OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Material Culture 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The circular economy of food waste: Transforming waste to energy through ‘make-up’ work	16
Beyond the ‘thingification’ of worlds: Archaeology and the New Materialisms	9
Introduction: The Surviving Thing: Personal Objects in the Aftermath of Violence	7
In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things	5
Absent and present: Biopolitics and the materiality of body counts on the US–Mexico border	5
My address is the Soviet Union – or is it? Baltic identity in souvenir production within the Soviet discourse	4
Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting	3
Enregistering cuteness of fashion clothes on Chinese social media	3
Toward an anthropology of plastics	3
The affective economy and fast fashion: Materiality, embodied learning and developing a sensibility for sustainable clothing	3
Morts pour la France: Things and memory in the ‘destroyed villages’ of Verdun	3
Contemporary archaeology in conflict zones: The materiality of violence and the transformation of the urban space in Temuco, Chile during the social outburst	3
Hazy clouds: Making black carbon visible in climate science	2
In the service of secrecy: An enveloped history of priority, proof and patents	2
From demon to deity: Forging a new iconography for Mahishasur	2
Reflections in shadow: Excavating the personal archives of Paul Jacobsthal and EM Jope	2
Vernacular architecture in eastern Senegal:Chaînes opératoiresand technical choices	2
Islamic heritage versus orthodoxy: Figural painting, musical instruments and wine bowls at the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures	2
The issue is moot: Decolonizing art/artifact	2
Assembling things: Warao crafts, trade and tourists	2
Exploring commensality, household and solidarity. Evidence of a medium-scale community gathering place in Neolithic Kleitos 1, north-western Greece	2
The terrain of thingworlds: Central objects and asymmetry in material culture systems	2
Atopic objects: The afterlives of gold teeth stolen from Holocaust dead	2
Malagasy art on the move: Materiality, home displays, and problems in decolonizing Christianity	2
Anthropological face casts: Towards an ethical processing of their histories and difficult legacies of intimacy and ambiguity	1

Living with landmines: Inhabiting a war-altered landscape	1
Keeping the family silver: The changing meanings and uses of Manchester’s civic plate	1
Metonyms of destruction: Death, ruination, and the bombing of Rotterdam in the Second World War	1
Getting attached to a classic Mustang. Use, maintenance and the burden of authenticity	1
Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings	1
Finding love: The materialities of love-locks and geocaches	1
Gazing on invisible men: Introducing the gallery gaze to establish that (in)visibility is in the eye of the beholder at Westminster Menswear Archive	1
Pith and power: Colonial style in France and French West Africa	1
Introduction: Afterlives in objects	1
Fijian mats: Embodying and mediating female qualities	1
Making masks: The women behind Ghana's nose covering mandate during the COVID-19 outbreak	1
Crafting displacement: Reconfigurations of heritage among Syrian artisans in Amman	1
Will therealmaterialisms please step forward?	1
Making “Senses”: The qualia of Pu’er tea and sensorial encounters between tea producers and traders in southwest China	1
Learning from the secondary: Rethinking architectural conservation through ‘barn architecture’	1
Mood as medium: Reconstruction and the material speculations of “new heritage”	1
In memory of future earthquakes: Controversial new form and function of a commemorative statue in 1920s Tokyo	1
Material Appropriation for Infant Mortality Reduction: Troubling the discourse	1
Giants in the lab: Model conservation and the anaphoric progression of design	1
Unrecovered objects: Narratives of dispossession, slow violence and survival in the investigation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War	1
Making a home in the world: Clothes as mnemonic devices through which refugees experience home in flight and resettlement	1