OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Quaternary Research 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 paleohydroclimate record of the MIS 5e/5d transition from Yelini Cave, central Anatolian region of Türkiye	21
Cryogenic features and stages in Late Quaternary subaerial sediments of the Lower Volga region	21
Changes in the lake-grassland ecosystem revealed by multiple proxies in a sediment core from Ganggeng Nur Lake, northern China	20
Latest Pleistocene and Holocene local glacial history of Baranof Island, southeast Alaska	19
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona – CORRIGENDUM	15
Holocene relative sea-level changes along the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of northwestern South America	14
Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells	14
Reconstructing 32,000 years of hydrologic variability through an elemental geochemistry lake depth transfer function at Lake Elsinore, California	14
Paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks in the southern Central Andes of Argentina and their implications for tectonics and geomagnetic field behavior	14
The paleoenvironment and depositional context of the Sumerian site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, southern Mesopotamia, Iraq)	12
Chronology of the early transgressive phase of Lake Bonneville	12
Modeling post-Pleistocene megafauna extinctions as complex social-ecological systems	12
Human occupation, site formation, and chronostratigraphy of a mid-Holocene archaeological site at the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition, Argentina	11
Geophysical sediment properties of a late Pleistocene loess–paleosol sequence, Chenarli, northeastern Iran	11
Paleolakes, archaeology, and late Quaternary paleoenvironments in northwestern Mongolia	10
A prolonged dry Mid-Holocene recorded by Moon Lake in the Tengger Desert, arid and semiarid China	10
Holocene water levels of Silver Lake, Montana, and the hydroclimate history of the Inland Northwest	10
User guide for scanning electron microscopy applications to luminescence dating	10
Preliminary paleoenvironmental analysis and luminescence dating of upper Middle Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Ulakhan Sular Formation, Adycha River, east Siberia	9
Introduction to special issue: loess environments: generation, transport, and deposition	9
Past vegetation and hydrological change since the Middle Holocene in a Lake Erie riparian marsh provide a guide for ecosystem restoration	9
Late Quaternary formation of the Miaoli Tableland in northwest Taiwan, an interplay of tectonic uplift and fluvial processes dated by OSL	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
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
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge	8
Pleistocene periglacial paleohydrology reconstituted from sandstone morphologies in the Paris Basin, France	8
Climatic controls on phosphorus concentrations in The Loch, Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA since the last glacial maximum	8
Proglacial lake records of recent environmental change in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA	8
Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe	8
New evidence from heavy minerals and detrital zircons in Quaternary fluvial sediments for the evolution of the upper Yangtze River, South China	7
Large Pleistocene tortoise tracks on the Cape south coast of South Africa	7
Mechanistic models for rhizolith formation and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions	7
QUA volume 128 Cover and Front matter	7
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
Precisely constrained 134-ka strong monsoon event in the penultimate deglaciation by an annually laminated speleothem from the Asian monsoon domain	7
Microstructure and geochemical properties of modern and buried soils and hosting permafrost sediments of the Batagay retrogressive thaw slump	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	7
Late Quaternary climate change in the northeastern Arabian Peninsula recorded in the oxygen isotope composition of carbonate cements of aeolianites	7
LGM erosion and subsequent rapid loess deposition in Trzebnica (SW Poland)	6
Annual isotopic diet (δ¹³C) ofEremotherium laurillardi(Lund, 1842) and climate variation (δ¹⁸O) through the late Pleistocene in the Brazilian Intertropical Region	6
Holocene evolution of parabolic dunes, White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA, revealed by high-resolution mapping	6
A Pleistocene hyenid trackway from the Cape south coast of South Africa	6
Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa	6
The unique Late Paleolithic artifactual bone assemblage from the Volchia Griva site, Western Siberia	6
Holocene millennial-scale variability of coastal environments on the southern coast of Korea and its controlling factors	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
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 selective geography of volcanism in oral traditions	6
High-resolution magnetochronology detects multiple stages of Pleistocene tectonic uplift and deformation in the Po Plain of northern Italy	6
A speleothem record of seasonality and moisture transport around the 8.2 ka event in Central Europe (Vacska Cave, Hungary)	6
The giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Central Asia (Zasukhino-3 and Nalaikha), with insights on	5
Landscape evolution and ancient settlement patterns in a small river basin of the Huangshui River and the prehistoric Wangjinglou City, Central China	5
Assessing the reliability of raptor pellets in recording local small mammal diversity – CORRIGENDUM	5
The incorporation of chlorine and cosmogenic ³⁶Cl into speleothem carbonate	5
Unravelling 6000 years of interplay among environmental changes, anthropogenic activities, and Vesuvius eruptions in the upper Sarno Plain (Campania, Italy)	5
The relevance of biotic processes on modern tufa deposits, with an example from the Bonito region, Central-West Brazil	5
Holocene climate background for lake evolution in the Badain Jaran Desert of northwestern China revealed by proxies from calcareous root tubes	5
The Pleistocene footprints are younger than we thought: correcting the radiocarbon dates of Ruppia seeds, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	5
The SISAL webApp: exploring the speleothem climate and environmental archives of the world	5
QUA volume 124 Cover and Front matter	5
Taxonomic, biogeographic, and biological implications of mammoth teeth from a dynamic Pleistocene landscape in Alberta, Canada	5
Ancient DNA from speleothems: opportunity or challenge?	5
Dietary preferences and collagen to collagen prey-predator trophic discrimination factors (Δ¹³C, Δ¹⁵N) in late Pleistocene cave hyena	4
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge – CORRIGENDUM	4
Holocene hydroclimatic variability recorded in sediments from Maddox Lake (northern California Coast Range)	4
A 33,000-year paleohydrological record from Sanamere Lagoon, north-eastern tropical savannas of Australia	4
Towards a better knowledge of the molar morphology and ecology of extant and fossil grass rats (Muridae:ArvicanthisLesson, 1842)	4
A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multiproxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK	4
Structure and properties of paleosols of the last two interglacial cycles of the Khovaling Loess Plateau, Tajikistan (Obi–Mazar section)	4
Late glacial–Younger Dryas climate in interior Alaska as inferred from the isotope values of land snail shells	4
Introduction to Thematic Set: Asian Climate	4

The late Quaternary fossil record of mole salamanders in central Texas reveals range shifts and responses to environmental change	4
Effects of paleoclimatic variables on suitable open habitats for Pleistocene–Holocene megafauna in South America	4
A new relative sea-level curve from Inglefield Land, northwest Greenland	4
Mid-Pleistocene drainage rearrangement of the Dadu River in response to plate convergence in southeastern Tibet	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
Paleogeographical reconstruction of the western French Alps foreland during the last glacial maximum using cosmogenic exposure dating	4
Downstream dilution of quartz luminescence sensitivity due to rapid erosion in the tectonically active Peloritani Range, NE Sicily	4
Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene	4
QUA volume 110 Cover and Front matter	4
Late Pleistocene pedogenesis and loess magnetism in northwestern Ukraine	4
Late glacial to Holocene fluvial dynamics in the Upper Rhine alluvial plain, France	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