OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Struggle to Legitimate Political Regimes in Venezuela: From Pérez Jiménez to Maduro	169
New (and a Few Old) Directions in Latin American Visual Cultural Studies	73
New Waves of Immigration and Departure in Modern Latin America	44
Indigenous Communities, Migrant Organizations, and the Ephemeral Nature of Translocality	42
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	37
Inequality and Inclusion in Latin America	32
Colonialidad múltiple en América Latina: Estructuras de dependencia, relatos de subalternidad	31
Capitalism, Inequality, and Development in Latin America	29
Swinging Leftward: Public Opinion on Economic and Political Integration in Latin America, 1997–2010	22
Ethos and Pathos in Millennial Brazil	21
The Historian’s Craft: Creating the Past in Colonial Latin America	21
Fiscal Redistribution and Ethnoracial Inequality in Bolivia, Brazil, and Guatemala	18
Student Mobilization, Higher Education, and the 2013 Protests in Brazil in Historical Perspective	18
Progressive Contextualization: Thinking about Extreme Events	17
¿De la disrupción a la institucionalización? El caso del movimiento indígena de Bolivia	16
Political Modernity in Latin America: The Nineteenth Century	16
Report from the Editor (2018)	15
Race and Rule in the Colonial Andes	15
Nuevas perspectivas sobre militancias de alto riesgo: Ciudad de Guatemala, 1980–1985	14
Reflections on Haitian Democracy: Zooming in on a Megaproject in the Hinterland	14
Report from the Editor (2021)	14
Patriarchy, New Left Post-Neoliberalism, and the Valuing of Care Work: The Labor Conditions of Nicaraguan Nurses under Sandinismo’s “Second Stage”	14
Politicized Identities and Social Movements	13
Progressive Reforms and the Art of the Possible	10

Viviendo las minas	10
Imagining Latin American Social Science from the Global South: Orlando Fals Borda and Participatory Action Research	10
The Functions of Letters to the Editor in Reform-Era Cuba	10
Wallmapu Rising: New Paths in Mapuche Studies	10
Reading the Affects in the Colonial Americas: The Exteriority of Feeling in Cabeza de Vaca’sNaufragios	9
Democracy in Latin America: “Minimalist” in Concept and in Achievement	8
Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach	8
Before the Thaw: The Transnational Routes of Cuban Popular Culture	8
Bribery Cartels: Collusive Corruption in Bolivian Street Markets	7
From Indigenous Literatures to Native American and Indigenous Theorists: The Makings of a Grassroots Decoloniality	7
US-Mexico Relations in an Age of Uncertainty	7
Estimation of the Value of Statistical Life in Chile and Extrapolation to Other Latin American Countries	6
Reforming the Relationship between the State and Civil Society in Latin America	6
The Colombia-Israel Nexus: Toward Historical and Analytic Contexts	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
Vulnerable Women in a Thriving Country: An Analysis of Twenty-First-Century Domestic Workers in Peru and Recommendations for Future Research	6
Mexican Anthropology and Inter-American Knowledge	5
Remittances and Vote Buying	5
Peru since Independence, a Tortured History	5
The Routinization of Violence in Latin America: Ethnographic Revelations	5
Los nuevos grupos y sus viejas prácticas en la Argentina reciente (2003–2014): Entre ámbitos privilegiados de acumulación, especulación y monopolios	5
Plagio y reescritura en Bolivia Construcciones de Sergio di Nucci	5
Painting the Canvas of the Great Andean Uprising: Recent Research on the Age of Tupac Amaru	5
The Mature Phase: Four Generations of Scholarship on Colonial Mesoamerica and New Spain	4
Social Responses to Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Kingston, and Medellín	4
Party Systems, Political Competition, and Inequality in Subnational Brazil	4
The Use of Time in Peru: A Scarce and Unvalued Resource in the National Economy	4
Genealogía de la comunalidad indígena: Descolonialidad, transmodernidad y diálogos inter-civilizatorios	4
Environment, Urbanization, and Public Health: The Bubonic Plague Epidemic of 1912 in San Juan, Puerto Rico	4
“Where you from?”: Deportación, identidad y trabajo reciclado en el call center salvadoreño	4
Re-visioning Classic Maya Polities	3
Transimperial Networks of Slave Trading, Piracy, and Empire Building in the Iberian Atlantic	3
Prensa satírica popular en Chile y la actualidad de un debate: El Ají (1889–1894) y José Arnero (1905–1914)	3
Crime and Its Aftermath: New Inroads in the Study of Violence and Public Safety	3
Developing Political Strategies across a New Democratic and State Architecture	3
Unoriginal Opinions of an Original Man: Jorge Luis Borges’s Views on Race and Brazilian People in His Conversations with Adolfo Bioy Casares and His Literary Works	3
Pitfalls of Trauma: Revisiting Postdictatorship Cinema from a Semiotic Standpoint	3
The Popular Church and Revolutionary Insurgency in El Salvador	3
Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins	3
Missions, Unions, and Indigenous Organization in the Bolivian Amazon: Placing the Formation of an Indigenous Organization in Its Context	3
Sentenced to Debt: Explaining Student Mobilization in Chile	2
Deep Trade Agreements and Domestic Institutions in the Americas	2
The Most Desired Positions: Brazilian Female Drug Traffickers in Inferno and Falcão: Mulheres e o tráfico	2
Knowing Your Empire: American Scholars and the Evolution of US–Latin American Studies	2
Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico	2
Living in Gang-Controlled Neighborhoods: Impacts on Electoral and Nonelectoral Participation in El Salvador	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
Geography and the Enlightenment: Patriotic Views of the Port City of Havana, 1761–1791	2
Race and Identity across American Borders	2

Sustaining Freedom and Second Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba	2
Interrupted Continuities: Transatlantic Relations during and after the Age of Revolutions (1775–1824)	2
Translating Diplomacy: President Juan Bosch, Ambassador John Bartlow Martin, and “The Indelible Spot”	2
Violence, Peacebuilding, and Democratic Struggles in Central America	2
Nineteenth-Century Peru: A German Merchant’s Diary	2
The Deer and the Donkey: Indigenous Ritual and Survivance in Nicaragua’sEl Güegüense	2
Brazilian Inequalities in the Global Balance: From Jogo Bonito to Jogo Diplomático	1
Teachers, Folklore, and the Crafting ofSerranoCultural Identity in Peru	1
Cambios hasta cierto punto: Segregación residencial y desigualdades económicas en Montevideo (1996–2015)	1
Narrar a Mariel: Espacialización y heterotopías del exilio cubano en la novelaBoarding Home() de Guillermo Rosales (1946–1993)	1
The Legacy of Civil War Dynamics: State Building in Mexico, 1810–1910	1
The Electoral Buzz: Rational Prospective Voting and the Politics of the Zika Epidemic in Brazil	1
Latin American Extractivism and (or after) the Left	1
Latin American Critical Epistemologies toward a Biocentric Turn in Communication for Social Change: Communication from a Good Living Perspective	1
Contemporary Latin American Inequality: Class Struggle, Decolonization, and the Limits of Liberal Citizenship	1
Place-Based (In)formalization: A Bolivian Marketplace for Consumer Electronics and Global Brands	1
Barriers to Egalitarianism: Distributive Tensions in Latin American Federations	1
Intimate Political Economies of the Andes	1
A propósito de la unión civil en Chile: Por una jurisprudencia feminista y queer	1
Embodying Blackness in Latin American Religion	1
El triunfo de la libertad negativa: Discurso parlamentario en Chile acerca de la libertad de expresión	1
Corte al Congreso: Poder judicial y trámite legislativo en Colombia	1
The Return of International Finance and the Martínez de Hoz Plan in Argentina, 1976–1978	1
A Cultural Revolution: New Directions in Cuban History, 1952–2013	1
Character Types in Brazilian Reality Shows: Cultural Manifestation of a Media Protagonist Syndrome	1
New Media and Support for Same-Sex Marriage	1
Rounds de sombra: El boxeo en la crónica deportiva de Tablada, Garibay y Monsiváis	1
Structuring Public Opinion on Foreign Policy Issues: The Case of Brazil	1
“Ele te chamou pra roubar? E tu foi. Tá gostando agora?” Justiça e alteridade em três documentários de Maria Augusta Ramos	1
Indigenous Peoples, Postcolonial Ontologies, Neoliberal Regimes, and Approaches to Understanding Medical Pluralism in Latin America	1
HowMachismoGot Its Spurs—in English: Social Science, Cold War Imperialism, and the Ethnicization of Hypermasculinity	1
Modernidad, mujeres y agua: Cambios de paradigma en el último siglo del Chile colonial	1