OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Levant is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Documenting heritage in the 21st century: the EAMENA project and its potential for ‘big data’ research in Levantine archaeology	13
Setting the standard: the 1970 standard and ethical codes of archaeological organizations	10
A settlement-geology model for dolmen distribution in the Levant: revisiting the ‘great dolmen-field’ on the Irbid plateau	8
Beyond urbanization, regional settlement pattern in south-eastern Levant during the Early Bronze Age	8
Gerasa’s ‘Nymphaeum’: a reappraisal of its history and function	7
Ritual purity among the Phoenicians in the sacred precinct at Tel Dan in the Hellenistic and Roman periods	7
The Late Bronze–Early Iron Age transition in Canaan: new insights from Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates	7
Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia	6
The Early Bronze Age I ritual landscape in the Middle Wadi az-Zarqa Valley, Jordan	6
Notes on the architecture and history of the fortifications of the island of Arwad in Syria	6
A late medieval synagogue at Ḥuqoq/Yaquq in Galilee?	6
The role of highland regions in interregional connectivity: Upper Galilee in the Early Bronze Age	5
Exploring Levantine megalithic building techniques: the case study of ST_004 from Menjez (Akkar, Lebanon)	5
Ḥorvat Tevet, the Jezreel Valley: a village and an Israelite royal estate	4
Avian depiction in the earliest Neolithic communities of the Near East	4
Snapshots from the past: discoveries and destruction in the Jericho Oasis	4
Dura Europos.	4
Assessing the MaDiH CKAN catalogue as an engagement tool for the Jordanian cultural heritage community	4
A marble Sarcophagus of Gadara (Umm Qais), Jordan: insights on its provenance	3
Dan IV: The Iron Age I Settlement. The Avraham Biran Excavations (1966–1999)	3
Site custody activism in Jordan: introducing Sela and Alraqeem	3
Different mint, same engraver: engraver-sharing at Caracalla tetradrachm mints in the southern Levant	3
Arslan Tash Palace: a reconsideration of the architecture, phases, chronology and use	3
Do the right thing	3
The Early Bronze IV — Middle Bronze I transition in the southern Levant: analysis and assessment	2

Dolmens, standing stones and ritual in Murayghat	2
William Lancaster: anthropologist and ethnographic mentor	2
Using the EAMENA database to document modern heritage: the Amman Heritage Houses, Jordan, case study	2
Towards a bottom-up approach for collaboration in cultural heritage: the case of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) Amman Institute and the JEA's Urban Heritage Preservation Committ	2
The late Ottoman defended landscapes along the Hijaz railway in southern Jordan	2
Megalithic architecture in the Levant: broader perspectives for defining what we are talking about	2
The Louvre Museum terracotta ship-models from Tyre	2
The ethics of excavating: bioarchaeology and the case for rehabilitating legacy human skeletal collections in the Near East	2
The EAMENA database and its potential impact on research and heritage management: a case study of Crusader heritage in Lebanon	2
Not a place for respectable people, but the ends of the earth converge there: insights from Wisad Pools into the nature and context of Jordan’s Black Desert Neolithic	2
Illicit trafficking of cultural objects: the case of Cyprus	2
Exploringchaîne opératoiresof Hellenistic ceramic oil lamps from Nea Paphos, Cyprus	1
Beyond sealing: evidence of Middle Bronze Age stamps from the Kouris Valley, Cyprus	1
New evidence for long-distance trade in arsenical copper during the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant: analysis of weapons from the Nesher-Ramla cemetery	1
Age and sex determination of fingerprints on ceramic objects from the Late Bronze Age Palace at Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel	1
Why so many? Analysing church multiplicity in Late Antique southern Levant	1
Michael Hamilton Burgoyne 1944–2021	1
Cultural continuity and asymmetry through the Levantine Early Bronze Age: a view from the desert	1
Ghazi Bisheh 1944–2022: an appreciation	1
Dolmens shaping the urban landscape: the case of Jebel al-Mutawwaq	1
The disappearing walls of Jerusalem? Observations on the Bronze and Iron Age fortifications and waterworks on the east slope of the City of David	1
Two Phoenician white marble blocks from Tyre	1
Lajjun: forgotten provincial capital in Ottoman Palestine	1
Pottery craft in the early urban world: two EB IVA traditions in focus in Tell Mishrifeh-Qatna, Hypogeum IV (Syria)	1
Subsistence practices in Phoenicia and beyond: faunal investigations at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon (c. 725–350 BCE)	1
Ostriches and people in archaeological contexts in the southern Levant and beyond	1
Early Bronze Age IA mortuary practices and difference on the south-eastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan	1
Ex-territorial rituals and inter-cultural encounters in the Early Bronze Age Levant: a reconsideration of the Mitzpe Shalem site cluster	1
Contextualizing the social and ritual landscape of the megalith builders of Akkar in northern Lebanon	1
The use of remote sensing and digital tools for cultural heritage management and archaeological research	1
Memories of Hugh	1
Uninscribed Late Bronze and Early Iron Age stone weights Dor, Israel	1