OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Quaternary Science is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Anthropocene as an Event, not an Epoch	63
The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid‐20^th century stratigraphic event signals	30
Retreat dynamics of the eastern sector of the British–Irish Ice Sheet during the last glaciation	24
Palaeolithic archaeology of the Bytham River: human occupation of Britain during the early Middle Pleistocene and its European context	23
Summer precipitation for the England and Wales region, 1201–2000 ce, from stable oxygen isotopes in oak tree rings	23
Late Quaternary vegetation and climate dynamics in central‐eastern Brazil: insights from a ~35k cal a bp peat record in the Cerrado biome	23
Pattern, style and timing of British–Irish Ice Sheet advance and retreat over the last 45 000 years: evidence from NW Scotland and the adjacent continental shelf	23
The new ¹⁴C chronology for the Palaeolithic site of La Ferrassie, France: the disappearance of Neanderthals and the arrival of Homo sapiens in France	21
New insights into Southern Caucasian glacial–interglacial climate conditions inferred from Quaternary gastropod fauna	20
Timing, pace and controls on ice sheet retreat: an introduction to the BRITICE‐CHRONO transect reconstructions of the British–Irish Ice Sheet	20
The evolution of the terrestrial‐terminating Irish Sea glacier during the last glaciation	20
First record of the Eurasian jaguar in southern Asia and a review of dental differences between pantherine cats	19
Evaluating Bayesian Radiocarbon‐dated Event Count (REC) models for the study of long‐term human and environmental processes	17
Consistent long‐term Holocene warming trend at different elevations in the Altai Mountains in arid central Asia	17
Hydrological changes during the Roman Climatic Optimum in northern Tuscany (Central Italy) as evidenced by speleothem records and archaeological data	17
Maximum extent and readvance dynamics of the Irish Sea Ice Stream and Irish Sea Glacier since the Last Glacial Maximum	16
Actualistic taphonomy of barn owl pellet‐derived small mammal bone accumulations in arid environments of South America	15
A bio‐available strontium isoscape for eastern Beringia: a tool for tracking landscape use of Pleistocene megafauna	15
A history of violence: magma incubation, timing and tephra distribution of the Los Chocoyos supereruption (Atitlán Caldera, Guatemala)	15
A high‐resolution speleothem proxy record of the Late Glacial in the European Alps: extending the NALPS19 record until the beginning of the Holocene	15
From cave geomorphology to Palaeolithic human behaviour: speleogenesis, palaeoenvironmental changes and archaeological insight in the Atxurra‐Armiña cave (northern Iberian Peninsula)	14
Rapid climate changes during the Lateglacial and the early Holocene as seen from plant community dynamics in the Polar Urals, Russia	14
Effects of the middle Holocene high sea‐level stand and climate on Amazonian mangroves	14
Timing and pace of ice‐sheet withdrawal across the marine–terrestrial transition west of Ireland during the last glaciation	14
Lipid residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the Liujiawa site of the Rui State (early Iron Age, north China)	13

A Holocene high‐resolution record of aquatic productivity, seasonal anoxia and meromixis from varved sediments of Lake Łazduny, North‐Eastern Poland: insight from a novel multi‐proxy approach	13
Modelling Last Glacial Maximum ice cap with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model to infer palaeoclimate in south‐west Turkey	13
The last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern France: environmental background and dating of the western European Palaeolithic	13
Contrasting impacts of the 8.2‐ and 4.2‐ka abrupt climatic events on the regional vegetation of the Hulun Lake region in north‐eastern China	12
Formational history of the Wicklow Trough: a marine‐transgressed tunnel valley revealing ice flow velocity and retreat rates for the largest ice stream draining the late‐Devensian British–Irish Ice Sh	12
What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region of SW Europe	12
Architecture of tunnel valleys in the southeastern North Sea: new insights from high‐resolution seismic imaging	12
The Požarevac loess–paleosol sequence: a record of increased aridity in the south‐eastern margin of the Carpathian Basin during the last 350 ka	11
Late Quaternary record of Indian summer monsoon‐induced stratification and productivity collapse in the Andaman Sea	10
Not herbs and forbs alone: pollen‐based evidence for the presence of boreal trees and shrubs in Cis‐Baikal (Eastern Siberia) derived from the Last Glacial Maximum sediment of Lake Ochaul	10
Could the central‐eastern Iberian Mediterranean region be defined as a refugium? Fauna and flora in MIS 5–3 and their implications for Palaeolithic human behaviour	10
Late Pleistocene glaciation history of the southern Black Forest, Germany: ¹⁰Be cosmic‐ray exposure dating and equilibrium line altitude reconstructions in Sankt Wilhelmer Tal	9
Lake sedimentary processes and vegetation changes over the last 45k cal a bp in the uplands of south‐eastern Amazonia	9
An Early Pleistocene hippopotamus from Westbury Cave, Somerset, England: support for a previously unrecognized temperate interval in the British Quaternary record	9
The first record of Cuon alpinus (Pallas, 1811) from Poland and the possible impact of other large canids on the evolution of the species	9
Exploring controls of the early and stepped deglaciation on the western margin of the British Irish Ice Sheet	9
A first Holocene leaf wax isotope‐based paleoclimate record from the semi‐humid to semi‐arid south‐eastern Caucasian lowlands	9
Sedimentary evidence and luminescence and ESR dating of Early Pleistocene high lake levels of Megalake Tengger, northwestern China	9
Volcanic ash and tsunami record of the Minoan Late Bronze Age Eruption (Santorini) in a distal setting, southwestern Turkey	8
The ‘Anthropocene’ is most useful as an informal concept	8
Assessing the use of mangrove pollen as a quantitative sea‐level indicator on Mahé, Seychelles	8
The Anthropocene serves science better as an event, rather than an epoch	8
Back to Uluzzo – archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and chronological context of the Mid–Upper Palaeolithic sequence at Uluzzo C Rock Shelter (Apulia, southern Italy)	8
Millennial‐scale shifts in microtidal ecosystems during the Holocene: dynamics and drivers of change from the Po Plain coastal record (NE Italy)	8
Neanderthal last stand? Thoughts on Iberian refugia in late MIS 3	8
Iberian Neanderthals in forests and savannahs	8
Recurrent outburst floods and explosive volcanism during the Younger Dryas–Early Holocene deglaciation in south Iceland: evidence from a lacustrine record	8
Quaternary environmental changes in tropical Lake Towuti, Indonesia, inferred from end‐member modelling of X‐ray fluorescence core‐scanning data	8
Palaeoecological signals for Mesolithic land use in a Central European landscape?	8
Malaco temperature reconstructions and numerical simulation of environmental conditions in the southeastern Carpathian Basin during the Last Glacial Maximum	8
Southern Baffin Island mean annual precipitation isotopes modulated by summer and autumn moisture source changes during the past 5800 years	7
What is a refugium? Questions for the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in peninsular southern Europe	7
Shifting potential tree species distributions from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Mid‐Holocene in North America, with a correlation assessment	7
Evidence for centennial‐scale Lateglacial and early Holocene climatic complexity from Quoyloo Meadow, Orkney, Scotland	7
Effects of social and climatic factors on building activity in the Czech lands between 1450 and 1950: a dendrochronological analysis	7
A palaeoecological view of the last Neanderthals at the crossroads of south‐central Europe and the central Mediterranean: long‐term stability or pronounced environmental change with human responses	7
Reconstruction of Middle to Late Quaternary sea level using submerged speleothems from the northeastern Yucatán Peninsula	7
The Oyambre coastal terrace: a detailed sedimentary record of the Last Interglacial Stage in northern Iberia (Cantabrian coast, Spain)	7
Integrated multidisciplinary ecological analysis from the Uluzzian settlement at the Uluzzo C Rock Shelter, south‐eastern Italy	7
Pliocene and late Pleistocene (MIS 5e) decapod crustaceans from Santa Maria Island (Azores Archipelago: Central Atlantic): systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography	7
Indian monsoon variability during the last 46 kyr: isotopic records of planktic foraminifera from southwestern Bay of Bengal	7
Chronology of the Mediterranean sea‐level highstand during the Last Interglacial: a critical review of the U/Th‐dated deposits	7
Archaeal lipids reveal climate‐driven changes in microbial ecology at Lake El'gygytgyn (Far East Russia) during the Plio‐Pleistocene	7
New insights into cave hyena ethology and the implications for territorial competition with hominins in Late Pleistocene north‐west Europe: the case of Caverne Marie‐Jeanne (Belgium)	7
Late Quaternary chironomid community structure shaped by rate and magnitude of climate change	7
Intra‐interstadial environmental changes in Last Glacial loess revealed by molluscan assemblages from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Amiens‐Renancourt 1 (Somme, France)	6
A dated volcano‐tectonic deformation event in Jan Mayen causing landlocking of Arctic charr	6
Detection of the historical Askja ad 1875 and modern Icelandic cryptotephras in varved lake sediments – results from a first systematic search in northern Poland	6
The missing Myopus: plugging the gaps in Late Pleistocene small mammal identification in western Europe with geometric morphometrics	6
Neanderthals on the Lower Danube: Middle Palaeolithic evidence in the Danube Gorges of the Balkans	6

Late Pleistocene and Holocene Afromontane vegetation and headwater wetland dynamics within the Eastern Mau Forest, Kenya	6
Drivers of 20th century sea‐level change in southern New Zealand determined from proxy and instrumental records	6
Glacial oscillations during the Bølling–Allerød Interstadial–Younger Dryas transition in the Ruda Valley, Central Pyrenees	6
Last interglacial lake sediments preserved beneath Laurentide and Greenland Ice sheets provide insights into Arctic climate amplification and constrain 130 ka of ice‐sheet history	6
Lake Neor reveals how mountain vegetation responded to 7000 years of hydroclimate variability in northwestern Iran	6
Reassessment of the ‘Abbevillien’ in the perspective of new discoveries from the Lower Palaeolithic and Quaternary sites of Abbeville (Somme, northern France)	6
Exploring the extent to which fluctuations in ice‐rafted debris reflect mass changes in the source ice sheet: a model–observation comparison using the last British–Irish Ice Sheet	6
Refinement of the tephrostratigraphy straddling the northern Patagonian Andes (40–41°S): new tephra markers, reconciling different archives and ascertaining the timing of piedmont deglaciation	6
Ground truth validated 3D electrical resistivity imaging of the archaeological deposits at Arma Veirana cave (northern Italy)	6
Complexity in the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Peninsular Southern Europe and application of refugium concepts	6
Variation of summer precipitation δ¹⁸O on the Chinese Loess Plateau since the last interglacial	6
Using archaeological data and sediment parameters to review the formation of the Gravettian layers at Krems‐Wachtberg	6
Macrofossil evidence of alder (Alnus sp.) in Britain early in the Late Glacial Interstadial: implications for the northern cryptic refugia debate	6
Cave paleozoology in the Judean Desert: assembling records of Holocene wild mammal communities	6
Larger floods of Himalayan foothill rivers sustained flows in the Ghaggar–Hakra channel during Harappan age	6
Reconstruction of the palaeo‐sea level of Britain and Ireland arising from empirical constraints of ice extent: implications for regional sea level forecasts and North American ice sheet volume	6
Late Pleistocene–Holocene climatic implications of high‐resolution stable isotope profiles of a speleothem from south‐central Anatolia, Turkey	6
Challenging the hypothesis of an Arctic Ocean lake during recent glacial episodes	5
Plio‐Pleistocene mammals from Mille‐Logya, Ethiopia, and the post‐Hadar faunal change	5
The past in dust: current trends and future directions in Pleistocene geoarcheology of European loess	5
Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change	5
Neanderthal subsistence, taphonomy and chronology at Salzgitter‐Lebenstedt (Germany): a multifaceted analysis of morphologically unidentifiable bone	5
Climate and environmental history at Lake Levinson‐Lessing, Taymyr Peninsula, during the last 62 kyr	5
Holocene environmental history of a freshwater wetland in southern Louisiana: a sedimentary record of delta development, coastal evolution and human activity	5
Sedimentology of a Late Quaternary lacustrine record from the south‐eastern Carpathian Basin	5
A new species of small Camelidae from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil	5
Hekla 1947, 1845, 1510 and 1158 tephra in Finland: challenges of tracing tephra from moderate eruptions	5
Asynchronous variations of East Asian summer monsoon, vegetation and soil formation at Yulin (North China) in the Holocene	5
Early Last Interglacial environmental changes recorded by speleothems from Katerloch (south‐east Austria)	5
Climate, glacial and vegetation history of the polar Ural Mountains since c. 27 cal ka bp, inferred from a 54 m long sediment core from Lake Bolshoye Shchuchye	5
Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental reconstructions from sediments of Lake Emanda (Verkhoyansk Mountains, East Siberia)	5
Environmental heterogeneity of the Lower Palaeolithic land surface on the Goodwood‐Slindon Raised Beach: comparisons of the records from Boxgrove and Valdoe, Sussex, UK	5
On the existence of a large proglacial lake in the Rostov‐Kostroma lowland, north‐central European Russia	5
Ocean/atmosphere interaction and Malthusian catastrophes on the northern fringe of the Asian summer monsoon region in China, 1368–1911	5
A tephra‐based correlation of marine and terrestrial records of MIS 11c from Britain and the North Atlantic	5
‘Palaeolago Fueguino’, a Late Pleistocene lacustrine basin located in the central sector of Tierra del Fuego: a seismostratigraphic study	5
The use of iron chemical analysis of podzols to date the Late Pleistocene–Holocene deglaciation history of the Central Italian Alps	5
Holocene environments on the west‐central Kola Peninsula (north‐west Russia): lithology, chronology and biostratigraphy records from Lake Tikozero and a neighbouring bog	5
Impact of Pleistocene–Holocene climate shifts on vegetation and fire dynamics and its implications for Prearchaic humans in the central Great Basin, USA	5
The Holocene record of Alberca de Tacámbaro, a tropical lake in western Mexico: evidence of orbital and millennial‐scale climatic variability	5
Abrupt intrinsic and extrinsic responses of southwestern Iberian vegetation to millennial‐scale variability over the past 28 ka	5
Small shards and long distances — three cryptotephra layers from the Nahe palaeolake including the first discovery of Laacher See Tephra in Schleswig‐Holstein (Germany)	5