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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH): New evidence from micro-XCT scanning	21
Trepanations in the ancient Greek colony of Akanthos: Skull surgery in the light of Hippocratic medicine	20
Generalized dermatitis in the natural mummy of the Roman Catholic nun Marie-Léonie Martin (France, 1863–1941)	18
Editorial Board	17
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	16
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	13
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean	12
The palaeopathology of industry, a perspective from Britain	12
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	12
The first probable evidence of leprosy in a male individual (17th-19th century AD) unearthed in Northern Portugal (Travanca, Santa Maria da Feira)	11
Is dietary deficiency of calcium a factor in rickets? Use of current evidence for our understanding of the disease in the past	11
Editorial Board	11
Cancers as rare diseases: Terminological, theoretical, and methodological biases	10
Surviving (but not thriving) after cranial vault trauma: A case study from Transylvania	10
ABSTRACTS	9
Tracing Leprosy: The paleopathological study of the individuals excavated from the Sant Llàtzer leprosarium in Barcelona, Spain (12th-18th c.)	9
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	9
Oral conditions of the pre-Hispanic mummies of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	9
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	8
Reconstruction of anatomy and care provisioning in a severe case of spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia	8
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	8
A possible case of juvenile idiopathic arthritis from Renaissance Lucca (Tuscany, central Italy)	8
Towards a definition of Ancient Rare Diseases (ARD): Presenting a complex case of probable Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease from the North Caucasian Bronze Age (2200-1650 cal BCE)	8
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	8

Majewski/Microcephalic Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type II (MOPDII) with generalised microdontia in the 4th millennium BCE Eastern Mediterranean	8
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	7
Temporal pattern of dental caries at the western flank of the Central Plateau of Iran, c. 2700 BCE – 1600 CE	7
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	7
Cribriotic lesions in archaeological human skeletal remains. Prevalence, co-occurrence, and association in medieval and early modern Netherlands	7
Klippel-Feil syndrome cases from Slovakia	7
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	7
A pathological Neandertal thumb phalanx from Moula-Guercy (France)	6
An ‘Index of Oro-dental Disease’: A holistic method for understanding the impacts of different risk factors on oral health in archaeological populations	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
A mature ovarian teratoma from New Kingdom Amarna, Egypt	6
Multi-level spondylolysis at Egiin Gol: A case from Xiongnu period Mongolia	6
Exoskeletal and eye repair in Dalmanitina socialis (Trilobita): An example of blastemal regeneration in the Ordovician?	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	5
A urinary stone from the early medieval site of Riner, Catalonia	5
Unusual teeth in unusual places: Criteria for identifying teratomatous dental elements in archeological contexts	5
And as things have been they remain: Enteric disease and differential mortality among ethnic groups in early twentieth century Milwaukee	5
A case of bilateral humerus varus from the late antiquity Catacomb of Santa Mustiola (Chiusi, Italy)	5
Editorial Board	5
A possible case of ameloblastoma in an adult male from the early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal	5
Influences of industrial development and urbanization on human lives in premodern Japan: Views from paleodemography	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 content analysis by bibliometry of the first ten years of the International Journal of Paleopathology	5
Conceptualizing disabilities from antiquity to the middle ages: A historical-medical contribution	4
Thoracic trauma: Clinical and paleopathological perspectives	4
What is a rare disease in animal paleopathology?	4
A calvarial osteolytic lesion of probable vascular origin in a Maya juvenile from the Classic Period ( 250−900 CE)	4
Challenging definitions and diagnostic approaches for ancient rare diseases: The case of poliomyelitis	4
How rare is rare? A literature survey of the last 45 years of paleopathological research on ancient rare diseases	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
Evidence of dental agenesis in late pleistocene Homo	4
Schmorl's nodes in a historic adult skeletal sample (19th to 20th centuries): An analysis of age, sex and occupation	4
The unwritten history of medical treatment: Evidence for ritual-healers and their activities in the pre-literate past	4
Madelung-type deformity in a female individual from the Merovingian Period in Central Germany: A rare finding or a rare disease?	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
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
The potential for over diagnosis of Paget’s disease of bone using macroscopic analysis	4
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
Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England	3
Solitary osteochondromas in paleo-oncology: A case report from 4th-century BCE Pontecagnano (southern Italy)	3
A possible case of Langerhans-cell histiocytosis? Differential diagnosis in a rare case from the Late Antiquity Bavaria (Germany)	3
Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa	3
Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England	3
Is the promontory a promising site to diagnose otitis media in paleopathology? A search for evidence	3

Two paleopathological cases suggestive of paralabral cysts of the shoulder	3
Ancient DNA analysis of rare genetic bone disorders	3
Pathological and sub-pathological changes in European rabbit bones: Two reference cases to be applied to the analysis of archaeological assemblages	3
Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	3
Editorial Board	3
A probable case of holoprosencephaly with cyclopia in a full-term fetus from a modern skeletal collection	3
Activity reconstruction of Rangifer tarandus feet in Fennoscandian -archaeology: Methodological considerations and application to archaeological material from two Sámi habitation sites	3
The physiopathology of osteoarthritis: Paleopathological implications of non-articular lesions from a modern surgical sample	2
Corrigendum to “Disability and care in Western Europe during Medieval times: A bioarchaeological perspective” [Int. J. Paleopathol. 44 (2024) 119–125]	2
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt	2
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	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
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
Changes in mortality in a non-industrialized Portugal: Coimbra Municipal Cemetery records (1861–1914) and identified osteological collections	2
Detection of Vibrio cholerae aDNA in human burials from the fifth cholera pandemic in Argentina (1886–1887 AD)	2
Paleoparasitology and archaeoparasitology in Iran: A retrospective in differential diagnosis	2
A joint medico-historical and paleopathological perspective on vitamin D deficiency prevalence in post-Medieval Netherlands	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
A case of secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from medieval Tuscany (central Italy, 10th-12th centuries CE)	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
Rarity of congenital malformation and deformity in the fossil record of vertebrates – A non-human perspective	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
A distant city: Assessing the impact of Dutch socioeconomic developments on urban and rural health using respiratory disease as a proxy	2
Co-occurrence of malignant neoplasm and Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna in an Iron Age individual from Münsingen-Rain (Switzerland): A multi-diagnostic study	2
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations	2
A probable case of hypophosphatasia in St Bride’s Lower Churchyard (1770–1849, London, UK)	2
Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	2
Histology of pulmonary tuberculosis in a 19th-century mummy from Comiso (Sicily, Italy)	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
Elemental analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence: Guidelines for the study of dry human bone	2
Periodontal disease in sheep and cattle: Understanding dental health in past animal populations	2
Infectious disease and nutritional deficiencies in early industrialized South Africa	2
Editorial Board	1
Animal disease evidenced in the bone assemblage of a Late Neolithic settlement in Greece: Implications for animal management	1
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal	1
Dental health and dentistry in ancient Egypt: Possible evidence for dental filling and extraction at Deir el-Medina	1
The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities	1
The Skinner Burial of Ontario, Canada, and the Question of Paget’s Disease in the Americas	1
Tentative indicators of malaria in archaeological skeletal samples, a pilot study testing different methods	1
Ageing and disease risk factors: A new paleoepidemiological methodology for understanding disease in the past	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
A probable case of "lumpy jaw" in early medieval (11th – 12th c.) cattle from a stronghold in Kruszwica, Poland	1
Postmortem changes in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Possible pitfalls on CT images	1
Compounding vulnerabilities: Syndemics and the social determinants of disease in the past	1
Rare cases of rare diseases: Re-examining early 20th century cases of anencephaly from the collection of the Moscow State University, Russia	1
The micro from mega: Dental calculus description and the first record of fossilized oral bacteria from an extinct proboscidean	1
Mid-7th century BC human parasite remains from Jerusalem	1
Mortality, migration and epidemiological change in English cities, 1600–1870	1
A unique case of skeletal dysplasia in an adult male in Late Iron Age Switzerland	1
Expanding the diagnostic scope of paleopathology: Identification of Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) using a One Paleopathology approach	1
Editorial Board	1
Differential diagnosis of an osseous cranial tumor from Hellenistic Muğla, Turkey	1
Editorial Board	1
Kinship and the familial occurrence of skeletal developmental anomalies in the noble Swéerts-Sporck family (Bohemia, 17th to 20th centuries)	1
Children of the abyss: Investigating the association between isotopic physiological stress and skeletal pathology in London during the Industrial Revolution	1
Two cases of smallpox from 1540 CE circum-contact (early colonial) Northern Coastal Peru	1
Lesions in sheep elbows: Insights from a large-scale study	1
Differential diagnosis for two ‘holes in the head’ of a child from 982 to 904 BP in northern South America	1
Examining pathogen DNA recovery across the remains of a 14th century Italian friar (Blessed Sante) infected with Brucella melitensis	1
Refining the methods for identifying draught cattle in the archaeological record: Lessons from the semi-feral herd at Chillingham Park	1
Which types of bony changes in the maxillary sinus indicate chronic sinusitis?	1
The madness they endured: A biocultural examination of women's experiences of structural violence within 20th-century Missouri state mental hospitals	1
Disability in a medieval village community: A unique case of facial dysmorphism	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
Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions	1
Eimeria leuckarti in equid coprolites from the Sassanid Era (2nd–6th century CE) excavated in Chehrabad Salt Mine archaeological site, Iran	1
The association between skeletal lesions and tuberculosis in a pre-antibiotic South African sample	1
ABSTRACTS	1
Trepanations in non-adults of the 16th to 18th C. The osteological series of the Church of the Assumption of Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real, Spain)	1
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England	1
Instances of avian osteoarthritis from the Unalaska Sea Ice Project, Unalaska Island, Alaska	1