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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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
Landscape ecology, settlement, and land use in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, México: An unusual case for coastal Mesoamerica	6
Contextualizing the influence of climate and culture on bivalve populations: Donax obesulus malacology from the north coast of Peru	6
Testing osteometric species determination on zooarchaeological dolphin remains from Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites in Ash-Sharqiyyah, Sultanate of Oman	5
Thạch Lạc and the Neolithic transition in north-central Vietnam, 3000–2000 BCE	5
Assessing settlement diversity in Sāmoa	5
Variability among South African west coast megamiddens: Insights from Paternoster North midden	5
An archaeomalacological investigation of chitons on the Hane Dune site, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands	5
Use of plants by hunter-gatherers at coastal sites: The case of Cabo San Pablo 2017 (Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina)	5
Spatial analysis of changing sea levels and its implications for understanding prehistoric human settlement patterns in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula	5
A critical evaluation of radiocarbon dates and Indigenous settlement patterns on Santa Catalina Island, California	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
Recovering a legend: The Wara Liang pottery assemblage and the origin story of Lamalera, Lembata, Indonesia	4
Amber wind and porpoise jaw: Resource use at Siliņupe (fourth mill. BC) on the Baltic’s Gulf of Riga Coast	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
Marginal Increment Analysis of Fish Otoliths Highlights Early Coastal Sedentarization in the Arabian Neolithic	4
Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: Contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade	4
Fishing further inland? The role of the transition to agriculture on fishing practices in the Soconusco region, Mexico	3
Underwater Neolithic combustion features: A micro-geoarchaeological study in the submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel	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
Bioavailable ⁸⁷ Sr/ ⁸⁶ Sr variability and Bronze and Iron Ages caprine mobility on the Balearic Islands (Spain)	3
Geoarchaeological insights into ancient ports of the northern Persian Gulf: A vanishing heritage	3
Lacustrine islands in the cultural and natural landscape of Western Slavs in the early Middle Ages	3

Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal archaeological heritage: A geostatistical overview of threatened sites	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 stone connection: Functional and microbotanical analysis of prehistoric macrolithic tools on the island of Formentera (Balearic Archipelago)	3
The “island laboratory” revisited: Integrating environmental and sociocultural approaches	2
Massive offerings of marine fish at Salango, coastal Ecuador, during the Middle Guangala phase (AD 300–600)	2
Exploring Swahili urbanism through survey of Songo Mnara Island, Tanzania	2
Exploring the origins of coastal villages: New discoveries at the Spring Warrior civic-ceremonial center on Florida’s Gulf Coast	2
Sourcing Mississippian pottery among the complex maritime cultures of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast	2
Discovering the Paleolithic Ayvalık: A Strategic Crossroads in Early Human Dispersals Between Anatolia and Europe	2
Do stormy seas lead to better boats? Exploring the origins of the southern Californian plank canoe through ocean voyage modeling	2
The Proyecto Costa Escondida: Historical ecology and the study of past coastal landscapes in the Maya area	2
The indigenous paleolithic of the Western hemisphere	2
Palmetto Ware Pottery of the Lucayan Islands: Reverse Engineering a Novel Pottery Type	2
Terrestrial snails from archaeological sites as proxies for relative sea level on the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA	2