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

Article	Citations
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona – CORRIGENDUM	21
Modeling post-Pleistocene megafauna extinctions as complex social-ecological systems	19
Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells	17
Holocene relative sea-level changes along the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of northwestern South America	13
Changes in the lake-grassland ecosystem revealed by multiple proxies in a sediment core from Ganggeng Nur Lake, northern China	12
Cryogenic features and stages in Late Quaternary subaerial sediments of the Lower Volga region	12
New paleohydroclimate record of the MIS 5e/5d transition from Yelini Cave, central Anatolian region of Türkiye	12
Paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks in the southern Central Andes of Argentina and their implications for tectonics and geomagnetic field behavior	12
Geophysical sediment properties of a late Pleistocene loess–paleosol sequence, Chenarli, northeastern Iran	11
Paleolakes, archaeology, and late Quaternary paleoenvironments in northwestern Mongolia	11
Holocene water levels of Silver Lake, Montana, and the hydroclimate history of the Inland Northwest	10
Human occupation, site formation, and chronostratigraphy of a mid-Holocene archaeological site at the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition, Argentina	10
Climatic controls on phosphorus concentrations in The Loch, Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA since the last glacial maximum	10
A prolonged dry Mid-Holocene recorded by Moon Lake in the Tengger Desert, arid and semiarid China	10
Chronology of the early transgressive phase of Lake Bonneville	10
Variation of the winter mid-latitude Westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere during the Holocene revealed by aeolian deposits in the southern Tibetan Plateau	10
The paleoenvironment and depositional context of the Sumerian site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, southern Mesopotamia, Iraq)	10
Past vegetation and hydrological change since the Middle Holocene in a Lake Erie riparian marsh provide a guide for ecosystem restoration	9
Introduction to special issue: loess environments: generation, transport, and deposition	9
Late Quaternary formation of the Miaoli Tableland in northwest Taiwan, an interplay of tectonic uplift and fluvial processes dated by OSL	9
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
Preliminary paleoenvironmental analysis and luminescence dating of upper Middle Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Ulakhan Sular Formation, Adycha River, east Siberia	8
QUA volume 120 Cover and Front matter	8
Limitations of precipitation reconstructions using equilibrium-line altitudes exemplified for former glaciers in the Southern Black Forest, Central Europe	8

New evidence from heavy minerals and detrital zircons in Quaternary fluvial sediments for the evolution of the upper Yangtze River, South China	8
Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe	8
Age of the late Holocene Bonneville landslide and submerged forest of the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon and Washington, USA, by radiocarbon dating	8
Precisely constrained 134-ka strong monsoon event in the penultimate deglaciation by an annually laminated speleothem from the Asian monsoon domain	7
QUA volume 107 Cover and Front matter	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
A multidisciplinary approach to resolve the taxonomy of the historically extinct sea mink (Neogale macrodon) (Maine, USA) – CORRIGENDUM	7
Microstructure and geochemical properties of modern and buried soils and hosting permafrost sediments of the Batagay retrogressive thaw slump	7
Holocene millennial-scale variability of coastal environments on the southern coast of Korea and its controlling factors	6
The selective geography of volcanism in oral traditions	6
Terrestrial ecosystem transformations in response to rapid climate change during the last deglaciation around Mono Lake, California, USA	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
Mechanistic models for rhizolith formation and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions	6
A speleothem record of seasonality and moisture transport around the 8.2 ka event in Central Europe (Vacska Cave, Hungary)	6
Holocene climate background for lake evolution in the Badain Jaran Desert of northwestern China revealed by proxies from calcareous root tubes	6
High-resolution magnetochronology detects multiple stages of Pleistocene tectonic uplift and deformation in the Po Plain of northern Italy	6
A Pleistocene hyenid trackway from the Cape south coast of South Africa	6
Holocene evolution of parabolic dunes, White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA, revealed by high-resolution mapping	6
Dietary ecological traits of extinct mammalian herbivores from the last glacial termination at the Pilauco Site, Chile	6
The relevance of biotic processes on modern tufa deposits, with an example from the Bonito region, Central-West Brazil	5
Unravelling 6000 years of interplay among environmental changes, anthropogenic activities, and Vesuvius eruptions in the upper Sarno Plain (Campania, Italy)	5
The unique Late Paleolithic artifactual bone assemblage from the Volchia Griva site, Western Siberia	5
Dietary preferences and collagen to collagen prey-predator trophic discrimination factors (Δ¹³C, Δ¹⁵N) in late Pleistocene cave hyena	5
Landscape evolution and ancient settlement patterns in a small river basin of the Huangshui River and the prehistoric Wangjinglou City, Central China	5
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	5
Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa	5
Annual isotopic diet (δ¹³C) ofEremotherium laurillardi(Lund, 1842) and climate variation (δ¹⁸O) through the late Pleistocene in the Brazilian Intertropical Region	5
QUA volume 124 Cover and Front matter	5
Assessing the reliability of raptor pellets in recording local small mammal diversity – CORRIGENDUM	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
The SISAL webApp: exploring the speleothem climate and environmental archives of the world	5
Paleogeographical reconstruction of the western French Alps foreland during the last glacial maximum using cosmogenic exposure dating	5
Structure and properties of paleosols of the last two interglacial cycles of the Khovaling Loess Plateau, Tajikistan (Obi–Mazar section)	5
The Pleistocene footprints are younger than we thought: correcting the radiocarbon dates of Ruppia seeds, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	4
Late glacial–Younger Dryas climate in interior Alaska as inferred from the isotope values of land snail shells	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
The incorporation of chlorine and cosmogenic ³⁶Cl into speleothem carbonate	4
Introduction to Thematic Set: Asian Climate	4
Late glacial to Holocene fluvial dynamics in the Upper Rhine alluvial plain, France	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
Taxonomic, biogeographic, and biological implications of mammoth teeth from a dynamic Pleistocene landscape in Alberta, Canada	4
Ancient DNA from speleothems: opportunity or challenge?	4
Effects of paleoclimatic variables on suitable open habitats for Pleistocene–Holocene megafauna in South America	4
The late Quaternary fossil record of mole salamanders in central Texas reveals range shifts and responses to environmental change	3
A 33,000-year paleohydrological record from Sanamere Lagoon, north-eastern tropical savannas of Australia	3
Mid-Pleistocene drainage rearrangement of the Dadu River in response to plate convergence in southeastern Tibet	3
Chronology, time averaging, and oxygen isotope composition of harvested marine mollusk assemblages from Ifri Oudadane, northeast Morocco	3
Vegetation dynamics in Dhofar, Oman, from the Late Holocene to present inferred from rock hyrax middens	3

Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East River watershed, Colorado, USA	3
QUA volume 110 Cover and Front matter	3
Paleoenvironmental changes in the eastern Kumtag Desert, northwestern China since the late Pleistocene	3
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge – CORRIGENDUM	3
Holocene and recent valley-bottom sediment storage decouples natural and anthropogenic hillslope erosion from sediment delivery to streams at time scales of 10¹–10⁴ yr in a third	3
Extreme modification of teeth and bones by porcupines (Hystrix cf. H. kiangsenensis and Atherurus macrourus) Làng Tráng Cave complex, northern Vietnam	3
Quaternary climatic events as conditioning factors of hydrogeologic characteristics and salinity in costal aquifers at northern Patagonia, Argentina	3
Climate change intensified violence in the south-central Andean highlands from 1.5 to 0.5 ka	3
Implications of the loess record for Holocene climate and human settlement in Heye Catchment, Jiuzhaigou, eastern Tibetan Plateau, Sichuan, China	3
Towards a better knowledge of the molar morphology and ecology of extant and fossil grass rats (Muridae:ArvicanthisLesson, 1842)	3
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona	3
Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene	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
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
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
Late Pleistocene pedogenesis and loess magnetism in northwestern Ukraine	3
Characteristics of Late Pleistocene and Holocene dune activity and soil formation in the Podravina, NE Croatia	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
Glacier fluctuation chronology since the latest Pleistocene at Mount Rainier, Washington, USA	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
Introduction to special issue: new developments in speleothem paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental science	2
Insights into the synergistic effects of tectonics and climate from the formation and evolution of the Hongwen allochthonous deposit, southwestern China	2
QUA volume 122 Cover and Front matter	2
Late Quaternary glaciations in the Taniantaweng Mountains	2
Introduction to Thematic Set: Aeolian Processes, Landforms and Chronologies	2
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	2
Hydroclimatic changes in south-central China during the 4.2 ka event and their potential impacts on the development of Neolithic culture	2
Influences of sea level changes and the South Asian Monsoon on southern Red Sea oceanography over the last 30 ka	2
Morphological characteristics and factors influencing ice-free cirques in the Qilian Mountains	2
A late-glacial lake-effect climate regime and abundant tamarack in the Great Lakes Region, North America	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
Potential refugia on the Tibetan Plateau during the last glacial maximum	2
Was there a nonglacial episode in the western Hudson Bay Lowland during Marine Isotope Stage 3?	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
Pedogenic carbonate as a transient soil component in a humid, temperate forest (Michigan, USA)	2
Late Pleistocene Neanderthal exploitation of stable and mosaic ecosystems in northern Iberia shown by multi-isotope evidence	2
Quaternary ironstones in the Xingu River, eastern Amazonia (Brazil)	2
Luminescence chronology of fluvial and aeolian deposits from the Emirate of Sharjah, UAE	2
Evolution of Ramasetu region as a link between India and Sri Lanka during the late Pleistocene and Holocene	2
Relative sea level and wave energy changes recorded in a micro-tidal barrier in southern Brazil	2
Cliff recession geodynamics variability and constraints within poorly consolidated landslide-prone coasts in the southern Baltic Sea, Poland	2
The distribution of fossil pollen and charcoal in stalagmites	2
A multidisciplinary approach to resolve the taxonomy of the historically extinct sea mink (Neogale macrodon) (Maine, USA)	2
QUA volume 127 Cover and Front matter	2
Mid- to Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon micro-region, western Turkey	2
QUA volume 123 Cover and Front matter	2
QUA volume 104 Cover and Back matter	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
Human–animal–environment dynamics and formation of pastoralism in the southern Tibetan Plateau during the Middle–Late Holocene	1
Early Pleistocene upper bathyal communities in fault-bounded paleovalleys of the island of Rhodes (Greece)	1
Aeolian dynamics at the northern edge of Deliblato (Banat) Sand Sea, Vojvodina, Serbia, at the time of the last deglaciation	1
A Late Holocene sedimentary record of earthquakes and hydroclimate from Ozette Lake, Washington, USA	1
Implications for catchment weathering, provenance, and climatic records from a late Pleistocene to present sedimentary sequence in Gujarat, India	1
Cliff recession geodynamics variability and constraints within poorly consolidated landslide-prone coasts in the southern Baltic Sea, Poland – CORRIGENDUM	1
A Holocene pollen-inferred climate reconstruction for Vermont, USA	1
QUA volume 111 Cover and Front matter	1
Glacial–interglacial cycles in the south-central and southeastern Pyrenees since ~180 ka (NE Spain–Andorra–S France)	1
Late Holocene coastal dynamics south of the Chanthaburi estuary, eastern Gulf of Thailand	1
Late Pleistocene aeolian deposition and human occupation on the eastern edge of the deglacial corridor, northeastern Alberta, Canada	1
The preservation potential of loess in low-elevation mountains (Mecsek Mountains, Hungary)	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
Implications of the geochemistry of L1LL1 (MIS2) loess in Poland for paleoenvironment and new normalizing values for loess-focused multi-elemental analyses	1
Seasonality of C₄ plant growth and carbonate precipitation in the Chinese Loess Plateau may cause positive carbon isotope anomalies in pedogenic carbonates	1
Dust pathways of the Songnen Plain, Northeast China in the last glacial period and their implications for ecological security	1
The evolution and degradation of Quaternary fossil fluvial fans in Brazilian semi-arid regions	1
Reconstructing postglacial hydrologic and environmental change in the eastern Kenai Peninsula lowlands using proxy data and mass balance modeling	1
Climatic and cave settings influence on drip water fluorescent organic matter with implications for fluorescent laminations in stalagmites	1
QUA volume 115 Cover and Front matter	1
Processing of Pueraria montana var. lobata (kudzu bean) and Colocasia esculenta (Taro) during the early holocene at kuk swamp in the papua new guinea highlands.	1
Holocene climate variability – CORRIGENDUM	1
Introduction to the Paleoecology of Subarctic and Arctic Seas (PESAS)	1
Late glacial through Early Holocene environments inferred using pollen from coprolites and sediments recovered from Paisley Caves, Oregon	1
Was there a nonglacial episode in the western Hudson Bay Lowland during Marine Isotope Stage 3? – CORRIGENDUM	1
Early Holocene interaction of aeolian, alluvial, and lacustrine processes in a dune-dammed valley in the central Nebraska Sand Hills	1
QUA volume 125 Cover and Front matter	1

Large herbivore δ¹⁸O as a proxy for aridity in the South African winter and year-round rainfall zone	1
Comparison of temperature and humidity during MIS 11 and MIS 5e interglacials with the Holocene using stable isotopes in tufa deposits from northern France	1
Glacial equilibrium line–based relationship for paleoclimate reconstructions (Sierra Nevada, USA)	1
Late Holocene hydroclimatic history of the Galilee Mountains from sedimentary records of the Sea of Galilee, Israel	1
Climate variability in the northern Levant from the highly resolved Qadisha record (Lebanon) during the Holocene optimum	1
Numerical model of late Pleistocene and Holocene ice-sheet and shoreline dynamics in the southern Baltic Sea, Poland	1
Pleistocene aardvark (Orycteropus afer) burrow traces on South Africa’s Cape coast	1
Update and synthesis of the available archaeological and geochronological data for the Lower Paleolithic site of Loreto at Venosa (Basilicata, Italy)	1
The genesis and paleogeographical significance of residual dune ridges in the central European Sand Belt (Warsaw Basin, central Poland)	1
Interplay of Holocene surface faulting and climate in the Central Po Plain, Italy	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
Soil organic carbon induces a decrease in erodibility of black soil with loess parent materials in northeast China	1
A ca. 39,000-year record of vegetation and climate change from the margin of the Namib Sand Sea	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
Anthropogenic activities in the páramo trigger ecological shifts in Tropical Andean lakes	1
Reconstructing Holocene fire records using dune footslope deposits at the Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia	1