OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Research is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Niche Construction and Long-Term Trajectories of Food Production	29
Breaking Down the “Barbarian” Trope: Strategic Military Coordination in Decentralized Collectives	29
Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz	26
Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023	26
Hunting and the Social Lives of Southern Africa’s First Farmers	24
The Contribution of the Anthropology of Techniques to the Study of the Western Linearbandkeramik	23
Climate Change and El Niño Events in the Ancient Andes: Integrating Archaeological and Biorchaeological Perspectives	20
Eschewing the Apocalyptic: Recent Research on the Aftermath of “Collapse” in Archaeology Across the Americas	17
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	17
Rethinking Key Transformations in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Central Europe: A Radiocarbon Modeling Approach	16
Zooarchaeology of Managed, Captive, Tame, and Domestic Birds: Shifts in Human–Avian Relationships	16
Meeting the Urgent Need and Growing Demand for Archaeological Synthesis	14
The Past, Ethnic Purity, and the Foundations of Nazi Ideology: Archaeology at War	12
Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 2): Landesque Capital and Long-term Resource Management Strategies	10
Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast	10
Considering Ideas of Collective Action, Institutions, and “Hunter-Gatherers” in the American Southeast	10
Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 1): Paleoethnobotanical Residues and New Perspectives on Plant Management	8
Sequences of Inequality and Social Processes in the Central and Southern Andes (1st and 2nd millennia AD)	8
The Archaeology of Reindeer Domestication and Herding Practices in Northern Fennoscandia	5
Townlands of the Swahili Coast: A Framework for Compact, High-Density Tropical Urbanism on Eastern Africa’s Indian Ocean Rim	5
Centralization and Integration in Tairona Chiefdoms of the Río Frío basin, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia	5
Community Formation in the Chulmun (Neolithic) and Mumun (Bronze Age) Periods of Korea	4
Reconnecting the Forest, Savanna, and Sahel in West Africa: The Sociopolitical Implications of a Long-Networked Past	3
Low-level Food Production in Neolithic North China: Organizational Patterns and Divergent Pathways	3
Reflective Perspectives from 33 Years at the Journal of Archaeological Research	3

Complexity Without Monumentality in Biblical Times	3
Shell Midden Archaeology: Current Trends and Future Directions	2
Governance, Monumentality, and Urbanism in the Northern Maya Lowlands During the Preclassic and Classic Periods	2
Explaining Inequality in Northwest Coast and Native California Societies: A Critical Assessment	2
From History to Cultural Diversity: The Changing Roles of the Maya Script as Archaeological Data	2
Tendencies in the Tempo of Prehistoric Agricultural Expansions	2
Palmyra: At the Crossroads of the Ancient World	2
Bone Tool Diversity During the Stone Age: More Insights into the Human Story	2
Wari: Imperialism, Low Power, and Globalization in the Middle Horizon Central Andes	2