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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A settlement-geology model for dolmen distribution in the Levant: revisiting the ‘great dolmen-field’ on the Irbid plateau	14
Setting the standard: the 1970 standard and ethical codes of archaeological organizations	11
Beyond urbanization, regional settlement pattern in south-eastern Levant during the Early Bronze Age	10
Gerasa’s ‘Nymphaeum’: a reappraisal of its history and function	9
Ritual purity among the Phoenicians in the sacred precinct at Tel Dan in the Hellenistic and Roman periods	8
Beyond the battlefield: assessing cultural heritage damage in Tartus, Syria	7
The Late Bronze–Early Iron Age transition in Canaan: new insights from Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates	7
Assessing the MaDiH CKAN catalogue as an engagement tool for the Jordanian cultural heritage community	6
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
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
A late medieval synagogue at Ḥuqoq/Yaquq in Galilee?	5
Arslan Tash Palace: a reconsideration of the architecture, phases, chronology and use	4
Site custody activism in Jordan: introducing Sela and Alraqeem	4
Ḥorvat Tevet, the Jezreel Valley: a village and an Israelite royal estate	4
A marble Sarcophagus of Gadara (Umm Qais), Jordan: insights on its provenance	4
Avian depiction in the earliest Neolithic communities of the Near East	4
Do the right thing	3
The Louvre Museum terracotta ship-models from Tyre	3
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	3
Dolmens in context	3
Dan IV: The Iron Age I Settlement. The Avraham Biran Excavations (1966–1999)	3
Illicit trafficking of cultural objects: the case of Cyprus	3
Different mint, same engraver: engraver-sharing at Caracalla tetradrachm mints in the southern Levant	3

William Lancaster: anthropologist and ethnographic mentor	3
Rediscovering the ‘Ain Braq aqueduct: new insights into Petra’s urban water management	3
Megalithic architecture in the Levant: broader perspectives for defining what we are talking about	3
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 ethics of excavating: bioarchaeology and the case for rehabilitating legacy human skeletal collections in the Near East	2
Exploringchaîne opératoiresof Hellenistic ceramic oil lamps from Nea Paphos, Cyprus	2
Dolmens, standing stones and ritual in Murayghat	2
Two Phoenician white marble blocks from Tyre	2
The disappearing walls of Jerusalem? Observations on the Bronze and Iron Age fortifications and waterworks on the east slope of the City of David	2
The Early Bronze IV — Middle Bronze I transition in the southern Levant: analysis and assessment	2
Beyond sealing: evidence of Middle Bronze Age stamps from the Kouris Valley, Cyprus	2
Dolmens shaping the urban landscape: the case of Jebel al-Mutawwaq	2
Why so many? Analysing church multiplicity in Late Antique southern Levant	1
Contextualizing the social and ritual landscape of the megalith builders of Akkar in northern Lebanon	1
Early Bronze Age IA mortuary practices and difference on the south-eastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan	1
Shaded by wine routes. Defining the market between Western Cyprus and Cilicia in the light of the study of the late antique thin-walled cooking pottery	1
A micro-geoarchaeological look at adaptive and glocal socio-economic aspects: the case of Middle Bronze Age Tel Dor, Israel	1
Assembling columns: construction process through the masons’ marks from the Macellum of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)	1
Cairn fields and other megaliths as cultural markers in the southern Levantine deserts	1
Cultural continuity and asymmetry through the Levantine Early Bronze Age: a view from the desert	1
Ex-territorial rituals and inter-cultural encounters in the Early Bronze Age Levant: a reconsideration of the Mitzpe Shalem site cluster	1
Memories of Hugh	1
Subsistence practices in Phoenicia and beyond: faunal investigations at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon (c. 725–350 BCE)	1
Yavne and the industrial production of Gaza and Ashqelon wines	1
Age and sex determination of fingerprints on ceramic objects from the Late Bronze Age Palace at Tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel	1
Assessment of the impact of the Syrian conflict on archaeological sites in the Daraa region	1
Pottery craft in the early urban world: two EB IVA traditions in focus in Tell Mishrifeh-Qatna, Hypogeum IV (Syria)	1
Lajjun: forgotten provincial capital in Ottoman Palestine	1
Ghazi Bisheh 1944–2022: an appreciation	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
Uninscribed Late Bronze and Early Iron Age stone weights Dor, Israel	1
Building biographies of the Cypriot Chalcolithic	1
Interrelated communities of practice in the Late Bronze Age southern Levant: a ceramic perspective from the Shephelah	1