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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Optimizing extraction and targeted capture of ancient environmental DNA for reconstructing past environments using the PalaeoChip Arctic-1.0 bait-set	46
Composition and consequences of the IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curve	42
What the past can say about the present and future of fire	35
Mismatches of scale in the application of paleoclimatic research to Chinese archaeology	28
New constraints on the last deglaciation of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in coastal Southeast Alaska	26
The maturing relationship between Quaternary paleoecology and ancient sedimentary DNA	25
On the formation of desert loess	23
A multimethod dating study of ancient permafrost, Batagay megaslump, east Siberia	22
What is diatomite?	22
Current practices in building and reporting age-depth models	21
Holocene hydroclimatic variability in the Zanskar Valley, Northwestern Himalaya, India	20
Geoarchaeological investigation of occupation deposits in Blombos Cave in South Africa indicate changes in site use and settlement dynamics in the southern Cape during MIS 5b-4	18
Enviromagnetic study of Late Quaternary environmental evolution in Lower Volga loess sequences, Russia	17
Ecological turnover in neotropical freshwater and terrestrial communities during episodes of abrupt climate change	16
A continental perspective on the timing of environmental change during the last glacial stage in Australia	16
Late Pleistocene lake level, glaciation and climate change in the Mongolian Altai deduced from sedimentological and palynological archives	15
The uncertain case for human-driven extinctions prior toHomo sapiens	15
Coastal occupation and foraging during the last glacial maximum and early Holocene at Waterfall Bluff, eastern Pondoland, South Africa	15
Vegetation over the last glacial maximum at Girraween Lagoon, monsoonal northern Australia	14
Geomorphological record and equilibrium line altitude of glaciers during the last glacial maximum in the Rodna Mountains (eastern Carpathians)	14
Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ³⁶Cl geochronology of cryoplanation terraces in the Alaskan Yukon-Tanana Upland	12
Causes and implications of Mid- to Late Holocene relative sea-level change in the Gulf of Kachchh, western India	12
A critical assessment of claims that human footprints in the Lake Otero basin, New Mexico date to the Last Glacial Maximum	12
Spatiotemporal variations and implications of luminescence sensitivity of quartz grains on the Chinese Loess Plateau since the last interglaciation	11
Timing of the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Iberian inland (Cardina-Salto do Boi, Côa Valley, Portugal)	11

Variation of the winter mid-latitude Westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere during the Holocene revealed by aeolian deposits in the southern Tibetan Plateau	11
Glacitectonic rafts and their role in the generation of Quaternary subglacial bedforms and deposits	11
Eolian sedimentation in central European Auel dry maar from 60 to 13 ka	10
Evidence for strong relations between the upper Tagus loess formation (central Iberia) and the marine atmosphere off the Iberian margin during the last glacial period	10
Collapse of Holocene mangrove ecosystems along the coastline of Oman	10
Life histories and niche dynamics in late Quaternary proboscideans from midwestern North America	10
Quantifying marine reservoir effect variability along the Northwest Coast of North America	9
Changing environments and human interaction during the Pleistocene–Early Holocene from the shallow coastal area of Dor, Israel	9
Seasonal temperature and moisture changes in interior semi‐arid Spain from the last interglacial to the Late Holocene	9
Morphology of Pleistocene elephant tracks on South Africa's Cape south coast and probable elephant trunk-drag impressions	9
Late Pleistocene fauna from Chongphadae Cave, Hwangju County, Democratic People's Republic of Korea	9
Evidence for Middle Palaeolithic occupation and landscape change in central Armenia at the open-air site of Alapars-1	9
Bone histology, palaeobiology, and early diagenetic history of extinct equids from Turkey	9
Evidence for rapid paraglacial formation of rock glaciers in southern Norway from ¹⁰Be surface-exposure dating	9
Oldest Dryas hydroclimate reorganization in the eastern Iberian Peninsula after the iceberg discharges of Heinrich Event 1	8
Tracking late-Quaternary extinctions in interior Alaska using megaherbivore bone remains and dung fungal spores	8
Patterns of aeolian deposition in subtropical Australia through the last glacial and deglacial periods	8
Comparison of settlement-era vegetation reconstructions for STEPPS and REVEALS pollen–vegetation models in the northeastern United States	8
Contribution of small mammal taphonomy to the last Neanderthal occupations at the El Salt site (Alcoi, southeastern Spain)	8
A multiproxy record of sedimentation, pedogenesis, and environmental history in the north of West Siberia during the late Pleistocene based on the Belaya Gora section	8
Moisture evolution in North Xinjiang (northwest China) during the last 8000 years linked to the westerlies’ winter half-year precipitation	8
Atapuerca Neanderthal landscape at Fuente Mudarra site in Burgos, Spain, during Marine Isotope Stages 5–3	7
Timing and extent of Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska	7
Using¹⁰Be dating to determine when the Cordilleran Ice Sheet stopped flowing over the Canadian Rocky Mountains	7
Paleogeographical reconstruction of the western French Alps foreland during the last glacial maximum using cosmogenic exposure dating	7
Late Pleistocene environments of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming-Montana, USA	7
Cave life histories of non-anthropogenic sediments help us understand associated archaeological contexts	7
Holocene glacier history of northeastern Cordillera Darwin, southernmost South America (55°S)	7
Palynological evidence of sea-surface conditions in the Barents Sea off northeast Svalbard during the postglacial period	7
Onset and maturation of Asian summer monsoon precipitation reconstructed from intra-annual tree-ring oxygen isotopes from the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	7
A wetland oasis at Wadi Gharandal spanning 125–70 ka on the human migration trail in southern Jordan	7
Hydrographic shifts south of Australia over the last deglaciation and possible interhemispheric linkages	7
Reconstructing Mousterian landscapes in the southeastern Pyrenees (Roca dels Bous site, Pre-Pyrenees ranges, Spain)	7
Modern and Holocene microbial mats and associated microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) on the southeastern coast of Tunisia (Mediterranean Sea)	7
The impact of methodological decisions on climate reconstructions using WA-PLS	7
Toward a standardized procedure for charcoal analysis	7
Hydroclimate change and its controlling factors during the middle to late Holocene and possible 3.7-ka climatic shift over East Asia	6
Modulation of the relationship between summer temperatures in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and Arctic over the past millennium by external forcings	6
Holocene ice wedge formation in the Eureka Sound Lowlands, high Arctic Canada	6
Holocene morpho-sedimentary evolution of Marambaia Barrier Island (SE Brazil)	6
Chronology of Laurentide glaciation in New Jersey and the New York City area, United States	6
Provenance and paleoclimatic implications of loess deposits in Shandong Province, eastern China	6
Thermal impact of Heinrich stadials in cave temperature and speleothem oxygen isotope records	6
Interrelation of radiocarbon ages from bone fractions in the Brazilian Intertropical Region	6
Sea surface temperature seasonality in the northern South China Sea during the middle Holocene derived from high resolution Sr/Ca ratios of Tridacna shells	6
Fluvial incision caused irreversible environmental degradation of an ancient city in the Mu Us Desert, China	6
The δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O and Δ₄₇records in biogenic, pedogenic and geogenic carbonate types from paleosol-loess sequence and their paleoenvironmental meaning	5
An investigation of the possibility of non-Laurentide ice stream contributions to Heinrich event 3	5
Ecomorphology and ecology of the grassland specialist,Rusingoryx atopocranion(Artiodactyla: Bovidae), from the late Pleistocene of western Kenya	5
Paleoclimatic reconstruction in the Tatra Mountains of the western Carpathians during MIS 9–7 inferred from a multiproxy speleothem record	5

Minimum limiting deglacial ages for the out-of-phase Saginaw Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and radiocarbon methods	5
The sensitivity of Neotoma to climate change and biodiversity loss over the late Quaternary	5
Little Ice Age to modern lake-level fluctuations from Ferguson's Gulf, Lake Turkana, Kenya, based on sedimentology and ostracod assemblages	5
The paleoenvironment and depositional context of the Sumerian site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, southern Mesopotamia, Iraq)	5
Causes and climatic influence of centennial-scale denitrification variability in the southeastern Arabian Sea since the last glacial period	5
Species distribution modeling reveals the ecological niche of extinct megafauna from South America	5
Moraines and late-glacial stratigraphy in central Lake Superior	5
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	5
Low-altitude periglacial activity in southeastern Australia during the late Pleistocene	5
Estimating the frequency of coincidental spatial associations between Clovis artifacts and proboscidean remains in North America	5
Paleo-Critical Zones, windows into the changing life and landscapes during the Quaternary Period	5
A 25,000 year record of climate and vegetation change from the southwestern Cape coast, South Africa	5
Aleutian Low variability for the last 7500 years and its relation to the Westerly Jet	5
Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be exposure dating of Bull Lake and Pinedale moraine sequences in the upper Arkansas River valley, Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA	5
Semi-automated counting of complex varves through image autocorrelation	4
Oxygen isotopes in terrestrial gastropod shells track Quaternary climate change in the American Southwest	4
Late-glacial fluctuations of two southern Patagonia outlet glaciers revealed by high-resolution seismic surveys	4
Late Pleistocene and Holocene aeolian activity in the Deliblato Sands, Serbia	4
The Volchia Griva mineral oasis as unique locus for research of the mammoth fauna and the late Pleistocene environment in Northern Eurasia	4
The signal of climate changes over the last two millennia in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, eastern Canada	4
Paleowind directions from the magnetic fabric of loess deposits in the western Chinese Loess Plateau and implications for dust provenance	4
Ecohydrological controls on apparent rates of peat carbon accumulation in a boreal bog record from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Ontario, Canada	4
The (mis)conception of average Quaternary conditions	4
Historical Perspectives on Exceptional Climatic Years at the Labrador/Nunatsiavut Coast 1780 to 1950	4
Obsidian and volcanic glass artifact evidence for long-distance voyaging to the Polynesian Outlier island of Tikopia	4
Large Pleistocene tortoise tracks on the Cape south coast of South Africa	4
Geomorphological evolution of the Petrovaradin Fortress Palaeolithic site (Novi Sad, Serbia)	4
Fossil rodents in Mylodon Cave as indicators of late Pleistocene–Holocene environmental evolution in southern Chile	4
Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa	4
Younger Dryas to early Holocene (12.9 to 8.1 ka) limnological and hydrological change at Barley Lake, California (northern California Coast Range)	4
Relating pollen representation to an evolving Amazonian landscape between the last glacial maximum and Late Holocene	4
Interpreting the lake-status record of the East Asian monsoon using a hydrological model	4
Mineral magnetic properties of loess–paleosol couplets of northern Serbia over the last 1.0 Ma	4
Evidence from the Dayao Paleolithic site, Inner Mongolia for human migration into arid northwest China during mid-Pleistocene interglacials	4
Water Provenance at the Old River Bed Inland Delta and Ground Water Flow from the Sevier Basin of Central Utah during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition	4
A multimethod approach to the genesis of Menga, a World Heritage megalith	4
Pleistocene golden mole and sand-swimming trace fossils from the Cape coast of South Africa	4
A 3000-year record of vegetation changes and fire at a high-elevation wetland on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania	4
Late Quaternary micromammals and the precipitation history of the southern Cape, South Africa — comment on the published paper by Faith et al., Quaternary Research (2019), Vol. 91, 848–860	4