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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy	30
Dangerous Fieldwork: Reflections on Ethnographic Research with Irregular, Nigerian Streetwalkers and Madams in Spain	20
Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures	15
The Power to be Ethical: Controlling Moral Assemblages in Border Militias	14
Performing Conservative Politics	14
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice: Two Cases Showing the Importance of Embodiment and Reflexivity	13
The Companion: A Hospital Autoethnography on the Relationship Between Informal and Formal Institutions	10
Sensoriality, Social Interaction, and “Doing sensing” in Physical–Cultural Ethnographies	10
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair	9
Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services	9
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility	9
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study	7
“You Kind of Find Yourself Helpless”: Teens’ Identity Constructions and Responses to Childhood Trauma	7
Peripheral Positionality: Conducting Ethnography With Youth as a Researcher from the “Peripheries”	7
“SHE CAN GET A VISA”: How Nationality and Class Shape Decision Making at a Kenyan NGO	7
Indigenous Experiences and Contributions to Western Scientific Knowledge Systems: An Ethnographic Exploration	6
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel	6
Helping Mom Die: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Preparing for Death	6
“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago	6
Because the World Did Not End When I Was Seventeen: From Death Anxiety to Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Self-Transcendence During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide	5
“We All Play Pretty Much the Same, Except. . .”: Gender-Integrated Quidditch and the Persistence of Essentialist Ideology	5
Shock Troops and Shock Absorbers: IT Support and Emotional Labor in the Rationalizing University	5
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working	4
Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia	4

Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right	4
The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding	4
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma	4
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers	4
My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene	4
“A Program, Not the Projects”: Reentry in the Post-Public Housing Era	4
The Show Must Go On! An Autoethnography of (Re)socialization into Senior Policing in England and the Prominence of “Leadership Theatre”	3
Filtering Touch: An Ethnography of Dirt, Danger, and Industrial Robots	3
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer	3
“We Have Two Engines, and We Must Keep Them Both Running”: The Combination of Institutional and Symbolic Resources in the “Socio-Emotional Organizing” of Solo Self-Employed Workers	3
The Janus Face of Organizational Knowing	3
It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification	3
In the Saunas I’m Either Invisible or Camouflaged: Colonial Fantasies and Imaginations in Sydney’s Gay Saunas	2
Surveillance, Radicalization, and Prison Change Self-Analysis of an Ethnographic Survey Under Tension	2
Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach	2
Counteracting Stigma-Power: An Ethnographic Case Study of an Independent Community Food Hub	2
Tradwives: Right-Wing Social Media Influencers	2
“Re-Inventing How We Live in the City”: Well-being and the Los Angeles Ecovillage	2
Norm-Critical Teaching in Practice? An Observational Study of a Campus-Based Clinical Learning Environment in Nursing Education	2
Facing the Storm: Our First Annual Faculty of Color Writing Retreat as a Microcosm for Being a Black Woman in the Academy	2
Boundary Work and Strategies of Compliance: The Underlife of the Ivory Tower	2
“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks	2
Some Methodological Insights from a Reflexive “Insider” Ethnography of Shiatsu Practice	2
Modernity and Tradition at Sea: Filipino Seafarers and their Superstitious Beliefs	2
Digital Encounters of Surrogacy: Nodes of a Fictional Ethnography	2
Like Water: Feeling and Negotiating Relational Complexity in School-Based Ethnographic Childhood Research in China Through the Lens of Emotional Reflexivity	1
“A Population at Risk”: Ageism Toward Elders During the COVID-19 Era in Israel	1
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City	1
Mujeres Guerreras: Negotiating Women’s Empowerment in Colombia	1
“Why Won’t You Let Me Hit On You?”: Sexual Harassment in Fieldwork as Data	1
Gender and Legitimacy in Personal Service Occupations: The Case of End-of-Life Doulas and Death Midwives	1
The Making of Everyday Space of Publicness: Insights from a Mall in Beijing	1
Implicating Ourselves Through Our Research: A Duoethnography of Researcher Reflexivity	1
Constructing Authentic Spectatorship at an Esports Bar	1
Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties	1
“Like Stitches to a Wound”: Fashioning Taste in and Through Garment Mending Practices	1
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes	1
Killed For Good: Hunters, Biologists, and the Ethical Paradoxes of Wildlife Management in North America	1
One Step Ahead of the Canadian Immigration System: Bureaucratic Chaos and the Development of Migrant Experts Online	1
The Price of Consent: Identity Wages in the Games Industry	1
Engaging in Postconflict Violence: Militant Trajectories of Young Republican Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland	1
Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community	1
Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK Offshore Drilling Platform	1
Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations	1
Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility	1
Weeding Out the Weak: Labor, Gender, and Disability in a U.S. Fossil Fuel Boomtown	1
“This is Tunisia, Speak Arabic:”: Multi lingual Ideology and Identities in Tunisia	1
Erving Goffman: The Social Science Maverick. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Impact of the Most Cited American Sociologist	1