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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Petrological and chemical evidence for polybaric differentiation across the preserved middle crustal plutonic column of the Famatinian arc, Argentina	27
Enigmatic well-characterized remanent magnetization of silicified Lower Devonian rocks from the Tadrart area (Murzuq basin, SE Algeria)	22
Paleocurrent analysis and paleogeography of the Biele Karpaty Unit (Magura Nappe, Outer Western Carpathians)	21
Liquefaction-induced structures, Hammam Faroun Block, Gulf of Suez rift, Egypt: possible rift-related Neogene seismites	19
Petrogenesis and geochemical evolution of Chole basalts, Southeastern Ethiopian Plateau	19
Landslide susceptibility mapping using the uncertain and parameter free density-based clustering (UPFDBCAN) algorithm	17
Organic geochemical study of Aleksinac oil shale	17
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	16
Magma evolution and mineralization of the Baixintan magmatic Ni–Cu sulfide deposit in Eastern Tianshan, Northwestern China	16
Ice rafts, debris flows and slumps along a glaciated basin margin: the Carboniferous El Imperial Formation in the San Rafael basin, western Argentina	15
Numerical 3D modeling of burial and temperature history, source rock maturity, and hydrocarbon generation in the onshore northeastern Netherlands	15
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	14
Correction: An early Cambrian post-rift basin within the Baltica–Iapetus passive margin (north-central Scandinavian Caledonides)	14
Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Eocene–Oligocene interval in the Pabdeh Formation in southwestern Iran	14
Is the Yermak Plateau a continental fragment from North America? Constraints from Cretaceous and early Eocene magmatic events	14
Kinematics, strain pattern, and temperature environment of the Yeba shear zone and multistage structural evolution of the Yeba Group	13
Holocene paleoseismicity of the Mörtsjö fault system, Hälsingland, central Sweden	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
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)	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
Geographical distribution and cementation characteristics of beachrocks in the tropical Asian region	11
Structure of the Muruntau gold ore region in the Kyzyl-Kum desert (Central Asia)	11
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	10
Rift domains and structural framework of the northwestern Red Sea basin, Egypt	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
An early Cambrian post-rift basin within the Baltica–Iapetus passive margin (north-central Scandinavian Caledonides)	10
Magmatic evolution of the migrating central Urumieh–Dokhtar arc, Iran: implications for magma production	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	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
Early Permian bimodal magmatism and tectonic evolution of the easternmost Paleo-Asian orogenic system	9
Reconsidering Carboniferous–Permian continental paleoenvironments in eastern equatorial Pangea: facies and sequence stratigraphy investigations in the Autun Basin (France)	9
Holocene hydroclimatic changes inferred from a mountainous lake sedimentary record on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	9
Fast arc retreat in the eastern Mediterranean: constraints from late Campanian forearc deposits (Donousa, Greece)	9
Deformation of salt structures by ice-sheet loading: insights into the controlling parameters from numerical modelling	9
Fractal analysis and geochemical characterization of mafic magmatic enclaves in the Kathalguri Pluton, Mikir Massif (Northeast India): implications for Pan-African bimodal magmatism	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
Estimating the variations and trends of surface skin temperature across the Indus River Basin	8
Tectonic uplift of the Tianshan Mountains since Quaternary: evidence from magnetostratigraphy of the Yili Basin, northwestern China	8
Lateral variations in crustal Lg attenuation in and around the Hangay Dome, Mongolia	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
Detrital composition controlling sandstone diagenesis: the example of the Triassic Bunter sandstone, Germany	8
Geometrical analysis of the 3-D structure of the western Tauern Window (European Eastern Alps)	8
Extensional magmatism caused by strain partitioning: insights from the mafic dikes hosted in Biesituobie batholith in West Junggar, CAOB	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
Speleothems of the Wadi Sannur cave (Eastern Desert, Egypt): a well-preserved archive of paleoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic changes	8
Main drivers of drainage pattern development in onshore Makran Accretionary Wedge, SE Iran	8
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
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
From biomolecules and organic matter to sedimentary environments and basin analysis: a special issue in honour of Ralf Littke—an introduction	7
The late-Variscan high-temperature collisional episode in the southwestern Moldanubian Zone (Bohemian Massif)	7
Control of anatectic source rock and melt segregation on metal fertility of W–Sn granites in Sirohi region, NW India	7
Valley of Whales, Fayum oasis, Egypt: an Eocene window in the evolution of Cetaceans	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
Active morphogenic faulting and paleostress analyses from the central Nahan Salient, NW Siwalik Himalaya	7
Correction to: Fe isotope fractionation and geochemical evolution of Triassic granitoids in the Eastern Kunlun Orogen, NW China	7
Contact metamorphism and dolomitization overprint on Cambrian carbonates from the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberian Massif): implications to Sr-chronology of carbonate rocks	7
Age and petrogenesis of scapolite gabbro from the Bambuy intrusion (Vitim plateau, Russia) and their tectonic significance	7
Post-Variscan thermal history of the Boskovice Basin (Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic) based on thermochronology data	7
Opposite facing dipping structure in the uppermost mantle beneath the central Tien Shan from Pn traveltime tomography	7
Emplacement of shocked basement clasts during crater excavation in the Ries impact structure	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
Exploration of crustal deformation and tectonic interactions in Mexico based on continuous GPS data	7
Correction: Paleontological and lithological evidence of the late Karpatian to early Badenian marine succession from Medvednica Mountain (Croatia), Central Paratethys	7
Stable carbon and oxygen isotope records in a Middle Jurassic carbonate sequence: implications for paleoenvironment, and sea-level fluctuation, central Saudi Arabia	7
Is there activity switching among the continental transform faults in the Eastern Mediterranean region?	6
Migration of RomUkrSeis WARR data reveals complex basement structure for the area of accretion of Tisza–Dacia microplate to the East European Craton	6
The detrital zircon record of Variscan to post-Variscan tectonosedimentary and magmatic processes in the Tauern Window (Eastern Alps)	6
Dating of polyhalite: a difficult 40Ar/39Ar dating tool of diagenetic to very low-grade metamorphic processes	6
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
Correction: Neoarchean continental crust evolution of the southern North China Craton: constrains from geochronology and geochemistry of the Dengfeng complex in the Jishan area	6
Ocean paleo-redox condition during early Lomagundi-Jatuli event: records from major and trace element proxies in carbonate rocks of the Aravalli Supergroup, India	6

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?	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
Lithogenesis of a phosphatized tephra marker horizon in the Eocene Messel maar lake	6
Regional mudstone compaction trends in the Vienna Basin: top seal assessment and implications for uplift history	6
A vestige of an Ediacaran magmatic arc in southeast France and its significance for the northern Gondwana margin	6
Stratigraphic distribution and structural characteristics of the Meso-Neoproterozoic in southern Ordos Basin, China	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
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
Laevaptychi as reliable paleotemperature archives: high-resolution stable isotope compositions of Kimmeridgian (Jurassic) lamellar structured aspidoceratid lower mandibles from Zengővárkony (Mecsek Mo	6
Interpretation of dike emplacement from AMS data: a case study of early carboniferous mafic dike swarms from the Famatina System, La Rioja, Argentina	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
Recent activity and paleoseismicity of an intraplate extensional fault: the Calamocha fault (Jiloca graben, central Iberian Chain)	5
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	5
Alkaline rocks of the Bobaomby volcanic field point to a petrogenetic link between Comoros and northern Madagascar lithosphere	5
Two distinct age groups of melilitites, foidites, and basanites from the southern Central European Volcanic Province reflect lithospheric heterogeneity	5
The structure and subduction relicts of the Changchun–Yanji suture, NE China: new evidence from deep seismic reflection profiling	5
Protracted carbon burial following the Early Jurassic Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Posidonia Shale, Lower Saxony Basin, Germany)	5
Gondwana sedimentary rocks of Andigama Basin, Sri Lanka: unraveling weathering dynamics, tectonic setting, and paleoclimate	5
Palaeozoic high-Ti basalt, an indicator for incipient rifting, at the Saxo-Thuringian passive margin, NE-Bavaria (Germany)	5
Kalimantan hydroclimate variability since the last glacial period	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
Zircon U–Pb and geochemistry of the north Shahrekord metamorphosed felsic rocks: implications for the Ediacaran–Cambrian tectonic setting of Iran	5
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)	5
Fluid-induced alteration and associated rare-earth elements (REEs) distribution in accessory minerals in Mayong granite, Shillong Plateau, northeast India	5
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	5
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
The Bosphorus Volcano: remnants of an ancient volcano on an ancient city	5
Organic geochemical characteristics and organic matter accumulation of the Eocene lacustrine source rock in the Yingxi area, Western Qaidam Basin, China	5
Geochemistry and geochronology of the Neyshabur meta-volcanic rocks, Binalood mountains, NE Iran: witnesses of Paleo-Tethys rifting and closure	5
Mafic and ultramafic rock fragments on Chios Island, Greece: puzzling pieces within the Tethyan ophiolite belts of the Eastern Mediterranean	5
Trace element constraints on the parental melt of gabbroic cumulates from the Naga Ophiolite Complex, North-East India	5
Correction: Zircon trace element fingerprint of changing tectonic regimes in Permian rhyolites from the Central European Lowlands	5