OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Physical Anthropology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States	62
The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene	52
Skin color and race	48
Three‐dimensional surface scanning methods in osteology: A topographical and geometric morphometric comparison	45
The need to incorporate human variation and evolutionary theory in forensic anthropology: A call for reform	40
Indigenous data sovereignties and data sharing in biological anthropology	33
Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology	30
Sex estimation of teeth at different developmental stages using dimorphic enamel peptide analysis	29
Understanding racism in physical (biological) anthropology	27
Arothron: An R package for geometric morphometric methods and virtual anthropology applications	26
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	25
Systemic racism can get under our skin and into our genes	24
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	23
The “weanling's dilemma” revisited: Evolving bodies of evidence and the problem of infant paleodietary interpretation	23
Skeletal evidence of structural violence among undocumented migrants from Mexico and Central America	21
Tooth chipping prevalence and patterns in extant primates	19
An inconstant biorhythm: The changing pace of Retzius periodicity in human permanent teeth	18
Independent associations of women's age at marriage and first pregnancy with their height in rural lowland Nepal	18
Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers	18
Janus‐faced race: Is race biological, social, or mythical?	18
Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past	17
Ring‐tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) use olfaction to locate distant fruit	16
Biocultural evidence of precise manual activities in an Early Holocene individual of the high‐altitude Peruvian Andes	15
Female reproductive energetics in mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata): A follow‐up study	15
The biological index of frailty: A new index for the assessment of frailty in human skeletal remains	15

Comparing semi‐landmarking approaches for analyzing three‐dimensional cranial morphology	14
Combinations of trabecular and cortical bone properties distinguish various loading modalities between athletes and controls	14
Seasonal variability in the diet and feeding ecology of black‐and‐white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) in Ranomafana National Park, southeastern Madagascar	14
Medieval injuries: Skeletal trauma as an indicator of past living conditions and hazard risk in Cambridge, England	14
Conceptual issues in hominin taxonomy: Homo heidelbergensis and an ethnobiological reframing of species	14
Increased dental fluctuating asymmetry is associated with active skeletal lesions, but not mortality hazards in the precontact Southwest United States	12
Migration and maize in the Virú Valley: Understanding life histories through multi‐tissue carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and strontium isotope analyses	12
Race, eugenics, and the canceling of great scientists	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
Lack of biological mortality bias in the timing of dental formation in contemporary children: Implications for the study of past populations	11
A comparison of subadult skeletal and dental development based on living and deceased samples	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
Evidence for a sensitive period of plasticity in brown adipose tissue during early childhood among indigenousSiberians	11
Dimorphism in dental tissues: Sex differences in archaeological individuals for multiple tooth types	11
New mitogenomic lineages in Papio baboons and their phylogeographic implications	11
Dietary changes across time: Studying the indigenous period of La Gomera using δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating	11
The constraints of racialization: How classification and valuation hinder scientific research on human variation	10
Exploring directional and fluctuating asymmetry in the human palate during growth	10
The accuracy of age estimation using transition analysis in the Hamann‐Todd collection	9
Skin deep: The decoupling of genetic admixture levels from phenotypes that differed between source populations	9
Estimating age‐at‐death in burnt adult human remains using the Falys–Prangle method	9
Leprosy in medieval Denmark: Exploring life histories through a multi‐tissue and multi‐isotopic approach	9
“[This] system was not made for [you]:” A case for decolonial Scientia	9
Examining developmental plasticity in the skeletal system through a sensitive developmental windows framework	9
The association of parturition scars and pelvic shape: A geometric morphometric study	9
The 1918 influenza pandemic did not accelerate tuberculosis mortality decline in early‐20th century Newfoundland: Investigating historical and social explanations	9
A geometric morphometric assessment of shape variation in adult pelvic morphology	9
Genetic landscape of Gullah African Americans	8
No support for the hereditarian hypothesis of the Black–White achievement gap using polygenic scores and tests for divergent selection	8
Mass violence in Copper Age Europe: The massacre burial site from Potočani, Croatia	8
Wild chimpanzee offspring exhibit adult‐like foraging patterns around the age of weaning	7
Novel strategies for the characterization of cancellous bone morphology: Virtual isolation and analysis	7
Costs of male infanticide for female capuchins: When does an adaptive male reproductive strategy become costly for females and detrimental to population viability?	7
Heterogeneous frailty and the expression of linear enamel hypoplasia in a genealogical population	7
Breastfeeding and weaning in Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers of the lower Paraná wetland, South America	7
Technical note: Artificial Resynthesis Technology for the experimental formation of dental microwear textures	7
Bilateral asymmetry and developmental plasticity of the humerus in modern humans	7
Inflammaging: Blame the sons. Relationships between the number of sons and the level of inflammatory mediators among post‐reproductive women	7
Uniparental genetic markers in Native Americans: A summary of all available data from ancient and contemporary populations	7
Homeotic change in segment identity derives the human vertebral formula from a chimpanzee‐like one	7
Sex differences in diet and life conditions in a rural Medieval Islamic population from Spain (La Torrecilla, Granada): An isotopic and osteological approach to gender differentiation inal‐Andalu	7
Dietary shifts and diversities of individual life histories reveal cultural dynamics and interplay of millets and rice in the Chengdu Plain, China during the Late Neolithic (2500–2000 cal. BC	7
Relative tooth size, Bayesian inference, andHomo naledi	6
Increased performance in juvenile baboons is consistent with ontogenetic changes in morphology	6
Associations between fecal cortisol and biparental care in a pair‐living primate	6
Violence in the first millenniumBCEEurasian steppe: Cranial trauma in three Turpan Basin populations from Xinjiang, China	6
Ontogenetic and morphological variation in primate long bones reflects signals of size and behavior	6
Stable isotope evidence (Fe, Cu) suggests that sex, but not aging is recorded in rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) bone	6
Preferential snake detection in a simulated ecological experiment	6
Investigating genetic diversity in admixed populations from Ecuador	6

Neanderthal cranial remains from Baume Moula‐Guercy (Soyons, Ardèche, France)	6
Taxonomic diversity ofCebuellain the western Amazon: Molecular, morphological and pelage diversity of museum and free‐ranging specimens	6
Quantifying cortical bone in fragmentary archeological second metacarpals	6
Historical overview, current research, and emerging bioethical guidelines in researching the New York African burial ground	6
Variability of weaning age in mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)	6
Female‐directed aggression by adolescent male chimpanzees primarily constitutes dominance striving, not sexual coercion	6
Revisiting metric sex estimation of burnt human remains via supervised learning using a reference collection of modern identified cremated individuals (Knoxville, USA)	6
Strontium (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) isotope analysis of the Namu skeletal assemblage: A study of past human migration on Taumako, a Polynesian Outlier in the eastern Solo	6
A robust alternative to assessing three‐dimensional relative enamel thickness for the use in taxonomic assessment	5
Paleodemographic analysis of age at death for a population of Black Sea Scythians: An exploration by using Bayesian methods	5
Use of craniometric data to facilitate migrant identifications at the United States/Mexico border	5
How ancestral subsistence strategies solve salmon starvation and the “protein problem” of Pacific Rim resources	5
Comparative morphometric analyses of the deciduous molars of Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa	5
Scaling of linear anthropometric dimensions in living humans	5
Using a multimethod life history approach to navigate the osteological paradox: A case study from Prehispanic Nasca, Peru	5
Exploring “wear and tear” of joints and “muscle function” assumptions in skeletons with known occupation at death	5
Geographic and temporal diversity in dental morphology reflects a history of admixture, isolation, and drift in African Americans	5
The association of osteochemometrics and bone mineral density in humans	5
Race reconciled II: Interpreting and communicating biological variation and race in 2021	5
Technical note: A report on the Forensic Anthropology Database for Assessing Methods Accuracy	5
Common evolutionary patterns in the human nasal region across a worldwide sample	5
Is craniofacial morphology and body composition related by common genes: Comparative analysis of two ethnically diverse populations	5
Population history of Brazilian south and southeast shellmound builders inferred through dental morphology	5
Axlor's level IV human remains are convincingly Neanderthals: A reply to Gómez‐Olivencia et al.	5
Fluctuating asymmetry, a marker of poor growth quality, is associated with adult male metabolic rate	5
Human burials at the Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania	4
The Human Bone Collection of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Hong Kong: History and description of cranial and postcranial skeletal remains	4
Adiposity and pathogen exposure: An investigation of response to iron supplementation and hypothesized predictors in anemic pre‐school‐aged children living in a dual burden environment	4
A deep‐learning‐based workflow to assess taxonomic affinity of hominid teeth with a test on discriminating Pongo and Homo upper molars	4
Stressful social environment and financial strain drive depressive symptoms, and reveal the effects of a FKBP5 variant and male sex, in African Americans living in Tallahassee	4
Morphological analysis of new Dryas Monkey specimens from the Central Congo Basin: Taxonomic considerations and an emended diagnosis	4
Sexual dimorphism in the size and shape of the non‐obstetric pelvis across anthropoids	4
First direct evidence of conservative foraging ecology of early Gigantopithecus blacki (~2 Ma) in Guangxi, southern China	4
An improved method for measuring molar wear	4
Automated resolution independent method for comparing in vivo and dry trabecular bone	4
The Ratón Pérez collection: Modern deciduous human teeth at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (Burgos, Spain)	4
Adapting in the Arctic: Habitual activity and landscape interaction in Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers from Alaska	4
Matrilineal diversity and population history of Norwegians	4
Environmental and individual determinants of fecal avoidance in semi‐free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	4
Maternal genetic origin of the late and final Neolithic human populations from present‐day Poland	4
Revelations of ancient head shape: Cranial modification in the Cuzco region of Peru, Early Horizon to Inca Imperial Period	4
Neuromechanical linkage between the head and forearm during running	4
A dense sample of fossil primates (Adapiformes, Notharctidae, Notharctinae) from the Early Eocene Willwood Formation, Wyoming: Documentation of gradual change in tooth area and shape through time	4