OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Holocene is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Leaving home: Technological and landscape knowledge as resilience at pre-Holocene Kharaneh IV, Azraq Basin, Jordan	42
Changing with the times: From agricultural potential to spatially explicit reconstructions of past land use	32
Holocene relative sea-level changes in northwest Ireland: An empirical test for glacial isostatic adjustment models	22
Mid to Late-Holocene environmental dynamics recorded in Lake Pup Lagoon, East Antarctica: Insights from environmental magnetism and biogeochemical proxies	22
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	20
Low-frequency patterns in Late-Holocene tree-ring records from northern Fennoscandia	18
Paleoparasitological study of Holocene South American camelids (ca. 8970–470 years ¹⁴C BP) from an archaeological site, Southern Puna of Argentina (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca)	17
A modeling approach to estimate the historical population size of the Patagonian Kawésqar people	16
Records of sea-level highstand over the Meghalayan age/late Holocene from uranium-series ages of beachrock in Weizhou Island, northern South China Sea	15
The barn owl as an accumulator of bone remains in central western Argentina: multi-taxa neo-taphonomic approach and implications for Holocene contexts	15
Emergence of fibrecraft specialization 8000 years ago in early Neolithic North China	15
Holocene capuchin-monkey stone tool deposits shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites from the Pleistocene of Brazil	14
A record of change in oyster environment through high-resolution geochemical analysis of Late-Holocene sediments from Coastal Ghana	14
Legacy archaeology: Aboriginal subsistence response to Holocene environmental changes using faunal evidence from archaeological sites on the Lower Murray, South Australia	13
A multi-proxy Holocene palaeoenvironmental record of climate change and prehistoric human activity from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland	13
New insight into pattern divergence of the Indian summer monsoon during the Holocene	13
Vegetation dynamics and drivers of change in the Central Highlands of Madagascar during the last 6300 years: Pre- and post-human settlement	12
Remnant peat deposit provides clues to the inundated cultural landscapes of Kepa Kurl, southwestern Australia	12
Small mammal records from Limay river basin (Northwestern Patagonia) in the Anthropocene from a taphonomical and paleoecological perspective	12
Tracing adaptive cycles and resilience strategies within the Sagalassos settlement record, SW Türkiye	11
Interaction of environmental change and social evolution in pre-industrial East Asia: An introduction to the special issue	11
Holocene aeolian-fluvial interactions patterns and their response to climate changes in the Paiku Co basin, Southern Tibetan Plateau	10
Holocene book review: Iceland: Classic Geology in Europe 3	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
SedaDNA shows that transhumance of domestic herbivores has enhanced plant diversity over the Holocene in the Eastern European Alps	10

Plant distribution and modern pollen deposition across an elevation eco-gradient: The lesson learnt from a case study in the Italian Alps	10
A new Holocene sea-level record for Singapore	9
Coastal flooding in Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) area, southern Baltic Sea, in the light of historical and geological data	9
Continuity and discontinuity at the burial site of Roonka, Murray Gorge, South Australia	9
Tracing climate and human-driven erosional activity in the Transylvania lowlands (Central-Eastern Europe) during the Holocene	9
Forest ecosystem development in European nemoreal-boreal forest (NE Poland) over the last 2200 years: Impact of human activity and climate change	9
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	9
Late-Holocene landscape evolution and human presence in the northern Danube delta (Chilia distributary lobes)	9
Late-Holocene advances of the Greater Azau Glacier (Elbrus area, Northern Caucasus) revealed by ¹⁴C dating of paleosols	9
Carious lesions as evidence for different adaptation strategies during the middle-late Holocene in the Gansu region, northwest China	9
Climatic response of Juniperus monticola Martinez, a multi-century alpine shrub from the high mountains of central Mexico	9
Vegetation changes and sediment dynamics in the Lake Alaotra region, central Madagascar	9
Late-Holocene: Cooler or warmer?	9
Holocene book review: Caves: Processes, Development, and Management	9
Holocene book review: A Practical Guide to the Study of Glacial Sediments	9
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	8
Modern analogs for understanding pollen-vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean)	8
Holocene book review: Arctic Ecology	8
The need for paleoflood investigations on the American reach of the Red River of the North	8
Zooarchaeological perspectives in the framework of the Anthropocene: Contributions to ecological, environmental and conservation studies from South America	8
Environmental magnetic records derived from lacustrine sediments in the Western Guangdong Province, China: Implications for Late-Holocene climatic/environmental changes	8
Solar-type periodicities in the climate variability of Northern Fennoscandia during the last three centuries: Real influence of solar activity or natural instability in the climate system	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
Forest stability during the Holocene in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil revealed by small mammals from Gruta do Presépio	8
Late-Holocene fynbos-forest dynamics in Orange Kloof, Table Mountain National Park, South Africa	8
Diatom-based paleoproductivity and climate change record of the Gulf of Tehuantepec (Eastern Tropical Pacific) during the last ~500 years	8
Basin-specific records of lake oligotrophication during the middle-to-late Holocene in boreal northeast Ontario, Canada	8
Burned phytoliths absorbing black carbon as a potential proxy for paleofire	7
Modern pollen–climate relationships and their application for pollen-based quantitative climate reconstruction of the mid-Holocene on the southern Korean Peninsula	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
MicroCT analysis reveals insights into the beginning of rice domestication in the Lower Yangtze during the 10th millennium BP	7
Intensified Late-Holocene aeolian activity in Vesterålen, northern Norway – increased storminess or human impact?	7
Holocene climate–vegetation–land use interactions in the mesomediterranean coastlands of northern Greece	7
An 11,000 year record of plant community stability and paludification in a patterned rich fen in northeastern Alberta, Canada	7
A quantitative synthesis of Holocene vegetation change in Nigeria (Western Africa)	7
Central Argentina vegetation characteristics linked to extinct megafauna and some implications on human populations	7
Holocene relative sea-level changes in the eastern part of Pomeranian Bay and the Szczecin Lagoon, Southern Baltic Sea	7
Coprolite diversity from the archeological site Gruta Do Gentio Ll, Unaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil	7
Diversity patterns of plant functional types in the Holocene of Central India: A case study on the Lonar Crater Lake pollen record	7
The response of diatom assemblages in a Jamaican coastal lagoon to hurricane and drought activity over the past millennium	7
Archival insights into vulnerability and risk management during the early Spanish colonial period (1598–1680 AD) in New Mexico	6
High-resolution water temperature and salinity evolutions and associated drivers of the North Yellow Sea during the Late-Holocene	6
Bulls for sacrifice, cows for work? Morphometric models suggest that female cattle were used for traction in the Chinese Bronze Age Late Shang dynasty (ca. 1300–1046 BCE)	6
Book review: Laurent Testot, Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity	6
Early Holocene palaeoceanographic and glaciological changes in southeast Greenland	6
The evolution of meandering and anabranching rivers in postglacial and loess landscapes of Europe	6
Archaeological and stable isotope data reveal patterns of fishing across the food web on California’s Channel Islands	6
Ostracod palaeolimnology as an indicator of past human–environment interactions in Chełm Hills, south-eastern Poland	6
Mid- to late-Holocene sea-level evolution of the northeastern Aegean sea	6
Postglacial establishment and expansion of marginal populations of sugar maple in western Québec, Canada: Palynological detection and interactions with fire, climate and successional processes	6

Analysis of relationship between soil erosion and lake deposition during the Holocene in Xingyun Lake, southwestern China	6
Climatic and environmental changes since last deglaciation in the steppe region of northern China and their impact on early population survival patterns	5
Different hydrological controls causing variable rates of Holocene peat growth in a lowland valley system, north-eastern Netherlands; implications for valley peatland restoration	5
Biomarker insights into a methane-enriched Holocene peat-setting from “Doggerland” (central North Sea)	5
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	5
Archaeobotanical data from the Sabor Valley reveal shifting moments in landscape and agriculture in NW Iberia during the Holocene	5
Geochemical records of mudflat sediments from southern Saurashtra, Western India: Implications for Holocene climate and global teleconnection	5
An archaeobotanical and stable isotope approach to changing agricultural practices in the NW Mediterranean region around 4000 BC	5
Holocene book review	5
The impact of volcanism on Scandinavian climate and human societies during the Holocene: Insights into the Fimbulwinter eruptions (536/540 AD)	5
A 1300-year multi-proxy palaeoecological record from the northwest Putorana Plateau (Russian Subarctic): environmental changes, vegetation dynamics and fire history	5
Radiocarbon sampling efforts for high-precision lake sediment chronologies	5
Imprints of Holocene aridity variability in the Aegean Sea and interconnections with north-latitude areas	5
The 4.2 ka BP event in western Anatolia: Tracing the impact of climatic change	5
Lowstand lake conditions in NW Anatolia during the Little Ice Age: Multi-proxy evidence from Lake Sünnet	5
Historical biogeographic range shifts and the influence of climate change on ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) on the Mid-Atlantic Bight	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
Understanding long-term human ecodynamics through the lens of ecosystem collapse	5
Late-Holocene relative sea-level changes and palaeoenvironment of the Pre-Viking Age ship burials in Salme, Saaremaa Island, eastern Baltic Sea	5
Late-Holocene changes in vegetation composition and fire regimes in the subalpine western Nanling Mountains in subtropic China	5
Marine shellfish exploitation as a means of reducing vulnerability to resource uncertainty in southern coastal Peru (200 BCE–150 CE)	5
Evidence for the Little Ice Age in upland northwestern Europe: Multiproxy climate data from three blanket mires in northern England	5
Youngest Iberian Holocene volcanic eruptions and paleoenvironmental evolution of a barrier-paleolake in the Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Spain)	5
Living with risk in drylands: Archaeological perspectives	5
Holocene book review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	4
The Global Humanization Event (GHE)	4
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	4
Holocene histories of biome stability in northern Amazonian savannas	4
Half of the soil erosion in the Alps during the Holocene is explained by transient erosion crises as a consequence of rapid human land clearing	4
Tracking fire activity and post-fire limnological responses using the varved sedimentary sequence of Lake Jaczno, Poland	4
Archaeobotanical evidence of plant cultivation from the Sanbaopi site in south-western Taiwan during the Late Neolithic and Metal Age	4
A high-resolution record of Mid- to Late-Holocene environmental changes from a land-locked lake in Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica	4
Comparing the impact of live-tree versus historic-timber data on palaeoenvironmental inferences in tree-ring science, eastern North America	4
Aboriginal earth mounds of the Calperum Floodplain (Murray Darling Basin, South Australia): New radiocarbon dates, sediment analyses and syntheses, and implications for behavioural change	4
Long-term shoreline evolution (Late-Holocene – 2018) of the Channel 15 coast (Samborombón bay, NE – Buenos Aires province, Argentina)	4
Human-vegetation dynamics in Holocene south-eastern Norway based on radiocarbon dated charcoal from archaeological excavations	4
Tree line shifts, changing vegetation assemblages and permafrost dynamics on Galdhøpiggen (Jotunheimen, Norway) over the past ~4400 years	4
Holocene hydroclimate changes in continental Croatia recorded in speleothem δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O from Nova Grgosova Cave	4
Changes in the vegetation and water cycle of the Ecuadorian páramo during the last 5000 years	4
Modern pollen – vegetation – plant diversity relationships across large environmental gradients in northern Greece	4
Building resilience from risk: Interactions across ENSO, local environment, and farming systems on the desert north coast of Peru (1100BC–AD1460)	4
Holocene Book Review: The Earliest Europeans – A Year in the Life: Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic	4
Grass phytoliths in surface sediments of the Sunderbans, India and their implications in reconstructing past deltaic environmental changes	4
Helminth infection and human mobility in sambaquis: Paleoparasitological, paleogenetic, and microremains investigations in Jabuticabeira II, Brazil (2890 ± 55 to 1805 ± 65 BP)	4
Holocene seasonal temperature reconstruction based on branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) records from different regions in China	4
Holocene book review: Landscapes and Landforms of Scotland (World Geomorphological Landscapes book series)	4
A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE	4
Disparate impacts of the Eldgjá and Laki flood-lava eruptions	4
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction in La Paz Bay, Gulf of California: Evidence from δ¹⁸O in Chione californiensis	4
Methodologies for the identification of historic forest pathogen dynamics	4
Environmental change and the timing of the settlement of the Bronze Age Andronovo culture, in far northwest Xinjiang, China	4
Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula	4
Synergy between climate and human land-use maintained open vegetation in southwest Madagascar over the last millennium	4
Paleogeographic conditions of human habitation on the Karelian coast of the White Sea in the Late-Holocene (Chupa Town, Karelia, Russia)	4
Local-scale environmental gradients in ‘snail-shell’ stable isotopes from Holocene Jordanian archaeological sites	4
Plant dependency and risk management in the Andean Puna during the Mid to Late-Holocene	4
Holocene environmental evolution and its relationship with human culture in the Luoyang area, Central China	4
Inter-annual and intra-annual tree-ring oxygen isotope signals in response to monsoon rainfall in northwestern Thailand	4
Development and degradation of a submontane forest in the Beskid Wyspowy Mountains (Polish Western Carpathians) during the Holocene	4
The geoarchaeological investigation on the defunctionalisation of an Assyrian canals system reveals Late-Holocene land use transitions in Northern Mesopotamia	4
Increased North Atlantic dust deposition linked to Holocene Icelandic glacier fluctuations	4