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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The palaeopathology of industry, a perspective from Britain	23
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean	17
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	16
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	15
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	15
Are endocranial granular impressions pathognomonic of tuberculous meningitis or a marker of tuberculous infection? An investigation on a medieval osteoarcheological assemblage from Italy	14
Exoskeletal and eye repair in Dalmanitina socialis (Trilobita): An example of blastemal regeneration in the Ordovician?	13
A historical case of Eagle’s syndrome from the Constantine-Helena Church, Niğde, Türkiye	12
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	12
3D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France	11
Editorial Board	11
The association between skeletal lesions and tuberculosis in a pre-antibiotic South African sample	10
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	10
Histology of pulmonary tuberculosis in a 19th-century mummy from Comiso (Sicily, Italy)	9
Bilateral hip dysplasia in a South African male: A case study from the 17–18th century	9
Is the promontory a promising site to diagnose otitis media in paleopathology? A search for evidence	9
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations	9
A unique case of skeletal dysplasia in an adult male in Late Iron Age Switzerland	8
Animal disease evidenced in the bone assemblage of a Late Neolithic settlement in Greece: Implications for animal management	8
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	8
Tentative indicators of malaria in archaeological skeletal samples, a pilot study testing different methods	8
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal	8
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt	8
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England	8
Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	8

Editorial Board	7
The impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	7
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Insights into molar-incisor hypomineralisation in past populations: A call to anthropologists	6
Holes in the Head. Double cranial surgery on an individual from the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino (SE Spain)	6
Archeometric detection of mercury: A paleopharmacological case study of skeletal remains of a child with vitamin deficiencies (Rouen, France, late 18–19th centuries)	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
Dental health in Roman dogs: A pilot study using standardized examination methods	6
Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK	5
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	5
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	5
Embracing complexity. Porous cranial lesions and their paleopathological significance in two population samples from Neolithic Northern Germany	5
ABSTRACTS	5
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	5
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	5
Height and health in Roman and Post-Roman Gaul, a life course approach	5
Editorial Board	5
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	5
Editorial Board	4
Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	4
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]	4
Lesions in sheep elbows: Insights from a large-scale study	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	4
A pathological lesion or a postmortem artefact? An interdisciplinary approach to deal with an interesting early medieval case	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
A case of secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from medieval Tuscany (central Italy, 10th-12th centuries CE)	4
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	4
A probable case of "lumpy jaw" in early medieval (11th – 12th c.) cattle from a stronghold in Kruszwica, Poland	4
Exploring the antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis: A case study from medieval Transylvania	4