OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Quaternary Research is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The selective geography of volcanism in oral traditions	33
QUA volume 106 Cover and Front matter	28
Paleoenvironmental changes in the eastern Kumtag Desert, northwestern China since the late Pleistocene	15
QUA volume 101 Cover and Back matter	14
Holocene evolution of parabolic dunes, White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA, revealed by high-resolution mapping	12
Younger Dryas to early Holocene (12.9 to 8.1 ka) limnological and hydrological change at Barley Lake, California (northern California Coast Range)	11
Paleowind directions from the magnetic fabric of loess deposits in the western Chinese Loess Plateau and implications for dust provenance	11
Loess transportation surfaces in west-central Wisconsin, USA	11
Chronology, time averaging, and oxygen isotope composition of harvested marine mollusk assemblages from Ifri Oudadane, northeast Morocco	11
QUA volume 119 Cover and Front matter	10
Seasonality of C₄ plant growth and carbonate precipitation in the Chinese Loess Plateau may cause positive carbon isotope anomalies in pedogenic carbonates	10
Holocene relative sea-level changes along the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of northwestern South America	10
Implications of the loess record for Holocene climate and human settlement in Heye Catchment, Jiuzhaigou, eastern Tibetan Plateau, Sichuan, China	9
The signature of accumulated permanent uplift, northern Cascadia subduction zone	9
Ecohydrological controls on apparent rates of peat carbon accumulation in a boreal bog record from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Ontario, Canada	9
Modeling post-Pleistocene megafauna extinctions as complex social-ecological systems	9
Changes in the lake-grassland ecosystem revealed by multiple proxies in a sediment core from Ganggeng Nur Lake, northern China	8
Holocene geo-ecological evolution of Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park (USA)	8
Human–animal–environment dynamics and formation of pastoralism in the southern Tibetan Plateau during the Middle–Late Holocene	8
Holocene morpho-sedimentary evolution of Marambaia Barrier Island (SE Brazil)	8
River terraces along the Liujiang River in Southwest China and their implications for understanding fluvial processes on the Guizhou Plateau since the Late Pleistocene	8
Tropical vegetation productivity and atmospheric methane over the last 40,000 years from model simulations and stalagmites in Sulawesi, Indonesia	8
A 25,000 year record of climate and vegetation change from the southwestern Cape coast, South Africa	8
Environmental changes in SW France during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition from the pollen analysis of an eastern North Atlantic deep-sea core	7
The geography and progression of blowouts in the coastal dunes along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan since 1938	6

Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells	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
Holocene glacier history of northeastern Cordillera Darwin, southernmost South America (55°S)	6
Species distribution modeling reveals the ecological niche of extinct megafauna from South America	6
The timing and ecological consequences of Pleistocene megafaunal decline in the eastern Andes of Colombia	6
Cryogenic features and stages in Late Quaternary subaerial sediments of the Lower Volga region	6
A speleothem record of seasonality and moisture transport around the 8.2 ka event in Central Europe (Vacska Cave, Hungary)	6
Glacitectonic rafts and their role in the generation of Quaternary subglacial bedforms and deposits	6
A Paleo-Lake and wetland paleoecology associated with human use of the distal Old River Bed Delta at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Bonneville Basin, Utah, USA	6
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona – CORRIGENDUM	5
New paleohydroclimate record of the MIS 5e/5d transition from Yelini Cave, central Anatolian region of Türkiye	5
Paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks in the southern Central Andes of Argentina and their implications for tectonics and geomagnetic field behavior	5
Quaternary climatic events as conditioning factors of hydrogeologic characteristics and salinity in costal aquifers at northern Patagonia, Argentina	5
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona	5
A multimethod dating study of ancient permafrost, Batagay megaslump, east Siberia	5
Pleistocene aardvark (Orycteropus afer) burrow traces on South Africa’s Cape coast	5
Was there a nonglacial episode in the western Hudson Bay Lowland during Marine Isotope Stage 3? – CORRIGENDUM	5
Large herbivore δ¹⁸O as a proxy for aridity in the South African winter and year-round rainfall zone	5
Landscape dynamics and chronological refinement of the Middle Pleistocene Reinsdorf Sequence of Schöningen, NW Germany	5
Terrestrial ecosystem transformations in response to rapid climate change during the last deglaciation around Mono Lake, California, USA	5
Temperature fluctuations and ventilation dynamics induced by atmospheric pressure variations in Lamalunga Cave (Apulia, Italy) and their influences on speleothem growth	4
Late Quaternary glaciations in the Taniantaweng Mountains	4
The unique Late Paleolithic artifactual bone assemblage from the Volchia Griva site, Western Siberia	4
Dietary ecological traits of extinct mammalian herbivores from the last glacial termination at the Pilauco Site, Chile	4
Systematics and paleobiogeography of Quaternary corals from Cabo Verde Archipelago	4
QUA volume 103 Cover and Back matter	4
A Pleistocene hyenid trackway from the Cape south coast of South Africa	4
Assessing reproducibility in sedimentary macroscopic charcoal count data	4
Limnological changes and chironomid-inferred summer air temperature from the Late Pleniglacial to the Early Holocene in the East Carpathians	4
Glaciations and landscape change in the Lower Aare Valley (Northern Switzerland) through the Middle Pleistocene	4
A prolonged dry Mid-Holocene recorded by Moon Lake in the Tengger Desert, arid and semiarid China	4
Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East River watershed, Colorado, USA	4
Anthropogenic activities in the páramo trigger ecological shifts in Tropical Andean lakes	4
Reconstruction of climate and ecology of Skagit Valley, Washington, from 27.7 to 19.8 ka based on plant and beetle macrofossils	4
Chronology of the early transgressive phase of Lake Bonneville	4
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	4
Hillslope and vegetation response to postglacial warming at Bear Meadows Bog, Pennsylvania, USA	3
Holocene water levels of Silver Lake, Montana, and the hydroclimate history of the Inland Northwest	3
QUA volume 112 Cover and Front matter	3
Geophysical sediment properties of a late Pleistocene loess–paleosol sequence, Chenarli, northeastern Iran	3
Stratigraphy and evolution of the late Pleistocene (MIS 5) coastal Barrier III in southern Brazil	3
Pliocene–Pleistocene hydrology and pluvial lake during Marine Isotope Stages 5a and 4, Deep Springs Valley, western Great Basin, Inyo County, California	3
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	3
QUA volume 105 Cover and Front matter	3
On the early development of Huastecs (Gulf of Mexico) revealed by the Earth's magnetic field recorded in domestic hearths	3
Human occupation, site formation, and chronostratigraphy of a mid-Holocene archaeological site at the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition, Argentina	3
The role of lithology and climate on bedrock river incision and terrace development along the Buffalo National River, Arkansas	3
Holocene regional climate change and formation of southern Ontario's largest swamp inferred from a kettle-lake pollen record	3
Holocene hydroclimate and dust activity, as reconstructed from the sediments of Lake Bayanchagan, on the northern margin of the East Asian summer monsoon	3
A Late Holocene climate reconstruction from the high-altitude Lake Gölcük sedimentary records, Isparta (SW Anatolia)	3

Holocene climate background for lake evolution in the Badain Jaran Desert of northwestern China revealed by proxies from calcareous root tubes	3
QUA volume 104 Cover and Back matter	3
QUA volume 103 Cover and Front matter	3
Glacial equilibrium line–based relationship for paleoclimate reconstructions (Sierra Nevada, USA)	3
QUA volume 116 Cover and Front matter	3
Annual isotopic diet (δ¹³C) ofEremotherium laurillardi(Lund, 1842) and climate variation (δ¹⁸O) through the late Pleistocene in the Brazilian Intertropical Region	3