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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
New record of Brachyoxylon wood from the Lower Cretaceous of Qingyuan, southeastern China and its palaeoclimatic implications	16
Small cornulitids from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of Estonia	14
Earliest upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) record of bivalve Pinna (Pinnidae) from the Kopet-Dagh Basin, northeastern Iran and its possible predators	14
New fossil woods from the middle Eocene climate optimum of north-central Turkey	14
Benthic primary producers in exceptionally preserved Cambrian biotas of North China	13
Caenogastropoda and Stylommatophora (Gastropoda) from the mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber of East Asia	13
Unraveling the Early Devonian provenance of the Longmenshan region through detrital zircon records: Implications for floral differentiation in South China	12
A second progonocimicid (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha) from the middle Cretaceous Kachin amber of Myanmar	12
Anatomy of Stigmaria asiatica Jongmans et Gothan from the Asselian (lowermost Permian) of Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, North China	12
New Jurassic notocupedins (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae) from the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau	11
Widespread Thalassinoides facies from the upper Silurian of South China: A case study from the northwestern Hunan Province, middle to upper Yangtze Block	10
Conodonts across the Lochkovian/Pragian boundary in central Guangxi, South China	10
Holocene palaeoenvironments of southern Sikhote-Alin Mountains (southern Far East), reconstructed from palaeontological data	10
Can the occurrence of the ammonite genus Hildoglochiceras Spath serve as an early Tithonian marker event?	10
Impact of the onset of Late Cretaceous Deccan volcanism on flora and climate: Palynofloral and megafloral evidence	10
Middle to late Maastrichtian planktonic foraminifera from the Gongzha section in Dingri area, southern Xizang, China	10
Early Permian (Asselian) flora from the Talchir Formation, Son Basin, India: Biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental implications	9
Oldhamia radiata: the trace of an undermat miner from the Cambrian Series 2 Xinji Formation, western Henan, North China	9
Book review	9
Palaeoenvironmental implications of a turritelline-dominated assemblage from Upper Cretaceous carbonate rocks of Narmada Basin, India	8
Editorial Board	8
New Ediacaran tubular fossils from southern Shaanxi, China	8
Parasitic hump-backed flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Miocene ambers	8
Review and update on the applications of inertinite macerals in coal geology, paleoclimatology, and paleoecology	7
Anatomy and paleoclimatic implications of Cenozoic Coryphoideae palm wood species in Egypt	7

First Caliscelidae planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	7
A Miocene flora from the Toupi Formation in Jiangxi Province, southeastern China	7
Coniferous woods from the Albian (Piedra Clavada Formation) of Argentine Patagonia	7
New fishes from the Viséan–Serpukhovian boundary beds (Carboniferous) of the Verkhnyaya Kardailovka section (South Urals, Russia)	7
The bivalved arthropod Caudicaella aff. bispinata from the Heatherdale Shale (Cambrian Stage 3), South Australia	7
A new Trapa from the middle Miocene of Zhangpu, Fujian, southeastern China	7
Editorial Board	7
… and the devil is in the details: A response to Furió et al. (2024)	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
Integrated biostratigraphy for the Santonian/Campanian boundary interval, the Kurdistan Region, northeast Iraq	7
Taxonomy and evolutionary implications of a new fossil stonefly family (Insecta, Plecoptera) from Middle Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar	7
Macroalgal fossil Longfengshania from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang and Jiuliqiao formations in western Shandong and northern Anhui, North China	7
Potential pollinators and paleoecological aspects of Eocene Ludwigia (Onagraceae) from Eckfeld, Germany	6
New material of heteromorph ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous of Lhozhag County, southern Tibet and its biostratigraphic implications	6
Palynological succession in Gzhelian No. 8 Thick Coal of the Taiyuan Formation, Ordos Basin, North China	6
Miocene Equisetum tubers from the Wulan Basin, Northeast Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and their paleoecological significance	6
A new odonatan (Stenophlebiidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Sinuiju Formation of North Phyongan Province, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	6
Middle to Upper Ordovician stable carbon isotope stratigraphy and sedimentary facies in the Shunbei and Tahe areas, northern-central Tarim, China	6
Terreneuvian skeletonized microfossils from the Central Iberian Zone (Spain) and correlation of the Fortunian Stage throughout southwestern Europe	6
FossilMorph: A new tool for fossil automatic measurement and statistical analysis	6
On the systematic position of the Early Cretaceous fern genus “Athyrium”	6
New larval records of the extinct hard tick Compluriscutula vetulum (Arachnida: Ixodida) from Burmese amber, with notes on its morphology	6
Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic changes during the Late Cretaceous and Cretaceous–Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary transition in Tattofte, External Rif, northwestern Morocco: implications from dinoflage	6
Actinopterygians from the continental Permian–Triassic boundary section at Babiy Kamen (Kuznetsk Basin, Siberia, Russia)	6
Editorial Board	6
A gorgonopsian from the Wutonggou Formation (Changhsingian, Permian) of Turpan Basin, Xinjiang, China	6
Fossilized soft tissues in tentaculitids from the Upper Devonian of Armenia: Towards solving the mystery of their phylogenetic affinities	5
New fossils reveal the Paleogene establishment of relict Craigia (Malvaceae) in its extant range	5
Dinocrocuta gigantea from the Upper Miocene site of Eldari, Azerbaijan	5
A probable hyalonematid sponge (Hexactinellida: Amphidiscophora) from the Middle Ordovician of the Builth Inlier, Wales	5
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
Late Darriwilian–early Katian (Ordovician) ostracods of northeastern Yunnan, Southwest China	5
Devonian Lingulichnus and in situ lingulids: Taphonomy and paleoenvironments of preservation	5
Beetle or roach: systematic position of the enigmatic Umenocoleidae based on new material from Zhonggou Formation in Jiuquan, Northwest China, and a morphocladistic analysis	5
Upper Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) radiolarians from Rybaki Section, Moscow Region, Central Russia	5
A new skull of early cetacean Remingtonocetus harudiensis from the Eocene of Kutch Basin, India	5
Editorial Board	5
First complete Niobe yangtzeensis Lu, 1975 (Asaphidae, Trilobita) from the Middle Ordovician of South China, and its systematic and palaeogeographic implications	5
Editorial Board	5
A new Devonian species of the enigmatic Carboniferous conodont Dollymae	5
A new silicified plectorthoid brachiopod from the upper Furongian (Stage 10) Ninmaroo Formation at Black Mountain, western Queensland, Australia	5
Lutetian–Bartonian (Middle Eocene) micropalaeontology, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Mengen Coal Basin, Northwest Türkiye (Turkey)	5
Phylogenetic evolution of Neorotalia mecatepecensis to Miogypsinidae from Rajamandala Formation, West Java, Indonesia	5
Hybodontiform sharks from Middle Triassic Chang 7 Member of the Ordos Basin, Shaanxi, North China: palaeobiological and palaeoecological significances	5
Guangyuanichnus majianus n. igen. n. isp., a large, complex burrow system from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Formation of the northwestern Yangtze platform, South China	5
Radula heinrichsii (Radulaceae, Porellales), a leafy liverwort from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar	5
A new late Katian (Late Ordovician) trilobite association from Zhenxiong, northeastern Yunnan, Southwest China and its palaeoecological implications	5
Fossil involucres and a nutlet of Ostrya (Betulaceae) from the upper Eocene of Shaanxi and their biogeographic implications	5
Systematic revision of Onaraspis (Trilobita) and related genera from Cambrian Series 2 of the Iberian Chains (Northeast Spain)	5

First fossil record of Brachyptera (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) in Eocene Baltic amber	4
Zonation and biofacies of the Early Mississippian conodonts from Baoshan, Yunnan, Southwest China	4
A novel gymnosperm reproductive organ from the Jurassic of China	4
First record of plant-plant facilitative interaction from the Moscovian (Pennsylvanian, upper Carboniferous) of North China	4
Hydrodynamics and sliding posture analysis of the Cambrian arthropod Ercaicunia multinodosa	4
Radiolarians from the upper Oxfordian to lower Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) Domodedovo Section, Moscow Region, Central Russia	4
Editorial Board	4
Diversity and discrimination of large ornithopods revealed through their tracks (Lower Cretaceous, Spain): A phenetic correlation approach	4
First fossil record of Canarium (Burseraceae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian, southeastern China and its paleoecological implications	4
The age and depositional environments of the lower Karoo Moatize Coalfield of Mozambique: insights into the postglacial history of central Gondwana	4
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	4
No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. (2023)	4
The disappearance of European dirk-toothed cats	4
X-ray micro-computed tomography of minute hooded beetles (Coleoptera: Corylophidae) reveals its hidden paleodiversity in the Eocene Baltic amber	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
The Paleocene soritid foraminifer Mardinella daviesi (Henson, 1950) from southeastern Turkey	4
Cretaceous climate variations indicated by palynoflora in South China	4
A cranium of “Gazella” nihensis from Pliocene of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the differentiation of early Antilopina	4
New data on the Cambrian–Ordovician (Tremadocian) conodont biostratigraphy of Guizhou Province, Southwest China	4
Devonian–Carboniferous transition in various facies of Northeast Laurussia (North Urals)	4
Short-term climate and vegetation dynamics in Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) during early Eocene	4
Stigmaria: on the substrate before in the substrate	4
Editorial Board	4
Ginkgoites manchurica from the Lower Cretaceous Shahezi Formation of Liaoning, China, and its palaeoclimate implications	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