OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Paleopathology is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Multi-level spondylolysis at Egiin Gol: A case from Xiongnu period Mongolia	21
An ‘Index of Oro-dental Disease’: A holistic method for understanding the impacts of different risk factors on oral health in archaeological populations	20
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH): New evidence from micro-XCT scanning	18
Editorial Board	17
Trepanations in the ancient Greek colony of Akanthos: Skull surgery in the light of Hippocratic medicine	16
The frequency and macromorphological classification of abnormal blood vessel impressions and periosteal appositions of the dura mater in an early modern osteological collection from Poland	15
Generalized dermatitis in the natural mummy of the Roman Catholic nun Marie-Léonie Martin (France, 1863–1941)	15
Living with lower limb traumas and below-knee amputation in a Jordanian Late Ottoman nomadic community	14
Spotted bones in an osteopoikilosis-related disease (Buschke Ollendorff Syndrome): Identifying this rare condition from the lab to the field	12
The palaeopathology of industry, a perspective from Britain	11
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	11
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean	11
Is dietary deficiency of calcium a factor in rickets? Use of current evidence for our understanding of the disease in the past	10
Oral conditions of the pre-Hispanic mummies of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	10
ABSTRACTS	9
Tracing Leprosy: The paleopathological study of the individuals excavated from the Sant Llàtzer leprosarium in Barcelona, Spain (12th-18th c.)	9
Reconstruction of anatomy and care provisioning in a severe case of spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia	9
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	8
A possible case of juvenile idiopathic arthritis from Renaissance Lucca (Tuscany, central Italy)	8
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	8
Majewski/Microcephalic Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type II (MOPDII) with generalised microdontia in the 4th millennium BCE Eastern Mediterranean	8
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	8
A pathological Neandertal thumb phalanx from Moula-Guercy (France)	7
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	7
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	7

Exoskeletal and eye repair in Dalmanitina socialis (Trilobita): An example of blastemal regeneration in the Ordovician?	7
A severe case of bilateral humerus varus deformity from the Middle Bronze age necropolis of Olmo di Nogara, Northeast Italy. The contribution of biomechanical analysis to paleopathological study	7
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	7
Temporal pattern of dental caries at the western flank of the Central Plateau of Iran, c. 2700 BCE – 1600 CE	7
Klippel-Feil syndrome cases from Slovakia	7
A mature ovarian teratoma from New Kingdom Amarna, Egypt	6
Surviving (but not thriving) after cranial vault trauma: A case study from Transylvania	6
A case of bilateral humerus varus from the late antiquity Catacomb of Santa Mustiola (Chiusi, Italy)	6
Editorial Board	6
Corrigendum to “Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England” [Int. J. Paleopathol. 40 (2023) 7–19]	6
A sting in the tail: An embedded stingray spine in a mid-1st millennium AD adult male skeleton from Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan	6
Cribriotic lesions in archaeological human skeletal remains. Prevalence, co-occurrence, and association in medieval and early modern Netherlands	6
Testing the Digital Atlas of Ancient Rare Diseases (DAARD) using a new case of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease from Early Byzantine (500–700 CE) Olympia, Greece	6
Editorial Board	5
A possible case of ameloblastoma in an adult male from the early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal	5
Unusual teeth in unusual places: Criteria for identifying teratomatous dental elements in archeological contexts	5
Influences of industrial development and urbanization on human lives in premodern Japan: Views from paleodemography	5
And as things have been they remain: Enteric disease and differential mortality among ethnic groups in early twentieth century Milwaukee	5
A content analysis by bibliometry of the first ten years of the International Journal of Paleopathology	5
Are the identified collections of immature skeletons dating from the Industrial Revolution good references for paleoauxological studies? Cases studies from England & France	5
A urinary stone from the early medieval site of Riner, Catalonia	5
Madelung-type deformity in a female individual from the Merovingian Period in Central Germany: A rare finding or a rare disease?	5
What is a rare disease in animal paleopathology?	4
Schmorl's nodes in a historic adult skeletal sample (19th to 20th centuries): An analysis of age, sex and occupation	4
Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England	4
A calvarial osteolytic lesion of probable vascular origin in a Maya juvenile from the Classic Period ( 250−900 CE)	4
Evidence of non-adult vitamin C deficiency in three early medieval sites in the Jaun/Podjuna Valley, Carinthia, Austria	4
The dark satanic mills: Evaluating patterns of health in England during the industrial revolution	4
Corrigendum to “The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities”[Int. J. Paleopathol. 38 (2022),	4
3D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France	4
Pathological and sub-pathological changes in European rabbit bones: Two reference cases to be applied to the analysis of archaeological assemblages	4
Forgotten and found: A case of childhood rickets in the 19th-century settler village of Heuvelton, New York	4
Schmorl’s nodes in two 19th-20th century Spanish osteological collections from Valladolid and Granada	4
Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa	4
The unwritten history of medical treatment: Evidence for ritual-healers and their activities in the pre-literate past	4
Thoracic trauma: Clinical and paleopathological perspectives	4
The potential for over diagnosis of Paget’s disease of bone using macroscopic analysis	4
Conceptualizing disabilities from antiquity to the middle ages: A historical-medical contribution	4
Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England	3
Challenging definitions and diagnostic approaches for ancient rare diseases: The case of poliomyelitis	3
Solitary osteochondromas in paleo-oncology: A case report from 4th-century BCE Pontecagnano (southern Italy)	3
Ancient DNA analysis of rare genetic bone disorders	3
How rare is rare? A literature survey of the last 45 years of paleopathological research on ancient rare diseases	3
Is the promontory a promising site to diagnose otitis media in paleopathology? A search for evidence	3
A probable case of holoprosencephaly with cyclopia in a full-term fetus from a modern skeletal collection	3
Editorial Board	3
Bilateral hip dysplasia in a South African male: A case study from the 17–18th century	3
Periodontitis and alveolar resorption in human skeletal remains: The relationship between quantitative alveolar bone loss, occlusal wear, antemortem tooth loss, dental calculus and age at death in a l	3
Two paleopathological cases suggestive of paralabral cysts of the shoulder	3
A possible case of Langerhans-cell histiocytosis? Differential diagnosis in a rare case from the Late Antiquity Bavaria (Germany)	3

Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations	2
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	2
Periodontal disease in sheep and cattle: Understanding dental health in past animal populations	2
Helping to shine light on the Dark Ages: Applying the bioarchaeology of care approach to remains from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Worthy Park	2
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt	2
A probable case of hypophosphatasia in St Bride’s Lower Churchyard (1770–1849, London, UK)	2
Metabolic bone disease in an extinct neotropical primate	2
A pathological lesion or a postmortem artefact? An interdisciplinary approach to deal with an interesting early medieval case	2
A distant city: Assessing the impact of Dutch socioeconomic developments on urban and rural health using respiratory disease as a proxy	2
A case of secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from medieval Tuscany (central Italy, 10th-12th centuries CE)	2
Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	2
The association between skeletal lesions and tuberculosis in a pre-antibiotic South African sample	2
Infectious disease and nutritional deficiencies in early industrialized South Africa	2
Histology of pulmonary tuberculosis in a 19th-century mummy from Comiso (Sicily, Italy)	2
Elemental analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence: Guidelines for the study of dry human bone	2
Changes in mortality in a non-industrialized Portugal: Coimbra Municipal Cemetery records (1861–1914) and identified osteological collections	2
Was it worth migrating to the new British industrial colony of South Australia? Evidence from skeletal pathologies and historic records of a sample of 19th-century settlers	2
Rarity of congenital malformation and deformity in the fossil record of vertebrates – A non-human perspective	2
Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions	2
Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	2
Activity reconstruction of Rangifer tarandus feet in Fennoscandian -archaeology: Methodological considerations and application to archaeological material from two Sámi habitation sites	2
Corrigendum to “Disability and care in Western Europe during Medieval times: A bioarchaeological perspective” [Int. J. Paleopathol. 44 (2024) 119–125]	2
A look into the wild. Pathological analysis of a modern collection of guanacos from the Dry Chaco and its implications for South American camelid paleopathological studies	2
Two cases of pelvic trauma with survival in the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa (Egypt)	2
Differential diagnosis of a diffuse sclerosis in an identified male skull (early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal): A multimethodological approach for the identification of osteosclerotic dysplasias in	2
Caring for the sick in a medieval rural community: A study based on paleopathological and archaeological data from Medieval Rus’	2
Cranial fluctuating asymmetry and its relationship with non-specific physiological stress indicators in a contemporary South African cadaveric skeletal sample	2
Compounding vulnerabilities: Syndemics and the social determinants of disease in the past	1
ABSTRACTS	1
The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities	1
Mortality, migration and epidemiological change in English cities, 1600–1870	1
Mid-7th century BC human parasite remains from Jerusalem	1
Differential diagnosis for two ‘holes in the head’ of a child from 982 to 904 BP in northern South America	1
Kinship and the familial occurrence of skeletal developmental anomalies in the noble Swéerts-Sporck family (Bohemia, 17th to 20th centuries)	1
Eimeria leuckarti in equid coprolites from the Sassanid Era (2nd–6th century CE) excavated in Chehrabad Salt Mine archaeological site, Iran	1
Tentative indicators of malaria in archaeological skeletal samples, a pilot study testing different methods	1
Examining pathogen DNA recovery across the remains of a 14th century Italian friar (Blessed Sante) infected with Brucella melitensis	1
Can the palaeoepidemiology of rickets during the industrialisation period in France be studied through bioarchaeological grey literature and French medico-historical literature of the 18th-early 20th	1
Investigating the association between intestinal parasite infection and cribra orbitalia in the medieval population of Cambridge, UK	1
The micro from mega: Dental calculus description and the first record of fossilized oral bacteria from an extinct proboscidean	1
Children of the abyss: Investigating the association between isotopic physiological stress and skeletal pathology in London during the Industrial Revolution	1
Time to be nosy: Evaluating the impact of environmental and sociocultural changes on maxillary sinusitis in the Middle Nile Valley (Neolithic to Medieval periods)	1
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England	1
Expanding the diagnostic scope of paleopathology: Identification of Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) using a One Paleopathology approach	1
Instances of avian osteoarthritis from the Unalaska Sea Ice Project, Unalaska Island, Alaska	1
Dental health and dentistry in ancient Egypt: Possible evidence for dental filling and extraction at Deir el-Medina	1
Animal disease evidenced in the bone assemblage of a Late Neolithic settlement in Greece: Implications for animal management	1
Differential diagnosis of an osseous cranial tumor from Hellenistic Muğla, Turkey	1
Ageing and disease risk factors: A new paleoepidemiological methodology for understanding disease in the past	1
The madness they endured: A biocultural examination of women's experiences of structural violence within 20th-century Missouri state mental hospitals	1
Refining the methods for identifying draught cattle in the archaeological record: Lessons from the semi-feral herd at Chillingham Park	1
The impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	1
Interventive dental therapy in Ancient Egypt (ca. 2686 BCE – AD 323): A critical review	1
Protozoan parasites of birds from the Tremembé formation (Oligocene of the Taubaté Basin), São Paulo, Brazil	1
A case of septic arthritis of the hip in Central Plains, China, during the Western Han Dynasty (3rd century BCE–1st century CE)	1
Disability in a medieval village community: A unique case of facial dysmorphism	1
Lesions in sheep elbows: Insights from a large-scale study	1
Which types of bony changes in the maxillary sinus indicate chronic sinusitis?	1
Rare cases of rare diseases: Re-examining early 20th century cases of anencephaly from the collection of the Moscow State University, Russia	1
A unique case of skeletal dysplasia in an adult male in Late Iron Age Switzerland	1
Editorial Board	1
Editorial Board	1
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal	1
A probable case of "lumpy jaw" in early medieval (11th – 12th c.) cattle from a stronghold in Kruszwica, Poland	1
Identifying draught cattle in the past: Lessons from large-scale analysis of archaeological datasets	1
Metastatic cancer and endentulism: Exploring comorbidity to assist with differential diagnosis in a case from Vico nel Lazio (Fr, Italy), 13th-15th century CE	1