OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Anthropology is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth	27
Mobs and Megaprojects	21
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq	21
Comparison through Collaboration	21
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”	20
Who Cares? Therapeutic Practices and the Making of Noncommunicable Diseases in Zanzibar	19
How to Avoid the Trick?	18
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans	17
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology	16
Front Cover	16
Queering Kumbh Mela	14
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past	13
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship	13
Comment on Schuster 2025	12
The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World	11
Collective Loneliness	10
Struggling to Uplift Divine Sparks	10
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed	10
House, Household, and Home	9
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice	9
How to “Get By” in a Crisis	9
The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java	8
Closeted Labor	8
Of Care and Patio Praxis	7
To Connect but to Converse	7

Databasing Violence	7
Being in Work	7
When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins	7
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence	7
Front Matter	7
Rushing Around	7
A Cultural Tensor	6
Political Incarnation as Living Archive	6
Being Seen like a State	6
Front Cover	6
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings	6
The Return of the Slave Master	5
To the Readers of Current Anthropology	5
Front Matter	5
Looting Made Legal	5
A New Big Data Methodology for Anthropology?: Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data	4
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities	4
The Wood for the Trees	4
The Sheepdog Who Cried Wolf	4
Front Matter	4
Fish Drought	4
Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity	4
Imperial Abandonment	4
Moorings	4
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology	3
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage	3
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)	3
Habits of Maintenance	3
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire	3
Cathedrals in the Blood	3
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing	3
Front Cover	3
The Aerial Subarctic	3
Front Matter	3
Reduction, Generation, and Truth	3
Front Matter	3
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia	3
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro	3
More than “Information in the Head”	3
“My Culture Made Me Do It”	3
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration	3
Anchoring Anthropological Categories in Simple, Translatable Words	3
Fence Me In	3
The Populist Slipper	3
Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing	3
Petrous Fever	3
A Question of Interest?	3
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition	2
Tensors in Ethnography	2
The Katechon and the Messias	2

Beyond “Good Politics, Unspecified”	2
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance	2
Front Matter	2
From Pages to Praxis: How Real Black Shaped My Thinking on Ethnography and Race	2
Ethnographic Betrayals	2
Front Matter	2
Quantities of Qualia	2
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 2024	2
Involuntary Consent	2
Footprints	2
Front Matter	2
Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century	2
La Cité	2
Belief-Inclusive Research	2