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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The circular economy of food waste: Transforming waste to energy through ‘make-up’ work	20
Beyond the ‘thingification’ of worlds: Archaeology and the New Materialisms	12
The affective economy and fast fashion: Materiality, embodied learning and developing a sensibility for sustainable clothing	9
In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things	9
My address is the Soviet Union – or is it? Baltic identity in souvenir production within the Soviet discourse	5
Enregistering cuteness of fashion clothes on Chinese social media	4
Toward an anthropology of plastics	4
Making a home in the world: Clothes as mnemonic devices through which refugees experience home in flight and resettlement	4
Morts pour la France: Things and memory in the ‘destroyed villages’ of Verdun	4
Contemporary archaeology in conflict zones: The materiality of violence and the transformation of the urban space in Temuco, Chile during the social outburst	3
Malagasy art on the move: Materiality, home displays, and problems in decolonizing Christianity	3
Anthropological face casts: Towards an ethical processing of their histories and difficult legacies of intimacy and ambiguity	3
The issue is moot: Decolonizing art/artifact	3
In the service of secrecy: An enveloped history of priority, proof and patents	3
Atopic objects: The afterlives of gold teeth stolen from Holocaust dead	3
Making “Senses”: The qualia of Pu’er tea and sensorial encounters between tea producers and traders in southwest China	2
Living with landmines: Inhabiting a war-altered landscape	2
In memory of future earthquakes: Controversial new form and function of a commemorative statue in 1920s Tokyo	2
Unrecovered objects: Narratives of dispossession, slow violence and survival in the investigation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War	2
Islamic heritage versus orthodoxy: Figural painting, musical instruments and wine bowls at the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures	2
The terrain of thingworlds: Central objects and asymmetry in material culture systems	2
Assembling things: Warao crafts, trade and tourists	2
Crafting displacement: Reconfigurations of heritage among Syrian artisans in Amman	2
Learning from the secondary: Rethinking architectural conservation through ‘barn architecture’	2
Money, memory objects and material practices in the everyday conduct of inter-ethnic marriages in Indonesia	2

Hazy clouds: Making black carbon visible in climate science	2
Exploring commensality, household and solidarity. Evidence of a medium-scale community gathering place in Neolithic Kleitos 1, north-western Greece	2
Neither remnants nor commodities: Spirit objects in early twentieth century Chinese regional fiction	1
Time after death: Material afterlives in the work of estate administration	1
Keeping the family silver: The changing meanings and uses of Manchester’s civic plate	1
Getting attached to a classic Mustang. Use, maintenance and the burden of authenticity	1
Local fashion, global imagination: Agency, identity, and aspiration in the diasporic Hmong community	1
‘Just a souvenir?’ Entangled identities within an early 20th century American Indian basket collection	1
Pith and power: Colonial style in France and French West Africa	1
The ophthalmoscope and the physician: Technical innovations and professionalization of medicine	1
The aesthetics of open-ended mourning: The statue of a holy-madman in Dersim, Turkey	1
From demon to deity: Forging a new iconography for Mahishasur	1
Introduction: Afterlives in objects	1
Giants in the lab: Model conservation and the anaphoric progression of design	1
Response to David Howes	1
Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies	1
Reading clay: The temporal and transformative potential of clay in contemporary scientific practice	1
Mood as medium: Reconstruction and the material speculations of “new heritage”	1
Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement	1
Metonyms of destruction: Death, ruination, and the bombing of Rotterdam in the Second World War	1
Material Appropriation for Infant Mortality Reduction: Troubling the discourse	1
Making masks: The women behind Ghana's nose covering mandate during the COVID-19 outbreak	1
Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings	1
Will the real materialisms please step forward?	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
Creels and catenary wires: Creating community through winter lights displays	1