OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Anthropology is 8. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	62
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	47
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	40
Primates in Fragmented Habitats	35
The Carceral State: An American Story	34
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	31
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	28
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	26
The Evolution of Primate Social Systems and Social Complexity: The Promise and Challenge of Comparative Phylogenetic Methods	26
Hospitals Otherwise	25
The Coproduction of Medical Knowledge	24
Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence: Beyond the Binaries of Intervention	23
African American Archaeology, for Now	23
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	23
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	22
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	19
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	18
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	18
Disappointment	15
The Poetics of Race and Ethnicity	15
The Future of Human Remains Collections: Moving Toward Ethical Treatment, Accountability, and Antiracist Practice	15
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	14
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	14
The Origins and Evolution of Writing	14
Computer Programming as Cultural Practice	14

Naming and Namelessness	13
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	13
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	12
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	11
Between Democracy and Authoritarianism: Insights from the Anthropology of Democracy	11
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	11
Archaeoacoustics: Research on Past Musics and Sounds	10
Concrete Times	10
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	9
Remapping Anthropology's “Outside Within”: From Domestic Periphery to Transnational Crossroads	8
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	8
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	8
Extinct Primates and What They Can Tell Us About Future Extinctions	8
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	8
Infrastructural Imperialism	8
Modalities of Free Speech	8