OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Physical Anthropology is 7. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States	60
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
Kinetics of stone tool production among novice and expert tool makers	18
Janus‐faced race: Is race biological, social, or mythical?	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
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
A geometric morphometric approach to the study of sexual dimorphism in the modern human frontal bone	17
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

Ancestry, health, and lived experiences of enslaved Africans in 18th century Charleston: An osteobiographical analysis	16
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
Biocultural evidence of precise manual activities in an Early Holocene individual of the high‐altitude Peruvian Andes	15
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
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
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
Increased dental fluctuating asymmetry is associated with active skeletal lesions, but not mortality hazards in the precontact Southwest United States	12
Five thousand years of bellyaches: Exploring boron concentration in ancient populations of the Atacama Desert	11
Desperately seeking stress: A pilot study of cortisol in archaeological tooth structures	11
Dimorphism in dental tissues: Sex differences in archaeological individuals for multiple tooth types	11
Lack of biological mortality bias in the timing of dental formation in contemporary children: Implications for the study of past populations	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
Evidence for a sensitive period of plasticity in brown adipose tissue during early childhood among indigenousSiberians	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
The constraints of racialization: How classification and valuation hinder scientific research on human variation	10
Coming of age in the Netherlands: An osteological assessment of puberty in a rural Dutchpost‐medievalcommunity	10
Exploring directional and fluctuating asymmetry in the human palate during growth	10
“[This] system was not made for [you]:” A case for decolonial Scientia	9
Assessment of physiological disturbances during pre‐ and early postnatal development based on microscopic analysis of human deciduous teeth from the Late Epipaleolithic site of Shubayqa 1 (Jordan)	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
Estimating age‐at‐death in burnt adult human remains using the Falys–Prangle method	9
A geometric morphometric assessment of shape variation in adult pelvic morphology	9
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
Examining developmental plasticity in the skeletal system through a sensitive developmental windows framework	9
Leprosy in medieval Denmark: Exploring life histories through a multi‐tissue and multi‐isotopic approach	9
No support for the hereditarian hypothesis of the Black–White achievement gap using polygenic scores and tests for divergent selection	8
Genetic landscape of Gullah African Americans	8
Mass violence in Copper Age Europe: The massacre burial site from Potočani, Croatia	8
Technical note: Artificial Resynthesis Technology for the experimental formation of dental microwear textures	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
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
Uniparental genetic markers in Native Americans: A summary of all available data from ancient and contemporary populations	7
Wild chimpanzee offspring exhibit adult‐like foraging patterns around the age of weaning	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
Breastfeeding and weaning in Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers of the lower Paraná wetland, South America	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

Prevalence of cranial trauma in Eurasian Upper Paleolithic humans