OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Quaternary Research is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in the lake-grassland ecosystem revealed by multiple proxies in a sediment core from Ganggeng Nur Lake, northern China	33
Modeling post-Pleistocene megafauna extinctions as complex social-ecological systems	29
New paleohydroclimate record of the MIS 5e/5d transition from Yelini Cave, central Anatolian region of Türkiye	16
Cryogenic features and stages in Late Quaternary subaerial sediments of the Lower Volga region	14
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona – CORRIGENDUM	14
A 25,000 year record of climate and vegetation change from the southwestern Cape coast, South Africa	12
Holocene relative sea-level changes along the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of northwestern South America	11
Geophysical sediment properties of a late Pleistocene loess–paleosol sequence, Chenarli, northeastern Iran	11
Paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks in the southern Central Andes of Argentina and their implications for tectonics and geomagnetic field behavior	11
A prolonged dry Mid-Holocene recorded by Moon Lake in the Tengger Desert, arid and semiarid China	11
Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells	11
Holocene water levels of Silver Lake, Montana, and the hydroclimate history of the Inland Northwest	11
Chronology of the early transgressive phase of Lake Bonneville	10
Variation of the winter mid-latitude Westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere during the Holocene revealed by aeolian deposits in the southern Tibetan Plateau	10
Human occupation, site formation, and chronostratigraphy of a mid-Holocene archaeological site at the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition, Argentina	10
The paleoenvironment and depositional context of the Sumerian site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, southern Mesopotamia, Iraq)	10
Aeolian sediments in paleowetland deposits of the Las Vegas Formation	9
Paleolakes, archaeology, and late Quaternary paleoenvironments in northwestern Mongolia	9
Retrodicting large herbivore biomass for the last glacial maximum on the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (South Africa) using modern ecological knowledge of African herbivore assemblages and rainfall	8
Limitations of precipitation reconstructions using equilibrium-line altitudes exemplified for former glaciers in the Southern Black Forest, Central Europe	8
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge	8
Climatic controls on phosphorus concentrations in The Loch, Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA since the last glacial maximum	8
Preliminary paleoenvironmental analysis and luminescence dating of upper Middle Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Ulakhan Sular Formation, Adycha River, east Siberia	8
Late Quaternary formation of the Miaoli Tableland in northwest Taiwan, an interplay of tectonic uplift and fluvial processes dated by OSL	8
Age of the late Holocene Bonneville landslide and submerged forest of the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon and Washington, USA, by radiocarbon dating	8

The Holocene lake-evaporation history of the afro-alpine Lake Garba Guracha in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia, based on δ¹⁸O records of sugar biomarker and diatoms	7
Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe	7
Introduction to special issue: loess environments: generation, transport, and deposition	7
QUA volume 120 Cover and Front matter	6
Large Pleistocene tortoise tracks on the Cape south coast of South Africa	6
New evidence from heavy minerals and detrital zircons in Quaternary fluvial sediments for the evolution of the upper Yangtze River, South China	6
Pleistocene periglacial paleohydrology reconstituted from sandstone morphologies in the Paris Basin, France	6
Changing environments and human interaction during the Pleistocene–Early Holocene from the shallow coastal area of Dor, Israel	6
Global variations in regional degradation rates since the Last Glacial Maximum mapped through time and space	6
A continental perspective on the timing of environmental change during the last glacial stage in Australia	6
Tectonic, hydrogeologic, and climatic controls on Late Holocene dune formation, China Lake basin, Indian Wells Valley, California, USA	6
Precisely constrained 134-ka strong monsoon event in the penultimate deglaciation by an annually laminated speleothem from the Asian monsoon domain	5
Holocene evolution of parabolic dunes, White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA, revealed by high-resolution mapping	5
High-resolution magnetochronology detects multiple stages of Pleistocene tectonic uplift and deformation in the Po Plain of northern Italy	5
QUA volume 107 Cover and Front matter	5
Morphology of Pleistocene elephant tracks on South Africa's Cape south coast and probable elephant trunk-drag impressions	5
A Paleo-Lake and wetland paleoecology associated with human use of the distal Old River Bed Delta at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Bonneville Basin, Utah, USA	5
Holocene millennial-scale variability of coastal environments on the southern coast of Korea and its controlling factors	5
Microstructure and geochemical properties of modern and buried soils and hosting permafrost sediments of the Batagay retrogressive thaw slump	5
A Pleistocene hyenid trackway from the Cape south coast of South Africa	5
The SISAL webApp: exploring the speleothem climate and environmental archives of the world	4
The unique Late Paleolithic artifactual bone assemblage from the Volchia Griva site, Western Siberia	4
Terrestrial ecosystem transformations in response to rapid climate change during the last deglaciation around Mono Lake, California, USA	4
Unravelling 6000 years of interplay among environmental changes, anthropogenic activities, and Vesuvius eruptions in the upper Sarno Plain (Campania, Italy)	4
The signal of climate changes over the last two millennia in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, eastern Canada	4
Assessing the reliability of raptor pellets in recording local small mammal diversity – CORRIGENDUM	4
Landscape evolution and ancient settlement patterns in a small river basin of the Huangshui River and the prehistoric Wangjinglou City, Central China	4
Calibrating the Wisconsin in the eastern Great Lakes of North America using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of the Quaternary sediments at Sand Hill Park, north shore of Lake Erie, Onta	4
The importance of effective moisture and landscape controls on diatom assemblages and primary production in Roche Lake, British Columbia, Canada over the past ca. 1800 years	4
Annual isotopic diet (δ¹³C) ofEremotherium laurillardi(Lund, 1842) and climate variation (δ¹⁸O) through the late Pleistocene in the Brazilian Intertropical Region	4
Luminescence dating of Youfangbei early late Pleistocene site, Nihewan Basin, North China	4
Ancient DNA from speleothems: opportunity or challenge?	4
The incorporation of chlorine and cosmogenic ³⁶Cl into speleothem carbonate	4
Taxonomic, biogeographic, and biological implications of mammoth teeth from a dynamic Pleistocene landscape in Alberta, Canada	4
The relevance of biotic processes on modern tufa deposits, with an example from the Bonito region, Central-West Brazil	4
Dietary ecological traits of extinct mammalian herbivores from the last glacial termination at the Pilauco Site, Chile	4
A speleothem record of seasonality and moisture transport around the 8.2 ka event in Central Europe (Vacska Cave, Hungary)	4
The selective geography of volcanism in oral traditions	4
Holocene climate background for lake evolution in the Badain Jaran Desert of northwestern China revealed by proxies from calcareous root tubes	4
Glacial kettles as archives of early human settlement along the Northern Rocky Mountain Front	4
Structure and properties of paleosols of the last two interglacial cycles of the Khovaling Loess Plateau, Tajikistan (Obi–Mazar section)	4
Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa	4
Towards a better knowledge of the molar morphology and ecology of extant and fossil grass rats (Muridae:ArvicanthisLesson, 1842)	3
Mid-Pleistocene drainage rearrangement of the Dadu River in response to plate convergence in southeastern Tibet	3
QUA volume 110 Cover and Front matter	3
A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multiproxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK	3
QUA volume 124 Cover and Front matter	3
Late glacial–Younger Dryas climate in interior Alaska as inferred from the isotope values of land snail shells	3
Paleogeographical reconstruction of the western French Alps foreland during the last glacial maximum using cosmogenic exposure dating	3
Eurasian environmental dynamics and humans: interactions over different time scales	3

Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge – CORRIGENDUM	3
Late Pleistocene pedogenesis and loess magnetism in northwestern Ukraine	3
Dietary preferences and collagen to collagen prey-predator trophic discrimination factors (Δ¹³C, Δ¹⁵N) in late Pleistocene cave hyena	3
The Pleistocene footprints are younger than we thought: correcting the radiocarbon dates of Ruppia seeds, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	3
Introduction to Thematic Set: Asian Climate	3
Holocene hydroclimatic variability recorded in sediments from Maddox Lake (northern California Coast Range)	3
Effects of paleoclimatic variables on suitable open habitats for Pleistocene–Holocene megafauna in South America	3
Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene	3
Assessing the reliability of raptor pellets in recording local small mammal diversity	3
Implications of submonthly oxygen and carbon isotope variations in late Pleistocene Melanopsis shells for regional and local hydroclimate in the upper Jordan River valley	3
Late glacial to Holocene fluvial dynamics in the Upper Rhine alluvial plain, France	3