OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Paleopathology is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	19
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	18
The palaeopathology of industry, a perspective from Britain	15
Are endocranial granular impressions pathognomonic of tuberculous meningitis or a marker of tuberculous infection? An investigation on a medieval osteoarcheological assemblage from Italy	15
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean	14
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	13
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	13
Archival pasts and futures in paleopathology	12
A historical case of Eagle’s syndrome from the Constantine-Helena Church, Niğde, Türkiye	12
Bilateral hip dysplasia in a South African male: A case study from the 17–18th century	11
Editorial Board	11
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	11
Histology of pulmonary tuberculosis in a 19th-century mummy from Comiso (Sicily, Italy)	10
The association between skeletal lesions and tuberculosis in a pre-antibiotic South African sample	10
Is the promontory a promising site to diagnose otitis media in paleopathology? A search for evidence	9
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt	9
Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	9
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations	8
Tentative indicators of malaria in archaeological skeletal samples, a pilot study testing different methods	8
Animal disease evidenced in the bone assemblage of a Late Neolithic settlement in Greece: Implications for animal management	8
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	6
Endemic congenital iodine deficiency syndrome from a 19th to 20th century poorhouse cemetery in Riggisberg, Switzerland	6
Editorial Board	6

Investigating wild bovines to assess pathological indicators of traction exploitation	6
The impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	6
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	6
Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK	5
Height and health in Roman and Post-Roman Gaul, a life course approach	5
Archeometric detection of mercury: A paleopharmacological case study of skeletal remains of a child with vitamin deficiencies (Rouen, France, late 18–19th centuries)	5
Holes in the Head. Double cranial surgery on an individual from the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino (SE Spain)	5
Embracing complexity. Porous cranial lesions and their paleopathological significance in two population samples from Neolithic Northern Germany	5
Dental health in Roman dogs: A pilot study using standardized examination methods	4
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	4
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	4
Do the regions of the spinal column record stress differently? An analysis of diminished growth in the vertebral neural canal	4
Insights into molar-incisor hypomineralisation in past populations: A call to anthropologists	4
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	4
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	4
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	4
Editorial Board	4
ABSTRACTS	4
Insights into the anatomical expressions of anencephaly in three infants from 17th to 19th- century Lisbon, Portugal	4
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	3
A case of secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from medieval Tuscany (central Italy, 10th-12th centuries CE)	3
A case of congenital multiple epiphyseal dysplasia from the Late Migration Period graveyard in Drnholec (Czech Republic)	3
Erratum to “A distant city: Assessing the impact of Dutch socioeconomic developments on urban and rural health using respiratory disease as a proxy” [Int. J. Paleopathol. 42 (2023) 34–45]	3
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	3
Editorial Board	3
A probable case of "lumpy jaw" in early medieval (11th – 12th c.) cattle from a stronghold in Kruszwica, Poland	3
Bioarchaeological evidence of violent deaths from medieval Prague	3
Exploring the antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis: A case study from medieval Transylvania	3
A pathological lesion or a postmortem artefact? An interdisciplinary approach to deal with an interesting early medieval case	3
The ivy and the palm: Care and mourning for a child buried in 19th-century Madrid, Spain	3
Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	3
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	3
Postmortem changes in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Possible pitfalls on CT images	3