OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Earth and Planetary Science is 6. 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
Imaging flow focusing and isolation of aqueous fluids in synthetic quartzite: implications for permeability and retained fluid fraction in deep-seated rocks	73
Chromatographic isolation for performing enantiomer-specific radiocarbon analysis (ESRA): first method development for individual L- and D-amino acids	72
Comparisons of strontium isotope ratios in the water and otoliths suggest narrow habitat ranges of freshwater three-spined sticklebacks in Otsuchi, Japan	35
Scanning SQUID microscope system for geological samples: further system improvements and development of post-processing software	25
A simple method for taxon-specific purification of diatom frustules from ocean sediments using a cell sorter	23
Importance of pumiceous sediment in influencing chemistry of hydrothermal fluids in Okinawa Trough: insights from boron isotopic ratios	21
Relationship between strain accumulation and release associated with recent slow slip events on the Japanese Islands	21
Clockwise rotation of SW Japan and timing of Izanagi–Pacific ridge subduction revealed by arc migration	20
Spatiotemporal changes in the strain field in the Niigata–Kobe Tectonic Zone: long-term analysis using GNSS time series data	20
Application of microsublimation for sample purification in compound-specific radiocarbon analysis	20
Accessing the energy-limited and sparsely populated deep biosphere: achievements and ongoing challenges of available technologies	19
Evaporative effects on day-to-day precipitation isotope variability in East Asia	19
Electrochemical survey of electroactive microbial populations in deep-sea hydrothermal fields	19
Nitrogen isotopic composition of amino acids reveals a variety of trophic ecology of organisms inhabiting chemosynthesis-based ecosystems	19
Asian dust to the North Pacific since the late Eocene: from source to sink	18
Incoming plate structure at the Japan Trench subduction zone revealed in densely spaced reflection seismic profiles	18
Melt-poor spreading in the Shikoku back-arc basin: geophysical investigation of the initial spreading stage	17
Provenance differentiation and earth surface process of the Mu Us sandy land constrained by detrital zircon U–Pb dating	16
Aftershocks following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake driven by both stress transfer and afterslip	16
Rheology of the lower mantle: an alternative review	16
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
Quantifying fault damage zone properties using geological and geophysical data along the Median Tectonic Line, Southwest Japan	15
Climate-relevant properties of black carbon aerosols revealed by in situ measurements: a review	14
Climate-induced shift of deep-sea benthic foraminifera at the onset of the mid-Brunhes dissolution interval in the northeast tropical Indian Ocean	13

Correction: Submarine paleoseismology in the Japan Trench of northeastern Japan: turbidite stratigraphy and sedimentology using paleomagnetic and rock magnetic analyses	13
Gold folding screen (red copper leaf) dissolved by the "Black Rain" generated by the Hiroshima atomic bombing	12
A macroscopic analysis of the demographic impacts of flood inundation in Thailand (2005–2019)	12
Impact of permafrost degradation on the extreme increase of dissolved iron concentration in the Amur river during 1995–1997	12
Long-term and interannual variations of atmospheric methane observed by the NIES and collaborative observation networks	12
Correction: Light pollution trends for International Dark Sky Places using VIIRS nighttime light composite data	12
High-resolution monitoring of hydraulically induced acoustic emission activities using neural phase picking and matched filter analysis	12
Grain boundary sliding as a formation mechanism for the crystal preferred orientation of antigorite: the formation and development of B-type antigorite CPO patterns	12
Simultaneous observations of atmospheric IO radical, O3, and sea surface iodide over the tropical western Pacific warm pool: strong correlation of IO levels with estimated inorganic iodine fluxes	11
An introductory review of the thermal structure of subduction zones: III—Comparison between models and observations	11
Natural and continental influence on aerosol distributions over the northwestern Pacific Ocean in the late winter and early spring of 2021	11
Single station bias calculation using data from calibrated GNSS station for various baseline distances	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
Characterization of water masses around the southern Ryukyu Islands based on isotopic compositions	10
Replicability of paleotemperature records in the northern Okinawa Trough and its implications for paleoceanographic reconstructions	10
Rhenium solubility and speciation in aqueous fluids at high temperature and pressure	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
Orbital timescale CaCO3 burial and dissolution changes off the Chilean margin in the subantarctic Pacific over the past 140 kyr	9
Spatiotemporal variation of aftershock activity in northern source region of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake by long-term ocean bottom seismometers	9
Influence of snowmelt on increasing Arctic river discharge: numerical evaluation	9
Simulated decadal variations of surface and subsurface phytoplankton in the upstream Kuroshio Extension region	9
Historical regional climate changes in Japan in winter as assessed by a 5-km regional climate model with a land surface process	9
The miniRAD instrument for the MMX IDEFIX rover	9
Preface for article collection “geophysical properties and transport processes in the deep crust and mantle”	9
Highly effective energy transfer in the autotroph-heterotroph symbiosis: insights from compound-specific isotope analysis of amino acids	9
Loros: laboratory simulations of the Optical RadiOmeter Composed of CHromatic Imagers (OROCHI) experiment of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission	8
Correction: Towards a seamlessly diagnosable expression for the energy flux associated with both equatorial and mid-latitude waves	8
Foreland basin unconformity, Western Himalaya, Pakistan: timing gap, regional correlation and tectonic implications	8
Magnesium isotopic variation in marine fish organs	8
Significance of the high-pressure properties and structural evolution of gas hydrates for inferring the interior of icy bodies	8
Terrestrial vegetation and climate patterns during the dark layer depositions in the Japan Sea based on a pollen record from the KR07-12 PC-07 in the last glacial–interglacial cycle	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
Liquid and supercritical CO2 as an organic solvent in Hadean seafloor hydrothermal systems: implications for prebiotic chemical evolution	8
Fault geometry of M6-class normal-faulting earthquakes in the outer trench slope of Japan Trench from ocean bottom seismograph observations	8
Experiments on seepage-triggered cliff landslides using cohesive wet sand	8
What controls gravity anomalies in subduction zones? The relationship with plate motion and slab geometry	7
Discrepancies between feeding ecology and trophic position based on nitrogen isotopic composition in endosymbiont-bearing benthic foraminifers	7
Tectonic exhumation of a metamorphic core in an arc-continent collision during oblique convergence, Taiwan	7
Quantification of the spatial distribution of individual mangrove tree species derived from LiDAR point clouds	7
Lithological structure of western Pacific lithosphere reconstructed from mantle xenoliths in a petit-spot volcano	7
The nature of the Pacific plate as subduction inputs to the northeastern Japan arc and its implication for subduction zone processes	7
A compound-specific method for measuring the stable carbon isotopic composition of amino acids: elimination of the effect of isotopic fractionation during derivatization	7
Shallow structure and late quaternary slip rate of the Osaka Bay fault, western Japan	7
Recent progress in research on source processes of great earthquakes using tsunami data	7
DigitSeis: software to extract time series from analogue seismograms	7
Interdecadal and multidecadal variabilities in summer precipitation affecting persistent wet and dry years over Siberia	7
High precision measurement of trace F and Cl in olivine by electron probe microanalysis	7
Review of radiolarian microfossils as a tool for reconstructing sea surface temperature of the past in the Northwest Pacific	7
New source model for the 1771 Meiwa tsunami along the southern Ryukyu Trench inferred from high-resolution tsunami calculation	7
Correction: Distribution of eukaryotic environmental DNA in global subseafloor sediments	7

Natural 14C abundances and stable isotopes suggest discrete uptake routes for carbon and nitrogen in cold seep animals	7
Near-real-time estimation of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from China based on atmospheric observations on Hateruma and Yonaguni Islands, Japan	7
Simulating CO2 dynamics in Brackish Lake Obuchi, Japan: Low pCO2 maintenance through diverse nutrient inputs	7
Evidence of methanogenic activity associated with past fish farming in Lake Soyang, South Korea	7
Effect of particle characteristics on granular friction evaluated by dual-slip-plane friction tests	7
Working standards and analytical framework for CSIA: isotopic composition (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) of 21 amino acids and 7 nucleobases	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
Correction: Dietary partitioning in sympatric Paradoxurinae civets in Borneo suggested by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids	7
Source estimation of the 1703 Genroku tsunami through geological surveys and numerical simulations on Hachijo Island	6
Carnivorous plants: unveiling trophic identity and advanced nitrogen acquisition strategies	6
Calibration of the MEGANE gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer for JAXA’s Mars Moon eXplorer (MMX) mission to Phobos	6
Ground motion hazard of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) routes in Pakistan	6
Marine inundation history during the last 3000 years at Lake Kogare-ike, a coastal lake on the Pacific coast of central Japan	6
Seismic noise between 0.003 Hz and 1.0 Hz and its classification	6
Geophysical investigation of the Mado Megamullion oceanic core complex: implications for the end of back-arc spreading	6
Rheology of the lower mantle: a review	6
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	6
Validation of appropriate estimation criteria for the number of components for separating a polymodal grain-size distribution into lognormal distributions	6
Thermal modeling of subduction zones with prescribed and evolving 2D and 3D slab geometries	6