OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Earth and Planetary Science is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Surface and aloft NO2 pollution over the greater Tokyo area observed by ground-based and MAX-DOAS measurements bridged by kilometer-scale regional air quality modeling	91
Imaging flow focusing and isolation of aqueous fluids in synthetic quartzite: implications for permeability and retained fluid fraction in deep-seated rocks	50
Accessing the energy-limited and sparsely populated deep biosphere: achievements and ongoing challenges of available technologies	35
A three-dimensional atmospheric dispersion model for Mars	35
A simple method for taxon-specific purification of diatom frustules from ocean sediments using a cell sorter	35
Incoming plate structure at the Japan Trench subduction zone revealed in densely spaced reflection seismic profiles	34
Electrochemical survey of electroactive microbial populations in deep-sea hydrothermal fields	29
Relationship between tectonism and desertification inferred from provenance and lithofacies changes in the Cenozoic terrestrial sequence of the southwestern Tarim Basin	28
Relationship between strain accumulation and release associated with recent slow slip events on the Japanese Islands	24
Spatiotemporal changes in the strain field in the Niigata–Kobe Tectonic Zone: long-term analysis using GNSS time series data	22
Seismicity distribution in the Tonankai and Nankai seismogenic zones and its spatiotemporal relationship with interplate coupling and slow earthquakes	21
Clockwise rotation of SW Japan and timing of Izanagi–Pacific ridge subduction revealed by arc migration	21
Trophic niche separation of two non-spinose planktonic foraminifers Neogloboquadrina dutertrei and Pulleniatina obliquiloculata	17
The greenhouse gas observation mission with Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle (GOSAT-GW): objectives, conceptual framework and scientific contributions	16
Deep-sea bottom-water environment change caused by sediment resuspension on the continental slope off Sanriku, Japan, before and after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake	15
Aftershocks following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake driven by both stress transfer and afterslip	15
A macroscopic analysis of the demographic impacts of flood inundation in Thailand (2005–2019)	15
NanoSIMS and EPMA dating of lunar zirconolite	14
A possible mechanism for spontaneous cyclic back-arc spreading	13
Correction: Submarine paleoseismology in the Japan Trench of northeastern Japan: turbidite stratigraphy and sedimentology using paleomagnetic and rock magnetic analyses	13
Global polygons for terrain classification divided into uniform slopes and basins	13
Provenance differentiation and earth surface process of the Mu Us sandy land constrained by detrital zircon U–Pb dating	13
Long-term and interannual variations of atmospheric methane observed by the NIES and collaborative observation networks	12
High-resolution monitoring of hydraulically induced acoustic emission activities using neural phase picking and matched filter analysis	12
Impact of permafrost degradation on the extreme increase of dissolved iron concentration in the Amur river during 1995–1997	12

Climate-induced shift of deep-sea benthic foraminifera at the onset of the mid-Brunhes dissolution interval in the northeast tropical Indian Ocean	12
Climate-relevant properties of black carbon aerosols revealed by in situ measurements: a review	11
An introductory review of the thermal structure of subduction zones: III—Comparison between models and observations	11
Preface for the article collection “Stratigraphy and paleoclimatic/paleoenvironmental evolution across the Early–Middle Pleistocene transition in the Chiba composite section, Japan, and other referenc	11
Highly effective energy transfer in the autotroph-heterotroph symbiosis: insights from compound-specific isotope analysis of amino acids	10
Improvements in the determination of attogram-sized 231Pa in dissolved and particulate fractions of seawater via multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry	10
Historical regional climate changes in Japan in winter as assessed by a 5-km regional climate model with a land surface process	10
Differential use of multiple food sources at a bathyal benthic ecosystem in the central Sagami Bay revealed by amino acid nitrogen isotopic compositions	10
Single station bias calculation using data from calibrated GNSS station for various baseline distances	10
Frictional heating in a thick fault zone with empirical slip-weakening friction: implications for slip parameter estimation from temperature observations in deep fault drilling	10
Replicability of paleotemperature records in the northern Okinawa Trough and its implications for paleoceanographic reconstructions	9
Influence of snowmelt on increasing Arctic river discharge: numerical evaluation	9
Rhenium solubility and speciation in aqueous fluids at high temperature and pressure	9
Spatiotemporal variation of aftershock activity in northern source region of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake by long-term ocean bottom seismometers	9
The miniRAD instrument for the MMX IDEFIX rover	9
Experiments on seepage-triggered cliff landslides using cohesive wet sand	8
Magnesium isotopic variation in marine fish organs	8
Liquid and supercritical CO2 as an organic solvent in Hadean seafloor hydrothermal systems: implications for prebiotic chemical evolution	8
Paleotsunami history of Hachinohe, northern Japan: a multiproxy analysis and numerical modeling approach	8
Exploration of spatial and temporal variability of rainfall and their impact on rice production in Burma in 1901–1939 during the colonial period	8
Simulated decadal variations of surface and subsurface phytoplankton in the upstream Kuroshio Extension region	8
Preface for article collection “geophysical properties and transport processes in the deep crust and mantle”	8
Characterization of water masses around the southern Ryukyu Islands based on isotopic compositions	8
Long-chain alkenones in the Shimosa Group reveal palaeotemperatures of the Pleistocene interglacial Palaeo-Tokyo Bays	8
Orbital timescale CaCO3 burial and dissolution changes off the Chilean margin in the subantarctic Pacific over the past 140 kyr	8
Foreland basin unconformity, Western Himalaya, Pakistan: timing gap, regional correlation and tectonic implications	7
Climatic zonation of Egypt based on high-resolution dataset using image clustering technique	7
Correction: Distribution of eukaryotic environmental DNA in global subseafloor sediments	7
Shallow structure and late quaternary slip rate of the Osaka Bay fault, western Japan	7
Fault geometry of M6-class normal-faulting earthquakes in the outer trench slope of Japan Trench from ocean bottom seismograph observations	7
Experimental simulations of shock textures in BCC iron: implications for iron meteorites	7
Correction to: High-resolution flow simulation in Typhoon 21, 2018: massive loss of submerged macrophytes in Lake Biwa	7
Coupled investigations of ionosphere variations over European and Japanese regions: observations, comparative analysis, and validation of models and facilities	7
Significance of the high-pressure properties and structural evolution of gas hydrates for inferring the interior of icy bodies	7
Correction: Dietary partitioning in sympatric Paradoxurinae civets in Borneo suggested by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids	7
Early Jurassic extrinsic solar system dynamics versus intrinsic Earth processes: Toarcian sedimentation and benthic life in deep-sea contourite drift facies, Cardigan Bay Basin, UK	7
Lithological structure of western Pacific lithosphere reconstructed from mantle xenoliths in a petit-spot volcano	6
Tectonic exhumation of a metamorphic core in an arc-continent collision during oblique convergence, Taiwan	6
Near-real-time estimation of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from China based on atmospheric observations on Hateruma and Yonaguni Islands, Japan	6
High precision measurement of trace F and Cl in olivine by electron probe microanalysis	6
DigitSeis: software to extract time series from analogue seismograms	6
Natural 14C abundances and stable isotopes suggest discrete uptake routes for carbon and nitrogen in cold seep animals	6
Evidence of methanogenic activity associated with past fish farming in Lake Soyang, South Korea	6
New source model for the 1771 Meiwa tsunami along the southern Ryukyu Trench inferred from high-resolution tsunami calculation	6
Effect of particle characteristics on granular friction evaluated by dual-slip-plane friction tests	6
From desert to monsoon: irreversible climatic transition at ~ 36 Ma in southeastern Tibetan Plateau	6
Recent progress in research on source processes of great earthquakes using tsunami data	6
Validation of appropriate estimation criteria for the number of components for separating a polymodal grain-size distribution into lognormal distributions	6
Marine inundation history during the last 3000 years at Lake Kogare-ike, a coastal lake on the Pacific coast of central Japan	5
Thermal modeling of subduction zones with prescribed and evolving 2D and 3D slab geometries	5

Petrogenetic history and melt inclusion characteristics of mantle plume-derived ijolites from NE India: implications for multistage crystallization and occurrence of “nano-calciocarbonatites”	5
Quantification of the spatial distribution of individual mangrove tree species derived from LiDAR point clouds	5
Geochemical characteristics of back-arc basin lower crust and upper mantle at final spreading stage of Shikoku Basin: an example of Mado Megamullion	5
Applicability of low-temperature thermochronology to the evolution of young (< ~ 5 Ma) orogenic systems: a case study from the Japanese Islands	5
Geomorphological processes and their connectivity in hillslope, fluvial, and coastal areas in Bangladesh: A review	5
Review of radiolarian microfossils as a tool for reconstructing sea surface temperature of the past in the Northwest Pacific	5
Numerical estimation of a tsunami source at the flexural area of Kuril and Japan Trenches in the fifteenth to seventeenth century based on paleotsunami deposit distributions in northern Japan	5
Carnivorous plants: unveiling trophic identity and advanced nitrogen acquisition strategies	5
Formation, preservation and extinction of high-pressure minerals in meteorites: temperature effects in shock metamorphism and shock classification	5
Right-lateral offset associated with the most recent earthquake on the Ikeda fault of the Median Tectonic Line, southwest Japan, revealed by ground-penetrating radar profiling	5
Depth profile of frictional properties in the inner Nankai accretionary prism using cuttings from IODP Site C0002	5
Assessing and projecting surface air temperature conditions required to sustain permafrost in Japan	5
The nature of the Pacific plate as subduction inputs to the northeastern Japan arc and its implication for subduction zone processes	5
Rheology of the lower mantle: a review	5
Seismic noise between 0.003 Hz and 1.0 Hz and its classification	5
Geophysical investigation of the Mado Megamullion oceanic core complex: implications for the end of back-arc spreading	5
Ground motion hazard of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) routes in Pakistan	5
How large peak ground acceleration by large earthquakes could generate turbidity currents along the slope of northern Japan Trench	5
Dietary partitioning in sympatric Paradoxurinae civets in Borneo suggested by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids	5