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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A modeling approach to estimate the historical population size of the Patagonian Kawésqar people	29
Leaving home: Technological and landscape knowledge as resilience at pre-Holocene Kharaneh IV, Azraq Basin, Jordan	27
Low-frequency patterns in Late-Holocene tree-ring records from northern Fennoscandia	27
Holocene relative sea-level changes in northwest Ireland: An empirical test for glacial isostatic adjustment models	22
The barn owl as an accumulator of bone remains in central western Argentina: multi-taxa neo-taphonomic approach and implications for Holocene contexts	19
Mid to Late-Holocene environmental dynamics recorded in Lake Pup Lagoon, East Antarctica: Insights from environmental magnetism and biogeochemical proxies	16
Emergence of fibrecraft specialization 8000 years ago in early Neolithic North China	16
Changing with the times: From agricultural potential to spatially explicit reconstructions of past land use	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
A record of change in oyster environment through high-resolution geochemical analysis of Late-Holocene sediments from Coastal Ghana	14
Holocene book review: Iceland: Classic Geology in Europe 3	13
Interaction of environmental change and social evolution in pre-industrial East Asia: An introduction to the special issue	13
Remnant peat deposit provides clues to the inundated cultural landscapes of Kepa Kurl, southwestern Australia	13
New insight into pattern divergence of the Indian summer monsoon during the Holocene	12
Small mammal records from Limay river basin (Northwestern Patagonia) in the Anthropocene from a taphonomical and paleoecological perspective	12
Holocene aeolian-fluvial interactions patterns and their response to climate changes in the Paiku Co basin, Southern Tibetan Plateau	12
Famine, disasters, and climate change: A case study of Jiangsu, China, in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 AD)	12
Holocene capuchin-monkey stone tool deposits shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites from the Pleistocene of Brazil	11
A documentary record of earthquake-induced floods and risk assessment in the lower Yellow River during the past 700 years	11
On the body mass of Cantabrian brown bears: Misinterpretation of data in Fidalgo et al. (2025)	11
Tracing adaptive cycles and resilience strategies within the Sagalassos settlement record, SW Türkiye	11
Legacy archaeology: Aboriginal subsistence response to Holocene environmental changes using faunal evidence from archaeological sites on the Lower Murray, South Australia	11
SedaDNA shows that transhumance of domestic herbivores has enhanced plant diversity over the Holocene in the Eastern European Alps	11
A multi-proxy Holocene palaeoenvironmental record of climate change and prehistoric human activity from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland	11
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

Vegetation dynamics and drivers of change in the Central Highlands of Madagascar during the last 6300 years: Pre- and post-human settlement	10
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	10
Continuity and discontinuity at the burial site of Roonka, Murray Gorge, South Australia	10
In Memorium: Alastair George Dawson (1952–2025)	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
Holocene book review: Caves: Processes, Development, and Management	10
Climatic response of Juniperus monticola Martinez, a multi-century alpine shrub from the high mountains of central Mexico	10
Flax use in ancient China: Archaeobotany evidence from the Northwest China	10
Persistence of a wind-driven fire regime in Mediterranean France over the past 8200 years revealed by a marine paleoecological record	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
Forest stability during the Holocene in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil revealed by small mammals from Gruta do Presépio	9
Burned phytoliths absorbing black carbon as a potential proxy for paleofire	9
Plant distribution and modern pollen deposition across an elevation eco-gradient: The lesson learnt from a case study in the Italian Alps	9
Vegetation changes and sediment dynamics in the Lake Alaotra region, central Madagascar	9
Holocene book review: Arctic Ecology	9
Environmental magnetic records derived from lacustrine sediments in the Western Guangdong Province, China: Implications for Late-Holocene climatic/environmental changes	9
Comparison of simulated and proxy-based climate reconstructions for Mid-Holocene Europe reveals high uncertainty	9
Forest ecosystem development in European nemoreal-boreal forest (NE Poland) over the last 2200 years: Impact of human activity and climate change	9
Coastal flooding in Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) area, southern Baltic Sea, in the light of historical and geological data	9
Tracing climate and human-driven erosional activity in the Transylvania lowlands (Central-Eastern Europe) during the Holocene	9
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	9
Zooarchaeological perspectives in the framework of the Anthropocene: Contributions to ecological, environmental and conservation studies from South America	9
Was calcareous tufa deposition related to the forest cover during the Holocene? A GIS investigation	9
Holocene relative sea-level changes in the eastern part of Pomeranian Bay and the Szczecin Lagoon, Southern Baltic Sea	8
Diatom-based paleoproductivity and climate change record of the Gulf of Tehuantepec (Eastern Tropical Pacific) during the last ~500 years	8
Late-Holocene fynbos-forest dynamics in Orange Kloof, Table Mountain National Park, South Africa	8
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	8
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
An 11,000 year record of plant community stability and paludification in a patterned rich fen in northeastern Alberta, Canada	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
Historical grassland fire events in southern Germany investigated by soil charcoal content	7
Reconstructing Late-Holocene relative sea level using mangrove sediments in Singapore	7
Reconstruction of paleoclimatic changes in the Sebkha environment: A case study of Sebkha El-Guettiate (Southeast Tunisia)	7
Modern analogs for understanding pollen-vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean)	7
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
Holocene climate–vegetation–land use interactions in the mesomediterranean coastlands of northern Greece	7
Coprolite diversity from the archeological site Gruta Do Gentio Ll, Unaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil	7
Early Holocene palaeoceanographic and glaciological changes in southeast Greenland	6
Ostracod palaeolimnology as an indicator of past human–environment interactions in Chełm Hills, south-eastern Poland	6
The evolution of meandering and anabranching rivers in postglacial and loess landscapes of Europe	6
Shell middens and soil terraces as archives of human-littoral interactions since the first settlement of northwestern Tenerife, the Canary Islands	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
Archaeological and stable isotope data reveal patterns of fishing across the food web on California’s Channel Islands	6
High-resolution forest and fire dynamics from Fish Lake, New Brunswick, Canada, during the last millennium	6
High-resolution water temperature and salinity evolutions and associated drivers of the North Yellow Sea during the Late-Holocene	6
MicroCT analysis reveals insights into the beginning of rice domestication in the Lower Yangtze during the 10th millennium BP	6
Central Argentina vegetation characteristics linked to extinct megafauna and some implications on human populations	6
Youngest Iberian Holocene volcanic eruptions and paleoenvironmental evolution of a barrier-paleolake in the Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Spain)	6

Archival insights into vulnerability and risk management during the early Spanish colonial period (1598–1680 AD) in New Mexico	6
Diversity patterns of plant functional types in the Holocene of Central India: A case study on the Lonar Crater Lake pollen record	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
Holocene book review	6
Climatic and environmental changes since last deglaciation in the steppe region of northern China and their impact on early population survival patterns	6
Glacier retreat from the Little Ice Age to the year 2020 in the eastern sector of the Fuegian Andes, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	5
The Global Humanization Event (GHE)	5
Geochemical records of mudflat sediments from southern Saurashtra, Western India: Implications for Holocene climate and global teleconnection	5
A 1300-year multi-proxy palaeoecological record from the northwest Putorana Plateau (Russian Subarctic): environmental changes, vegetation dynamics and fire history	5
Biomarker insights into a methane-enriched Holocene peat-setting from “Doggerland” (central North Sea)	5
Increased North Atlantic dust deposition linked to Holocene Icelandic glacier fluctuations	5
Late-Holocene changes in vegetation composition and fire regimes in the subalpine western Nanling Mountains in subtropic China	5
Evidence for the Little Ice Age in upland northwestern Europe: Multiproxy climate data from three blanket mires in northern England	5
An archaeobotanical and stable isotope approach to changing agricultural practices in the NW Mediterranean region around 4000 BC	5
Sources of coal remains from the Jartai Pass Site in Nilka County, Xinjiang, China	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
Historical biogeographic range shifts and the influence of climate change on ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) on the Mid-Atlantic Bight	5
Understanding long-term human ecodynamics through the lens of ecosystem collapse	5
The 4.2 ka BP event in western Anatolia: Tracing the impact of climatic change	5
Archaeobotanical data from the Sabor Valley reveal shifting moments in landscape and agriculture in NW Iberia during the Holocene	5
Imprints of Holocene aridity variability in the Aegean Sea and interconnections with north-latitude areas	5
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph depositional patterns in Kaziranga National Park, India: Implications for palaeoecology and palaeoherbivory analysis	5
Methodologies for the identification of historic forest pathogen dynamics	5
Lowstand lake conditions in NW Anatolia during the Little Ice Age: Multi-proxy evidence from Lake Sünnet	5
Radiocarbon sampling efforts for high-precision lake sediment chronologies	5
Marine shellfish exploitation as a means of reducing vulnerability to resource uncertainty in southern coastal Peru (200 BCE–150 CE)	5
Localised land-use and maize agriculture by the pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture in Lowland Bolivia	5
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)	5
Living with risk in drylands: Archaeological perspectives	5
Holocene histories of biome stability in northern Amazonian savannas	4
Mediterranean-like “fall dump” events in the Baltic Sea	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
Regional and local drivers of vegetation and humidity dynamics in Western Siberia during the Holocene: A case study of Mukhrino mire	4
The geoarchaeological investigation on the defunctionalisation of an Assyrian canals system reveals Late-Holocene land use transitions in Northern Mesopotamia	4
Ötzi, 30 years on: A reappraisal of the depositional and post-depositional history of the find	4
A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE	4
Long-term shoreline evolution (Late-Holocene – 2018) of the Channel 15 coast (Samborombón bay, NE – Buenos Aires province, Argentina)	4
Comparing the impact of live-tree versus historic-timber data on palaeoenvironmental inferences in tree-ring science, eastern North America	4
Building resilience from risk: Interactions across ENSO, local environment, and farming systems on the desert north coast of Peru (1100BC–AD1460)	4
Tracking fire activity and post-fire limnological responses using the varved sedimentary sequence of Lake Jaczno, Poland	4
Late-Holocene changes in vegetation and fire within a forest refuge in the Araripe region, northeastern Brazil	4
Managing wilderness? Holocene-scale, human-related disturbance dynamics as revealed in a remote, forested area in the Czech Republic	4
Late Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Northern Greater Caucasus (Russia) inferred from ¹⁰ Be cosmic ray exposure moraine dating	4
Holocene seasonal temperature reconstruction based on branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) records from different regions in China	4
Paleoenvironmental study of the Late Preclassic period in the Northern Mesoamerican Frontier	4
Plant dependency and risk management in the Andean Puna during the Mid to Late-Holocene	4
Inter-annual and intra-annual tree-ring oxygen isotope signals in response to monsoon rainfall in northwestern Thailand	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
Changes in the vegetation and water cycle of the Ecuadorian páramo during the last 5000 years	4
The impact of volcanism on Scandinavian climate and human societies during the Holocene: Insights into the Fimbulwinter eruptions (536/540 AD)	4
A high-resolution record of Mid- to Late-Holocene environmental changes from a land-locked lake in Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica	4
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	4
Evaluating the Indian Summer Monsoon intensity using archeological seeds from early–late historic Vidarbha, Central India	4
ENSO-related centennial and millennial-scale hydroclimate changes recorded from Lake Xiaolongchi in arid Central Asia over the past 8000 years	4
Alluvial-lacustrine record of Mid- to Late-Holocene moisture variations trend verified by multiple proxies in the middle and lower reaches of the Hutubi River, northwest China	4
Hydrological changes and landform evolution since the Bølling-Allerød interstadial in the Eastern Great Rann of Kachchh, India	4
Holocene chemostratigraphy of spring sediments in Range Creek Canyon, Utah, USA	4
Local-scale environmental gradients in ‘snail-shell’ stable isotopes from Holocene Jordanian archaeological sites	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
Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula	4
Following the spores: insights from mosses, pollen traps, and dung into coprophilous fungal spore deposition	4
Holocene book review: Landscapes and Landforms of Scotland (World Geomorphological Landscapes book series)	4
Human-vegetation dynamics in Holocene south-eastern Norway based on radiocarbon dated charcoal from archaeological excavations	4
Disparate impacts of the Eldgjá and Laki flood-lava eruptions	4
Holocene environmental evolution and its relationship with human culture in the Luoyang area, Central China	4
Archaeobotanical evidence of plant cultivation from the Sanbaopi site in south-western Taiwan during the Late Neolithic and Metal Age	4
Wildfire-induced soil erosion in northern Finland watersheds	4
Serving red rice beer to the ancestors ca. 9000 years ago at Xiaohuangshan early Neolithic site in south China	4
Late-Holocene paleomagnetic secular variation records from Lake Turkana, East Equatorial Africa	4