OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Paleopathology 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
Periodontal disease in sheep and cattle: Understanding dental health in past animal populations	20
Gastrointestinal infection in Italy during the Roman Imperial and Longobard periods: A paleoparasitological analysis of sediment from skeletal remains and sewer drains	17
An Investigation of Micro-CT Analysis of Bone as a New Diagnostic Method for Paleopathological Cases of Osteomalacia	17
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England	16
Identifying draught cattle in the past: Lessons from large-scale analysis of archaeological datasets	15
Refining the methods for identifying draught cattle in the archaeological record: Lessons from the semi-feral herd at Chillingham Park	15
How rare is rare? A literature survey of the last 45 years of paleopathological research on ancient rare diseases	14
A dual process model for paleopathological diagnosis	14
Cribriotic lesions in archaeological human skeletal remains. Prevalence, co-occurrence, and association in medieval and early modern Netherlands	13
Cancers as rare diseases: Terminological, theoretical, and methodological biases	12
A joint medico-historical and paleopathological perspective on vitamin D deficiency prevalence in post-Medieval Netherlands	12
Detection of Vibrio cholerae aDNA in human burials from the fifth cholera pandemic in Argentina (1886–1887 AD)	11
Was it an axe or an adze? A cranial trauma case study from the Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic site of Cova Foradada (Calafell, Spain)	11
The dark satanic mills: Evaluating patterns of health in England during the industrial revolution	11
Children of the abyss: Investigating the association between isotopic physiological stress and skeletal pathology in London during the Industrial Revolution	11
Bone pathologies of modern non-draft cattle (Bos Taurus) in the context of grazing systems and environmental influences in the South Urals, Russia	10
Time to be nosy: Evaluating the impact of environmental and sociocultural changes on maxillary sinusitis in the Middle Nile Valley (Neolithic to Medieval periods)	9
Challenging definitions and diagnostic approaches for ancient rare diseases: The case of poliomyelitis	9
Is dietary deficiency of calcium a factor in rickets? Use of current evidence for our understanding of the disease in the past	8
Developing an archaeology of malaria. A critical review of current approaches and a discussion on ways forward	8
What is a rare disease in animal paleopathology?	8
Mid-7th century BC human parasite remains from Jerusalem	8
Evidence of dental agenesis in late pleistocene Homo	8
Differential diagnosis of metabolic disease in a commingled sample from 19th century Hisban, Jordan	8
Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions	8

Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK	7
Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	7
The impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	7
Exoskeletal and eye repair in Dalmanitina socialis (Trilobita): An example of blastemal regeneration in the Ordovician?	7
Mortality, migration and epidemiological change in English cities, 1600–1870	7
Was the rise of TB contemporaneous with the industrial revolution? Epidemiological evolution of TB in France (17th-20th centuries) inferred from osteoarchaeological and historical archives	6
Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England	6
Trepanations in the ancient Greek colony of Akanthos: Skull surgery in the light of Hippocratic medicine	6
Radiological evidence of purulent infections in ancient Egyptian child mummies	6
Examining pathogen DNA recovery across the remains of a 14th century Italian friar (Blessed Sante) infected with Brucella melitensis	6
Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England	6
A 13th-century cystic echinococcosis from the cemetery of the monastery of Badia Pozzeveri (Lucca, Italy)	6
On some paleopathological examples of amputation and the implications for healthcare in 13th-17th century Lithuania	6
Changes in mortality in a non-industrialized Portugal: Coimbra Municipal Cemetery records (1861–1914) and identified osteological collections	6
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)	6
Asymmetric midshaft femur remodeling in an adult male with left sided hip joint ankylosis, Metal Period Nagsabaran, Philippines	6
Rare cases of rare diseases: Re-examining early 20th century cases of anencephaly from the collection of the Moscow State University, Russia	5
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	5
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	5
The prevalence of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in England and Catalonia from the Roman to the post-medieval periods	5
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	5
Digital imaging techniques applied to a case of concha bullosa from an early medieval funerary area in central Italy	5
Approaches to osteoporosis in paleopathology: How did methodology shape bone loss research?	5
A distant city: Assessing the impact of Dutch socioeconomic developments on urban and rural health using respiratory disease as a proxy	5
Surviving (but not thriving) after cranial vault trauma: A case study from Transylvania	5
A possible case of juvenile idiopathic arthritis from Renaissance Lucca (Tuscany, central Italy)	4
Height and health in Roman and Post-Roman Gaul, a life course approach	4
Precarious adolescence: Adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18th–19th centuries	4
Lesions in sheep elbows: Insights from a large-scale study	4
Rarity of congenital malformation and deformity in the fossil record of vertebrates – A non-human perspective	4
3D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France	4
Sex, gender, and sexuality in paleopathology: Select current developments and pathways forward	4
Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England	4
Correlation of atherosclerosis and osteoarthritis in ancient Egypt: A standardized evaluation of 45 whole-body CT examinations	4
The micro from mega: Dental calculus description and the first record of fossilized oral bacteria from an extinct proboscidean	4
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	4
Influences of industrial development and urbanization on human lives in premodern Japan: Views from paleodemography	4
The pathway of tuberculosis in Argentina: Historical (19th and 20th centuries), epidemiological, and paleopathological data	4
Perspectives on anemia: Factors confounding understanding of past occurrence	4
Compounding vulnerabilities: Syndemics and the social determinants of disease in the past	4
Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	4
A probable case of holoprosencephaly with cyclopia in a full-term fetus from a modern skeletal collection	4
Changes in health with the rise of industry	3
Evidence of otitis media and mastoiditis in a Medieval Islamic skeleton from Spain and possible implications for ancient surgical treatment of the condition	3
Osteolytic lesions on the os petrosum of a Bronze Age individual from La Llana cave (Northern Spain) compatible with a possible case of otitis media. A multifaceted methodological approach	3
Infectious disease and nutritional deficiencies in early industrialized South Africa	3
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	3
A content analysis by bibliometry of the first ten years of the International Journal of Paleopathology	3
A probable case of multiple myeloma from Bronze Age China	3
Paleopathology of the Ychsma: Evidence of respiratory disease during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1476) at the Central Coastal site of Pachacamac, Peru	3

Three cases of brachydactyly type E from two commingled tombs at the Late Intermediate period - Late Horizon site of Marcajirca, Ancash, Peru	3
The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities	3
Co-occurrence of malignant neoplasm and Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna in an Iron Age individual from Münsingen-Rain (Switzerland): A multi-diagnostic study	3
Ancient DNA analysis of rare genetic bone disorders	3
Thundering hoofbeats and dazzling zebras: A model integrating current rare disease perspectives in paleopathology	3
A wolf from Gravettian site Pavlov I, Czech Republic: Approach to skull pathology	3
The madness they endured: A biocultural examination of women's experiences of structural violence within 20th-century Missouri state mental hospitals	3
Paleoparasitology and archaeoparasitology in Iran: A retrospective in differential diagnosis	3
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations	3
The potential for over diagnosis of Paget’s disease of bone using macroscopic analysis	3
Spotted bones in an osteopoikilosis-related disease (Buschke Ollendorff Syndrome): Identifying this rare condition from the lab to the field	2
Zoonotic parasite infection from a funerary context: A Late Antique child case from Cantabrian Spain	2
New paleopathological findings from the Quaternary of the Brazilian Intertropical Region expand the distribution of joint diseases for the South American megafauna	2
A critical review of the anthropological and paleopathological literature on osteopetrosis as an ancient rare disease (ARD)	2
Identifying sialoliths through SEM technology	2
The Skinner Burial of Ontario, Canada, and the Question of Paget’s Disease in the Americas	2
The physiopathology of osteoarthritis: Paleopathological implications of non-articular lesions from a modern surgical sample	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
The unwritten history of medical treatment: Evidence for ritual-healers and their activities in the pre-literate past	2
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	2
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	2
Klippel-Feil syndrome cases from Slovakia	2
Considering care: A traumatic obturator fracture dislocation of the hip in a middle-aged man from Gaelic Medieval Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, Ireland	2
Guidance for the identification of bony lesions related to smallpox	2
Bone pathologies of modern caprines (Ovis aries & Capra hircus) in the context of the pasture-stall system of the steppe zone of the South Urals	2
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal	2
Kinship and the familial occurrence of skeletal developmental anomalies in the noble Swéerts-Sporck family (Bohemia, 17th to 20th centuries)	2
First report in pre-Columbian mummies from Bolivia of Enterobius vermicularis infection and capillariid eggs: A contribution to Paleoparasitology studies	2
Forgotten and found: A case of childhood rickets in the 19th-century settler village of Heuvelton, New York	2
And as things have been they remain: Enteric disease and differential mortality among ethnic groups in early twentieth century Milwaukee	2
Osseous mass in a maxillary sinus of an adult male from the 16th–17th-century Spain: Differential diagnosis	2
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	2
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH): New evidence from micro-XCT scanning	2
Inner ear modifications in Dar-es-Soltane II H5 (Morocco): A case of labyrinthitis ossificans	2
Metastatic cancer and endentulism: Exploring comorbidity to assist with differential diagnosis in a case from Vico nel Lazio (Fr, Italy), 13th-15th century CE	2
Possible notochordal chordoma in a fossil fish from the Late Cretaceous of Lebanon	2
Dental health and dentistry in ancient Egypt: Possible evidence for dental filling and extraction at Deir el-Medina	2
Elemental analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence: Guidelines for the study of dry human bone	2
Caring for the sick in a medieval rural community: A study based on paleopathological and archaeological data from Medieval Rus’	2
Thoracic trauma: Clinical and paleopathological perspectives	2
Are the identified collections of immature skeletons dating from the Industrial Revolution good references for paleoauxological studies? Cases studies from England & France	2
Oral conditions of the pre-Hispanic mummies of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	2