OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating infant feeding strategies at Roman Bainesse through Bayesian modelling of incremental dentine isotopic data	17
Investigating wheat consumption based on multiple evidences: Stable isotope analysis on human bone and starch grain analysis on dental calculus of humans from the Laodaojing cemetery, Central Plains,	14
Paleodiet and health in a mass burial population: The stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes from Potočani, a 6,200‐year‐old massacre site in Croatia	11
Specialized wool production economy of prehistoric farmstead of Chap I in the highlands of Central Tian Shan (Kyrgyzstan)	11
Insights into the diagnostic efficacy and macroscopic appearance of endocranial bony changes indicative of tuberculous meningitis: Three example cases from the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Coll	11
The use and abuse of cinnabar in Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia	11
In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650)	11
Judging a reindeer by its teeth: A user‐friendly tooth wear and eruption pattern recording scheme to estimate age‐at‐death in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)	9
The bird remains from WF16, an early Neolithic settlement in southern Jordan: Assemblage composition, chronology and spatial distribution	9
Death metal: Evidence for the impact of lead poisoning on childhood health within the Roman Empire	9
Dental caries and isotope studies in the population of Radom (Poland) between the 11th and 19th centuries	8
Diet and urbanisation in medieval Holland. Studying dietary change through carious lesions and stable isotope analysis	8
Burning by numbers: A pilot study using quantitative petrography in the analysis of heat‐induced alteration in burned bone	8
SexEst: An open access web application for metric skeletal sex estimation	8
Hunger, disease, and subtle lesions: Insights into systemic metabolic disease in fetal and perinatal remains from 13th‐ to 15th‐century Tartu, Estonia	7
Quotidian lives on isolated bodies: Entheseal changes and cross‐sectional geometry among the aboriginal population of La Gomera (ca. 200–1500 AD, Canary Islands)	7
Child and adolescent diet in Late Roman Gaul: An investigation of incremental dietary stable isotopes in tooth dentine	7
Carbon and oxygen stable isotopic evidence for diverse sheep and goat husbandry strategies amid a Final Bronze Age farming milieu in the Kyrgyz Tian Shan	7
Frequency and co‐occurrence of porous skeletal lesions in identified non‐adults from Portugal (19th to 20th centuries) and its association with respiratory infections as cause of death	7
Differences in entheseal changes in the phalanges between ecotypes of Fennoscandian reindeer	7
Observer error in bone disease description: A cautionary note	7
Dietary history of two human individuals at the Yingpanshan site, Sichuan Province, revealed by carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of serial samples of dentinal collagen	7
The natural history of the fallow deer, Dama dama (Linnaeus, 1758) in Bulgaria in prehistory and new evidence for the existence of an autochthonous Holocene population in the Balkans	6
Neolithic bone meal with acorn: Analyses on crusts in pottery bowls from 7000 BP Hemudu, China	6
Testing interobserver and intraobserver agreement of the original and revised Coimbra Methods	6

The impact of pathological conditions on carbon and nitrogen isotopic values in the bone collagen of individuals with known biographic data and medical history	6
The utilization of birds at neolithic WF16, southern Jordan: Cut marks, body parts, and experimental skinning	6
Biological histories of an elite: Skeletons from the Royal Chapel of Lugo Cathedral (NW Spain)	6
An aid to the identification of fish bones from southeast Arabia: The influence of reference collections on taxonomic diversity	6
Dental caries and breastfeeding in early childhood in the late Medieval and Modern populations from Radom, Poland	6
The application of quantitative petrography and macroscopic colour change in a comparative analysis of Roman and Anglo‐Saxon cremation practices	6
Allen's fossa—An attempt to dissolve the confusion of different nonmetric variants on the anterior femoral neck	6
Ear infection prevalence in prehistoric and historic populations of the southern Levant: A new diagnostic method	6
Thalassemia major in a 49‐year‐old Thai female: Gross and X‐ray examination of dry bone	6
“Brothers in arms”: Activity‐related skeletal changes observed on the humerus of individuals buried with and without weapons from the 10th‐century CE Carpathian Basin	5
Interpreting injury recidivism in a rural post‐medieval male individual from Bucelas, Portugal	5
A palaeoepidemiological investigation of osteomata, with reference to medieval Poland	5
Evaluation of entheseal changes in a modern identified skeletal collection from Inden (Germany)	5
A new case of prehistoric trepanation and scalping in the Iberian Peninsula: The tomb of La Saga (Cáseda, Navarre)	5
Interpolation of the Maresh diaphyseal length data for use in quantitative analyses of growth	5
Comparing individuals buried in flexed and extended positions at the Greek colony of Chersonesos (Crimea) using cranial metric, dental metric, and dental nonmetric traits	5
The taphonomy of medium‐sized grouse in food remains of the northern goshawk Accipiter gentilis, compared with damage done by man and other predators	5
The impact of activity on pelvic age‐at‐death estimation	5
Once were warriors: Challenging occupation preconceptions in Lebanese weapon‐associated burials (Middle Bronze Age, Sidon)	5
Bone artifacts from Riwi Cave, south‐central Kimberley: Reappraisal of the timing and role of osseous artifacts in northern Australia	5
A systematic review of agouti (Dasyproctidae: Dasyprocta) records from the pre‐1492 Lesser Antilles: New perspectives on an introduced commensal	5
Zoonotic diseases: New directions in human–animal pathology	5
Evidence of horsemanship in two Szekler noblemen from the Baroque period	5
The uses of domesticated animals at the Early Bronze Age City of Wangjinglou, China	5
Knock‐knees: Identifying genu valgum and understanding its relationship to vitamin D deficiency in 18th to 19th century northern England	5
The effect of age on entheseal changes: A study of modifications at appendicular attachment sites in a large sample of identified human skeletons	5
Complexity of agricultural economies in the Yiluo region in the late Neolithic and bronze age (3500–221 BC): An integrated stable isotope and archeobotanical study from the Tumen site, North China	5
Agriculturalization of the Nomad‐Dominated Empires of the Northern Wei Dynasty in Pingcheng city (398–494 ad): A stable isotopic study on animal and human bones from the Jinmaoyuan cemetery	5
Stable‐isotope analysis of collective burial sites in Southern France at late Neolithic/early Bronze Age transition	5
“I wanna be your dog”: Evaluating the efficacy of univariate and multivariate methods for differentiating domestic and wild canids in North America	4
Isotopic evidence of possible long‐distance freshwater fish trade in the 13th to 14th century Chełm, modern Poland	4
Individual centred social‐care approach: Using computer tomography to assess a traumatic brain injury in an Iron Age individual from China	4
Histological and stable isotope analysis of archeological bones from St. Rombout's cemetery (Mechelen, Belgium): Intrasite, intraindividual, and intrabone variability	4
More on the identification of fish bones from southeast Arabia	4
An amputated leg in 18th–19th centuries central Spain	4
A probable case of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis from an early modern crypt in Eastern Germany	4
The bare bones appearance of hyperparathyroidism: Distinguishing subperiosteal bone resorption from periosteal reaction	4
Illness and inclusion: Mobility histories of adolescents with leprosy from Anglo‐Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England)	4
Stable isotope values of carbon and nitrogen in hair compared to bone collagen from individuals with known medical histories (Bohemia, 19th–21st centuries)	4
Proximal femur fractures among a medieval Christian population of northern Sudan: prevalence and aetiology	4
Reindeer feeding ecology and hunting strategies by Magdalenians from Pincevent (Paris Basin, France): New insights from dental microwear textural analyses	4
Isotopic assessment of diet and infant feeding practices among Ottoman‐period Bedouin from Tell el‐Hesi	4
Pending danger: Recent Copper Age lion (Panthera leo L., 1758) finds from Hungary	4
Paleodiet reconstruction of human and animal bones at the Dalujiao cemetery in Early Iron Age Xinjiang, China	4
Length estimation of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) using vertebrae	4
Degenerative joint disease in the Chalcolithic population of El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain): The vertebral column	4
The dog of Los Chonos: First pre‐Hispanic record in western Patagonia (~43° to 47°S, Chile)	4
Recovery lines in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Computed tomography investigations in European museums	4
Analysis of periosteal lesions from commingled human remains at the Xagħra Circle hypogeum reveals the first case of probable scurvy from Neolithic Malta	4
Wool sheep and purple snails—Long‐term continuity of animal exploitation in ancient Meninx (Jerba/Tunisia)	4

Interpreting mortuary treatment from histological bone diagenesis: A case study from Neolithic Çatalhöyük	4
Riding for a fall: Bone fractures among mounted archers from the Hungarian Conquest period (10th century CE)	4
Practice makes perfect? Inter‐analyst variation in the identification of fish remains from archaeological sites	4
Metric and morphological analysis of pelvic scars in a historical sample from Lithuania: Associations with sex, age, body size and pelvic dimensions	4
Health in the Inca heartland: A paleopathological analysis of burials from the Cuzco region of Peru	4
Who's to blame? The Mesolithic non‐anthropic leporids from Cueva de los Postes (Badajoz, Spain)	4
rdss: An R package to facilitate the use of Murail et al.'s (1999) approach of sex estimation in past populations	4
Isotopic reconstruction of diet at the Vandalic period (ca. 5th–6th centuries AD) Theodosian Wall cemetery at Carthage, Tunisia	3
Allometry of Mexican hogfish (Bodianus diplotaenia) for predicting the body length of individuals from two pre‐Columbian sites in the Pearl Island archipelago (Panama)	3
Foraminifera—A new find in the microtaphonomical characterization of bones from marine archaeological excavations	3
A differentially diagnosed simple bone cyst from a medieval Polish osteological collection	3
Application of morphometric and stable isotope analyses for distinguishing domestic and wild geese	3
The talar morphology of a hypochondroplasic dwarf: A case study from the Italian Late Antique period	3
First application of a puberty estimation method to skeletons of young pregnant females: A case for the reevaluation of maternal–fetal burials	3
Female skeletal health and socioeconomic status in medieval Norway (11th–16th centuries AD): Analysis of bone mineral density and stature	3
Funerary reuse of a Roman amphitheatre: Palaeodietary and osteological study of Early Middle Ages burials (8th and 9th centuries AD) discovered in the Arena of Verona (Northeastern Italy)	3
Urbanization and respiratory stress in the Northern Low Countries: A comparative study of chronic maxillary sinusitis in two early modern sites from the Netherlands (AD 1626–1866)	3
Bushmeat skeletal waste from an Atlantic African rainforest (Equatorial Guinea) as a test for the Mammal Community Structure Analysis in paleoecology	3
Horse‐riding as a habitual activity among the early medieval Avar population of the cemetery of Csokorgasse (Vienna): Sex and chronological differences	3
Warrior burial of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age: The phenomenon of women warriors from the Jrapi cemetery (Shirak Province, Armenia)	3
‘Ye must have faith’ how anthropology can contribute to religious heritage: The osteobiography of Italian martyr Saint Nazarius	3
Anemias in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Computed tomography investigations in European museums	3
Bird remains from Vilnius Lower Castle, Lithuania (13th–19th centuries) reveal changes in social status and unusual bird pathologies	3
Specifying subsistence strategies of early farmers: New results from compound‐specific isotopic analysis of amino acids	3
STARC OSTEOARCH: An open access resource for recording and sharing human osteoarchaeological data	3
Intra‐tooth isotopic analysis (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) of dentine collagen in high‐crowned teeth: A new experimental study with modern sheep specimens	3
Skeletal remains of five blue foxes (Vulpes lagopus) from St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska: A view of differential diagnosis	3
A biocultural study of nasal fracture, violence, and gender using 19th–20th century skeletal remains from Portugal	3
Pathologies of a horse skeleton from the early medieval stronghold in Gdańsk (Poland)	3
Assessment and improvement of sex estimation standards for application in Holocene San and Khoekhoe populations	3
A case of well‐healed foot amputation in early China (8th–5th centuries BCE)	3
Bone diagenesis in the marine environment‐I: Characterization and distribution of trace elements in terrestrial mammalian bones recovered from historic shipwrecks	3
The embodiment of craft production in Bronze Age Portugal: Exceptional dental wear grooves in an individual from Monte do Vale do Ouro 2 (Ferreira do Alentejo, Portugal)	3
Are parturition scars truly signs of birth? The estimation of parity in a well‐documented modern sample	3
Detection of cancerous lesions in skeletal remains using visual methods and radiographs	3
Considering passenger pigeon abundance and distribution in the Late Woodland zooarchaeological record of southern Ontario, Canada	3
The great auk in Norway: From common to locally extinct	3
Skeletal dysplasia of an adult male from medieval Łekno in Poland, Central Europe	3
Morphological and metric criteria for identifying postcranial skeletal remains of modern and archaeological Caprinae and Antilopinae in the northeast Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas	3
Ancient anomalies: Twinned and supernumerary incisors in a medieval Nubian	3
Pigs in the Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: New evidence from Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan (7800–7100 BC)	3
Utilization of validated criteria for diagnostic assessment in nonsynchronous, allopatric populations: Role in archeologic diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis and differentially distinguishing it from m	3
Histological investigation of burnt bones: A case study of angulate tortoises from the archaeological site, Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa	3
The third dimension in palaeopathology: How can three‐dimensional imaging by computed tomography bring an added value to retrospective diagnosis?	3