OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Holocene 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
Middle and Late Holocene paleolimnological changes in central Lake Tanganyika: Integrated evidence from the Kavala Island Ridge (Tanzania)	39
A 1500-year multi-proxy record of subtropical mangrove dynamics in relation to sea level and climate changes on Babitonga Bay, Southern Brazil	30
New chronostratigraphic records of the early-to-middle Holocene in the north-central region of Chile indicate Andean foothills housed hunter-gatherers during pulses of extreme aridity	29
Records of sea-level highstand over the Meghalayan age/late Holocene from uranium-series ages of beachrock in Weizhou Island, northern South China Sea	21
Organic geochemical and palaeobotanical reconstruction of a late-Holocene archaeological settlement in coastal eastern India	20
A humification-based method toward refining Holocene radiocarbon chronologies: Wetland records from southeastern China	20
Late-Holocene paleoenvironmental and land-use changes in Western Greece based on a sediment record from Klisova lagoon	17
Modeled dispersal patterns for wood and grass charcoal are different: Implications for paleofire reconstruction	16
Natural and anthropogenic factors affecting intense slope processes in Eastern Europe during the Modern Period: Serteyka river valley, Russia	16
Different hydrological controls causing variable rates of Holocene peat growth in a lowland valley system, north-eastern Netherlands; implications for valley peatland restoration	15
Late-Holocene environmental conditions revealed by a small mammal assemblage in mountain areas of Northwestern Argentina	14
Development of lacustrine primary productivity in the Amazon Basin during the Holocene	14
Youngest Iberian Holocene volcanic eruptions and paleoenvironmental evolution of a barrier-paleolake in the Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Spain)	14
Climatic and environmental changes since last deglaciation in the steppe region of northern China and their impact on early population survival patterns	13
Diachronic evolution in subsistence strategies of ancient humans from the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age in the Western Liaohe River Basin and its influencing factors	13
Historical biogeographic range shifts and the influence of climate change on ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) on the Mid-Atlantic Bight	12
Solving a ‘puzzle’. The global 4.2 ka Bond Event at El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) and the importance of small mammal taphonomy to the interpretation of past environments and the	12
The 4.2 ka BP event in western Anatolia: Tracing the impact of climatic change	12
Holistic approaches to palaeohydrology: Reconstructing and modelling the Neolithic River Çarşamba and the riverscape of Çatalhöyük, Turkey	11
Late-Holocene hydroclimatic change and its effect on human activity at Xiada Co on the western Tibetan Plateau	11
Holocene relative sea-level changes in northwest Ireland: An empirical test for glacial isostatic adjustment models	11
Corrigendum	11
Marine shellfish exploitation as a means of reducing vulnerability to resource uncertainty in southern coastal Peru (200 BCE–150 CE)	10
Changing with the times: From agricultural potential to spatially explicit reconstructions of past land use	10
Early afforestation on islands of proglacial Lake Ojibway as evidence of post-glacial migration outposts	10

A high-resolution record of landscape changes and land use over the last 5000 years in western Calabria (S. Eufemia Gulf, southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)	10
Population dynamics and cultural niche construction during the Late Holocene in a mediterranean ecosystem (central Chile, 32°S−36°S)	10
Hydroclimate reconstruction during the last 1000 years inferred from the mineralogical and geochemical composition of a sediment core from Lake-Azuei (Haiti)	9
Relationship between extreme species richness and Holocene persistence of forest-steppe grasslands in Transylvania, Romania	9
High-resolution record of geochemical, vegetational and molluscan shifts in a Central European spring-fed fen: implications for regional paleoclimate during the early and mid-Holocene	9
Late-Holocene relative sea-level changes and palaeoenvironment of the Pre-Viking Age ship burials in Salme, Saaremaa Island, eastern Baltic Sea	9
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2022	9
Geochemical records of mudflat sediments from southern Saurashtra, Western India: Implications for Holocene climate and global teleconnection	9
The barn owl as an accumulator of bone remains in central western Argentina: multi-taxa neo-taphonomic approach and implications for Holocene contexts	9
Spatial distribution and environmental significance of modern organic carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in the source area of the Yellow River: A case study of Gyaring Lake and Ngoring Lake	9
Biomarker insights into a methane-enriched Holocene peat-setting from “Doggerland” (central North Sea)	9
Paleovegetation dynamics in an alternative stable states landscape in the montane Western Ghats, India	8
Holocene Book Review: The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes	8
Holocene book review	8
A modeling approach to estimate the historical population size of the Patagonian Kawésqar people	8
Did agriculture beget agriculture during the past several millennia?	8
Climate-driven versus anthropogenic induced erosion of the last 3000 years from an ancient lake in the Southern Phokis Plain (Desfina), Greece	8
Correlating Late-Holocene climate change and population dynamics at Cahokia Mounds (American Bottom, USA)	8
Low-frequency patterns in Late-Holocene tree-ring records from northern Fennoscandia	8
Human impact leads to unexpected oligotrophication and deepwater oxygen increase in a Swiss mountain lake	8
Domestication and microbiome	8
Radiocarbon sampling efforts for high-precision lake sediment chronologies	8
Emergence of fibrecraft specialization 8000 years ago in early Neolithic North China	8
Mapping a peripheral landscape: The Bronze Age transformation at Schnals Valley (South Tyrol/Italy)	8
A 1300-year multi-proxy palaeoecological record from the northwest Putorana Plateau (Russian Subarctic): environmental changes, vegetation dynamics and fire history	8
Testing tree-ring cellulose δ¹⁸O with water isotopes for Holocene lake δ¹⁸O interpretations in the central Rocky Mountains USA	8
Stable isotope analysis of faunal remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı, Western Anatolia	8
High altitude horse use and early horse transport in eastern Eurasia: New evidence from melting ice	7
A low-frequency summer temperature reconstruction for the United States Southwest, 3000 BC–AD 2000	7
Mid to Late-Holocene environmental dynamics recorded in Lake Pup Lagoon, East Antarctica: Insights from environmental magnetism and biogeochemical proxies	7
Local adaptation and subsistence strategy of Yangshao migrants in Northwestern Sichuan in China during the Middle Neolithic (5300–4700 cal. BP)	7
Understanding long-term human ecodynamics through the lens of ecosystem collapse	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
Assessing atmospheric and oceanic teleconnections between the eastern and western Mediterranean over the past 8000 years	7
Sedimentary and stratigraphic architecture in the geoarchaeological context of Late-Holocene deposits in the eastern coastal plain of Belgium: Zwin region – Hoeke	7
Buried Podzols as a pedostratigraphic marker for the Medieval Climatic Optimum: Grębociny soil in the dune deposits of the European Sand Belt	7
Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Holocene copal and Defaunation resin from Eastern Africa indicate Recent biodiversity change	7
Holocene book review	7
Leaving home: Technological and landscape knowledge as resilience at pre-Holocene Kharaneh IV, Azraq Basin, Jordan	7
Implications of sea level variability on the formation and evolution of subtropical Rainbow Beach patterned fen complexes, Queensland, Australia	7
Terrestrial and hydrological responses during the Younger Dryas Chronozone in the Cuatrociénegas Basin, Mexico	7
High-latitude fire activity of recent decades derived from microscopic charcoal and black carbon in Greenland ice cores	7
Climatic controls and costly signaling: An integrated analysis of Holocene hunting in the Bonneville and Wyoming Basins, USA	6
The Global Humanization Event (GHE)	6
Modern pollen distribution across Mizoram, northeastern India, impacted by regional climate and anthropogenic activities	6
The submerged Palaeo-Ems River in the Quaternary stratigraphic context of the German North Sea	6
A reference database of the pollen representation of the current vegetation in the Dry Puna of Argentina: Contributions to the interpretation of pollen fossil sequences and archeological evidence duri	6
Interaction of environmental change and social evolution in pre-industrial East Asia: An introduction to the special issue	6
Holocene summer temperature record based on branched tetraethers in Northeast China	6
The mid-Holocene sea-level change in the Arabian Gulf	6

Alaskan palaeosols in modern times: Deciphering unique microbial diversity within the late-Holocene	6
Holocene book review: Iceland: Classic Geology in Europe 3	6
Increased North Atlantic dust deposition linked to Holocene Icelandic glacier fluctuations	6
New evidence of prehistoric human activity on the central Tibetan plateau during the early to middle Holocene	6
Living through changing climates: Temperature and seasonality correlate with population fluctuations among Holocene hunter-fisher-gatherers on the west coast of Norway	6
The impact of volcanism on Scandinavian climate and human societies during the Holocene: Insights into the Fimbulwinter eruptions (536/540 AD)	5
An archaeobotanical and stable isotope approach to changing agricultural practices in the NW Mediterranean region around 4000 BC	5
Small mammal records from Limay river basin (Northwestern Patagonia) in the Anthropocene from a taphonomical and paleoecological perspective	5
A multi-proxy Holocene palaeoenvironmental record of climate change and prehistoric human activity from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland	5
Relict canals of the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico: A Middle- to Late-Holocene dryland socio-hydrological system	5
Using dendrogeomorphic and lichenometric approaches for rockfall analysis in the high mountains of Central Mexico	5
Preboreal oscillation in the light of multiproxy analyses—Early Holocene in Lake Jelonek (North Poland)	5
Holocene landscape evolution, palaeoclimate and human impact in the Fotsch Valley, Stubai Alps, Austria: Interrogating biomarkers, stable isotopes, macrofossils and palynological indicators from a sub	5
Human-induced fires and land-use change in Lubusz Land (western Poland) derived from Lake Lubińskie sedimentary record	5
A record of change in oyster environment through high-resolution geochemical analysis of Late-Holocene sediments from Coastal Ghana	5
Assessing the hydroclimate changes in Western Himalayas during the Little Ice Age	5
Holocene capuchin-monkey stone tool deposits shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites from the Pleistocene of Brazil	5
Late Bronze Age agriculture and the early westward transmission of rice at Luanzagangzi, Northern Xinjiang, China	5
From the Roman Empire to the present: Two millennia of pollen-based environmental changes and climate-human interactions in the Po Delta area (NE Italy)	5
The Pontine Marshes: An integrated study of the origin, history, and future of a famous coastal wetland in Central Italy	5
Remnant peat deposit provides clues to the inundated cultural landscapes of Kepa Kurl, southwestern Australia	5
Climate-driven Holocene ecohydrological and carbon dynamics from maritime peatlands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, eastern Canada	5
Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstructions in western Brittany Bay of Brest: Part I – Understanding the spatial distribution of palynological records	5
Fossil oysters from the southernmost coast of Brazil: Bioerosion and palaeoenvironmental implications	5
Late-Holocene changes in vegetation composition and fire regimes in the subalpine western Nanling Mountains in subtropic China	5
Legacy archaeology: Aboriginal subsistence response to Holocene environmental changes using faunal evidence from archaeological sites on the Lower Murray, South Australia	5
Living with risk in drylands: Archaeological perspectives	4
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph depositional patterns in Kaziranga National Park, India: Implications for palaeoecology and palaeoherbivory analysis	4
Phytolith analyses of tropical plants and topsoil from western Peninsular Malaysia and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction	4
Is the past recoverable from the data? Pseudoproxy modelling of uncertainties in palaeoecological data	4
Lowstand lake conditions in NW Anatolia during the Little Ice Age: Multi-proxy evidence from Lake Sünnet	4
Evidence for the Little Ice Age in upland northwestern Europe: Multiproxy climate data from three blanket mires in northern England	4
Late-Holocene paleoreconstruction of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: A multiproxy understanding of the paleoclimatic, paleoproductivity and paleotemperature variability	4
New radiocarbon dates reveal pan-Holocene deposition of rodents at Trouing Jérémie #5, a sinkhole in the western Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti	4
Sources of coal remains from the Jartai Pass Site in Nilka County, Xinjiang, China	4
New insight into pattern divergence of the Indian summer monsoon during the Holocene	4
Repeated survey along the foreland of a receding Norwegian glacier reveals shifts in succession of beetles and spiders	4
Thanks to Reviewers	4
Phytoliths as an indicator of change in vegetation related to the huge volcanic eruption at 7.3 ka in the southernmost part of Kyushu, southern Japan	4
Precipitation variability, vegetation turnover, and anthropogenic disturbance over the last millennium in the Atacama highlands of northern Chile (19°S)	4
Book Review: Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz, The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach	4
Responses of a shallow temperate lake ecosystem to major late-Holocene terrestrial vegetation shifts	4
Tracing adaptive cycles and resilience strategies within the Sagalassos settlement record, SW Türkiye	4
Morphometric characteristics of charcoal produced from plants native to the southeastern United States of America (USA)	4
Species-specific reservoir effect estimates: A case study of archaeological marine samples from the Bering Strait	4
Intensive acorn processing in the early Holocene of southern China	4
Holocene estuary infill leads to coastal barrier initiation from fluvial sand supply in southeastern Australia	4
Widely used charcoal analysis method in paleo studies involving NaOCl results in loss of charcoal formed below 400°C	4
Morphosedimentary and geoarchaeological records during the last 1400 years in the Ebro depression (NE Spain) and their paleoenvironmental interpretation	4
Holocene hydroclimate changes in continental Croatia recorded in speleothem δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O from Nova Grgosova Cave	4
Habitat conditions of molluscs in the valleys of the Talaya and Bartat Rivers (Krasnoyarsk forest steppe, Russia) in the middle and late-Holocene	4
Holocene aeolian-fluvial interactions patterns and their response to climate changes in the Paiku Co basin, Southern Tibetan Plateau	4
Corrigendum to “Discovery and environmental implications of Santorini tephras (Cape Riva and Minoan) in sediments of Lake Yayla (West Anatolia)”	4
Paleogenetic and microscopic studies of Eimeria spp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) as a tool to reveal the zoological origin of coprolites: The case of study of artiodactyl coprolites from an arche	4
Sea-level changes and human economic development in the northern flank of the Yangtze River Delta during the Middle to Late Holocene	4
Volcanic, tectonic and climate controls on lacustrine sedimentary supplies over the last millenia in NE Chilean Patagonia (Lake Esponja, Aysen, 45°S)	4
Exploring local and regional vegetation compositional changes during the Neolithic (5th–3rd millennium BC): A case study on the forager impact on vegetation in north-east Europe	4
Assessing the diet of modern and archaeological guanacos from the Great Chaco in Córdoba, Argentina, through stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N) of bone and dentin collagen: Imp	4
Development of a landscape in NE Minnesota, from the Early Holocene to Forest-harvesting, Agriculture and Industry	4
The Stonehenge bluestones did not come from Waun Mawn in West Wales	4
Foodways of the Medieval Tibetans on the Silk Road: New evidence from the Miran Site in Xinjiang	4
Holocene hydroclimate reconstruction based on pollen, XRF, and grain-size analyses and its implications for past societies of the Korean Peninsula	4
Building resilient landscapes in a semi-arid watershed: Anthropogenic and natural burning histories in Late Holocene Tesuque Creek, northern New Mexico	4
Imprints of Holocene aridity variability in the Aegean Sea and interconnections with north-latitude areas	4
Archaeobotanical data from the Sabor Valley reveal shifting moments in landscape and agriculture in NW Iberia during the Holocene	4
Rock varnish record of the African Humid Period in the Lake Turkana basin of East Africa	4