OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Rethinking Neandertals	23
Doing Fieldwork Without Knowing It	22
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Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	19
Prehistory of Kinship	18
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	17
Language and the Military: Necropolitical Legitimation, Embodied Semiotics, and Ineffable Suffering	15
Recent Research on the Archaeology of War and Violence	13
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	13
Pidgins and Creoles: Debates and Issues	12
The Carceral State: An American Story	11
Critical Geoarchaeology: From Depositional Processes to the Sociopolitics of Earthen Life	10
Current Themes in the Archaeology of East Africa	9
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	9
Traveling Concepts: Anthropological Engagements with Histories of Social Science	8
Rethinking the Landscape: Emerging Approaches to Archaeological Remote Sensing	8
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	8
Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism	8
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Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19	8
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	7
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	7
The Necropolitics of Language Oppression	6
Feminism in the House of Anthropology	6
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	5

Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	5
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	5
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	5
Concrete Times	5
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	5
Music, Sound, Politics	5
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	5
African American Archaeology, for Now	4
The Political Economy of Attention	4
A Bioarchaeological Perspective: What's in a Name?	4
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	4
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	4
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	3
Sex Work, Antitrafficking, and Mobility	3
The Anthropology of Being Haunted: On the Emergence of an Anthropological Hauntology	3
Gesture	3
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	3
Food Insecurity, Nutritional Inequality, and Maternal–Child Health: A Role for Biocultural Scholarship in Filling Knowledge Gaps	3
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	3
Critical University Studies	3
Acknowledging Inspirations in a Lifetime of Shifting and Pivoting Standpoints to Construct the Past	3
Archaeoprimatology: TheLongue DuréeInterface Between Humans and Nonhuman Primates	3
Postcolonial Semiotics	2
Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Long-Distance Connections Across the Ancient Indian Ocean	2
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	2
The Laboratory of Scientific Racism: India and the Origins of Anthropology	2
Environment, Epigenetics, and the Pace of Human Aging	2
Transgressing Time: Archaeological Evidence in/of the Anthropocene	2
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	2
Communities of Thought	2
Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment	2
Human Evolution in Asia: Taking Stock and Looking Forward	2
Constructed Languages	2
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	2