OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palestine Exploration Quarterly is 0. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Miniature Terracotta Masks from the Decapolis City of Gerasa/Jerash, Jordan	8
Agency, Kinship and the Case of the Northern Kingdom of Israel	6
Biblical Ziklag: the Case for Khirbet er-Ra‘i	5
Exploring the Holy Land: 150 years of the Palestine Exploration Fund	4
Jerusalem’s Northern Defences Under Hadrian	4
A priest, a deacon, and some lay people in Greek Christian epitaphs from the Land of Moab	4
Something old, something new: Ongoing revelations within the Faynan Landscape	4
Notes and News	3
Edward Henry Palmer’s Early Alphabetic Inscription (Sinai 348)	3
Under the Mediterranean I: Studies in Maritime Archaeology	3
Reading between the tesserae: The Tabgha mosaics’ stages, patronage, and authenticity re-examined	2
Books Received	2
The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible , by Seymour (Sy) Gitin, The Penn	2
Filling the gap: A microscopic zooarchaeological approach to changes in butchering technology during the Early and Middle Bronze periods at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan	2
Juliusz Słowacki in the Holy Land in 1837	2
‘Diocletian oppressed the inhabitants of Paneas’ (ySheb. 9:2): A New Tetrarchic boundary stone from Abel Beth Maacah	2
The Ḥarrah ’s Epigraphic Heritage: New Greek inscriptions from the black desert in north-eastern Jordan	2
The 2022 survey season at Khirbet al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, Jordan	2
An Artist in Abydos: The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome	1
Fibulae of the Southern Levant During the Iron Age II: Chronology, Inter-Regional Connectivity and Performance	1
Announcing the winners of The Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Publication Award 2024	1
Acknowledgements	1
The Level V City Wall at Lachish	1
Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T.E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt	1
Dating the Fortress of Umm Tawabin, Jordan: Results of Radiocarbon Dating Analysis	1

Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of Haifa, Final Reports. Volume 1Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 198	1
Bronze Anklets from Ḥorvat Tevet (Jezreel Valley): New Light on Exchange and Identity Construction in the Iron I	1
Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan: Games and gaming in a domestic neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel	1
Saved Treasures of Gaza – 5000 Years of History From April 3rd to November 2nd, 2025, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris	1
The Four-Chambered Gate at Megiddo	1
From Nabataeo-Arabic to Palaeo-Arabic: Two new pre-Islamic graffiti from the Jordanian Ḥarrah	1
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City	0
Clay Speaks of Adaptation: Pottery from Frankish Palestine	0
The Roman-Period Road Network in Southern Moab: A Geographic and Historical Enquiry	0
Kom Tuman II: Late Period to Graeco-Roman Pottery, Volumes I and II	0
Atlas of Palestine 1871-1877	0
Jonathan Nicholas Tubb21st December, 1951 – 25th September, 2023	0
The Fifth Milestation from Tiberias: A Newly Discovered Milestone in the Gennesaret Valley Illumines the Roman Arterial Network	0
Crusader Military Activities on the Carmel Coast: the typology, imaging, and metallography of three swords	0
‘Sacred Landscapes’: The Umayyad Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca and their Pilgrim Camps (PEF 2020 Grant) and towards final publication of the Umayyad Syro-Jordanian	0
Ancient Edom: The Tel Masos Polity from the tenth to the mid-ninth Century bc	0
Edom at the Edge of Empire: A Social and Political History	0
Barbara Lee Johnson (1943–2022)	0
A Summary Report – PEF Grant: ‘Khirbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project, Jericho’	0
A Dedication ‘to the Olympian Gods’ for Hadrian’s Sōtēria : Saluting the Emperor’s Rural Passage through Syria-Palestina	0
Preserving Palestinian Cultural Heritage: ‘The Memory of History’ Project	0
Acknowledgements	0
The Price of Conflict: Devastation of Cultural Heritage in War and Political Strife, the West Bank as a Case Study	0
Colonial Archaeology in Palestine in the 1930s: The First Expedition to Lachish	0
The Petra Hinterland Social Landscapes Project (PHSLP): Summary Report on the First Season, 2022	0
Decorated Bone Tube Manufacture in Early Bronze Age Israel: Experimental Analysis of Bone Preparation and Incising	0
Professor Alan Millard retires from PEQ Editorial Advisory Board	0
The Meṣad Ḥashavyahu Ostracon in its Regional, Economic, and Political Context	0
Invisible Excavators: The Quftis of Megiddo, 1925–1939	0
Establishing a baseline for the study of maritime cultural heritage in the Gaza Strip	0
How to Date a City Wall? The Case Study of Middle Bronze Age Lachish	0
Sounds in the desert: New evidence of ambos in Shivta churches	0
Books Received	0
Moses Wilhelm Shapira, Hermann Weser and the Moab Expedition: Provenance Study of the Moabitica	0
Towards a Chronological Framing of the Two Mosques of Islamic Baydha	0
A Harbour in South Tiberias? Summary of the 2020–2022 Excavations at the Miriam’s Well Beach (South Tiberias Lake Area Project)	0
Why those who Shovel are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge	0
The Case of the Two Volute Capitals from Tel Hazor	0
An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir , by Eric M. Meyers, Cascade Books, Eugene, Oregon, 1922, xiii + 218 pp, 34	0
Strategies of Animal Exploitation in Late Iron Age IIA Ḥorvat Tevet (the Jezreel Valley) Reveal Patterns of Royal Economy in Early Monarchic Israel	0
Books Received	0
Tel ‘Afar (Tell al-Akhdar): A Monastic or Estate Church on theVia MarisSouth of Caesarea	0
Acknowledgements	0
An Ancient Mega-Project in North Jordan: The Fortress of Tell Ushayer	0
An Iron Age II ceramic figurine from Umm Sweiwineh, Central Jordan	0
Ruins as Belief and Practice	0
Double Review: Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology & Revealing the History of Ancient Palestine Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology , by Kay Prag	0
On Olive Oil and Perfume Production in Iron Age IIA Tell es Safi/Gath, Israel	0
The Use of Greek in Palestine: Eupolemus as a Case Study	0
Hesi after 50 Years and 130 Years: Beginning a New Generation of Hesi Research,	0

‘Nevermind the Camel!’: The Hogarth Archive and the Wilderness of Zin	0
The Career of Moses Shapira, Bookseller and Antiquarian	0
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City	0
A Hiding Complex and Ritual Bath (Miqveh) at Ḥorvat Maskana and the Question of Their Use in the Byzantine Period	0
John Bartlett, unintentional mentor	0
A Note on the Dedication of the Churches in Shivta	0
Assessing the PEF collection of photographic works by the Zangaki brothers	0
Professor Alan Millard	0
Books Received	0
Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit	0
In the Footsteps of Honor Frost: The Life and Legacy of a Pioneer in Maritime Archaeology	0
Bayyarat al-Khuri: An Ecclesiastical Agricultural Estate in Caesarea, Israel	0
The City Walls of Lachish: Response to Yosef Garfinkel, Michael Hasel, Martin Klingbeil and Their Colleagues	0
Nine new Byzantine Funerary Inscriptions from El-ʿIrāq (Southern Jordan)	0
Books Received	0
Investigating changing socio-economic landscapes from the Early Bronze I–III in the Levant through Zooarchaeology	0
An inscription from the Badia: Documenting evidence for the plague in the Mameluke Period	0
Old Ground Plan - New Insights: The Central Church Compound in Shivta Revised	0
Books Received	0
Acknowledgements	0
Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods	0
A Chalcolithic presence east of the Sea of Galilee: The earliest finds on Mt. Sussita	0
Georgian Graffito from Nessana, Dating to the ‘Dark Age’ of Christianity in Palestine	0
Bathing Jewish, Bathing Greek: Developing an Approach to De-Categorising Hellenism and Judaism	0
Faynan, Nomads and the Western Negev in the Early Iron Age: A Critical Reappraisal	0
The Identity of the Leaders of the Second Jewish Revolt and Bar Koseba's True Role in the Insurrection	0
Animals in the Ancient World: The Levett Bestiary ,	0
Tatami: The Enigmatic Toponym of Western Judah, and Use of Suffixes in Dating Toponyms	0
Some thoughts about Words	0
Beit Loya: Historicising Marginal Sites in Late Islamic Rural Palestine	0
Cenotaph Hill: An unknown ‘mound’ in the En-Gedi Oasis	0
Mount Machaerus: An Introduction to the Historical, Archaeological, and Pilgrim Site Overlooking the Dead Sea in the Kingdom of Jordan	0
An Iron Age Stone Toilet Seat (the ‘Throne of Solomon’) from Captain Montagu Brownlow Parker’s 1909–1911 Excavations in Jerusalem	0
Guest Editorial: Gaza's Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Life	0
Chronology and Strategic Significance of the Hilltop Fortress, Umm Tawabin in Jordan: Some Conclusions from the 2015-2018 Survey and Excavations by the Ghor As-Safi Project	0
A Roman Bronze Figurine of a Seated Infant from Shivta in the Negev	0
The 2011 Season of Excavation at Gadara (Umm Qais) of the Decapolis	0
Rev. Professor John R Bartlett	0
Contributions to the Archaeology of Palestine by Overlooked Twentieth-Century Palestinian Archaeologists, Yusra Al-Ḥaifawiyah, Naṣr Dwekat and Ibrahim Al-Fanni	0
The Changing Character of Iron Age Jerusalem as Revealed in the Ophel Excavations	0
Nahal Yarmuth 38: A PPNB and PN Site in Central Israel	0