OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Island & Coastal 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Landscape ecology, settlement, and land use in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, México: An unusual case for coastal Mesoamerica	7
Review of herring and people of the North Pacific: sustaining a keystone species by Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss *Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sus*	7
Thạch Lạc and the Neolithic transition in north-central Vietnam, 3000–2000 BCE	6
Testing osteometric species determination on zooarchaeological dolphin remains from Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites in Ash-Sharqiyyah, Sultanate of Oman	6
Spatial analysis of changing sea levels and its implications for understanding prehistoric human settlement patterns in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula	6
Fish species richness, resourse availability, and human selectivity reflected in the fish bone material from a medieval Franciscan friary in the Baltic Sea	6
Variability among South African west coast megamiddens: Insights from Paternoster North midden	6
Assessing settlement diversity in Sāmoa	6
A critical evaluation of radiocarbon dates and Indigenous settlement patterns on Santa Catalina Island, California	6
Marginal Increment Analysis of Fish Otoliths Highlights Early Coastal Sedentarization in the Arabian Neolithic	5
Fishing further inland? The role of the transition to agriculture on fishing practices in the Soconusco region, Mexico	5
Amber wind and porpoise jaw: Resource use at Siliņupe (fourth mill. BC) on the Baltic’s Gulf of Riga Coast	5
Recovering a legend: The Wara Liang pottery assemblage and the origin story of Lamalera, Lembata, Indonesia	5
Tracing Seaweed as Food and Fodder in Archaeology: A Review of Current Methods	5
Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal archaeological heritage: A geostatistical overview of threatened sites	4
The stone connection: Functional and microbotanical analysis of prehistoric macrolithic tools on the island of Formentera (Balearic Archipelago)	4
The role of the huemul ( Hippocamelus bisulcus ) in Patagonian maritime hunter-gatherer strategies: The case of Diego Portales Island and Última Esperanza inland sea (Ch	4
Geoarchaeological insights into ancient ports of the northern Persian Gulf: A vanishing heritage	4
Bioavailable ⁸⁷ Sr/ ⁸⁶ Sr variability and Bronze and Iron Ages caprine mobility on the Balearic Islands (Spain)	4
Watching the horizon: Coastal navigation strategies in the Balearic archipelago during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages	4
Underwater Neolithic combustion features: A micro-geoarchaeological study in the submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel	4
More than the sea: Review of different approaches to seascapes reveals unique transdisciplinary conceptualizations and contributions of archaeology	4
Lacustrine islands in the cultural and natural landscape of Western Slavs in the early Middle Ages	4
Massive offerings of marine fish at Salango, coastal Ecuador, during the Middle Guangala phase (AD 300–600)	3
Palmetto Ware Pottery of the Lucayan Islands: Reverse Engineering a Novel Pottery Type	3

Sourcing Mississippian pottery among the complex maritime cultures of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast	3
Knives, canoes, and invisible technologies : A use-wear analysis of shell tools from southern Patagonia	3
Discovering the Paleolithic Ayvalık: A Strategic Crossroads in Early Human Dispersals Between Anatolia and Europe	3
From earth to sky: Large-scale archaeological settlement patterns in southernmost South America based on ground surveys, UAV LiDAR, and open access satellite imagery	3
The “island laboratory” revisited: Integrating environmental and sociocultural approaches	3
Exploring the origins of coastal villages: New discoveries at the Spring Warrior civic-ceremonial center on Florida’s Gulf Coast	2
Flooded mangrove landscapes hide ancient Maya coastal sites in Belize	2
Geological controls on the preservation of fossils and archaeology in the islands of the Riau–Lingga Archipelago, Indonesia	2
The Proyecto Costa Escondida: Historical ecology and the study of past coastal landscapes in the Maya area	2
Coastal occupation and relative sea-level changes during Martinique’s Early Ceramic Period: Reassessment of the impact of Holocene marine transgression in a supposed tectonically stable zone	2
Of islands and dogs: Ethnohistoric and isotopic pathways toward understanding past dog diet in tropical Oceania	2
Pollen and phytoliths in archaeological features from North Island, New Zealand, reveal landscape disturbance and cultivation of Polynesian-introduced Cordyline cf.	2
A multi-factor flood impact assessment approach towards evaluating Florida’s coastal cultural resources for an improved management strategy	2
Terrestrial snails from archaeological sites as proxies for relative sea level on the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA	2
Prehistoric reef-building coral occurrence in north Peru	2
Pre-contact water access: First discovery of pot-lined wells on Martinique	2
Do stormy seas lead to better boats? Exploring the origins of the southern Californian plank canoe through ocean voyage modeling	2
The intentional variability of Lapita pottery fabrics	1
Coastal foragers beyond the mainland: Seafaring and early island settlement on Velanai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, ca. 3460 cal BP	1
Staple or delicacy: Sea urchin exploitation over the last 40,000 years at Makpan Cave, Alor Island	1
Mapping the impacts of coastal erosion on the heritage assets of Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island), North Wales, UK	1
Landscapes created by millennia of cultural land use in the Fleurieu Group of Islands, Tasmania—a knowledge baseline for current and future land management under changing climates	1
Agency amongst the entrepôts: Negotiating exchange associations between Motu hiri and Mailu seafaring exchange networks at Hood Bay on Papua New Guinea’s south coast	1
New insights into the use, chronology and nautical performance of dugout canoes from the central basin of the La Plata River in Paraguay	1
Archaeological record of historical–modern intertidal Octopus fishers of coastal North Patagonia, Argentina	1
Late Holocene seasonal human predation of otariids in Santa Cruz River mouth, Southern Patagonia, Argentina	1
Botanical remains of the last 1800 years from Tarawa, Republic of Kiribati, reveal ancient aroid ( Cyrtosperma merkusii and Colocasia esculenta	1
Tendencies on the use and circulation of seaweed along the Andean Coast: Past and present	1
Revisiting the evidence of the Arenal 1 site: Chronologies and human interactions in central southern Chile	1
Seaweeds, seagrasses, and the Island Chumash of Alta California	1
Combining quantification, sex, age, and utility patterns to interpret two dugong bone mounds from Woeydhul Island (Western Torres Strait, Australia)	1
Evidence of lithic blade technology in southwest Madagascar	1
Using bone technology and ZooMS to understand indigenous use of marine mammals at Iita, Northwest Greenland	1
Societies in Transition in Early Greece: An Archaeological History	1
Dry, leeward regions support Colonization Period sites: Stratigraphy, dating, and geomorphological setting of one of the earliest habitations in the Hawaiian Islands	1
Correction	1
Catch of the day: Abundance and size data of groupers (Epinephelidae) and combers (Serranidae) from Middle to Late Holocene Levantine archaeological contexts	1
Of missions and marshes: Stable isotope analysis of Mission-Era Guale oyster harvesting on St. Catherines Island, Georgia	1
Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island: Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery,	1
A life in the sea: Prevalence of auditory exostosis among the nonadult prehispanic population of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands)	1