OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Quaternary Science Reviews is 28. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate-controlled distribution of erosion over the Himalaya in the late Quaternary: Evidence from Sr-Nd isotope variability in paleo-Yamuna channel sediments	97
Stalagmite-inferred European westerly drift in the early Weichselian with centennial-scale variability in marine isotope stage 5a	62
Stalagmite multi-proxy records of weak Asian summer monsoon interval during Termination III as an analogue to Termination I	56
Atmospheric Δ14C in the northern and southern hemispheres over the past two millennia: Role of production rate, southern hemisphere westerly winds and ocean circulation changes	48
Sedimentary stratigraphy and provenance off Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica) during the mid-Pleistocene transition: Implications for paleoclimate and ice dynamics	44
Revisiting the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Orce sites and the early Homo habitats in western Europe. A response to Palmqvist et al. (2022)	42
Midwest North American full glacial paleohydrology from fresh water ostracodes: Comparison of Clementsian and Gleasonian methodologies	41
Distal ash fall from the mid-Holocene eruption of Mount Hudson (H2) discovered in the Falkland Islands: New possibilities for Southern Hemisphere archive synchronisation	41
Holocene paleolimnological changes in rundvågshetta lakes in the Soya Coast region and their paleoenvironmental significance with glacial isostatic adjustment in East Antarctica	40
Large-scale climatic drivers of bison distribution and abundance in North America since the Last Glacial Maximum	40
Editorial Board	38
Human prey choice refutes “Levantine overkill”: Comment on Dembitzer et al. (2022)	36
Loess facies analysis and chronology to reconstruct morpho-sedimentary and palaeoclimatic evolution: A case study from the Belgian-Dutch Maas valley	34
Climate change during the Holocene in South Asia: A review study of Pakistan	34
Chronology and paleoclimatic context of hominin occupations in the Fenhe River Basin of northern China during the middle to Late Pleistocene	34
Climate and human impact on vegetation and fire in an arid Colorado Plateau ecosystem in Western North America	33
Long-term Holocene warming trend in Southern China revealed by corrected pollen data	33
Orbital-scale vegetation-ocean-atmosphere linkages in western Japan during the last 550 ka based on a pollen record from the IODP site U1427 in the Japan Sea	32
Comparison of Holocene temperature reconstructions based on GISP2 multiple-gas-isotope measurements	31
Holocene biome reconstruction on the Chinese loess plateau based on pollen	31
Provenance of Quaternary aeolian silts in western China and its spatial difference with source of the Yellow River sediments	31
Human consumption of carnivorans during Prehistory. The case of the Iberian Peninsula	31
Competing forces: Subsistence strategies and human-carnivore interactions during the middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Northern Iberia	30
Human-environment interactions in the Mesolithic – The case of site Paliwodzizna 29, a lakeside site in central Poland	30
RETRACTED: Delayed Western Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) ventilation in response to the onset of a Mid-Holocene climate oscillation	30

A two-centennial perspective on spatially compounding hydroclimate events in arid and semi-arid north China	30
A Holocene tephrochronological framework for Finland	30
Late-Holocene sea levels from vermetids and barnacles at Ponta do Papagaio, 27° 50′S latitude and a comparison with other sectors of southern Brazil	30
Weak precipitation δ2H response to large Holocene hydroclimate changes in eastern North America	28
Landscape evolution of the Bolivian Amazon controlled by uplift events dated 13,000, 10,000 and 6000 cal yr BP	28
A maximum rupture model for the central and southern Cascadia subduction zone—reassessing ages for coastal evidence of megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis	28
Tree-ring oxygen isotope across monsoon Asia: Common signal and local influence	28
What are the drivers of Caspian Sea level variation during the late Quaternary?	28