OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Research is 4. 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
Niche Construction and Long-Term Trajectories of Food Production	23
Aksumite Settlement Patterns: Site Size Hierarchies and Spatial Clustering	19
Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023	15
Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz	14
Hunting and the Social Lives of Southern Africa’s First Farmers	13
Eschewing the Apocalyptic: Recent Research on the Aftermath of “Collapse” in Archaeology Across the Americas	12
Zooarchaeology of Managed, Captive, Tame, and Domestic Birds: Shifts in Human–Avian Relationships	12
The Past, Ethnic Purity, and the Foundations of Nazi Ideology: Archaeology at War	10
Was There a 3.2 ka Crisis in Europe? A Critical Comparison of Climatic, Environmental, and Archaeological Evidence for Radical Change during the Bronze Age–Iron Age Transition	10
Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 2): Landesque Capital and Long-term Resource Management Strategies	9
Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast	8
Considering Ideas of Collective Action, Institutions, and “Hunter-Gatherers” in the American Southeast	8
Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 1): Paleoethnobotanical Residues and New Perspectives on Plant Management	7
Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History	7
The Archaeology of Reindeer Domestication and Herding Practices in Northern Fennoscandia	6
Aşıklı Höyük: The Generative Evolution of a Central Anatolian PPN Settlement in Regional Context	6
From History to Cultural Diversity: The Changing Roles of the Maya Script as Archaeological Data	5
Complexity Without Monumentality in Biblical Times	5
Reconnecting the Forest, Savanna, and Sahel in West Africa: The Sociopolitical Implications of a Long-Networked Past	5
An Archaeological Contribution to the Kalahari Debate from the Middle Limpopo Valley, Southern Africa	5
Community Formation in the Chulmun (Neolithic) and Mumun (Bronze Age) Periods of Korea	5
The Etruscans: Setting New Agendas	4
Wari: Imperialism, Low Power, and Globalization in the Middle Horizon Central Andes	4
Governance, Monumentality, and Urbanism in the Northern Maya Lowlands During the Preclassic and Classic Periods	4
Palmyra: At the Crossroads of the Ancient World	4

Shell Midden Archaeology: Current Trends and Future Directions