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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	17
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	16
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	15
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	15
Are endocranial granular impressions pathognomonic of tuberculous meningitis or a marker of tuberculous infection? An investigation on a medieval osteoarcheological assemblage from Italy	14
Exoskeletal and eye repair in Dalmanitina socialis (Trilobita): An example of blastemal regeneration in the Ordovician?	13
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	12
A historical case of Eagle’s syndrome from the Constantine-Helena Church, Niğde, Türkiye	12
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3D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France	11
The association between skeletal lesions and tuberculosis in a pre-antibiotic South African sample	10
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	10
Is the promontory a promising site to diagnose otitis media in paleopathology? A search for evidence	9
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations	9
Histology of pulmonary tuberculosis in a 19th-century mummy from Comiso (Sicily, Italy)	9
Bilateral hip dysplasia in a South African male: A case study from the 17–18th century	9
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England	8
Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	8
A unique case of skeletal dysplasia in an adult male in Late Iron Age Switzerland	8
Animal disease evidenced in the bone assemblage of a Late Neolithic settlement in Greece: Implications for animal management	8
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	8
Tentative indicators of malaria in archaeological skeletal samples, a pilot study testing different methods	8
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal	8
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt	8

The impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	7
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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
Dental health in Roman dogs: A pilot study using standardized examination methods	6
Insights into molar-incisor hypomineralisation in past populations: A call to anthropologists	6
Holes in the Head. Double cranial surgery on an individual from the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino (SE Spain)	6
Archeometric detection of mercury: A paleopharmacological case study of skeletal remains of a child with vitamin deficiencies (Rouen, France, late 18–19th centuries)	6
Height and health in Roman and Post-Roman Gaul, a life course approach	5
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Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	5
Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK	5
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	5
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	5
Embracing complexity. Porous cranial lesions and their paleopathological significance in two population samples from Neolithic Northern Germany	5
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A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	5
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	5
A case of secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from medieval Tuscany (central Italy, 10th-12th centuries CE)	4
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	4
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
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Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	4
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]	4
Lesions in sheep elbows: Insights from a large-scale study	4
Insights into the anatomical expressions of anencephaly in three infants from 17th to 19th- century Lisbon, Portugal	4
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	4
A pathological lesion or a postmortem artefact? An interdisciplinary approach to deal with an interesting early medieval case	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
Developing an archaeology of malaria. A critical review of current approaches and a discussion on ways forward	3
A sting in the tail: An embedded stingray spine in a mid-1st millennium AD adult male skeleton from Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan	3
A case of congenital multiple epiphyseal dysplasia from the Late Migration Period graveyard in Drnholec (Czech Republic)	3
Characteristics of dental malocclusion in a 18th/19th century population from Radom (Poland)	3
Considering care: A traumatic obturator fracture dislocation of the hip in a middle-aged man from Gaelic Medieval Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, Ireland	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
Heterogeneity in experiences of vitamin D deficiency in an early to mid-19th century population from Montreal, Quebec	3
Perspectives on anemia: Factors confounding understanding of past occurrence	3
Postmortem changes in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Possible pitfalls on CT images	3
Zoonotic parasite infection from a funerary context: A Late Antique child case from Cantabrian Spain	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
Metastatic cancer along ancient Silk Road: A possible case from Xinjiang (China)	3
The potential for over diagnosis of Paget’s disease of bone using macroscopic analysis	2
A comparative approach to bony changes in maxillary and frontal sinuses as indicators of upper respiratory health	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
A content analysis by bibliometry of the first ten years of the International Journal of Paleopathology	2
A probable case of hypophosphatasia in St Bride’s Lower Churchyard (1770–1849, London, UK)	2
Oral conditions of the pre-Hispanic mummies of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	2
Forgotten and found: A case of childhood rickets in the 19th-century settler village of Heuvelton, New York	2

Spotted bones in an osteopoikilosis-related disease (Buschke Ollendorff Syndrome): Identifying this rare condition from the lab to the field	2
Skeletal indicators of pathology in the context of early tooth loss in children: A systematic literature review	2
The pathway of tuberculosis in Argentina: Historical (19th and 20th centuries), epidemiological, and paleopathological data	2
Disability in a medieval village community: A unique case of facial dysmorphism	2
Kinship and the familial occurrence of skeletal developmental anomalies in the noble Swéerts-Sporck family (Bohemia, 17th to 20th centuries)	2
Elemental analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence: Guidelines for the study of dry human bone	2
Supplement to the International Journal of Paleopathology. Abstracts for contributions presented at the Paleopathology Association meetings in 2023.	2
Generalized dermatitis in the natural mummy of the Roman Catholic nun Marie-Léonie Martin (France, 1863–1941)	2
Caring for the sick in a medieval rural community: A study based on paleopathological and archaeological data from Medieval Rus’	2
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A urinary stone from the early medieval site of Riner, Catalonia	2
Surviving (but not thriving) after cranial vault trauma: A case study from Transylvania	2
Disability and care in Western Europe during Medieval times: A bioarchaeological perspective	2
A possible case of ameloblastoma in an adult male from the early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal	2
Expanding the diagnostic scope of paleopathology: Identification of Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) using a One Paleopathology approach	2
Ossicular chain changes revealed middle ear inflammation in medieval rural central Italy (Tuscany 10th-12th century)	2
Activity reconstruction of Rangifer tarandus feet in Fennoscandian -archaeology: Methodological considerations and application to archaeological material from two Sámi habitation sites	2
A rare femoral heterotopic bone formation in a 14th-19th century female skeleton from Constância (Portugal)	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
Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa	2
Multi-level spondylolysis at Egiin Gol: A case from Xiongnu period Mongolia	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
Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis: A comparison of osteological and CT methods of diagnosis	1
Inner ear modifications in Dar-es-Soltane II H5 (Morocco): A case of labyrinthitis ossificans	1
A possible case of orbital osteomyelitis from the medieval cemetery of Sant’ Agostino in Caravate (Varese, Northern Italy)	1
Mortality, migration and epidemiological change in English cities, 1600–1870	1
Rare cases of rare diseases: Re-examining early 20th century cases of anencephaly from the collection of the Moscow State University, Russia	1
Examining pathogen DNA recovery across the remains of a 14th century Italian friar (Blessed Sante) infected with Brucella melitensis	1
Differential diagnosis for two ‘holes in the head’ of a child from 982 to 904 BP in northern South America	1
The unwritten history of medical treatment: Evidence for ritual-healers and their activities in the pre-literate past	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
Corrigendum to “The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities”[Int. J. Paleopathol. 38 (2022),	1
Living with lower limb traumas and below-knee amputation in a Jordanian Late Ottoman nomadic community	1
A case of disability and care during Inca times	1
Guidance for the identification of bony lesions related to smallpox	1
Calcified uterine leiomyoma from an 18th-century nunnery in North Italy	1
On some paleopathological examples of amputation and the implications for healthcare in 13th-17th century Lithuania	1
Differential diagnosis of an osseous cranial tumor from Hellenistic Muğla, Turkey	1
Conceptualizing disabilities from antiquity to the middle ages: A historical-medical contribution	1
Cranial fluctuating asymmetry and its relationship with non-specific physiological stress indicators in a contemporary South African cadaveric skeletal sample	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
Pathological and sub-pathological changes in European rabbit bones: Two reference cases to be applied to the analysis of archaeological assemblages	1
Trepanations in the ancient Greek colony of Akanthos: Skull surgery in the light of Hippocratic medicine	1
Corrigendum to “Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England” [Int. J. Paleopathol. 40 (2023) 7–19]	1
Are the identified collections of immature skeletons dating from the Industrial Revolution good references for paleoauxological studies? Cases studies from England & France	1
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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 madness they endured: A biocultural examination of women's experiences of structural violence within 20th-century Missouri state mental hospitals	1
The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities	1
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Spavin in modern and archaeological cattle: Reassessing its association with traction use	1
Eimeria leuckarti in equid coprolites from the Sassanid Era (2nd–6th century CE) excavated in Chehrabad Salt Mine archaeological site, Iran	1
Dental diseases and dental wear as a proxy for dietary patterns in Hellenistic-early Roman Menainon, Sicily	1
Radiological evidence of purulent infections in ancient Egyptian child mummies	1
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH): New evidence from micro-XCT scanning	1