OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Latin American Research Review is 7. 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
Swinging Leftward: Public Opinion on Economic and Political Integration in Latin America, 1997–2010	44
The Act of Listening to “Battered” Women: An Ethnographic Comparison of Police and Emergency Responses in São Paulo, Brazil	44
Racism and Race Mixture in Latin America	41
Inequality and Inclusion in Latin America	35
Colonialidad múltiple en América Latina: Estructuras de dependencia, relatos de subalternidad	35
Ethos and Pathos in Millennial Brazil	32
The Historian’s Craft: Creating the Past in Colonial Latin America	26
Fiscal Redistribution and Ethnoracial Inequality in Bolivia, Brazil, and Guatemala	23
Student Mobilization, Higher Education, and the 2013 Protests in Brazil in Historical Perspective	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
Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach	11
Reading the Affects in the Colonial Americas: The Exteriority of Feeling in Cabeza de Vaca’sNaufragios	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
Mexican Anthropology and Inter-American Knowledge	7
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