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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Identification of working reindeer using palaeopathology and entheseal changes	22
Periodontal disease in sheep and cattle: Understanding dental health in past animal populations	17
Advances in the molecular detection of tuberculosis in pre-contact Andean South America	15
Gastrointestinal infection in Italy during the Roman Imperial and Longobard periods: A paleoparasitological analysis of sediment from skeletal remains and sewer drains	15
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England	15
An Investigation of Micro-CT Analysis of Bone as a New Diagnostic Method for Paleopathological Cases of Osteomalacia	14
A dual process model for paleopathological diagnosis	14
Refining the methods for identifying draught cattle in the archaeological record: Lessons from the semi-feral herd at Chillingham Park	13
Identifying draught cattle in the past: Lessons from large-scale analysis of archaeological datasets	11
Cancers as rare diseases: Terminological, theoretical, and methodological biases	11
Detection of Vibrio cholerae aDNA in human burials from the fifth cholera pandemic in Argentina (1886–1887 AD)	11
How rare is rare? A literature survey of the last 45 years of paleopathological research on ancient rare diseases	11
A joint medico-historical and paleopathological perspective on vitamin D deficiency prevalence in post-Medieval Netherlands	10
Cribriotic lesions in archaeological human skeletal remains. Prevalence, co-occurrence, and association in medieval and early modern Netherlands	10
Cranial modification and the shapes of heads across the Andes	10
Children of the abyss: Investigating the association between isotopic physiological stress and skeletal pathology in London during the Industrial Revolution	9
Metabolic diseases in Andean paleopathology: Retrospect and prospect	9
Was it an axe or an adze? A cranial trauma case study from the Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic site of Cova Foradada (Calafell, Spain)	9
Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions	9
Spatial paleopathology: A geographic approach to the etiology of cribrotic lesions in the prehistoric Andes	8
What is a rare disease in animal paleopathology?	8
Mid-7th century BC human parasite remains from Jerusalem	8
Is dietary deficiency of calcium a factor in rickets? Use of current evidence for our understanding of the disease in the past	8
Challenging definitions and diagnostic approaches for ancient rare diseases: The case of poliomyelitis	8
Time to be nosy: Evaluating the impact of environmental and sociocultural changes on maxillary sinusitis in the Middle Nile Valley (Neolithic to Medieval periods)	7

Bone pathologies of modern non-draft cattle (Bos Taurus) in the context of grazing systems and environmental influences in the South Urals, Russia	7
Severe skeletal lesions, osteopenia and growth deficit in a child with pulmonary tuberculosis (mid-20th century, Portugal)	7
Linking isotope analysis and paleopathology: An andean perspective	7
The dark satanic mills: Evaluating patterns of health in England during the industrial revolution	7
Differential diagnosis of metabolic disease in a commingled sample from 19th century Hisban, Jordan	7
On some paleopathological examples of amputation and the implications for healthcare in 13th-17th century Lithuania	6
Mortality, migration and epidemiological change in English cities, 1600–1870	6
Exoskeletal and eye repair in Dalmanitina socialis (Trilobita): An example of blastemal regeneration in the Ordovician?	6
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	6
Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions	6
Asymmetric midshaft femur remodeling in an adult male with left sided hip joint ankylosis, Metal Period Nagsabaran, Philippines	6
Developing an archaeology of malaria. A critical review of current approaches and a discussion on ways forward	6
Examining pathogen DNA recovery across the remains of a 14th century Italian friar (Blessed Sante) infected with Brucella melitensis	6
Evidence of dental agenesis in late pleistocene Homo	6
Osteoporosis, osteomalacia, and hip fracture: A case study from the Terry collection	5
Digital imaging techniques applied to a case of concha bullosa from an early medieval funerary area in central Italy	5
Towards a definition of Ancient Rare Diseases (ARD): Presenting a complex case of probable Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease from the North Caucasian Bronze Age (2200-1650 cal BCE)	5
A case of dwarfism in 6th century Italy: Bioarchaeological assessment of a hereditary disorder	5
The prevalence of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in England and Catalonia from the Roman to the post-medieval periods	5
Radiological evidence of purulent infections in ancient Egyptian child mummies	5
Maxillary sinusitis as a respiratory health indicator: a bioarchaeological investigation into medieval central Italy	5
Bioarchaeological reconstruction of physiological stress during social transition in Albania	5
Trepanations in the ancient Greek colony of Akanthos: Skull surgery in the light of Hippocratic medicine	5
Approaches to osteoporosis in paleopathology: How did methodology shape bone loss research?	5
The impact of industrialization on malignant neoplastic disease of bone in England: A study of medieval and industrial samples	5
Changes in mortality in a non-industrialized Portugal: Coimbra Municipal Cemetery records (1861–1914) and identified osteological collections	5
A 13th-century cystic echinococcosis from the cemetery of the monastery of Badia Pozzeveri (Lucca, Italy)	5
Two probable cases of mastoiditis in a cemetery from the Warring States to Han Dynasty (475 BCE–220 CE) in Qufu, Shandong Province, China	4
3D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France	4
A possible case of juvenile idiopathic arthritis from Renaissance Lucca (Tuscany, central Italy)	4
Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK	4
The pathway of tuberculosis in Argentina: Historical (19th and 20th centuries), epidemiological, and paleopathological data	4
An introduction to advances in Andean South American paleopathology	4
Can the palaeoepidemiology of rickets during the industrialisation period in France be studied through bioarchaeological grey literature and French medico-historical literature of the 18th-early 20th	4
The role of case studies in recent paleopathological literature: An argument for continuing relevance	4
A probable case of holoprosencephaly with cyclopia in a full-term fetus from a modern skeletal collection	4
Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England	4
Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England	4
Surviving (but not thriving) after cranial vault trauma: A case study from Transylvania	4
Sex, gender, and sexuality in paleopathology: Select current developments and pathways forward	4
Examining variation in skeletal tuberculosis in a late pre-contact population from the eastern mountains of Peru	4
Compounding vulnerabilities: Syndemics and the social determinants of disease in the past	4
Osteolytic lesions on the os petrosum of a Bronze Age individual from La Llana cave (Northern Spain) compatible with a possible case of otitis media. A multifaceted methodological approach	4
Developmental anomalies and South American paleopathology: A comparison of block vertebrae and co-occurring axial anomalies among three skeletal samples from the El Brujo archaeological complex of nor	4
Was it worth migrating to the new British industrial colony of South Australia? Evidence from skeletal pathologies and historic records of a sample of 19th-century settlers	4
Patterns of trauma across Andean South America: New discoveries and advances in interpretation	4
Influences of industrial development and urbanization on human lives in premodern Japan: Views from paleodemography	4
Paleopathology and children in the Andes: Local/situated biologies and future directions	4
Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England	4
Evidence of otitis media and mastoiditis in a Medieval Islamic skeleton from Spain and possible implications for ancient surgical treatment of the condition	4

Lesions in sheep elbows: Insights from a large-scale study	4
Rare cases of rare diseases: Re-examining early 20th century cases of anencephaly from the collection of the Moscow State University, Russia	4
Rarity of congenital malformation and deformity in the fossil record of vertebrates – A non-human perspective	4
External auditory exostoses and early Neolithic aquatic resource procurement in Cyprus: Results from Cypro-PPNB Kissonerga-Mylouthkia in regional context	4