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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona – CORRIGENDUM	20
Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells	19
Paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks in the southern Central Andes of Argentina and their implications for tectonics and geomagnetic field behavior	14
Cryogenic features and stages in Late Quaternary subaerial sediments of the Lower Volga region	13
Modeling post-Pleistocene megafauna extinctions as complex social-ecological systems	11
Changes in the lake-grassland ecosystem revealed by multiple proxies in a sediment core from Ganggeng Nur Lake, northern China	11
New paleohydroclimate record of the MIS 5e/5d transition from Yelini Cave, central Anatolian region of Türkiye	11
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	10
Chronology of the early transgressive phase of Lake Bonneville	10
A prolonged dry Mid-Holocene recorded by Moon Lake in the Tengger Desert, arid and semiarid China	10
Variation of the winter mid-latitude Westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere during the Holocene revealed by aeolian deposits in the southern Tibetan Plateau	9
Paleolakes, archaeology, and late Quaternary paleoenvironments in northwestern Mongolia	9
Late Quaternary formation of the Miaoli Tableland in northwest Taiwan, an interplay of tectonic uplift and fluvial processes dated by OSL	9
The paleoenvironment and depositional context of the Sumerian site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, southern Mesopotamia, Iraq)	9
Human occupation, site formation, and chronostratigraphy of a mid-Holocene archaeological site at the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition, Argentina	9
Climatic controls on phosphorus concentrations in The Loch, Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA since the last glacial maximum	9
Holocene water levels of Silver Lake, Montana, and the hydroclimate history of the Inland Northwest	9
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge	8
Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe	8
Preliminary paleoenvironmental analysis and luminescence dating of upper Middle Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Ulakhan Sular Formation, Adycha River, east Siberia	8
A multidisciplinary approach to resolve the taxonomy of the historically extinct sea mink (Neogale macrodon) (Maine, USA) – CORRIGENDUM	7
New evidence from heavy minerals and detrital zircons in Quaternary fluvial sediments for the evolution of the upper Yangtze River, South China	7
QUA volume 120 Cover and Front matter	7
Introduction to special issue: loess environments: generation, transport, and deposition	7

Tectonic, hydrogeologic, and climatic controls on Late Holocene dune formation, China Lake basin, Indian Wells Valley, California, USA	7
Global variations in regional degradation rates since the Last Glacial Maximum mapped through time and space	7
Limitations of precipitation reconstructions using equilibrium-line altitudes exemplified for former glaciers in the Southern Black Forest, Central Europe	7
Precisely constrained 134-ka strong monsoon event in the penultimate deglaciation by an annually laminated speleothem from the Asian monsoon domain	7
Pleistocene periglacial paleohydrology reconstituted from sandstone morphologies in the Paris Basin, France	7
Age of the late Holocene Bonneville landslide and submerged forest of the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon and Washington, USA, by radiocarbon dating	7
A speleothem record of seasonality and moisture transport around the 8.2 ka event in Central Europe (Vacska Cave, Hungary)	6
Terrestrial ecosystem transformations in response to rapid climate change during the last deglaciation around Mono Lake, California, USA	6
A Pleistocene hyenid trackway from the Cape south coast of South Africa	6
Holocene millennial-scale variability of coastal environments on the southern coast of Korea and its controlling factors	6
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	6
The selective geography of volcanism in oral traditions	6
QUA volume 107 Cover and Front matter	6
Microstructure and geochemical properties of modern and buried soils and hosting permafrost sediments of the Batagay retrogressive thaw slump	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
Holocene evolution of parabolic dunes, White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA, revealed by high-resolution mapping	6
Large Pleistocene tortoise tracks on the Cape south coast of South Africa	6
High-resolution magnetochronology detects multiple stages of Pleistocene tectonic uplift and deformation in the Po Plain of northern Italy	6
Unravelling 6000 years of interplay among environmental changes, anthropogenic activities, and Vesuvius eruptions in the upper Sarno Plain (Campania, Italy)	5
Dietary ecological traits of extinct mammalian herbivores from the last glacial termination at the Pilauco Site, Chile	5
Assessing the reliability of raptor pellets in recording local small mammal diversity – CORRIGENDUM	5
The relevance of biotic processes on modern tufa deposits, with an example from the Bonito region, Central-West Brazil	5
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	5
The SISAL webApp: exploring the speleothem climate and environmental archives of the world	5
Holocene climate background for lake evolution in the Badain Jaran Desert of northwestern China revealed by proxies from calcareous root tubes	5
Paleogeographical reconstruction of the western French Alps foreland during the last glacial maximum using cosmogenic exposure dating	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
Annual isotopic diet (δ¹³C) ofEremotherium laurillardi(Lund, 1842) and climate variation (δ¹⁸O) through the late Pleistocene in the Brazilian Intertropical Region	5
Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa	5
The signal of climate changes over the last two millennia in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, eastern Canada	5
Assessing the reliability of raptor pellets in recording local small mammal diversity	4
QUA volume 124 Cover and Front matter	4
Late glacial to Holocene fluvial dynamics in the Upper Rhine alluvial plain, France	4
Structure and properties of paleosols of the last two interglacial cycles of the Khovaling Loess Plateau, Tajikistan (Obi–Mazar section)	4
The Pleistocene footprints are younger than we thought: correcting the radiocarbon dates of Ruppia seeds, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico	4
Ancient DNA from speleothems: opportunity or challenge?	4
Late glacial–Younger Dryas climate in interior Alaska as inferred from the isotope values of land snail shells	4
The incorporation of chlorine and cosmogenic ³⁶Cl into speleothem carbonate	4
Dietary preferences and collagen to collagen prey-predator trophic discrimination factors (Δ¹³C, Δ¹⁵N) in late Pleistocene cave hyena	4
Landscape evolution and ancient settlement patterns in a small river basin of the Huangshui River and the prehistoric Wangjinglou City, Central China	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
Climate change intensified violence in the south-central Andean highlands from 1.5 to 0.5 ka	3
Eurasian environmental dynamics and humans: interactions over different time scales	3
Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene	3
Holocene and recent valley-bottom sediment storage decouples natural and anthropogenic hillslope erosion from sediment delivery to streams at time scales of 10¹–10⁴ yr in a third	3
QUA volume 106 Cover and Front matter	3
QUA volume 110 Cover and Front matter	3
Late Pleistocene pedogenesis and loess magnetism in northwestern Ukraine	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
Mid-Pleistocene drainage rearrangement of the Dadu River in response to plate convergence in southeastern Tibet	3
Sedimentation rate changes across the Chinese Loess Plateau from luminescence dating of Malan loess in the Sanmen Gorge – CORRIGENDUM	3
Late glacial and Holocene climate and landscape dynamics in the Valdai Highlands (East European Plain) inferred from lake sediment records	3
A 33,000-year paleohydrological record from Sanamere Lagoon, north-eastern tropical savannas of Australia	3
A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multiproxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK	3
Introduction to Thematic Set: Asian Climate	3
Towards a better knowledge of the molar morphology and ecology of extant and fossil grass rats (Muridae:ArvicanthisLesson, 1842)	3
Hydroclimate change and its controlling factors during the middle to late Holocene and possible 3.7-ka climatic shift over East Asia	3
Vegetation dynamics in Dhofar, Oman, from the Late Holocene to present inferred from rock hyrax middens	3