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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
New record of Brachyoxylon wood from the Lower Cretaceous of Qingyuan, southeastern China and its palaeoclimatic implications	22
A second progonocimicid (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha) from the middle Cretaceous Kachin amber of Myanmar	17
Unraveling the Early Devonian provenance of the Longmenshan region through detrital zircon records: Implications for floral differentiation in South China	16
Anatomy of Stigmaria asiatica Jongmans et Gothan from the Asselian (lowermost Permian) of Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, North China	15
Small cornulitids from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of Estonia	14
Holocene palaeoenvironments of southern Sikhote-Alin Mountains (southern Far East), reconstructed from palaeontological data	13
Caenogastropoda and Stylommatophora (Gastropoda) from the mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber of East Asia	13
Impact of the onset of Late Cretaceous Deccan volcanism on flora and climate: Palynofloral and megafloral evidence	12
Earliest upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) record of bivalve Pinna (Pinnidae) from the Kopet-Dagh Basin, northeastern Iran and its possible predators	12
New fossil woods from the middle Eocene climate optimum of north-central Turkey	11
Early Permian (Asselian) flora from the Talchir Formation, Son Basin, India: Biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental implications	10
Can the occurrence of the ammonite genus Hildoglochiceras Spath serve as an early Tithonian marker event?	10
New Jurassic notocupedins (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae) from the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau	10
Parasitic hump-backed flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Miocene ambers	9
Conodonts across the Lochkovian/Pragian boundary in central Guangxi, South China	9
Middle to late Maastrichtian planktonic foraminifera from the Gongzha section in Dingri area, southern Xizang, China	9
Book review	8
Editorial Board	8
Palaeoenvironmental implications of a turritelline-dominated assemblage from Upper Cretaceous carbonate rocks of Narmada Basin, India	8
A new Trapa from the middle Miocene of Zhangpu, Fujian, southeastern China	8
First record of Soergelia (Bovidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from East Asia: Implications for its taxonomy, evolution, and dispersal history	8
Editorial Board	8
Integrated biostratigraphy for the Santonian/Campanian boundary interval, the Kurdistan Region, northeast Iraq	8
New material of Brachyhyops neimongolensis (Artiodactyla, Entelodontidae) from the upper Eocene in Jeminay, Xinjiang, China	8
The bivalved arthropod Caudicaella aff. bispinata from the Heatherdale Shale (Cambrian Stage 3), South Australia	8

First Caliscelidae planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	8
Widespread Thalassinoides facies from the upper Silurian of South China: A case study from the northwestern Hunan Province, middle to upper Yangtze Block	8
New Ediacaran tubular fossils from southern Shaanxi, China	8
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
Terreneuvian skeletonized microfossils from the Central Iberian Zone (Spain) and correlation of the Fortunian Stage throughout southwestern Europe	7
Coniferous woods from the Albian (Piedra Clavada Formation) of Argentine Patagonia	7
Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic changes during the Late Cretaceous and Cretaceous–Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary transition in Tattofte, External Rif, northwestern Morocco: implications from dinoflage	7
Review and update on the applications of inertinite macerals in coal geology, paleoclimatology, and paleoecology	7
New fishes from the Viséan–Serpukhovian boundary beds (Carboniferous) of the Verkhnyaya Kardailovka section (South Urals, Russia)	7
Editorial Board	7
… and the devil is in the details: A response to Furió et al. (2024)	7
Palynological succession in Gzhelian No. 8 Thick Coal of the Taiyuan Formation, Ordos Basin, North China	7
Macroalgal fossil Longfengshania from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang and Jiuliqiao formations in western Shandong and northern Anhui, North China	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
A gorgonopsian from the Wutonggou Formation (Changhsingian, Permian) of Turpan Basin, Xinjiang, China	7
Editorial Board	7
New material of heteromorph ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous of Lhozhag County, southern Tibet and its biostratigraphic implications	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
Deposition of fluorite in xylem cells of a new enigmatic seed plant from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil	6
FossilMorph: A new tool for fossil automatic measurement and statistical analysis	6
New fossils reveal the Paleogene establishment of relict Craigia (Malvaceae) in its extant range	6
Middle to Upper Ordovician stable carbon isotope stratigraphy and sedimentary facies in the Shunbei and Tahe areas, northern-central Tarim, China	6
On the systematic position of the Early Cretaceous fern genus “Athyrium”	6
Fossilized soft tissues in tentaculitids from the Upper Devonian of Armenia: Towards solving the mystery of their phylogenetic affinities	6
Lutetian–Bartonian (Middle Eocene) micropalaeontology, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Mengen Coal Basin, Northwest Türkiye (Turkey)	6
New larval records of the extinct hard tick Compluriscutula vetulum (Arachnida: Ixodida) from Burmese amber, with notes on its morphology	6
Potential pollinators and paleoecological aspects of Eocene Ludwigia (Onagraceae) from Eckfeld, Germany	6
Actinopterygians from the continental Permian–Triassic boundary section at Babiy Kamen (Kuznetsk Basin, Siberia, Russia)	6
Phylogenetic evolution of Neorotalia mecatepecensis to Miogypsinidae from Rajamandala Formation, West Java, Indonesia	6
Dinocrocuta gigantea from the Upper Miocene site of Eldari, Azerbaijan	6
Late Darriwilian–early Katian (Ordovician) ostracods of northeastern Yunnan, Southwest China	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
Short-term climate and vegetation dynamics in Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) during early Eocene	5
A new late Katian (Late Ordovician) trilobite association from Zhenxiong, northeastern Yunnan, Southwest China and its palaeoecological implications	5
A probable hyalonematid sponge (Hexactinellida: Amphidiscophora) from the Middle Ordovician of the Builth Inlier, Wales	5
A new genus of Neoliodidae (Acariformes: Oribatida) from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber and Azarliodes andreneli n. comb.	5
A new skull of early cetacean Remingtonocetus harudiensis from the Eocene of Kutch Basin, India	5
Fossil involucres and a nutlet of Ostrya (Betulaceae) from the upper Eocene of Shaanxi and their biogeographic implications	5
Devonian Lingulichnus and in situ lingulids: Taphonomy and paleoenvironments of preservation	5
Paleoecological insights from coprolites and their inclusions from the Permian Rio do Rasto Formation, Brazil	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
Radula heinrichsii (Radulaceae, Porellales), a leafy liverwort from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar	5
Editorial Board	5
Lebanese amber: A glimpse into the origins of Recent terrestrial biodiversity	5
First complete Niobe yangtzeensis Lu, 1975 (Asaphidae, Trilobita) from the Middle Ordovician of South China, and its systematic and palaeogeographic implications	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
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
New records of barklice (Psocodea, Empheriidae) from the Bqaatouta and Baskinta amber (early Barremian, Early Cretaceous) in Lebanon	5
Editorial Board	5
Upper Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) radiolarians from Rybaki Section, Moscow Region, Central Russia	5
Hybodontiform sharks from Middle Triassic Chang 7 Member of the Ordos Basin, Shaanxi, North China: palaeobiological and palaeoecological significances	5
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
Glabrobournonia Morris and Skelton (Rudist, Bivalvia) from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of Türkiye: Taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography	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
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
Palaeoenvironmental implications of Baiera hallei Sze from the Middle Jurassic in Shaanxi Province, China	4
No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. (2023)	4
Preliminary investigation of Paleocene warming events in the lower Zongpu Formation at the Chaqiela section, Gamba, southern Xizang (Tibet)	4
First fossil record of Brachyptera (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) in Eocene Baltic amber	4
Cretaceous climate variations indicated by palynoflora in South China	4
The age and depositional environments of the lower Karoo Moatize Coalfield of Mozambique: insights into the postglacial history of central Gondwana	4
X-ray micro-computed tomography of minute hooded beetles (Coleoptera: Corylophidae) reveals its hidden paleodiversity in the Eocene Baltic amber	4
A novel gymnosperm reproductive organ from the Jurassic of China	4
The Paleocene soritid foraminifer Mardinella daviesi (Henson, 1950) from southeastern Turkey	4
Hydrodynamics and sliding posture analysis of the Cambrian arthropod Ercaicunia multinodosa	4
Editorial Board	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
First late Silurian (Ludfordian–Pridoli?) brachiopods from Iran	4
Additions to the Jurassic mecopteran assemblages from the Ordos and Jiyuan basins, north-central China	4
Zonation and biofacies of the Early Mississippian conodonts from Baoshan, Yunnan, Southwest China	4
The disappearance of European dirk-toothed cats	4
First jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber	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
First record of plant-plant facilitative interaction from the Moscovian (Pennsylvanian, upper Carboniferous) of North China	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