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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Anthropocene as an Event, not an Epoch	71
The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid‐20^th century stratigraphic event signals	33
Pattern, style and timing of British–Irish Ice Sheet advance and retreat over the last 45 000 years: evidence from NW Scotland and the adjacent continental shelf	26
Palaeolithic archaeology of the Bytham River: human occupation of Britain during the early Middle Pleistocene and its European context	25
Retreat dynamics of the eastern sector of the British–Irish Ice Sheet during the last glaciation	25
A history of violence: magma incubation, timing and tephra distribution of the Los Chocoyos supereruption (Atitlán Caldera, Guatemala)	22
Timing, pace and controls on ice sheet retreat: an introduction to the BRITICE‐CHRONO transect reconstructions of the British–Irish Ice Sheet	21
Maximum extent and readvance dynamics of the Irish Sea Ice Stream and Irish Sea Glacier since the Last Glacial Maximum	18
The last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern France: environmental background and dating of the western European Palaeolithic	17
Effects of the middle Holocene high sea‐level stand and climate on Amazonian mangroves	16
Lipid residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the Liujiawa site of the Rui State (early Iron Age, north China)	16
A bio‐available strontium isoscape for eastern Beringia: a tool for tracking landscape use of Pleistocene megafauna	16
The Požarevac loess–paleosol sequence: a record of increased aridity in the south‐eastern margin of the Carpathian Basin during the last 350 ka	15
Timing and pace of ice‐sheet withdrawal across the marine–terrestrial transition west of Ireland during the last glaciation	15
Rapid climate changes during the Lateglacial and the early Holocene as seen from plant community dynamics in the Polar Urals, Russia	15
The ‘Anthropocene’ is most useful as an informal concept	14
What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region of SW Europe	14
Not herbs and forbs alone: pollen‐based evidence for the presence of boreal trees and shrubs in Cis‐Baikal (Eastern Siberia) derived from the Last Glacial Maximum sediment of Lake Ochaul	12
Late Quaternary record of Indian summer monsoon‐induced stratification and productivity collapse in the Andaman Sea	12
Iberian Neanderthals in forests and savannahs	12
Neanderthal subsistence, taphonomy and chronology at Salzgitter‐Lebenstedt (Germany): a multifaceted analysis of morphologically unidentifiable bone	11
An Early Pleistocene hippopotamus from Westbury Cave, Somerset, England: support for a previously unrecognized temperate interval in the British Quaternary record	11
Could the central‐eastern Iberian Mediterranean region be defined as a refugium? Fauna and flora in MIS 5–3 and their implications for Palaeolithic human behaviour	11
Back to Uluzzo – archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and chronological context of the Mid–Upper Palaeolithic sequence at Uluzzo C Rock Shelter (Apulia, southern Italy)	11
New insights into cave hyena ethology and the implications for territorial competition with hominins in Late Pleistocene north‐west Europe: the case of Caverne Marie‐Jeanne (Belgium)	11

Assessing the use of mangrove pollen as a quantitative sea‐level indicator on Mahé, Seychelles	10
Late Pleistocene glaciation history of the southern Black Forest, Germany: ¹⁰Be cosmic‐ray exposure dating and equilibrium line altitude reconstructions in Sankt Wilhelmer Tal	10
Volcanic ash and tsunami record of the Minoan Late Bronze Age Eruption (Santorini) in a distal setting, southwestern Turkey	10
Integrated multidisciplinary ecological analysis from the Uluzzian settlement at the Uluzzo C Rock Shelter, south‐eastern Italy	10
The first record ofCuon alpinus(Pallas, 1811) from Poland and the possible impact of other large canids on the evolution of the species	10
Reconstruction of the palaeo‐sea level of Britain and Ireland arising from empirical constraints of ice extent: implications for regional sea level forecasts and North American ice sheet volume	10
The Anthropocene serves science better as an event, rather than an epoch	10
Abrupt intrinsic and extrinsic responses of southwestern Iberian vegetation to millennial‐scale variability over the past 28 ka	10
Palaeoecological signals for Mesolithic land use in a Central European landscape?	10
Malaco temperature reconstructions and numerical simulation of environmental conditions in the southeastern Carpathian Basin during the Last Glacial Maximum	10
Exploring controls of the early and stepped deglaciation on the western margin of the British Irish Ice Sheet	10
Chronology of the Mediterranean sea‐level highstand during the Last Interglacial: a critical review of the U/Th‐dated deposits	9
Recurrent outburst floods and explosive volcanism during the Younger Dryas–Early Holocene deglaciation in south Iceland: evidence from a lacustrine record	9
Quaternary environmental changes in tropical Lake Towuti, Indonesia, inferred from end‐member modelling of X‐ray fluorescence core‐scanning data	9
Lake sedimentary processes and vegetation changes over the last 45k cal abpin the uplands of south‐eastern Amazonia	9
Variation of summer precipitation δ¹⁸O on the Chinese Loess Plateau since the last interglacial	9
Chronological constraint of Neanderthal cultural and environmental changes in southwestern Europe: MIS 5–MIS 3 dating of the Axlor site (Biscay, Spain)	9
Shifting potential tree species distributions from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Mid‐Holocene in North America, with a correlation assessment	9
Using archaeological data and sediment parameters to review the formation of the Gravettian layers at Krems‐Wachtberg	9
Millennial‐scale shifts in microtidal ecosystems during the Holocene: dynamics and drivers of change from the Po Plain coastal record (NE Italy)	9
Larger floods of Himalayan foothill rivers sustained flows in the Ghaggar–Hakra channel during Harappan age	8
Reconstruction of Middle to Late Quaternary sea level using submerged speleothems from the northeastern Yucatán Peninsula	8
A palaeoecological view of the last Neanderthals at the crossroads of south‐central Europe and the central Mediterranean: long‐term stability or pronounced environmental change with human responses	8
Indian monsoon variability during the last 46 kyr: isotopic records of planktic foraminifera from southwestern Bay of Bengal	8
Complexity in the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Peninsular Southern Europe and application of refugium concepts	8
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Afromontane vegetation and headwater wetland dynamics within the Eastern Mau Forest, Kenya	8
Cave paleozoology in the Judean Desert: assembling records of Holocene wild mammal communities	8
The Anthropocene as an epoch is distinct from all other concepts known by this term: a reply to Swindles et al. (2023)	8
Drivers of 20th century sea‐level change in southern New Zealand determined from proxy and instrumental records	8
Evidence for centennial‐scale Lateglacial and early Holocene climatic complexity from Quoyloo Meadow, Orkney, Scotland	8
Challenging the hypothesis of an Arctic Ocean lake during recent glacial episodes	8
Southern Baffin Island mean annual precipitation isotopes modulated by summer and autumn moisture source changes during the past 5800 years	8
Exploring the extent to which fluctuations in ice‐rafted debris reflect mass changes in the source ice sheet: a model–observation comparison using the last British–Irish Ice Sheet	7
Archaeal lipids reveal climate‐driven changes in microbial ecology at Lake El'gygytgyn (Far East Russia) during the Plio‐Pleistocene	7
Effects of social and climatic factors on building activity in the Czech lands between 1450 and 1950: a dendrochronological analysis	7
Late Quaternary chironomid community structure shaped by rate and magnitude of climate change	7
Neanderthals on the Lower Danube: Middle Palaeolithic evidence in the Danube Gorges of the Balkans	7
What is a refugium? Questions for the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in peninsular southern Europe	7
Climate, glacial and vegetation history of the polar Ural Mountains since c. 27 cal ka bp, inferred from a 54 m long sediment core from Lake Bolshoye Shchuchye	7
Abrupt change in Vietnam coastal upwelling as a response to global warming	7
The missing Myopus: plugging the gaps in Late Pleistocene small mammal identification in western Europe with geometric morphometrics	7
Refinement of the tephrostratigraphy straddling the northern Patagonian Andes (40–41°S): new tephra markers, reconciling different archives and ascertaining the timing of piedmont deglaciation	7
Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change	7
The Oyambre coastal terrace: a detailed sedimentary record of the Last Interglacial Stage in northern Iberia (Cantabrian coast, Spain)	7
Pliocene and late Pleistocene (MIS 5e) decapod crustaceans from Santa Maria Island (Azores Archipelago: Central Atlantic): systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography	7
Late Pleistocene–Holocene climatic implications of high‐resolution stable isotope profiles of a speleothem from south‐central Anatolia, Turkey	6
A dated volcano‐tectonic deformation event in Jan Mayen causing landlocking of Arctic charr	6
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	6
Lake Neor reveals how mountain vegetation responded to 7000 years of hydroclimate variability in northwestern Iran	6
The ‘Semi‐Sterile Mousterian’ of Riparo Bombrini: evidence of a late‐lasting Neanderthal refugium in Liguria	6

‘Palaeolago Fueguino’, a Late Pleistocene lacustrine basin located in the central sector of Tierra del Fuego: a seismostratigraphic study	6
Glacial oscillations during the Bølling–Allerød Interstadial–Younger Dryas transition in the Ruda Valley, Central Pyrenees	6
The Holocene record of Alberca de Tacámbaro, a tropical lake in western Mexico: evidence of orbital and millennial‐scale climatic variability	6
Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental reconstructions from sediments of Lake Emanda (Verkhoyansk Mountains, East Siberia)	6
Small shards and long distances — three cryptotephra layers from the Nahe palaeolake including the first discovery of Laacher See Tephra in Schleswig‐Holstein (Germany)	6
Asynchronous variations of East Asian summer monsoon, vegetation and soil formation at Yulin (North China) in the Holocene	6
Ground truth validated 3D electrical resistivity imaging of the archaeological deposits at Arma Veirana cave (northern Italy)	6
Intra‐interstadial environmental changes in Last Glacial loess revealed by molluscan assemblages from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Amiens‐Renancourt 1 (Somme, France)	6
The Humanities are invited to the Anthropocene Event but not to the Anthropocene Series/Epoch: a response to Chvostek (2023)	6
Detection of the historical Askja ad 1875 and modern Icelandic cryptotephras in varved lake sediments – results from a first systematic search in northern Poland	6
Reassessment of the ‘Abbevillien’ in the perspective of new discoveries from the Lower Palaeolithic and Quaternary sites of Abbeville (Somme, northern France)	6
The dating and correlation of an eastern Mediterranean lake sediment sequence: a 46–4 ka tephrostratigraphy for Ioannina (NW Greece)	6
The past in dust: current trends and future directions in Pleistocene geoarcheology of European loess	5
Determining the diagenetic paths of archaeofaunal assemblages and their palaeoecology through artificial intelligence: an application to Oldowan sites from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)	5
Inferences of the ecological habits of extinct giant sloths from the Brazilian Intertropical Region	5
Environmental heterogeneity of the Lower Palaeolithic land surface on the Goodwood‐Slindon Raised Beach: comparisons of the records from Boxgrove and Valdoe, Sussex, UK	5
Modelling climate constraints on the formation of pluvial Lake Bonneville in the Great Basin, United States	5
Sedimentology of a Late Quaternary lacustrine record from the south‐eastern Carpathian Basin	5
Quartz luminescence sensitivity variation in the Chinese loess deposits: the potential role of wildfires	5
A new species of small Camelidae from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil	5
Early Last Interglacial environmental changes recorded by speleothems from Katerloch (south‐east Austria)	5
Holocene environments on the west‐central Kola Peninsula (north‐west Russia): lithology, chronology and biostratigraphy records from Lake Tikozero and a neighbouring bog	5
Surface microtextures of quartz grains and minor sedimentary components across the Paleolithic Jeongok‐ri sediments, Yeoncheon, South Korea	5
The Late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna of Oumm Qatafa Cave, Judean Desert: taxonomy, taphonomy and palaeoenvironment	5
Holocene environmental history of a freshwater wetland in southern Louisiana: a sedimentary record of delta development, coastal evolution and human activity	5
On the existence of a large proglacial lake in the Rostov‐Kostroma lowland, north‐central European Russia	5
A tephra‐based correlation of marine and terrestrial records of MIS 11c from Britain and the North Atlantic	5
Plio‐Pleistocene mammals from Mille‐Logya, Ethiopia, and the post‐Hadar faunal change	5
Human occupation continuity in southern Italy towards the end of the Middle Palaeolithic: a palaeoenvironmental perspective from Apulia	5
Droughts during the last 2000 years in a tropical sub‐humid environment in central Mexico	5
Climate and environmental history at Lake Levinson‐Lessing, Taymyr Peninsula, during the last 62 kyr	5
Revisiting the late Quaternary fossiliferous infills of Cathedral Cave, Wellington Caves (central eastern New South Wales, Australia)	5
Insight into summer drought in southern Italy: palaeohydrological evolution of Lake Pergusa (Sicily) in the last 6700 years	4
Coastal curios? An analysis of ex situ beach finds for mapping new Palaeolithic sites at Happisburgh, UK	4
Early glacier advance in New Zealand during the Antarctic Cold Reversal	4
Tracing the Palaeolithic settlement patterns in the Western Tian Shan piedmont: an example of predictive GIS modelling use	4
An African adder (Bitis arietans complex) at Qafzeh Cave, Israel, during the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5)	4
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Loch Duart (NW Scotland, UK) since the Last Glacial Maximum: implications from a multiproxy approach	4
Last Glacial Maximum active layer thickness in Western Europe, and the issue of ‘tundra gleys’ in loess sequences	4
Quaternary environmental and climatic history of the northern high latitudes – recent contributions and perspectives from lake sediment records	4
Interaction of multiple ice streams on the Malin Shelf during deglaciation of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet	4
Late Holocene in central Brazil: vegetation changes and humidity variability in a tropical wetland	4
New chronology and extended palaeoenvironmental data to the 1975 loess profile of Madaras brickyard, South Hungary	4
Identification of Atlantic water inflow on the north Svalbard shelf during the Holocene	4
A 1500‐year record of North Atlantic storm flooding from lacustrine sediments, Shetland Islands (UK)	4
Holocene hydroclimate changes on the north‐eastern Tibetan Plateau inferred from geochemical records in Lake Gyaring	4
Stalagmite evidence of Last Glacial Maximum to early Holocene climate variability in southwestern Iran	4
State‐of‐the‐art overview of the Loess Palaeolithic of Poland	4
Western Siberia experienced rapid shifts in moisture source and summer water balance during the last deglaciation and early Holocene	4
Postglacial anthropogenic fires related to cultural changes in central Japan, inferred from sedimentary charcoal records spanning glacial–interglacial cycles	4
The development and impact of an ice‐contact proglacial lake during the Last Glacial Termination, Palaeolake Riada, central Ireland	4
Sedimentation history of Lake Taymyr, Central Russian Arctic, since the Last Glacial Maximum	4
Palaeoecological background of the Upper Palaeolithic site of Ságvár, Hungary: radiocarbon‐dated malacological and sedimentological studies on the Late Pleistocene environment	4
Neanderthal palaeoecology in the late Middle Palaeolithic of western Iberia: a stable isotope analysis of ungulate teeth from Lapa do Picareiro (Portugal)	4
Insights into Holocene relative sea‐level changes in the southern North Sea using an improved microfauna‐based transfer function	4
Distribution of n‐alkan‐2‐ones in Qionghai Lake sediments, southwest China, and its potential for late Quaternary paleoclimate reconstruction	4
The patchwork loess of Central Asia: Implications for interpreting aeolian dynamics and past climate circulation in piedmont regions	4
A stable isotope record of late Quaternary hydrologic change in the northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska (eastern Beringia)	4
Environments of the climatic optimum of MIS 11 in Britain: evidence from the tufa sequence at Hitchin, southeast England	4
Changing food webs before and during the Last Glacial Maximum based on stable isotopes of animal bone collagen from Lower Austria	4
New results concerning the pedo‐ and chronostratigraphy of the loess–palaeosol sequence Attenfeld (Bavaria, Germany) derived from a multi‐methodological approach	4
A step back to move forward: a geological re‐evaluation of the El Castillo Cave Middle Palaeolithic lithostratigraphic units (Cantabria, northern Iberia)	4