OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Archaeological Science is 21. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Improved quality control criteria for stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements of ancient bone collagen	78
A call for caution in the analysis of lipids and other small biomolecules from archaeological contexts	61
Deep learning reveals extent of Archaic Native American shell-ring building practices	36
Provenance of tin in the Late Bronze Age Balkans based on probabilistic and spatial analysis of Sn isotopes	34
Applications of deep learning to decorated ceramic typology and classification: A case study using Tusayan White Ware from Northeast Arizona	33
Ancient DNA typing indicates that the “new” glume wheat of early Eurasian agriculture is a cultivated member of the Triticum timopheevii group	32
Local domestication or diffusion? Insights into viticulture in Greece from Neolithic to Archaic times, using geometric morphometric analyses of archaeological grape seeds	30
All about wood ash: Long term fire experiments reveal unknown aspects of the formation and preservation of ash with critical implications on the emergence and use of fire in the past	28
The origins of agriculture: Intentions and consequences	27
Snapshots in time: MicroCT scanning of pottery sherds determines early domestication of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in East Africa	26
Wine consumption in Bronze Age Italy: combining organic residue analysis, botanical data and ceramic variability	25
The archaeometry of ochre sensu lato: A review	25
Examining collagen preservation through glutamine deamidation at Denisova Cave	25
Earliest arrival of millet in the South China coast dating back to 5,500 years ago	25
Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya	24
Debasement of silver throughout the Late Bronze – Iron Age transition in the Southern Levant: Analytical and cultural implications	24
Searching for hidden activities: Percussive tools from the Oldowan and Acheulean of West Turkana, Kenya (2.3–1.76 Ma)	23
Geochemical changes during Egyptian copper smelting? An experimental approach to the Ayn Soukhna process and broader implications for archaeometallurgy	22
Direct dating of the earliest domesticated cattle and caprines in northwestern China reveals the history of pastoralism in the Gansu-Qinghai region	21
Lipid residues in pottery from the Indus Civilisation in northwest India	21
The sources of Baltic oak	21
Weapons in transition: Reappraisal of the origin of complex projectiles in the Levant based on the Boker Tachtit stratigraphic sequence	21