OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Dangerous Fieldwork: Reflections on Ethnographic Research with Irregular, Nigerian Streetwalkers and Madams in Spain	37
Performing Conservative Politics	17
Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures	15
The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy	15
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice: Two Cases Showing the Importance of Embodiment and Reflexivity	7
Crafting the Digital Self: Exploring Instagram Self-Portraiture as an Anthropological Endeavor	7
Distinction at Work: Status Practices in A Community Production Environment	7
The Companion: A Hospital Autoethnography on the Relationship Between Informal and Formal Institutions	6
Fruitful Unpredictabilities of the Field: Procedural Serendipity in a Multi-Sited Ethnography	6
Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services	6
Peripheral Positionality: Conducting Ethnography With Youth as a Researcher from the “Peripheries”	5
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair	5
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study	5
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel	5
“SHE CAN GET A VISA”: How Nationality and Class Shape Decision Making at a Kenyan NGO	5
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility	4
An Autoethnography beyond Academia: The Embodiment of Motorcycle Maintenance	4
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	4
Helping Mom Die: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Preparing for Death	4
Indigenous Experiences and Contributions to Western Scientific Knowledge Systems: An Ethnographic Exploration	4
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers	3
“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago	3
My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene	3
“We All Play Pretty Much the Same, Except. . .”: Gender-Integrated Quidditch and the Persistence of Essentialist Ideology	3
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working	3

That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide	3
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right	2
It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification	2
The Janus Face of Organizational Knowing	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
In the Saunas I’m Either Invisible or Camouflaged: Colonial Fantasies and Imaginations in Sydney’s Gay Saunas	2
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma	2
Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia	2
The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding	2
Tradwives: Right-Wing Social Media Influencers	2
Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach	2
The Show Must Go On! An Autoethnography of (Re)socialization into Senior Policing in England and the Prominence of “Leadership Theatre”	2
“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	2
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer	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
Counteracting Stigma-Power: An Ethnographic Case Study of an Independent Community Food Hub	2