OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Organization is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Word from the Outgoing Editorial Team	26
“We didn’t used to be corporate medicine”: The jobification of United States healthcare	12
Political polarization and the liberal bias: A plea for an anthropology of the popular	11
Food security, First Nations, and anthropological praxis in the Peace River basin, Canada	9
Desaparecidos en la Migración: De la Investigación a la Práctica	8
Hack the anthropologist: Translating source code, adapting research ethics	8
Teaching Ethnographic Methods: The State of the Art	8
Neoliberalism and work-life balance among COVID-19 nurses	7
Beyond the end(s) of qualitative data analysis	7
Slow legal violence and the undocumented 1.5 Generation	6
Translating control: Benchmarking language AI and sociotechnical governance	6
This is home: Redirecting reconstruction in Syria	6
Artificial intelligence and the end(s) of qualitative data analysis	6
Rationalizing geosociality: Mexican expert earthquake risk reduction practice	5
Intersectionality and the role of place in ethnographic research on informal recyclers’ livelihoods	5
“My brain doesn’t run”: language learning for refugee adults	5
Improvising solutions, reducing losses: closed system fish farmers in Western Massachusetts	5
Building a Community of Anthropological Practice: The Case of Anthropologists Working within the United States’ Largest Health Care System	4
Is the Longue Durée a Legal Argument?: Understanding Takings Doctrine in Climate Change and Settler Colonial Contexts in the United States	4
“Everything tastes different”: Cultural food security for Syrian refugees in Türkiye	4
Sensing the political: activist sentiment in the European long summer of migration	4
“Whoever Needs Food We’ll Feed Them One Way or the Other”: COVID-19 and Food Aid in Appalachian Kentucky	4
The Japanese Paradox: Between Physical And Psychological Well-Being In Japanese Approaches To The Obesity Epidemic	4
Gender, health-seeking, and tuberculosis: Negotiating responsibility in urban Peru	4
Gender-based violence, authoritarianism, and the state: Battlegrounds of control and resistance	4

Addressing rangeland degradation in Namibia’s communal areas	4
In dangerous times: War, reconstruction and the city	4
Editorial: Ensuring engagement	4
The challenges of ethnic and racialized separation for truth and reconciliation in Canada	3
The Lingering Ache: Temporalities of Oral Health Suffering in United States-Mexico Border Communities	3
When museums are battlegrounds in the culture wars	3
Japanese incarceration memorial as trauma portfolio play	3
“We do a lot more than put pills in a bottle…”: Independent community pharmacists and the business of US healthcare	3
Balancing verbal and nonverbal: Volunteer emergency medical technicians work production and communication	3
Designing legal interfaces: Human-machine agency and the practice of AI in U.S. law	3
Walking down collectively forged paths toward abolition and revolutionary change	3
How do mothers conceptualize invisible work?	2
“That Doesn’t Sound Like a Good Treatment”: Objections to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) and Moral Capital in Rural Indiana	2
Promises and challenges of cultural exchange for use of research evidence in child welfare	2
Stepping beyond the thresholds of care: Community health worker misemployment, professional liminality, and paths forward	2
Independence with others: Lessons for anthropology from postdocs in team science	2
Revealing the power of peer support in the lives of women immigrants from Mexico	2
Mothers who use opioids and are involved in the criminal justice system: A transformative justice approach	2
The predicaments of development work in Guatemala’s Ch’orti’ Maya area	2
Mullet ( Mugil cephalus ): Fishing, community wellbeing, and resilience in Southeast Louisiana	2
Local experiences and observations of climate change in the Dho-Tarap Valley of Upper Dolpa, Nepal	2
A discipline of consequence: Collaborating with community health workers against systemic oppression	2
Changing fish trade practices in Myanmar’s rapidly transforming food system	2
Virtually Engineering Community Engagement: Training for Undergraduate Engineers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Education, displacement, and gender in Iraq after 2014	2
Navigating and negotiating borders in primary and secondary education: Ukrainian children in Polish schools	2
Agrarian reform in Mexico turns thirty: dispossession, divided communities and environmental degradation	2
Bridging a Pandemic-Sized Distance: Community- Based and Participatory Research During COVID-19	2
Founders Endowment Contributions	2
Who cares, and for what? Exploring the contents and extents of care as an analytical concept in ethnographies of electronics repair	2
Engaging in Interdisciplinary Coastal Research During a Pandemic	2
Minding the gaps in frayed systems of health and care	2
Developmental Challenges: Capture the Flag and the Professionalization of Cybersecurity	1
At The Frontier of Water Conservation: Attending to Relationships, Values, and Practices for Inclusive Infrastructure	1
“We don’t mix with those married women”: Widowhood as an emergent gender for development projects in urban Papua New Guinea	1
Software Development Practice as Baradian Entanglement	1
Editorial: Anthropological agendas and key concerns	1
Isolation of care: COVID-19 and the burden of healthcare provision	1
On neglect, trace and memory	1
Editorial: Keeping Pace	1
Grounding large language models in an anthropological knowledge graph: A neuro-symbolic approach	1
“We’re Farmers, Not Beekeepers”: a Cultural Model of Pollination Management Among Lowbush Blueberry Growers in the United States and Canada	1
Intercultural maternal health in the Peruvian Amazon: An unenforced policy	1
Barriers and Facilitators for Patient-Centered Care for Hospitalized COVID Patients: Lived Experiences from Ex-hospitalized Patients and Health Care Professionals	1
Becoming objective: an ethnography of COVID-19 data on the move	1
From Watershed Moment to Hydrosocial Movement: Patagonia without Dams and The Free-Flowing Rivers Network in Chile	1
Public optics and the politicization of refugee resettlement: examining policy and practice across pre-departure and post-arrival contexts	1
Software and Human Systems: An Academic and Applied Introduction	1
Sensing, knowing, and making water quality along Marikina River in the Philippines	1
Strategic naïveté, intentional forgetting, and interpretive labor: Ethnographic methods in a carceral setting	1

McGillis’s points: Commercial fishing narratives of knowledge and power in the Southern United States	1
“That’S What We Call ‘Aesthetics,’ Not A Public Health Issue”: The Social Construction Of Tap Water Mistrust In An Underbounded Community	1
COVID-19 Responses and Pivots in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina: A Call for Policy Reforms for Small Farmers	1
Transitions to transformative conservation in Idaho’s Redband Trout management	1
Building Community in Virtual Space: A Community Collaborative Sustains Its Exploration of Environmental Justice and Migration Issues in the Midst of COVID-19	1
Water Sharing as Disaster Response: Coping With Water Insecurity After Hurricane MarÍa	1
Geometries of control: Co-producing knowledge in a refugee context	1
“Water and all My Relations”: Reimagining Indigenous Water Justice for Seven Generations	1
Memory In Analog: Analyzing The Impacts Of Rapid Urban Growth On Youth	1
Reshaping environmental governance through women forest protectors in West Bengal	1
Cascading hazards, cascading consequences: Linking social-ecological systems in post-fire recovery	1
Laying the foundation for a pro-biotic approach to antibiotic stewardship in India	1
American technofascism	1
Actionable recommendations in response to external pressures facing anthropology departments in the U.S.	1
Feeling the Fireline: The Social Formation of Embodied Wildfire Knowledge	1
Social network dynamics and organizational collaboration: The Carer Café project in Hong Kong	1
A crisis in the US federal government	1