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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
New (and a Few Old) Directions in Latin American Visual Cultural Studies	185
The Struggle to Legitimate Political Regimes in Venezuela: From Pérez Jiménez to Maduro	76
Indigenous Communities, Migrant Organizations, and the Ephemeral Nature of Translocality	49
The Act of Listening to “Battered” Women: An Ethnographic Comparison of Police and Emergency Responses in São Paulo, Brazil	44
Swinging Leftward: Public Opinion on Economic and Political Integration in Latin America, 1997–2010	44
Racism and Race Mixture in Latin America	41
Colonialidad múltiple en América Latina: Estructuras de dependencia, relatos de subalternidad	35
Inequality and Inclusion in Latin America	35
Ethos and Pathos in Millennial Brazil	32
The Historian’s Craft: Creating the Past in Colonial Latin America	26
Student Mobilization, Higher Education, and the 2013 Protests in Brazil in Historical Perspective	23
Fiscal Redistribution and Ethnoracial Inequality in Bolivia, Brazil, and Guatemala	23
Political Modernity in Latin America: The Nineteenth Century	21
Patriarchy, New Left Post-Neoliberalism, and the Valuing of Care Work: The Labor Conditions of Nicaraguan Nurses under Sandinismo’s “Second Stage”	19
Progressive Contextualization: Thinking about Extreme Events	19
Report from the Editor (2018)	17
Reflections on Haitian Democracy: Zooming in on a Megaproject in the Hinterland	17
Race and Rule in the Colonial Andes	17
Imagining Latin American Social Science from the Global South: Orlando Fals Borda and Participatory Action Research	16
Politicized Identities and Social Movements	16
Wallmapu Rising: New Paths in Mapuche Studies	16
Progressive Reforms and the Art of the Possible	15
The Functions of Letters to the Editor in Reform-Era Cuba	15
Democracy in Latin America: “Minimalist” in Concept and in Achievement	13
US-Mexico Relations in an Age of Uncertainty	12

Before the Thaw: The Transnational Routes of Cuban Popular Culture	12
Reading the Affects in the Colonial Americas: The Exteriority of Feeling in Cabeza de Vaca’sNaufragios	11
Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach	11
From Indigenous Literatures to Native American and Indigenous Theorists: The Makings of a Grassroots Decoloniality	10
Estimation of the Value of Statistical Life in Chile and Extrapolation to Other Latin American Countries	10
The Colombia-Israel Nexus: Toward Historical and Analytic Contexts	9
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	7
Bribery Cartels: Collusive Corruption in Bolivian Street Markets	7
Reforming the Relationship between the State and Civil Society in Latin America	7
Vulnerable Women in a Thriving Country: An Analysis of Twenty-First-Century Domestic Workers in Peru and Recommendations for Future Research	7
Mexican Anthropology and Inter-American Knowledge	7
Los nuevos grupos y sus viejas prácticas en la Argentina reciente (2003–2014): Entre ámbitos privilegiados de acumulación, especulación y monopolios	6
Peru since Independence, a Tortured History	6
Remittances and Vote Buying	5
Social Responses to Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Kingston, and Medellín	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 Routinization of Violence in Latin America: Ethnographic Revelations	5
Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins	4
Environment, Urbanization, and Public Health: The Bubonic Plague Epidemic of 1912 in San Juan, Puerto Rico	4
The Popular Church and Revolutionary Insurgency in El Salvador	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
Re-visioning Classic Maya Polities	4
“Where you from?”: Deportación, identidad y trabajo reciclado en el call center salvadoreño	4
Transimperial Networks of Slave Trading, Piracy, and Empire Building in the Iberian Atlantic	3
Violence, Peacebuilding, and Democratic Struggles in Central America	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
Cambios hasta cierto punto: Segregación residencial y desigualdades económicas en Montevideo (1996–2015)	2
Geography and the Enlightenment: Patriotic Views of the Port City of Havana, 1761–1791	2
Knowing Your Empire: American Scholars and the Evolution of US–Latin American Studies	2
Race and Identity across American Borders	2
Interrupted Continuities: Transatlantic Relations during and after the Age of Revolutions (1775–1824)	2
Sustaining Freedom and Second Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba	2
Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico	2
Entonces ¿eso es literatura? Concepciones sobre lo literario en los saraus de poesía de la periferia de São Paulo	2
Living in Gang-Controlled Neighborhoods: Impacts on Electoral and Nonelectoral Participation in El Salvador	2
A propósito de la unión civil en Chile: Por una jurisprudencia feminista y queer	2
Nineteenth-Century Peru: A German Merchant’s Diary	2
Translating Diplomacy: President Juan Bosch, Ambassador John Bartlow Martin, and “The Indelible Spot”	2
Sentenced to Debt: Explaining Student Mobilization in Chile	2
Mexicans and Colombians at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study of Political Engagement	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
Place-Based (In)formalization: A Bolivian Marketplace for Consumer Electronics and Global Brands	1
HowMachismoGot Its Spurs—in English: Social Science, Cold War Imperialism, and the Ethnicization of Hypermasculinity	1
Indigenous Peoples, Postcolonial Ontologies, Neoliberal Regimes, and Approaches to Understanding Medical Pluralism in Latin America	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
Contemporary Latin American Inequality: Class Struggle, Decolonization, and the Limits of Liberal Citizenship	1
El triunfo de la libertad negativa: Discurso parlamentario en Chile acerca de la libertad de expresión	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
New Media and Support for Same-Sex Marriage	1
Rounds de sombra: El boxeo en la crónica deportiva de Tablada, Garibay y Monsiváis	1
Latin American Critical Epistemologies toward a Biocentric Turn in Communication for Social Change: Communication from a Good Living Perspective	1
The Return of International Finance and the Martínez de Hoz Plan in Argentina, 1976–1978	1
Character Types in Brazilian Reality Shows: Cultural Manifestation of a Media Protagonist Syndrome	1