OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Anthropology 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
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	50
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	33
Primates in Fragmented Habitats	29
The Carceral State: An American Story	28
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	24
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	23
The Evolution of Primate Social Systems and Social Complexity: The Promise and Challenge of Comparative Phylogenetic Methods	19
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	19
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	18
Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence: Beyond the Binaries of Intervention	18
The Coproduction of Medical Knowledge	18
African American Archaeology, for Now	16
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	16
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	15
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	13
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	13
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	12
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	12
Disappointment	12
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	11
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	10
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	10
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	10
Naming and Namelessness	10
Archaeoacoustics: Research on Past Musics and Sounds	9

Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	9
Concrete Times	9
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	9
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	7
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	7
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	7
Modalities of Free Speech	7
Remapping Anthropology's “Outside Within”: From Domestic Periphery to Transnational Crossroads	7
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	7