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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobility and Social Change: Understanding the European Neolithic Period after the Archaeogenetic Revolution	37
Killing the Priest-King: Addressing Egalitarianism in the Indus Civilization	28
Archaeological Approaches to Agricultural Economies	20
Moving Forward: A Bioarchaeology of Mobility and Migration	20
Pleistocene Water Crossings and Adaptive Flexibility Within the Homo Genus	19
From Categories to Connections in the Archaeology of Eastern North America	16
Rethinking Middle Bronze Age Communities on Cyprus: “Egalitarian” and Isolated or Complex and Interconnected?	14
Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC)	13
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	12
Chinese Bronze Age Political Economies: A Complex Polity Provisioning Approach	11
Process and Dynamics of Mediterranean Neolithization (7000–5500 bc)	10
Aşıklı Höyük: The Generative Evolution of a Central Anatolian PPN Settlement in Regional Context	9
Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History	9
Re-approaching Celts: Origins, Society, and Social Change	9
Caribbean Deep-Time Culinary Worlds Revealed by Ancient Food Starches: Beyond the Dominant Narratives	8
Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 1): Paleoethnobotanical Residues and New Perspectives on Plant Management	7
Crossing the Maelstrom: New Departures in Viking Archaeology	7
The Urbanization of Northern Italy: Contextualizing Early Settlement Nucleation in the Po Valley	7
Aksumite Settlement Patterns: Site Size Hierarchies and Spatial Clustering	6
Considering Ideas of Collective Action, Institutions, and “Hunter-Gatherers” in the American Southeast	6
Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast	6
Prehistoric Mongolian Archaeology in the Early 21st Century: Developments in the Steppe and Beyond	5
Social Complexity and the Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya	5
An Archaeological Contribution to the Kalahari Debate from the Middle Limpopo Valley, Southern Africa	4