OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Levant is 3. 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
The Late Bronze–Early Iron Age transition in Canaan: new insights from Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates	7
Beyond the battlefield: assessing cultural heritage damage in Tartus, Syria	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
Assessing the MaDiH CKAN catalogue as an engagement tool for the Jordanian cultural heritage community	6
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
The role of highland regions in interregional connectivity: Upper Galilee in the Early Bronze Age	5
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
Arslan Tash Palace: a reconsideration of the architecture, phases, chronology and use	4
Site custody activism in Jordan: introducing Sela and Alraqeem	4
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
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