OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Quaternary Research 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
New paleohydroclimate record of the MIS 5e/5d transition from Yelini Cave, central Anatolian region of Türkiye	23
Cryogenic features and stages in Late Quaternary subaerial sediments of the Lower Volga region	22
Changes in the lake-grassland ecosystem revealed by multiple proxies in a sediment core from Ganggeng Nur Lake, northern China	21
Latest Pleistocene and Holocene local glacial history of Baranof Island, southeast Alaska	16
Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells	14
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona – CORRIGENDUM	14
Modeling post-Pleistocene megafauna extinctions as complex social-ecological systems	14
Reconstructing 32,000 years of hydrologic variability through an elemental geochemistry lake depth transfer function at Lake Elsinore, California	12
Holocene relative sea-level changes along the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of northwestern South America	12
Paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks in the southern Central Andes of Argentina and their implications for tectonics and geomagnetic field behavior	12
Chronology of the early transgressive phase of Lake Bonneville	11
A prolonged dry Mid-Holocene recorded by Moon Lake in the Tengger Desert, arid and semiarid China	10
Geophysical sediment properties of a late Pleistocene loess–paleosol sequence, Chenarli, northeastern Iran	10
User guide for scanning electron microscopy applications to luminescence dating	10
Late Quaternary formation of the Miaoli Tableland in northwest Taiwan, an interplay of tectonic uplift and fluvial processes dated by OSL	10
Human occupation, site formation, and chronostratigraphy of a mid-Holocene archaeological site at the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition, Argentina	10
Introduction to special issue: loess environments: generation, transport, and deposition	9
Past vegetation and hydrological change since the Middle Holocene in a Lake Erie riparian marsh provide a guide for ecosystem restoration	9
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge	9
Limitations of precipitation reconstructions using equilibrium-line altitudes exemplified for former glaciers in the Southern Black Forest, Central Europe	9
Uncovering an eruptive history using new tephra data from Argentine lacustrine cores linked to Chilean volcanoes in the southern segment of the Southern Volcanic Zone	8
Preliminary paleoenvironmental analysis and luminescence dating of upper Middle Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Ulakhan Sular Formation, Adycha River, east Siberia	8
Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe	8
A multidisciplinary approach to resolve the taxonomy of the historically extinct sea mink (Neogale macrodon) (Maine, USA) – CORRIGENDUM	8
Pleistocene periglacial paleohydrology reconstituted from sandstone morphologies in the Paris Basin, France	8

Times of changes, the latest Pleistocene micromammal association of the Salto de Piedra site (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)	8
QUA volume 128 Cover and Front matter	8
New evidence from heavy minerals and detrital zircons in Quaternary fluvial sediments for the evolution of the upper Yangtze River, South China	8
QUA volume 120 Cover and Front matter	8
Proglacial lake records of recent environmental change in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA	8
Large Pleistocene tortoise tracks on the Cape south coast of South Africa	8
Holocene millennial-scale variability of coastal environments on the southern coast of Korea and its controlling factors	7
High-resolution magnetochronology detects multiple stages of Pleistocene tectonic uplift and deformation in the Po Plain of northern Italy	7
Precisely constrained 134-ka strong monsoon event in the penultimate deglaciation by an annually laminated speleothem from the Asian monsoon domain	7
Mechanistic models for rhizolith formation and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions	7
Microstructure and geochemical properties of modern and buried soils and hosting permafrost sediments of the Batagay retrogressive thaw slump	7
Late Quaternary climate change in the northeastern Arabian Peninsula recorded in the oxygen isotope composition of carbonate cements of aeolianites	7
Holocene evolution of parabolic dunes, White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA, revealed by high-resolution mapping	6
A speleothem record of seasonality and moisture transport around the 8.2 ka event in Central Europe (Vacska Cave, Hungary)	6
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	6
Terrestrial ecosystem transformations in response to rapid climate change during the last deglaciation around Mono Lake, California, USA	6
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	6
A Pleistocene hyenid trackway from the Cape south coast of South Africa	6
The SISAL webApp: exploring the speleothem climate and environmental archives of the world	6
The selective geography of volcanism in oral traditions	6
Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa	6
The unique Late Paleolithic artifactual bone assemblage from the Volchia Griva site, Western Siberia	6
The giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Central Asia (Zasukhino-3 and Nalaikha), with insights on	5
Annual isotopic diet (δ¹³C) ofEremotherium laurillardi(Lund, 1842) and climate variation (δ¹⁸O) through the late Pleistocene in the Brazilian Intertropical Region	5
A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multiproxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK	5
Unravelling 6000 years of interplay among environmental changes, anthropogenic activities, and Vesuvius eruptions in the upper Sarno Plain (Campania, Italy)	5
LGM erosion and subsequent rapid loess deposition in Trzebnica (SW Poland)	5
Implications of submonthly oxygen and carbon isotope variations in late Pleistocene Melanopsis shells for regional and local hydroclimate in the upper Jordan River valley	5
Mid-Pleistocene drainage rearrangement of the Dadu River in response to plate convergence in southeastern Tibet	5
The relevance of biotic processes on modern tufa deposits, with an example from the Bonito region, Central-West Brazil	5
Late glacial to Holocene fluvial dynamics in the Upper Rhine alluvial plain, France	5
Late glacial–Younger Dryas climate in interior Alaska as inferred from the isotope values of land snail shells	5
Introduction to Thematic Set: Asian Climate	5
The Quaternary landscapes, chronostratigraphy, and paleoenvironments of the Chalbi Desert, Kenya	4
Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene	4
The late Quaternary fossil record of mole salamanders in central Texas reveals range shifts and responses to environmental change	4
Holocene and recent valley-bottom sediment storage decouples natural and anthropogenic hillslope erosion from sediment delivery to streams at time scales of 10 ¹	4
A new relative sea-level curve from Inglefield Land, northwest Greenland	4
Late glacial and Holocene climate and landscape dynamics in the Valdai Highlands (East European Plain) inferred from lake sediment records	4
Vegetation dynamics in Dhofar, Oman, from the Late Holocene to present inferred from rock hyrax middens	4
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge – CORRIGENDUM	4
Holocene hydroclimatic variability recorded in sediments from Maddox Lake (northern California Coast Range)	4
Towards a better knowledge of the molar morphology and ecology of extant and fossil grass rats (Muridae:ArvicanthisLesson, 1842)	4
Extreme modification of teeth and bones by porcupines ( Hystrix cf. H. kiangsenensis and	4
Climate change intensified violence in the south-central Andean highlands from 1.5 to 0.5 ka	4
Quaternary climatic events as conditioning factors of hydrogeologic characteristics and salinity in costal aquifers at northern Patagonia, Argentina	4
Effects of paleoclimatic variables on suitable open habitats for Pleistocene–Holocene megafauna in South America	4
Downstream dilution of quartz luminescence sensitivity due to rapid erosion in the tectonically active Peloritani Range, NE Sicily	4
QUA volume 110 Cover and Front matter	4
A 33,000-year paleohydrological record from Sanamere Lagoon, north-eastern tropical savannas of Australia	4

Late Pleistocene pedogenesis and loess magnetism in northwestern Ukraine