OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comptes Rendus Geoscience is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Anthropocene is shifting the paradigm of geosciences and science	65
Scientific response to the 2021–2022 seismic swarm in the Monts Dore volcanic province (France): dynamic insights from temporal surveys (2/2)	35
Sedimentary record of the “Austrian” tectonic pulse around the Aptian–Albian boundary in SE France, and abroad	32
First in situ calcite U–Pb dating revealing the past episodes of the 2019 Le Teil Earthquake (France)	30
Mayotte’s seismo-volcanic “crisis” in news accounts (2018–2021)	28
Advances in the pilot point inverse method: Où En Sommes-Nous maintenant?	26
Ambient field seismology in critical zone hydrological sciences	25
Geothermal heat advected by the recharge of underground conduit. Case study of the karstic spring of Lez (Hérault, France)	23
Human-Environment Observatories: Foreword	22
Strong interplays between eustacy, nitrogen dynamics, and biodiversification between the Ediacaran and Silurian interval	19
Compaction and pore-collapse of chalky limestones from Mururoa atoll	18
Morphostructural analysis of the Lake Chambon Basin (Eastern Monts Dore, Massif Central, France)	17
Multi-objective assessment of hydrological model performances using Nash–Sutcliffe and Kling–Gupta efficiencies on a worldwide large sample of watersheds	17
A novel approach to volcano surveillance using gas geochemistry	16
OHMi Estarreja: an ecosystem highly anthropized where contamination is the unifying element towards interdisciplinarity	16
Modelling the coupled heterogeneities of the lacustrine microbialite-bearing carbonate reservoir of the Yacoraite Formation (Salta, Argentina)	14
High-level radioactive waste repository: How Geology combined with societal principles can lead to public acceptance—the German experiment	14
The socio-ecological complexity of facing climate change: a case study from Pima County (Arizona, USA)	13
Future climate or land use? Attribution of changes in surface runoff in a typical Sahelian landscape	13
Triassic evolution of the Adriatic-Dinaridic platform’s continental margins—insights from rare dolerite subvolcanic intrusions in External Dinarides, Croatia	13
Scaling of fractured rock flow. Proposition of indicators for selection of DFN based flow models	12
A synthesis of copper isotope data for major continental and marine reservoirs	12
Tl-rich pyrite and Sb-rich melnikovite in Montlouis pyrite veins (central armorican domain, Janze, Ille-et-Vilaine; France)	12
Special issue Comptes-Rendus Geoscience: The Mayotte seismo-volcanic crisis of 2018–2021 in the eastern Comoros archipelago (Mozambique channel)	11
Studying cold regions with ground-penetrating radar: a review	10

Hydrogen and hydrogen sulphide in volcanic gases: abundance, processes, and atmospheric fluxes	10
Reconstruction of the volcanic history of Grande Comore and volcano-tectonic implications for the Comoros Archipelago	10
New insights from an enhancement of hydrogeological archives of a French karst watershed over the last 50 years	10
Natural deformation processes of lower crustal prismatic sillimanite under high to ultra-high temperature conditions highlighted by EBSD investigation	10
Toward the calibration of 2D thermomechanical simulations of magma poor passive continental margins: method, validation and case example	9
Challenges and opportunities in atomistic simulations of glasses: a review	9
Integrated stratigraphy of the Jurassic and the Cretaceous: a tribute to Jacques Rey (1940–2018)	9
Unusual open-system behaviour revealed by LA-MC-ICP-MS U–Th dating of coral and coralline algae bio-carbonates	9
Reflections on the role of chemical osmosis mechanisms on the long-term behavior of a collapsed salt cavity	9
Volcanism and tectonics unveiled in the Comoros Archipelago between Africa and Madagascar	9
Reactive transport modelling to analyse groundwater flow path in the young oceanic hotspot volcano of Piton des Neiges, Reunion Island (France)	9
Experimental simulation of high mobility processes and exotic pseudolevitation	9
Effects of oxidative weathering on Raman spectra of charcoal and bone chars: consequences in archaeology and paleothermometry	9
The East-Mayotte new volcano in the Comoros Archipelago: structure and timing of magmatic phases inferred from seismic reflection data	9
Assessing the salinization mechanisms of coastal brackish springs	8
Volcano-tectonic structures of Mayotte’s upper submarine slope: insights from high-resolution bathymetry and in-situ imagery from a deep-towed camera	8
Iodine speciation in basaltic melts at depth	8
Observing social and environmental change in a large regulated river: the Rhône Valley Human-Environment Observatory	8
Dating volcanic materials through biochronostratigraphic methods applied to hosting strata (example from the Iberian Chain, eastern Spain)	8
Metamorphism and linked deformation in understanding tectonic processes at varied scales	8
Revisiting shallow glauconite factories: intertwined fates of glauconite and iron	8
Köppen–Geiger climate classification across France based on an ensemble of high-resolution climate projections	8
From subduction to collision and subduction again, the drivers of crustal-scale deformation in the Hellenides-Aegean region	8
Hard rock aquifer architecture and water circulation levels in the Strengbach critical zone observatory (France)	8
Vitrification of wastes: from unwanted to controlled crystallization, a review	7
Did lunar tides sustain the early Earth’s dynamo?	7
Molecular fossils of Aptian–Albian blue marls of the Vocontian Basin (France), depositional conditions and connections to the Tethys Ocean	7
Foreword to New developments in passive seismic imaging and monitoring	7
Exploring the critical zone of a tropical megacity: insights from environmental magnetism	7
Extensional forearc structures at the transition from Alaska to Aleutian Subduction Zone: slip partitioning, terranes and large earthquakes	7
The Brécy depocenter as part of a new northern Massif Central Carboniferous–Permian Basin (France)	7
Alternative crossings into and out of Africa since 30,000 BP	6
Analogue modelling of sedimentary breccias in a talus slope with or without extension—comparison with a natural case	6
Initial results from a hydroacoustic network to monitor submarine lava flows near Mayotte Island	6
Fluvial terrace formation in mountainous areas: (1) Influence of climate changes during the last glacial cycle in Albania	6
Intertwined fates of iron-bearing, authigenic minerals during early diagenesis of sandy marine deposits: glauconite, pyrite and magnetite as a fleeting memory of the early days	6
Ground deformation monitoring of the eruption offshore Mayotte	6
Insights on the Permian tuff beds from the Saint-Affrique Basin (Massif Central, France): an integrated geochemical and geochronological study	5
Ecosystem transformation by climate change and its consequences for humans	5
Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigations	5
Glass, an ubiquitous material	5
Geophysical time series forecasting at the Piton de la Fournaise volcano by machine learning	5
Pitfalls of space-time trading when parametrizing a land use dependent hydrological model	5
A hydrogeological acrostic: in honour of Ghislain de Marsily	5
The Iriba alkaline basalts, an expression of mantle-derived Cretaceous magmatism of the Cameroon-Chad volcanic line along the Central Africa Rift System	5
How the origin of sedimentary organic matter impacts the benthic nutrient fluxes in shallow coastal mudflats	5
Pliensbachian ammonites from Southern Vendée (France). Toward the individualization of an Atlantic paleobiogeographic region	5
Enhanced continental weathering ( δ	5
Rivers help us to quantify the socio-ecological functioning of their basin at the Anthropocene: the Seine example (1850–2020)	5
Methodological advances in seismic noise imaging of the Alpine area	5

Compositional changes of dissolved organic matter during high flow events in headwater catchments along a gradient of climate and land use	4
An outlook on the rapid decline of carbon sequestration and perspectives for an improved monitoring of French forests	4
The Asselian palynoflora from the Autunian series (Muse oil-shale beds, Autun Basin, France): new insights on early Permian equatorial palaeoflora and palaeoenvironments	4
Synthesis of micropaleontological age constraints for the reconstruction of the Tethyan realm in the Lesser Caucasus (Armenia, Karabagh)	4
Water solution mechanism in calcium aluminosilicate glasses and melts: insights from in and ex situ Raman and	4
Automatic detection for a comprehensive view of Mayotte seismicity	4
Experimental evidence for the shallow production of phonolitic magmas at Mayotte	4
Scientific response to the 2021–2022 seismic swarm in the Monts Dore volcanic province (France): structural insights from punctual surveys (1/2)	4
Multiscale modeling of reservoir systems using geostatistical methods	4
The composition of gas emissions at Petite Terre (Mayotte, Comoros): inference on magmatic fingerprints	4
Data and models reveal humid environmental conditions during MIS 3 in two of the world’s largest deserts	4
What is the impact of roots on GPR data? A synthetic study of the soil-plant continuum	4
The absolute seawater entropy: Part II. Case studies	4
Estimating theoretical stress regime for engineered geothermal energy systems in an arctic community (Kuujjuaq, Canada)	4
Water cycle modelling strengthened by probabilistic integration of field data for groundwater management of a quite unknown tropical volcanic hydrosystem	4
First evidence of sinter and travertine in Cameroon: fault reactivation and geothermal implications	4
Recent advances in petrochronology: from dates to ages and rates of deep orogenic processes	4
Rifting and seafloor spreading in the South China sea: a subduction-related extension on the down-going plate?	3
The metabasalts from the greenstone belt of the Lebzenia group in the Tasiast complex, Mauritania, and their geodynamic implications	3
Heat flow measurements in the Northern Mozambique Channel	3
Plastics on the rocks: the invisible but harmful footprint of shoe soles	3
The interplay of geology, climate and tectonics on river incision: the example of the High Verdon Gorges, Southwestern French Alps	3
Investigating the lateral resolution of the Rayleigh wave focal spot imaging technique using two-dimensional acoustic simulations	3
Death and taphonomy of Holocene stromatolites from Lagoa Vermelha, Brazil	3
Predictability of water resources with global climate models. Case of Northern Tunisia	3
Coastal karst aquifers and submarine springs: what future for their water resources?	3
Solid-state mantle convection coupled with a crystallising basal magma ocean	3
Constraining sulphur yields of trachytic and phonolitic volcanic eruptions: Tambora, Vesuvius, Laacher See and Campi Flegrei	3
The Ordovician strata of the Ennedi Plateau, northeastern Chad (Erdi Basin)	3
Influence of volatiles (H	3
Assessing climatic control on erosion dynamics in alpine glacial cirques: evidence from the Neoglacial and Younger Dryas periods	3
The Provence Coalfield: trajectory, assessment and prospective	3
Comparison of three recent discrete stochastic inversion methods and influence of the prior choice	3
Alpine, Variscan, eo-Variscan belts: comparison between hot and cold orogens from the examples of French segments	3
Dynamic regimes in planetary cores: τ	3
Sea-level scenarios aligned with the 3rd adaptation plan in France	3
The European Alps in a changing climate: physical trends and impacts	3
Unaccountable counting: the folly of incorporating open ocean carbon sinks in Nationally Determined Contributions	3
Land drainage functioning and hydrological impacts in rural catchments: model development and field experiments	3
Thio and selenosilicates, sulfide and selenide counterparts of silicates: similarities and differences	3