OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Anthropology is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	32
Doing Fieldwork Without Knowing It	27
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	26
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	26
The Carceral State: An American Story	25
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	24
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	23
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	20
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	18
Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment	17
African American Archaeology, for Now	17
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	16
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	15
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	15
Constructed Languages	15
The Human Sleep Paradox: The Unexpected Sleeping Habits ofHomo sapiens	14
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	14
Peirce and Archaeology: Recent Approaches	13
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The Earliest South African Hominids	11
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	11
Disappointment	11
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	9
Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism	9
Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19	8

Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	8
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	8
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	8
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	7
Modalities of Free Speech	7
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	7
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	7
Concrete Times	7
The Evolution of Human Infancy: Why It Helps to Be Helpless	7
Biological Normalcy	6
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	6
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	6
Prehistory of Kinship	6
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	6
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	5
Wound Culture	5
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	5
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	5
Critical University Studies	5
Postcolonial Semiotics	5
Thinking in Between Disciplines	5
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood	4
Music, Language, Aurality: Latin American and Caribbean Resoundings	4
Human Bodies in Extreme Environments	4
Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language	4
Current Digital Archaeology	4
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	3
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Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Looping Effects of Persons and Social Worlds	3
Rethinking Neandertals	3
Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	3
Rethinking the Landscape: Emerging Approaches to Archaeological Remote Sensing	3
Anthropology of and from the Ocean	3
Early Maya Monumentalism	2
Sex Work, Antitrafficking, and Mobility	2
Feminism in the House of Anthropology	2
Human Evolution in Asia: Taking Stock and Looking Forward	2
Acknowledging Inspirations in a Lifetime of Shifting and Pivoting Standpoints to Construct the Past	2
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	2
Proxy Evidence: Epistemological Considerations for Isotope Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Zooarchaeology	2
Transgressing Time: Archaeological Evidence in/of the Anthropocene	2