OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Paleopathology is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The palaeopathology of industry, a perspective from Britain	22
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean	20
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	18
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	18
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	18
Exoskeletal and eye repair in Dalmanitina socialis (Trilobita): An example of blastemal regeneration in the Ordovician?	17
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	16
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	15
3D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France	14
Editorial Board	12
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations	12
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	12
Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	12
The association between skeletal lesions and tuberculosis in a pre-antibiotic South African sample	12
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt	10
Is the promontory a promising site to diagnose otitis media in paleopathology? A search for evidence	10
Histology of pulmonary tuberculosis in a 19th-century mummy from Comiso (Sicily, Italy)	10
Bilateral hip dysplasia in a South African male: A case study from the 17–18th century	10
Animal disease evidenced in the bone assemblage of a Late Neolithic settlement in Greece: Implications for animal management	9
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England	9
Tentative indicators of malaria in archaeological skeletal samples, a pilot study testing different methods	9
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal	9
A unique case of skeletal dysplasia in an adult male in Late Iron Age Switzerland	9
Editorial Board	8
The impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	8

Rickets, resorption and revolution: An investigation into the relationship between vitamin D deficiency in childhood and osteoporosis in adulthood in an 18th-19th century population	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Dental health in Roman dogs: A pilot study using standardized examination methods	7
Insights into molar-incisor hypomineralisation in past populations: A call to anthropologists	7
Height and health in Roman and Post-Roman Gaul, a life course approach	7
Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK	7
Holes in the Head. Double cranial surgery on an individual from the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino (SE Spain)	7
Approaches to osteoporosis in paleopathology: How did methodology shape bone loss research?	7
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	6
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	6
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	6
ABSTRACTS	6
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	6
A possible case of juvenile idiopathic arthritis from Renaissance Lucca (Tuscany, central Italy)	6
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	6
Editorial Board	6
Influences of industrial development and urbanization on human lives in premodern Japan: Views from paleodemography	5
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	5
Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	5
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	5
A pathological lesion or a postmortem artefact? An interdisciplinary approach to deal with an interesting early medieval case	5
A case of secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from medieval Tuscany (central Italy, 10th-12th centuries CE)	5
Lesions in sheep elbows: Insights from a large-scale study	5
How rare is rare? A literature survey of the last 45 years of paleopathological research on ancient rare diseases	5
Editorial Board	5
A probable case of "lumpy jaw" in early medieval (11th – 12th c.) cattle from a stronghold in Kruszwica, Poland	5
Exploring the antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis: A case study from medieval Transylvania	4
Metastatic cancer along ancient Silk Road: A possible case from Xinjiang (China)	4
Zoonotic parasite infection from a funerary context: A Late Antique child case from Cantabrian Spain	4
A urinary stone from the early medieval site of Riner, Catalonia	4
Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa	4
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	4
Postmortem changes in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Possible pitfalls on CT images	4
Heterogeneity in experiences of vitamin D deficiency in an early to mid-19th century population from Montreal, Quebec	4
Developing an archaeology of malaria. A critical review of current approaches and a discussion on ways forward	4
The potential for over diagnosis of Paget’s disease of bone using macroscopic analysis	4
Considering care: A traumatic obturator fracture dislocation of the hip in a middle-aged man from Gaelic Medieval Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, Ireland	4
A case of congenital multiple epiphyseal dysplasia from the Late Migration Period graveyard in Drnholec (Czech Republic)	4
Perspectives on anemia: Factors confounding understanding of past occurrence	4
Characteristics of dental malocclusion in a 18th/19th century population from Radom (Poland)	4
A sting in the tail: An embedded stingray spine in a mid-1st millennium AD adult male skeleton from Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan	4
Forgotten and found: A case of childhood rickets in the 19th-century settler village of Heuvelton, New York	4
A possible case of ameloblastoma in an adult male from the early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal	4
Time to be nosy: Evaluating the impact of environmental and sociocultural changes on maxillary sinusitis in the Middle Nile Valley (Neolithic to Medieval periods)	4