OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Paleopathology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The palaeopathology of industry, a perspective from Britain	23
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean	22
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	22
Are endocranial granular impressions pathognomonic of tuberculous meningitis or a marker of tuberculous infection? An investigation on a medieval osteoarcheological assemblage from Italy	18
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	18
Exoskeletal and eye repair in Dalmanitina socialis (Trilobita): An example of blastemal regeneration in the Ordovician?	17
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	16
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	15
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	15
3D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France	14
Editorial Board	13
A historical case of Eagle’s syndrome from the Constantine-Helena Church, Niğde, Türkiye	12
The association between skeletal lesions and tuberculosis in a pre-antibiotic South African sample	12
Histology of pulmonary tuberculosis in a 19th-century mummy from Comiso (Sicily, Italy)	12
Differential diagnosis of a diffuse sclerosis in an identified male skull (early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal): A multimethodological approach for the identification of osteosclerotic dysplasias in	12
Is the promontory a promising site to diagnose otitis media in paleopathology? A search for evidence	11
Bilateral hip dysplasia in a South African male: A case study from the 17–18th century	10
Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	10
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal	10
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt	10
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations	10
Tentative indicators of malaria in archaeological skeletal samples, a pilot study testing different methods	9
A unique case of skeletal dysplasia in an adult male in Late Iron Age Switzerland	9
Animal disease evidenced in the bone assemblage of a Late Neolithic settlement in Greece: Implications for animal management	9
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England	9

Insights into molar-incisor hypomineralisation in past populations: A call to anthropologists	8
Editorial Board	8
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	8
Editorial Board	8
The impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	8
Editorial Board	8
Approaches to osteoporosis in paleopathology: How did methodology shape bone loss research?	7
Height and health in Roman and Post-Roman Gaul, a life course approach	7
Dental health in Roman dogs: A pilot study using standardized examination methods	7
Embracing complexity. Porous cranial lesions and their paleopathological significance in two population samples from Neolithic Northern Germany	7
Archeometric detection of mercury: A paleopharmacological case study of skeletal remains of a child with vitamin deficiencies (Rouen, France, late 18–19th centuries)	7
Holes in the Head. Double cranial surgery on an individual from the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino (SE Spain)	7
Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK	7
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	6
Editorial Board	6
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	6
ABSTRACTS	6
A possible case of juvenile idiopathic arthritis from Renaissance Lucca (Tuscany, central Italy)	6
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	6
A case of secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from medieval Tuscany (central Italy, 10th-12th centuries CE)	5
Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	5
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	5
Insights into the anatomical expressions of anencephaly in three infants from 17th to 19th- century Lisbon, Portugal	5
Editorial Board	5
A pathological lesion or a postmortem artefact? An interdisciplinary approach to deal with an interesting early medieval case	5
Influences of industrial development and urbanization on human lives in premodern Japan: Views from paleodemography	5
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	5
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	5
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	5
How rare is rare? A literature survey of the last 45 years of paleopathological research on ancient rare diseases	5
A probable case of "lumpy jaw" in early medieval (11th – 12th c.) cattle from a stronghold in Kruszwica, Poland	4
Exploring the antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis: A case study from medieval Transylvania	4
Postmortem changes in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Possible pitfalls on CT images	4
Characteristics of dental malocclusion in a 18th/19th century population from Radom (Poland)	4
Zoonotic parasite infection from a funerary context: A Late Antique child case from Cantabrian Spain	4
The potential for over diagnosis of Paget’s disease of bone using macroscopic analysis	4
Time to be nosy: Evaluating the impact of environmental and sociocultural changes on maxillary sinusitis in the Middle Nile Valley (Neolithic to Medieval periods)	4
A case of congenital multiple epiphyseal dysplasia from the Late Migration Period graveyard in Drnholec (Czech Republic)	4
Heterogeneity in experiences of vitamin D deficiency in an early to mid-19th century population from Montreal, Quebec	4
Considering care: A traumatic obturator fracture dislocation of the hip in a middle-aged man from Gaelic Medieval Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, Ireland	4
Ossicular chain changes revealed middle ear inflammation in medieval rural central Italy (Tuscany 10th-12th century)	4
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)	4
Lesions in sheep elbows: Insights from a large-scale study	4
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	4
Perspectives on anemia: Factors confounding understanding of past occurrence	4
Metastatic cancer along ancient Silk Road: A possible case from Xinjiang (China)	4
Developing an archaeology of malaria. A critical review of current approaches and a discussion on ways forward	4
A sting in the tail: An embedded stingray spine in a mid-1st millennium AD adult male skeleton from Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan	4
Caring for the sick in a medieval rural community: A study based on paleopathological and archaeological data from Medieval Rus’	3
A possible case of Langerhans-cell histiocytosis? Differential diagnosis in a rare case from the Late Antiquity Bavaria (Germany)	3

Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions	3
Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa	3
A comparative approach to bony changes in maxillary and frontal sinuses as indicators of upper respiratory health	3
Elemental analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence: Guidelines for the study of dry human bone	3
Activity reconstruction of Rangifer tarandus feet in Fennoscandian -archaeology: Methodological considerations and application to archaeological material from two Sámi habitation sites	3
A probable case of hypophosphatasia in St Bride’s Lower Churchyard (1770–1849, London, UK)	3
Forgotten and found: A case of childhood rickets in the 19th-century settler village of Heuvelton, New York	3
A urinary stone from the early medieval site of Riner, Catalonia	3
A probable case of holoprosencephaly with cyclopia in a full-term fetus from a modern skeletal collection	3
A possible case of ameloblastoma in an adult male from the early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal	3
Ancient DNA analysis of rare genetic bone disorders	2
The unwritten history of medical treatment: Evidence for ritual-healers and their activities in the pre-literate past	2
A content analysis by bibliometry of the first ten years of the International Journal of Paleopathology	2
Disability and care in Western Europe during Medieval times: A bioarchaeological perspective	2
New paleopathological findings from the Quaternary of the Brazilian Intertropical Region expand the distribution of joint diseases for the South American megafauna	2
A paleoepidemiological approach to the challenging differential diagnosis of an isolated 1500-year-old anomalous molar from Panamá	2
A critical review of the anthropological and paleopathological literature on osteopetrosis as an ancient rare disease (ARD)	2
Disability in a medieval village community: A unique case of facial dysmorphism	2
Generalized dermatitis in the natural mummy of the Roman Catholic nun Marie-Léonie Martin (France, 1863–1941)	2
Spavin in modern and archaeological cattle: Reassessing its association with traction use	2
Spotted bones in an osteopoikilosis-related disease (Buschke Ollendorff Syndrome): Identifying this rare condition from the lab to the field	2
Pathological and sub-pathological changes in European rabbit bones: Two reference cases to be applied to the analysis of archaeological assemblages	2
Conceptualizing disabilities from antiquity to the middle ages: A historical-medical contribution	2
An ‘Index of Oro-dental Disease’: A holistic method for understanding the impacts of different risk factors on oral health in archaeological populations	2
Differential diagnosis of metabolic disease in a commingled sample from 19th century Hisban, Jordan	2
Supplement to the International Journal of Paleopathology. Abstracts for contributions presented at the Paleopathology Association meetings in 2023.	2
Expanding the diagnostic scope of paleopathology: Identification of Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) using a One Paleopathology approach	2
Was the rise of TB contemporaneous with the industrial revolution? Epidemiological evolution of TB in France (17th-20th centuries) inferred from osteoarchaeological and historical archives	2
Gastrointestinal infection in Italy during the Roman Imperial and Longobard periods: A paleoparasitological analysis of sediment from skeletal remains and sewer drains	2
Surviving (but not thriving) after cranial vault trauma: A case study from Transylvania	2
Infectious disease and nutritional deficiencies in early industrialized South Africa	2
Rarity of congenital malformation and deformity in the fossil record of vertebrates – A non-human perspective	2
Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England	2
Challenging definitions and diagnostic approaches for ancient rare diseases: The case of poliomyelitis	2
Oral conditions of the pre-Hispanic mummies of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	2
The pathway of tuberculosis in Argentina: Historical (19th and 20th centuries), epidemiological, and paleopathological data	2
Skeletal indicators of pathology in the context of early tooth loss in children: A systematic literature review	2
Editorial Board	2
Kinship and the familial occurrence of skeletal developmental anomalies in the noble Swéerts-Sporck family (Bohemia, 17th to 20th centuries)	2
A rare femoral heterotopic bone formation in a 14th-19th century female skeleton from Constância (Portugal)	2
Klippel-Feil syndrome cases from Slovakia	2
Multi-level spondylolysis at Egiin Gol: A case from Xiongnu period Mongolia	2