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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Knowing Palmyra: Mandatory production of archaeological knowledge	17
Archaeology, ethnography, and geosciences reveal central role of traditional lifeways in shaping Madagascar’s dry forests	15
Reactivating voices of the youth in safeguarding cultural heritage in Iraq: the challenges and tools	12
Monuments as active cooperation. Crisis, mound construction, and society in Scandinavia in the 6th century AD	10
The politics and historicity of megalithic places in early South India	9
Multiple archives of modernity: Colonialism, capitalism, and identity in Iceland’s transatlantic 19th century	8
Bofedales as relational spaces: Irrigation and nurturing practices in a pre-Hispanic pastoral landscape, South Central Andes	8
Heritage work in extractive zones	8
The roads of power and the paths of the people: Reconfiguring communities and territories from pre-Hispanic Andean roads to modern Peruvian highways	7
Events, narrative and data: why new chronologies or ethically Bayesian approaches should change how we write archaeology	6
Towards an archaeology of refugee lifeworlds	6
The seascape in stone: Archaeological and cosmological assessment of maritime motifs in Yanyuwa ‘rock art’	5
Discoveries, nations, and archaeological explorations: The scientific colonization of Tarapacá, Atacama desert	5
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
Posthumanist community archaeology in Cyprus: Reframing engagement in a contested landscape	4
A mixed city or an ancient historical city? The malleability of heritage in rebranding Lydd	3
Boundary-crossing as resilience: the colonisation of the Maya at Lamanai, Belize in the 16th century	3
Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete	3
Class or no class? A contemporary archaeological approach to a working-class neighbourhood in northern Finland	3
(Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze	3
Crafting difference: artefacts and the politics of distinction at a South Indian well	3
Reclaiming heritage and citizenship: urban pre-colonial cultural heritage management and heritage grassroots organizations in Lima, Peru	3
Symbolic kraals: Subterranean food stores, hidden wealth and ethnographic errors	2
In small things remembered: Pinch pots and skill acquisition in burial evidence from pre-Roman northern Apulia	2

Archaeology for the courtroom: the Ayodhya Case and the fashioning of a hybrid episteme	2
Brokering time and place: The piedras rayadas of El Tigre, Honduras	2
Time to decolonise: ‘If not now’, then when?	2
Of robots and ancient mysteries: Representations of Jōmon figurines as cultural heritage and popular culture	2
Activating archaeology: Robert McCormick Adams and how the past can help solve the problems of today	2
Dominion and improvement: The moral ecologies of colonial encounters	2
Assembling Islamic practice in a Swahili urban landscape, 11th–16th centuries	2