OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology is 3. 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
A critical evaluation of radiocarbon dates and Indigenous settlement patterns on Santa Catalina Island, California	6
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
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
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
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
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
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