OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Dating the pendant burials of north‐west Arabia: First radiometric results from the Khaybar Oasis, Saudi Arabia	7
From ‘ovoid jars’ to ‘torpedo jars’: Investigations into bitumen‐lined transport containers in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean in antiquity (second century BCE–third century CE)	7
The “walled oases” phenomenon. A study of the ramparts in Dūmat al‐Jandal and other pre‐Islamic sites in north‐western Arabia	5
A Paleo‐Arabic inscription on a route north of Ṭāʾif	5
Kites of AlUla County and the Ḥarrat ʿUwayriḍ, Saudi Arabia	5
Exploitation of groundwater in the oasis of Masāfī (UAE): A diachronic perspective	4
Umm an‐Nar soft‐stone vessel assemblage from Tomb QA 1‐1 (Oman) based on finds recovered from half the tomb	3
The Middle and Late Bronze Age in Central Oman: New Insights from Tawi Said, Al‐Mudhairib and the Wilayat al‐Mudhaybi	3
Cave occupations in Southeastern Arabia in the second millennium BCE: Excavation at Mugharat al‐Kahf, North‐Central Oman	3
Late Islamic water collection systems on Failaka Island: Preliminary results of the Kuwait–Georgian Archaeological Mission in 2018–2019	3
Umm an‐Nar settlement pottery from Dahwa 7 (DH7), northern al‐Batinah, Oman	3
Twelve years of the ‘Arabian Seashores’ project: How the extensive investigation of coastal Oman changed the paradigm of the Arabian Neolithic	3
Iconographic and archaeometric studies on the rock art at Musayqira, Al‐Quwaiyah Governorate, central Saudi Arabia	3
Evidence for local, regional and interregional exchange networks on Failaka: Some remarks on late Islamic pottery from Kharaib al‐Dasht	2
Exchange networks of the Early Bronze Age Gulf: The imported ceramics from Kalba 4 (United Arab Emirates)	2
Archaeological evidence of an early Islamic monastery in the centre of al‐Qusur (Failaka Island, Kuwait)	2
Dripping divination in pre‐Islamic South Arabia: The oracle sanctuary of Jār al‐Labbā revisited	2
Egyptian Scarabs Discovered on Kuwait’s Failaka Island and Similar Finds from the Gulf Region	2
A Bronze to Iron Age fishing economy at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)	2
A consideration on the interest of a pottery typology adapted to the late Sasanian and early Islamic monastery at al‐Qusur (Kuwait)	2
The nature of third‐millennium settlement: The example of al‐Tikha (Rustaq) an Umm an‐Nar site on the Batinah coast of Oman	1
Failaka Island in the Late Islamic Period. Investigations at the fishing village of Kharaib al‐Dasht	1
Contribution to the geology of Failaka Island, Kuwait: Evidence from sedimentological and petrographic data from the NE part of the island	1
About two seal‐impressed jars from Tell Abraq (Emirate of Umm al‐Quwain). New evidence for intercultural networks in the lower Arabian Gulf in the late 2nd – beginning of the 1st millennium BC	1
Patterns of pre‐Islamic settlement in the Qumayrah microregion, northern Oman: First results of an archaeological and geological survey	1

The Nabataean monumental rock‐cut tombs of Mughāyir Shuʿayb and al‐Aṣīfir in the oasis of al‐Badʿ (Saudi Arabia): Preliminary architectural study and spatial organisation of the necropolis	1
Sabaeans on the Somali coast	1
Recent Excavation Results at Sa’ida Village, Failaka Island	1
Review on Late Pleistocene‐Holocene relative sea‐level changes in Kuwait: New evidence from Failaka island	1
Archaeological surveys of a canyon and floodplain in the Tanūf District, North‐Central Oman: Optimised methodology and applications	1
A Palaeo‐Arabic inscription from the Ḥismā Desert (Tabūk region)	1
Investigating ancient technology and ceramic composition at Al‐Khidr site (Failaka Island, Kuwait): Geochemical analyses of Bronze Age pottery by pXRF and thin‐section petrographic analyses	1
Two new Byzantine inscriptions from El‐ʿAynūn (Kerak Governorate; Southern Jordan)	1
Latin inscriptions from Bāyir (Jordan)	1
Minaeans in the Mediterranean. Reevaluating two Old South Arabian inscriptions from Delos	1
Dilmun boats on seals, horned figureheads, and the serpent/dragon slaying myth, c. 2050–1500 BC	1
Al‐Khidr site on Failaka Island in the Bronze Age: Pottery perspective	1
From Dilmun to Wādī al‐Fāw: A forgotten desert corridor, c. 2000 BC	1
Stray cats: Pets or pests? Cats and kittens everywhere in the medieval harbour site of Qalhāt (Oman)	1
Copper‐alloy figurines from Tell Abraq (Umm al‐Quwain, UAE) and the circulation of Hellenistic motifs in late pre‐Islamic Arabia (300 bc–300 ad)	1
Set apart from within: Articulated women in commingled tombs from Early Bronze Age Arabia	1
The chronology of Julianos Church, Umm el‐Jimal, Jordan: AMS radiocarbon dates of its synthronon	1
The site of Al‐Qurainiyah: Topography and phases of an early Islamic coastal settlement on Failaka Island	1
Ancient and modern inscriptions in the basalt desert: News from the 2023 season of the Badia Epigraphic Survey in north‐east Jordan	1
A third century ad rhymed hymn from Yemen: The origins of Arabic poetry and literature?	1
Dilmun Boat shaped votive bowls for the Moon‐god Nanna?	1
Documenting Jordan's epigraphic heritage: Preliminary remarks on newly discovered Safaitic inscriptions	1