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Quaternary
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Quaternary

2571-550X

Published by: MDPI

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/quaternary

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 309 93 82 11
Environmental Sciences 527 17 22 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 139
Documents by Best Scientists*: 106
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 20
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.786
Impact Factor: 2.1

Top Publications

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity : Overview and Recommendations

    Eric Capo;Charline Giguet-Covex;Alexandra Rouillard;Kevin Nota

    (2021)
    223 Citations
  • A Review of Event Deposits in Lake Sediments

    Unknown

    (2022)
    126 Citations
  • On the Use of Spores of Coprophilous Fungi Preserved in Sediments to Indicate Past Herbivore Presence

    (2022)
    31 Citations
  • Reconstructing Paleoflood Occurrence and Magnitude from Lake Sediments

    (2022)
    28 Citations
  • Quaternary Permafrost in China: Framework and Discussions

    Huijun Jin;Jef Vandenberghe;Dongliang Luo;Stuart A. Harris

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • Prey Size Decline as a Unifying Ecological Selecting Agent in Pleistocene Human Evolution

    Miki Ben-Dor;Ran Barkai

    (2021)
    19 Citations
  • A Tale of Maize, Palm, and Pine: Changing Socio-Ecological Interactions from Pre-Classic Maya to the Present Day in Belize

    Elizabeth A. C. Rushton;Bronwen S. Whitney;Sarah E. Metcalfe

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Synchronous or Not? The Timing of the Younger Dryas and Greenland Stadial-1 Reviewed Using Tephrochronology

    (2022)
    18 Citations
  • Dating of the Lower Pleistocene Vertebrate Site of Tsiotra Vryssi (Mygdonia Basin, Greece): Biochronology, Magnetostratigraphy, and Cosmogenic Radionuclides

    George E. Konidaris;Dimitris S. Kostopoulos;Matteo Maron;Mirjam Schaller

    (2021)
    17 Citations

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