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Papers

(The median citation count of Latin American Research Review 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
New (and a Few Old) Directions in Latin American Visual Cultural Studies	176
The Struggle to Legitimate Political Regimes in Venezuela: From Pérez Jiménez to Maduro	75
New Waves of Immigration and Departure in Modern Latin America	46
Indigenous Communities, Migrant Organizations, and the Ephemeral Nature of Translocality	44
The Act of Listening to “Battered” Women: An Ethnographic Comparison of Police and Emergency Responses in São Paulo, Brazil	42
Racism and Race Mixture in Latin America	38
Swinging Leftward: Public Opinion on Economic and Political Integration in Latin America, 1997–2010	34
Colonialidad múltiple en América Latina: Estructuras de dependencia, relatos de subalternidad	33
Inequality and Inclusion in Latin America	30
Ethos and Pathos in Millennial Brazil	23
The Historian’s Craft: Creating the Past in Colonial Latin America	23
Fiscal Redistribution and Ethnoracial Inequality in Bolivia, Brazil, and Guatemala	21
Student Mobilization, Higher Education, and the 2013 Protests in Brazil in Historical Perspective	20
Political Modernity in Latin America: The Nineteenth Century	19
Progressive Contextualization: Thinking about Extreme Events	18
¿De la disrupción a la institucionalización? El caso del movimiento indígena de Bolivia	17
Patriarchy, New Left Post-Neoliberalism, and the Valuing of Care Work: The Labor Conditions of Nicaraguan Nurses under Sandinismo’s “Second Stage”	16
Report from the Editor (2018)	16
Imagining Latin American Social Science from the Global South: Orlando Fals Borda and Participatory Action Research	15
Nuevas perspectivas sobre militancias de alto riesgo: Ciudad de Guatemala, 1980–1985	15
Reflections on Haitian Democracy: Zooming in on a Megaproject in the Hinterland	15
Race and Rule in the Colonial Andes	15
Politicized Identities and Social Movements	14
Wallmapu Rising: New Paths in Mapuche Studies	13
The Functions of Letters to the Editor in Reform-Era Cuba	11

Progressive Reforms and the Art of the Possible	11
Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach	10
Democracy in Latin America: “Minimalist” in Concept and in Achievement	10
US-Mexico Relations in an Age of Uncertainty	10
Reading the Affects in the Colonial Americas: The Exteriority of Feeling in Cabeza de Vaca’sNaufragios	10
From Indigenous Literatures to Native American and Indigenous Theorists: The Makings of a Grassroots Decoloniality	9
Vulnerable Women in a Thriving Country: An Analysis of Twenty-First-Century Domestic Workers in Peru and Recommendations for Future Research	9
Before the Thaw: The Transnational Routes of Cuban Popular Culture	9
The Colombia-Israel Nexus: Toward Historical and Analytic Contexts	7
Bribery Cartels: Collusive Corruption in Bolivian Street Markets	7
Estimation of the Value of Statistical Life in Chile and Extrapolation to Other Latin American Countries	7
Los nuevos grupos y sus viejas prácticas en la Argentina reciente (2003–2014): Entre ámbitos privilegiados de acumulación, especulación y monopolios	6
Reforming the Relationship between the State and Civil Society in Latin America	6
Peru since Independence, a Tortured History	6
Mexican Anthropology and Inter-American Knowledge	6
Here We Are to Build a Nation: Recent Jewish Latin American Documentaries - Hacer patria/To Build a Homeland. Dir. David Blaustein, Prod. Zafra Difusión S.A. and Tornasol Films S.A. Argentina, 2007, 1	6
Plagio y reescritura en Bolivia Construcciones de Sergio di Nucci	5
Social Responses to Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Kingston, and Medellín	5
Painting the Canvas of the Great Andean Uprising: Recent Research on the Age of Tupac Amaru	5
The Routinization of Violence in Latin America: Ethnographic Revelations	5
Remittances and Vote Buying	5
“Where you from?”: Deportación, identidad y trabajo reciclado en el call center salvadoreño	4
Developing Political Strategies across a New Democratic and State Architecture	4
The Mature Phase: Four Generations of Scholarship on Colonial Mesoamerica and New Spain	4
Environment, Urbanization, and Public Health: The Bubonic Plague Epidemic of 1912 in San Juan, Puerto Rico	4
Re-visioning Classic Maya Polities	4
The Use of Time in Peru: A Scarce and Unvalued Resource in the National Economy	4
Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins	4
Party Systems, Political Competition, and Inequality in Subnational Brazil	4
Violence, Peacebuilding, and Democratic Struggles in Central America	3
The Popular Church and Revolutionary Insurgency in El Salvador	3
Pitfalls of Trauma: Revisiting Postdictatorship Cinema from a Semiotic Standpoint	3
Missions, Unions, and Indigenous Organization in the Bolivian Amazon: Placing the Formation of an Indigenous Organization in Its Context	3
The Most Desired Positions: Brazilian Female Drug Traffickers in Inferno and Falcão: Mulheres e o tráfico	3
Transimperial Networks of Slave Trading, Piracy, and Empire Building in the Iberian Atlantic	3
Race and Identity across American Borders	2
Translating Diplomacy: President Juan Bosch, Ambassador John Bartlow Martin, and “The Indelible Spot”	2
Sustaining Freedom and Second Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba	2
Cambios hasta cierto punto: Segregación residencial y desigualdades económicas en Montevideo (1996–2015)	2
A propósito de la unión civil en Chile: Por una jurisprudencia feminista y queer	2
Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico	2
Sentenced to Debt: Explaining Student Mobilization in Chile	2
Nineteenth-Century Peru: A German Merchant’s Diary	2
Mexicans and Colombians at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study of Political Engagement	2
Entonces ¿eso es literatura? Concepciones sobre lo literario en los saraus de poesía de la periferia de São Paulo	2
Knowing Your Empire: American Scholars and the Evolution of US–Latin American Studies	2
The Deer and the Donkey: Indigenous Ritual and Survivance in Nicaragua’sEl Güegüense	2
Living in Gang-Controlled Neighborhoods: Impacts on Electoral and Nonelectoral Participation in El Salvador	2
Rounds de sombra: El boxeo en la crónica deportiva de Tablada, Garibay y Monsiváis	2
Interrupted Continuities: Transatlantic Relations during and after the Age of Revolutions (1775–1824)	2

Geography and the Enlightenment: Patriotic Views of the Port City of Havana, 1761–1791	2
Place-Based (In)formalization: A Bolivian Marketplace for Consumer Electronics and Global Brands	1
New Media and Support for Same-Sex Marriage	1
Embodying Blackness in Latin American Religion	1
“Ele te chamou pra roubar? E tu foi. Tá gostando agora?” Justiça e alteridade em três documentários de Maria Augusta Ramos	1
El triunfo de la libertad negativa: Discurso parlamentario en Chile acerca de la libertad de expresión	1
Modernidad, mujeres y agua: Cambios de paradigma en el último siglo del Chile colonial	1
Contemporary Latin American Inequality: Class Struggle, Decolonization, and the Limits of Liberal Citizenship	1
Intimate Political Economies of the Andes	1
Teachers, Folklore, and the Crafting ofSerranoCultural Identity in Peru	1
Brazilian Inequalities in the Global Balance: From Jogo Bonito to Jogo Diplomático	1
A Cultural Revolution: New Directions in Cuban History, 1952–2013	1
Indigenous Peoples, Postcolonial Ontologies, Neoliberal Regimes, and Approaches to Understanding Medical Pluralism in Latin America	1
Latin American Critical Epistemologies toward a Biocentric Turn in Communication for Social Change: Communication from a Good Living Perspective	1
Latin American Extractivism and (or after) the Left	1
Narrar a Mariel: Espacialización y heterotopías del exilio cubano en la novelaBoarding Home() de Guillermo Rosales (1946–1993)	1
Barriers to Egalitarianism: Distributive Tensions in Latin American Federations	1
The Legacy of Civil War Dynamics: State Building in Mexico, 1810–1910	1
Character Types in Brazilian Reality Shows: Cultural Manifestation of a Media Protagonist Syndrome	1
Report from the Editor (2017)	1
The Return of International Finance and the Martínez de Hoz Plan in Argentina, 1976–1978	1
HowMachismoGot Its Spurs—in English: Social Science, Cold War Imperialism, and the Ethnicization of Hypermasculinity	1