OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Palaeoworld 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A second progonocimicid (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha) from the middle Cretaceous Kachin amber of Myanmar	17
Earliest upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) record of bivalve Pinna (Pinnidae) from the Kopet-Dagh Basin, northeastern Iran and its possible predators	16
Caenogastropoda and Stylommatophora (Gastropoda) from the mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber of East Asia	15
Small cornulitids from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of Estonia	14
New fossil woods from the middle Eocene climate optimum of north-central Turkey	14
New record of Brachyoxylon wood from the Lower Cretaceous of Qingyuan, southeastern China and its palaeoclimatic implications	14
Impact of the onset of Late Cretaceous Deccan volcanism on flora and climate: Palynofloral and megafloral evidence	13
New Jurassic notocupedins (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae) from the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau	13
Unraveling the Early Devonian provenance of the Longmenshan region through detrital zircon records: Implications for floral differentiation in South China	12
The Early Ordovician (Floian) bathyurid trilobite Jimlochaspis n. gen., with species from western Utah and Greenland	11
New Mammutidae material from Yushe Basin (southeastern Shanxi, China) and their implications for Mammut evolution	11
Holocene palaeoenvironments of southern Sikhote-Alin Mountains (southern Far East), reconstructed from palaeontological data	10
Book review	9
Conodonts across the Lochkovian/Pragian boundary in central Guangxi, South China	9
Editorial Board	9
New material of Brachyhyops neimongolensis (Artiodactyla, Entelodontidae) from the upper Eocene in Jeminay, Xinjiang, China	9
Widespread Thalassinoides facies from the upper Silurian of South China: A case study from the northwestern Hunan Province, middle to upper Yangtze Block	9
Can the occurrence of the ammonite genus Hildoglochiceras Spath serve as an early Tithonian marker event?	9
Editorial Board	9
Anatomy and paleoclimatic implications of Cenozoic Coryphoideae palm wood species in Egypt	8
Middle Ordovician trilobites from the Zhongpu Formation, Yongdeng, Gansu and their palaeobiogeographic implications from quantitative morphometric analysis	8
First Caliscelidae planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	8
Parasitic hump-backed flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Miocene ambers	8
Integrated biostratigraphy for the Santonian/Campanian boundary interval, the Kurdistan Region, northeast Iraq	8
Early Permian (Asselian) flora from the Talchir Formation, Son Basin, India: Biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental implications	8

Review and update on the applications of inertinite macerals in coal geology, paleoclimatology, and paleoecology	8
A new Trapa from the middle Miocene of Zhangpu, Fujian, southeastern China	8
A new record of late Permian (Wuchiapingian) ammonoid Stacheoceras from an exotic limestone block in the Yarlung-Zangbo Suture Zone, South Xizang (Tibet), China	8
New Ediacaran tubular fossils from southern Shaanxi, China	8
The bivalved arthropod Caudicaella aff. bispinata from the Heatherdale Shale (Cambrian Stage 3), South Australia	8
Macroalgal fossil Longfengshania from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang and Jiuliqiao formations in western Shandong and northern Anhui, North China	8
Middle to late Maastrichtian planktonic foraminifera from the Gongzha section in Dingri area, southern Xizang, China	8
Editorial Board	8
New fishes from the Viséan–Serpukhovian boundary beds (Carboniferous) of the Verkhnyaya Kardailovka section (South Urals, Russia)	7
Palaeoenvironmental implications of a turritelline-dominated assemblage from Upper Cretaceous carbonate rocks of Narmada Basin, India	7
Taxonomy and evolutionary implications of a new fossil stonefly family (Insecta, Plecoptera) from Middle Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar	7
Miocene Equisetum tubers from the Wulan Basin, Northeast Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and their paleoecological significance	7
Deposition of fluorite in xylem cells of a new enigmatic seed plant from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil	7
Coniferous woods from the Albian (Piedra Clavada Formation) of Argentine Patagonia	7
Dating of Early Triassic Chaohu Fauna by precise U-Pb age constraints: Temporal calibration of the emergence and first radiation of Mesozoic marine reptiles	7
Editorial Board	7
Taxonomy and significance of the Aptian ammonite complex Vergunniceras Thomel, 1980 and Paracheloniceras Collignon, 1962, and a new subfamily Paracheloniceratinae	7
Terreneuvian skeletonized microfossils from the Central Iberian Zone (Spain) and correlation of the Fortunian Stage throughout southwestern Europe	7
Palynological succession in Gzhelian No. 8 Thick Coal of the Taiyuan Formation, Ordos Basin, North China	7
First record of Soergelia (Bovidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from East Asia: Implications for its taxonomy, evolution, and dispersal history	7
Editorial Board	7
… and the devil is in the details: A response to Furió et al. (2024)	7
New material of heteromorph ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous of Lhozhag County, southern Tibet and its biostratigraphic implications	7
On the systematic position of the Early Cretaceous fern genus “Athyrium”	7
FossilMorph: A new tool for fossil automatic measurement and statistical analysis	6
Potential pollinators and paleoecological aspects of Eocene Ludwigia (Onagraceae) from Eckfeld, Germany	6
Upper Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) radiolarians from Rybaki Section, Moscow Region, Central Russia	6
Hybodontiform sharks from Middle Triassic Chang 7 Member of the Ordos Basin, Shaanxi, North China: palaeobiological and palaeoecological significances	6
New fossils reveal the Paleogene establishment of relict Craigia (Malvaceae) in its extant range	6
A gorgonopsian from the Wutonggou Formation (Changhsingian, Permian) of Turpan Basin, Xinjiang, China	6
A new genus of Neoliodidae (Acariformes: Oribatida) from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber and Azarliodes andreneli n. comb.	6
Phylogenetic evolution of Neorotalia mecatepecensis to Miogypsinidae from Rajamandala Formation, West Java, Indonesia	6
Actinopterygians from the continental Permian–Triassic boundary section at Babiy Kamen (Kuznetsk Basin, Siberia, Russia)	6
Guangyuanichnus majianus n. igen. n. isp., a large, complex burrow system from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Formation of the northwestern Yangtze platform, South China	6
Editorial Board	6
Lutetian–Bartonian (Middle Eocene) micropalaeontology, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Mengen Coal Basin, Northwest Türkiye (Turkey)	6
Type and evolution of the Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous basin at the northern margin of the Lhasa Block: constraints of sedimentary characteristics and provenance tracing based on zircon U-Pb ages	5
A probable hyalonematid sponge (Hexactinellida: Amphidiscophora) from the Middle Ordovician of the Builth Inlier, Wales	5
Lebanese amber: A glimpse into the origins of Recent terrestrial biodiversity	5
Middle to Upper Ordovician stable carbon isotope stratigraphy and sedimentary facies in the Shunbei and Tahe areas, northern-central Tarim, China	5
Devonian Lingulichnus and in situ lingulids: Taphonomy and paleoenvironments of preservation	5
Short-term climate and vegetation dynamics in Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) during early Eocene	5
Cretaceous climate variations indicated by palynoflora in South China	5
New records of barklice (Psocodea, Empheriidae) from the Bqaatouta and Baskinta amber (early Barremian, Early Cretaceous) in Lebanon	5
A novel gymnosperm reproductive organ from the Jurassic of China	5
New data on the Cambrian–Ordovician (Tremadocian) conodont biostratigraphy of Guizhou Province, Southwest China	5
First complete Niobe yangtzeensis Lu, 1975 (Asaphidae, Trilobita) from the Middle Ordovician of South China, and its systematic and palaeogeographic implications	5
Fossil involucres and a nutlet of Ostrya (Betulaceae) from the upper Eocene of Shaanxi and their biogeographic implications	5
A new skull of early cetacean Remingtonocetus harudiensis from the Eocene of Kutch Basin, India	5
New larval records of the extinct hard tick Compluriscutula vetulum (Arachnida: Ixodida) from Burmese amber, with notes on its morphology	5

Radula heinrichsii (Radulaceae, Porellales), a leafy liverwort from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar	5
Late Darriwilian–early Katian (Ordovician) ostracods of northeastern Yunnan, Southwest China	5
A new late Katian (Late Ordovician) trilobite association from Zhenxiong, northeastern Yunnan, Southwest China and its palaeoecological implications	5
First fossil record of Brachyptera (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) in Eocene Baltic amber	5
First fossil record of Canarium (Burseraceae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian, southeastern China and its paleoecological implications	5
Bridging the Jurassic seas: Rare middle Bathonian Cenoceras nautilids reveal western Europe-southern Poland connections	5
A new silicified plectorthoid brachiopod from the upper Furongian (Stage 10) Ninmaroo Formation at Black Mountain, western Queensland, Australia	5
Fossilized soft tissues in tentaculitids from the Upper Devonian of Armenia: Towards solving the mystery of their phylogenetic affinities	5
Dinocrocuta gigantea from the Upper Miocene site of Eldari, Azerbaijan	5
A basal member of Capitosauria from the Lower Triassic Heshanggou Formation, China	5
Systematic revision of Onaraspis Öpik, 1968 (Trilobita) and related genera from Cambrian Series 2 of the Iberian Chains (Northeast Spain)	5
The disappearance of European dirk-toothed cats	5
Editorial Board	5
Additions to the Jurassic mecopteran assemblages from the Ordos and Jiyuan basins, north-central China	5
Zonation and biofacies of the Early Mississippian conodonts from Baoshan, Yunnan, Southwest China	5
Paleoecological insights from coprolites and their inclusions from the Permian Rio do Rasto Formation, Brazil	5
The sedimentary facies and tectono-stratigraphic successions of the Carboniferous–Lower Permian deposits in western South Qiangtang Block: Implication for a rifting process on the Gondwana margin	5
Devonian–Carboniferous transition in various facies of Northeast Laurussia (North Urals)	4
X-ray micro-computed tomography of minute hooded beetles (Coleoptera: Corylophidae) reveals its hidden paleodiversity in the Eocene Baltic amber	4
Diversity of the mostly Mesozoic genus Mesypochrysa Martynov, 1927 (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Limaiinae) in the lowermost Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark	4
Provenance analysis of Cenozoic conglomerates: Insights from Lower Cretaceous radiolarians in chert clasts from the Xigaze area, southern Tibet	4
Cretaceous–Paleogene palynodebris from two offshore cores in Cape Basin, South Atlantic Ocean and their paleoenvironmental implications	4
First record of plant-plant facilitative interaction from the Moscovian (Pennsylvanian, upper Carboniferous) of North China	4
Preliminary investigation of Paleocene warming events in the lower Zongpu Formation at the Chaqiela section, Gamba, southern Xizang (Tibet)	4
The age and depositional environments of the lower Karoo Moatize Coalfield of Mozambique: insights into the postglacial history of central Gondwana	4
No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. (2023)	4
Editorial Board	4
Preliminary results on reproductive organs and in situ spores of an early land plant Tichavekia grandis Pšenička et al. from Přídolí (upper Silurian) of the Prague Basin, Czech Republic	4
Vegetation dynamics in the Early–Middle Pennsylvanian coal swamps of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Coalfield, France	4
Stigmaria: on the substrate before in the substrate	4
Diversity and discrimination of large ornithopods revealed through their tracks (Lower Cretaceous, Spain): A phenetic correlation approach	4
Early Cretaceous radiolarian assemblages in mélange of Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone in the Saga area, southern Xizang	4
A cranium of “Gazella” nihensis from Pliocene of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the differentiation of early Antilopina	4
Two species of Allonema: Problematic sclerobionts that survived the end-Ordovician extinction in Baltica	4
Orogenesis as a pacemaker for environmental and biotic restructuring around the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition	4
Editorial Board	4
First late Silurian (Ludfordian–Pridoli?) brachiopods from Iran	4
First jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	4
Palaeoenvironmental implications of Baiera hallei Sze from the Middle Jurassic in Shaanxi Province, China	4
Microclots in early Paleoproterozoic stromatolites from Dashiling Formation, Wutai, North China: Implications for microbial calcification and atmospheric CO2 levels during Great Oxidation Event	4
Hydrodynamics and sliding posture analysis of the Cambrian arthropod Ercaicunia multinodosa	4