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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanism of organic matter enrichment in a basin with shallow biogenic gas: a case study of Pleistocene shale in the Qaidam Basin	109
Myrmecophaga tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) subfossils from Abismo Anhumas, Bonito/MS, Brazil: Morphology, isotopic habitat (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O), radiocarbon dating, biogeography and	47
Reproducibility and variability of earthquake subsidence estimates from saltmarshes of a Cascadia estuary	20
What happened with the smaller ones? First comprehensive taphonomic analysis of microvertebrates from the Late Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea (Los Angeles, USA)	19
Geomorphology and chronology of Late Quaternary terrace staircases of the Sakarya River, northwest Türkiye	19
Peninsular southern Europe refugia during the Middle Palaeolithic: an introduction	18
On the existence of a large proglacial lake in the Rostov‐Kostroma lowland, north‐central European Russia	16
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	15
Restricted cirque glaciers in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland, during the Nahanagan Stadial (Greenland Stadial‐1/Younger Dryas)	15
A new extinct species of Scybalophagus dung beetle supports the collateral extinction hypothesis at the Chilean South American Pleistocene–Holocene boundary	14
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Radiocarbon and stable isotope evidence of early to mid‐Holocene wet events from fluvial tufa deposits in Santa Cruz, CA	13
Birds as indicators of early Holocene biodiversity and the seasonal nature of human activity at WF16, an early Neolithic site in Faynan, Southern Jordan	12
Glacier changes since the Last Glacial Maximum on two slopes of Mt Noijin Kang‐Sang, Southern Tibetan Plateau	12
Lacustrine evidence reveals spatially and temporally distinct Holocene ruptures on the Sawtooth Fault, Central Idaho, USA	12
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The first radiocarbon and stable isotope data for megafauna remains in Kaliningrad Province, Russia	12
Dietary niche separation of three Late Pleistocene bear species from Vancouver Island, on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America	11
Late Pleistocene montane forest fire return interval estimates from Mount Kenya	11
Australian subtropical vegetation and wetland response to fire, climate and nutrient availability during the Holocene	11
Rinikerfeld Palaeolake (Northern Switzerland) – a sedimentary archive of landscape and climate change during the penultimate glacial cycle	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
Abrupt intrinsic and extrinsic responses of southwestern Iberian vegetation to millennial‐scale variability over the past 28 ka	11

Climate and catchment influence the postglacial succession of three lakes in south‐central Baffin Island (Nunavut), Canada	11
Forest fires in southwest Western Siberia: the impact of climate and economic transitions over 9000 years	10
Lateglacial and Holocene mountain glacier fluctuations near Cape Farewell South Greenland inferred from ¹⁰Be moraine dating	10
Insights into human–environment interactions in tropical Africa during the Late Holocene based on the sediment sequence from Saiwa Swamp, Kenya	10
The decline of permafrost after the Last Glaciation—Relicts of Thermokarst Lakes in Northern Poland	9
The development and impact of an ice‐contact proglacial lake during the Last Glacial Termination, Palaeolake Riada, central Ireland	9
Mountainous vegetation succession and land use during the last millennium in the Peloponnese (southern Greece): Environmental change and economic development in an isolated periphery	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
Deglacial dynamics of the Foxe–Baffin Ice Sheet, Frobisher Bay, Nunavut, Canada revealed by submarine landform mapping	9
Consilience in practice: social–ecological dynamics of the Lake Volvi region (Greece) during the last two millennia	8
Quaternary alluvial paleosols of the Atbara River, eastern Sudan: description and paleoenvironments	8
On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland	8
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Paleoearthquakes along the northeastern segment of the Yabrai range‐front fault in the Alashan Block, northeast of the Tibetan Plateau	8
Chironomid (Insecta: Chironomidae) community structure response to hydrological changes in the mid‐1950s in lake Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau	8
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	8
Reconstructing the late Pleistocene glacial history of the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland, using paired cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ¹⁴C	8
The importance of terrestrial carbon sequestration during Termination 1	8
Pleistocene environments, climate, and human activity in Britain during Marine Isotope Stage 7: insights from Oak Tree Fields, Cerney Wick, Gloucestershire	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
Reviewing the body size of some extinct Brazilian Quaternary Xenarthrans	7
A tale of two islands: tectonic and orbital controls on marine terrace reoccupation, Channel Islands National Park, California, USA	7
Correction to “The Pleistocene Witch Ground Ice Stream in the central North Sea”	7
Western Siberia experienced rapid shifts in moisture source and summer water balance during the last deglaciation and early Holocene	7
A 15 000 cal a paleoclimatic record from Laguna del Viento (33°S), Subtropical Andes, central Chile	6
The bay barnacle Amphibalanus improvisus (Darwin, 1854) in the Pleistocene of Europe? A review of Pleistocene Balanidae of northern Central Europe	6
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Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change	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 Late Pleistocene megafauna of the Chulym River basin, southeastern West Siberian Plain: chronology and stable isotope composition	6
Holocene shore‐level changes, southern Lolland and the Femern Belt, Denmark	6
Rapid deglaciation of the La Vega gorge (Sierra de Gredos, Iberian Peninsula) at the end of the global Last Glacial Maximum	6
A multimethod analysis for tracing Gravettian red ochre provenance at Arene Candide Cave (NW Italy)	6
Differing local‐scale responses of Bolivian Amazon forest ecotones to middle Holocene drought based upon multiproxy soil data	6
The dating and correlation of an eastern Mediterranean lake sediment sequence: a 46–4 ka tephrostratigraphy for Ioannina (NW Greece)	6
Last Glacial Maximum and deglacial branched GDGT‐based palaeotemperature reconstruction from a subtropical Australian wetland	6
Giants beasts updated: A review of new knowledge about the South American megafauna	6
The preservation of storm events in the geologic record of New Jersey, USA	6
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Middle to Late Pleistocene valley‐slope cambering: The interglacial basin at Wing, Rutland, England	6
The imprint of catchment processes on Greenlandic ice cap proglacial lake records: analytical approaches and palaeoenvironmental significance	6
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
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Characterization of dental calculus in the South American Quaternary proboscidean Notiomastodon platensis (Ameghino, 1888)	5
Relative sea‐level changes in southeastern Australia during the 19^th and 20^th centuries	5
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Marine and terrestrial environmental change during the MIS 5–4 transition (southern North Sea area)	5
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

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Chronology of Late Pleistocene glacial advances in a Mount Mercedario catchment, Subtropical Andes of Argentina (32° S)	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
Paleoenvironmental dynamics in central‐eastern Brazil during the last 23 000 years: tropical peatland record in the Cerrado biome	5
LGM ice extent and deglaciation history in the Gurktal and Lavantal Alps (eastern European Alps): first constraints from ¹⁰Be surface exposure dating of glacially polished quartz veins	5
Influence of flooding variability on the development of an Amazonian peatland	5
Eurasian Holocene climate trends in transient coupled climate simulations and stable oxygen isotope records	5
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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
Revisiting the late Quaternary fossiliferous infills of Cathedral Cave, Wellington Caves (central eastern New South Wales, Australia)	5
Quartz luminescence sensitivity variation in the Chinese loess deposits: the potential role of wildfires	5
Multi‐million‐year evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet in Inglefield Land, North Greenland	5
A 600‐year marine record associated with the dynamics of the eastern Penny Ice Cap (Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada)	5
A 1500‐year record of North Atlantic storm flooding from lacustrine sediments, Shetland Islands (UK)	5
Vertical acoustic blanking in seismic data from the German North Sea: a spotlight to shallow gas‐bearing incised channels	5
Causes of decadal distributions of Indian summer monsoon rainfall during the last 1500 years	5
Mineral magnetism and palaeoenvironment recorded in loess in southern England	5
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Reconstruction and palaeoclimatic implications of Loch Lomond Readvance glaciers in the Southeast Grampians, Scotland	5
Preservation of stable isotopic composition in charred grains: Implications for paleoenvironmental and archeological research	5
The Anthropocene's stratigraphic reality and the humanities: a response to Finney and Gibbard (2023) and to Chvostek (2023)	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
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Late Quaternary ostracode stratigraphy of Mono Lake (California, USA): evidence for benthic ecosystem sensitivity to climate change	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
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Reply to ‘Challenging the hypothesis of an arctic ocean lake during recent glacial episodes’ by Hillaire‐Marcel, et al	4
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Glacier mass loss on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since the Little Ice Age	4
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
Surface microtextures of quartz grains and minor sedimentary components across the Paleolithic Jeongok‐ri sediments, Yeoncheon, South Korea	4
Hominin and carnivore roles during the formation of the early Middle Pleistocene site of Loreto (Venosa Basin, southern Italy)	4
A 7500‐year record of fire and precipitation dynamics from Clear Pond, South Carolina, USA	4
Lower Palaeolithic small flake prehension: Use‐wear and residue analyses reveal hominin grasping potential at late Acheulean sites in Israel and Italy	4
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Histotaphonomic patterns as paleoenvironmental proxies in eolian deposits: Insights from Last Glacial Maximum mammals in the Argentine Pampas	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
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
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
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Palaeoenvironmental implications of Late Quaternary bioerosion traces in central Patagonia (Southern Atlantic, Argentina)	4
The Currey cycle of Great Salt Lake: an early Younger Dryas lake in the Bonneville basin, Utah, USA	4
Plant–insect interactions in the Quaternary fossil record of the Azores Archipelago (Portugal)	4
Investigating seasonal mobility in Irish giant deer Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) through strontium isotope (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) analysis	4