OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Earth Sciences 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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	27
Metaconglomerate in the Pinerolo Unit (Dora Maira Massif, Western Alps): a key outcrop for Alpine geology and training structural geologists	23
Aseismic slip on the active Sabz-Pushan and Sepidar thrusts, Iran: microstructural and kinematics evidence of the slickenline fibre creep	21
Petrological and chemical evidence for polybaric differentiation across the preserved middle crustal plutonic column of the Famatinian arc, Argentina	20
Enigmatic well-characterized remanent magnetization of silicified Lower Devonian rocks from the Tadrart area (Murzuq basin, SE Algeria)	20
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	18
Ice rafts, debris flows and slumps along a glaciated basin margin: the Carboniferous El Imperial Formation in the San Rafael basin, western Argentina	18
Petrogenesis and geochemical evolution of Chole basalts, Southeastern Ethiopian Plateau	17
Magma evolution and mineralization of the Baixintan magmatic Ni–Cu sulfide deposit in Eastern Tianshan, Northwestern China	17
Numerical 3D modeling of burial and temperature history, source rock maturity, and hydrocarbon generation in the onshore northeastern Netherlands	16
Structural significance of the Alvand mantled granite-gneiss dome exhumation within the Zagros hinterland fold-and-thrust belt, Iran	15
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	15
Organic geochemical study of Aleksinac oil shale	15
Landslide susceptibility mapping using the uncertain and parameter free density-based clustering (UPFDBCAN) algorithm	15
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	14
Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Eocene–Oligocene interval in the Pabdeh Formation in southwestern Iran	14
Kinematics, strain pattern, and temperature environment of the Yeba shear zone and multistage structural evolution of the Yeba Group	13
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	13
Late Oligocene—Early Miocene shortening in the Thrace Basin, northern Aegean	13
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	13
An ancient analogue of carbonate beach complex: the Upper Triassic limestones of Tran Formation, southwestern Bulgaria	13
Characterisation of an artesian groundwater system in the Valle de Iglesia in the Central Andes of Argentina	13
Correction: An early Cambrian post-rift basin within the Baltica–Iapetus passive margin (north-central Scandinavian Caledonides)	12
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)	12

Is the Yermak Plateau a continental fragment from North America? Constraints from Cretaceous and early Eocene magmatic events	12
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
The Saharides: Turkic-type orogeny in Afro-Arabia	11
Magmatic evolution of the migrating central Urumieh–Dokhtar arc, Iran: implications for magma production	11
Structure of the Muruntau gold ore region in the Kyzyl-Kum desert (Central Asia)	11
Reconsidering Carboniferous–Permian continental paleoenvironments in eastern equatorial Pangea: facies and sequence stratigraphy investigations in the Autun Basin (France)	11
Understanding the two-dimensional quantification of bioturbation intensity through computer modeling and statistical analysis	10
Correction: Terpenoids in resinites from middle Cretaceous karst infillings in the Rhenish Massif (Rhineland, Germany): botanical source and preservation	10
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	10
Rift domains and structural framework of the northwestern Red Sea basin, Egypt	9
Late Palaeozoic extensional volcanism along the northern margin of Gondwana in southern Turkey: implications for Palaeotethyan development	9
Early Permian bimodal magmatism and tectonic evolution of the easternmost Paleo-Asian orogenic system	9
Lateral variations in crustal Lg attenuation in and around the Hangay Dome, Mongolia	9
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	9
Genesis of the Xiaobaishitou tungsten skarn deposit in the East Tianshan, NW China: insights from geology, fluid inclusion and isotopic geochemistry	9
Deformation of salt structures by ice-sheet loading: insights into the controlling parameters from numerical modelling	9
Correction to: The Dababiya Quarry (southeast Luxor, Egypt): a unique palaeogeographical geosite	9
An early Cambrian post-rift basin within the Baltica–Iapetus passive margin (north-central Scandinavian Caledonides)	9
Exhumation of an anatectic complex by channel flow and extrusion tectonics: structural and metamorphic evidence from the Porto–Viseu Metamorphic Belt, Central-Iberian Zone	9
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	9
Carboniferous back-arc extension in the southern Yili-Central Tianshan Block and its significance to the formation of the Kazakhstan Orocline: insights from the Wusun Mountain volcanic belt	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
Detrital composition controlling sandstone diagenesis: the example of the Triassic Bunter sandstone, Germany	8
Tectonic uplift of the Tianshan Mountains since Quaternary: evidence from magnetostratigraphy of the Yili Basin, northwestern China	8
Late Moscovian phylloid algal-microbial mounds from Wadi Araba, north Eastern Desert, Egypt: a new construction model and paleogeographic distribution	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
The late-Variscan high-temperature collisional episode in the southwestern Moldanubian Zone (Bohemian Massif)	8
Estimating the variations and trends of surface skin temperature across the Indus River Basin	8
Generation of multiple low-K granitic magmas in the eastern Qilian orogen, NE Tibetan Plateau: implications for granite genesis and pluton construction	8
Giant (30 km-diameter) silicic caldera of K/Pg boundary age in the northwestern Deccan Traps: the Alech Hills, Saurashtra	8
Extensional magmatism caused by strain partitioning: insights from the mafic dikes hosted in Biesituobie batholith in West Junggar, CAOB	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
Ophiolite derived material as parent rocks for Late Jurassic bauxite: evidence for Tithonian unroofing in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Eastern Alps, Austria)	8
Post-Variscan thermal history of the Boskovice Basin (Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic) based on thermochronology data	7
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	7
Evolution of the Lower Permian Rochlitz volcanic system, Eastern Germany: reconstruction of an intra-continental supereruption	7
Main drivers of drainage pattern development in onshore Makran Accretionary Wedge, SE Iran	7
Provenance and tectonic implications of early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Central Altyn Tagh terrane, southeast of the Tarim craton	7
Opposite facing dipping structure in the uppermost mantle beneath the central Tien Shan from Pn traveltime tomography	7
Speleothems of the Wadi Sannur cave (Eastern Desert, Egypt): a well-preserved archive of paleoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic changes	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
Stable carbon and oxygen isotope records in a Middle Jurassic carbonate sequence: implications for paleoenvironment, and sea-level fluctuation, central Saudi Arabia	6
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	6
Control of anatectic source rock and melt segregation on metal fertility of W–Sn granites in Sirohi region, NW India	6
The detrital zircon record of Variscan to post-Variscan tectonosedimentary and magmatic processes in the Tauern Window (Eastern Alps)	6
Regional mudstone compaction trends in the Vienna Basin: top seal assessment and implications for uplift history	6
REE mineralization related to carbonatites and alkaline magmatism in the northern Tarim basin, NW China: implications for a possible Permian large igneous province	6
Effect of high temperature and strain rate on the elastic modulus of rocks: a review	6
Age and petrogenesis of scapolite gabbro from the Bambuy intrusion (Vitim plateau, Russia) and their tectonic significance	6
Correction: Paleontological and lithological evidence of the late Karpatian to early Badenian marine succession from Medvednica Mountain (Croatia), Central Paratethys	6

Emplacement of shocked basement clasts during crater excavation in the Ries impact structure	6
Permian–Triassic magmatic rocks in the Middle Gobi volcanic-plutonic belt, Mongolia: revisiting the scissor-like closure model of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean	6
A vestige of an Ediacaran magmatic arc in southeast France and its significance for the northern Gondwana margin	6
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	6
From biomolecules and organic matter to sedimentary environments and basin analysis: a special issue in honour of Ralf Littke—an introduction	6
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	6
Valley of Whales, Fayum oasis, Egypt: an Eocene window in the evolution of Cetaceans	6
Exploration of crustal deformation and tectonic interactions in Mexico based on continuous GPS data	6
Active morphogenic faulting and paleostress analyses from the central Nahan Salient, NW Siwalik Himalaya	6
Stratigraphic distribution and structural characteristics of the Meso-Neoproterozoic in southern Ordos Basin, China	6
Kinematic partitioning in the Southern Andes (39° S–46° S) inferred from lineament analysis and reassessment of exhumation rates	6
New constraints on the exhumation history of the western Tauern Window (European Alps) from thermochronology, thermokinematic modeling, and topographic analysis	6
Dating of polyhalite: a difficult 40Ar/39Ar dating tool of diagenetic to very low-grade metamorphic processes	5
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?	5
Is there activity switching among the continental transform faults in the Eastern Mediterranean region?	5
Laevaptychi as reliable paleotemperature archives: high-resolution stable isotope compositions of Kimmeridgian (Jurassic) lamellar structured aspidoceratid lower mandibles from Zengővárkony (Mecsek Mo	5
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	5
Tectonics and fluvial dynamism affecting the Tiber River in Prehistoric Rome	5
The low-grade basement at Península La Carmela, Chilean Patagonia: new data for unraveling the pre-Permian basin nature of the Eastern Andean Metamorphic Complex	5
Correction: Neoarchean continental crust evolution of the southern North China Craton: constrains from geochronology and geochemistry of the Dengfeng complex in the Jishan area	5
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	5
Kalimantan hydroclimate variability since the last glacial period	5
Lithogenesis of a phosphatized tephra marker horizon in the Eocene Messel maar lake	5
Migration of RomUkrSeis WARR data reveals complex basement structure for the area of accretion of Tisza–Dacia microplate to the East European Craton	5
Reuniting the Ötztal Nappe: the tectonic evolution of the Schneeberg Complex	5
Impact of mechanical stratification on the structural style of the Lublin Basin, SE Poland: results of seismic interpretation and implications for quantification of deformation within the frontal part	5
Phase relations and in-situ U-Th-Pbtotal monazite geochronology of Banded Iron Formation, Bundelkhand Craton, North-Central India, and their geodynamic implications	5
Alkaline rocks of the Bobaomby volcanic field point to a petrogenetic link between Comoros and northern Madagascar lithosphere	5
Petrogenetic evolution and thermobarometry of the Late Jurassic La Hoya pluton, early stages of the North Patagonian batholith, southwestern Argentina	4
The structure and subduction relicts of the Changchun–Yanji suture, NE China: new evidence from deep seismic reflection profiling	4
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)	4
Mafic and ultramafic rock fragments on Chios Island, Greece: puzzling pieces within the Tethyan ophiolite belts of the Eastern Mediterranean	4
Palaeozoic high-Ti basalt, an indicator for incipient rifting, at the Saxo-Thuringian passive margin, NE-Bavaria (Germany)	4
The involvement of deep plume-related materials in the South Atlantic Ocean asthenosphere as indicated by isotopic independent component analysis of basalts	4
Use of magnetic fabrics and X-ray diffraction to reveal low strains in experimentally deformed Maggia gneiss	4
Recent activity and paleoseismicity of an intraplate extensional fault: the Calamocha fault (Jiloca graben, central Iberian Chain)	4
Significance of neotectonic and paleoclimatic Late Pleistocene–Holocene travertine and origins: Balkayası, Avanos—Nevsehir, Central Anatolia/Turkey	4
The Quaternary volcanogenic landscape and volcaniclastic sediments of the Netherlands Antilles: markers for an in-active volcanic arc	4
Geochemistry and geochronology of the Neyshabur meta-volcanic rocks, Binalood mountains, NE Iran: witnesses of Paleo-Tethys rifting and closure	4
Two distinct age groups of melilitites, foidites, and basanites from the southern Central European Volcanic Province reflect lithospheric heterogeneity	4
Structural and metamorphic evolution of the southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, southern Iran	4
Rapidly changing environmental conditions in a coastal setting during the Berriasian (“German Wealden”, lower Cretaceous): evidence from biomarker and bulk geochemical data	4
Nitrate sources and their influence on hydrogeochemistry in karst caves of Southwest China	4
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	4
Geophysical and geochemical multi-method investigations for reconstructing subsurfaces, alluvial sedimentology, and structural geology (Tiber valley, Rome)	4
Trace element constraints on the parental melt of gabbroic cumulates from the Naga Ophiolite Complex, North-East India	4
Peñas de Tao geosite: an open door to the recent volcanic history of Lanzarote and a step towards the Moon	4
Biological matter enhanced iron release from shallow marine bioturbated sediments: a case study of Late Cretaceous sandstone, northern Saudi Arabia	4
Organic geochemistry of Palaeogene coals from Greenland and Svalbard	4
Geochemistry of recent sediments of the Kurheri basin, Son River, Madhya Pradesh, Central India: implications for source area weathering, sediment provenance, maturity, and sorting	4
Geochemical vectors to ore and environmental significance at the Chatree epithermal low-sulfidation deposit, Thailand	4
Zircon U–Pb and geochemistry of the north Shahrekord metamorphosed felsic rocks: implications for the Ediacaran–Cambrian tectonic setting of Iran	4
Timing and facies analysis of the Middle Miocene Badenian flood deposits in southern Central Paratethys—insights from KC-4 borehole, western Serbia	4
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	4
Organic geochemical characteristics and organic matter accumulation of the Eocene lacustrine source rock in the Yingxi area, Western Qaidam Basin, China	4
Correction: Zircon trace element fingerprint of changing tectonic regimes in Permian rhyolites from the Central European Lowlands	4
Modeling metamorphosis of the Old Brahmaputra River and associated impacts on landscapes in the Central Bengal Basin, Bangladesh	4
Gold–sulfide mineralization in the Sir Bakis mine area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt	4
Two karst events bounding drastic changes in the Neoproterozoic Tandilia Basin history, Argentina: paleogeographic relevance	4
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)	4
Mineral chemistry, geochemistry and geophysical investigations of Simlipal volcanics from Eoarchean Singhbhum Craton (Eastern India): geodynamic implications of pervasive plume–lithosphere interaction	4
Evidence of lithosphere erosion in the Eastern Indian shield from multi-scale potential field modelling: geodynamic implications	4
Composition and thermal evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Ribeira Belt, SE Brazil: evidence from spinel peridotite xenoliths	4
Protracted carbon burial following the Early Jurassic Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Posidonia Shale, Lower Saxony Basin, Germany)	4
Paleoenvironment and vegetational history of a Middle Pennsylvanian intramontane peat swamp: an example from the Lower Radnice Coal, Kladno coalfield (Czech Republic)	4
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	4
Metallogenesis of the Huangtan Au–Cu–Zn deposit in East Tianshan, NW China: constraints from isotopes (H, O, He, Ar, and S) and Re–Os geochronology	4
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	4
Gondwana sedimentary rocks of Andigama Basin, Sri Lanka: unraveling weathering dynamics, tectonic setting, and paleoclimate	4
Petrochronology of the Dom Feliciano Belt foreland in southernmost Brazil reveals two distinct tectonometamorphic events in the western central Kaoko–Dom Feliciano–Gariep orogen	4
The Bosphorus Volcano: remnants of an ancient volcano on an ancient city	4
Albitization and oxidation of Variscan granitoid rocks related to the post-Variscan paleosurface in the Sudetes (Bohemian Massif, SW Poland)	4
Evidence of Early Permian extension during the post-Variscan evolution of the central Southern Alps (N Italy)	4