircon U–(Th–)Pb dating reveals multiple episodes of HT metamorphism in the Cima Lunga unit (Central Alps): implications for the exhumation of high‐pressure rocks	8
The late-Variscan high-temperature collisional episode in the southwestern Moldanubian Zone (Bohemian Massif)	8
Valley of Whales, Fayum oasis, Egypt: an Eocene window in the evolution of Cetaceans	8
Fractal analysis and geochemical characterization of mafic magmatic enclaves in the Kathalguri Pluton, Mikir Massif (Northeast India): implications for Pan-African bimodal magmatism	8
Is there activity switching among the continental transform faults in the Eastern Mediterranean region?	7
A vestige of an Ediacaran magmatic arc in southeast France and its significance for the northern Gondwana margin	7
From biomolecules and organic matter to sedimentary environments and basin analysis: a special issue in honour of Ralf Littke—an introduction	7
Origin of late Permian granites in central Jilin Province, NE China: insights into the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean and their tectonic significance	7
Age and petrogenesis of scapolite gabbro from the Bambuy intrusion (Vitim plateau, Russia) and their tectonic significance	7
Growth and demise episodes of a Middle-Late Jurassic carbonate platform (Ouarsenis Mountains, northwestern Algeria)	7
Remote sensing techniques and geochemical constraints on the formation of the Wadi El-Hima mineralized granites, Egypt: new insights into the genesis and accumulation of garnets	7
Correction: Neoarchean continental crust evolution of the southern North China Craton: constrains from geochronology and geochemistry of the Dengfeng complex in the Jishan area	7
Ocean paleo-redox condition during early Lomagundi-Jatuli event: records from major and trace element proxies in carbonate rocks of the Aravalli Supergroup, India	7
Emplacement of shocked basement clasts during crater excavation in the Ries impact structure	7
Deformation, age, and provenance of the Nogolí Metamorphic Complex protoliths, Sierra de San Luis, Argentina: evidence of a non-collisional history for the Cambrian in the western Gondwana margin	7
Correction to: Fe isotope fractionation and geochemical evolution of Triassic granitoids in the Eastern Kunlun Orogen, NW China	7
Ernst Haeckel’s present of the first two volumes of Das Antlitz der Erde by Eduard Suess to his friend Dr. Paul von Ritter: Why is it important?	7
Migration of RomUkrSeis WARR data reveals complex basement structure for the area of accretion of Tisza–Dacia microplate to the East European Craton	7
Magmatic source, petrogenesis, and tectonic setting of the Concepción del Oro Igneous Complex: a geochemical and isotopic (Rb–Sr and Sm–Nd) study of a late complex of the Cretaceous–Eocene Mexican Mag	7
Permian–Triassic magmatic rocks in the Middle Gobi volcanic-plutonic belt, Mongolia: revisiting the scissor-like closure model of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean	7
Correction: Paleontological and lithological evidence of the late Karpatian to early Badenian marine succession from Medvednica Mountain (Croatia), Central Paratethys	7
New CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb zircon ages for the Altenberg–Teplice Volcanic Complex (ATVC) document discrete and coeval pulses of Variscan magmatic activity in the Eastern Erzgebirge (Eastern Variscan Belt)	7
U–Pb zircon ages constrain the Miocene age of hydrothermal activity in the iron mining Hüttenberg-Waitschach district (Austria), faulting and landscape evolution in the Eastern Alps	6
Lithogenesis of a phosphatized tephra marker horizon in the Eocene Messel maar lake	6
Laevaptychi as reliable paleotemperature archives: high-resolution stable isotope compositions of Kimmeridgian (Jurassic) lamellar structured aspidoceratid lower mandibles from Zengővárkony (Mecsek Mo	6

Gondwana sedimentary rocks of Andigama Basin, Sri Lanka: unraveling weathering dynamics, tectonic setting, and paleoclimate	6
Regional mudstone compaction trends in the Vienna Basin: top seal assessment and implications for uplift history	6
Early Ordovician to early Silurian forearc accretionary processes in front of the Selety–Stepnyak arc in the Kokchetav area, northern Kazakhstan: implications for continental growth in the northwester	6
Dating of polyhalite: a difficult 40Ar/39Ar dating tool of diagenetic to very low-grade metamorphic processes	6
Kalimantan hydroclimate variability since the last glacial period	6
Recent activity and paleoseismicity of an intraplate extensional fault: the Calamocha fault (Jiloca graben, central Iberian Chain)	6
Salt-rich versus salt-poor structural scenarios in the central Northern Calcareous Alps: implications for the Hallstatt facies and early Alpine tectonic evolution (Eastern Alps, Austria)	6
Geochemistry and geochronology of the Neyshabur meta-volcanic rocks, Binalood mountains, NE Iran: witnesses of Paleo-Tethys rifting and closure	6
Stratigraphic distribution and structural characteristics of the Meso-Neoproterozoic in southern Ordos Basin, China	6
Organic geochemical characteristics and organic matter accumulation of the Eocene lacustrine source rock in the Yingxi area, Western Qaidam Basin, China	6
Polyphase Permo-Carboniferous magmatism adjacent to the Intra-Sudetic Fault: constraints from U–Pb SHRIMP zircon study of felsic subvolcanic intrusions in the Intra-Sudetic Basin, SW Poland	6
The Bosphorus Volcano: remnants of an ancient volcano on an ancient city	6
Alkaline rocks of the Bobaomby volcanic field point to a petrogenetic link between Comoros and northern Madagascar lithosphere	6
Zircon U–Pb and geochemistry of the north Shahrekord metamorphosed felsic rocks: implications for the Ediacaran–Cambrian tectonic setting of Iran	6
Multidisciplinary analyses of the rupture characteristic of the June 14, 2020, Mw 5.9 Kaynarpınar (Karlıova, Bingöl) earthquake reveal N70E-striking active faults along the Yedisu Seismic Gap of the N	6
Geochemistry of recent sediments of the Kurheri basin, Son River, Madhya Pradesh, Central India: implications for source area weathering, sediment provenance, maturity, and sorting	5
Correction: Zircon trace element fingerprint of changing tectonic regimes in Permian rhyolites from the Central European Lowlands	5
The involvement of deep plume-related materials in the South Atlantic Ocean asthenosphere as indicated by isotopic independent component analysis of basalts	5
Organic geochemistry of Palaeogene coals from Greenland and Svalbard	5
Biological matter enhanced iron release from shallow marine bioturbated sediments: a case study of Late Cretaceous sandstone, northern Saudi Arabia	5
Petrochronology of the Dom Feliciano Belt foreland in southernmost Brazil reveals two distinct tectonometamorphic events in the western central Kaoko–Dom Feliciano–Gariep orogen	5
Interpretation of dike emplacement from AMS data: a case study of early carboniferous mafic dike swarms from the Famatina System, La Rioja, Argentina	5
Palaeozoic high-Ti basalt, an indicator for incipient rifting, at the Saxo-Thuringian passive margin, NE-Bavaria (Germany)	5
Fluid-induced alteration and associated rare-earth elements (REEs) distribution in accessory minerals in Mayong granite, Shillong Plateau, northeast India	5
Xenoliths of the bode dike system: evidence for early Devonian arc-type magmatism and late Carboniferous–Permian crust reworking beneath the eastern Harz Mountains (Germany)	5
Use of magnetic fabrics and X-ray diffraction to reveal low strains in experimentally deformed Maggia gneiss	5
Activity of the Fendong Buried Fault in the Linfen Basin, Shanxi Province, China: significance of neotectonic evolution and future seismic risk	5
CO2, 222Rn, and He degassing from hydrothermal springs on the cone of Mt. Changbai with implications for volcano monitoring	5
Understanding the interplay of depositional rock types, mineralogy, and diagenesis on reservoir properties of the coal-bearing Langsettian and Duckmantian strata (Bashkirian, Pennsylvanian) of the Ruh	5
Protracted carbon burial following the Early Jurassic Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Posidonia Shale, Lower Saxony Basin, Germany)	5
Mafic and ultramafic rock fragments on Chios Island, Greece: puzzling pieces within the Tethyan ophiolite belts of the Eastern Mediterranean	5
Two distinct age groups of melilitites, foidites, and basanites from the southern Central European Volcanic Province reflect lithospheric heterogeneity	5
Geochemical vectors to ore and environmental significance at the Chatree epithermal low-sulfidation deposit, Thailand	5
Structural and metamorphic evolution of the southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, southern Iran	5
Over 100 Myr of growth history of a passive diapir, analyzed through its tectonostratigraphic reconstruction (Maestu, northern Spain)	5
Evidence of lithosphere erosion in the Eastern Indian shield from multi-scale potential field modelling: geodynamic implications	5