OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Field Archaeology 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Run to the Hills: A Stratified Sampling Approach to Site Clustering on High Grounds in Ancient Samnium (Molise, Italy)	28
A Novel Protocol for Reconstructing Depositional Histories of Anthropogenic, Sedimentary Records: the Case of the Holocene-Deep Kirkhellaren Cave Deposits in Coastal Arctic Norway	16
Integrating and Dividing in a Late Bronze Age Society: Internal Organization of Settlements of the Tisza Site Group in the Southern Carpathian Basin, 1600–1200 b.c.	14
An Elite Bronze Age Double-Horse Burial from Western Ukraine and the Chariot Package Dissemination	13
Social Dynamics, Knowledge Spheres, and Technological Transfers in Balearic Island Pottery during the 2nd Millennium b.c.	13
Critical Material Culture Analysis in US National Register of Historic Places Significance Statements	10
The Role of the Field Architect in the Digital Age: Integrating Human and Electronic Recording at the Villa Arianna in Roman Stabiae	10
Transnational Landscapes of Sámi Reindeer: Domestication and Herding in Northernmost Europe 700–1800 A.D.	9
Towards an Integrated Approach to Studying the Stratified Ceramics from Dandanakan/Daş Rabat, Turkmenistan (9th–12th Centuries a.d. )	9
Hidden Cycles of Time in the Layout of Mesoamerican Ballcourts	8
Chiaroscuro Photogrammetry: Revolutionizing 3D Modeling in Low Light Conditions for Archaeological Sites	8
Untangling the Taphonomy of Charred Plant Remains in Ritual Contexts: Late Antique and Medieval Churches and Graves from Croatia	7
Settlement Patterns and Built Environment at the Archaeological Site of Yalahau, Yucatan	6
Power, Status, and the Archaeology of the Atlantic Experience in Peki, Ghana	6
Settlement Discontinuities in Southwestern Arabia during the Middle and Late Holocene: The Bayḥān (Yemen) Region	6
Sharing Archaeological Knowledge: The Interactive Reporting System	6
Laser-Aided Profile Measurement and Cluster Analysis of Ceramic Shapes	5
Human Ecology and the Southern Iberian Neolithic: An Approach from Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology	5
Backdirt Ecopoetics	5
Why There is Still an Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects and What We Can Do About It	5
Stratagems and Back Spoils: Utilizing Backdirt in the Management of Archaeological Earthen Heritage	5
Objects of Visual Representation and Local Cultural Idioms	4
The Final Bronze/Early Iron Age in the Old Zerafshan Delta, Uzbekistan: Pilot Investigations at Kimirek-kum-1	4
Jels 3, a New Late Palaeolithic Open-Air Site in Denmark, Sheds Light on the Pioneer Colonization of Northern Europe	4
Niche Construction of Ban-nong ban-eoh in Southwestern Korea: Archaeobotanical Data from the Early Iron to Three Kingdoms Periods	4

Exploring Landscape Archaeology and UAV-Based Survey in the Kochkor Valley, Kyrgyzstan	4
Revisiting Neolithic Ali Kosh: New Insights into Settlement Sustainability, Human Mobility, and Subsistence Strategies	4
Area-Optimized, Rapid UAV-Borne Recording of Medieval Heritage in Central Asia	4
Dating and Interpreting Landscapes of Livestock Herding: Excavation of a Hut Site and Enclosure in Southwestern Ireland	4
Statement of Retraction: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d.	4
Radiocarbon and Artifactual Evidence for Early 17th Century A.D. Dutch Activity at the Site of Fort Orange, Albany, New York, USA	4
Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe	4
It’s All in the Backfill: Scrap Heaps, Explosives, and Nausea. Stirring the Soil of a Former WWII Military Base	3
Early Neolithic Innovation: Ventilation Systems and the Built Environment	3
Island Colonization and Human-Environment Interactions on the Edges of the Tropics: Archaeology of the Taíno Frontier (Northern Bahamas)	3
Survey Techniques and Landscape Archaeology on the Banks of the Ancient Lacus Ligustinus (Southern Spain)	3
Social Landscapes of Euphorbia Kop: A K2 Farmer Settlement with a Forager Presence in Southern Africa	3
Tracking Emergent Spatial and Social Patterns across Terraced Landscapes in Polynesia	3
Geochemical Analyses to Make the Invisible More Concrete: Cycles of Building Use and Roof Hatches at the Early Neolithic Site of Aşıklı Höyük	3
Theorizing Backdirt: Between Contemporary Archaeology and a Meta-Critique	3
Minimally Invasive High-Resolution Investigation of Site Form and Disturbance at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Ontario	3
Backdirt as a Means of Deconstruction of Archaeological Procedure: The Case Study of Tel Burnat, The Occupied Palestinian Territories	3
Long Bones and Antlers for Artifact Production in the Final Late Bronze Age Settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba (Northern Greece, 1210–1040 cal b.c.)	3
Deploying an Offline, Multi-User, Mobile System for Digital Recording in the Perachora Peninsula, Greece	3
Craftmanship, Operation, and the Configuration of Social Space: The Case of the Middle Neolithic Pottery Workshop Site of Imvrou Pigadi, Thessaly, Greece	3