OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Research is 4. 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
Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 1): Paleoethnobotanical Residues and New Perspectives on Plant Management	22
Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History	15
Governance, Monumentality, and Urbanism in the Northern Maya Lowlands During the Preclassic and Classic Periods	14
Building from the Ground Up: The Archaeology of Residential Spaces and Communities in Southeast Asia	13
Palmyra: At the Crossroads of the Ancient World	12
Hunting and the Social Lives of Southern Africa’s First Farmers	12
Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Early Modern Humans: A Review of the Pleistocene Hominin Fossils from the Altai Mountains (Southern Siberia)	11
Wari: Imperialism, Low Power, and Globalization in the Middle Horizon Central Andes	11
The Archaeology of Reindeer Domestication and Herding Practices in Northern Fennoscandia	10
From History to Cultural Diversity: The Changing Roles of the Maya Script as Archaeological Data	10
Eschewing the Apocalyptic: Recent Research on the Aftermath of “Collapse” in Archaeology Across the Americas	9
Niche Construction and Long-Term Trajectories of Food Production	8
Archaeology of the Silk Road: Challenges of Scale and Storytelling	7
Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023	6
Out of the Shadows: Reestablishing the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Center of Agricultural Origins: Part 1	6
Zooarchaeology of Managed, Captive, Tame, and Domestic Birds: Shifts in Human–Avian Relationships	5
Long-Term Urban and Population Trends in the Southern Mesopotamian Floodplains	5
Aksumite Settlement Patterns: Site Size Hierarchies and Spatial Clustering	5
Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age Trade in Archaeological Perspective: A Review of Interpretative and Empirical Developments	5
Was There a 3.2 ka Crisis in Europe? A Critical Comparison of Climatic, Environmental, and Archaeological Evidence for Radical Change during the Bronze Age–Iron Age Transition	4
The Past, Ethnic Purity, and the Foundations of Nazi Ideology: Archaeology at War	4
Out of the Shadows: Reestablishing the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Center of Agricultural Origins: Part 2	4
Archaeology and Epigraphy in the Digital Era	4
Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast	4