OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Ethnologist is 1. 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
We are (not) monkeys	45
Wave theory	27
Ruins for the future	24
How many worlds are there?	19
Patchwork ethnography	16
Law, politics, and efficacy at the European Court of Human Rights	15
Ontologies of climate change	14
Aging in digital	13
Governing beyond capacity	13
The art of unnoticing	13
The gift of hospitality and the (un)welcoming of Syrian migrants in Turkey	12
Violent masculinities	12
Becoming an operating system	11
Theory as ethics	10
Distributed humanitarianism	9
Love as understanding	9
“Objectivity” as a bureaucratic virtue	8
Reversible pigs	8
Spectral kinship	8
“Don't gamble for money with friends”	8
Relational flexibility	7
Tactical dissonance	7
Contamination in theory and protest	7
Palestinian counter‐forensics and the cruel paradox of property	6
Waste's translations	6

Homemaking as sensemaking	6
“Only the orangutans get a life jacket”	6
The self in a time of constant connectivity	6
Aid as pan‐Islamic solidarity in Bosnia‐Herzegovina	6
Making noise in urban Taiwan	6
Trust amid “trust deficit”	5
A transit state	5
Ecologies of capture in Bangladesh's Sundarbans	5
Beastly identification in India	5
Nothing to lose but their (block)chains	5
From decolonizing knowledge to postimperialism	5
Morality, religious authority, and the digital edge	4
Rescaling hospitality	4
The right to public security	4
Education as identity	4
Managing the “hot spots”	4
Disability, straight time, and the American Dream	4
Secular‐religious self‐improvement	4
Anti‐colonial friendship	4
De‐occupation as planetary politics	4
The politics of bachaqueo	4
Witnessing “imperfect victims”	4
Refusing aid	4
Intertextual politics	3
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)	3
Inhabiting a transforming delta	3
Bordering practices	3
To write or not to write?	3
Catch‐all technopolitics	3
Conjuring criminals	3
Decolonizing anthropology	3
Watching fracking	3
Remaking the value of work	3
The long road	3
Ethnography after anthropology	3
Reconsidering the vignette as method	3
Falshfasad	2
The “fascist” and the “potato beetle”	2
Comrades and spies	2
Gendered disruptions in academic publishing during COVID‐19	2
Eating pizza in prison	2
Saving the face of the Arabah	2
Miners on the move	2
Face‐to‐face with the (animal) Other	2
Provincializing bioethics	2
Private health care, cancer, and the vulnerable middle class in Kenya	2
Work, development, and refusal in urban Ethiopia	2
The “salt” of life	2
Capture‐recapture	2
Anthropology is good	2

On shame	2
Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐19	1
Reading the present from the past in Hopkins, Belize	1
Infrastructural citizenship and geosolidarity	1
Inside a jaguar's jaws	1
Issue Information	1
Productive leisure on the farm	1
Feeling the (post)colonial	1
Entrepreneurial activism	1
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu	1
Sweaty motions	1
Bones of contention	1
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?	1
Anthropology at sea	1
Cultivating a trauma‐informed pedagogy	1
Decolonizing Middle East anthropology	1
Peche problems	1
“You don't look American”	1
Fuzzy borders	1
Anthropology's good beyond the discipline	1
(Un)making the manual scavenger	1
Electrosonic statecraft	1
Citizens in uniform	1
A decolonial birth for anthropology	1
Anthropology as spiritual discipline	1
Ethnographic thinking	1
Cultural loss and compensation in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia	1
Emplacing capital	1
Stock market layoffs in France	1
Listening to love	1
Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking	1
Bodyland	1
Boiling sand, metallic fire	1
Ethnography, cacophony, and Lebanon as a zone of prestige in the anthropology of the Middle East	1
Realms unseen	1
Editors’ note	1
What good is anthropology?	1
Object, subject, thing	1
Consultation is the new C‐word	1
Kill your ancestors	1
Experiments of the mind: From the cognitive psychology lab to the world of Facebook and Twitter By EmilyMartin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 312 pp.	1
An anti‐genealogical take on US anthropology and disciplinary reform	1
Ethnography and ethical life	1
A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community. Jarrett Zigon. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 216 pp.	1
Anthropology's comparative value(s)	1
Women's “timepass”	1
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention	1