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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)

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	49
Three‐dimensional surface scanning methods in osteology: A topographical and geometric morphometric comparison	47
The need to incorporate human variation and evolutionary theory in forensic anthropology: A call for reform	40
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
The “weanling's dilemma” revisited: Evolving bodies of evidence and the problem of infant paleodietary interpretation	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
Skeletal evidence of structural violence among undocumented migrants from Mexico and Central America	21
An inconstant biorhythm: The changing pace of Retzius periodicity in human permanent teeth	20
Tooth chipping prevalence and patterns in extant primates	19
Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers	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
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
Conceptual issues in hominin taxonomy: Homo heidelbergensis and an ethnobiological reframing of species	14
Medieval injuries: Skeletal trauma as an indicator of past living conditions and hazard risk in Cambridge, England	14
Seasonal variability in the diet and feeding ecology of black‐and‐white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) in Ranomafana National Park, southeastern Madagascar	14
Comparing semi‐landmarking approaches for analyzing three‐dimensional cranial morphology	14

Race, eugenics, and the canceling of great scientists	13
Estimating age‐at‐death in burnt adult human remains using the Falys–Prangle method	12
Migration and maize in the Virú Valley: Understanding life histories through multi‐tissue carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and strontium isotope analyses	12
Increased dental fluctuating asymmetry is associated with active skeletal lesions, but not mortality hazards in the precontact Southwest United States	12
Evidence for a sensitive period of plasticity in brown adipose tissue during early childhood among indigenousSiberians	11
Dietary changes across time: Studying the indigenous period of La Gomera using δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating	11
Lack of biological mortality bias in the timing of dental formation in contemporary children: Implications for the study of past populations	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
Exploring directional and fluctuating asymmetry in the human palate during growth	10
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
“[This] system was not made for [you]:” A case for decolonial Scientia	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
The 1918 influenza pandemic did not accelerate tuberculosis mortality decline in early‐20th century Newfoundland: Investigating historical and social explanations	9
Leprosy in medieval Denmark: Exploring life histories through a multi‐tissue and multi‐isotopic approach	9
Heterogeneous frailty and the expression of linear enamel hypoplasia in a genealogical population	9
Skin deep: The decoupling of genetic admixture levels from phenotypes that differed between source populations	9
Mass violence in Copper Age Europe: The massacre burial site from Potočani, Croatia	8
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
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	8
Costs of male infanticide for female capuchins: When does an adaptive male reproductive strategy become costly for females and detrimental to population viability?	7
Comparative morphometric analyses of the deciduous molars of Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa	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
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