OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural Anthropology 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Fugitive Kinships	18
Poisonous Images	12
Isha’s Wait	11
The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek	10
Place, Time, and Affect: Changing Landscapes around a New Guinea Mining Area	10
The Substitute and the Excuse	9
Through the Body of the Midwife	9
Infrastructural Decay	8
Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship	7
The Slow Deaths from Climate Change	7
Dissonance: Cartooning in Iran, Humor, and the Study of Things That Don’t Match	7
Circulating Objects, Changing Scales	6
Malicious Game	6
Fracking and Historicizing	6
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Gaining Voice through Injury	5
Good Bureaucrats and God: The Ethical Labor of the Public	5
“As if I Were an Illegal”	5
Blessed Acts of Oblivion	5
“Do they do our thozhil?”	4
Effective Cynicism	4
Utopias of Oil	4
Waste Donations	4

National Reconciliation in the Age of New Social Media	4
Deciphering a Non-meal	4
When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life	4
Out of Time?	4
No Stone Unturned	3
Green Involution	3
The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution	3
Quantifying Vulnerability	3
“Life is a Gamble”	3
Toxic Synergy	3
Virtuous Indecisiveness	3
Bitter Sweetness: Compelling Greenhouse Farming and the Inter-Mobility among Middle-Aged Farmers in North China	2
Of Feral and Obedient Cows	2
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Corporations and States	2
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The Meme Radar	2
Deceptive Sanctity	2
Bureaucraft	2
Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border	2
Corporate Futures, Energy Transition, and Natural Prosthetics in Colombia’s Cesar Mining Corridor	2
Religious Afterlives of a Revolution	2
Opening Editorial	2
Evoking Eternity	2
Orders of Protection	1
Intercorporeal Togetherness: On Russian Blind Activists’ Technology of Disability Inclusion	1
Morally Immunizing Debts: Wage Bank, Gendered Credit Access, and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin	1
The Paradox of Humanitarian Recognition	1
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Alienating “Dead Capital,” Eating Moral Principle: Patriarchal Obligation, Land Sale, and Desires of Abandon on Kenya’s Urban Frontier	1
The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities?	1
Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers	1
Archives at the Margins: Toward a Liberatory Pedagogy in Anthropology	1
Borderlands as Barracks	1
The Traffic in Repairmen and a Case of Gender Impropriety in Post-War Sarajevo	1
“Too Much” Sand, Not Water: A Geostory of Himalayan Riverine Sediments as “Problem”	1
Debt and the American Dream	1
Erratum for "Resisting Alternative Images"	1
On Chainsaws and Acoustic Violence: Sound and Deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico	1
Anti-Blackness and Moral Repair	1
The Weightless State	1
Economy of Favors	1
Sensing Bimbia	1
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Delivering the State	1
Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential	1