OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology 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
Climate change and coastal archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: assessing past impacts and future threats	20
Addressing the problem of disappearing cultural landscapes in archaeological research using multi-scalar survey	13
The magnificent seven: Marine submerged precontact sites found by systematic geoarchaeology in the Americas	11
Global experience in locating submerged prehistoric sites and their relevance to research on the American continental shelves	10
Submerged prehistory and anthropological archaeology: Do underwater studies contribute to theory?	10
Crossing the waterline: Integrating terrestrial and submerged site investigations in the Aucilla River, Florida	10
The archaeology of submerged prehistoric sites on the North Pacific Coast of North America	9
Metaphor and theory in island archaeology	9
An island archaeology of uninhabited landscapes: Offshore islets near Paros, Greece (the Small Cycladic Islands Project)	9
Broad-spectrum foodways in southern coastal Korea in the Holocene: Isotopic and archaeobotanical signatures in Neolithic shell middens	8
The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell	8
Combining underwater and terrestrial research approaches in the Great Basin Desert, Walker Lake, Nevada	8
Human ecology, paleogeography, and biodiversity on California’s small Islands	7
Coastally-adapted: A developing model for coastal Paleoindian sites on the North American eastern continental shelf	7
Coastal adaptation at Klasies River main site during MIS 5c-d (93,000–110,000 years ago) from a southern Cape perspective	7
Before the Neolithic in the Aegean: The Pleistocene and the Early Holocene record of Bozburun - Southwest Turkey	6
Fishhooks, Lures, and Sinkers: Intensive Manufacture of Marine Technology from the Terminal Pleistocene at Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia	6
Spring tides, storm surges, and the destruction of coastal middens: A case study from the upper Gulf of California, México	6
“The early days” – underwater prehistoric archaeology in the USA and Canada	6
Evidence for early human arrival in Madagascar is robust: A response to Mitchell	5
Island networks: Transformations of inter-community social relationships in the Lesser Antilles at the advent of European colonialism	5
Intensive exploitation of marine crabs and sea urchins during the middle holocene in the eastern Arabian peninsula offers new perspectives on ancient maritime adaptations	5
The latest Neolithic conquest of “new territories” in the Arabian Sea: The Al-Hallaniyat Archipelago (Kuria Muria, Sultanate of Oman)	5
Shellfish collectors on the seashore: The exploitation of the marine environment between the end of the Paleolithic and the Mesolithic in the Mediterranean Iberia	5
The Proyecto Costa Escondida: Historical ecology and the study of past coastal landscapes in the Maya area	5

Isolation and violence on an oceanic island: Lethal injuries in a pre-Hispanic burial in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	5
“This is the way”: Knowledge networks and toolkit specialization in the circumpolar coastal landscapes of western Alaska and Tierra del Fuego	4
Marine shell ornaments and the political economy of gendered power in the Mariana Islands	4
Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru	4
Coastal subsistence and platform mound feasting on Florida’s northern Gulf Coast	4
New insights on the Par-Tee (35CLT20) site: Collections-based research of northern Oregon Coast fisheries	4
Using sea urchin remains to infer the health of kelp forest ecosystems in the past: Identification, quantification, and allometric reconstructions of harvested sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus sp	4
Submerged prehistory in the Americas: Methods, approaches and results	4
Colluvial slope agriculture in context: An extensive agricultural landscape along the slopes of Punalu‘u Valley, O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i	4
Evaluating visibility at sea: Instrumental data and historical nautical records. Mount Etna from the Calabrian Ionian coast (Italy)	4
Behavior and intra-skeletal remodeling in an adult male from 1720 BP Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands, eastern Micronesia	4
Natural and anthropogenic factors impacting northern Morocco’s coastal archaeological heritage: A preliminary assessment	4
Micro-regional approaches for submerged site archaeology	4
Coastal foraging on the West Coast of South Africa in the midst of mid-Holocene climate change	4
Calusa socioecological histories and zooarchaeological indicators of environmental change during the Little Ice Age in southwestern Florida, USA	4
Characterizing seasonal fishing patterns and growth dynamics during the Middle and Late Holocene in the Strait of Magellan (Chilean Patagonia): Sclerochronological analysis of tadpole codling (Sali	4