OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Island & Coastal 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Insular networks: An exploration of material distribution, insularity and island identity on the edge of Europe in the Shetland Neolithic	31
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*	6
Rescue recovery of the earliest known burials from Barbuda, West Indies (ca. 3560–3220 cal years BP)	6
Use of plants by hunter-gatherers at coastal sites: The case of Cabo San Pablo 2017 (Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina)	5
Landscape ecology, settlement, and land use in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, México: An unusual case for coastal Mesoamerica	5
An archaeomalacological investigation of chitons on the Hane Dune site, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands	5
Contextualizing the influence of climate and culture on bivalve populations: Donax obesulus malacology from the north coast of Peru	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
A critical evaluation of radiocarbon dates and Indigenous settlement patterns on Santa Catalina Island, California	4
Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: Contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade	4
Testing osteometric species determination on zooarchaeological dolphin remains from Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites in Ash-Sharqiyyah, Sultanate of Oman	4
Watching the horizon: Coastal navigation strategies in the Balearic archipelago during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages	4
Response to the Comment on “Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru” by Víctor F. Vásquez Sánchez, Teresa E. Rosales Tham, J. Netherly, and Tom D. Dillehay	4
Fish species richness, resourse availability, and human selectivity reflected in the fish bone material from a medieval Franciscan friary in the Baltic Sea	4
Fishing further inland? The role of the transition to agriculture on fishing practices in the Soconusco region, Mexico	4
Lacustrine islands in the cultural and natural landscape of Western Slavs in the early Middle Ages	3
More than the sea: Review of different approaches to seascapes reveals unique transdisciplinary conceptualizations and contributions of archaeology	3
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	3
Amber wind and porpoise jaw: Resource use at Siliņupe (fourth mill. BC) on the Baltic’s Gulf of Riga Coast	3
Bioavailable ⁸⁷ Sr/ ⁸⁶ Sr variability and Bronze and Iron Ages caprine mobility on the Balearic Islands (Spain)	3
The stone connection: Functional and microbotanical analysis of prehistoric macrolithic tools on the island of Formentera (Balearic Archipelago)	3
Terrestrial snails from archaeological sites as proxies for relative sea level on the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA	2
Sourcing Mississippian pottery among the complex maritime cultures of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast	2
The indigenous paleolithic of the Western hemisphere	2
Geoarchaeological insights into ancient ports of the northern Persian Gulf: A vanishing heritage	2

Exploring Swahili urbanism through survey of Songo Mnara Island, Tanzania	2
Do stormy seas lead to better boats? Exploring the origins of the southern Californian plank canoe through ocean voyage modeling	2
From earth to sky: Large-scale archaeological settlement patterns in southernmost South America based on ground surveys, UAV LiDAR, and open access satellite imagery	2
Massive offerings of marine fish at Salango, coastal Ecuador, during the Middle Guangala phase (AD 300–600)	2
The Proyecto Costa Escondida: Historical ecology and the study of past coastal landscapes in the Maya area	2
Colonial rainfed farming strategies in an extremely arid insular environment: Niche construction on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain	2
Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal archaeological heritage: A geostatistical overview of threatened sites	2
Underwater Neolithic combustion features: A micro-geoarchaeological study in the submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel	2
The “island laboratory” revisited: Integrating environmental and sociocultural approaches	2
A population history of Tokelau – genetic variation and change in atoll populations	2