OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Research is 5. 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
Mobility and Social Change: Understanding the European Neolithic Period after the Archaeogenetic Revolution	40
Archaeological Approaches to Agricultural Economies	22
Moving Forward: A Bioarchaeology of Mobility and Migration	21
From Categories to Connections in the Archaeology of Eastern North America	17
Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC)	15
Chinese Bronze Age Political Economies: A Complex Polity Provisioning Approach	14
Aşıklı Höyük: The Generative Evolution of a Central Anatolian PPN Settlement in Regional Context	14
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	13
Considering Ideas of Collective Action, Institutions, and “Hunter-Gatherers” in the American Southeast	12
Re-approaching Celts: Origins, Society, and Social Change	12
Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History	12
Process and Dynamics of Mediterranean Neolithization (7000–5500 bc)	11
Crossing the Maelstrom: New Departures in Viking Archaeology	9
Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 1): Paleoethnobotanical Residues and New Perspectives on Plant Management	8
Caribbean Deep-Time Culinary Worlds Revealed by Ancient Food Starches: Beyond the Dominant Narratives	8
The Urbanization of Northern Italy: Contextualizing Early Settlement Nucleation in the Po Valley	8
Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast	7
An Archaeological Contribution to the Kalahari Debate from the Middle Limpopo Valley, Southern Africa	7
Aksumite Settlement Patterns: Site Size Hierarchies and Spatial Clustering	6
Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age Trade in Archaeological Perspective: A Review of Interpretative and Empirical Developments	6
The Later Phases of Southern Mesopotamian Urbanism: Babylonia in the Second and First Millennia BC	5
Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Early Modern Humans: A Review of the Pleistocene Hominin Fossils from the Altai Mountains (Southern Siberia)	5
Social Complexity and the Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya	5
Prehistoric Mongolian Archaeology in the Early 21st Century: Developments in the Steppe and Beyond	5
Past, Present, and Future of Complex Systems Theory in Archaeology	5

Shell Midden Archaeology: Current Trends and Future Directions