OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Levant 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Documenting heritage in the 21st century: the EAMENA project and its potential for ‘big data’ research in Levantine archaeology	13
Setting the standard: the 1970 standard and ethical codes of archaeological organizations	10
A settlement-geology model for dolmen distribution in the Levant: revisiting the ‘great dolmen-field’ on the Irbid plateau	8
Beyond urbanization, regional settlement pattern in south-eastern Levant during the Early Bronze Age	8
Gerasa’s ‘Nymphaeum’: a reappraisal of its history and function	7
Ritual purity among the Phoenicians in the sacred precinct at Tel Dan in the Hellenistic and Roman periods	7
The Late Bronze–Early Iron Age transition in Canaan: new insights from Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates	7
Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia	6
The Early Bronze Age I ritual landscape in the Middle Wadi az-Zarqa Valley, Jordan	6
Notes on the architecture and history of the fortifications of the island of Arwad in Syria	6
A late medieval synagogue at Ḥuqoq/Yaquq in Galilee?	6
The role of highland regions in interregional connectivity: Upper Galilee in the Early Bronze Age	5
Exploring Levantine megalithic building techniques: the case study of ST_004 from Menjez (Akkar, Lebanon)	5
Snapshots from the past: discoveries and destruction in the Jericho Oasis	4
Dura Europos.	4
Assessing the MaDiH CKAN catalogue as an engagement tool for the Jordanian cultural heritage community	4
Ḥorvat Tevet, the Jezreel Valley: a village and an Israelite royal estate	4
Avian depiction in the earliest Neolithic communities of the Near East	4
Site custody activism in Jordan: introducing Sela and Alraqeem	3
Different mint, same engraver: engraver-sharing at Caracalla tetradrachm mints in the southern Levant	3
Arslan Tash Palace: a reconsideration of the architecture, phases, chronology and use	3
Do the right thing	3
A marble Sarcophagus of Gadara (Umm Qais), Jordan: insights on its provenance	3
Dan IV: The Iron Age I Settlement. The Avraham Biran Excavations (1966–1999)	3
William Lancaster: anthropologist and ethnographic mentor	2

Using the EAMENA database to document modern heritage: the Amman Heritage Houses, Jordan, case study	2
Towards a bottom-up approach for collaboration in cultural heritage: the case of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) Amman Institute and the JEA's Urban Heritage Preservation Committ	2
The late Ottoman defended landscapes along the Hijaz railway in southern Jordan	2
Megalithic architecture in the Levant: broader perspectives for defining what we are talking about	2
The Louvre Museum terracotta ship-models from Tyre	2
The ethics of excavating: bioarchaeology and the case for rehabilitating legacy human skeletal collections in the Near East	2
The EAMENA database and its potential impact on research and heritage management: a case study of Crusader heritage in Lebanon	2
Not a place for respectable people, but the ends of the earth converge there: insights from Wisad Pools into the nature and context of Jordan’s Black Desert Neolithic	2
Illicit trafficking of cultural objects: the case of Cyprus	2
The Early Bronze IV — Middle Bronze I transition in the southern Levant: analysis and assessment	2
Dolmens, standing stones and ritual in Murayghat	2