OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Paleopathology is 4. 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
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	22
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean	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
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
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	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
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations	10
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
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England	9
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 impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	8
Editorial Board	8
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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