OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Social Archaeology is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Roman provincial sexualities: Constructing the body, sexuality, and gender through erotic lamp art	14
Knowing Palmyra: Mandatory production of archaeological knowledge	12
Archaeology, ethnography, and geosciences reveal central role of traditional lifeways in shaping Madagascar’s dry forests	10
Reactivating voices of the youth in safeguarding cultural heritage in Iraq: the challenges and tools	9
Staying local: Community formation and resilience in Archaic Southern Sicily	8
The politics and historicity of megalithic places in early South India	7
Fear of a cannibal island: Colonial fear, everyday life, and event landscapes in the Erromango missions of Vanuatu	7
Multiple archives of modernity: Colonialism, capitalism, and identity in Iceland’s transatlantic 19th century	6
The roads of power and the paths of the people: Reconfiguring communities and territories from pre-Hispanic Andean roads to modern Peruvian highways	5
Heritage work in extractive zones	5
The seascape in stone: Archaeological and cosmological assessment of maritime motifs in Yanyuwa ‘rock art’	5
Events, narrative and data: why new chronologies or ethically Bayesian approaches should change how we write archaeology	5
Landscapes of production, production of meaning: Salt infrastructure and environmental history in imperial Rome and Han China	4
Discoveries, nations, and archaeological explorations: The scientific colonization of Tarapacá, Atacama desert	4
Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete	4
(Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze	3
Domestication is not an ancient moment of selection for prosociality: Insights from dogs and modern humans	3
Reclaiming heritage and citizenship: urban pre-colonial cultural heritage management and heritage grassroots organizations in Lima, Peru	3
Excavating Europe’s last fascist monument: The Valley of the Fallen (Spain)	2
A contemporary archaeology of pandemic	2
Class or no class? A contemporary archaeological approach to a working-class neighbourhood in northern Finland	2
A mixed city or an ancient historical city? The malleability of heritage in rebranding Lydd	2
Crafting difference: artefacts and the politics of distinction at a South Indian well	2
Boundary-crossing as resilience: the colonisation of the Maya at Lamanai, Belize in the 16th century	2
Minding the gap: Attempts at community archaeology and local counter-narratives at an archaeological site in Turkey	1

Archaeology for the courtroom: the Ayodhya Case and the fashioning of a hybrid episteme	1
Activating archaeology: Robert McCormick Adams and how the past can help solve the problems of today	1
Dominion and improvement: The moral ecologies of colonial encounters	1
Symbolic kraals: Subterranean food stores, hidden wealth and ethnographic errors	1
Time to decolonise: ‘If not now’, then when?	1
Archaeology, Indigenous erasure, and the creation of white public space at the California missions	1