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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	9
The Mondal Family Build a Chhot : A Vanishing Boat Type in the Bengali ‘Stapling’ Tradition, West Bengal, India	8
Recent Advancements in the Riddarholmen Ship Puzzle: A New Interpretation of the Architecture of an Early 16th-Century Clinker-Built Gun-Carrying Warship	8
Sun – Current – Ocean Swell: Additional Remarks on Viking-Age Navigational Skills	7
The Sotanillo II Graffiti: A Brief Nautical Analysis of Al-Ándalus Vessel Depictions	6
The Jãba: Dugout Canoes of the Emberá – An Ethnoarchaeological Analysis in Darién and the Emberá–Wounaan Territory in Panama	6
Cathole Cliff Shipwreck, South Devon, UK: The Possible 18th-Century Trade Vessel Dragon	5
Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology: Flat Ontologies, Oceanic Thought, and the Anthropocene	5
Focusing on the Daggerboard: Characterizing a Shipbuilding Technology on the Great Lakes in the Early Years of the 19th Century	4
Sourcing Wood for Early Mediterranean Ships in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages	4
The Maritime Circulation of Roof Tiles in the Northwestern Mediterranean during the Roman Republican and Imperial Periods	3
Alkedo, a Roman Imperial Ship from Pisa: A Study of its Hull Construction and Hypothetical Reconstruction	3
Industrialisation, Warfare, and Science: An Archaeological-Historical Insight into Technological Changes of Mid-18th to Early 19th-century European Naval Ships	3
The Recent Find of a Cog of ca. 1240 in the Fjällbacka Archipelago, Western Sweden: A Preliminary Report	3
Revealing the Identity, History and Nature Conservation Status of Royal Navy Vessel Steam Pinnace 744, in Lyness, Scapa Flow, Orkney Isles	3
Roman ‘Well-cisterns’, Navigational Routes, and Landscape Modifications in the Venice Lagoon and Northeastern Adriatic	3
A Categorisation of the Ships and Boats of the Egyptian New Kingdom, Volume II	3
Paths Across the Sea: Meteo-Marine Conditions for Coastal Navigation Around the Balearic Islands During the Middle and Late Bronze Ages	2
Shipwrecks and the Maritime History of Singapore	2
Assessing the Damage and Remaining Archaeological Potential of Commercially Salvaged Sites at Mozambique Island: The Case of São Sebastião Fortress Shipwrecks	2
Heritage and the Sea, Volume 1: Maritime History and Archaeology of the Global Iberian World (15th–18th centuries)	2
Sea Level Changes and the Locations of the ‘Missing’ Hellenistic and Roman Harbours at Tel Dor, Israel	2
Falken 1631–1651: The Identification, Initial Archaeological Survey and Reconstruction of the Wreck of a Swedish Warship Located in the Finnish Archipelago	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 Selør Tile Wreck: A Late Medieval Cargo Ship near the South Cape of Norway	2

Sailmaking and Reducing Sail in Middle Kingdom Egypt: The Historic Sail Research Project’s Analysis of Funerary Boat Model Sails	2
Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 336–30 BC: War at Sea from Alexander to Actium	2
Islands and Communities. Perspectives on Insularity, Connectivity, and Belonging	2
The Proof is in the Plans: A New Method for Comparative Analysis of Historic Ship Plans	2
Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th–19th Centuries	2
(Re-)interpreting the Artefact Collection of the Nossa Senhora da Consolação Wreck (1608)	1
‘For the Want of Them may Ruin a Voyage’: Analysis of Glass Beads from Channel Wrecks, Including the Dutch East India Company retourschip Rooswijk	1
Anchors, Chains, and an Absence of Knees: Identification of an Early 19th-Century Shipwreck at Boot Reef, Australian Coral Sea Territory	1
The Recovery and Reuse of a MKII Fairey Barracuda from the Solent, Hampshire	1
Bronze Fastenings Used on an 18th-Century Ship Built for the East India Company	1
Crossing Continents: Between India and the Aegean from Prehistory to Alexander the Great	1
The Archaeology of Ocean, a 19th-Century Merchant Schooner Wrecked in the Solent 1865	1
The Siege of Rhodes of 1480: Textual and Iconographic Sources for an Underwater Archaeological Search	1
Wild Craft: Wooden Cargo Ships of South India	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
Unlocking the Serçe Limanı Forelock Bolt: An Archaeological–Mechanical Analysis of the Ubiquitous Maritime Fastener of Ancient Watercraft	1
Mast-step Coins in Roman Ships: Votive Offerings to Isis Pelagia?	1
Down by the Water: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human-Environment Interactions in Watery Spaces, BAR International Series 3108, Cultural Studies in Mariti	1
A Question of Marks: Timber Marks from the Ses Llumetes Shipwreck, 1st Century AD, Mallorca (Spain)	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
Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World: Economy and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Greece	1