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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
New paleohydroclimate record of the MIS 5e/5d transition from Yelini Cave, central Anatolian region of Türkiye	24
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
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona – CORRIGENDUM	18
Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells	17
Paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks in the southern Central Andes of Argentina and their implications for tectonics and geomagnetic field behavior	14
Holocene relative sea-level changes along the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of northwestern South America	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	13
Latest Pleistocene and Holocene local glacial history of Baranof Island, southeast Alaska	12
Geophysical sediment properties of a late Pleistocene loess–paleosol sequence, Chenarli, northeastern Iran	11
User guide for scanning electron microscopy applications to luminescence dating	11
Human occupation, site formation, and chronostratigraphy of a mid-Holocene archaeological site at the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition, Argentina	11
Late Quaternary formation of the Miaoli Tableland in northwest Taiwan, an interplay of tectonic uplift and fluvial processes dated by OSL	10
Introduction to special issue: loess environments: generation, transport, and deposition	10
A prolonged dry Mid-Holocene recorded by Moon Lake in the Tengger Desert, arid and semiarid China	10
Chronology of the early transgressive phase of Lake Bonneville	10
Last deglaciation hydroclimatic environment on the central inland of the Korean Peninsula based on pollen and microscopic charcoal records	10
Past vegetation and hydrological change since the Middle Holocene in a Lake Erie riparian marsh provide a guide for ecosystem restoration	10
Proglacial lake records of recent environmental change in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA	9
Limitations of precipitation reconstructions using equilibrium-line altitudes exemplified for former glaciers in the Southern Black Forest, Central Europe	9
Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe	9
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge	9
Preliminary paleoenvironmental analysis and luminescence dating of upper Middle Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Ulakhan Sular Formation, Adycha River, east Siberia	8
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

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	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
Late Pleistocene–Holocene pollen, macrofossils, and diatoms from eastern New York state’s (USA) Rensselaer Plateau reveal multiple temperature and hydrological shifts	8
QUA volume 128 Cover and Front matter	8
A multidisciplinary approach to resolve the taxonomy of the historically extinct sea mink (Neogale macrodon) (Maine, USA) – CORRIGENDUM	8
Times of changes, the latest Pleistocene micromammal association of the Salto de Piedra site (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)	8
Pleistocene periglacial paleohydrology reconstituted from sandstone morphologies in the Paris Basin, France	8
High-resolution magnetochronology detects multiple stages of Pleistocene tectonic uplift and deformation in the Po Plain of northern Italy	8
Precisely constrained 134-ka strong monsoon event in the penultimate deglaciation by an annually laminated speleothem from the Asian monsoon domain	8
Mechanistic models for rhizolith formation and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions	7
Late Quaternary climate change in the northeastern Arabian Peninsula recorded in the oxygen isotope composition of carbonate cements of aeolianites	7
Terrestrial ecosystem transformations in response to rapid climate change during the last deglaciation around Mono Lake, California, USA	7
Holocene evolution of parabolic dunes, White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA, revealed by high-resolution mapping	7
The selective geography of volcanism in oral traditions	7
Microstructure and geochemical properties of modern and buried soils and hosting permafrost sediments of the Batagay retrogressive thaw slump	7
A Pleistocene hyenid trackway from the Cape south coast of South Africa	7
A multiproxy reconstruction of changes in sea ice and primary productivity at IODP Site U1339 (Umnak Plateau, Bering Sea) during Marine Isotope Stage 11	7
The SISAL webApp: exploring the speleothem climate and environmental archives of the world	6
Unravelling 6000 years of interplay among environmental changes, anthropogenic activities, and Vesuvius eruptions in the upper Sarno Plain (Campania, Italy)	6
LGM erosion and subsequent rapid loess deposition in Trzebnica (SW Poland)	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
Annual isotopic diet (δ¹³C) ofEremotherium laurillardi(Lund, 1842) and climate variation (δ¹⁸O) through the late Pleistocene in the Brazilian Intertropical Region	6
The relevance of biotic processes on modern tufa deposits, with an example from the Bonito region, Central-West Brazil	6
Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa	6
Structure and properties of paleosols of the last two interglacial cycles of the Khovaling Loess Plateau, Tajikistan (Obi–Mazar section)	5
QUA volume 124 Cover and Front matter	5
Ancient DNA from speleothems: opportunity or challenge?	5
QUA volume 131 Cover and Front matter	5
The giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Central Asia (Zasukhino-3 and Nalaikha), with insights on	5
Landscape evolution and ancient settlement patterns in a small river basin of the Huangshui River and the prehistoric Wangjinglou City, Central China	5
Assessing the reliability of raptor pellets in recording local small mammal diversity – CORRIGENDUM	5
Taxonomic, biogeographic, and biological implications of mammoth teeth from a dynamic Pleistocene landscape in Alberta, Canada	5
The unique Late Paleolithic artifactual bone assemblage from the Volchia Griva site, Western Siberia	5
The incorporation of chlorine and cosmogenic ³⁶Cl into speleothem carbonate	5
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
Towards a better knowledge of the molar morphology and ecology of extant and fossil grass rats (Muridae:ArvicanthisLesson, 1842)	4
Paleogeographical reconstruction of the western French Alps foreland during the last glacial maximum using cosmogenic exposure dating	4
Mid-Pleistocene drainage rearrangement of the Dadu River in response to plate convergence in southeastern Tibet	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
The late Quaternary fossil record of mole salamanders in central Texas reveals range shifts and responses to environmental change	4
Late glacial to Holocene fluvial dynamics in the Upper Rhine alluvial plain, France	4
Dietary preferences and collagen to collagen prey-predator trophic discrimination factors (Δ¹³C, Δ¹⁵N) in late Pleistocene cave hyena	4
Introduction to Thematic Set: Asian Climate	4
Implications of submonthly oxygen and carbon isotope variations in late Pleistocene Melanopsis shells for regional and local hydroclimate in the upper Jordan River valley	4
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge – CORRIGENDUM	4
Extreme modification of teeth and bones by porcupines ( Hystrix cf. H. kiangsenensis and	4

Vegetation dynamics in Dhofar, Oman, from the Late Holocene to present inferred from rock hyrax middens	4
Downstream dilution of quartz luminescence sensitivity due to rapid erosion in the tectonically active Peloritani Range, NE Sicily	4
Late glacial–Younger Dryas climate in interior Alaska as inferred from the isotope values of land snail shells	4
The Pleistocene footprints are younger than we thought: correcting the radiocarbon dates of Ruppia seeds, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	4
Holocene hydroclimatic variability recorded in sediments from Maddox Lake (northern California Coast Range)	4
Effects of paleoclimatic variables on suitable open habitats for Pleistocene–Holocene megafauna in South America	4
A new relative sea-level curve from Inglefield Land, northwest Greenland	4
Climate change intensified violence in the south-central Andean highlands from 1.5 to 0.5 ka	4