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 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
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
Changes in the lake-grassland ecosystem revealed by multiple proxies in a sediment core from Ganggeng Nur Lake, northern China	12
Paleolakes, archaeology, and late Quaternary paleoenvironments in northwestern Mongolia	11
Geophysical sediment properties of a late Pleistocene loess–paleosol sequence, Chenarli, northeastern Iran	11
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
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
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
Past vegetation and hydrological change since the Middle Holocene in a Lake Erie riparian marsh provide a guide for ecosystem restoration	9
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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