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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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	76
Revisiting the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Orce sites and the early Homo habitats in western Europe. A response to Palmqvist et al. (2022)	52
Editorial Board	46
Long-term Holocene warming trend in Southern China revealed by corrected pollen data	44
Comparison of Holocene temperature reconstructions based on GISP2 multiple-gas-isotope measurements	43
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	42
RETRACTED: Delayed Western Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) ventilation in response to the onset of a Mid-Holocene climate oscillation	42
Loess facies analysis and chronology to reconstruct morpho-sedimentary and palaeoclimatic evolution: A case study from the Belgian-Dutch Maas valley	39
Chronology and paleoclimatic context of hominin occupations in the Fenhe River Basin of northern China during the middle to Late Pleistocene	39
Human consumption of carnivorans during Prehistory. The case of the Iberian Peninsula	38
Landscape evolution of the Bolivian Amazon controlled by uplift events dated 13,000, 10,000 and 6000 cal yr BP	37
Geochemical relationships between shells of the gastropod Gyraulus convexiusculus and modern water bodies on the Tibetan Plateau, and their paleoenvironmental significance	36
Climate change during the Holocene in South Asia: A review study of Pakistan	36
Salt and pastoralism in the Protohistory of the Veneto	35
Formation conditions of coastal palaeolakes and associated abiotic aragonite deposition in the eastern Mediterranean during the upper Pleistocene	34
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	34
Environmental magnetism of late Holocene stalagmites from semi-arid karst in southern Australia	34
Weak precipitation δ2H response to large Holocene hydroclimate changes in eastern North America	33
Asymmetric evolution of incised-valley deposits in response to sea-level changes since the Penultimate Glacial Maximum, southeastern Korea	33
Human prey choice refutes “Levantine overkill”: Comment on Dembitzer et al. (2022)	32
Large-scale climatic drivers of bison distribution and abundance in North America since the Last Glacial Maximum	32
Distal tephras along the SE European margin date powerful explosive eruptions from the Elbrus volcanic center (Greater Caucasus)	32
Sedimentary stratigraphy and provenance off Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica) during the mid-Pleistocene transition: Implications for paleoclimate and ice dynamics	31
Stalagmite multi-proxy records of weak Asian summer monsoon interval during Termination III as an analogue to Termination I	31
Midwest North American full glacial paleohydrology from fresh water ostracodes: Comparison of Clementsian and Gleasonian methodologies	30

Stalagmite-inferred European westerly drift in the early Weichselian with centennial-scale variability in marine isotope stage 5a	30
Holocene paleolimnological changes in rundvågshetta lakes in the Soya Coast region and their paleoenvironmental significance with glacial isostatic adjustment in East Antarctica	30
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	30
Heliomagnetic and geomagnetic activity cycles on millennial timescales	29
The last 21,000 years of climate evolution in the South American Altiplano based on the CHELSA-TraCE21k transient simulation	29
Holocene trends in Nile Delta fire regimes driven by cropland expansion and reduced precipitation	29
Provenance of Quaternary aeolian silts in western China and its spatial difference with source of the Yellow River sediments	29