OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Quaternary Research is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona – CORRIGENDUM	21
Cryogenic features and stages in Late Quaternary subaerial sediments of the Lower Volga region	18
Modeling post-Pleistocene megafauna extinctions as complex social-ecological systems	16
Changes in the lake-grassland ecosystem revealed by multiple proxies in a sediment core from Ganggeng Nur Lake, northern China	15
Holocene relative sea-level changes along the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of northwestern South America	13
Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells	12
New paleohydroclimate record of the MIS 5e/5d transition from Yelini Cave, central Anatolian region of Türkiye	12
Geophysical sediment properties of a late Pleistocene loess–paleosol sequence, Chenarli, northeastern Iran	12
Paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks in the southern Central Andes of Argentina and their implications for tectonics and geomagnetic field behavior	12
Human occupation, site formation, and chronostratigraphy of a mid-Holocene archaeological site at the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition, Argentina	11
Chronology of the early transgressive phase of Lake Bonneville	11
Paleolakes, archaeology, and late Quaternary paleoenvironments in northwestern Mongolia	11
A prolonged dry Mid-Holocene recorded by Moon Lake in the Tengger Desert, arid and semiarid China	11
Introduction to special issue: loess environments: generation, transport, and deposition	10
Holocene water levels of Silver Lake, Montana, and the hydroclimate history of the Inland Northwest	10
Past vegetation and hydrological change since the Middle Holocene in a Lake Erie riparian marsh provide a guide for ecosystem restoration	10
Late Quaternary formation of the Miaoli Tableland in northwest Taiwan, an interplay of tectonic uplift and fluvial processes dated by OSL	10
Climatic controls on phosphorus concentrations in The Loch, Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA since the last glacial maximum	10
The paleoenvironment and depositional context of the Sumerian site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, southern Mesopotamia, Iraq)	10
Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe	9
Limitations of precipitation reconstructions using equilibrium-line altitudes exemplified for former glaciers in the Southern Black Forest, Central Europe	9
Age of the late Holocene Bonneville landslide and submerged forest of the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon and Washington, USA, by radiocarbon dating	9
Times of changes, the latest Pleistocene micromammal association of the Salto de Piedra site (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)	8
Preliminary paleoenvironmental analysis and luminescence dating of upper Middle Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Ulakhan Sular Formation, Adycha River, east Siberia	8
Pleistocene periglacial paleohydrology reconstituted from sandstone morphologies in the Paris Basin, France	8

Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge	8
QUA volume 120 Cover and Front matter	8
Uncovering an eruptive history using new tephra data from Argentine lacustrine cores linked to Chilean volcanoes in the southern segment of the Southern Volcanic Zone	7
Large Pleistocene tortoise tracks on the Cape south coast of South Africa	7
Global variations in regional degradation rates since the Last Glacial Maximum mapped through time and space	7
QUA volume 128 Cover and Front matter	7
New evidence from heavy minerals and detrital zircons in Quaternary fluvial sediments for the evolution of the upper Yangtze River, South China	7
A multidisciplinary approach to resolve the taxonomy of the historically extinct sea mink (Neogale macrodon) (Maine, USA) – CORRIGENDUM	7
QUA volume 107 Cover and Front matter	6
Precisely constrained 134-ka strong monsoon event in the penultimate deglaciation by an annually laminated speleothem from the Asian monsoon domain	6
A Pleistocene hyenid trackway from the Cape south coast of South Africa	6
The selective geography of volcanism in oral traditions	6
Holocene evolution of parabolic dunes, White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA, revealed by high-resolution mapping	6
High-resolution magnetochronology detects multiple stages of Pleistocene tectonic uplift and deformation in the Po Plain of northern Italy	6
Microstructure and geochemical properties of modern and buried soils and hosting permafrost sediments of the Batagay retrogressive thaw slump	6
The importance of effective moisture and landscape controls on diatom assemblages and primary production in Roche Lake, British Columbia, Canada over the past ca. 1800 years	6
Dietary ecological traits of extinct mammalian herbivores from the last glacial termination at the Pilauco Site, Chile	6
Mechanistic models for rhizolith formation and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions	6
Holocene millennial-scale variability of coastal environments on the southern coast of Korea and its controlling factors	6
A speleothem record of seasonality and moisture transport around the 8.2 ka event in Central Europe (Vacska Cave, Hungary)	6
Terrestrial ecosystem transformations in response to rapid climate change during the last deglaciation around Mono Lake, California, USA	6
Calibrating the Wisconsin in the eastern Great Lakes of North America using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of the Quaternary sediments at Sand Hill Park, north shore of Lake Erie, Onta	6
The relevance of biotic processes on modern tufa deposits, with an example from the Bonito region, Central-West Brazil	5
The unique Late Paleolithic artifactual bone assemblage from the Volchia Griva site, Western Siberia	5
Taxonomic, biogeographic, and biological implications of mammoth teeth from a dynamic Pleistocene landscape in Alberta, Canada	5
The giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Central Asia (Zasukhino-3 and Nalaikha), with insights on the dental evolution of crocutoid hyenas	5
Holocene climate background for lake evolution in the Badain Jaran Desert of northwestern China revealed by proxies from calcareous root tubes	5
Annual isotopic diet (δ¹³C) ofEremotherium laurillardi(Lund, 1842) and climate variation (δ¹⁸O) through the late Pleistocene in the Brazilian Intertropical Region	5
Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa	5
Unravelling 6000 years of interplay among environmental changes, anthropogenic activities, and Vesuvius eruptions in the upper Sarno Plain (Campania, Italy)	5
The SISAL webApp: exploring the speleothem climate and environmental archives of the world	5
Assessing the reliability of raptor pellets in recording local small mammal diversity – CORRIGENDUM	5
QUA volume 124 Cover and Front matter	4
The incorporation of chlorine and cosmogenic ³⁶Cl into speleothem carbonate	4
Ancient DNA from speleothems: opportunity or challenge?	4
Late glacial–Younger Dryas climate in interior Alaska as inferred from the isotope values of land snail shells	4
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge – CORRIGENDUM	4
The Pleistocene footprints are younger than we thought: correcting the radiocarbon dates of Ruppia seeds, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	4
Structure and properties of paleosols of the last two interglacial cycles of the Khovaling Loess Plateau, Tajikistan (Obi–Mazar section)	4
Paleogeographical reconstruction of the western French Alps foreland during the last glacial maximum using cosmogenic exposure dating	4
Late glacial to Holocene fluvial dynamics in the Upper Rhine alluvial plain, France	4
Effects of paleoclimatic variables on suitable open habitats for Pleistocene–Holocene megafauna in South America	4
Holocene and recent valley-bottom sediment storage decouples natural and anthropogenic hillslope erosion from sediment delivery to streams at time scales of 10 ¹	4
Dietary preferences and collagen to collagen prey-predator trophic discrimination factors (Δ¹³C, Δ¹⁵N) in late Pleistocene cave hyena	4
Landscape evolution and ancient settlement patterns in a small river basin of the Huangshui River and the prehistoric Wangjinglou City, Central China	4
Introduction to Thematic Set: Asian Climate	4
A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multiproxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK	4
Holocene hydroclimatic variability recorded in sediments from Maddox Lake (northern California Coast Range)	4
Implications of submonthly oxygen and carbon isotope variations in late Pleistocene Melanopsis shells for regional and local hydroclimate in the upper Jordan River valley	4
Towards a better knowledge of the molar morphology and ecology of extant and fossil grass rats (Muridae:ArvicanthisLesson, 1842)	3

Potential refugia on the Tibetan Plateau during the last glacial maximum	3
Late Quaternary glaciations in the Taniantaweng Mountains	3
Late glacial lake and marine strandlines in the Ontario, St. Lawrence, and Champlain Lowlands, USA and Canada record steadily decreasing water levels interrupted by breakout floods	3
A new relative sea-level curve from Inglefield Land, northwest Greenland	3
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona	3
The Quaternary landscapes, chronostratigraphy, and paleoenvironments of the Chalbi Desert, Kenya	3
Mid-Pleistocene drainage rearrangement of the Dadu River in response to plate convergence in southeastern Tibet	3
Late glacial and Holocene climate and landscape dynamics in the Valdai Highlands (East European Plain) inferred from lake sediment records	3
QUA volume 106 Cover and Front matter	3
Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East River watershed, Colorado, USA	3
QUA volume 127 Cover and Front matter	3
Implications of the loess record for Holocene climate and human settlement in Heye Catchment, Jiuzhaigou, eastern Tibetan Plateau, Sichuan, China	3
Climate change intensified violence in the south-central Andean highlands from 1.5 to 0.5 ka	3
Extreme modification of teeth and bones by porcupines (Hystrix cf. H. kiangsenensis and Atherurus macrourus) Làng Tráng Cave complex, northern Vietnam	3
Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene	3
A 33,000-year paleohydrological record from Sanamere Lagoon, north-eastern tropical savannas of Australia	3
Late Pleistocene pedogenesis and loess magnetism in northwestern Ukraine	3
Vegetation dynamics in Dhofar, Oman, from the Late Holocene to present inferred from rock hyrax middens	3
Quaternary climatic events as conditioning factors of hydrogeologic characteristics and salinity in costal aquifers at northern Patagonia, Argentina	3
Paleoenvironmental changes in the eastern Kumtag Desert, northwestern China since the late Pleistocene	3
The signature of accumulated permanent uplift, northern Cascadia subduction zone	3
Hydroclimate change and its controlling factors during the middle to late Holocene and possible 3.7-ka climatic shift over East Asia	3
QUA volume 110 Cover and Front matter	3
The late Quaternary fossil record of mole salamanders in central Texas reveals range shifts and responses to environmental change	3
Characteristics of Late Pleistocene and Holocene dune activity and soil formation in the Podravina, NE Croatia	2
Late Pleistocene Neanderthal exploitation of stable and mosaic ecosystems in northern Iberia shown by multi-isotope evidence	2
Influences of sea level changes and the South Asian Monsoon on southern Red Sea oceanography over the last 30 ka	2
Landscape response to hydroclimate variability shown by the post-Bonneville Flood (ca. 18 ka) fluvial-geomorphic history of the middle Snake River, Idaho, USA	2
Was there a nonglacial episode in the western Hudson Bay Lowland during Marine Isotope Stage 3?	2
Cliff recession geodynamics variability and constraints within poorly consolidated landslide-prone coasts in the southern Baltic Sea, Poland	2
Insights into the synergistic effects of tectonics and climate from the formation and evolution of the Hongwen allochthonous deposit, southwestern China	2
The distribution of fossil pollen and charcoal in stalagmites	2
Quaternary ironstones in the Xingu River, eastern Amazonia (Brazil)	2
Latest Pleistocene (17,500–13,500 cal yr BP) Arctic ground squirrel (Sciuridae: Urocitellus parryii) middens record late persistence of steppe-tundra in central Yukon Territory	2
Luminescence chronology of fluvial and aeolian deposits from the Emirate of Sharjah, UAE	2
Morphological characteristics and factors influencing ice-free cirques in the Qilian Mountains	2
Tracking Late Holocene climate change and the 1908 Tunguska impact event from lake sediments in Central Siberia – ADDENDUM	2
Insights into human transformation of landscapes from a comparison of historical and palaeoecological records from the Hunan–Jiangxi border region of China	2
Evolution of Ramasetu region as a link between India and Sri Lanka during the late Pleistocene and Holocene	2
QUA volume 122 Cover and Front matter	2
A multidisciplinary approach to resolve the taxonomy of the historically extinct sea mink (Neogale macrodon) (Maine, USA)	2
Introduction to special issue: new developments in speleothem paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental science	2
QUA volume 123 Cover and Front matter	2
Relative sea level and wave energy changes recorded in a micro-tidal barrier in southern Brazil	2
A late-glacial lake-effect climate regime and abundant tamarack in the Great Lakes Region, North America	2
Pedogenic carbonate as a transient soil component in a humid, temperate forest (Michigan, USA)	2
Glacier fluctuation chronology since the latest Pleistocene at Mount Rainier, Washington, USA	2
Mid- to Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon micro-region, western Turkey	2
The role of lake basin history on palynological records from the Upper Kolyma region (northeastern Siberia)	2
The age and paleoclimate implications of relict periglacial block deposits on the New England Tablelands, Australia	2
QUA volume 112 Cover and Front matter	2
Introduction to Thematic Set: Aeolian Processes, Landforms and Chronologies	2
The preservation potential of loess in low-elevation mountains (Mecsek Mountains, Hungary)	1
Soil organic carbon induces a decrease in erodibility of black soil with loess parent materials in northeast China	1
Dust pathways of the Songnen Plain, Northeast China in the last glacial period and their implications for ecological security	1
Human–animal–environment dynamics and formation of pastoralism in the southern Tibetan Plateau during the Middle–Late Holocene	1
QUA volume 115 Cover and Front matter	1
Was there a nonglacial episode in the western Hudson Bay Lowland during Marine Isotope Stage 3? – CORRIGENDUM	1
A ca. 39,000-year record of vegetation and climate change from the margin of the Namib Sand Sea	1
The genesis and paleogeographical significance of residual dune ridges in the central European Sand Belt (Warsaw Basin, central Poland)	1
Late glacial through Early Holocene environments inferred using pollen from coprolites and sediments recovered from Paisley Caves, Oregon	1
Cliff recession geodynamics variability and constraints within poorly consolidated landslide-prone coasts in the southern Baltic Sea, Poland – CORRIGENDUM	1
South-central Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics and the formation of proglacial Lake Vita during MIS 3	1
QUA volume 113 Cover and Front matter	1
A drastic change in glacial dynamics at the beginning of the seventeenth century on Novaya Zemlya coincides in time with the strongest volcanic eruption in Peru and the Great Famine in Russia	1
Numerical model of late Pleistocene and Holocene ice-sheet and shoreline dynamics in the southern Baltic Sea, Poland	1
Early Holocene interaction of aeolian, alluvial, and lacustrine processes in a dune-dammed valley in the central Nebraska Sand Hills	1
Late Pleistocene aeolian deposition and human occupation on the eastern edge of the deglacial corridor, northeastern Alberta, Canada	1
Implications of the geochemistry of L1LL1 (MIS2) loess in Poland for paleoenvironment and new normalizing values for loess-focused multi-elemental analyses	1
Glacial equilibrium line–based relationship for paleoclimate reconstructions (Sierra Nevada, USA)	1
Reconstructing Holocene fire records using dune footslope deposits at the Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia	1
Pleistocene aardvark (Orycteropus afer) burrow traces on South Africa’s Cape coast	1
A Late Holocene sedimentary record of earthquakes and hydroclimate from Ozette Lake, Washington, USA	1
Large herbivore δ¹⁸O as a proxy for aridity in the South African winter and year-round rainfall zone	1
Glacial–interglacial cycles in the south-central and southeastern Pyrenees since ~180 ka (NE Spain–Andorra–S France)	1
Reconstructing postglacial hydrologic and environmental change in the eastern Kenai Peninsula lowlands using proxy data and mass balance modeling	1
A Holocene pollen-inferred climate reconstruction for Vermont, USA	1
Processing of Pueraria montana var. lobata (kudzu bean) and Colocasia esculenta (Ta	1
QUA volume 111 Cover and Front matter	1
Anthropogenic activities in the páramo trigger ecological shifts in Tropical Andean lakes	1

Application of a post-violet IR single-aliquot regenerative-dose (pVIR-SAR) protocol for natural polymineral fine and coarse-grain samples	1
The Pleistocene ice-sheet dynamics in north-central Poland based on magnetic fabrics of tills and landform analysis	1
Near-surface winds at the southern Laurentide ice margin through the last deglaciation	1
Climate-driven mid- to late Holocene hydrologic evolution of arid wetlands documented by strontium, uranium, and oxygen isotopes from Lower Pahranagat Lake, southern Nevada, USA	1
Late Holocene hydroclimatic history of the Galilee Mountains from sedimentary records of the Sea of Galilee, Israel	1
Seasonality of C₄ plant growth and carbonate precipitation in the Chinese Loess Plateau may cause positive carbon isotope anomalies in pedogenic carbonates	1
QUA volume 125 Cover and Front matter	1
The evolution and degradation of Quaternary fossil fluvial fans in Brazilian semi-arid regions	1
Holocene climate variability – CORRIGENDUM	1
Aeolian dynamics at the northern edge of Deliblato (Banat) Sand Sea, Vojvodina, Serbia, at the time of the last deglaciation	1
Climate variability in the northern Levant from the highly resolved Qadisha record (Lebanon) during the Holocene optimum	1
Update and synthesis of the available archaeological and geochronological data for the Lower Paleolithic site of Loreto at Venosa (Basilicata, Italy)	1
Climatic and cave settings influence on drip water fluorescent organic matter with implications for fluorescent laminations in stalagmites	1
Introduction to the Paleoecology of Subarctic and Arctic Seas (PESAS)	1
Hydroclimatic changes in south-central China during the 4.2 ka event and their potential impacts on the development of Neolithic culture	1
Implications for catchment weathering, provenance, and climatic records from a late Pleistocene to present sedimentary sequence in Gujarat, India	1
Early Pleistocene upper bathyal communities in fault-bounded paleovalleys of the island of Rhodes (Greece)	1
New insights into the glacial and relative sea-level history of the western Fraser Lowland based on sediment cores from geotechnical drilling for the Evergreen Tunnel, British Columbia, Canada	1