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
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	19
The Evolution of Primate Social Systems and Social Complexity: The Promise and Challenge of Comparative Phylogenetic Methods	19
The Coproduction of Medical Knowledge	18
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	18
Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence: Beyond the Binaries of Intervention	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
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	12
Disappointment	12
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	12
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	11
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	10
Naming and Namelessness	10
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
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	9

Archaeoacoustics: Research on Past Musics and Sounds	9
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	9
Concrete Times	9
Remapping Anthropology's “Outside Within”: From Domestic Periphery to Transnational Crossroads	7
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	7
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