OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Quaternary Science 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Reassessment of the ‘Abbevillien’ in the perspective of new discoveries from the Lower Palaeolithic and Quaternary sites of Abbeville (Somme, northern France)	103
On the existence of a large proglacial lake in the Rostov‐Kostroma lowland, north‐central European Russia	46
Millimetre‐scale pollen analysis of non‐varved lacustrine sediments from Onepoto maar palaeolake, Auckland, reveals distal vegetation responses and landscape recovery following the ~25.5‐ka Ōruanui su	21
Mechanism of organic matter enrichment in a basin with shallow biogenic gas: a case study of Pleistocene shale in the Qaidam Basin	18
Myrmecophaga tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) subfossils from Abismo Anhumas, Bonito/MS, Brazil: Morphology, isotopic habitat (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O), radiocarbon dating, biogeography and	18
Peninsular southern Europe refugia during the Middle Palaeolithic: an introduction	17
Reproducibility and variability of earthquake subsidence estimates from saltmarshes of a Cascadia estuary	17
Restricted cirque glaciers in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland, during the Nahanagan Stadial (Greenland Stadial‐1/Younger Dryas)	16
Geomorphology and chronology of Late Quaternary terrace staircases of the Sakarya River, northwest Türkiye	16
Quaternary environmental changes in tropical Lake Towuti, Indonesia, inferred from end‐member modelling of X‐ray fluorescence core‐scanning data	16
A new extinct species of Scybalophagus dung beetle supports the collateral extinction hypothesis at the Chilean South American Pleistocene–Holocene boundary	15
Effects of social and climatic factors on building activity in the Czech lands between 1450 and 1950: a dendrochronological analysis	15
Radiocarbon and stable isotope evidence of early to mid‐Holocene wet events from fluvial tufa deposits in Santa Cruz, CA	14
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The first radiocarbon and stable isotope data for megafauna remains in Kaliningrad Province, Russia	13
Lacustrine evidence reveals spatially and temporally distinct Holocene ruptures on the Sawtooth Fault, Central Idaho, USA	13
Glacier changes since the Last Glacial Maximum on two slopes of Mt Noijin Kang‐Sang, Southern Tibetan Plateau	13
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Intermediate ocean circulation and cryosphere dynamics in the northeast Atlantic during Heinrich Stadials: benthic foraminiferal assemblage response	13
Late Pleistocene montane forest fire return interval estimates from Mount Kenya	12
Abrupt intrinsic and extrinsic responses of southwestern Iberian vegetation to millennial‐scale variability over the past 28 ka	12
Rinikerfeld Palaeolake (Northern Switzerland) – a sedimentary archive of landscape and climate change during the penultimate glacial cycle	12
Dietary niche separation of three Late Pleistocene bear species from Vancouver Island, on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America	12
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Birds as indicators of early Holocene biodiversity and the seasonal nature of human activity at WF16, an early Neolithic site in Faynan, Southern Jordan	11

The development and impact of an ice‐contact proglacial lake during the Last Glacial Termination, Palaeolake Riada, central Ireland	11
Australian subtropical vegetation and wetland response to fire, climate and nutrient availability during the Holocene	11
Reconstructing the late Pleistocene glacial history of the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland, using paired cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ¹⁴C	11
Forest fires in southwest Western Siberia: the impact of climate and economic transitions over 9000 years	11
Chironomid (Insecta: Chironomidae) community structure response to hydrological changes in the mid‐1950s in lake Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau	11
On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland	10
Deglaciation and postglacial evolution of the Cère Valley (Cantal, French Massif Central) based on geomorphological mapping, ³⁶Cl surface exposure dating and glacier modelling	10
Consilience in practice: social–ecological dynamics of the Lake Volvi region (Greece) during the last two millennia	10
Insights into human–environment interactions in tropical Africa during the Late Holocene based on the sediment sequence from Saiwa Swamp, Kenya	10
Quaternary alluvial paleosols of the Atbara River, eastern Sudan: description and paleoenvironments	10
Deglacial dynamics of the Foxe–Baffin Ice Sheet, Frobisher Bay, Nunavut, Canada revealed by submarine landform mapping	10
Paleoearthquakes along the northeastern segment of the Yabrai range‐front fault in the Alashan Block, northeast of the Tibetan Plateau	10
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Giants beasts updated: A review of new knowledge about the South American megafauna	9
Holocene shore‐level changes, southern Lolland and the Femern Belt, Denmark	9
The importance of terrestrial carbon sequestration during Termination 1	9
Correction to “The Pleistocene Witch Ground Ice Stream in the central North Sea”	9
Hydrological and vegetation changes in North Africa over the past 23 000 years: a comparative study of watershed areas of the Nile River using remote sensing and compound‐specific δ²H and δ	9
The bay barnacle Amphibalanus improvisus (Darwin, 1854) in the Pleistocene of Europe? A review of Pleistocene Balanidae of northern Central Europe	9
Reviewing the body size of some extinct Brazilian Quaternary Xenarthrans	9
MIS 7!? Comment on Zolitschka et al. (2024) Stratigraphy and dating of Middle Pleistocene sediments from Rodderberg, Germany. Journal of Quaternary Science, 39(7), 1011–1030	8
A tale of two islands: tectonic and orbital controls on marine terrace reoccupation, Channel Islands National Park, California, USA	8
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Western Siberia experienced rapid shifts in moisture source and summer water balance during the last deglaciation and early Holocene	8
Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change	8
The imprint of catchment processes on Greenlandic ice cap proglacial lake records: analytical approaches and palaeoenvironmental significance	8
Pleistocene environments, climate, and human activity in Britain during Marine Isotope Stage 7: insights from Oak Tree Fields, Cerney Wick, Gloucestershire	8
The Late Pleistocene megafauna of the Chulym River basin, southeastern West Siberian Plain: chronology and stable isotope composition	8
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Mineral magnetism and palaeoenvironment recorded in loess in southern England	7
The preservation of storm events in the geologic record of New Jersey, USA	7
The dating and correlation of an eastern Mediterranean lake sediment sequence: a 46–4 ka tephrostratigraphy for Ioannina (NW Greece)	7
Differing local‐scale responses of Bolivian Amazon forest ecotones to middle Holocene drought based upon multiproxy soil data	7
Rapid deglaciation of the La Vega gorge (Sierra de Gredos, Iberian Peninsula) at the end of the global Last Glacial Maximum	7
Plio‐Pleistocene mammals from Mille‐Logya, Ethiopia, and the post‐Hadar faunal change	7
A multimethod analysis for tracing Gravettian red ochre provenance at Arene Candide Cave (NW Italy)	7
A 15 000 cal a paleoclimatic record from Laguna del Viento (33°S), Subtropical Andes, central Chile	7
Comparative study of paleoflood slackwater deposits in the Yarlung Zangbo and Hanjiang Rivers, China	7
Homo floresiensisandHomo luzonensisare not temporally exceptional relative toHomo erectus	7
LGM ice extent and deglaciation history in the Gurktal and Lavantal Alps (eastern European Alps): first constraints from ¹⁰Be surface exposure dating of glacially polished quartz veins	6
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Vertical acoustic blanking in seismic data from the German North Sea: a spotlight to shallow gas‐bearing incised channels	6
Corrigendum to “Within the boundaries of the Dnipro ice lobe: Biotic dynamics in the Middle Dnipro area (Ukraine) during deglaciation and postglacial stages”	6
Characterization of dental calculus in the South American Quaternary proboscidean Notiomastodon platensis (Ameghino, 1888)	6
Paleoenvironmental dynamics in central‐eastern Brazil during the last 23 000 years: tropical peatland record in the Cerrado biome	6
The first record ofCuon alpinus(Pallas, 1811) from Poland and the possible impact of other large canids on the evolution of the species	6
Causes of decadal distributions of Indian summer monsoon rainfall during the last 1500 years	6
Insights into Holocene relative sea‐level changes in the southern North Sea using an improved microfauna‐based transfer function	6
A tephra‐based correlation of marine and terrestrial records of MIS 11c from Britain and the North Atlantic	6
The past in dust: current trends and future directions in Pleistocene geoarcheology of European loess	6

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Relative sea‐level changes in southeastern Australia during the 19^th and 20^th centuries	6
Lake level fluctuation controls the formation, types, and abundance of coated grains in hypersaline lakes: a case study from Urmia Lake (NW Iran)	6
A 600‐year marine record associated with the dynamics of the eastern Penny Ice Cap (Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada)	6
Influence of flooding variability on the development of an Amazonian peatland	6
Quartz luminescence sensitivity variation in the Chinese loess deposits: the potential role of wildfires	5
Chronology of Late Pleistocene glacial advances in a Mount Mercedario catchment, Subtropical Andes of Argentina (32° S)	5
Local and regional constraints on relative sea‐level changes in southern Isle of Skye, Scotland, since the Last Glacial Maximum	5
A 7500‐year record of fire and precipitation dynamics from Clear Pond, South Carolina, USA	5
The Anthropocene's stratigraphic reality and the humanities: a response to Finney and Gibbard (2023) and to Chvostek (2023)	5
Surface microtextures of quartz grains and minor sedimentary components across the Paleolithic Jeongok‐ri sediments, Yeoncheon, South Korea	5
A preliminary study of natural environmental change and its impact on early Late Paleolithic people in the northeast central Korean Peninsula during Marine Istope Stage 3 (40–30k cal a bp)	5
Multi‐million‐year evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet in Inglefield Land, North Greenland	5
Eurasian Holocene climate trends in transient coupled climate simulations and stable oxygen isotope records	5
Identification of Atlantic water inflow on the north Svalbard shelf during the Holocene	5
Preservation of stable isotopic composition in charred grains: Implications for paleoenvironmental and archeological research	5
Past hydro‐pedological events and trend reflected in the Mid–Late Holocene alluvial record of the Middle Rhône Valley and tributaries: A new reference for South East France	5
Hydroclimate variability in the eastern Kimberley, Australia, since the last deglaciation	5
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A 1500‐year record of North Atlantic storm flooding from lacustrine sediments, Shetland Islands (UK)	5
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Revisiting the late Quaternary fossiliferous infills of Cathedral Cave, Wellington Caves (central eastern New South Wales, Australia)	5
Not only domestic spaces: dismantling short‐term occupations in Level 497D of Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Pre‐Pyrenees, Spain)	5
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Holocene hydroclimate in highland Costa Rica: new evidence from hydrogen and carbon isotopes in n‐alkanes of terrestrial leaf waxes in a 10 000‐year sediment profile	5
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Reconstruction and palaeoclimatic implications of Loch Lomond Readvance glaciers in the Southeast Grampians, Scotland	5
Marine and terrestrial environmental change during the MIS 5–4 transition (southern North Sea area)	5
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Glacier mass loss on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since the Little Ice Age	4
Plant–insect interactions in the Quaternary fossil record of the Azores Archipelago (Portugal)	4
Climate and environmental history at Lake Levinson‐Lessing, Taymyr Peninsula, during the last 62 kyr	4
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Back to Uluzzo – archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and chronological context of the Mid–Upper Palaeolithic sequence at Uluzzo C Rock Shelter (Apulia, southern Italy)	4
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New insights into taphonomic analysis of the Upper Pleistocene Ursus spelaeus bone deposit from Bàsura cave (Toirano, NW Italy)	4
Last Glacial Maximum active layer thickness in Western Europe, and the issue of ‘tundra gleys’ in loess sequences	4
Late Holocene in central Brazil: vegetation changes and humidity variability in a tropical wetland	4
Vegetation and environmental dynamics in the central part of the Kola Peninsula during the past 13.3 ka as reflected by ancient plant DNA on sediments from Lake Imandra	4
Late Quaternary ostracode stratigraphy of Mono Lake (California, USA): evidence for benthic ecosystem sensitivity to climate change	4
Investigating seasonal mobility in Irish giant deer Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) through strontium isotope (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) analysis	4
Lower Palaeolithic small flake prehension: Use‐wear and residue analyses reveal hominin grasping potential at late Acheulean sites in Israel and Italy	4
Invite the Human(ities) to the Anthropocene	4
The Currey cycle of Great Salt Lake: an early Younger Dryas lake in the Bonneville basin, Utah, USA	4
Comment on: Plant–insect interactions in the Quaternary fossil record of the Azores Archipelago (Portugal). Pokorný and Borges (2023). Journal of Quaternary Science 38(4), 597–607	4
Highly variable sediment deposition in Lake Imandra, NW Russia, since the Late Pleistocene	4
Palaeoenvironmental implications of Late Quaternary bioerosion traces in central Patagonia (Southern Atlantic, Argentina)	4
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	4
Reply to ‘Challenging the hypothesis of an arctic ocean lake during recent glacial episodes’ by Hillaire‐Marcel, et al	4
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Stratigraphy and OSL chronology of the Middle–Upper Pleistocene sedimentary sequence and vegetation history during Late MIS6–MIS5e in the Neva Lowland (St. Petersburg region, Russia)	4
Late Pleistocene–Holocene climatic implications of high‐resolution stable isotope profiles of a speleothem from south‐central Anatolia, Turkey	4
Late Pleistocene to Holocene vegetation changes in southeastern Patagonia (49° S): landscape changes related to disturbances	4