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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate change and coastal archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: assessing past impacts and future threats	25
The magnificent seven: Marine submerged precontact sites found by systematic geoarchaeology in the Americas	12
Fishhooks, Lures, and Sinkers: Intensive Manufacture of Marine Technology from the Terminal Pleistocene at Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia	10
The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell	8
Calusa socioecological histories and zooarchaeological indicators of environmental change during the Little Ice Age in southwestern Florida, USA	6
The latest Neolithic conquest of “new territories” in the Arabian Sea: The Al-Hallaniyat Archipelago (Kuria Muria, Sultanate of Oman)	6
The Proyecto Costa Escondida: Historical ecology and the study of past coastal landscapes in the Maya area	5
“This is the way”: Knowledge networks and toolkit specialization in the circumpolar coastal landscapes of western Alaska and Tierra del Fuego	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
Natural and anthropogenic factors impacting northern Morocco’s coastal archaeological heritage: A preliminary assessment	5
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
An archaeomalacological investigation of chitons on the Hane Dune site, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands	4
Coastal foraging on the West Coast of South Africa in the midst of mid-Holocene climate change	4
Amber wind and porpoise jaw: Resource use at Siliņupe (fourth mill. BC) on the Baltic’s Gulf of Riga Coast	4
Colluvial slope agriculture in context: An extensive agricultural landscape along the slopes of Punalu‘u Valley, O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i	4
Behavior and intra-skeletal remodeling in an adult male from 1720 BP Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands, eastern Micronesia	4
Submerged prehistory in the Americas: Methods, approaches and results	4
Exploring Swahili urbanism through survey of Songo Mnara Island, Tanzania	4
Study of dugout canoes from the coast of La Plata River and the islands of the Paraná Delta, Argentina	4
Insular networks: An exploration of material distribution, insularity and island identity on the edge of Europe in the Shetland Neolithic	4
Complementary spaces in marine littoral exploitation? A comparative study of rock shelter and shell middens occupations from the lower basin of the Deseado River, Argentine Patagonia	4
Dry, leeward regions support Colonization Period sites: Stratigraphy, dating, and geomorphological setting of one of the earliest habitations in the Hawaiian Islands	3
Flooded mangrove landscapes hide ancient Maya coastal sites in Belize	3
The legacy of 1300 years of land use in Jamaica	3

Establishing the efficacy of reed-bundle rafts in the paleolithic colonization of the Ryukyu Islands	3
Human settlement and landscape dynamics on the coastline south of the Gironde estuary (SW France): A multi-proxy approach	3
Catch of the day: Abundance and size data of groupers (Epinephelidae) and combers (Serranidae) from Middle to Late Holocene Levantine archaeological contexts	3
New insights into the daily and symbolic use of plants during initial occupations of Formentera (Balearic Islands, Spain)	3
Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea	2
Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: Contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade	2
New information from an old discovery: Geological analysis of a stone adze found on Pohnpei, Micronesia	2
A preliminary consideration of craft production and settlement expansion on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, USA	2
Meat food preferences during the Late Archaic Period at Puerto Marqués, Guerrero, Mexico	2
Mapping the impacts of coastal erosion on the heritage assets of Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island), North Wales, UK	2
Examining prehistoric diet at Tung Wan Tsai, Ma Wan Island, Hong Kong through stable isotope analysis	2
Sailing the deep blue sea: The rock art of Wetang Island, Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia	2
Contextualizing the influence of climate and culture on bivalve populations: Donax obesulus malacology from the north coast of Peru	2
Terrestrial snails from archaeological sites as proxies for relative sea level on the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA	2
The North Atlantic cod trade: A meta-analysis of the North American and European archaeological records	2
New archaeological discoveries in north-central Timor-Leste indicate sociocultural adaptations to landscape change during the Holocene	2
A pre-European archaeology in Malvinas/Falkland Islands? A review	2
Underwater Neolithic combustion features: A micro-geoarchaeological study in the submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel	2