OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Social 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Roman provincial sexualities: Constructing the body, sexuality, and gender through erotic lamp art	14
Knowing Palmyra: Mandatory production of archaeological knowledge	12
Archaeology, ethnography, and geosciences reveal central role of traditional lifeways in shaping Madagascar’s dry forests	12
Monuments as active cooperation. Crisis, mound construction, and society in Scandinavia in the 6th century AD	9
Staying local: Community formation and resilience in Archaic Southern Sicily	8
Reactivating voices of the youth in safeguarding cultural heritage in Iraq: the challenges and tools	8
The politics and historicity of megalithic places in early South India	7
Multiple archives of modernity: Colonialism, capitalism, and identity in Iceland’s transatlantic 19th century	7
Heritage work in extractive zones	6
The roads of power and the paths of the people: Reconfiguring communities and territories from pre-Hispanic Andean roads to modern Peruvian highways	5
Events, narrative and data: why new chronologies or ethically Bayesian approaches should change how we write archaeology	5
Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete	4
The seascape in stone: Archaeological and cosmological assessment of maritime motifs in Yanyuwa ‘rock art’	4
Discoveries, nations, and archaeological explorations: The scientific colonization of Tarapacá, Atacama desert	4
Landscapes of production, production of meaning: Salt infrastructure and environmental history in imperial Rome and Han China	4
(Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze	3
Reclaiming heritage and citizenship: urban pre-colonial cultural heritage management and heritage grassroots organizations in Lima, Peru	3
Domestication is not an ancient moment of selection for prosociality: Insights from dogs and modern humans	3
Crafting difference: artefacts and the politics of distinction at a South Indian well	3
Excavating Europe’s last fascist monument: The Valley of the Fallen (Spain)	2
Activating archaeology: Robert McCormick Adams and how the past can help solve the problems of today	2
Boundary-crossing as resilience: the colonisation of the Maya at Lamanai, Belize in the 16th century	2
In small things remembered: Pinch pots and skill acquisition in burial evidence from pre-Roman northern Apulia	2
Minding the gap: Attempts at community archaeology and local counter-narratives at an archaeological site in Turkey	2
A mixed city or an ancient historical city? The malleability of heritage in rebranding Lydd	2

Symbolic kraals: Subterranean food stores, hidden wealth and ethnographic errors	2
Class or no class? A contemporary archaeological approach to a working-class neighbourhood in northern Finland	2
Sketchbook archaeology: Bodies multiple and the archives they create	1
Dominion and improvement: The moral ecologies of colonial encounters	1
Of robots and ancient mysteries: Representations of Jōmon figurines as cultural heritage and popular culture	1
Time to decolonise: ‘If not now’, then when?	1
Archaeology, Indigenous erasure, and the creation of white public space at the California missions	1
Disseminating archaeological heritage knowledge for development in Africa with special reference to Zimbabwe	1
Archaeology for the courtroom: the Ayodhya Case and the fashioning of a hybrid episteme	1
Assembling Islamic practice in a Swahili urban landscape, 11th–16th centuries	1
Archaeology, land tenure, and Indigenous dispossession in Mexico	1