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Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Anthropology is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	53
The Carceral State: An American Story	36
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	35
Primates in Fragmented Habitats	31
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	31
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	24
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	24
The Evolution of Primate Social Systems and Social Complexity: The Promise and Challenge of Comparative Phylogenetic Methods	24
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	23
The Coproduction of Medical Knowledge	22
African American Archaeology, for Now	22
Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence: Beyond the Binaries of Intervention	21
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	20
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	20
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	19
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	17
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	16
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	15
Disappointment	14
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	13
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	13
Naming and Namelessness	13
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	13
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	12
Archaeoacoustics: Research on Past Musics and Sounds	12

Concrete Times	12
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	11
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	11
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	11
Remapping Anthropology's “Outside Within”: From Domestic Periphery to Transnational Crossroads	10
Modalities of Free Speech	9
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	8
Biological Normalcy	8
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	8
Extinct Primates and What They Can Tell Us About Future Extinctions	8
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	8
Prehistory of Kinship	7
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The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	7
Critical University Studies	6
Thinking in Between Disciplines	6
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	6
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	6
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood	5
Current Digital Archaeology	5
Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language	5
The Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath	5
Anthropology of and from the Ocean	5
Wound Culture	5
Human Bodies in Extreme Environments	5
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Looping Effects of Persons and Social Worlds	5
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	4
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Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	4
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	4
Rethinking Neandertals	4
Proxy Evidence: Epistemological Considerations for Isotope Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Zooarchaeology	3
Law, Anthropology, and Their Languages	3
Acknowledging Inspirations in a Lifetime of Shifting and Pivoting Standpoints to Construct the Past	3
Early Maya Monumentalism	3