OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Physical Anthropology is 8. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States	58
The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene	46
Skin color and race	40
Three‐dimensional surface scanning methods in osteology: A topographical and geometric morphometric comparison	39
The need to incorporate human variation and evolutionary theory in forensic anthropology: A call for reform	37
How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics	36
Indigenous data sovereignties and data sharing in biological anthropology	32
P > .05: The incorrect interpretation of “not significant” results is a significant problem	31
A guide for an anatomically sensitive dentine microsampling and age‐alignment approach for human teeth isotopic sequences	31
A paleoepidemiological approach to the osteological paradox: Investigating stress, frailty and resilience through cribra orbitalia	31
Cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis are associated with respiratory infections in a contemporary mortality sample from New Mexico	30
Leveraging genetic ancestry to study health disparities	26
Understanding racism in physical (biological) anthropology	25
Sex estimation of teeth at different developmental stages using dimorphic enamel peptide analysis	25
Morphological variants of silent bared‐teeth displays have different social interaction outcomes in crested macaques (Macaca nigra)	24
Survival analysis of the Black Death: Social inequality of women and the perils of life and death in Medieval London	24
Shared paternal ancestry of Han, Tai‐Kadai‐speaking, and Austronesian‐speaking populations as revealed by the high resolution phylogeny of O1a‐M119 and distribution of its sub‐li	23
Life history and socioecology of infancy	22
morphomap: An R package for long bone landmarking, cortical thickness, and cross‐sectional geometry mapping	22
An epidemiological approach to the analysis of cribra orbitalia as an indicator of health status and mortality in medieval and post‐medieval London under a model of parasitic infection	21
Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology	21
Arothron: An R package for geometric morphometric methods and virtual anthropology applications	21
Systemic racism can get under our skin and into our genes	21
Chemosteometric regression models of heat exposed human bones to determine their pre‐burnt metric dimensions	20
The “weanling's dilemma” revisited: Evolving bodies of evidence and the problem of infant paleodietary interpretation	19

The Neolithic Pitted Ware culture foragers were culturally but not genetically influenced by the Battle Axe culture herders	19
Ontogenetic changes in femoral cross‐sectional geometry during childhood locomotor development	19
Blurred time resolution of tooth dentin serial sections	18
Kinetics of stone tool production among novice and expert tool makers	18
Biological anthropology's critical engagement with genomics, evolution, race/racism, and ourselves: Opportunities and challenges to making a difference in the academy and the world	17
Gendered division of labor in a Celtic community? A comparison of sex differences in entheseal changes and long bone shape and robusticity in the pre‐Roman population of Verona (Italy, thir	17
Skeletal evidence of structural violence among undocumented migrants from Mexico and Central America	17
Tooth chipping prevalence and patterns in extant primates	17
Janus‐faced race: Is race biological, social, or mythical?	17
Early life stress and HPA axis function independently predict adult depressive symptoms in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines	17
Independent associations of women's age at marriage and first pregnancy with their height in rural lowland Nepal	16
Sex differences in daily activity intensity and energy expenditure and their relationship to cortisol among BaYaka foragers from the Congo Basin	16
Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers	16
Ancestry, health, and lived experiences of enslaved Africans in 18th century Charleston: An osteobiographical analysis	16
Exploring late Paleolithic and Mesolithic diet in the Eastern Alpine region of Italy through multiple proxies	15
An inconstant biorhythm: The changing pace of Retzius periodicity in human permanent teeth	15
New insights on Neolithic food and mobility patterns in Mediterranean coastal populations	15
Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past	15
A geometric morphometric approach to the study of sexual dimorphism in the modern human frontal bone	14
Gorilla calcaneal morphological variation and ecological divergence	14
Ring‐tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) use olfaction to locate distant fruit	14
A critical assessment of the potential for Structure‐from‐Motion photogrammetry to produce high fidelity 3D dental models	14
Did Neandertals have large brains? Factors affecting endocranial volume comparisons	14
Seasonal variability in the diet and feeding ecology of black‐and‐white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) in Ranomafana National Park, southeastern Madagascar	14
The evolution of social philopatry in female primates	13
Biocultural evidence of precise manual activities in an Early Holocene individual of the high‐altitude Peruvian Andes	13
Comparing semi‐landmarking approaches for analyzing three‐dimensional cranial morphology	13
Conceptual issues in hominin taxonomy: Homo heidelbergensis and an ethnobiological reframing of species	13
Sahelian pastoralism from the perspective of variants associated with lactase persistence	13
Combinations of trabecular and cortical bone properties distinguish various loading modalities between athletes and controls	13
Developmental transitions in body color in chacma baboon infants: Implications to estimate age and developmental pace	12
Post‐last glacial maximum expansion of Y‐chromosome haplogroup C2a‐L1373 in northern Asia and its implications for the origin of Native Americans	12
The biological index of frailty: A new index for the assessment of frailty in human skeletal remains	12
Female reproductive energetics in mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata): A follow‐up study	12
Race, eugenics, and the canceling of great scientists	12
Troubles in Tuva: Patterns of perimortem trauma in a nomadic community from Southern Siberia (second to fourth c. CE)	11
The character of conflict: A bioarchaeological study of violence in the Nasca highlands of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (950–1450 C.E.)	11
Five thousand years of bellyaches: Exploring boron concentration in ancient populations of the Atacama Desert	11
A comparison of subadult skeletal and dental development based on living and deceased samples	11
Medieval injuries: Skeletal trauma as an indicator of past living conditions and hazard risk in Cambridge, England	11
Population genetics of wild Macaca fascicularis with low‐coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens	11
Lack of biological mortality bias in the timing of dental formation in contemporary children: Implications for the study of past populations	10
Evidence for a sensitive period of plasticity in brown adipose tissue during early childhood among indigenous Siberians	10
An outbreak of relapsing fever unmasked by microbial paleoserology, 16th century, France	10
Evaluation of the auricular surface method for subadult sex estimation on Italian modern (19th to 20th century) identified skeletal collections	10
Assessing thoraco‐pelvic covariation in Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes: A 3D geometric morphometric approach	10
The constraints of racialization: How classification and valuation hinder scientific research on human variation	10
Estimation of adult age‐at‐death from entheseal robusticity: A test using an identified Italian skeletal collection	10
Secular change in morphological cranial and mandibular trait frequencies in European Americans born 1824–1987	9
The ontogeny of termite gathering among chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo	9

New mitogenomic lineages in Papio baboons and their phylogeographic implications	9
Ontogenetic changes of diploic channels in modern humans	9
The 1918 influenza pandemic did not accelerate tuberculosis mortality decline in early‐20th century Newfoundland: Investigating historical and social explanations	9
Dimorphism in dental tissues: Sex differences in archaeological individuals for multiple tooth types	9
A multi‐isotope, multi‐tissue study of colonial origins and diet in New Zealand	9
Exploring directional and fluctuating asymmetry in the human palate during growth	9
Increased dental fluctuating asymmetry is associated with active skeletal lesions, but not mortality hazards in the precontact Southwest United States	9
Genetic landscape of Gullah African Americans	8
Are entheseal changes and cross‐sectional properties associated with the shape of the upper limb?	8
Dietary changes across time: Studying the indigenous period of La Gomera using δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating	8
Ancient DNA reveals two paternal lineages C2a1a1b1a/F3830 and C2b1b/F845 in past nomadic peoples distributed on the Mongolian Plateau	8
A comparison of axial trunk rotation during bipedal walking between humans and Japanese macaques	8
The accuracy of age estimation using transition analysis in the Hamann‐Todd collection	8
Utilizing auxology to understand ontogeny of extinct hominins: A case study on Homo naledi	8
Skin deep: The decoupling of genetic admixture levels from phenotypes that differed between source populations	8
Migration and maize in the Virú Valley: Understanding life histories through multi‐tissue carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and strontium isotope analyses	8
Examining developmental plasticity in the skeletal system through a sensitive developmental windows framework	8
Variation of bony labyrinthine morphology in Mio−Plio−Pleistocene and modern anthropoids	8
“[This] system was not made for [you]:” A case for decolonial Scientia	8