OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Nautical Archaeology is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Recent Advancements in the Riddarholmen Ship Puzzle: A New Interpretation of the Architecture of an Early 16th-Century Clinker-Built Gun-Carrying Warship	7
The Tyne Coal Keel: A Unique British Watercraft, 1400–1890 The Tyne Coal Keel: A Unique British Watercraft, 1400–1890 , by Adrian Osler, privately published in the UK by	7
Sun – Current – Ocean Swell: Additional Remarks on Viking-Age Navigational Skills	6
Bessie: A Single-Log Plantation Boat from the South Carolina Lowcountry	6
The Mondal Family Build a Chhot : A Vanishing Boat Type in the Bengali ‘Stapling’ Tradition, West Bengal, India	6
The Jãba: Dugout Canoes of the Emberá – An Ethnoarchaeological Analysis in Darién and the Emberá–Wounaan Territory in Panama	5
The Sotanillo II Graffiti: A Brief Nautical Analysis of Al-Ándalus Vessel Depictions	5
‘He Went Down to Joppa and Found a Ship Going to Tarshish’ (Jonah 1:3): Landscape Reconstruction at Jaffa and a Potential Early Harbour	4
Cathole Cliff Shipwreck, South Devon, UK: The Possible 18th-Century Trade Vessel Dragon	4
Maritime Claims and Underwater Archaeology: When History Meets Politics, Brill Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea	3
Revealing the Identity, History and Nature Conservation Status of Royal Navy Vessel Steam Pinnace 744, in Lyness, Scapa Flow, Orkney Isles	3
Sea Level Changes and the Locations of the ‘Missing’ Hellenistic and Roman Harbours at Tel Dor, Israel	3
Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology: Flat Ontologies, Oceanic Thought, and the Anthropocene	3
Industrialisation, Warfare, and Science: An Archaeological-Historical Insight into Technological Changes of Mid-18th to Early 19th-century European Naval Ships	3
Roman ‘Well-cisterns’, Navigational Routes, and Landscape Modifications in the Venice Lagoon and Northeastern Adriatic	3
Focusing on the Daggerboard: Characterizing a Shipbuilding Technology on the Great Lakes in the Early Years of the 19th Century	3
A Categorisation of the Ships and Boats of the Egyptian New Kingdom, Volume II	3
The Recent Find of a Cog of ca. 1240 in the Fjällbacka Archipelago, Western Sweden: A Preliminary Report	2
Islands and Communities. Perspectives on Insularity, Connectivity, and Belonging	2
Sailmaking and Reducing Sail in Middle Kingdom Egypt: The Historic Sail Research Project’s Analysis of Funerary Boat Model Sails	2
The Selør Tile Wreck: A Late Medieval Cargo Ship near the South Cape of Norway	2
Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 336–30 BC: War at Sea from Alexander to Actium	2
Ship Timbers from the Islamic Sites of al-Balid and Qalhat, Oman: Sewn-Plank Technology in the Indian Ocean during the 10–16th Centuries CE	2
The Proof is in the Plans: A New Method for Comparative Analysis of Historic Ship Plans	2
Shipwrecks and the Maritime History of Singapore	2

Roman Seas: A Maritime Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean Economies	2
Paths Across the Sea: Meteo-Marine Conditions for Coastal Navigation Around the Balearic Islands During the Middle and Late Bronze Ages	2
Alkedo, a Roman Imperial Ship from Pisa: A Study of its Hull Construction and Hypothetical Reconstruction	2
Assessing the Damage and Remaining Archaeological Potential of Commercially Salvaged Sites at Mozambique Island: The Case of São Sebastião Fortress Shipwrecks	2
Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th–19th Centuries	1
Heritage and the Sea, Volume 1: Maritime History and Archaeology of the Global Iberian World (15th–18th centuries)	1
Wild Craft: Wooden Cargo Ships of South India	1
Crossing Continents: Between India and the Aegean from Prehistory to Alexander the Great	1
Anchors, Chains, and an Absence of Knees: Identification of an Early 19th-Century Shipwreck at Boot Reef, Australian Coral Sea Territory	1
The Archaeology of Ocean, a 19th-Century Merchant Schooner Wrecked in the Solent 1865	1
The Many Lives of Equator : History and Analysis of the Late 19th-century Pacific Schooner (Part 1)	1
The Use of Modern Technology to Obtain New Information from the 1970s’ Excavation of the Portuguese Frigate Santo António de Tanná, Wrecked in Mombasa in 1697	1
Deadeye Development from AD 1545–1700: A Statistical Approach	1
Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World: Economy and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Greece	1
Unlocking the Serçe Limanı Forelock Bolt: An Archaeological–Mechanical Analysis of the Ubiquitous Maritime Fastener of Ancient Watercraft	1
Bronze Fastenings Used on an 18th-Century Ship Built for the East India Company	1
A Question of Marks: Timber Marks from the Ses Llumetes Shipwreck, 1st Century AD, Mallorca (Spain)	1
The Recovery and Reuse of a MKII Fairey Barracuda from the Solent, Hampshire	1
Maritime Archaeology on Dry Land: Special Sites along the Coasts of Britain and Ireland from the First Farmers to the Atlantic Bronze Age Maritime Archaeology on Dry Land: Special Sites	1
The Siege of Rhodes of 1480: Textual and Iconographic Sources for an Underwater Archaeological Search	1
(Re-)interpreting the Artefact Collection of the Nossa Senhora da Consolação Wreck (1608)	1