OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Comptes Rendus Geoscience is 2. 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
Sedimentary record of the “Austrian” tectonic pulse around the Aptian–Albian boundary in SE France, and abroad	57
First in situ calcite U–Pb dating revealing the past episodes of the 2019 Le Teil Earthquake (France)	29
Mayotte’s seismo-volcanic “crisis” in news accounts (2018–2021)	28
The Anthropocene is shifting the paradigm of geosciences and science	26
Advances in the pilot point inverse method: Où En Sommes-Nous maintenant?	26
Ambient field seismology in critical zone hydrological sciences	24
Scientific response to the 2021–2022 seismic swarm in the Monts Dore volcanic province (France): dynamic insights from temporal surveys (2/2)	23
Geothermal heat advected by the recharge of underground conduit. Case study of the karstic spring of Lez (Hérault, France)	22
Human-Environment Observatories: Foreword	21
Compaction and pore-collapse of chalky limestones from Mururoa atoll	20
Multi-objective assessment of hydrological model performances using Nash–Sutcliffe and Kling–Gupta efficiencies on a worldwide large sample of watersheds	17
Strong interplays between eustacy, nitrogen dynamics, and biodiversification between the Ediacaran and Silurian interval	17
Morphostructural analysis of the Lake Chambon Basin (Eastern Monts Dore, Massif Central, France)	16
The socio-ecological complexity of facing climate change: a case study from Pima County (Arizona, USA)	15
A novel approach to volcano surveillance using gas geochemistry	15
High-level radioactive waste repository: How Geology combined with societal principles can lead to public acceptance—the German experiment	13
OHMi Estarreja: an ecosystem highly anthropized where contamination is the unifying element towards interdisciplinarity	13
Future climate or land use? Attribution of changes in surface runoff in a typical Sahelian landscape	13
Reconstruction of the volcanic history of Grande Comore and volcano-tectonic implications for the Comoros Archipelago	12
Modelling the coupled heterogeneities of the lacustrine microbialite-bearing carbonate reservoir of the Yacoraite Formation (Salta, Argentina)	12
Hydrogen and hydrogen sulphide in volcanic gases: abundance, processes, and atmospheric fluxes	11
A synthesis of copper isotope data for major continental and marine reservoirs	11
Triassic evolution of the Adriatic-Dinaridic platform’s continental margins—insights from rare dolerite subvolcanic intrusions in External Dinarides, Croatia	11
Studying cold regions with ground-penetrating radar: a review	11
Tl-rich pyrite and Sb-rich melnikovite in Montlouis pyrite veins (central armorican domain, Janze, Ille-et-Vilaine; France)	10

New insights from an enhancement of hydrogeological archives of a French karst watershed over the last 50 years	10
Scaling of fractured rock flow. Proposition of indicators for selection of DFN based flow models	10
Special issue Comptes-Rendus Geoscience: The Mayotte seismo-volcanic crisis of 2018–2021 in the eastern Comoros archipelago (Mozambique channel)	10
Integrated stratigraphy of the Jurassic and the Cretaceous: a tribute to Jacques Rey (1940–2018)	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
Challenges and opportunities in atomistic simulations of glasses: a review	9
Natural deformation processes of lower crustal prismatic sillimanite under high to ultra-high temperature conditions highlighted by EBSD investigation	9
Volcanism and tectonics unveiled in the Comoros Archipelago between Africa and Madagascar	9
Köppen–Geiger climate classification across France based on an ensemble of high-resolution climate projections	8
Reactive transport modelling to analyse groundwater flow path in the young oceanic hotspot volcano of Piton des Neiges, Reunion Island (France)	8
Metamorphism and linked deformation in understanding tectonic processes at varied scales	8
Dating volcanic materials through biochronostratigraphic methods applied to hosting strata (example from the Iberian Chain, eastern Spain)	8
Unusual open-system behaviour revealed by LA-MC-ICP-MS U–Th dating of coral and coralline algae bio-carbonates	8
Experimental simulation of high mobility processes and exotic pseudolevitation	8
From subduction to collision and subduction again, the drivers of crustal-scale deformation in the Hellenides-Aegean region	8
Reflections on the role of chemical osmosis mechanisms on the long-term behavior of a collapsed salt cavity	7
Iodine speciation in basaltic melts at depth	7
Molecular fossils of Aptian–Albian blue marls of the Vocontian Basin (France), depositional conditions and connections to the Tethys Ocean	7
Volcano-tectonic structures of Mayotte’s upper submarine slope: insights from high-resolution bathymetry and in-situ imagery from a deep-towed camera	7
Observing social and environmental change in a large regulated river: the Rhône Valley Human-Environment Observatory	7
Extensional forearc structures at the transition from Alaska to Aleutian Subduction Zone: slip partitioning, terranes and large earthquakes	7
Foreword to New developments in passive seismic imaging and monitoring	7
Toward the calibration of 2D thermomechanical simulations of magma poor passive continental margins: method, validation and case example	7
Revisiting shallow glauconite factories: intertwined fates of glauconite and iron	7
The Brécy depocenter as part of a new northern Massif Central Carboniferous–Permian Basin (France)	7
Hard rock aquifer architecture and water circulation levels in the Strengbach critical zone observatory (France)	7
Ground deformation monitoring of the eruption offshore Mayotte	6
Vitrification of wastes: from unwanted to controlled crystallization, a review	6
Assessing the salinization mechanisms of coastal brackish springs	6
Analogue modelling of sedimentary breccias in a talus slope with or without extension—comparison with a natural case	6
Exploring the critical zone of a tropical megacity: insights from environmental magnetism	6
Alternative crossings into and out of Africa since 30,000 BP	6
Fluvial terrace formation in mountainous areas: (1) Influence of climate changes during the last glacial cycle in Albania	6
Did lunar tides sustain the early Earth’s dynamo?	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	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
Initial results from a hydroacoustic network to monitor submarine lava flows near Mayotte Island	5
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
Pitfalls of space-time trading when parametrizing a land use dependent hydrological model	5
Pliensbachian ammonites from Southern Vendée (France). Toward the individualization of an Atlantic paleobiogeographic region	5
Methodological advances in seismic noise imaging of the Alpine area	4
Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigations	4
Glass, an ubiquitous material	4
Recent advances in petrochronology: from dates to ages and rates of deep orogenic processes	4
Water cycle modelling strengthened by probabilistic integration of field data for groundwater management of a quite unknown tropical volcanic hydrosystem	4
Rivers help us to quantify the socio-ecological functioning of their basin at the Anthropocene: the Seine example (1850–2020)	4
Enhanced continental weathering ( δ	4
Synthesis of micropaleontological age constraints for the reconstruction of the Tethyan realm in the Lesser Caucasus (Armenia, Karabagh)	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
Multiscale modeling of reservoir systems using geostatistical methods	4
A hydrogeological acrostic: in honour of Ghislain de Marsily	4
How the origin of sedimentary organic matter impacts the benthic nutrient fluxes in shallow coastal mudflats	4
Scientific response to the 2021–2022 seismic swarm in the Monts Dore volcanic province (France): structural insights from punctual surveys (1/2)	4
The composition of gas emissions at Petite Terre (Mayotte, Comoros): inference on magmatic fingerprints	4
First evidence of sinter and travertine in Cameroon: fault reactivation and geothermal implications	4
Compositional changes of dissolved organic matter during high flow events in headwater catchments along a gradient of climate and land use	3
Data and models reveal humid environmental conditions during MIS 3 in two of the world’s largest deserts	3
What is the impact of roots on GPR data? A synthetic study of the soil-plant continuum	3
The metabasalts from the greenstone belt of the Lebzenia group in the Tasiast complex, Mauritania, and their geodynamic implications	3
Plastics on the rocks: the invisible but harmful footprint of shoe soles	3
Thio and selenosilicates, sulfide and selenide counterparts of silicates: similarities and differences	3
Coastal karst aquifers and submarine springs: what future for their water resources?	3
An outlook on the rapid decline of carbon sequestration and perspectives for an improved monitoring of French forests	3
Water solution mechanism in calcium aluminosilicate glasses and melts: insights from in and ex situ Raman and	3
Literature & Geosciences: Jules Verne’s geological novels, from the 19th to the 21st century	3
Heat flow measurements in the Northern Mozambique Channel	3
Dynamic regimes in planetary cores: τ	3
Influence of volatiles (H	3
The Ordovician strata of the Ennedi Plateau, northeastern Chad (Erdi Basin)	3
Rifting and seafloor spreading in the South China sea: a subduction-related extension on the down-going plate?	3
Experimental evidence for the shallow production of phonolitic magmas at Mayotte	3
Automatic detection for a comprehensive view of Mayotte seismicity	3
Estimating theoretical stress regime for engineered geothermal energy systems in an arctic community (Kuujjuaq, Canada)	3
Constraining sulphur yields of trachytic and phonolitic volcanic eruptions: Tambora, Vesuvius, Laacher See and Campi Flegrei	3
Sea-level scenarios aligned with the 3rd adaptation plan in France	3
The Provence Coalfield: trajectory, assessment and prospective	3
Comparison of three recent discrete stochastic inversion methods and influence of the prior choice	3
Solid-state mantle convection coupled with a crystallising basal magma ocean	3
Alpine, Variscan, eo-Variscan belts: comparison between hot and cold orogens from the examples of French segments	3
The absolute seawater entropy: Part II. Case studies	3
Investigating the lateral resolution of the Rayleigh wave focal spot imaging technique using two-dimensional acoustic simulations	2
Urban emergence in inuit territory: impacts on the Nunavik socio-ecosystem	2
Avant-propos	2
Assessing climatic control on erosion dynamics in alpine glacial cirques: evidence from the Neoglacial and Younger Dryas periods	2
Unaccountable counting: the folly of incorporating open ocean carbon sinks in Nationally Determined Contributions	2
Onset of a submarine eruption east of Mayotte, Comoros archipelago: the first ten months seismicity of the seismo-volcanic sequence (2018–2019)	2
Temporal and spatial heterogeneity of the Ailaoshan–Song Ma–Song Chay ophiolitic mélange, and its significance on the evolution of Paleo-Tethys	2
Timing, sequence, duration and rate of deformation in fold-and-thrust belts: a review of traditional approaches and recent advances from absolute dating (K–Ar illite/U–Pb calcite) of brittle structure	2
La crise écologique comme fait social. Penser le gouvernement de la transition avec les sciences sociales	2
Tethys and Apulia (Adria), 100 years of reconstructions	2
The rose of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris: sophisticated stained glasses for late medieval painters	2
Tectonic underplating at intermediate depths in subduction zones: structural and geochronological evidence preserved in Corsican ophiolites	2
Land drainage functioning and hydrological impacts in rural catchments: model development and field experiments	2
The interplay of geology, climate and tectonics on river incision: the example of the High Verdon Gorges, Southwestern French Alps	2
Heat flow, thermal anomalies, tectonic regimes and high-temperature geothermal systems in fault zones	2
An innovative experimental device to quantify the water relative permeability and in situ water retention curves of unconsolidated porous media	2
Seismic damage scenarios for Mayotte: a tool for disaster management	2
On the (im)possible validation of hydrogeological models	2
Advances in agrogeophysics: geophysical monitoring of the fresh–saline water interface in an agricultural field in the Belgian polders	2
Dynamic of seismic noise sources in the Mediterranean Sea: implication for monitoring using noise correlations	2
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Death and taphonomy of Holocene stromatolites from Lagoa Vermelha, Brazil	2
The European Alps in a changing climate: physical trends and impacts	2
Predictability of water resources with global climate models. Case of Northern Tunisia	2
Accretion versus erosion and sediment transfer balance near the subduction interface	2
An underground view of surface hydrology: what can piezometers tell us about river floods and droughts?	2
Cokriging of transmissivity from head measurements revisited in the case of two quasi steady state flows	2
Opportune detections of global P-wave propagation from microseisms interferometry	2