OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Holocene 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
Sum things are not what they seem: Problems with point-wise interpretations and quantitative analyses of proxies based on aggregated radiocarbon dates	36
New evidence from the Qugong site in the central Tibetan Plateau for the prehistoric Highland Silk Road	28
Climate and social change at the start of the Late Antique Little Ice Age	26
Spatial and temporal pattern of rice domestication during the early Holocene in the lower Yangtze region, China	26
The impact of early trans-Eurasian exchange on animal utilization in northern China during 5000–2500 BP	25
The reconstruction of burned area and fire severity using charcoal from boreal lake sediments	25
A new Holocene sea-level record for Singapore	21
Carbon accumulation in peatlands along a boreal to subarctic transect in eastern Canada	21
Mid-Holocene environmental change and human response at the Neolithic Wuguishan site in the Ningbo coastal lowland of East China	20
Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia: The mustatil phenomenon	20
Long-term and recent ecohydrological dynamics of patterned peatlands in north-central Quebec (Canada)	19
Considering change with archaeological data: Reevaluating local variation in the role of the ~4.2k BP event in Northwest China	19
A first empirical analysis of population stability in North America using radiocarbon records	18
Environmental variability off NE Greenland (western Fram Strait) during the past 10,600 years	18
The transformation of cropping patterns from Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age (5900–2100 BP) in the Gansu–Qinghai region of northwest China	18
Inner Asian agro-pastoralism as optimal adaptation strategy of Wupu inhabitants (3000–2400 cal BP) in Xinjiang, China	18
Earthquake-triggered landslides and mudflows: Was this the wave that engulfed Ancient Helike?	18
Vegetation response to the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) variability during the Late-Holocene from the central Indian core monsoon zone	16
A multi-century Sierra Nevada snowpack reconstruction modeled using upper-elevation coniferous tree rings (California, USA)	16
Disturbance and resilience of aSphagnumpeatland in western Russia (Western Dvina Lakeland) during the last 300 years: A multiproxy, high-resolution study	16
Archaeological and historical insights into the ecological impacts of pre-colonial and colonial introductions into the Philippine Archipelago	15
Linking Holocene East Asian monsoon variability to solar forcing and ENSO activity: Multi-proxy evidence from a peatland in Northeastern China	15
Holocene fish assemblages provide baseline data for the rapidly changing eastern Mediterranean	15
Synthesis of stable isotopic data for human bone collagen: A study of the broad dietary patterns across ancient China	15
Reconstruction of cropland cover using historical literature and settlement relics in farming areas of Shangjing Dao during the Liao Dynasty, China, around 1100 AD	14

Vegetation and climate change during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age on the southern Cape coast of South Africa: Pollen evidence from Bo Langvlei	13
Late-Holocene: Cooler or warmer?	12
Climate model experiments on the 4.2 ka event: The impact of tropical sea-surface temperature anomalies and desertification	12
How did trans-Eurasian exchanges affect spatial-temporal variation in agricultural patterns during the late prehistoric period in the Yellow River valley (China)?	12
Dramatic recent changes in small mammal assemblages from Northern Patagonia: A caution for paleoenvironmental reconstructions	12
The prehistory and early history of the Šumava Mountains (Czech Republic) as seen through anthropogenic pollen indicators and charcoal data	11
The distribution of the guanaco (Lama guanicoe) in Patagonia during Late Pleistocene–Holocene and its importance for prehistoric human diet	11
Humid and cold periods in the last 5600 years in Arid Central Asia revealed by palynology of Picea schrenkiana from Issyk-Kul	11
Mid to late-Holocene sea-surface temperature variability off north-eastern Newfoundland and its linkage to the North Atlantic Oscillation	11
High resolution paleo-environmental changes during the Sapropel 1 in the North Ionian Sea, central Mediterranean	11
The glacier advance at the onset of the Little Ice Age in the Alps: New evidence from Mont Miné and Morteratsch glaciers	11
Development and degradation of a submontane forest in the Beskid Wyspowy Mountains (Polish Western Carpathians) during the Holocene	10
Social and environmental factors influencing dietary choices among Dawenkou culture sites, Late Neolithic China	10
Fluvial activity in major river basins of the eastern United States during the Holocene	10
The link between climate change and biodiversity of lacustrine inhabitants and terrestrial plant communities of the Uvs Nuur Basin (Mongolia) during the last three millennia	10
Modern pollen – vegetation – plant diversity relationships across large environmental gradients in northern Greece	10
Widely used charcoal analysis method in paleo studies involving NaOCl results in loss of charcoal formed below 400°C	10
Ecosystem shifts at two mid-Holocene tipping points in the alpine Lake Son Kol (Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia)	10
The role of sea-level changes in the evolution of coastal barriers – An example from the southwestern Baltic Sea	10
Holocene hydroclimate changes in continental Croatia recorded in speleothem δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O from Nova Grgosova Cave	10
Holocene hydroclimate reconstruction based on pollen, XRF, and grain-size analyses and its implications for past societies of the Korean Peninsula	10
Linking testate amoeba assemblages to paleohydrology and ecosystem function in Holocene peat records from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada	10
Bone collagen stable isotope analysis of a Bronze Age site of Liushugou and its implication for subsistence strategy in arid northwest China	9
A 2000-year documentary record of levee breaches on the lower Yellow River and their relationship with climate changes and human activities	9
Interpreting archaeological site-formation processes at a mountain ice patch: A case study from Langfonne, Norway	9
Multi-stage Holocene evolution of the River Murray Estuary, South Australia	9
Holocene development of the Vistula Spit (Baltic Sea coast) based on multidisciplinary investigations	9
A speleothem record from Portugal reveals phases of increased winter precipitation in western Iberia during the Holocene	9
New evidence for active talus-foot rock glaciers at Øyberget, southern Norway, and their development during the Holocene	9
A late-Holocene multiproxy fire record from a tropical savanna, eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia	9
Are there enormous age-trends in stable carbon isotope ratios of oak tree rings?	8
Crop water status from plant stable carbon isotope values: A test case for monsoonal climates	8
The Holocene paleoenvironmental history of Western Caucasus (Russia) reconstructed by multi-proxy analysis of the continuous sediment sequence from Lake Khuko	8
Spatiotemporal changes in early human land use during the Holocene throughout the Yangtze River Basin, China	8
The history of human land use activities in the Northern Alps since the Neolithic Age. A reconstruction of vegetation and fire history in the Mangfall Mountains (Bavaria, Germany)	8
Sedimentary grain-size record of Holocene runoff fluctuations in the Lake Lugu watershed, SE Tibetan Plateau	8
The lost paradise of snails: Transformation of the middle-Holocene forest ecosystems in Bohemia, Czech Republic, as revealed by declining land snail diversity	8
Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Holocene copal and Defaunation resin from Eastern Africa indicate Recent biodiversity change	8
Climate-human-landscape interaction in the eastern foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro (equatorial East Africa) during the last two millennia	8
Holocene sedimentation in the Hupo Trough of the southwestern East Sea (Japan Sea) and development of the East Korea Warm Current	8
Intensive acorn processing in the early Holocene of southern China	8
The mutual ecogeographical range and paleoclimatic reconstruction during the Late Pleistocene-Holocene in the Pampas (Argentina) using meso and microvertebrate fossils	8
New evidence for early human habitation in the Nyingchi Region, Southeast Tibetan Plateau	8
Forest cover and composition on the Loess Plateau during the Middle to Late-Holocene: Integrating wood charcoal analyses	8
A high-resolution sediment record of East Asian summer monsoon from the northern South China Sea spanning the past 7500 years	7
Exposure matters: Forest dynamics reveal an early Holocene conifer refugium on a north facing slope in Central Europe	7
Biodiversity and ecology of plants and arthropods on the last preserved glacier of the Apennines mountain chain (Italy)	7
Late-Holocene advances of the Greater Azau Glacier (Elbrus area, Northern Caucasus) revealed by ¹⁴C dating of paleosols	7
n-Alkanes and compound carbon isotope records from Lake Yiheshariwusu in the Hulun Buir sandy land, northeastern China	7
Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary	7

Paleoparasitological study of Holocene South American camelids (ca. 8970–470 years ¹⁴C BP) from an archaeological site, Southern Puna of Argentina (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca)	7
Timing and structure of early-Holocene climate anomalies inferred from north Chinese stalagmite records	7
Teleconnections between the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and eastern China summer precipitation during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age	7
Ancient to recent-past runoff harvesting agriculture in the hyper-arid Arava Valley: OSL dating and insights	7
Shaping Mediterranean landscapes: The cultural impact of anthropogenic fires in Tyrrhenian southern Tuscany during the Iron and Middle Ages (800–450 BC / AD 650–1300)	7
Pollen productivity estimates strongly depend on assumed pollen dispersal II: Extending the ERV model	7
Interdisciplinary study on dietary complexity in Central China during the Longshan Period (4.5–3.8 kaBP): New isotopic evidence from Wadian and Haojiatai, Henan Province	7
Peatland initiation in Central European Russia during the Holocene: Effect of climate conditions and fires	7
An integrative approach to estimating productivity in past societies usingSeshat: Global History Databank	7
Modeling the retreat of the Aneto Glacier (Spanish Pyrenees) since the Little Ice Age, and its accelerated shrinkage over recent decades	7
Climate and sea level variability on a centennial time scale over the last 1500 years as inferred from the Coastal Peatland of Puck Lagoon (southern Baltic Sea)	7
Past testate amoeba communities in landslide mountain fens (Polish Carpathians): The relationship between shell types and sediment	7
Holocene climate events and associated land use changes in the eastern coast of India: Inferences from the Chilika Lagoon	7
Agricultural adaptations to topography and climate changes in Central China during the mid- to late-Holocene	7
Foraminiferal paleodiversity and paleoenvironments at the NE coastal plain of Buenos Aires province (Argentina) during the Mid-Holocene sea level highstand	7
Vegetation response to wildfire and climate forcing in a Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine forest over the past 2500 years	7
Holocene evolution of a barrier-spit complex and the interaction of tidal and wave processes, Inskip Peninsula, SE Queensland, Australia	6
Vegetation changes and plant wax biomarkers from an ombrotrophic bog define hydroclimate trends and human-environment interactions during the Holocene in northern Norway	6
Following the herds? A new distribution of hunting kites in Southwest Asia	6
Tracking fire activity and post-fire limnological responses using the varved sedimentary sequence of Lake Jaczno, Poland	6
Historical environmental changes in the Poyang Lake basin (Yangtze River, China) and impacts on agricultural activities	6
Functional studies of flaked and ground stone artefacts reveal starchy tree nut and root exploitation in mid-Holocene highland New Guinea	6
Linking modern pollen accumulation rates to biomass: Quantitative vegetation reconstruction in the western Klamath Mountains, NW California, USA	6
Relative pollen productivity estimates of savanna taxa from southern Africa and their application to reconstruct shrub encroachment during the last century	6
The Baigetuobie cemetery: New discovery and human genetic features of Andronovo community’s diffusion to the Eastern Tianshan Mountains (1800–1500 BC)	6
Variable monsoons and human adaptations: Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records during the last 1400 years in north-western India	6
Climate and ice conditions of East Siberian Sea during Holocene: Reconstructions based on sedimentary geochemical multiproxy	6
Late-Holocene forest resilience in the central Pyrenean highlands as deduced from pollen analysis of Lake Sant Maurici sediments	6
A preliminary study on sediment records of possible typhoon in the northern South China Sea during the past 6500 years	6
Dating the origins of persistent oak shrubfields in northern New Mexico using soil charcoal and dendrochronology	6
Late-Holocene fluctuations of monsoonal Qiangyong Glacier, southern Tibetan Plateau	6
Water management and wheat yields in ancient China: Carbon isotope discrimination of archaeological wheat grains	6
Mid- to late-Holocene analysis of the influence of the La Plata River plume on the southwestern Atlantic shelf: A paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on lipid biomarkers and benthic foraminifera	6
Understanding the transport networks complex between South Asia, Southeast Asia and China during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age	6
Past and future sky-island dynamics of tropical mountains: A model for two Geotrupes (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) species in Oaxaca, Mexico	6
Synergy between climate and human land-use maintained open vegetation in southwest Madagascar over the last millennium	6
Vegetation changes and sediment dynamics in the Lake Alaotra region, central Madagascar	6
Human-environment interaction during the Holocene along the shoreline of the Ancient Lake Ladoga: A case study based on palaeoecological and archaeological material from the Karelian Isthmus, Russia	6
Modeled dispersal patterns for wood and grass charcoal are different: Implications for paleofire reconstruction	5
Source-to-sink and evolutionary processes of the East China Sea inner-shelf mud belt and its response to environmental changes since the Holocene: New evidence from the distal mud belt	5
Current sika deer effective population size is near to reaching its historically highest level in the Japanese archipelago by release from hunting rather than climate change and top predator extinctio	5
Atmospheric effects in Scotland of the AD 1783–84 Laki eruption in Iceland	5
Holocene ice-free strait followed by dynamic Neoglacial fluctuations: Hornsund, Svalbard	5
Environmental evolution and anthropogenic forcing in the Garigliano coastal plain (Italy) during the Holocene	5
A multidisciplinary study of an exceptional prehistoric waste dump in the mountainous inland of Calabria (Italy): Implications for reconstructions of prehistoric land use and vegetation in Southern It	5
Aboriginal earth mounds of the Calperum Floodplain (Murray Darling Basin, South Australia): New radiocarbon dates, sediment analyses and syntheses, and implications for behavioural change	5
Modern analogs for understanding pollen-vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean)	5
Late-Holocene landscape evolution and human presence in the northern Danube delta (Chilia distributary lobes)	5
Evidence for a winter-snowpack derived water source for the Fremont maize farmers of Range Creek Canyon, Utah, USA	5
Historical biogeographic range shifts and the influence of climate change on ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) on the Mid-Atlantic Bight	5
Historical droughts in Southeast Australia recorded in a New South Wales stalagmite	5
Influences of sea level on depositional environment during the last 1000 years in the southwestern Bengal delta, Bangladesh	5
Early Holocene phytolith records for three shell midden sites, Yongjiang River, Guangxi Province, China	5
Evaluating fossil charcoal representation in small peat bogs: Detailed Holocene fire records from southern Sweden	5
Climatic and anthropogenic influences on vegetation changes during the last 5000 years in a seasonal dry tropical forest at the northern limits of the Neotropics	5
New radiocarbon dating and archaeological evidence reveal the westward migration of prehistoric humans in the drylands of the Asian interior	5
Mammal tracks record anthropogenic environmental influence in late-Holocene inland dunes of the European Sand Belt, Poland	5
Prehistoric pigment production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), c. AD 1200–1650: New insights from Vaipú and Poike based on phytoliths, diatoms and¹⁴C dating	5
A late-Holocene record of coastal wetland development and fire regimes in tropical northern Australia	5
Fire, humans and climate as drivers of environmental change on Broughton Island, New South Wales, Australia	5
Variation in humidity and the forcing mechanism in Asian monsoon-influenced regions indicated by hematite/goethite from Baxian Lake, southern China, since AD 800	5
Analysis of relationship between soil erosion and lake deposition during the Holocene in Xingyun Lake, southwestern China	5
The current state of Pleistocene Park, Russia (An experiment in the restoration of megafauna in a boreal environment)	5
Biogeochemical evidence for environmental and vegetation changes in peatlands from the middle Yangtze river catchment during the medieval warm period and little ice Age	5
Recent morphological changes of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) mega-delta in the Anthropocene, China: Impact from natural and anthropogenic changes	5
Climate-induced treeline mortality during the termination of the Little Ice Age in the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion, USA	5
Pollen evidence of variations in Holocene climate and Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind strength on sub-Antarctic South Georgia	5
Solar-type periodicities in the climate variability of Northern Fennoscandia during the last three centuries: Real influence of solar activity or natural instability in the climate system	5
Evaluating human responses to ENSO driven climate change during the Holocene in northwest Australia through macrobotanical analyses	5
Late-Holocene relative sea-level changes and palaeoenvironment of the Pre-Viking Age ship burials in Salme, Saaremaa Island, eastern Baltic Sea	5