OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Archaeology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua: Moving Pictures	15
Rounded toothed pearl-shell mounds at Elizabeth River near Darwin, Northern Territory	9
The Archaeology of Island Colonization: Global Approaches to Initial Human Settlement	8
Islamic life and death in Australia, after 1890: The archaeology of cameleer burials	8
A transformative archaeology: Archaeology as a tool for public good	7
Why should we explore contemporary relationships to the archaeological record?	7
How will Australia and the Pacific contribute to global Indigenous archaeologies in the next half century?	7
Who cares? Indigenous cultural heritage protection in Australia	7
What is farming, what is archaeology, and who gets to decide?	4
Reorganising foraging during the Late Holocene: The archaeology of NEP23, Central Australia	4
Lithic technologies from a stone hut and arrangement complex in Pitta Pitta Country Queensland, and the detection of social learning in archaeology	4
Bioarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains associated with the wrecking of the retourschip “Batavia”, 1629: burials BIB 11–14	3
Brilliant blue: The blue rock art of Awunbarna, Northern Territory, Australia	3
50 years of radiocarbon dating in Australian archaeology	3
Making Scenes: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art	3
A puzzle with 1,000 pieces	3
When divisions can have value: Revisiting the term ‘contact’ in Australian First Peoples archaeology	3
Marra Wonga: Archaeological and contemporary First Nations interpretations of one of central Queensland’s largest rock art sites	3
Putting the involvement of Indigenous Australians back into Indigenous Australian archaeology	2
A continent of hunter-gatherers?	2
Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant	2
The tragedy of Bruce Pascoe’sDark Emu	2
The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931	2
Continuing the legacy of humanistic archaeological practice	1
Agila and the reanimation of seafaring on the south coast of Papua New Guinea after 770 cal BP	1

Michael Alexander Smith, BA Hons, MA, PhD, FAHA, FSA, Rhys Jones Medal (2006), Verco Medal (2010), Order of Australia (AM, 2013), UNE Distinguished Alumni (2015), born England 1955, died Canberra 16 O	1
The future of knowledge sharing: Why #AncientApocalypse and #HomoNaledi are smashing it and we’re not	1
Diverse stone artefacts around Lake Woods, Central Northern Territory, Australia	1
Love at first site	1
The missing Macassans: Indigenous sovereignty, rock art and the archaeology of absence	1
Millukmungee 1: Stone artefacts and occupation at the junction of the Buchan and Snowy Rivers, GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland (Victoria, Australia)	1
Pasts otherwise: Some comments on the historiography of concepts of ‘colonialism’ and ‘entanglement’ and the critique of the concept of ‘contact’ in Australasian archaeology	1
(Australian) archaeology and heritage: The future of the past	1
Fibre technologies in Indigenous Australia: Evidence from archaeological excavations in the Kimberley region	1
An amazing 50 years of Australian research: Now for greater collaboration, codesign and traditional knowledge application to developing policy and action	1
Author-ity of/as Bawaka Country	1
The challenges of attribution	1
Optimism, utopia, and blue-green futures for the archaeology of Oceania	1
Solder scavenging from hole-and-cap food cans in the Western Australian goldfields: Identifying site modification processes	1
Jack: Professor Jack Golson, AO, 1926–2023	1
An Archaeology of Innovation: Approaching Social and Technological Change in Human Society	1
‘Don’t walk behind me, don’t walk in front of me, walk beside me’: A response to Murray	1
Beyond colonialism? A comment on the formulation of ‘contact’ archaeology in Australia	1
Revolution or reform?	1
Authorship, attribution and acknowledgment in archaeology: Reply, adding audience and accountability	1
Beneath the Top End: A regional assessment of submerged archaeological potential in the Northern Territory, Australia	1
The survival of artefacts from different historical phases in shallow open sites and the need for spit excavations: An overview from the Cumberland Plain, Western Sydney, Australia	1
An historical reassessment of the maritime Southeast Asian forest and marine commodities trade and its implications for archaeological investigations of Asian contact in northern Australia	1
Aerial and satellite remote sensing for Aboriginal archaeology: Past, present and future	1