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Papers

(The median citation count of Latin American Research Review 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Struggle to Legitimate Political Regimes in Venezuela: From Pérez Jiménez to Maduro	159
The Act of Listening to “Battered” Women: An Ethnographic Comparison of Police and Emergency Responses in São Paulo, Brazil	72
New (and a Few Old) Directions in Latin American Visual Cultural Studies	44
Indigenous Communities, Migrant Organizations, and the Ephemeral Nature of Translocality	42
New Waves of Immigration and Departure in Modern Latin America	42
Swinging Leftward: Public Opinion on Economic and Political Integration in Latin America, 1997–2010	36
Racism and Race Mixture in Latin America	31
Colonialidad múltiple en América Latina: Estructuras de dependencia, relatos de subalternidad	29
Inequality and Inclusion in Latin America	29
Ethos and Pathos in Millennial Brazil	21
Capitalism, Inequality, and Development in Latin America	21
The Historian’s Craft: Creating the Past in Colonial Latin America	18
Student Mobilization, Higher Education, and the 2013 Protests in Brazil in Historical Perspective	18
Fiscal Redistribution and Ethnoracial Inequality in Bolivia, Brazil, and Guatemala	17
Political Modernity in Latin America: The Nineteenth Century	16
Progressive Contextualization: Thinking about Extreme Events	16
Race and Rule in the Colonial Andes	15
Battling for the Hearts and Minds of Latin Americans: Covariance of Attitudes toward the United States and China	14
Report from the Editor (2018)	14
Patriarchy, New Left Post-Neoliberalism, and the Valuing of Care Work: The Labor Conditions of Nicaraguan Nurses under Sandinismo’s “Second Stage”	14
¿De la disrupción a la institucionalización? El caso del movimiento indígena de Bolivia	14
Nuevas perspectivas sobre militancias de alto riesgo: Ciudad de Guatemala, 1980–1985	13
Reflections on Haitian Democracy: Zooming in on a Megaproject in the Hinterland	13
Wallmapu Rising: New Paths in Mapuche Studies	12
Politicized Identities and Social Movements	10

Report from the Editor (2021)	10
Imagining Latin American Social Science from the Global South: Orlando Fals Borda and Participatory Action Research	10
Neoliberalismo global, capitalismo racial e organização política de mulheres numa comunidade pesqueira quilombola do Recôncavo da Bahia	10
US-Mexico Relations in an Age of Uncertainty	8
Progressive Reforms and the Art of the Possible	8
Viviendo las minas	8
The Functions of Letters to the Editor in Reform-Era Cuba	8
From Indigenous Literatures to Native American and Indigenous Theorists: The Makings of a Grassroots Decoloniality	7
Bribery Cartels: Collusive Corruption in Bolivian Street Markets	6
Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach	6
Before the Thaw: The Transnational Routes of Cuban Popular Culture	6
Democracy in Latin America: “Minimalist” in Concept and in Achievement	6
Reading the Affects in the Colonial Americas: The Exteriority of Feeling in Cabeza de Vaca’sNaufragios	6
Vulnerable Women in a Thriving Country: An Analysis of Twenty-First-Century Domestic Workers in Peru and Recommendations for Future Research	5
Reforming the Relationship between the State and Civil Society in Latin America	5
Painting the Canvas of the Great Andean Uprising: Recent Research on the Age of Tupac Amaru	5
Remittances and Vote Buying	5
The Colombia-Israel Nexus: Toward Historical and Analytic Contexts	5
Los nuevos grupos y sus viejas prácticas en la Argentina reciente (2003–2014): Entre ámbitos privilegiados de acumulación, especulación y monopolios	5
Mexican Anthropology and Inter-American Knowledge	5
Peru since Independence, a Tortured History	5
Here We Are to Build a Nation: Recent Jewish Latin American Documentaries - Hacer patria/To Build a Homeland. Dir. David Blaustein, Prod. Zafra Difusión S.A. and Tornasol Films S.A. Argentina, 2007, 1	5
Estimation of the Value of Statistical Life in Chile and Extrapolation to Other Latin American Countries	5
Plagio y reescritura en Bolivia Construcciones de Sergio di Nucci	5
Genealogía de la comunalidad indígena: Descolonialidad, transmodernidad y diálogos inter-civilizatorios	4
The Routinization of Violence in Latin America: Ethnographic Revelations	4
Social Responses to Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Kingston, and Medellín	4
The Mature Phase: Four Generations of Scholarship on Colonial Mesoamerica and New Spain	4
“Where you from?”: Deportación, identidad y trabajo reciclado en el call center salvadoreño	4
The Use of Time in Peru: A Scarce and Unvalued Resource in the National Economy	4
Environment, Urbanization, and Public Health: The Bubonic Plague Epidemic of 1912 in San Juan, Puerto Rico	3
Re-visioning Classic Maya Polities	3
Unoriginal Opinions of an Original Man: Jorge Luis Borges’s Views on Race and Brazilian People in His Conversations with Adolfo Bioy Casares and His Literary Works	3
Crafting Nationness: DIY Venezuela in Deborah Castillo’sRAWand Violette Bule’sREQUIEM200≤	3
Party Systems, Political Competition, and Inequality in Subnational Brazil	3
Developing Political Strategies across a New Democratic and State Architecture	3
Legislative Behavior, Mass Media, and Foreign Policy Making: The Case of Paraguay	3
Crime and Its Aftermath: New Inroads in the Study of Violence and Public Safety	3
The Apolitical Politics of Classical Music: The Mozarteum Argentino under the Dictatorship of 1976–1983	3
The Popular Church and Revolutionary Insurgency in El Salvador	3
Transimperial Networks of Slave Trading, Piracy, and Empire Building in the Iberian Atlantic	3
Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins	3
Violence, Peacebuilding, and Democratic Struggles in Central America	2
Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico	2
Translating Diplomacy: President Juan Bosch, Ambassador John Bartlow Martin, and “The Indelible Spot”	2
Race and Identity across American Borders	2
The Deer and the Donkey: Indigenous Ritual and Survivance in Nicaragua’sEl Güegüense	2
Urban Violence: Maras, Meanings, and Murders	2
Short- and Long-Term Partisanship: Campaign Effects and the Stability of Party Identification in Latin America	2
The Most Desired Positions: Brazilian Female Drug Traffickers in Inferno and Falcão: Mulheres e o tráfico	2

Nineteenth-Century Peru: A German Merchant’s Diary	2
Pitfalls of Trauma: Revisiting Postdictatorship Cinema from a Semiotic Standpoint	2
Sentenced to Debt: Explaining Student Mobilization in Chile	2
Interrupted Continuities: Transatlantic Relations during and after the Age of Revolutions (1775–1824)	2
Rounds de sombra: El boxeo en la crónica deportiva de Tablada, Garibay y Monsiváis	2
Sustaining Freedom and Second Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba	2
Missions, Unions, and Indigenous Organization in the Bolivian Amazon: Placing the Formation of an Indigenous Organization in Its Context	2
Prensa satírica popular en Chile y la actualidad de un debate: El Ají (1889–1894) y José Arnero (1905–1914)	2
Geography and the Enlightenment: Patriotic Views of the Port City of Havana, 1761–1791	2
Knowing Your Empire: American Scholars and the Evolution of US–Latin American Studies	2
Entonces ¿eso es literatura? Concepciones sobre lo literario en los saraus de poesía de la periferia de São Paulo	2
Living in Gang-Controlled Neighborhoods: Impacts on Electoral and Nonelectoral Participation in El Salvador	2
Cambios hasta cierto punto: Segregación residencial y desigualdades económicas en Montevideo (1996–2015)	2
A propósito de la unión civil en Chile: Por una jurisprudencia feminista y queer	2
HowMachismoGot Its Spurs—in English: Social Science, Cold War Imperialism, and the Ethnicization of Hypermasculinity	1
A Cultural Revolution: New Directions in Cuban History, 1952–2013	1
The Legacy of Civil War Dynamics: State Building in Mexico, 1810–1910	1
Khipus, Khipu Boards, and Sacred Texts: Toward a Philology of Andean Knotted Cords	1
Teachers, Folklore, and the Crafting ofSerranoCultural Identity in Peru	1
Deep Trade Agreements and Domestic Institutions in the Americas	1
“Ele te chamou pra roubar? E tu foi. Tá gostando agora?” Justiça e alteridade em três documentários de Maria Augusta Ramos	1
Structuring Public Opinion on Foreign Policy Issues: The Case of Brazil	1
The Return of International Finance and the Martínez de Hoz Plan in Argentina, 1976–1978	1
Rethinking Nuclear Cooperation in Argentina’s and Brazil’s Competition for Prestige, 1972–1980	1
Latin American Critical Epistemologies toward a Biocentric Turn in Communication for Social Change: Communication from a Good Living Perspective	1
Corte al Congreso: Poder judicial y trámite legislativo en Colombia	1
Brazilian Inequalities in the Global Balance: From Jogo Bonito to Jogo Diplomático	1
Barriers to Egalitarianism: Distributive Tensions in Latin American Federations	1
Mexicans and Colombians at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study of Political Engagement	1
Socialist Biopolitics: Flesh and Animality in Cuba and Venezuela	1
Memory Activism and Mexico’s War on Drugs: Countermonuments, Resistance, and the Politics of Time	1
The Electoral Buzz: Rational Prospective Voting and the Politics of the Zika Epidemic in Brazil	1
Contemporary Latin American Inequality: Class Struggle, Decolonization, and the Limits of Liberal Citizenship	1
Latin American Extractivism and (or after) the Left	1
Modernidad, mujeres y agua: Cambios de paradigma en el último siglo del Chile colonial	1
Embodying Blackness in Latin American Religion	1
Narrar a Mariel: Espacialización y heterotopías del exilio cubano en la novelaBoarding Home() de Guillermo Rosales (1946–1993)	1
Intimate Political Economies of the Andes	1
Character Types in Brazilian Reality Shows: Cultural Manifestation of a Media Protagonist Syndrome	1
New Media and Support for Same-Sex Marriage	1
Place-Based (In)formalization: A Bolivian Marketplace for Consumer Electronics and Global Brands	1