OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 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
Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography	23
From the Fringe to the Fore: An Algorithmic Ethnography of the Far-Right Conspiracy Theory Group QAnon	22
Being a Deliveroo Rider: Practices of Platform Labor in Nijmegen and Berlin	20
Vulnerable Research: Competencies for Trauma and Justice-Informed Ethnography	15
“Are You Married?”: Gender and Faith in Political Ethnographic Research	13
Filtering Touch: An Ethnography of Dirt, Danger, and Industrial Robots	12
Considering Silences in Narrative Inquiry: An Intergenerational Story of a Sami Family	12
Understanding the Quiet Times: The Role of Periods of “Nothing Much Happening” in Police Work	12
Making Food Manageable – Packaging as a Code of Practice for Work Practices at the Supermarket	11
Practices of Ethnographic Research: Introduction to the Special Issue	10
Sensoriality, Social Interaction, and “Doing sensing” in Physical–Cultural Ethnographies	10
Implicating Ourselves Through Our Research: A Duoethnography of Researcher Reflexivity	9
Street Art Commodification and (An)aesthetic Policies on the Outskirts of Lisbon	8
“Like Stitches to a Wound”: Fashioning Taste in and Through Garment Mending Practices	7
Gender and Legitimacy in Personal Service Occupations: The Case of End-of-Life Doulas and Death Midwives	7
“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks	7
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working	7
Performing Gender and Political Recognition: Israeli Reform Jewish Life-cycle Rituals	6
(De)constructing Refugee Vulnerability: Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Ethnographic Research With Refugee Communities	6
Video Analysis and Ethnographic Knowledge: An Empirical Study of Video Analysis Practices	6
“A Program, Not the Projects”: Reentry in the Post-Public Housing Era	6
Surveillance, Radicalization, and Prison Change Self-Analysis of an Ethnographic Survey Under Tension	6
“When I Least Expected It”: an Autoethnography of Reporting Workplace Sexual Harassment and Compassionate Bystanders”	5
Why Should We Care What Extremists Think? The Contribution of Emic Perspectives to Understanding the “right-wing extremist” Mind-Set	5
A Confessional Representation of Ethnographic Fieldwork in an Academy Sport Setting	5

“We All Play Pretty Much the Same, Except. . .”: Gender-Integrated Quidditch and the Persistence of Essentialist Ideology	5
Negotiating Social Diversity in Residential Care for Older Persons	5
Interaction Rituals and Sexual Commerce in Thailand’s Erotic Bars	4
Uncoupled: American Widows in Times of Uncertainty and Ambiguous Norms	4
“We Do This at Dancing Rabbit”: Recruitment and Collective Identity Processes in the Ecovillage	4
The American Ghetto, Gangster, and Respect on the Streets of Copenhagen: Media(tion)s between Structure and Street Culture	4
Pedagogies of Sport in Youth Detention: Withholding, Developing, or Just “Busying the Youth”?	4
Constructing Authentic Spectatorship at an Esports Bar	4
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes	3
The Power to be Ethical: Controlling Moral Assemblages in Border Militias	3
Facing the Storm: Our First Annual Faculty of Color Writing Retreat as a Microcosm for Being a Black Woman in the Academy	3
“‘No Tough Guys Here?’: Hybrid Masculinity in a Boxing Gym”	3
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice: Two Cases Showing the Importance of Embodiment and Reflexivity	3
Bodies as Arenas of Experimentation: Experiencing Novel Ways of Running	3
Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach	3
Walk a Mile in My Shoes! An Autoethnographical Perspective of Urban Walkability in Galway	3
“You Kind of Find Yourself Helpless”: Teens’ Identity Constructions and Responses to Childhood Trauma	3
#LongLiveDaGuys: Online Grief, Solidarity, and Emotional Freedom for Black Teenage Boys after the Gun Deaths of Friends	3
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City	3
“The Chinese” in Nigeria: Discursive Ethnicities and (Dis)embedded Experiences	3
Navigating Ethical Quandaries with Close Personal Contacts in Qualitative Research	3
From Nativeness to Strangeness and Back: Ascribed Ethnicity, Body Work, and Contextual Insiderness	3
An Autoethnography of “Making It” in Academia: Writing an ECR “Journey” of Facebook, Assemblage, Affect, and the Outdoors	2
Researching While Trans: Being Clocked and Cooling Cistress	2
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers	2
Navigating Academic Identity: Autoethnography of Otherness and Embarrassment Among First-Generation College Students	2
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study	2
Strategic Boredom: The Experience and Dynamics of Boredom in Refugee Camp. A Mediterranean Case	2
On Refrigerators and Rage: Secrecy and Pacification in the Florida Restaurant Industry	2
Families on the Streets: Placemaking in an Urban Heritage Site in Cebu City, the Philippines	2
Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK Offshore Drilling Platform	2
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair	1
“A Population at Risk”: Ageism Toward Elders During the COVID-19 Era in Israel	1
Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties	1
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right	1
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma	1
Relying on the Kindness of Strangers: Welfare-Providers to Seafarers and the Symbolic Construction of Community	1
Interaction Rituals at Content Trade Fairs: A Microfoundation of Cultural Markets	1
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer	1
The Janus Face of Organizational Knowing	1
Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community	1
“You Don’t Want to Feel Poor All the Time”: What SNAP Means to Low-Income Philadelphia Residents	1
Parts of Me—Relational Risks and Possible Outcomes When Sharing the Decision to Have a Breast Augmentation: A Study of a Swedish Online Forum	1
That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide	1
“Mimicked Winks”: Criminalized Conduct and the Ethics of Thick Description	1
In the Saunas I’m Either Invisible or Camouflaged: Colonial Fantasies and Imaginations in Sydney’s Gay Saunas	1
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility	1
Mujeres Guerreras: Negotiating Women’s Empowerment in Colombia	1
The Price of Consent: Identity Wages in the Games Industry	1
The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding	1

Erving Goffman: The Social Science Maverick. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Impact of the Most Cited American Sociologist	1
Somewhere Between a Stopwatch and a Recording Device: Ethnographic Reflections From the Pool	1
Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility	1
Tradwives: Right-Wing Social Media Influencers	1