OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Social Archaeology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Roman provincial sexualities: Constructing the body, sexuality, and gender through erotic lamp art	15
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	8
Monuments as active cooperation. Crisis, mound construction, and society in Scandinavia in the 6th century AD	8
The politics and historicity of megalithic places in early South India	7
Staying local: Community formation and resilience in Archaic Southern Sicily	7
Multiple archives of modernity: Colonialism, capitalism, and identity in Iceland’s transatlantic 19th century	7
Heritage work in extractive zones	6
The seascape in stone: Archaeological and cosmological assessment of maritime motifs in Yanyuwa ‘rock art’	5
Bofedales as relational spaces: Irrigation and nurturing practices in a pre-Hispanic pastoral landscape, South Central Andes	5
Discoveries, nations, and archaeological explorations: The scientific colonization of Tarapacá, Atacama desert	4
Posthumanist community archaeology in Cyprus: Reframing engagement in a contested landscape	4
Events, narrative and data: why new chronologies or ethically Bayesian approaches should change how we write archaeology	4
The roads of power and the paths of the people: Reconfiguring communities and territories from pre-Hispanic Andean roads to modern Peruvian highways	4
Landscapes of production, production of meaning: Salt infrastructure and environmental history in imperial Rome and Han China	4
Turning gold to stone: A case study in exchange value and cultural alloys	4
Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete	3
Reclaiming heritage and citizenship: urban pre-colonial cultural heritage management and heritage grassroots organizations in Lima, Peru	3
Crafting difference: artefacts and the politics of distinction at a South Indian well	2
Class or no class? A contemporary archaeological approach to a working-class neighbourhood in northern Finland	2
Minding the gap: Attempts at community archaeology and local counter-narratives at an archaeological site in Turkey	2
Sketchbook archaeology: Bodies multiple and the archives they create	2
Activating archaeology: Robert McCormick Adams and how the past can help solve the problems of today	2
Boundary-crossing as resilience: the colonisation of the Maya at Lamanai, Belize in the 16th century	2

Brokering time and place: The piedras rayadas of El Tigre, Honduras	2
In small things remembered: Pinch pots and skill acquisition in burial evidence from pre-Roman northern Apulia	2
Symbolic kraals: Subterranean food stores, hidden wealth and ethnographic errors	2
(Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze	2
A mixed city or an ancient historical city? The malleability of heritage in rebranding Lydd	2
Time to decolonise: ‘If not now’, then when?	2
Archaeology for the courtroom: the Ayodhya Case and the fashioning of a hybrid episteme	2