OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Quaternary Science Reviews is 29. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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	123
Editorial Board	77
Formation conditions of coastal palaeolakes and associated abiotic aragonite deposition in the eastern Mediterranean during the upper Pleistocene	68
Holocene biome reconstruction on the Chinese loess plateau based on pollen	59
Holocene paleolimnological changes in rundvågshetta lakes in the Soya Coast region and their paleoenvironmental significance with glacial isostatic adjustment in East Antarctica	56
A two-centennial perspective on spatially compounding hydroclimate events in arid and semi-arid north China	50
Asymmetric evolution of incised-valley deposits in response to sea-level changes since the Penultimate Glacial Maximum, southeastern Korea	50
Midwest North American full glacial paleohydrology from fresh water ostracodes: Comparison of Clementsian and Gleasonian methodologies	48
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	47
Provenance of aeolian sands from the southeastern Sahara from a detrital zircon perspective	46
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	41
Chronology and paleoclimatic context of hominin occupations in the Fenhe River Basin of northern China during the middle to Late Pleistocene	41
Stalagmite multi-proxy records of weak Asian summer monsoon interval during Termination III as an analogue to Termination I	40
Climate and human impact on vegetation and fire in an arid Colorado Plateau ecosystem in Western North America	38
Geochemical relationships between shells of the gastropod Gyraulus convexiusculus and modern water bodies on the Tibetan Plateau, and their paleoenvironmental significance	37
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	36
Tree-ring δ18O reveals thaw-buffered warming in northernmost permafrost regions of China	34
Revisiting the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Orce sites and the early Homo habitats in western Europe. A response to Palmqvist et al. (2022)	34
Competing forces: Subsistence strategies and human-carnivore interactions during the middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Northern Iberia	34
Stalagmite-inferred European westerly drift in the early Weichselian with centennial-scale variability in marine isotope stage 5a	32
Reconstraining the Quaternary glacial history of Lahaul Himalaya, northern India	31
The archaeology of human permanency on the Tibetan plateau: a critical review and assessment of current models	31
Chironomid-based Holocene summer temperature dynamics from southern Spain	30
Synoptic-scale precipitation events recorded by high-resolution intra-shell δ18O of land snail in the Asian monsoon marginal zone	30
The topographic features and sedimentary environment potentially influenced the vegetation reconstruction in southwestern China since the MIS3	30

Weak precipitation δ2H response to large Holocene hydroclimate changes in eastern North America	29
A Holocene tephrochronological framework for Finland	29
Climate change during the Holocene in South Asia: A review study of Pakistan	29
Heliomagnetic and geomagnetic activity cycles on millennial timescales	29