OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Quaternary Science Reviews is 34. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex	202
Climate change, vegetation history, and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review	180
The origins of Amazonian landscapes: Plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America	83
Segmentation and supercycles: A catalog of earthquake rupture patterns from the Sumatran Sunda Megathrust and other well-studied faults worldwide	73
A data-model comparison pinpoints Holocene spatiotemporal pattern of East Asian summer monsoon	71
A proxy for all seasons? A synthesis of clumped isotope data from Holocene soil carbonates	60
The Zealandia Switch: Ice age climate shifts viewed from Southern Hemisphere moraines	59
Palaeoclimate perspectives on the Indian Ocean Dipole	58
Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies	58
The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: Temporal and spatial variation in an extraordinary extinct ecosystem of the Pleistocene of the Cape Floristic Region	58
Vegetation, climate and human impact since 20 ka in central Yunnan Province based on high-resolution pollen and charcoal records from Dianchi, southwestern China	57
Time marker of 137Cs fallout maximum in lake sediments of Northwest China	47
Paleoclimatic changes and modulation of East Asian summer monsoon by high-latitude forcing over the last 130,000 years as revealed by independently dated loess-paleosol sequences on the NE Tibetan Pla	47
Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia	47
The Southern Ocean during the ice ages: A review of the Antarctic surface isolation hypothesis, with comparison to the North Pacific	47
Sensitivity of altitudinal vegetation in southwest China to changes in the Indian summer monsoon during the past 68000 years	46
Temperature-induced dry climate in basins in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the early to middle Holocene	44
Quantitative precipitation reconstructions from Chagan Nur revealed lag response of East Asian summer monsoon precipitation to summer insolation during the Holocene in arid northern China	43
Geological and soil maps of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain for the Last Glacial Maximum	42
A complete Holocene lake sediment ancient DNA record reveals long-standing high Arctic plant diversity hotspot in northern Svalbard	41
Evolution of the Global Overturning Circulation since the Last Glacial Maximum based on marine authigenic neodymium isotopes	41
The early anthropogenic hypothesis: A review	41
Coastal GIA processes revealed by the early to middle Holocene sea-level history of east China	41
Describing a drowned Pleistocene ecosystem: Last Glacial Maximum vegetation reconstruction of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain	39
Late Holocene hydroclimatic variation in central Asia and its response to mid-latitude Westerlies and solar irradiance	38

Holocene lake-level fluctuations of Selin Co on the central Tibetan plateau: Regulated by monsoonal precipitation or meltwater?	38
A 24,000-year ancient DNA and pollen record from the Polar Urals reveals temporal dynamics of arctic and boreal plant communities	38
Quantifying the potential causes of Neanderthal extinction: Abrupt climate change versus competition and interbreeding	38
Increasing effective moisture during the Holocene in the semiarid regions of the Yili Basin, Central Asia: Evidence from loess sections	37
Last Glacial Maximum environmental conditions at Andøya, northern Norway; evidence for a northern ice-edge ecological “hotspot”	36
A critical assessment of human-impact indices based on anthropogenic pollen indicators	36
Paleoenvironments from robust loess stratigraphy using high-resolution color and grain-size data of the last glacial Krems-Wachtberg record (NE Austria)	35
The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa	35
Further evidence for bow hunting and its implications more than 60 000 years ago: Results of a use-trace analysis of the bone point from Klasies River Main site, South Africa	34
Sedimentary Pediastrum record of middle–late Holocene temperature change and its impacts on early human culture in the desert-oasis area of northwestern China	34