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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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	20
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The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek	16
Isha’s Wait	16
Fugitive Kinships	12
Place, Time, and Affect: Changing Landscapes around a New Guinea Mining Area	11
Infrastructural Decay	11
The Substitute and the Excuse	11
Through the Body of the Midwife	10
Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship	9
Dissonance: Cartooning in Iran, Humor, and the Study of Things That Don’t Match	9
The Slow Deaths from Climate Change	7
Fracking and Historicizing	7
Circulating Objects, Changing Scales	7
Malicious Game	7
“Do they do our thozhil?”	6
Blessed Acts of Oblivion	6
Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition	6
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Waste Donations	6
Good Bureaucrats and God: The Ethical Labor of the Public	6
“As if I Were an Illegal”	5
Black Feminist Citational Praxis and Disciplinary Belonging	5
Gaining Voice through Injury	5

National Reconciliation in the Age of New Social Media	5
Refusing the God Trick: Engaging Black Women’s Knowledge	4
Deciphering a Non-meal	4
Effective Cynicism	4
Utopias of Oil	4
“Life is a Gamble”	4
When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life	4
No Stone Unturned	4
Toxic Synergy	4
Opening Editorial	3
The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution	3
Quantifying Vulnerability	3
Virtuous Indecisiveness	3
Corporations and States	3
Green Involution	3
Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border	2
Evoking Eternity	2
The Meme Radar	2
Economy of Favors	2
Borderlands as Barracks	2
Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature	2
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Of Feral and Obedient Cows	2
Religious Afterlives of a Revolution	2
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Bureaucraft	2
Deceptive Sanctity	2
Morally Immunizing Debts: Wage Bank, Gendered Credit Access, and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin	2
Corporate Futures, Energy Transition, and Natural Prosthetics in Colombia’s Cesar Mining Corridor	2
Archives at the Margins: Toward a Liberatory Pedagogy in Anthropology	1
Orders of Protection	1
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Love as Enjoyment	1
Centering Black Women: A Black Feminist Critique of Mainstream Anthropology from the Margins of an HBCU	1
Erratum for "Resisting Alternative Images"	1
The Paradox of Humanitarian Recognition	1
Intercorporeal Togetherness: On Russian Blind Activists’ Technology of Disability Inclusion	1
Sensing Bimbia	1
“Too Much” Sand, Not Water: A Geostory of Himalayan Riverine Sediments as “Problem”	1
In the Shade of Hailstones: Life-Forming Realities among the Luo of Kano, Kenya	1
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On Chainsaws and Acoustic Violence: Sound and Deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico	1
Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers	1
The Weightless State	1
The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities?	1
Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential	1
Pedagogies of Prohibition: Time, Education, and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte	1
(Re)Writing Anthropology and Raising Our Voices from the Academic Margins	1

Debt and the American Dream	1
Delivering the State	1
Anti-Blackness and Moral Repair	1