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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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

Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	8
Editorial Board	7
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Investigating wild bovines to assess pathological indicators of traction exploitation	6
Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK	6
Insights into molar-incisor hypomineralisation in past populations: A call to anthropologists	6
Embracing complexity. Porous cranial lesions and their paleopathological significance in two population samples from Neolithic Northern Germany	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
Endemic congenital iodine deficiency syndrome from a 19th to 20th century poorhouse cemetery in Riggisberg, Switzerland	6
ABSTRACTS	5
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	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
Editorial Board	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
Dental health in Roman dogs: A pilot study using standardized examination methods	5
Height and health in Roman and Post-Roman Gaul, a life course approach	5
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	5
Holes in the Head. Double cranial surgery on an individual from the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino (SE Spain)	5
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	4
A pathological lesion or a postmortem artefact? An interdisciplinary approach to deal with an interesting early medieval case	4
Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	4
Editorial Board	4
Insights into the anatomical expressions of anencephaly in three infants from 17th to 19th- century Lisbon, Portugal	4
Do the regions of the spinal column record stress differently? An analysis of diminished growth in the vertebral neural canal	4
The ivy and the palm: Care and mourning for a child buried in 19th-century Madrid, Spain	4
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	4
A case of secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from medieval Tuscany (central Italy, 10th-12th centuries CE)	4
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	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