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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The origins of Amazonian landscapes: Plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America	91
A data-model comparison pinpoints Holocene spatiotemporal pattern of East Asian summer monsoon	79
Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies	71
The Zealandia Switch: Ice age climate shifts viewed from Southern Hemisphere moraines	69
The Southern Ocean during the ice ages: A review of the Antarctic surface isolation hypothesis, with comparison to the North Pacific	60
A 24,000-year ancient DNA and pollen record from the Polar Urals reveals temporal dynamics of arctic and boreal plant communities	46
Sedimentary Pediastrum record of middle–late Holocene temperature change and its impacts on early human culture in the desert-oasis area of northwestern China	45
Holocene lake-level fluctuations of Selin Co on the central Tibetan plateau: Regulated by monsoonal precipitation or meltwater?	44
The variable European Little Ice Age	39
Middle Holocene Indian summer monsoon variability and its impact on cultural changes in the Indian subcontinent	39
Quantification of temperature and precipitation changes in northern China during the “5000-year” Chinese History	38
Paleoenvironments from robust loess stratigraphy using high-resolution color and grain-size data of the last glacial Krems-Wachtberg record (NE Austria)	37
Lake-level history of Qinghai Lake on the NE Tibetan Plateau and its implications for Asian monsoon pattern - A review	36
Postglacial history of the Steppe Altai: Climate, fire and plant diversity	36
Century scale rainfall in the absolute Atacama Desert: Landscape response and implications for past and future rainfall	36
The large MIS 4 and long MIS 2 glacier maxima on the southern tip of South America	35
Variation in hunting weaponry for more than 300,000 years: A tip cross-sectional area study of Middle Stone Age points from southern Africa	35
Levantine overkill: 1.5 million years of hunting down the body size distribution	33
A maximum in global glacier extent during MIS 4	33
A Holocene relative sea-level database for the Baltic Sea	33
Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene climate history in the Guadix-Baza Basin, and the environmental conditions of early Homo dispersal in Europe	32
Climate changes in Northeastern Brazil from deglacial to Meghalayan periods and related environmental impacts	31
Geochemical and sedimentological responses of arctic glacial Lake Ilirney, chukotka (far east Russia) to palaeoenvironmental change since ∼51.8 ka BP	31
Progress and uncertainties in global and hemispheric temperature reconstructions of the Common Era	31
Abrupt last glacial dust fall over southeast England associated with dynamics of the British-Irish ice sheet	30

The extinction of the giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris and a reappraisal of the Epivillafranchian and Galerian Hyaenidae in Europe: Faunal turnover during the Early–Middle Pleistocene Transition	29
The coastal migration theory: Formulation and testable hypotheses	29
Forty-thousand years of maritime subsistence near a changing shoreline on Alor Island (Indonesia)	28
Ancient sedimentary DNA shows rapid post-glacial colonisation of Iceland followed by relatively stable vegetation until the Norse settlement (Landnám) AD 870	28