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Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	50
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	33
Primates in Fragmented Habitats	29
The Carceral State: An American Story	28
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	24
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	23
The Evolution of Primate Social Systems and Social Complexity: The Promise and Challenge of Comparative Phylogenetic Methods	19
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	19
Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence: Beyond the Binaries of Intervention	18
The Coproduction of Medical Knowledge	18
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	18
African American Archaeology, for Now	16
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	16
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	15
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	13
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	13
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	12
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	12
Disappointment	12
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	11
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	10
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	10
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	10
Naming and Namelessness	10
Archaeoacoustics: Research on Past Musics and Sounds	9

Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	9
Concrete Times	9
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	9
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	7
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	7
Modalities of Free Speech	7
Remapping Anthropology's “Outside Within”: From Domestic Periphery to Transnational Crossroads	7
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	7
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	7
Biological Normalcy	6
Extinct Primates and What They Can Tell Us About Future Extinctions	6
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	5
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White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	5
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	5
Critical University Studies	5
Prehistory of Kinship	5
Wound Culture	4
The Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath	4
Current Digital Archaeology	4
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood	4
Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language	4
Thinking in Between Disciplines	4
Human Bodies in Extreme Environments	4
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Looping Effects of Persons and Social Worlds	4
Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	3
Rethinking Neandertals	3
Anthropology of and from the Ocean	3
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Proxy Evidence: Epistemological Considerations for Isotope Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Zooarchaeology	2
Dreams, Visions, and Worldmaking: Envisioning Anthropology Through Dreamscapes	2
Sex Work, Antitrafficking, and Mobility	2
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	2
Early Maya Monumentalism	2
Lidar, Space, and Time in Archaeology: Promises and Challenges	2
Environment, Epigenetics, and the Pace of Human Aging	2
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	2
Truth at the Crossroads	2
Language and Race: Settler Colonial Consequences and Epistemic Disruptions	2
The Laboratory of Scientific Racism: India and the Origins of Anthropology	2
Acknowledging Inspirations in a Lifetime of Shifting and Pivoting Standpoints to Construct the Past	2
Law, Anthropology, and Their Languages	2