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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	19
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	19
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean	16
The palaeopathology of industry, a perspective from Britain	15
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	14
Are endocranial granular impressions pathognomonic of tuberculous meningitis or a marker of tuberculous infection? An investigation on a medieval osteoarcheological assemblage from Italy	14
A historical case of Eagle’s syndrome from the Constantine-Helena Church, Niğde, Türkiye	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	13
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	12
Editorial Board	12
Archival pasts and futures in paleopathology	12
Bilateral hip dysplasia in a South African male: A case study from the 17–18th century	11
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations	10
Histology of pulmonary tuberculosis in a 19th-century mummy from Comiso (Sicily, Italy)	10
Is the promontory a promising site to diagnose otitis media in paleopathology? A search for evidence	9
A case of rheumatoid arthritis in a Nubian woman from the site of Sheikh Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt	9
Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	9
The association between skeletal lesions and tuberculosis in a pre-antibiotic South African sample	9
Tentative indicators of malaria in archaeological skeletal samples, a pilot study testing different methods	8
Animal disease evidenced in the bone assemblage of a Late Neolithic settlement in Greece: Implications for animal management	8
Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal	8
The impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	6
Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK	6

Investigating wild bovines to assess pathological indicators of traction exploitation	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
Editorial Board	6
Endemic congenital iodine deficiency syndrome from a 19th to 20th century poorhouse cemetery in Riggisberg, Switzerland	6
Dental health in Roman dogs: A pilot study using standardized examination methods	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
Height and health in Roman and Post-Roman Gaul, a life course approach	5
Embracing complexity. Porous cranial lesions and their paleopathological significance in two population samples from Neolithic Northern Germany	5
Insights into molar-incisor hypomineralisation in past populations: A call to anthropologists	5
ABSTRACTS	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
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	4
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	4
Editorial Board	4
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	4
Insights into the anatomical expressions of anencephaly in three infants from 17th to 19th- century Lisbon, Portugal	4
A case of secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy from medieval Tuscany (central Italy, 10th-12th centuries CE)	4
Holes in the Head. Double cranial surgery on an individual from the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino (SE Spain)	4
Do the regions of the spinal column record stress differently? An analysis of diminished growth in the vertebral neural canal	4
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	4
The ivy and the palm: Care and mourning for a child buried in 19th-century Madrid, Spain	4
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	4
Metastatic cancer along ancient Silk Road: A possible case from Xinjiang (China)	3
A pathological lesion or a postmortem artefact? An interdisciplinary approach to deal with an interesting early medieval case	3
A probable case of "lumpy jaw" in early medieval (11th – 12th c.) cattle from a stronghold in Kruszwica, Poland	3
A case of congenital multiple epiphyseal dysplasia from the Late Migration Period graveyard in Drnholec (Czech Republic)	3
Heterogeneity in experiences of vitamin D deficiency in an early to mid-19th century population from Montreal, Quebec	3
Bioarchaeological evidence of violent deaths from medieval Prague	3
Exploring the antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis: A case study from medieval Transylvania	3
Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods	3
Postmortem changes in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Possible pitfalls on CT images	3
Perspectives on anemia: Factors confounding understanding of past occurrence	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
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
Editorial Board	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
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
Zoonotic parasite infection from a funerary context: A Late Antique child case from Cantabrian Spain	2
Considering care: A traumatic obturator fracture dislocation of the hip in a middle-aged man from Gaelic Medieval Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, Ireland	2
Caring for the sick in a medieval rural community: A study based on paleopathological and archaeological data from Medieval Rus’	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
Editorial Board	2
Skeletal indicators of pathology in the context of early tooth loss in children: A systematic literature review	2
Disability and care in Western Europe during Medieval times: A bioarchaeological perspective	2
A probable case of hypophosphatasia in St Bride’s Lower Churchyard (1770–1849, London, UK)	2
Forgotten and found: A case of childhood rickets in the 19th-century settler village of Heuvelton, New York	2
Characteristics of dental malocclusion in a 18th/19th century population from Radom (Poland)	2
A comparative approach to bony changes in maxillary and frontal sinuses as indicators of upper respiratory health	2
Disability in a medieval village community: A unique case of facial dysmorphism	2
A rare femoral heterotopic bone formation in a 14th-19th century female skeleton from Constância (Portugal)	2

A paleoepidemiological approach to the challenging differential diagnosis of an isolated 1500-year-old anomalous molar from Panamá	2
Supplement to the International Journal of Paleopathology. Abstracts for contributions presented at the Paleopathology Association meetings in 2023.	2
The potential for over diagnosis of Paget’s disease of bone using macroscopic analysis	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
Developing an archaeology of malaria. A critical review of current approaches and a discussion on ways forward	2
Ossicular chain changes revealed middle ear inflammation in medieval rural central Italy (Tuscany 10th-12th century)	2
Elemental analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence: Guidelines for the study of dry human bone	2
Activity reconstruction of Rangifer tarandus feet in Fennoscandian -archaeology: Methodological considerations and application to archaeological material from two Sámi habitation sites	2
New paleopathological findings from the Quaternary of the Brazilian Intertropical Region expand the distribution of joint diseases for the South American megafauna	2
Expanding the diagnostic scope of paleopathology: Identification of Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) using a One Paleopathology approach	2
Editorial Board	2
Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa	2
Precarious adolescence: Adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18th–19th centuries	1
Dental diseases and dental wear as a proxy for dietary patterns in Hellenistic-early Roman Menainon, Sicily	1
Editorial Board	1
The madness they endured: A biocultural examination of women's experiences of structural violence within 20th-century Missouri state mental hospitals	1
Spavin in modern and archaeological cattle: Reassessing its association with traction use	1
Multi-level spondylolysis at Egiin Gol: A case from Xiongnu period Mongolia	1
Protozoan parasites of birds from the Tremembé formation (Oligocene of the Taubaté Basin), São Paulo, Brazil	1
Trepanations in the ancient Greek colony of Akanthos: Skull surgery in the light of Hippocratic medicine	1
Editorial Board	1
Gastrointestinal parasites in a single human burial from Argentine Patagonia during the 18th-19th-century Indigenous–European Contact Period	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
On some paleopathological examples of amputation and the implications for healthcare in 13th-17th century Lithuania	1
Eimeria leuckarti in equid coprolites from the Sassanid Era (2nd–6th century CE) excavated in Chehrabad Salt Mine archaeological site, Iran	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
Evidence of interpersonal violence through nasal fractures in Late Holocene Southern Patagonia	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
Calcified uterine leiomyoma from an 18th-century nunnery in North Italy	1
A possible case of orbital osteomyelitis from the medieval cemetery of Sant’ Agostino in Caravate (Varese, Northern Italy)	1
A case of disability and care during Inca times	1
Guidance for the identification of bony lesions related to smallpox	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
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
Metastatic cancer in antiquity: Case study from 3rd-4th century Milan, Italy	1
Generalized dermatitis in the natural mummy of the Roman Catholic nun Marie-Léonie Martin (France, 1863–1941)	1
Conceptualizing disabilities from antiquity to the middle ages: A historical-medical contribution	1
Radiological evidence of purulent infections in ancient Egyptian child mummies	1
Inner ear modifications in Dar-es-Soltane II H5 (Morocco): A case of labyrinthitis ossificans	1
Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis: A comparison of osteological and CT methods of diagnosis	1