OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Archaeological Research in Asia is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Megalithic cist burial excavation at Enadimangalam in Kerala and its implications in cist burial architecture and burial practices	26
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	14
Early paintings of central-western Thailand	12
Editorial Board	10
Before the Holocene humid period: Life-sized camel engravings and early occupations on the southern edge of the Nefud desert	10
Ritual, settlement and land-use practices: Towards a social history of Neolithic though Medieval period Maski, southern India	9
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan	9
Initial Upper Paleolithic in North China: New data from Shuidonggou locality 9	8
Chadiping: A pig iron production site of the Ming Dynasty in Southeast Chongqing, China	8
Recycled metal fragments and small-scale bronze acquisition in northern hinterland communities of the Mongol Empire	7
Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: New discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains	6
Use of the potter's wheel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China	6
Ban Pha Tai: The excavation and dating of a buried megalithic jar in Xieng Khouang, Lao PDR	6
Neolithization during the 6th millennium BCE in western Central Asia: New evidence from Kaynar Kamar Rockshelter, Hissar Mountains, Southeast Uzbekistan	5
Horse equipment of medieval nomads of the Kazakh Altai (based on materials from the Tuyetas burial ground)	5
Between the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea: Human occupation of the coastal zone of the Western Caspian in the Pleistocene	5
Architecture and function of salt-producing kilns from the 8th to 18th century in the coastal Sundarbans mangrove forest, Central Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh	5
Ritual tooth ablation in ancient Taiwan and the Austronesian expansion	5
Investigating changes in lithic raw material use from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic in Jebel Qalkha, southern Jordan	5
Understanding settlement construction and chronology at Đền Đồi, Nghệ An province, Central Vietnam	5
Lithic technology, cultural development, and human interaction: Reevaluation of flake tool assemblages in North China during MIS 3	5
A fifth-millennium BCE sanctuary at Tol-e Chega Sofla in the northern Persian Gulf	4
A reflection on neolithization in the plains of Behshahr and Neka in Eastern Mazandaran, Iran	4
Identifying seasonal settlement sites and land use continuity in the prehistoric southern Siberian steppe – Zhelvak 5 (Tuva)	4

Recovery of lost archaeological features on the Yalu River through GIS and historical imagery	4
Identifying resilient women through bioarchaeology: Perspectives from two contemporaneous Inner Asian studies dating to the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age transition	4
Wheat for food security in the bronze age: Archaeobotanical evidence from the Xichen Site, Eastern China	4
Editorial Board	4
Agricultural development in southern Shandong, northern China, from the Warring States to the Han dynasty: New archaeobotanical evidence from the site of the ancient capital city of Zhu State	4
Intensive use of Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau during the middle Holocene: New excavation of a base camp, Dongguotan site	4
Resilient herders: A deeply stratified multiperiod habitation site in northwestern Mongolia	4
Emulation and retention: Horses and chariots at the burial site of Majiayuan in northwestern China	3
Palaeolithic investigations at Morpani, Central Narmada Basin, India	3
A new approach in petrographic analysis of Loessic ceramics: Late Shang and Western Zhou bronze casting moulds	3
Provenance of the pumice manuports from archaeological sites at the Vitim River, East Siberia, Russia	3
Middle holocene burial and cultural dynamics at the liang sumpang Karoro 1 site, Maros, Indonesia	3
A new type of Early Iron Age stela from Tuva (Inner Asia)	3
Population dynamics and imperial expansion in eastern Shandong (China) during the last millennium BCE	3
Formidable fortress: Historical cliff-top settlement and the role of Kisar Island in the Indo-Malaya trade network	3
Initial insights into ceramic production and exchange at the early Bronze Age citadel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China	3
The development of pottery production, specialisation and standardisation in the Late Neolithic and Transitional Chalcolithic periods in the Central Plateau of Iran	3
Palaeolithic rock art from Mghvimevi, western Georgia	3
The Neolithic occupants in the Yanyuan Basin: Excavation of the burials at the Guijiabao site, Sichuan Province, Southwest China	3
The newly discovered bronze age site of Koken: Merging micro-regions with major study zones in the high steppes of Kazakhstan	3
Lakhuti-IV – A new site of the early Palaeolithic in Central Asia (Tajikistan)	3
New perspectives on the function of “clapper-bells”: Metal lings in the Early Bronze Age of China	2
Aquatic landscape and the emergence of walled sites in late Neolithic Central Plains of China: Integrating archaeological and geoarchaeological evidence from the Guchengzhai site	2
A materiality approach to moveable containers in the Indus tradition	2
Diet or mobility? Multi-isotopic (C, N, and Sr) dietary modeling at Shamanka II, Cis-Baikal, Siberia	2
Making clothes, dressing the deceased: Analysis of 2nd century AD silk clothing from the child mummy of Burgast (Altai Mountains, Mongolia)	2
Rice, lamb and tuna. Food processing and acquiring strategies in the medieval harbour city of Qalhât (Oman): Bioarchaeological evidence from the twin houses' building (B94)	2
The stone industry transformations at the edge of Pleistocene and Holocene: Evidence from the north-western and north-central Caucasus	2
Animal use in Han dynasty cities: Zooarchaeological evidence from Yishengci, Nanyang (China)	2
Unicorns and seals: New multivariate approaches to exploring patterned stylistic variation in the Indus Civilization	2
Occupation of highland Central Asia: New evidence from Kurteke rockshelter, Eastern Pamir	2
Recent research on the stone jars of Northeast India: Evidence from East Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya	2
Editorial Board	2
Pottery of the steppe piedmonts of the Bactro-Sogdian Borderlands: The case of Iskandar Tepa (mid-2nd–1st c. BC)	2
Identity and community structure in Neolithic Man Bac, northern Vietnam	2
Above ground and underground – An integrated approach of the burial mounds within the Suusamyr plateau, Kyrgyzstan	2
Prasat and Pteah: Habitation within Angkor Wat's temple enclosure	2
Editorial: Emergence and dispersal of modern humans: New discoveries and progress in Asian Paleolithic studies	2
Editorial Board	2
Disjunction, or continuity: Re-identifying the “Kushan” and “post-Kushan” periods at Kausambi	2
Revisiting the emergence of pastoralism in the Altai Mountains through interactions between local hunter-gatherer and Afanasievo communities	2
Primary selection? Petrographic analysis of ceramics excavated from the Jianchuan Basin, Northwest Yunnan Province, China	2
A local perspective on China's initial unification: Archaeological survey and historical documents from southeastern Shandong	2