Anthropocene

Papers
(The TQCC of Anthropocene is 9. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Increased black carbon (soot) accumulation during the Anthropocene in a less-developed region of Xinjiang, northwestern China50
Rethinking the Anthropocene: Not a time-transgressive event but a sudden rupture on the geologic time scale49
Fire exclusion, pyrogenic carbon, and ecosystem function: What have we lost?46
Climate-smart harvesting and storing of water: The legacy of dhaka pits at Great Zimbabwe46
Lead isotopic fingerprinting of 250-years of industrial era pollution in Greenland ice42
Identifying a scenario for preindustrial cropland cover using cultivation data: A case study of France, Germany and Italy33
Publications reveal how socio-ecological research is implemented: Lessons from the Rhône long term socio-ecological research platform32
Varved lake sediments as indicators of recent cultural eutrophication and hypolimnetic hypoxia in lakes30
What motivates smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change? Insights from smallholder cropping in far-western Nepal28
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860–2010)28
Identification of alkaline amendment sources (slash and burn versus marling) for cereal crops grown in the North of France: A multiple isotope approach (87Sr/86Sr, δ44/40Ca, δ88/86Sr)26
Effects of repeated drawdown flushing on riverbed fine sediment dynamics downstream from a dam26
Potential for redistribution of DwH-impacted bottom sediments to down-slope depocenters: Eastern Gulf of Mexico24
Sedimentary indicators of anthropogenic impact in Fildes Peninsula lakes (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica)23
Light and equity: The projections of bringing light to populations in need across Brazil23
Planetary Boundaries and the Doughnut frameworks: A review of their local operability22
Unravelling the role of vegetation on the different trends between climatic and hydrologic drought in headwater catchments of Spain22
Harnessing the connectivity of climate change, food systems and diets: Taking action to improve human and planetary health21
Anthropogenic impacts and implications for ecological restoration in the Karoo, South Africa19
Lead isotope fingerprinting techniques help identify and quantify 3000 years of atmospheric lead pollution from Laguna Roya, northwestern Iberia18
Under threat: Land use change, distribution and conservation of poorly-known endemic microsnails from the coast of Chile17
Human-induced marine degradation in anoxic coastal sediments of Beppu Bay, Japan, as an Anthropocene marker in East Asia17
Plastics as a stratigraphic marker in fluvial deposits16
Using long-term data to inform a decision pathway for restoration of ecosystem resilience16
Snow avalanches in relation to tourism and transportation activities in the Făgăraş Mountains, Romanian Carpathians15
Lead legacy of pre-industrial activities in lake sediments: The case study of the Lake Accesa (Southern Tuscany, Italy)15
Exceptionally high foraminiferal dissolution in the western Bay of Bengal15
Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake sediments from the Lake Superior region, USA14
Did the charcoal-based iron industry really drive the forest cover decline in the Northern Pyrenees?14
Coupled socio-ecological changes in response to soybean expansion along the 2001–2010 decade in Argentina14
Human impact on vegetation at Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Northern Italy) during the last seven centuries13
Complex spatiotemporal heterogeneity in Holocene human activities revealed by pollen and Pb records from major monsoonal China12
Changes in fire activity and biodiversity in a Northeast Brazilian Cerrado over the last 800 years12
Exploring the role of a Mediterranean transhumance drove road as shelter for amphibian breeding12
Engaging communities towards restoring hillslope seep wetlands in the Tsitsa River catchment of South Africa12
Future projections of wind energy potentials in the arctic for the 21st century under the RCP8.5 scenario from regional climate models (Arctic-CORDEX)12
Settling the riverscape of Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): long-term human overprint on landforms and present-day geomorphological hazard10
Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future10
Riverscapes as natural infrastructure: Meeting challenges of climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration9
Responses of lake diatoms to rapid 21st century warming on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau9
Conservation from the bottom up: A forestry case study9
Assessment of hydrological response with an integrated approach of climate, land, and water for sustainable water resources in the Khari River basin, India9
Ecosystem turnover in an urbanized subtropical seascape driven by climate and pollution9
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