OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Anthropology is 4. 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
Archaeology under the Blinding Light of Race	36
The Crying Child	31
Magic, Explanations, and Evil	27
An Imagined Past?	27
The Fiscal Economy of Good Government	24
Ethics of the Heart	24
Predigestion as an Evolutionary Impetus for Human Use of Fermented Food	22
Identity, Kinship, and the Evolution of Cooperation	20
Of Plots and Men	19
“Masterless Men”	19
Subprime Empire	19
Intimate States	18
Prehistoric Fermentation, Delayed-Return Economies, and the Adoption of Pottery Technology	18
Making and Marking Maleness and Valorizing Violence	17
Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa	15
Dark and Bright Empathy	15
Brain Development and Physical Aggression	15
Ritual, Labor Mobilization, and Monumental Construction in Small-Scale Societies	14
From Food to Grave Good	14
From Country Marks to DNA Markers	14
1237, or Dying Elsewhere	13
Atlantic Slavery and the Rise of the Capitalist Global Economy	13
Searching for the “Roots” of Masculinity in Primates and the Human Evolutionary Past	12
Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) Culture	12
The Sex in Your Violence	12

Archaeology of the Perishable	12
Krapina and the Case for Neandertal Symbolic Behavior	12
Is Human Culture Cumulative?	12
Toward a Global Ecology of Fermented Foods	11
Masculinity and War	11
Slavery, Anthropological Knowledge, and the Racialization of Africans	11
Shared Breath	11
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance	10
Imperial Terroir	10
Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood	10
Evolutionary and Life History Insights into Masculinity and Warfare	9
Evolution without Inheritance	9
Violence and Masculinity in Small-Scale Societies	9
Shimao and the Rise of States in China	9
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa	9
Relational Economies of Reciprocal Gifting	9
Soldiers, Masculinities, and Violence	9
Scaling of Hunter-Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality	8
Microbial Antagonism in the Trentino Alps	8
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China	8
Archaeological Pitfalls of Storage	8
Embodiment, Gender Transitioning, and Necropolitics among Transwomen in Puerto Rico	8
BaYaka Adolescent Boys Nominate Accessible Adult Men as Preferred Spear Hunting Models	8
Protecting Perishable Values	8
Cultures of Fermentation: Living with Microbes	8
The Nectar of Life	7
Taste-Shaping-Natures	7
Altered Vision	7
Spaced-Out States	7
Cultured Milk	7
Diasporic Citizenship under Debate	7
From Immunity to Collaboration	7
Epidemic Errors in Understanding Masculinity, Maleness, and Violence	7
Preserving the Microbial Commons	6
Striving toward Piety	6
Avoiding Sharing	6
Silencing the Past	6
The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes	6
Composing Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands	6
Open Chests and Broken Hearts	6
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture	6
CAMPS	5
A Palimpsest Theory of Objects	5
Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea	5
Sovereignty after Slavery	5
The Animal Inside	5
Vulnerable Sovereignty	5
Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation	5
“Why Did They Die?”	5
Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds	5

As the Statues Fall	5
The Male Malady of Globalization	5
Atlantic Slavery and the Making of the Modern World: Experiences, Representations, and Legacies	5
Valongo	4
Raising the Dead	4
The “Perfect Failure” of Communal Genocide Commemoration in Cambodia	4
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers	4
From “Ugh” to Babble (or Babel)	4
Haunting, Dutching, and Interference	4
Early Cypriot Prehistory	4
Encountering Novelty	4
The Problem	4
The Slavery Business and the Making of “Race” in Britain and the Caribbean	4
Law, Emasculation, and Sexual Violence in India	4