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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The youngest matrix of 234 Ma of the Kanguer accretionary mélange containing blocks of N-MORB basalts: constraints on the northward subduction of the Paleo-Asian Kanguer Ocean in the Eastern Tianshan	38
Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the Maladob ring complex in the South Eastern Desert, Egypt: new insights from mineral chemistry and whole-rock geochemistry	31
Latest Carboniferous to early Permian volcano-stratigraphic evolution in Central Europe: U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS ages of volcanic rocks in the Thuringian Forest Basin (Germany)	25
The birth of the Alps: Ediacaran to Paleozoic accretionary processes and crustal growth along the northern Gondwana margin	23
Geochemistry and Sm–Nd isotopic sources of Late Ediacaran siliciclastic series in the Ossa–Morena Complex: Iberian–Bohemian correlations	21
Effect of high temperature and strain rate on the elastic modulus of rocks: a review	21
Karst bauxite formation during Miocene Climatic Optimum (central Dalmatia, Croatia): mineralogical, compositional and geochronological perspectives	20
Petrology and geochemistry of the Pan-African high-K calc-alkaline to shoshonitic–adakitic Bapé plutonic suites (Adamawa-Yade block, Cameroon): evidence of a hot oceanic crust subduction	18
Environmental significance of trace fossil assemblages in a tide‒wave-dominated shallow-marine carbonate system (Lower Cretaceous), northern Neo-Tethys margin, Kopet-Dagh Basin, Iran	17
Ordovician tectonics of the South European Variscan Realm: new insights from Sardinia	16
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	16
The Volsci Volcanic Field (central Italy): eruptive history, magma system and implications on continental subduction processes	15
Late Neogene evolution of the Peruvian margin and its ecosystems: a synthesis from the Sacaco record	15
Late Palaeozoic extensional volcanism along the northern margin of Gondwana in southern Turkey: implications for Palaeotethyan development	14
Geochronology and petrogenesis of the Pan-African granitoids from Mbondo-Ngazi Tina in the Adamawa-Yadé Domain, Central Cameroon	14
Middle and Late Devonian paleogeography of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco)	14
Permian A-type granites of the Western Carpathians and Transdanubian regions: products of the Pangea supercontinent breakup	13
The Saharides: Turkic-type orogeny in Afro-Arabia	13
Early Paleozoic structural and metamorphic evolution of the Transpatagonian Orogen related to Gondwana assembly	13
Evolution of diagenetic conditions and burial history in Buntsandstein Gp. fractured sandstones (Upper Rhine Graben) from in-situ δ18O of quartz and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of K-feldspar overgrowths	13
Two-stage regional rare-element pegmatite formation at Tysfjord, Norway: implications for the timing of late Svecofennian and late Caledonian high-temperature events	12
Silurian to early Permian slab melting and crustal growth in the southern Altaids: insights from adakites and associated mineral deposits in the Dananhu arc, Eastern Tianshan, NW China	12
The Upper Jurassic Garedu Red Bed Formation of the northern Tabas Block: elucidating Late Cimmerian tectonics in east-Central Iran	12
Exploring possible links between Quaternary aggradation in the Upper Rhine Graben and the glaciation history of northern Switzerland	12
Lithospheric density structure of the southern Central Andes constrained by 3D data-integrative gravity modelling	12

Cadomian to Cenerian accretionary orogenic processes in the Alpine basement: the detrital zircon archive	11
Compaction control on diagenesis and reservoir quality development in red bed sandstones: a case study of Permian Rotliegend sandstones	11
Late Oligocene—Early Miocene shortening in the Thrace Basin, northern Aegean	11
Exhumation of an anatectic complex by channel flow and extrusion tectonics: structural and metamorphic evidence from the Porto–Viseu Metamorphic Belt, Central-Iberian Zone	11
Biomarker and compound-specific isotope records across the Toarcian CIE at the Dormettingen section in SW Germany	11
From Cadomian back-arc basin to Rheic Ocean closure: the geochronological records of the Kurtoğlu Massif, eastern Sakarya Zone, Turkey	11
Polyphase extensional basins: interplay between tectonics and sedimentation in the Neogene Siena-Radicofani Basin (Northern Apennines, Italy)	11
Structural and geochronological constraints on the magmatic and tectonic events in the pre-Alpine basement of the central parts of the Balkan fold–thrust belt (Central Stara Planina Mountains, Bulgari	11
Early Mississippian precollisional, peri-Gondwanan volcanic arc in NE-Mexico: Aserradero Rhyolite from Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas	11
Traces of intra-oceanic arcs recorded in sandstones of eastern Kazakhstan: implications from U–Pb detrital zircon ages, geochemistry, and Nd–Hf isotopes	11
The Late Carboniferous deeply eroded Tharandt Forest caldera–Niederbobritzsch granite complex: a post-Variscan long-lived magmatic system in central Europe	10
New constraints on the exhumation history of the western Tauern Window (European Alps) from thermochronology, thermokinematic modeling, and topographic analysis	10
Palaeoenvironmental reconstitutions at the Carboniferous–Permian transition south of the Paris Basin, France: implications on the stratigraphic evolution and basin geometry	10
Sedimentary stratigraphy of Lake Chalco (Central Mexico) during its formative stages	10
Paleospring freshwater tufa carbonates of the Kurkur Oasis Geosite (southern Egypt): archives for paleoenvironment and paleoclimate	10
Early Miocene larger benthic foraminifera from the northwestern Tethyan Seaway (NW Iran): new findings on Shallow Benthic Zone 25	10
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)	10
Biostratigraphy and facies description of Middle Triassic rift-related volcano-sedimentary successions at the junction of the Southern Alps and the Dinarides (NW Croatia)	10
Precursor extension to final Neo-Tethys break-up: flooding events and their significance for the correlation of shallow-water and deep-marine organisms (Anisian, Eastern Alps, Austria)	10
Evolution of the Lower Permian Rochlitz volcanic system, Eastern Germany: reconstruction of an intra-continental supereruption	10
Sedimentology and basin-fill history of the Cenozoic succession of the Sylhet Trough, Bengal Basin, Bangladesh	10
Petrographic and geochemical characterization of the Middle‒Upper Jurassic Fe–Mn crusts and mineralizations from Monte Inici (north-western Sicily): genetic implications	9
Sedimentological and stratigraphic constraints on Oligo–Miocene deposition in the Mogod Mountains, northern Tunisia: new insights for paleogeographic evolution of North Africa passive margin	9
Clustering analysis of seismicity in the space–time–depth–magnitude domain preceding the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, Southwestern Japan	9
The influence of variations in crustal composition and lithospheric strength on the evolution of deformation processes in the southern Central Andes: insights from geodynamic models	9
Reassessing the polyphase Neoproterozoic evolution of the Punta del Este Terrane, Dom Feliciano Belt, Uruguay	9
Depositional history of the uppermost Albian–Turonian Sarvak Formation in the Izeh Zone (SW Iran)	9
Reconsidering Carboniferous–Permian continental paleoenvironments in eastern equatorial Pangea: facies and sequence stratigraphy investigations in the Autun Basin (France)	9
Triassic evaporites and the structural architecture of the External Hellenides and Albanides (SE Europe): controls on the petroleum and geoenergy systems of Greece and Albania	9
Geochemical and Sr–Nd isotopic features of the Zaro volcanic complex: insights on the magmatic processes triggering a small-scale prehistoric eruption at Ischia island (south Italy)	9
Oxygen isotopes in ophicalcites: an ever-lasting controversy?	9
Geological evolution of a tectonic and climatic transition zone: the Beyşehir-Suğla basin, lake district of Turkey	9
Ophiolite derived material as parent rocks for Late Jurassic bauxite: evidence for Tithonian unroofing in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Eastern Alps, Austria)	9
3D gravity modelling of Colorado and Claromecó basins: new evidences for the evolution of the southwestern margin of Gondwana	9
Relationship between channel flow initiation and crustal viscosity in convergent settings: an analog modeling approach	9
Planktic foraminiferal response to an early Paleocene transient warming event and biostratigraphic implications	9
Integration of remote sensing and geochemical data to characterize mineralized A-type granites, Egypt: implications for origin and concentration of rare metals	8
Two-phase late Paleozoic magmatism (~ 313–312 and ~ 299–298 Ma) in the Lusatian Block and its relation to large scale NW striking fault zones: evidence from zircon U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS geochronology, bulk	8
Sedimentology and detrital zircon geochronology of the Nanpihe Formation in the central zone of the Changning–Menglian Belt in western Yunnan, China: revealing an allochthon emplaced during the closur	8
Provenance of Oligocene–Miocene sedimentary rocks in the Cuu Long and Nam Con Son basins, Vietnam and early history of the Mekong River	8
Comment on “Ultrapotassic magmatism in the heyday of the Variscan Orogeny: the story of the Třebíč Pluton, the largest durbachitic body in the Bohemian Massif” by Janoušek et al.	8
Mineral chemistry and monazite chemical Th–U–total Pb dating of the Wadi Muweilha muscovite pegmatite, Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: constraints on its origin and geodynamic evolution relative to t	8
Employing geochemistry and geochronology to unravel genesis and tectonic setting of iron oxide-apatite deposits of the Bafq-Saghand metallogenic belt, Central Iran	8
Contrasting Neoproterozoic and Mesozoic granitoids in Zaranda complex (Nigeria): insights into the distinct origins, tectonic settings and mineralization potential	8
The Ediacaran volcano-sedimentary succession in the Western Skoura inlier (Central High Atlas, Morocco): facies analysis, geochemistry, geochronology and geodynamic implications	8
Comprehensive thermal maturity assessment in shales: a case study on the upper cretaceous Qingshankou formation (Songliao Basin, NE China)	8
Contemporaneous opening of the Alpine Tethys in the Eastern and Western Alps: constraints from a Late Jurassic gabbro intrusion age in the Glockner Nappe, Tauern Window, Austria	8
Sequences, discontinuities and water stratification in a low-energy ramp: the Early Albian sedimentation in central Tunisia	7
Local radon flux maxima in the quaternary sediments of Schleswig–Holstein (Germany)	7
Sequence stratigraphy of the Late Oligocene carbonate system on the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea	7

First high-precision U–Pb age from the Pennsylvanian-Permian of the continental Saar–Nahe Basin, SW Germany	7
Origin, timing and paleogeographic implications of Paleogene karst bauxites in the northern Transdanubian range, Hungary	7
No sediment transport across the Tethys ocean during the latest Cretaceous: detrital zircon record from the Pontides and the Anatolide–Tauride Block	7
Early Permian during the Variscan orogen collapse in the equatorial realm: insights from the Cantabrian Mountains (N Iberia) into climatic and environmental changes	7
Timing of rapid cooling and erosional decay of two volcanic islands of the Canary Archipelago: implications from low-temperature thermochronology	7
Petrogenesis of the Middle–Late Triassic S- and I-type granitoids in the eastern Pamir and implications for the Tanymas–Jinshajiang Paleo-Tethys Ocean	7
Neoproterozoic modification of heterogeneous continental lithosphere beneath the Yangtze interior: revealed from mafic dykes from the Huangling area, South China	7
Thrust tectonics in the Wetterstein and Mieming mountains, and a new tectonic subdivision of the Northern Calcareous Alps of Western Austria and Southern Germany	7
From subduction to strike slip-related volcanism: insights from Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopes and geochronology of lavas from Sivas–Malatya region, Central Eastern Anatolia	7
Ophicalcites from the Upper Tectonic Unit on Tinos, Cyclades, Greece: mineralogical, geochemical and isotope evidence for their origin and evolution	7
Analogue model of the Bala Rud Fault, Zagros: an oblique basement ramp in a fold-and-thrust belt	7
U–Pb geochronology of Cenozoic plutons in the Pinotepa Nacional–Salina Cruz region and patterns in the migration of magmatism along the SW continental margin of Mexico	7
Two distinct age groups of melilitites, foidites, and basanites from the southern Central European Volcanic Province reflect lithospheric heterogeneity	7
Phase relations and in-situ U-Th-Pbtotal monazite geochronology of Banded Iron Formation, Bundelkhand Craton, North-Central India, and their geodynamic implications	7
Implications for sedimentary transport processes in southwestern Africa: a combined zircon morphology and age study including extensive geochronology databases	6
Reuniting the Ötztal Nappe: the tectonic evolution of the Schneeberg Complex	6
Quantitative kinematic analyses of the Darizhun shear zone within the hinterland of the Zagros orogenic belt, Iran	6
Carboniferous tectonic incorporation of a Devonian seamount and oceanic crust into the South Tianshan accretionary orogen in the southern Altaids	6
Architecture of Eastern Mediterranean sea rifted margins: observations and uncertainties on their Mesozoic evolution	6
Geochronology, geochemistry and mineral chemistry of Malayer–Boroujerd–Shazand pegmatite dikes, Sanandaj–Sirjan zone, NW Iran	6
Magmatic evolution of the migrating central Urumieh–Dokhtar arc, Iran: implications for magma production	6
U–Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry of mafic and intermediate dykes in the İstanbul–Zonguldak Tectonic Unit (NW Turkey): evidence for Devonian and Carboniferous magmatism and the north-subducti	6
Tectonic vs. climate controls on the evolution of a miocene intermontane basin, Patagonian Andean foreland, Argentina	6
Seismic data denoising under the morphological component analysis framework by dictionary learning	6
Geochemical constraints on the genesis of the Ekou banded iron formation, Shanxi Province, North China	6
Main drivers of drainage pattern development in onshore Makran Accretionary Wedge, SE Iran	6
Geochemical characterization of clastic sediments sheds light on energy sources and on alleged anthropogenic impacts in cave ecosystems	6
Amphibolite–granulite facies mid-crustal basement in Deccan Large Igneous Province and its implication on Precambrian crustal evolution: evidence from Killari borehole studies	6
Structural styles and tectonic evolution of Cretaceous to Cenozoic faults in the Linhe Depression of Hetao Basin, China: implications for petroleum traps	6
A cumulate syenite in the upper part of the Hongge-layered mafic–ultramafic intrusion, Emeishan large igneous province, SW China	6
Active tectonics along the Sheladiz seismogenic fault in the Western Zagros fold-thrust belt, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq	6
Kinematic partitioning in the Southern Andes (39° S–46° S) inferred from lineament analysis and reassessment of exhumation rates	6
The present-day tectonic regimes of the Colombian Andes and the role of slab geometry in intraplate seismicity	6
Mineral chemistry, geochemistry and geophysical investigations of Simlipal volcanics from Eoarchean Singhbhum Craton (Eastern India): geodynamic implications of pervasive plume–lithosphere interaction	6
Yam Seep at Four-Way Closure Ridge: a prominent active gas seep system at the accretionary wedge SW offshore Taiwan	6
Miocene to Recent collapse calderas of the southern and central volcanic zones of the Andes and their tectonic constraints	6
Ocean resurge-induced impact melt dynamics on the peak-ring of the Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico	6
Field geology and provenance analyses of the Ganqimaodu accretionary complex (Inner Mongolia, China): implications for early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt	6
Speleothems of the Wadi Sannur cave (Eastern Desert, Egypt): a well-preserved archive of paleoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic changes	5
Structure and chronology across the Achankovil terrain boundary shear zone system (South India), and its Madagascar connection in the Gondwanaland	5
Flow of the partially molten crust in the Variscan foreland revealed by U–Th–Pb dating of metamorphism, magmatism and deformation (Agly Massif, Eastern Pyrenees)	5
Tracing the SW border of the Svecofennian Domain in the Baltic Sea region: evidence from petrology and geochronology from a granodioritic migmatite	5
Numerical 3D modeling of burial and temperature history, source rock maturity, and hydrocarbon generation in the onshore northeastern Netherlands	5
Origin, migration and secondary processes of oil and natural gas in the western part of the Polish Outer Carpathians: geochemical and geological approach	5
The Dababiya Quarry (southeast Luxor, Egypt): a unique palaeogeographical geosite	5
The late-Variscan high-temperature collisional episode in the southwestern Moldanubian Zone (Bohemian Massif)	5
Lateral variations in crustal Lg attenuation in and around the Hangay Dome, Mongolia	5
The westernmost Late Miocene–Pliocene volcanic activity in the Vardar zone (North Macedonia)	5
Syntectonic magmatism and reactivation of collisional structures during late-Variscan shearing (SW Sardinia, Italy)	5
Tracing the cryptic Sardic (Ordovician) metamorphism across Alpine Europe: the Krndija region in the Slavonian Mountains, Croatia	5
Late Alpine multistage exhumation of the northwestern Rhodope Metamorphic Complex (northern Rila Mountains, Bulgaria)	5
Late Pleistocene Glacial-Paleosol-cosmic record of the Viso Massif—France and Italy: New evidence in support of the Younger Dryas boundary (12.8 ka)	5
Two karst events bounding drastic changes in the Neoproterozoic Tandilia Basin history, Argentina: paleogeographic relevance	5
The Birkhead and Murta formations—organic geochemistry and organic petrography of Mesozoic fluvio-lacustrine source rocks in the Eromanga Basin, central Australia	5
Understanding the two-dimensional quantification of bioturbation intensity through computer modeling and statistical analysis	5
The fluctuation of warm paleoclimatic controls on lacustrine carbonate deposition in the Late Cretaceous (late Santonian), Southern Songliao Basin, Northeast China	5
Paleostress reconstruction of faults recorded in the Niedźwiedzia Cave (Sudetes): insights into Alpine intraplate tectonic of NE Bohemian Massif	5
Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian–Toarcian) marine paleoenvironment in Western Europe: sedimentology, geochemistry and organic petrology of the wells Mainzholzen and Wickensen, Hils Syncline, Lower Saxony	5
Geophysical investigation of the down-dip extension of the Lombador massive sulphide deposit, Neves-Corvo, Portugal	5