OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Geoarchaeological insights into ancient ports of the northern Persian Gulf: A vanishing heritage	28
Review of herring and people of the North Pacific: sustaining a keystone species by Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss *Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sus*	10
Comment on “Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru”	8
Revisiting the evidence of the Arenal 1 site: Chronologies and human interactions in central southern Chile	6
Provenance and distribution networks of the earliest bronze in the Maritime Territory (Primorye), Russian Far East	6
Rescue recovery of the earliest known burials from Barbuda, West Indies (ca. 3560–3220 cal years BP)	5
Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal archaeological heritage: A geostatistical overview of threatened sites	5
Examining trade routes through the Thai–Malay Peninsula: A simulation analysis	5
Burgiyana and Waraldi: A radiocarbon chronology for a selection of coastal and island archaeological sites on Yorke Peninsula/Guuranda, South Australia	4
Evidence of lithic blade technology in southwest Madagascar	4
Insular networks: An exploration of material distribution, insularity and island identity on the edge of Europe in the Shetland Neolithic	4
Contextualizing the influence of climate and culture on bivalve populations: Donax obesulus malacology from the north coast of Peru	4
Underwater Neolithic combustion features: A micro-geoarchaeological study in the submerged settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel	4
Living in a coast–grassland ecotone: Zooarchaeology of a late Holocene shell midden in the Uruguayan Atlantic Coast	4
From earth to sky: Large-scale archaeological settlement patterns in southernmost South America based on ground surveys, UAV LiDAR, and open access satellite imagery	4
Prehistoric reef-building coral occurrence in north Peru	4
“This is the way”: Knowledge networks and toolkit specialization in the circumpolar coastal landscapes of western Alaska and Tierra del Fuego	4
Archaeological research at the Early Pre-Latte Period site of San Roque on Saipan (ca. 1500–1100 BC)	3
Sailing the deep blue sea: The rock art of Wetang Island, Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia	3
Landscape ecology, settlement, and land use in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, México: An unusual case for coastal Mesoamerica	3
A preliminary consideration of craft production and settlement expansion on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, USA	3
Climate change and coastal archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: assessing past impacts and future threats	3
Feasting at coastal shellmounds in Guerrero, Mexico	3
Cille Pheadair: A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist	2
The indigenous paleolithic of the Western hemisphere	2

Portus and stationes along the Southwest Iberian Peninsula: Anchorages of the Huelva coast	2
Native American use of cetaceans in pre-contact Oregon: Biomolecular and taphonomic analyses illuminate human–cetacean relationships	2
Pollen and phytoliths in archaeological features from North Island, New Zealand, reveal landscape disturbance and cultivation of Polynesian-introduced Cordyline cf.	2
Intensive exploitation of marine crabs and sea urchins during the middle holocene in the eastern Arabian peninsula offers new perspectives on ancient maritime adaptations	2
The Hālawa dune site, Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands: New excavations, redating, and new interpretations	2
Agency amongst the entrepôts: Negotiating exchange associations between Motu hiri and Mailu seafaring exchange networks at Hood Bay on Papua New Guinea’s south coast	2
Massive offerings of marine fish at Salango, coastal Ecuador, during the Middle Guangala phase (AD 300–600)	2
Temporal patterns in the economization of obsidian use in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Obsidian in prehistoric complexes of the southern Kurile islands (the Russian Far East): A review of sources, their exploitation, and population movements	2
Sourcing Mississippian pottery among the complex maritime cultures of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast	2
A pre-European archaeology in Malvinas/Falkland Islands? A review	2
An archaeomalacological investigation of chitons on the Hane Dune site, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands	2