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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Ceramic technology. How to reconstruct the firing process	70
Ceramic technology: how to recognize clay processing	57
Ceramic technology. How to characterise ceramic glazes	52
Mortars and plasters—how to characterise hydraulic mortars	49
Ceramic raw materials: how to recognize them and locate the supply basins: chemistry	49
Ceramic abandonment. How to recognise post-depositional transformations	42
Pigments—Lead-based whites, reds, yellows and oranges and their alteration phases	42
Characterizing the pigments and paints of prehistoric artists	42
Ceramic raw materials: how to recognize them and locate the supply basins—mineralogy, petrography	40
Pigments—the palette of organic colourants in wall paintings	39
Pigments — Mercury-based red (cinnabar-vermilion) and white (calomel) and their degradation products	39
Ceramic technology. How to reconstruct and describe pottery-forming practices	38
Pigments—Iron-based red, yellow, and brown ochres	37
Pigments—copper-based greens and blues	35
Mortars and plasters—How to characterize aerial mortars and plasters	33
Mortars and masonry—structural lime and gypsum mortars in Antiquity and Middle Ages	33
Mortars and plasters—How mortars were made. The literary sources	32
Mortars and plasters - How to characterize mortar and plaster degradation	32
Wall paintings through the ages: the medieval period (Italy, twelfth to fifteenth century)	31
Wall paintings through the ages: the roman period—Republic and early Empire	31
Mortars and plasters—how to manage mortars and plasters conservation	30
Production, transport and on-site organisation of Roman mortars and plasters	30
Ceramic technology. How to investigate surface finishing	29
Ceramics investigation: research questions and sampling criteria	29
Ceramic investigation: how to perform statistical analyses	28

Identifying early stages of reindeer domestication in the archaeological record: a 3D morphological investigation on forelimb bones of modern populations from Fennoscandia	28
Ceramic technology: how to characterise black Fe-based glass-ceramic coatings	27
Not only wall paintings—pigments for cosmetics	27