OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	57
Primates in Fragmented Habitats	38
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	38
The Carceral State: An American Story	33
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	31
The Evolution of Primate Social Systems and Social Complexity: The Promise and Challenge of Comparative Phylogenetic Methods	25
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	25
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	24
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	23
Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence: Beyond the Binaries of Intervention	23
The Coproduction of Medical Knowledge	23
African American Archaeology, for Now	22
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	22
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	20
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	20
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	18
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	17
Disappointment	15
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	15
Concrete Times	13
Naming and Namelessness	13
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	13
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	13
Archaeoacoustics: Research on Past Musics and Sounds	13
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	12
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	12
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
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	9
Modalities of Free Speech	9
Biological Normalcy	8
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	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
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	7
Prehistory of Kinship	7
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	7
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Critical University Studies	6
Thinking in Between Disciplines	6
Archival Research on Human Health and Demography	6
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	6
Wound Culture	6
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood	5
The Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath	5
Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language	5
Current Digital Archaeology	5
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Looping Effects of Persons and Social Worlds	5
Human Bodies in Extreme Environments	5
Anthropology of and from the Ocean	5
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	4
Rethinking Neandertals	4
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	4
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Law, Anthropology, and Their Languages	4
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Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	4
Early Maya Monumentalism	3
Sex Work, Antitrafficking, and Mobility	3
Acknowledging Inspirations in a Lifetime of Shifting and Pivoting Standpoints to Construct the Past	3
Truth at the Crossroads	3
Proxy Evidence: Epistemological Considerations for Isotope Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Zooarchaeology	3