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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The selective geography of volcanism in oral traditions	28
Large herbivore δ¹⁸O as a proxy for aridity in the South African winter and year-round rainfall zone	20
QUA volume 106 Cover and Front matter	16
QUA volume 101 Cover and Back matter	14
Paleoenvironmental changes in the eastern Kumtag Desert, northwestern China since the late Pleistocene	14
Chronology, time averaging, and oxygen isotope composition of harvested marine mollusk assemblages from Ifri Oudadane, northeast Morocco	12
Holocene evolution of parabolic dunes, White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA, revealed by high-resolution mapping	12
Terrestrial ecosystem transformations in response to rapid climate change during the last deglaciation around Mono Lake, California, USA	11
Paleowind directions from the magnetic fabric of loess deposits in the western Chinese Loess Plateau and implications for dust provenance	11
QUA volume 100 Cover and Front matter	11
Younger Dryas to early Holocene (12.9 to 8.1 ka) limnological and hydrological change at Barley Lake, California (northern California Coast Range)	11
Seasonality of C₄ plant growth and carbonate precipitation in the Chinese Loess Plateau may cause positive carbon isotope anomalies in pedogenic carbonates	10
Loess transportation surfaces in west-central Wisconsin, USA	10
Holocene relative sea-level changes along the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of northwestern South America	9
Quaternary climatic events as conditioning factors of hydrogeologic characteristics and salinity in costal aquifers at northern Patagonia, Argentina	9
QUA volume 119 Cover and Front matter	9
Modeling post-Pleistocene megafauna extinctions as complex social-ecological systems	8
Changes in the lake-grassland ecosystem revealed by multiple proxies in a sediment core from Ganggeng Nur Lake, northern China	8
Ecohydrological controls on apparent rates of peat carbon accumulation in a boreal bog record from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Ontario, Canada	8
The signature of accumulated permanent uplift, northern Cascadia subduction zone	8
Holocene morpho-sedimentary evolution of Marambaia Barrier Island (SE Brazil)	8
Implications of the loess record for Holocene climate and human settlement in Heye Catchment, Jiuzhaigou, eastern Tibetan Plateau, Sichuan, China	8
Late Quaternary glaciations in the Taniantaweng Mountains	8
Landscape dynamics and chronological refinement of the Middle Pleistocene Reinsdorf Sequence of Schöningen, NW Germany	8
Timing and extent of Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska	7

Tropical vegetation productivity and atmospheric methane over the last 40,000 years from model simulations and stalagmites in Sulawesi, Indonesia	7
A multimethod dating study of ancient permafrost, Batagay megaslump, east Siberia	7
A speleothem record of seasonality and moisture transport around the 8.2 ka event in Central Europe (Vacska Cave, Hungary)	7
Holocene geo-ecological evolution of Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park (USA)	7
Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East River watershed, Colorado, USA	6
Holocene glacier history of northeastern Cordillera Darwin, southernmost South America (55°S)	6
A 25,000 year record of climate and vegetation change from the southwestern Cape coast, South Africa	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
Cryogenic features and stages in Late Quaternary subaerial sediments of the Lower Volga region	6
Environmental changes in SW France during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition from the pollen analysis of an eastern North Atlantic deep-sea core	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
New paleohydroclimate record of the MIS 5e/5d transition from Yelini Cave, central Anatolian region of Türkiye	5
Was there a nonglacial episode in the western Hudson Bay Lowland during Marine Isotope Stage 3? – CORRIGENDUM	5
Species distribution modeling reveals the ecological niche of extinct megafauna from South America	5
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona – CORRIGENDUM	5
A Pleistocene hyenid trackway from the Cape south coast of South Africa	5
Systematics and paleobiogeography of Quaternary corals from Cabo Verde Archipelago	5
Human–animal–environment dynamics and formation of pastoralism in the southern Tibetan Plateau during the Middle–Late Holocene	5
The geography and progression of blowouts in the coastal dunes along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan since 1938	5
Glacitectonic rafts and their role in the generation of Quaternary subglacial bedforms and deposits	5
Paleomagnetic data from volcanic rocks in the southern Central Andes of Argentina and their implications for tectonics and geomagnetic field behavior	5
Chronology of the early transgressive phase of Lake Bonneville	5
The timing and ecological consequences of Pleistocene megafaunal decline in the eastern Andes of Colombia	5
Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells	5
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona	5
Pleistocene aardvark (Orycteropus afer) burrow traces on South Africa’s Cape coast	5
Geophysical sediment properties of a late Pleistocene loess–paleosol sequence, Chenarli, northeastern Iran	4
QUA volume 104 Cover and Back matter	4
QUA volume 103 Cover and Front matter	4
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	4
Reconstruction of climate and ecology of Skagit Valley, Washington, from 27.7 to 19.8 ka based on plant and beetle macrofossils	4
Low-altitude periglacial activity in southeastern Australia during the late Pleistocene	4
QUA volume 103 Cover and Back matter	4
Holocene water levels of Silver Lake, Montana, and the hydroclimate history of the Inland Northwest	4
Limnological changes and chironomid-inferred summer air temperature from the Late Pleniglacial to the Early Holocene in the East Carpathians	4
QUA volume 112 Cover and Front matter	4
On the early development of Huastecs (Gulf of Mexico) revealed by the Earth's magnetic field recorded in domestic hearths	4
Little Ice Age to modern lake-level fluctuations from Ferguson's Gulf, Lake Turkana, Kenya, based on sedimentology and ostracod assemblages	4
Assessing reproducibility in sedimentary macroscopic charcoal count data	4
Dietary ecological traits of extinct mammalian herbivores from the last glacial termination at the Pilauco Site, Chile	4
Anthropogenic activities in the páramo trigger ecological shifts in Tropical Andean lakes	4
The unique Late Paleolithic artifactual bone assemblage from the Volchia Griva site, Western Siberia	4
A prolonged dry Mid-Holocene recorded by Moon Lake in the Tengger Desert, arid and semiarid China	4
Variation of the winter mid-latitude Westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere during the Holocene revealed by aeolian deposits in the southern Tibetan Plateau	4
Holocene regional climate change and formation of southern Ontario's largest swamp inferred from a kettle-lake pollen record	4
New paleohydroclimate record of the MIS 5e/5d transition from Yelini Cave, central Anatolian region of Türkiye – ADDENDUM	4
Insect trace fossils as indicators of climatic conditions during the uppermost Pleistocene deposits in southern Brazilian Atlantic coast	3
Climate-driven mid- to late Holocene hydrologic evolution of arid wetlands documented by strontium, uranium, and oxygen isotopes from Lower Pahranagat Lake, southern Nevada, USA	3
Hydrographic shifts south of Australia over the last deglaciation and possible interhemispheric linkages	3
The SISAL webApp: exploring the speleothem climate and environmental archives of the world	3

Stratigraphy and evolution of the late Pleistocene (MIS 5) coastal Barrier III in southern Brazil	3
Holocene ice wedge formation in the Eureka Sound Lowlands, high Arctic Canada	3
Holocene climate background for lake evolution in the Badain Jaran Desert of northwestern China revealed by proxies from calcareous root tubes	3
The role of lithology and climate on bedrock river incision and terrace development along the Buffalo National River, Arkansas	3
Pliocene–Pleistocene hydrology and pluvial lake during Marine Isotope Stages 5a and 4, Deep Springs Valley, western Great Basin, Inyo County, California	3
Evidence for Pleistocene periglaciation in the lowlands of central Argentina (36–39°S)	3
Characterization of phreatic overgrowths on speleothems precipitated in the northern Adriatic during a sea-level stillstand at ca. 2.8 ka	3
Human occupation, site formation, and chronostratigraphy of a mid-Holocene archaeological site at the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition, Argentina	3
A Late Holocene climate reconstruction from the high-altitude Lake Gölcük sedimentary records, Isparta (SW Anatolia)	3
QUA volume 105 Cover and Front matter	3
A lake sediment–based paleoecological reconstruction of late Holocene fire history and vegetation change in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA	3
Glacial equilibrium line–based relationship for paleoclimate reconstructions (Sierra Nevada, USA)	3
QUA volume 116 Cover and Front matter	3
Estimating the frequency of coincidental spatial associations between Clovis artifacts and proboscidean remains in North America	3
Tracking the extinct giant Cape zebra (Equus capensis) on the Cape south coast of South Africa	3