OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Quaternary Science 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
Myrmecophaga tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) subfossils from Abismo Anhumas, Bonito/MS, Brazil: Morphology, isotopic habitat (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O), radiocarbon dating, biogeography and	60
Geomorphology and chronology of Late Quaternary terrace staircases of the Sakarya River, northwest Türkiye	33
Restricted cirque glaciers in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland, during the Nahanagan Stadial (Greenland Stadial‐1/Younger Dryas)	22
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Millimetre‐scale pollen analysis of non‐varved lacustrine sediments from Onepoto maar palaeolake, Auckland, reveals distal vegetation responses and landscape recovery following the ~25.5‐ka Ōruanui su	19
What happened with the smaller ones? First comprehensive taphonomic analysis of microvertebrates from the Late Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea (Los Angeles, USA)	18
Mechanism of organic matter enrichment in a basin with shallow biogenic gas: a case study of Pleistocene shale in the Qaidam Basin	16
Occurrence of Crocuta (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from a potential Middle Pleistocene site at Pirro Nord (Apricena, southern Italy)	16
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Insights into Red Deer Ecology during the Late Epigravettian: New isotopic evidence from Riparo Tagliente (Italian Prealps)	15
The first radiocarbon and stable isotope data for megafauna remains in Kaliningrad Province, Russia	13
Insights into the Middle Pleistocene fauna of South Africa: Zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and dating of Pniel 6	13
Climate and catchment influence the postglacial succession of three lakes in south‐central Baffin Island (Nunavut), Canada	12
A new extinct species of Scybalophagus dung beetle supports the collateral extinction hypothesis at the Chilean South American Pleistocene–Holocene boundary	12
Late Pleistocene montane forest fire return interval estimates from Mount Kenya	12
Lacustrine evidence reveals spatially and temporally distinct Holocene ruptures on the Sawtooth Fault, Central Idaho, USA	12
Australian subtropical vegetation and wetland response to fire, climate and nutrient availability during the Holocene	12
Proglacial lake records of Holocene glacier behaviour and catchment processes in Slettedalen, Northeast Greenland	11
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Consilience in practice: social–ecological dynamics of the Lake Volvi region (Greece) during the last two millennia	11
Rinikerfeld Palaeolake (Northern Switzerland) – a sedimentary archive of landscape and climate change during the penultimate glacial cycle	11
Forest fires in southwest Western Siberia: the impact of climate and economic transitions over 9000 years	11
Glacier changes since the Last Glacial Maximum on two slopes of Mt Noijin Kang‐Sang, Southern Tibetan Plateau	11

Lateglacial and Holocene mountain glacier fluctuations near Cape Farewell South Greenland inferred from ¹⁰ Be moraine dating	10
Deglaciation and postglacial evolution of the Cère Valley (Cantal, French Massif Central) based on geomorphological mapping, ³⁶Cl surface exposure dating and glacier modelling	10
Reconstructing the late Pleistocene glacial history of the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland, using paired cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ¹⁴C	10
Paleoearthquakes along the northeastern segment of the Yabrai range‐front fault in the Alashan Block, northeast of the Tibetan Plateau	10
New age‐estimate data and implications for marine isotope stage 7 and 5e sea levels in Fenland, eastern England	10
Understanding landform evolution in dryland fluvial systems by examining relict paleochannels in the Kachchh mainland, western India	10
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Deglacial dynamics of the Foxe–Baffin Ice Sheet, Frobisher Bay, Nunavut, Canada revealed by submarine landform mapping	10
On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland	9
Chironomid (Insecta: Chironomidae) community structure response to hydrological changes in the mid‐1950s in lake Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau	9
Insights into human–environment interactions in tropical Africa during the Late Holocene based on the sediment sequence from Saiwa Swamp, Kenya	8
The importance of terrestrial carbon sequestration during Termination 1	8
MIS 7!? Comment on Zolitschka et al. (2024) Stratigraphy and dating of Middle Pleistocene sediments from Rodderberg, Germany. Journal of Quaternary Science, 39(7), 1011–1030	8
Mountainous vegetation succession and land use during the last millennium in the Peloponnese (southern Greece): Environmental change and economic development in an isolated periphery	8
The decline of permafrost after the Last Glaciation—Relicts of Thermokarst Lakes in Northern Poland	8
The Late Pleistocene megafauna of the Chulym River basin, southeastern West Siberian Plain: chronology and stable isotope composition	8
Hydraulic reconstruction of catastrophic drainage from the Late Glacial, Lake Fraser, British Columbia, Canada	8
Quaternary alluvial paleosols of the Atbara River, eastern Sudan: description and paleoenvironments	8
Pleistocene environments, climate, and human activity in Britain during Marine Isotope Stage 7: insights from Oak Tree Fields, Cerney Wick, Gloucestershire	8
Correction to “The Pleistocene Witch Ground Ice Stream in the central North Sea”	8
Rapid deglaciation of the La Vega gorge (Sierra de Gredos, Iberian Peninsula) at the end of the global Last Glacial Maximum	7
Hydrological and vegetation changes in North Africa over the past 23 000 years: a comparative study of watershed areas of the Nile River using remote sensing and compound‐specific δ²H and δ	7
Holocene shore‐level changes, southern Lolland and the Femern Belt, Denmark	7
New insights from western Latvia into Holocene spatial and temporal patterns of tufa deposition in central European alkaline fens	7
Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change	7
Reviewing the body size of some extinct Brazilian Quaternary Xenarthrans	7
The local paleoenvironment of Kalavan‐2 based on small‐vertebrate remains and its implications for human‐environment‐dynamics between 60 and 35 ka in the Armenian Highlands	7
The bay barnacle Amphibalanus improvisus (Darwin, 1854) in the Pleistocene of Europe? A review of Pleistocene Balanidae of northern Central Europe	7
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Last Glacial Maximum and deglacial branched GDGT‐based palaeotemperature reconstruction from a subtropical Australian wetland	7
A tale of two islands: tectonic and orbital controls on marine terrace reoccupation, Channel Islands National Park, California, USA	7
Giants beasts updated: A review of new knowledge about the South American megafauna	7
Middle to Late Pleistocene valley‐slope cambering: The interglacial basin at Wing, Rutland, England	6
Mineral magnetism and palaeoenvironment recorded in loess in southern England	6
A multimethod analysis for tracing Gravettian red ochre provenance at Arene Candide Cave (NW Italy)	6
Causes of decadal distributions of Indian summer monsoon rainfall during the last 1500 years	6
Making palaeoclimatology research policy‐relevant: Insights and experience from the DECADAL Project	6
Differing local‐scale responses of Bolivian Amazon forest ecotones to middle Holocene drought based upon multiproxy soil data	6
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Influence of flooding variability on the development of an Amazonian peatland	6
From Highlands to Henge: Refining the Provenance and Transport Pathways of Stonehenge's Altar Stone	6
Characterization of dental calculus in the South American Quaternary proboscidean Notiomastodon platensis (Ameghino, 1888)	6
A 15 000 cal a paleoclimatic record from Laguna del Viento (33°S), Subtropical Andes, central Chile	6
Comparative study of paleoflood slackwater deposits in the Yarlung Zangbo and Hanjiang Rivers, China	6
Homo floresiensisandHomo luzonensisare not temporally exceptional relative toHomo erectus	6
The preservation of storm events in the geologic record of New Jersey, USA	6
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Revisiting the late Quaternary fossiliferous infills of Cathedral Cave, Wellington Caves (central eastern New South Wales, Australia)	5
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A 1500‐year record of North Atlantic storm flooding from lacustrine sediments, Shetland Islands (UK)	5

Taphonomic insights into fossil preservation and accumulation of Pleistocene Pongo ‐bearing assemblages from Tham Khao Phak Kut in Krabi, Peninsular Thai	5
The mineral and isotopic signatures of glacially eroded sediments exported from Hudson Strait to the Labrador Sea during Hudson Strait Heinrich events H0 to H4	5
Lake level fluctuation controls the formation, types, and abundance of coated grains in hypersaline lakes: a case study from Urmia Lake (NW Iran)	5
Relative sea‐level changes in southeastern Australia during the 19^th and 20^th centuries	5
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The Anthropocene's stratigraphic reality and the humanities: a response to Finney and Gibbard (2023) and to Chvostek (2023)	5
Preservation of stable isotopic composition in charred grains: Implications for paleoenvironmental and archeological research	5
Holocene hydroclimate in highland Costa Rica: new evidence from hydrogen and carbon isotopes in n‐alkanes of terrestrial leaf waxes in a 10 000‐year sediment profile	5
Karst environment evolution processes over the past 14 ka inferred from the geochemical composition of a 650‐cm peat record in southwestern China	5
Vertical acoustic blanking in seismic data from the German North Sea: a spotlight to shallow gas‐bearing incised channels	5
Corrigendum to “Within the boundaries of the Dnipro ice lobe: Biotic dynamics in the Middle Dnipro area (Ukraine) during deglaciation and postglacial stages”	5
Small mammal assemblages from paleosols in Eastern Europe indicate evolutionary trends and predominantly warm and dry climates across Middle and Late Pleistocene Interglacials	5
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Not only domestic spaces: dismantling short‐term occupations in Level 497D of Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Pre‐Pyrenees, Spain)	5
Hydroclimate variability in the eastern Kimberley, Australia, since the last deglaciation	5
Reconstruction and palaeoclimatic implications of Loch Lomond Readvance glaciers in the Southeast Grampians, Scotland	5
A 600‐year marine record associated with the dynamics of the eastern Penny Ice Cap (Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada)	5
Paleoenvironments of the Late Quaternary Tonica thermokarst lake, northeastern Illinois, USA, and an extinct elk‐moose ( Cervalces )	5
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Multi‐million‐year evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet in Inglefield Land, North Greenland	5
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Past hydro‐pedological events and trend reflected in the Mid–Late Holocene alluvial record of the Middle Rhône Valley and tributaries: A new reference for South East France	4
Farming in the shadows of Rome: A multi‐proxy palaeoenvironmental record from Loch Clunie—Perthshire	4
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Late Quaternary ostracode stratigraphy of Mono Lake (California, USA): evidence for benthic ecosystem sensitivity to climate change	4
Marine and terrestrial environmental change during the MIS 5–4 transition (southern North Sea area)	4
Plant–insect interactions in the Quaternary fossil record of the Azores Archipelago (Portugal)	4
Late Pleistocene to Holocene vegetation changes in southeastern Patagonia (49° S): landscape changes related to disturbances	4
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Stratigraphy and OSL chronology of the Middle–Upper Pleistocene sedimentary sequence and vegetation history during Late MIS6–MIS5e in the Neva Lowland (St. Petersburg region, Russia)	4
Comment on: Plant–insect interactions in the Quaternary fossil record of the Azores Archipelago (Portugal). Pokorný and Borges (2023). Journal of Quaternary Science 38(4), 597–607	4
Surface microtextures of quartz grains and minor sedimentary components across the Paleolithic Jeongok‐ri sediments, Yeoncheon, South Korea	4
Vegetation and environmental dynamics in the central part of the Kola Peninsula during the past 13.3 ka as reflected by ancient plant DNA on sediments from Lake Imandra	4
Deglaciation of the Burren glacio‐karst, western Ireland, during Termination 1: Implications for North Atlantic climate and karstification	4
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Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from Eemian insect remains at Ejstrup, Denmark: Evidence for a riverine setting	4
Histotaphonomic patterns as paleoenvironmental proxies in eolian deposits: Insights from Last Glacial Maximum mammals in the Argentine Pampas	4
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Glacier mass loss on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since the Little Ice Age	4
Lower Palaeolithic small flake prehension: Use‐wear and residue analyses reveal hominin grasping potential at late Acheulean sites in Israel and Italy	4
The Glacial Legacy of the Geneva Basin: Morphology and implications of an intricate tunnel valley system revealed from 3D seismic data	4
Chronology of Late Pleistocene glacial advances in a Mount Mercedario catchment, Subtropical Andes of Argentina (32° S)	4
Journal of Quaternary Science 40 ^th anniversary Special Issue	4
A 7500‐year record of fire and precipitation dynamics from Clear Pond, South Carolina, USA	4
Late Pleistocene subsistence and settlement during the initial human colonization of southern South America: Faunal evidence of Cueva Lago Sofía 1 and Tres Arroyos 1, southern Patagonia	4
Hominin and carnivore roles during the formation of the early Middle Pleistocene site of Loreto (Venosa Basin, southern Italy)	4
Intensification of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds during the last deglaciation (18.5–14.0 cal ka BP): Evidence from Pearly Beach wetland on the southern Cape coast of South Africa	4
Holocene geoecohydrological floodplain dynamics in NE Belgium: regional drivers of local change	4
Palaeoenvironmental implications of Late Quaternary bioerosion traces in central Patagonia (Southern Atlantic, Argentina)	4