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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Temporal pattern of dental caries at the western flank of the Central Plateau of Iran, c. 2700 BCE – 1600 CE	20
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH): New evidence from micro-XCT scanning	17
Reconstruction of anatomy and care provisioning in a severe case of spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia	16
Trepanations in the ancient Greek colony of Akanthos: Skull surgery in the light of Hippocratic medicine	16
Generalized dermatitis in the natural mummy of the Roman Catholic nun Marie-Léonie Martin (France, 1863–1941)	15
Editorial Board	14
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)	13
The frequency and macromorphological classification of abnormal blood vessel impressions and periosteal appositions of the dura mater in an early modern osteological collection from Poland	12
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	12
Living with lower limb traumas and below-knee amputation in a Jordanian Late Ottoman nomadic community	11
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	11
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	11
Spotted bones in an osteopoikilosis-related disease (Buschke Ollendorff Syndrome): Identifying this rare condition from the lab to the field	11
The palaeopathology of industry, a perspective from Britain	10
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	9
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean	9
The first probable evidence of leprosy in a male individual (17th-19th century AD) unearthed in Northern Portugal (Travanca, Santa Maria da Feira)	8
Is dietary deficiency of calcium a factor in rickets? Use of current evidence for our understanding of the disease in the past	8
Majewski/Microcephalic Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type II (MOPDII) with generalised microdontia in the 4th millennium BCE Eastern Mediterranean	8
Editorial Board	8
Klippel-Feil syndrome cases from Slovakia	8
A possible case of juvenile idiopathic arthritis from Renaissance Lucca (Tuscany, central Italy)	8
Cancers as rare diseases: Terminological, theoretical, and methodological biases	8
ABSTRACTS	7
A pathological Neandertal thumb phalanx from Moula-Guercy (France)	7

Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	7
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	7
Oral conditions of the pre-Hispanic mummies of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	7
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
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	6
The dark satanic mills: Evaluating patterns of health in England during the industrial revolution	6
Corrigendum to “Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England” [Int. J. Paleopathol. 40 (2023) 7–19]	6
Cribriotic lesions in archaeological human skeletal remains. Prevalence, co-occurrence, and association in medieval and early modern Netherlands	6
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	6
A calvarial osteolytic lesion of probable vascular origin in a Maya juvenile from the Classic Period ( 250−900 CE)	6
Surviving (but not thriving) after cranial vault trauma: A case study from Transylvania	6
Exoskeletal and eye repair in Dalmanitina socialis (Trilobita): An example of blastemal regeneration in the Ordovician?	6
Pathological and sub-pathological changes in European rabbit bones: Two reference cases to be applied to the analysis of archaeological assemblages	6
Corrigendum to “The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities”[Int. J. Paleopathol. 38 (2022),	5
3D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France	5
Challenging definitions and diagnostic approaches for ancient rare diseases: The case of poliomyelitis	5
Editorial Board	5
Influences of industrial development and urbanization on human lives in premodern Japan: Views from paleodemography	5
A urinary stone from the early medieval site of Riner, Catalonia	5
Evidence of non-adult vitamin C deficiency in three early medieval sites in the Jaun/Podjuna Valley, Carinthia, Austria	5
The unwritten history of medical treatment: Evidence for ritual-healers and their activities in the pre-literate past	5
Are the identified collections of immature skeletons dating from the Industrial Revolution good references for paleoauxological studies? Cases studies from England & France	5
A possible case of ameloblastoma in an adult male from the early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal	5
A mature ovarian teratoma from New Kingdom Amarna, Egypt	4
A case of bilateral humerus varus from the late antiquity Catacomb of Santa Mustiola (Chiusi, Italy)	4
A content analysis by bibliometry of the first ten years of the International Journal of Paleopathology	4
Evidence of dental agenesis in late pleistocene Homo	4
What is a rare disease in animal paleopathology?	4
Madelung-type deformity in a female individual from the Merovingian Period in Central Germany: A rare finding or a rare disease?	4
Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa	4
Unusual teeth in unusual places: Criteria for identifying teratomatous dental elements in archeological contexts	4
Editorial Board	4
Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England	4
Forgotten and found: A case of childhood rickets in the 19th-century settler village of Heuvelton, New York	4
Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England	4
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	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
And as things have been they remain: Enteric disease and differential mortality among ethnic groups in early twentieth century Milwaukee	4
How rare is rare? A literature survey of the last 45 years of paleopathological research on ancient rare diseases	4
Thoracic trauma: Clinical and paleopathological perspectives	4
Schmorl's nodes in a historic adult skeletal sample (19th to 20th centuries): An analysis of age, sex and occupation	4