OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Human-facilitated dispersal of pawpaw (Asimina triloba [L.] Dunal) at its northern range limits: re-examining the historical and archaeological evidence	38
Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years	23
Survival during the 4.2 ka event by Jomon hunter–gatherers with management and use of plant resources at the Denotame site in central Japan	20
Pre-hispanic Datura ferox L. in the Southern Andes: archaeobotanical evidence from an Inca archaeological site at Salta, Argentina	15
Multi-proxy evidence for woodland clearance in northeast Northumberland (England) during the Iron Age	14
Late Holocene vegetation dynamics: degree and regional patterns of the Dark Ages woodland regeneration (ad 300–700) in the Netherlands	12
Wild foods, woodland fuels, and cultivation through the Ceramic and Early Historical periods in Araucanía, Southern Chile (400–1850 ce)	12
Inventions, innovations and the origins of spelt wheat	11
Afromontane forests and human impact after the African Humid Period: wood charcoal from the Sodicho rock shelter, SW Ethiopian highlands	11
Examining climate and composition differences in eastern North American temperate forests using pollen ratios and pollen assemblage cluster analysis	11
Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time	11
Microhistological analysis of ancient wild herbivore droppings from the Potrerillos valley, central western Argentina: palaeodiets, vegetation and human activity	11
Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages	10
Correction: Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology	10
Performance of vegetation cover reconstructions using lake and soil pollen samples from the Tibetan Plateau	9
The persistent place at Lubrza: a small paradise for hunter-gatherers? Multi-disciplinary studies of Late Palaeolithic environment and human activity in the Łagów lake district (western Poland)	9
The importance of wild plant resources in the Neolithic: a case study of the Late Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Grandson-Corcelettes, Les Pins (Switzerland)	9
Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia)	9
Differences in forest composition following two periods of settlement by pre-Columbian Native Americans	9
Land cover and use-history of large empty spaces at fortified Iron Age hilltop sites; a case study from La Terrasse, Bibracte oppidum	8
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data	8
The first annually resolved analysis of slash-and-burn practices in the boreal Eurasia suggests their strong climatic and socio-economic controls	8
Contribution to Neotoma: Hallwilersee (Switzerland) pollen and diatoms	8
Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics	7
Cultural landscape and plant use at the Phoenician site of Motya (Western Sicily, Italy) inferred from a disposal pit	7

Influence of taxonomic resolution on the value of anthropogenic pollen indicators	7
Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of archaeobotanical remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı (western Anatolia) to investigate crop management	7
Archaeobotanical evidence of the function of four-post structures in Denmark	6
Pollen richness: a reflection of vegetation diversity or pollen-specific parameters?	6
Reconstruction of the environmental conditions for the past 2,000 years in the Perico River basin (NW Argentina) based on fossil pollen records	6
Modern phytolith assemblages as indicators of vegetation in the southern Caucasus	6
The archaeobotany of Qaratepe, Azerbaijan 2nd–13th century	6
Introduction to the special issue on ‘Plant use and management during the emergence of farming in Southwest Asia: recent insights and new approaches’	6
Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia	6
Archaeobotany of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel (Israel): insights into plant exploitation along the Natufian sequence	6
Neolithic landscape and firewood use: charcoal analysis of domestic and funerary contexts at La Dehesilla (Andalusia, Spain)	5
A glimpse into the viticulture of Roman Lusitania: morphometric analysis of charred grape pips from Torre dos Namorados, Portugal	5
Correction to: Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg	5
List of critical referees, Volumes 32–33	5
NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform	5
Predynastic and Early Dynastic plant economy in the Nile Delta: archaeobotanical evidence from Tell el-Iswid	5
Correction to: Tracking the history of grapevine cultivation in Georgia by combining geometric morphometrics and ancient DNA	5
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas	5
Flax use, weeds and manuring in Viking Age Åland: archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis	5
The impact of Lusatian Urnfield and subsequent prehistoric cultures on lake and woodland ecosystems: insights from multi-proxy palaeoecological investigations at Bruszczewo, western Poland	5
Auto-fluorescent phytoliths: can we detect past fires in tropical and subtropical contexts?	4
Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan	4
Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin (DR Congo)	4
Palynological evidence from a sub-alpine marsh of enhanced Little Ice Age snowpack in the Marrakech High Atlas, North Africa	4
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II	4
Potential late glacial maximum refugial areas of Alaska-Yukon postglacial migrant plants	4
Documenting a thousand years of environmental and anthropogenic changes on mangroves on the Bangkok coast, the upper Gulf of Thailand	4
Relative pollen productivity estimates for the dominant plant taxa in the Hoh Xil region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	4
Holocene vegetation, fire and land use dynamics at Lake Svityaz, an agriculturally marginal site in northwestern Ukraine	4
Legacies of past human activities on one of the largest old-growth forests in the south-east European mountains	4
8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)	4