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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A multimethod dating study of ancient permafrost, Batagay megaslump, east Siberia	28
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	22
A continental perspective on the timing of environmental change during the last glacial stage in Australia	20
Ecological turnover in neotropical freshwater and terrestrial communities during episodes of abrupt climate change	16
Causes and implications of Mid- to Late Holocene relative sea-level change in the Gulf of Kachchh, western India	16
Geomorphological record and equilibrium line altitude of glaciers during the last glacial maximum in the Rodna Mountains (eastern Carpathians)	14
Variation of the winter mid-latitude Westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere during the Holocene revealed by aeolian deposits in the southern Tibetan Plateau	14
A critical assessment of claims that human footprints in the Lake Otero basin, New Mexico date to the Last Glacial Maximum	14
Glacitectonic rafts and their role in the generation of Quaternary subglacial bedforms and deposits	12
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	12
Quantifying marine reservoir effect variability along the Northwest Coast of North America	11
Collapse of Holocene mangrove ecosystems along the coastline of Oman	11
Oldest Dryas hydroclimate reorganization in the eastern Iberian Peninsula after the iceberg discharges of Heinrich Event 1	11
Holocene glacier history of northeastern Cordillera Darwin, southernmost South America (55°S)	11
Eolian sedimentation in central European Auel dry maar from 60 to 13 ka	11
Bone histology, palaeobiology, and early diagenetic history of extinct equids from Turkey	10
Patterns of aeolian deposition in subtropical Australia through the last glacial and deglacial periods	10
Interrelation of radiocarbon ages from bone fractions in the Brazilian Intertropical Region	10
Morphology of Pleistocene elephant tracks on South Africa's Cape south coast and probable elephant trunk-drag impressions	10
Seasonal temperature and moisture changes in interior semi‐arid Spain from the last interglacial to the Late Holocene	10
Modern and Holocene microbial mats and associated microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) on the southeastern coast of Tunisia (Mediterranean Sea)	9
Hydrographic shifts south of Australia over the last deglaciation and possible interhemispheric linkages	9
Changing environments and human interaction during the Pleistocene–Early Holocene from the shallow coastal area of Dor, Israel	9
Contribution of small mammal taphonomy to the last Neanderthal occupations at the El Salt site (Alcoi, southeastern Spain)	9
A wetland oasis at Wadi Gharandal spanning 125–70 ka on the human migration trail in southern Jordan	9

Timing and extent of Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska	8
A 25,000 year record of climate and vegetation change from the southwestern Cape coast, South Africa	8
Paleogeographical reconstruction of the western French Alps foreland during the last glacial maximum using cosmogenic exposure dating	8
Moisture evolution in North Xinjiang (northwest China) during the last 8000 years linked to the westerlies’ winter half-year precipitation	8
Holocene morpho-sedimentary evolution of Marambaia Barrier Island (SE Brazil)	8
Ecomorphology and ecology of the grassland specialist,Rusingoryx atopocranion(Artiodactyla: Bovidae), from the late Pleistocene of western Kenya	8
Landscape dynamics and chronological refinement of the Middle Pleistocene Reinsdorf Sequence of Schöningen, NW Germany	8
Modulation of the relationship between summer temperatures in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and Arctic over the past millennium by external forcings	7
The δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O and Δ₄₇records in biogenic, pedogenic and geogenic carbonate types from paleosol-loess sequence and their paleoenvironmental meaning	7
Species distribution modeling reveals the ecological niche of extinct megafauna from South America	7
Hydroclimate change and its controlling factors during the middle to late Holocene and possible 3.7-ka climatic shift over East Asia	7
Provenance and paleoclimatic implications of loess deposits in Shandong Province, eastern China	7
Thermal impact of Heinrich stadials in cave temperature and speleothem oxygen isotope records	7
Using¹⁰Be dating to determine when the Cordilleran Ice Sheet stopped flowing over the Canadian Rocky Mountains	7
Holocene ice wedge formation in the Eureka Sound Lowlands, high Arctic Canada	7
Little Ice Age to modern lake-level fluctuations from Ferguson's Gulf, Lake Turkana, Kenya, based on sedimentology and ostracod assemblages	7
Historical Perspectives on Exceptional Climatic Years at the Labrador/Nunatsiavut Coast 1780 to 1950	6
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	6
Late Pleistocene and Holocene aeolian activity in the Deliblato Sands, Serbia	6
Assessing the reliability of raptor pellets in recording local small mammal diversity	6
Fossil rodents in Mylodon Cave as indicators of late Pleistocene–Holocene environmental evolution in southern Chile	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
Aleutian Low variability for the last 7500 years and its relation to the Westerly Jet	5
The Volchia Griva mineral oasis as unique locus for research of the mammoth fauna and the late Pleistocene environment in Northern Eurasia	5
A drastic change in glacial dynamics at the beginning of the seventeenth century on Novaya Zemlya coincides in time with the strongest volcanic eruption in Peru and the Great Famine in Russia	5
Evolution of Ramasetu region as a link between India and Sri Lanka during the late Pleistocene and Holocene	5
Estimating the frequency of coincidental spatial associations between Clovis artifacts and proboscidean remains in North America	5
An investigation of the possibility of non-Laurentide ice stream contributions to Heinrich event 3	5
Holocene geo-ecological evolution of Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park (USA)	5
Diverse floodplain deposits of reworked loess in a monsoon climate (Hanzhong Basin, central China)	5
Geomorphological evolution of the Petrovaradin Fortress Palaeolithic site (Novi Sad, Serbia)	5
Reconstructing postglacial hydrologic and environmental change in the eastern Kenai Peninsula lowlands using proxy data and mass balance modeling	5
The sensitivity of Neotoma to climate change and biodiversity loss over the late Quaternary	5
Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa	5
Causes and climatic influence of centennial-scale denitrification variability in the southeastern Arabian Sea since the last glacial period	5
Spatial variation of East Asian winter monsoon evolution between northern and southern China since the last glacial maximum	5
Evidence from the Dayao Paleolithic site, Inner Mongolia for human migration into arid northwest China during mid-Pleistocene interglacials	5
Large Pleistocene tortoise tracks on the Cape south coast of South Africa	5
Comparison of temperature and humidity during MIS 11 and MIS 5e interglacials with the Holocene using stable isotopes in tufa deposits from northern France	5
Pleistocene golden mole and sand-swimming trace fossils from the Cape coast of South Africa	5
The paleoenvironment and depositional context of the Sumerian site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, southern Mesopotamia, Iraq)	5
Low-altitude periglacial activity in southeastern Australia during the late Pleistocene	5
Younger Dryas to early Holocene (12.9 to 8.1 ka) limnological and hydrological change at Barley Lake, California (northern California Coast Range)	5
Paleowind directions from the magnetic fabric of loess deposits in the western Chinese Loess Plateau and implications for dust provenance	5
The timing and ecological consequences of Pleistocene megafaunal decline in the eastern Andes of Colombia	4
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene aeolian deposits of Tasmania and their climatic implications	4
Late Pleistocene–Holocene stress in the South American intraplate evidenced by tectonic instability in central Amazonia	4
A palaeoenvironmental record of the Southern Hemisphere last glacial maximum from the Mount Cass loess section, North Canterbury, Aotearoa/New Zealand	4
Semi-automated counting of complex varves through image autocorrelation	4
A multimethod approach to the genesis of Menga, a World Heritage megalith	4

Glacial–interglacial cycles in the south-central and southeastern Pyrenees since ~180 ka (NE Spain–Andorra–S France)	4
Glacial kettles as archives of early human settlement along the Northern Rocky Mountain Front	4
Holocene water levels of Silver Lake, Montana, and the hydroclimate history of the Inland Northwest	4
Ecohydrological controls on apparent rates of peat carbon accumulation in a boreal bog record from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Ontario, Canada	4
Oxygen isotopes in terrestrial gastropod shells track Quaternary climate change in the American Southwest	4
Pleistocene small-mammal and arthropod trackways from the Cape south coast of South Africa	4
Eemian and early Weichselian environmental changes at the Jałówka site, NE Poland, and their correlation with marine and ice records	4
A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multiproxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK	4
The signal of climate changes over the last two millennia in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, eastern Canada	4
Assessing reproducibility in sedimentary macroscopic charcoal count data	4
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	4
The (mis)conception of average Quaternary conditions	4
Mineral magnetic properties of loess–paleosol couplets of northern Serbia over the last 1.0 Ma	4
Hydroclimatic changes in south-central China during the 4.2 ka event and their potential impacts on the development of Neolithic culture	4
The age and paleoclimate implications of relict periglacial block deposits on the New England Tablelands, Australia	4
The Pleistocene footprints are younger than we thought: correcting the radiocarbon dates of Ruppia seeds, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	4
The unique Late Paleolithic artifactual bone assemblage from the Volchia Griva site, Western Siberia	4