OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Paleopathology 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
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	22
The palaeopathology of industry, a perspective from Britain	19
Testing the Digital Atlas of Ancient Rare Diseases (DAARD) using a new case of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease from Early Byzantine (500–700 CE) Olympia, Greece	18
An intersectional and Bayesian investigation of pleural disease in industrializing England (1700–1857CE)	17
Skeleton matter(s): Reframing current approaches in bioarchaeology towards a more inclusive future	15
An arts-based approach for communicating paleopathological research to public audiences: the Phoenix Bioscience Core’s Artist + Researcher (ARx) program	13
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	12
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	12
Are endocranial granular impressions pathognomonic of tuberculous meningitis or a marker of tuberculous infection? An investigation on a medieval osteoarcheological assemblage from Italy	12
A historical case of Eagle’s syndrome from the Constantine-Helena Church, Niğde, Türkiye	11
Archival pasts and futures in paleopathology	10
Editorial Board	9
Periodontitis and alveolar resorption in human skeletal remains: The relationship between quantitative alveolar bone loss, occlusal wear, antemortem tooth loss, dental calculus and age at death in a l	8
Bilateral hip dysplasia in a South African male: A case study from the 17–18th century	8
Is the promontory a promising site to diagnose otitis media in paleopathology? A search for evidence	7
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt	7
The association between skeletal lesions and tuberculosis in a pre-antibiotic South African sample	7
Histology of pulmonary tuberculosis in a 19th-century mummy from Comiso (Sicily, Italy)	7
Editorial Board	6
Tentative indicators of malaria in archaeological skeletal samples, a pilot study testing different methods	6
Rickets, resorption and revolution: An investigation into the relationship between vitamin D deficiency in childhood and osteoporosis in adulthood in an 18th-19th century population	6
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal	6
Editorial Board	6
Animal disease evidenced in the bone assemblage of a Late Neolithic settlement in Greece: Implications for animal management	6
Disability in medieval Poulton (Cheshire): A case of hand amputation	5

Play or foul play: A case of perimortem cranial injuries on a child from Yaoheyuan, Western Zhou China (1046–771 BCE)	5
The impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	5
Endemic congenital iodine deficiency syndrome from a 19th to 20th century poorhouse cemetery in Riggisberg, Switzerland	5
Insights into molar-incisor hypomineralisation in past populations: A call to anthropologists	5
Investigating wild bovines to assess pathological indicators of traction exploitation	5
Archeometric detection of mercury: A paleopharmacological case study of skeletal remains of a child with vitamin deficiencies (Rouen, France, late 18–19th centuries)	5
Embracing complexity. Porous cranial lesions and their paleopathological significance in two population samples from Neolithic Northern Germany	4
Editorial Board	4
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	4
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	4
Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK	4
Dental health in Roman dogs: A pilot study using standardized examination methods	4
Early Iron Age horse exploitation in Thrace (Bulgaria) inferred from dental attrition and vertebral pathology	4
Do the regions of the spinal column record stress differently? An analysis of diminished growth in the vertebral neural canal	4
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	4
Holes in the Head. Double cranial surgery on an individual from the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino (SE Spain)	4
ABSTRACTS	4
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	4
Insights into the anatomical expressions of anencephaly in three infants from 17th to 19th- century Lisbon, Portugal	4
A severe case of bilateral humerus varus deformity from the Middle Bronze age necropolis of Olmo di Nogara, Northeast Italy. The contribution of biomechanical analysis to paleopathological study	4
A pathological lesion or a postmortem artefact? An interdisciplinary approach to deal with an interesting early medieval case	3
Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	3
A probable case of "lumpy jaw" in early medieval (11th – 12th c.) cattle from a stronghold in Kruszwica, Poland	3
Characteristics of dental malocclusion in a 18th/19th century population from Radom (Poland)	3
Postmortem changes in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Possible pitfalls on CT images	3
Perspectives on anemia: Factors confounding understanding of past occurrence	3
Editorial Board	3
The use of Fisher’s exact test in contingency table analysis in palaeopathology	3
Erratum to “A distant city: Assessing the impact of Dutch socioeconomic developments on urban and rural health using respiratory disease as a proxy” [Int. J. Paleopathol. 42 (2023) 34–45]	3
A possible case of hypertrophic osteopathy in osteological remains representing cattle hide processing from a Roman villa in England	3
A short and sickly life. Multi-indicator analysis of an infant from a late antique Italian burial site (Piano della Civita, Artena, 3rd-5th cent CE)	3
Bioarchaeological evidence of violent deaths from medieval Prague	3
Helping to shine light on the Dark Ages: Applying the bioarchaeology of care approach to remains from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Worthy Park	3
The ivy and the palm: Care and mourning for a child buried in 19th-century Madrid, Spain	3
Exploring the antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis: A case study from medieval Transylvania	3
Metastatic cancer along ancient Silk Road: A possible case from Xinjiang (China)	3
Bone pathologies of modern caprines (Ovis aries & Capra hircus) in the context of the pasture-stall system of the steppe zone of the South Urals	3
A case of congenital multiple epiphyseal dysplasia from the Late Migration Period graveyard in Drnholec (Czech Republic)	3
A case of secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from medieval Tuscany (central Italy, 10th-12th centuries CE)	3
The potential for over diagnosis of Paget’s disease of bone using macroscopic analysis	2
Considering care: A traumatic obturator fracture dislocation of the hip in a middle-aged man from Gaelic Medieval Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, Ireland	2
A probable case of hypophosphatasia in St Bride’s Lower Churchyard (1770–1849, London, UK)	2
Caring for the sick in a medieval rural community: A study based on paleopathological and archaeological data from Medieval Rus’	2
Stressing about stress: Examining dental cortisol concentrations in teeth with dental enamel hypoplasia	2
A comparative approach to bony changes in maxillary and frontal sinuses as indicators of upper respiratory health	2
Forgotten and found: A case of childhood rickets in the 19th-century settler village of Heuvelton, New York	2
A rare femoral heterotopic bone formation in a 14th-19th century female skeleton from Constância (Portugal)	2
Supplement to the International Journal of Paleopathology. Abstracts for contributions presented at the Paleopathology Association meetings in 2023.	2
Elemental analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence: Guidelines for the study of dry human bone	2
Ossicular chain changes revealed middle ear inflammation in medieval rural central Italy (Tuscany 10th-12th century)	2

Heterogeneity in experiences of vitamin D deficiency in an early to mid-19th century population from Montreal, Quebec	2
Developing an archaeology of malaria. A critical review of current approaches and a discussion on ways forward	2
Activity reconstruction of Rangifer tarandus feet in Fennoscandian -archaeology: Methodological considerations and application to archaeological material from two Sámi habitation sites	2
Differential sampling for genetic analyses of Treponema pallidum and for radiocarbon dating in archaeological bone	2
Skeletal indicators of pathology in the context of early tooth loss in children: A systematic literature review	2
New paleopathological findings from the Quaternary of the Brazilian Intertropical Region expand the distribution of joint diseases for the South American megafauna	2
Cribra orbitalia and cribra cranii in perspective: Rethinking etiology through life course and ONE Paleopathology approaches	2
Editorial Board	2
A sting in the tail: An embedded stingray spine in a mid-1st millennium AD adult male skeleton from Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan	2
Editorial Board	2
Zoonotic parasite infection from a funerary context: A Late Antique child case from Cantabrian Spain	2
Editorial Board	2
Generalized dermatitis in the natural mummy of the Roman Catholic nun Marie-Léonie Martin (France, 1863–1941)	2
Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa	2
Disability and care in Western Europe during Medieval times: A bioarchaeological perspective	2
A paleoepidemiological approach to the challenging differential diagnosis of an isolated 1500-year-old anomalous molar from Panamá	2
Expanding the diagnostic scope of paleopathology: Identification of Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) using a One Paleopathology approach	2
Spavin in modern and archaeological cattle: Reassessing its association with traction use	1
Precursors to the 1918 pandemic: Finding Rickettsia felis and Mucor co-infection associated with a death in 1912	1
Metastatic cancer and endentulism: Exploring comorbidity to assist with differential diagnosis in a case from Vico nel Lazio (Fr, Italy), 13th-15th century CE	1
Calcified uterine leiomyoma from an 18th-century nunnery in North Italy	1
External auditory exostoses in fragmentary remains: Evidence for activity and human-environment interactions at Early Neolithic Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan	1
Editorial Board	1
Bone trauma and interpersonal care among Late Holocene hunter-gatherers from Patagonia, Argentina	1
Radiographic and macroscopic dry bone manifestations of childhood leukemia in a case of known cause of death from mid-20th century Portugal	1
Periodontitis in human skeletal remains: The relationship between CEJ-AC distance and alveolar bone defects in a modern forensic collection of low socioeconomic status individuals from Yucatan, Mexico	1
Conceptualizing disabilities from antiquity to the middle ages: A historical-medical contribution	1
The madness they endured: A biocultural examination of women's experiences of structural violence within 20th-century Missouri state mental hospitals	1
On some paleopathological examples of amputation and the implications for healthcare in 13th-17th century Lithuania	1
A case of septic arthritis of the hip in Central Plains, China, during the Western Han Dynasty (3rd century BCE–1st century CE)	1
Dental diseases and dental wear as a proxy for dietary patterns in Hellenistic-early Roman Menainon, Sicily	1
Applying demographic and epidemiological models in challenging situations: Grappling with a small sample size and complex sociopolitical contexts among the ancient Maya at Lower Dover	1
Differential diagnosis of an osseous cranial tumor from Hellenistic Muğla, Turkey	1
Cranial fluctuating asymmetry and its relationship with non-specific physiological stress indicators in a contemporary South African cadaveric skeletal sample	1
Metastatic cancer in antiquity: Case study from 3rd-4th century Milan, Italy	1
Multi-level spondylolysis at Egiin Gol: A case from Xiongnu period Mongolia	1
Examining pathogen DNA recovery across the remains of a 14th century Italian friar (Blessed Sante) infected with Brucella melitensis	1
Focus-stacked, ultra-macro photography: A tool for analysis, diagnosis and recording in bioarchaeology	1
Gastrointestinal parasites in a single human burial from Argentine Patagonia during the 18th-19th-century Indigenous–European Contact Period	1
Precarious adolescence: Adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18th–19th centuries	1
Protozoan parasites of birds from the Tremembé formation (Oligocene of the Taubaté Basin), São Paulo, Brazil	1
The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities	1
Differential diagnosis for two ‘holes in the head’ of a child from 982 to 904 BP in northern South America	1
Evidence of interpersonal violence through nasal fractures in Late Holocene Southern Patagonia	1
An ‘Index of Oro-dental Disease’: A holistic method for understanding the impacts of different risk factors on oral health in archaeological populations	1
Eimeria leuckarti in equid coprolites from the Sassanid Era (2nd–6th century CE) excavated in Chehrabad Salt Mine archaeological site, Iran	1