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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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Myrmecophaga tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) subfossils from Abismo Anhumas, Bonito/MS, Brazil: Morphology, isotopic habitat (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O), radiocarbon dating, biogeography and	55
Reproducibility and variability of earthquake subsidence estimates from saltmarshes of a Cascadia estuary	28
What happened with the smaller ones? First comprehensive taphonomic analysis of microvertebrates from the Late Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea (Los Angeles, USA)	20
Geomorphology and chronology of Late Quaternary terrace staircases of the Sakarya River, northwest Türkiye	20
Restricted cirque glaciers in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland, during the Nahanagan Stadial (Greenland Stadial‐1/Younger Dryas)	19
Insights into Red Deer Ecology during the Late Epigravettian: New isotopic evidence from Riparo Tagliente (Italian Prealps)	18
On the existence of a large proglacial lake in the Rostov‐Kostroma lowland, north‐central European Russia	16
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Occurrence of Crocuta (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from a potential Middle Pleistocene site at Pirro Nord (Apricena, southern Italy)	15
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Mechanism of organic matter enrichment in a basin with shallow biogenic gas: a case study of Pleistocene shale in the Qaidam Basin	14
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	14
Radiocarbon and stable isotope evidence of early to mid‐Holocene wet events from fluvial tufa deposits in Santa Cruz, CA	13
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Rinikerfeld Palaeolake (Northern Switzerland) – a sedimentary archive of landscape and climate change during the penultimate glacial cycle	12
Glacier changes since the Last Glacial Maximum on two slopes of Mt Noijin Kang‐Sang, Southern Tibetan Plateau	12
The first radiocarbon and stable isotope data for megafauna remains in Kaliningrad Province, Russia	12
Climate and catchment influence the postglacial succession of three lakes in south‐central Baffin Island (Nunavut), Canada	11
Intermediate ocean circulation and cryosphere dynamics in the northeast Atlantic during Heinrich Stadials: benthic foraminiferal assemblage response	11
Insights into the Middle Pleistocene fauna of South Africa: Zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and dating of Pniel 6	11
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Late Pleistocene montane forest fire return interval estimates from Mount Kenya	10
Dietary niche separation of three Late Pleistocene bear species from Vancouver Island, on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America	10

A new extinct species of Scybalophagus dung beetle supports the collateral extinction hypothesis at the Chilean South American Pleistocene–Holocene boundary	10
Insights into human–environment interactions in tropical Africa during the Late Holocene based on the sediment sequence from Saiwa Swamp, Kenya	9
Reconstructing the late Pleistocene glacial history of the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland, using paired cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ¹⁴C	9
Paleoearthquakes along the northeastern segment of the Yabrai range‐front fault in the Alashan Block, northeast of the Tibetan Plateau	9
New age‐estimate data and implications for marine isotope stage 7 and 5e sea levels in Fenland, eastern England	9
Lacustrine evidence reveals spatially and temporally distinct Holocene ruptures on the Sawtooth Fault, Central Idaho, USA	9
Deglacial dynamics of the Foxe–Baffin Ice Sheet, Frobisher Bay, Nunavut, Canada revealed by submarine landform mapping	9
Chironomid (Insecta: Chironomidae) community structure response to hydrological changes in the mid‐1950s in lake Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau	9
Deglaciation and postglacial evolution of the Cère Valley (Cantal, French Massif Central) based on geomorphological mapping, ³⁶Cl surface exposure dating and glacier modelling	9
Australian subtropical vegetation and wetland response to fire, climate and nutrient availability during the Holocene	9
Forest fires in southwest Western Siberia: the impact of climate and economic transitions over 9000 years	9
On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland	9
Quaternary alluvial paleosols of the Atbara River, eastern Sudan: description and paleoenvironments	8
Lateglacial and Holocene mountain glacier fluctuations near Cape Farewell South Greenland inferred from ¹⁰ Be moraine dating	8
The decline of permafrost after the Last Glaciation—Relicts of Thermokarst Lakes in Northern Poland	8
Consilience in practice: social–ecological dynamics of the Lake Volvi region (Greece) during the last two millennia	8
The importance of terrestrial carbon sequestration during Termination 1	8
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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
Understanding landform evolution in dryland fluvial systems by examining relict paleochannels in the Kachchh mainland, western India	8
Pleistocene environments, climate, and human activity in Britain during Marine Isotope Stage 7: insights from Oak Tree Fields, Cerney Wick, Gloucestershire	7
Correction to “The Pleistocene Witch Ground Ice Stream in the central North Sea”	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
Reviewing the body size of some extinct Brazilian Quaternary Xenarthrans	7
Giants beasts updated: A review of new knowledge about the South American megafauna	7
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	7
Holocene shore‐level changes, southern Lolland and the Femern Belt, Denmark	7
Last Glacial Maximum and deglacial branched GDGT‐based palaeotemperature reconstruction from a subtropical Australian wetland	7
Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change	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 Late Pleistocene megafauna of the Chulym River basin, southeastern West Siberian Plain: chronology and stable isotope composition	7
The bay barnacle Amphibalanus improvisus (Darwin, 1854) in the Pleistocene of Europe? A review of Pleistocene Balanidae of northern Central Europe	7
A tale of two islands: tectonic and orbital controls on marine terrace reoccupation, Channel Islands National Park, California, USA	7
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Differing local‐scale responses of Bolivian Amazon forest ecotones to middle Holocene drought based upon multiproxy soil data	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
Mineral magnetism and palaeoenvironment recorded in loess in southern England	6
Middle to Late Pleistocene valley‐slope cambering: The interglacial basin at Wing, Rutland, England	6
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The preservation of storm events in the geologic record of New Jersey, USA	6
The dating and correlation of an eastern Mediterranean lake sediment sequence: a 46–4 ka tephrostratigraphy for Ioannina (NW Greece)	6
Influence of flooding variability on the development of an Amazonian peatland	6
Rapid deglaciation of the La Vega gorge (Sierra de Gredos, Iberian Peninsula) at the end of the global Last Glacial Maximum	6
Homo floresiensisandHomo luzonensisare not temporally exceptional relative toHomo erectus	6
A multimethod analysis for tracing Gravettian red ochre provenance at Arene Candide Cave (NW Italy)	6
Paleoenvironments of the Late Quaternary Tonica thermokarst lake, northeastern Illinois, USA, and an extinct elk‐moose ( Cervalces )	5
A 1500‐year record of North Atlantic storm flooding from lacustrine sediments, Shetland Islands (UK)	5
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Marine and terrestrial environmental change during the MIS 5–4 transition (southern North Sea area)	5

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Lake level fluctuation controls the formation, types, and abundance of coated grains in hypersaline lakes: a case study from Urmia Lake (NW Iran)	5
Chronology of Late Pleistocene glacial advances in a Mount Mercedario catchment, Subtropical Andes of Argentina (32° S)	5
Characterization of dental calculus in the South American Quaternary proboscidean Notiomastodon platensis (Ameghino, 1888)	5
Multi‐million‐year evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet in Inglefield Land, North Greenland	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
Paleoenvironmental dynamics in central‐eastern Brazil during the last 23 000 years: tropical peatland record in the Cerrado biome	5
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A 600‐year marine record associated with the dynamics of the eastern Penny Ice Cap (Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada)	5
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	5
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Causes of decadal distributions of Indian summer monsoon rainfall during the last 1500 years	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
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
Reconstruction and palaeoclimatic implications of Loch Lomond Readvance glaciers in the Southeast Grampians, Scotland	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
Preservation of stable isotopic composition in charred grains: Implications for paleoenvironmental and archeological research	5
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Relative sea‐level changes in southeastern Australia during the 19^th and 20^th centuries	5
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
Lower Palaeolithic small flake prehension: Use‐wear and residue analyses reveal hominin grasping potential at late Acheulean sites in Israel and Italy	4
Histotaphonomic patterns as paleoenvironmental proxies in eolian deposits: Insights from Last Glacial Maximum mammals in the Argentine Pampas	4
Deglaciation of the Burren glacio‐karst, western Ireland, during Termination 1: Implications for North Atlantic climate and karstification	4
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Late Quaternary ostracode stratigraphy of Mono Lake (California, USA): evidence for benthic ecosystem sensitivity to climate change	4
Not only domestic spaces: dismantling short‐term occupations in Level 497D of Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Pre‐Pyrenees, Spain)	4
Revisiting the late Quaternary fossiliferous infills of Cathedral Cave, Wellington Caves (central eastern New South Wales, Australia)	4
Taphonomic insights into fossil preservation and accumulation of Pleistocene Pongo ‐bearing assemblages from Tham Khao Phak Kut in Krabi, Peninsular Thai	4
Journal of Quaternary Science 40 ^th anniversary Special Issue	4
Glacier mass loss on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since the Little Ice Age	4
Plant–insect interactions in the Quaternary fossil record of the Azores Archipelago (Portugal)	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
Investigating seasonal mobility in Irish giant deer Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) through strontium isotope (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) analysis	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
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
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	4
Quartz luminescence sensitivity variation in the Chinese loess deposits: the potential role of wildfires	4
Surface microtextures of quartz grains and minor sedimentary components across the Paleolithic Jeongok‐ri sediments, Yeoncheon, South Korea	4
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Last interglacial lake sediments preserved beneath Laurentide and Greenland Ice sheets provide insights into Arctic climate amplification and constrain 130 ka of ice‐sheet history	4
Palaeoenvironmental implications of Late Quaternary bioerosion traces in central Patagonia (Southern Atlantic, Argentina)	4
A 7500‐year record of fire and precipitation dynamics from Clear Pond, South Carolina, USA	4
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Hydroclimate variability in the eastern Kimberley, Australia, since the last deglaciation	4
The Anthropocene's stratigraphic reality and the humanities: a response to Finney and Gibbard (2023) and to Chvostek (2023)	4
Hominin and carnivore roles during the formation of the early Middle Pleistocene site of Loreto (Venosa Basin, southern Italy)	4