OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Anthropology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An Imagined Past?	30
Magic, Explanations, and Evil	28
The Fiscal Economy of Good Government	26
Predigestion as an Evolutionary Impetus for Human Use of Fermented Food	24
Subprime Empire	23
“Masterless Men”	21
Of Plots and Men	21
Ritual, Labor Mobilization, and Monumental Construction in Small-Scale Societies	18
Brain Development and Physical Aggression	18
Intimate States	18
Making and Marking Maleness and Valorizing Violence	18
Prehistoric Fermentation, Delayed-Return Economies, and the Adoption of Pottery Technology	18
The Sex in Your Violence	16
Evolution without Inheritance	16
Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa	16
Masculinity and War	15
Toward a Global Ecology of Fermented Foods	15
Cultures of Fermentation: Living with Microbes	14
Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood	14
Archaeology of the Perishable	14
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance	13
1237, or Dying Elsewhere	13
Violence and Masculinity in Small-Scale Societies	13
Is Human Culture Cumulative?	13
Searching for the “Roots” of Masculinity in Primates and the Human Evolutionary Past	13

Soldiers, Masculinities, and Violence	12
Krapina and the Case for Neandertal Symbolic Behavior	12
Archaeological Pitfalls of Storage	12
Relational Economies of Reciprocal Gifting	11
Scaling of Hunter-Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality	11
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China	11
From Immunity to Collaboration	11
Imperial Terroir	11
The Nectar of Life	10
Evolutionary and Life History Insights into Masculinity and Warfare	10
Embodiment, Gender Transitioning, and Necropolitics among Transwomen in Puerto Rico	10
BaYaka Adolescent Boys Nominate Accessible Adult Men as Preferred Spear Hunting Models	10
Taste-Shaping-Natures	10
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa	9
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture	9
The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes	9
Shimao and the Rise of States in China	9
Silencing the Past	9
Epidemic Errors in Understanding Masculinity, Maleness, and Violence	8
Protecting Perishable Values	8
Altered Vision	8
Microbial Antagonism in the Trentino Alps	8
As the Statues Fall	8
Preserving the Microbial Commons	7
A Palimpsest Theory of Objects	7
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers	7
Cultured Milk	7
Spaced-Out States	7
Composing Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands	6
The Animal Inside	6
Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds	6
Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation	6
CAMPS	5
Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea	5
Early Cypriot Prehistory	5
Cultural Disruption Suggested by Dates of Late Holocene Burials, Southwestern Cape, South Africa	5
Flooded City	5
Vulnerable Sovereignty	5
Weak Police, Strong Democracy	5
Refusing Rohingya	5
Cumulative Culture, Archaeology, and the Zone of Latent Solutions	5
The Male Malady of Globalization	5
Living Machines Go Wild	4
Why I Write?	4
“Affective Publics”	4
Precarious Writings	4
From “Ugh” to Babble (or Babel)	4
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance	4
Unseeing the Past	4
Visual Displays in Space Station Culture	4

Law, Emasculation, and Sexual Violence in India