OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Holocene is 5. 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
Changing with the times: From agricultural potential to spatially explicit reconstructions of past land use	31
Settling dust sources: Clay minerals, ⁸⁷ Sr/ ⁸⁶ Sr and εNd in Petra (Jordan) and the northern Nege	24
Low-frequency patterns in Late-Holocene tree-ring records from northern Fennoscandia	23
Methodological refinement and cartography of environmental history scholarship: Intellectual trajectories, thematic evolution, and global dynamics (1968–2025)	20
Tracing the early dispersal of reindeer in southern Sweden: Chronology, habitat, and human interaction ( c . 12,000–7000 BCE)	20
Reconstruction of paleoclimate and ecosystem changes in Western Iran using cave sediments from the Mid-Holocene Epoch (Northgrippian Age)	19
Emergence of fibrecraft specialization 8000 years ago in early Neolithic North China	18
Leaving home: Technological and landscape knowledge as resilience at pre-Holocene Kharaneh IV, Azraq Basin, Jordan	17
The barn owl as an accumulator of bone remains in central western Argentina: multi-taxa neo-taphonomic approach and implications for Holocene contexts	17
Mid to Late-Holocene environmental dynamics recorded in Lake Pup Lagoon, East Antarctica: Insights from environmental magnetism and biogeochemical proxies	17
Holocene relative sea-level changes in northwest Ireland: An empirical test for glacial isostatic adjustment models	15
Spatial distribution and environmental significance of modern organic carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in the source area of the Yellow River: A case study of Gyaring Lake and Ngoring Lake	15
Unpacking ancient agricultural systems using chemotaxonomy to classify Poaceae pollen from Nar Gölü, Cappadocia, Türkiye	14
Vegetation dynamics and drivers of change in the Central Highlands of Madagascar during the last 6300 years: Pre- and post-human settlement	13
Holocene aeolian-fluvial interactions patterns and their response to climate changes in the Paiku Co basin, Southern Tibetan Plateau	13
Interaction of environmental change and social evolution in pre-industrial East Asia: An introduction to the special issue	13
In Memoriam: Alastair George Dawson (1952–2025)	13
SedaDNA shows that transhumance of domestic herbivores has enhanced plant diversity over the Holocene in the Eastern European Alps	12
Holocene capuchin-monkey stone tool deposits shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites from the Pleistocene of Brazil	12
A documentary record of earthquake-induced floods and risk assessment in the lower Yellow River during the past 700 years	12
Famine, disasters, and climate change: A case study of Jiangsu, China, in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 AD)	12
Legacy archaeology: Aboriginal subsistence response to Holocene environmental changes using faunal evidence from archaeological sites on the Lower Murray, South Australia	12
Tracing adaptive cycles and resilience strategies within the Sagalassos settlement record, SW Türkiye	11
A record of change in oyster environment through high-resolution geochemical analysis of Late-Holocene sediments from Coastal Ghana	11
Persistence of a wind-driven fire regime in Mediterranean France over the past 8200 years revealed by a marine paleoecological record	11

On the body mass of Cantabrian brown bears: Misinterpretation of data in Fidalgo et al. (2025)	11
Vegetation changes and sediment dynamics in the Lake Alaotra region, central Madagascar	11
Plant distribution and modern pollen deposition across an elevation eco-gradient: The lesson learnt from a case study in the Italian Alps	11
Small mammal records from Limay river basin (Northwestern Patagonia) in the Anthropocene from a taphonomical and paleoecological perspective	11
Remnant peat deposit provides clues to the inundated cultural landscapes of Kepa Kurl, southwestern Australia	11
Stages of palaeoenvironmental evolution, climate and sea level change of the Niger Delta, east Equatorial Atlantic: Novelty from elemental tracers, sedimentary facies and pollen records	11
Was calcareous tufa deposition related to the forest cover during the Holocene? A GIS investigation	10
Relative base level control on the evolution of a Holocene lagoon system and its impact on the interpretation of the relative sea level curve (southernmost Brazil)	10
Coastal flooding in Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) area, southern Baltic Sea, in the light of historical and geological data	10
Facing Early Bronze Age climate change in South East Arabia: New data from the hydraulic structures of Salūt-ST1, Central Oman: A geoarchaeological perspective	10
Flax use in ancient China: Archaeobotany evidence from the Northwest China	10
Carious lesions as evidence for different adaptation strategies during the middle-late Holocene in the Gansu region, northwest China	10
Climatic response of Juniperus monticola Martinez, a multi-century alpine shrub from the high mountains of central Mexico	10
Tracing climate and human-driven erosional activity in the Transylvania lowlands (Central-Eastern Europe) during the Holocene	10
Rapid laminated clastic alluviation associated with increased Little Ice Age flooding co-driven by climate variability and historic land-use in the middle Severn catchment, UK	9
Zooarchaeological perspectives in the framework of the Anthropocene: Contributions to ecological, environmental and conservation studies from South America	9
New crop stable isotope evidence reveals the impact of the 3.2 ka rapid climate event on arable agricultural production at late Bronze Age – Iron Age Hattuşa, Central Anatolia	9
Holocene book review: Caves: Processes, Development, and Management	9
Forest stability during the Holocene in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil revealed by small mammals from Gruta do Presépio	9
Holocene book review: Arctic Ecology	9
Comparison of simulated and proxy-based climate reconstructions for Mid-Holocene Europe reveals high uncertainty	9
Continuity and discontinuity at the burial site of Roonka, Murray Gorge, South Australia	9
Environmental magnetic records derived from lacustrine sediments in the Western Guangdong Province, China: Implications for Late-Holocene climatic/environmental changes	9
Late-Holocene fynbos-forest dynamics in Orange Kloof, Table Mountain National Park, South Africa	9
Diatom-based paleoproductivity and climate change record of the Gulf of Tehuantepec (Eastern Tropical Pacific) during the last ~500 years	9
Holocene climate–vegetation–land use interactions in the mesomediterranean coastlands of northern Greece	8
Historical grassland fire events in southern Germany investigated by soil charcoal content	8
An absolutely dated mid-Holocene English yew chronology offers new opportunities for archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research	8
3000 Years of past regional and local land-use and land-cover change in the southeastern Swedish coastal area: Early human-induced increases in landscape openness as a potential nutrient source to the	8
Reconstructing Late-Holocene relative sea level using mangrove sediments in Singapore	8
Using x-ray fluorescence to identify Mazama ash in the Lake Bonneville basin, Utah, USA	7
Intensified Late-Holocene aeolian activity in Vesterålen, northern Norway – increased storminess or human impact?	7
High-resolution water temperature and salinity evolutions and associated drivers of the North Yellow Sea during the Late-Holocene	7
Ostracod palaeolimnology as an indicator of past human–environment interactions in Chełm Hills, south-eastern Poland	7
Archival insights into vulnerability and risk management during the early Spanish colonial period (1598–1680 AD) in New Mexico	7
The role of fire disturbances, human activities and climate change for long-term forest dynamics in upper-montane forests of the central Dinaric Alps	7
High-resolution forest and fire dynamics from Fish Lake, New Brunswick, Canada, during the last millennium	7
An 11,000 year record of plant community stability and paludification in a patterned rich fen in northeastern Alberta, Canada	7
The evolution of meandering and anabranching rivers in postglacial and loess landscapes of Europe	7
Diversity patterns of plant functional types in the Holocene of Central India: A case study on the Lonar Crater Lake pollen record	7
Reconstruction of paleoclimatic changes in the Sebkha environment: A case study of Sebkha El-Guettiate (Southeast Tunisia)	7
Coprolite diversity from the archeological site Gruta Do Gentio Ll, Unaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil	7
Optically stimulated luminescence dating of Late Quaternary sediments in NW India: Insights into the Meghalayan drought and decline of Indus valley civilization	7
Archaeological and stable isotope data reveal patterns of fishing across the food web on California’s Channel Islands	7
Postglacial establishment and expansion of marginal populations of sugar maple in western Québec, Canada: Palynological detection and interactions with fire, climate and successional processes	7
A comprehensive exposure-age dating approach to interpreting complex glacial and periglacial landscapes: The landform mosaic of Alnesdalen, a Norwegian alpine drainage basin	6
Imprints of Holocene aridity variability in the Aegean Sea and interconnections with north-latitude areas	6
High resolution multi-proxy analyses document Mid to Late-Holocene environmental change in arid Marsabit County, northern Kenya, East Africa	6
Late Holocene rainfall dynamics in southeastern Brazil linked to monsoon variability: Terrigenous inputs and vegetation shifts influenced by the South Atlantic Convergence Zone activity	6
Marine shellfish exploitation as a means of reducing vulnerability to resource uncertainty in southern coastal Peru (200 BCE–150 CE)	6

MicroCT analysis reveals insights into the beginning of rice domestication in the Lower Yangtze during the 10th millennium BP	6
Biomarker insights into a methane-enriched Holocene peat-setting from “Doggerland” (central North Sea)	6
Micro-morphometry of cereal and non-cereal pollen using LM, CLSM and FESEM: Implications for past anthropogenic activities in the Central Ganga Plain India	6
Lack of data and misperception of open science limit the scope of Cantabrian brown bear body mass studies, not misinterpretation of results: Reply to comment by García-Vázquez (2025)	6
Youngest Iberian Holocene volcanic eruptions and paleoenvironmental evolution of a barrier-paleolake in the Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Spain)	6
Climatic and environmental changes since last deglaciation in the steppe region of northern China and their impact on early population survival patterns	6
Late-Holocene estuarine evolution influencing archeological wooden-pile sites, Bach Dang Estuary, Northern Vietnam	6
Corrigendum to “Reconstructing monsoon variability during the Late Holocene at Ia Bang Lake, Central Highlands of Vietnam”	6
Radiocarbon sampling efforts for high-precision lake sediment chronologies	6
Central Argentina vegetation characteristics linked to extinct megafauna and some implications on human populations	6
Initiation of delta formation and subsequent fluvial sedimentation in the upper delta plain: A case study from the Kiso River delta, central Japan	6
Geochemical records of mudflat sediments from southern Saurashtra, Western India: Implications for Holocene climate and global teleconnection	6
Different hydrological controls causing variable rates of Holocene peat growth in a lowland valley system, north-eastern Netherlands; implications for valley peatland restoration	6
Understanding long-term human ecodynamics through the lens of ecosystem collapse	6
The 4.2 ka BP event in western Anatolia: Tracing the impact of climatic change	6
Historical biogeographic range shifts and the influence of climate change on ocean quahogs ( Arctica islandica ) on the Mid-Atlantic Bight	6
Shell middens and soil terraces as archives of human-littoral interactions since the first settlement of northwestern Tenerife, the Canary Islands	6
A 1300-year multi-proxy palaeoecological record from the northwest Putorana Plateau (Russian Subarctic): environmental changes, vegetation dynamics and fire history	6
Diachronic evolution in subsistence strategies of ancient humans from the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age in the Western Liaohe River Basin and its influencing factors	6
Localised land-use and maize agriculture by the pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture in Lowland Bolivia	6
Holocene book review: Landscapes and Landforms of Scotland (World Geomorphological Landscapes book series)	5
Holocene glacial evolution in Quingaussarsuaq Peninsula (Central–West Greenland)	5
Disparate impacts of the Eldgjá and Laki flood-lava eruptions	5
The impact of volcanism on Scandinavian climate and human societies during the Holocene: Insights into the Fimbulwinter eruptions (536/540 AD)	5
The Global Humanization Event (GHE)	5
Lowstand lake conditions in NW Anatolia during the Little Ice Age: Multi-proxy evidence from Lake Sünnet	5
Archaeobotanical data from the Sabor Valley reveal shifting moments in landscape and agriculture in NW Iberia during the Holocene	5
Comparing the impact of live-tree versus historic-timber data on palaeoenvironmental inferences in tree-ring science, eastern North America	5
Mid- to Late-Holocene coastal morphological evolution, vegetation history and land-use changes of the Porto Gulf UNESCO World Heritage site and its surroundings (NW Corsica Island, Western Mediterrane	5
The geoarchaeological investigation on the defunctionalisation of an Assyrian canals system reveals Late-Holocene land use transitions in Northern Mesopotamia	5
Long-term shoreline evolution (Late-Holocene – 2018) of the Channel 15 coast (Samborombón bay, NE – Buenos Aires province, Argentina)	5
Changes in the vegetation and water cycle of the Ecuadorian páramo during the last 5000 years	5
Late-Holocene palaeoecological reconstruction of Southern Hemisphere Westerlies variability on Subantarctic Macquarie Island	5
An archaeobotanical and stable isotope approach to changing agricultural practices in the NW Mediterranean region around 4000 BC	5
Living with risk in drylands: Archaeological perspectives	5
Late-Holocene changes in vegetation composition and fire regimes in the subalpine western Nanling Mountains in subtropic China	5
Glacier retreat from the Little Ice Age to the year 2020 in the eastern sector of the Fuegian Andes, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	5
Holocene environmental evolution and its relationship with human culture in the Luoyang area, Central China	5
Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula	5
Holocene book review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error HannahMichael, Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021; 240 pp.: IS	5
A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE	5
Methodologies for the identification of historic forest pathogen dynamics	5
Increased North Atlantic dust deposition linked to Holocene Icelandic glacier fluctuations	5
Sources of coal remains from the Jartai Pass Site in Nilka County, Xinjiang, China	5
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph depositional patterns in Kaziranga National Park, India: Implications for palaeoecology and palaeoherbivory analysis	5
Hydrological changes and landform evolution since the Bølling-Allerød interstadial in the Eastern Great Rann of Kachchh, India	5
A Late-Holocene pollen record from the coastal Mkhuze swamp, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	5