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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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	86
Editorial Board	70
Formation conditions of coastal palaeolakes and associated abiotic aragonite deposition in the eastern Mediterranean during the upper Pleistocene	62
Holocene paleolimnological changes in rundvågshetta lakes in the Soya Coast region and their paleoenvironmental significance with glacial isostatic adjustment in East Antarctica	60
Asymmetric evolution of incised-valley deposits in response to sea-level changes since the Penultimate Glacial Maximum, southeastern Korea	58
A two-centennial perspective on spatially compounding hydroclimate events in arid and semi-arid north China	53
Midwest North American full glacial paleohydrology from fresh water ostracodes: Comparison of Clementsian and Gleasonian methodologies	49
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	42
Provenance of aeolian sands from the southeastern Sahara from a detrital zircon perspective	41
Chronology and paleoclimatic context of hominin occupations in the Fenhe River Basin of northern China during the middle to Late Pleistocene	36
Multi-domain magnetic particles in speleothems as a proxy for past cave-stream flooding: A 33 kyr record from central North Island, Aotearoa New Zealand	36
Climate and human impact on vegetation and fire in an arid Colorado Plateau ecosystem in Western North America	35
Stalagmite multi-proxy records of weak Asian summer monsoon interval during Termination III as an analogue to Termination I	35
Tree-ring δ18O reveals thaw-buffered warming in northernmost permafrost regions of China	34
Wind(ow) of change: The end of the Middle Stone Age and the beginning of the Later Stone Age at Umhlatuzana rockshelter showcasing concurrent technological and techno-economic shifts	34
Salt and pastoralism in the Protohistory of the Veneto	33
Passage and removal of the Amundsen Gulf Ice Stream, NW Laurentide Ice Sheet, recorded by the glacial and sea level history of southern Banks Island, Arctic Canada	33
Quantifying quaternary climate variability in the Southern Caucasus using land snail shell isotope transfer functions and climatic niche modeling	32
Sedimentary stratigraphy and provenance off Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica) during the mid-Pleistocene transition: Implications for paleoclimate and ice dynamics	31
Ice cave palynology: A tool for reconstructing local vegetation history in the Austrian Alps	31
Revisiting the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Orce sites and the early Homo habitats in western Europe. A response to Palmqvist et al. (2022)	30
Reconstraining the Quaternary glacial history of Lahaul Himalaya, northern India	30
Heliomagnetic and geomagnetic activity cycles on millennial timescales	29
Loess facies analysis and chronology to reconstruct morpho-sedimentary and palaeoclimatic evolution: A case study from the Belgian-Dutch Maas valley	29
Holocene vegetation dynamics and anthropogenic imprints in the Chinese Loess Plateau: Insights from pollen records	29

Provenance of Quaternary aeolian silts in western China and its spatial difference with source of the Yellow River sediments	29
Synoptic-scale precipitation events recorded by high-resolution intra-shell δ18O of land snail in the Asian monsoon marginal zone	29
Human consumption of carnivorans during Prehistory. The case of the Iberian Peninsula	29
Temperature and precipitation source variability and glacial dynamics in the southwestern United States at Fish Lake, Utah, since late MIS 4	28
Competing forces: Subsistence strategies and human-carnivore interactions during the middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Northern Iberia	28
Human-environment interactions in the Mesolithic – The case of site Paliwodzizna 29, a lakeside site in central Poland	28
Holocene trends in Nile Delta fire regimes driven by cropland expansion and reduced precipitation	28