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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Multi-level spondylolysis at Egiin Gol: A case from Xiongnu period Mongolia	21
An ‘Index of Oro-dental Disease’: A holistic method for understanding the impacts of different risk factors on oral health in archaeological populations	20
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH): New evidence from micro-XCT scanning	18
Editorial Board	17
Trepanations in the ancient Greek colony of Akanthos: Skull surgery in the light of Hippocratic medicine	16
The frequency and macromorphological classification of abnormal blood vessel impressions and periosteal appositions of the dura mater in an early modern osteological collection from Poland	15
Generalized dermatitis in the natural mummy of the Roman Catholic nun Marie-Léonie Martin (France, 1863–1941)	15
Living with lower limb traumas and below-knee amputation in a Jordanian Late Ottoman nomadic community	14
Spotted bones in an osteopoikilosis-related disease (Buschke Ollendorff Syndrome): Identifying this rare condition from the lab to the field	12
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean	11
The palaeopathology of industry, a perspective from Britain	11
A possible case of paralysis in early modern Vilnius and the implications for social care	11
Oral conditions of the pre-Hispanic mummies of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	10
Is dietary deficiency of calcium a factor in rickets? Use of current evidence for our understanding of the disease in the past	10
Reconstruction of anatomy and care provisioning in a severe case of spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia	9
ABSTRACTS	9
Tracing Leprosy: The paleopathological study of the individuals excavated from the Sant Llàtzer leprosarium in Barcelona, Spain (12th-18th c.)	9
Mechanical stress in the urbanized Roman Phoenician coast	8
Observer agreement on the morphology of porous cranial lesions: Results from a workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association	8
A possible case of juvenile idiopathic arthritis from Renaissance Lucca (Tuscany, central Italy)	8
Continuity in intestinal parasite infection in Aalst (Belgium) from the medieval to the early modern period (12th-17th centuries)	8
Majewski/Microcephalic Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type II (MOPDII) with generalised microdontia in the 4th millennium BCE Eastern Mediterranean	8
Temporal pattern of dental caries at the western flank of the Central Plateau of Iran, c. 2700 BCE – 1600 CE	7
Klippel-Feil syndrome cases from Slovakia	7
A pathological Neandertal thumb phalanx from Moula-Guercy (France)	7

Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada	7
Investigating the “scapula sign” as an indicator of rickets	7
Exoskeletal and eye repair in Dalmanitina socialis (Trilobita): An example of blastemal regeneration in the Ordovician?	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	7
Cortisol in deciduous tooth tissues: A potential metric for assessing stress exposure in archaeological and living populations	7
A sting in the tail: An embedded stingray spine in a mid-1st millennium AD adult male skeleton from Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan	6
Cribriotic lesions in archaeological human skeletal remains. Prevalence, co-occurrence, and association in medieval and early modern Netherlands	6
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	6
A mature ovarian teratoma from New Kingdom Amarna, Egypt	6
Surviving (but not thriving) after cranial vault trauma: A case study from Transylvania	6
A case of bilateral humerus varus from the late antiquity Catacomb of Santa Mustiola (Chiusi, Italy)	6
Editorial Board	6
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]	6
Are the identified collections of immature skeletons dating from the Industrial Revolution good references for paleoauxological studies? Cases studies from England & France	5
A urinary stone from the early medieval site of Riner, Catalonia	5
Madelung-type deformity in a female individual from the Merovingian Period in Central Germany: A rare finding or a rare disease?	5
Editorial Board	5
A possible case of ameloblastoma in an adult male from the early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal	5
Unusual teeth in unusual places: Criteria for identifying teratomatous dental elements in archeological contexts	5
Influences of industrial development and urbanization on human lives in premodern Japan: Views from paleodemography	5
And as things have been they remain: Enteric disease and differential mortality among ethnic groups in early twentieth century Milwaukee	5
A content analysis by bibliometry of the first ten years of the International Journal of Paleopathology	5
Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa	4
The unwritten history of medical treatment: Evidence for ritual-healers and their activities in the pre-literate past	4
Thoracic trauma: Clinical and paleopathological perspectives	4
The potential for over diagnosis of Paget’s disease of bone using macroscopic analysis	4
Conceptualizing disabilities from antiquity to the middle ages: A historical-medical contribution	4
What is a rare disease in animal paleopathology?	4
Schmorl's nodes in a historic adult skeletal sample (19th to 20th centuries): An analysis of age, sex and occupation	4
Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England	4
A calvarial osteolytic lesion of probable vascular origin in a Maya juvenile from the Classic Period ( 250−900 CE)	4
Evidence of non-adult vitamin C deficiency in three early medieval sites in the Jaun/Podjuna Valley, Carinthia, Austria	4
The dark satanic mills: Evaluating patterns of health in England during the industrial revolution	4
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),	4
3D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France	4
Pathological and sub-pathological changes in European rabbit bones: Two reference cases to be applied to the analysis of archaeological assemblages	4
Forgotten and found: A case of childhood rickets in the 19th-century settler village of Heuvelton, New York	4
Schmorl’s nodes in two 19th-20th century Spanish osteological collections from Valladolid and Granada	4