OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences is 27. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Ceramic technology. How to reconstruct the firing process	81
Ceramic technology: how to recognize clay processing	57
Ceramic technology. How to characterise ceramic glazes	55
Ceramic raw materials: how to recognize them and locate the supply basins: chemistry	53
Mortars and plasters—how to characterise hydraulic mortars	51
Pigments—Lead-based whites, reds, yellows and oranges and their alteration phases	50
Characterizing the pigments and paints of prehistoric artists	48
Ceramic abandonment. How to recognise post-depositional transformations	43
Pigments — Mercury-based red (cinnabar-vermilion) and white (calomel) and their degradation products	43
Ceramic raw materials: how to recognize them and locate the supply basins—mineralogy, petrography	42
Pigments—the palette of organic colourants in wall paintings	40
Pigments—Iron-based red, yellow, and brown ochres	39
Pigments—copper-based greens and blues	39
Ceramic technology. How to reconstruct and describe pottery-forming practices	38
Mortars and masonry—structural lime and gypsum mortars in Antiquity and Middle Ages	34
Mortars and plasters—how to manage mortars and plasters conservation	33
Wall paintings through the ages: the medieval period (Italy, twelfth to fifteenth century)	33
Wall paintings through the ages: the roman period—Republic and early Empire	33
Mortars and plasters—How to characterize aerial mortars and plasters	33
Mortars and plasters - How to characterize mortar and plaster degradation	32
Mortars and plasters—How mortars were made. The literary sources	32
Production, transport and on-site organisation of Roman mortars and plasters	31
Ceramic technology. How to investigate surface finishing	30
Ceramics investigation: research questions and sampling criteria	30
Identifying early stages of reindeer domestication in the archaeological record: a 3D morphological investigation on forelimb bones of modern populations from Fennoscandia	28

Ceramic investigation: how to perform statistical analyses	28
Not only wall paintings—pigments for cosmetics	28
Ceramic technology: how to characterise black Fe-based glass-ceramic coatings	27
Mortars, plasters and pigments—research questions and sampling criteria	27