OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Anthropology is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Political Economy of Attention	23
The Evolution of Human Infancy: Why It Helps to Be Helpless	20
Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment	19
Rethinking the Landscape: Emerging Approaches to Archaeological Remote Sensing	19
Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19	17
Current Digital Archaeology	17
Retranslating Resilience Theory in Archaeology	15
Desiring Bureaucracy	12
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	12
Political Theology/Theopolitics: The Thresholds and Vulnerabilities of Sovereignty	11
Postcolonial Semiotics	10
Touch and Social Interaction	9
The Human Sleep Paradox: The Unexpected Sleeping Habits ofHomo sapiens	9
Prehistory of Kinship	9
The Earliest South African Hominids	8
African American Archaeology, for Now	8
Financialization and the Household	8
Human Evolution in Asia: Taking Stock and Looking Forward	8
The Ecoimmunology of Health and Disease: The Hygiene Hypothesis and Plasticity in Human Immune Function	8
The Necropolitics of Language Oppression	8
Race and Racism in Archaeologies of Chinese American Communities	7
The Anthropology of Being Haunted: On the Emergence of an Anthropological Hauntology	7
Rethinking Neandertals	6
Transgressing Time: Archaeological Evidence in/of the Anthropocene	6
Global Health Interventions: The Military, the Magic Bullet, the Deterministic Model—and Intervention Otherwise	5

Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	5
Recent Research on the Archaeology of War and Violence	5
Rethinking Indigeneity: Scholarship at the Intersection of Native American Studies and Anthropology	5
Food Insecurity, Nutritional Inequality, and Maternal–Child Health: A Role for Biocultural Scholarship in Filling Knowledge Gaps	5
Conversation and Culture	5
The Semiotics of Cooperation	5
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	5