OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Ethnologist 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
We are (not) monkeys	46
Ruins for the future	24
Wave theory	24
How many worlds are there?	17
Introduction	15
Aging in digital	13
The art of unnoticing	12
Law, politics, and efficacy at the European Court of Human Rights	12
Becoming an operating system	11
Ontologies of climate change	11
Patchwork ethnography	10
Paradoxes of white moral experience	10
Waste intimacies	9
“Nobody wants to kill”	9
The gift of hospitality and the (un)welcoming of Syrian migrants in Turkey	9
Governing beyond capacity	8
Theory as ethics	8
Unpayable debt	8
Love as understanding	8
Spectral kinship	7
Violent masculinities	7
“Objectivity” as a bureaucratic virtue	7
Tactical dissonance	7
Crime seen	7
“Only the orangutans get a life jacket”	6

Relational flexibility	6
“Don't gamble for money with friends”	6
Ecologies of capture in Bangladesh's Sundarbans	5
The self in a time of constant connectivity	5
Contamination in theory and protest	5
Making noise in urban Taiwan	5
Trust amid “trust deficit”	5
Waste's translations	5
Anti‐colonial friendship	4
Reversible pigs	4
Managing the “hot spots”	4
The right to public security	4
Homemaking as sensemaking	4
Palestinian counter‐forensics and the cruel paradox of property	4
Distributed humanitarianism	4
Disability, straight time, and the American Dream	4
Afterword	4
Trauma at home	4
Beastly identification in India	4
Witnessing “imperfect victims”	4
Intertextual politics	3
A transit state	3
How to Cite	3
Nothing to lose but their (block)chains	3
Watching fracking	3
From decolonizing knowledge to postimperialism	3
The long road	3
Aid as pan‐Islamic solidarity in Bosnia‐Herzegovina	3
Five years later, but centuries in the making	3
Racial‐spatial politics	3
The politics of bachaqueo	3
Troubling whiteness	3
Secular‐religious self‐improvement	3
@Ferguson: Still here in the afterlives of Black death, defiance, and joy	2
Work, development, and refusal in urban Ethiopia	2
Education as identity	2
De‐occupation as planetary politics	2
Anthropology is good	2
Provincializing bioethics	2
Conjuring criminals	2
Reconsidering the vignette as method	2
The “salt” of life	2
Gendered disruptions in academic publishing during COVID‐19	2
Multiple interfaces	2
The risk of sliding down	2
Inhabiting a transforming delta	2
Refusing aid	2
Bordering practices	2
Morality, religious authority, and the digital edge	2
Remaking the value of work	2

The politics of being a queer leader during the Ferguson uprising	2
Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐19	1
Realms unseen	1
A decolonial birth for anthropology	1
Ethnography after anthropology	1
Entrepreneurial activism	1
Object, subject, thing	1
Miners on the move	1
Catch‐all technopolitics	1
What good is anthropology?	1
Experiments of the mind: From the cognitive psychology lab to the world of Facebook and Twitter By EmilyMartin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 312 pp.	1
Anthropology's comparative value(s)	1
A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community. Jarrett Zigon. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 216 pp.	1
It Takes Two Generations to Forget	1
Saving the face of the Arabah	1
Bodyland	1
Reading the present from the past in Hopkins, Belize	1
On shame	1
Anthropology's good beyond the discipline	1
To write or not to write?	1
Kill your ancestors	1
Eating pizza in prison	1
Issue Information	1
Feeling the (post)colonial	1
Ethnography and ethical life	1
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?	1
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)	1
@Ferguson:	1
Listening to love	1
Decolonizing Middle East anthropology	1
Peche problems	1
Women's “timepass”	1
“You don't look American”	1
Falshfasad	1
Sweaty motions	1
Face‐to‐face with the (animal) Other	1
Artivist Build, St. Louis	1
Ethnographic thinking	1
Electrosonic statecraft	1
Editors’ note	1
Anthropology at sea	1
Emplacing capital	1
Stock market layoffs in France	1
Rescaling hospitality	1
Negrophilia	1
Boiling sand, metallic fire	1