OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Anthropology Quarterly 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop	99
Reworking the Social Determinants of Health: Responding to Material‐Semiotic Indeterminacy in Public Health Interventions	64
Hydroxychloroquine Controversies: Clinical Trials, Epistemology, and the Democratization of Science	40
The Culling: Pandemic, Gerocide, Generational Affect	39
Microbial Kin: Relations of Environment and Time	21
Multimorbidity, Polyiatrogenesis, and COVID‐19	18
Living on Borrowed Breath: Respiratory Distress, Social Breathing, and the Vital Movement of Ventilators	17
Plantation Politics, Paranoia, and Public Health on the Frontlines of America's COVID‐19 Response	14
Like a Grinding Stone: How Crowdfunding Platforms Create, Perpetuate, and Value Health Inequities	14
Death in an Ordinary Time: Reflections from Rwanda	13
Not Breathing Easy: “Disarticulated Homework” in Asthma Management	10
Going Nowhere: Ambivalence about Drug Treatment during an Overdose Public Health Emergency in Vancouver	10
Cryopreserving Jewish Motherhood: Egg Freezing in Israel and the United States	8
Medical Anthropology in the Time of COVID‐19	8
Datafied Pregnancies: Health Information Technologies and Reproductive Governance in Turkey	8
Health Care Quality Improvement and the Ambiguous Commodity of Care	8
Performing Pimâtisiwin: The Expression of Indigenous Wellness Identities through Community‐based Theater	7
Becoming Institutionalized: Incarceration as a Chronic Health Condition	7
Catching Air: Risk and Embodied Ocean Health among Dominican Diver Fishermen	7
You Are What Your Mother Endured: Intergenerational Epigenetics, Early Caregiving, and the Temporal Embedding of Adversity	7
Qatar, the Coronavirus, and Cordons Sanitaires: Migrant Workers and the Use of Public Health Measures to Define the Nation	7
Caregiving in Crisis: Fatherhood Refashioned by Sierra Leone's Ebola Epidemic	6
Debilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights	6
Can a Neighborhood Fall Sick? Opioid Addiction, Collective Violence and Currents of Death in Contemporary India	6
“I Do Not Have to Hurt My Body Anymore”: Reproductive Chronicity and Sterilization as Ambivalent Care in Rural North India	5

Thinking about Social Determinants of Health through the Relationality of Work and Drug Use	5
Interventive Care: Uncertainty, Distributed Agency, and Cesarean Section in a Zika Virus Epidemic	5
Recursive Debility: Symptoms, Patient Activism, and the Incomplete Medicalization of ME/CFS	5
Blood and Blood: Anti‐retroviral Therapy, Masculinity, and Redemption among Adolescent Boys in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa	5
Weak Data: The Social Biography of a Measurement Instrument and How It Failed to Ensure Accountability in Home Care	5
Interembodiment, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Health	5
The Corruption Game: Health Systems, International Agencies, and the State in South Asia	5
Therapeutic Borderlands: Austerity, Maternal HIV Treatment, and the Elusive End of AIDS in Mozambique	5
Viral Entanglements: Bodies, Belonging and Truth‐claims in Health Borderlands	4
Taming Time: Configuring Cancer Patients as Research Subjects	4
Experimental Entanglements: Surveillance Science, Sex Worker Activism, and Evidentiary Politics in Kenya	4
MDMA Is Not Ecstasy: The Production of Pharmaceutical Safety through Documents in Clinical Trials	4
Help‐seekers, Callers and Clients: Embodied History in China's psy‐boom	4
Kamzori: Aging, Care, and Alienation in the Post‐pastoral Himalaya	4
“There Would Be More Black Spaces”: Care/giving Cartographies during COVID‐19	4
Military Dogs and Their Soldier Companions: The More‐than‐human Biopolitics of Leishmaniasis in Conflict‐torn Colombia	4
Diabetes‐by‐Proxy: Virtual Embodiment of Disease by Oklahoma Choctaw Parents of Children with Type 1 Diabetes	3
Commentary: Causal Enclosures—Over and Over	3
Re‐Imagining Reproduction: Citation and Chosen Kin	3
Death and Dying in Carceral America: The Prison Hospice as an Inverted Space of Exception	3
Shared Relations: Trauma and Kinship in the Afterlife of Death	3
Shouldering Death: Moral Tensions, Ambiguity, and the Unintended Ramifications of State‐sanctioned Second‐trimester Selective Abortion in Denmark	3
Re‐centering Relationships: Obstetric Violence, Health Care Rationalities, and Pandemic Childbirth in Canada	3
“Housing Is Health Care”: Treating Homelessness in Safety‐net Hospitals	3
Visiting Hours: Spacetimes of Human–Animal Interaction in South African Elder Care	2
Policy Statement: Mental Well‐being among Anthropologists at Universities: A Call for System Transformation	2
Veteran Therapeutics: The Promise of Military Medicine and the Possibilities of Disability in the Post‐9/11 United States	2
Antibiotics “dumped”: Negotiating Pharmaceutical Identities, Properties, and Interests in China–India Trade Disputes	2
The Unbearable Whiteness of Citational Practice in US Medical Anthropology	2
Epidemiologizing Culture: Scaling Chineseness through Narratives of Stigma in New York City	2
Alien Guts? Exploring Lives of and with Irritable Bowels in Denmark	2
A Eulogy for Jane Robinson: A Social Autopsy of Uncare Policies	2
The Politics of Trauma: Gender, Futurity, and Violence Prevention in South Africa	2
A Second Chance: Reenactment and Recovery Narratives in a Peruvian Drug Rehabilitation Center	2
“Passing Down Pollution”: (Inter)generational Toxicology and (Epi)genetic Environmental Health	2
Genitourinary Systems Entangled with Shifting Environments in a Salvadoran Subsistence Farming Community	2
From iatrogenesis to vaccine skepticism: US mothers’ negative vaccine perceptions and non‐vaccination practices as reverberations of medical harm	2
Naturalizing unnatural death in Los Angeles County jails	2
The politics of irrationality	2
“I Could See Little Bits of How I Progressed”: Coordinating Rhythms in a Midwest Gender‐affirming Health Clinic	2
Bloody Marvels: In Situ Seed Saving and Intergenerational Malleability	2
Dirty Work in Medicine: Understanding U.S. Physicians’ Agency in Contested Medical Practices	2
Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision	2
Eggonomics: Vitrification and bioeconomies of egg donation in the United States and Spain	2
Decolonizing Care at Diagnosis: Culture, History, and Family at an Urban Inter‐tribal Clinic	1
Epidemiological Imaginaries of the Social: Epidemiologists and Pathologies of Modernization in Postcolonial Africa	1
On the Shoulders of Giants Or the Back of a Mule: Awareness of Multiplicity In Citational Politics	1
Technologies of care and the engineering imaginary: Two approaches to assistive device design for the Global South	1
Painful Subjects: Treating Chronic Pain among People Living with HIV in the Age of Opioid Risk	1
Discounted Deaths: The Eruption of COVID‐19 in the Geriatric System of the Community of Madrid	1

Praying for More Time: Mexican Immigrants’ Pandemic Eldercare Dilemmas	1
The WetNet: What the Oral Polio Vaccine Hypothesis Exposes about Globalized Interspecies Fluid Bonds	1
Anthropological knowledge under redaction: Meditations on race, health, and aesthetics	1
Anachronic: Viral Socialities and Project Time among HIV Support Groups in Barbados	1
From Person to Life: An Anthropological Examination of Primary Health Care Approach to Depression in Rio de Janeiro	1
Food, Taste, and the Body: Ingestion and Embodiment in Santiago de Cuba	1
Fat Is All My Fault: Globalized Metathemes of Body Self‐blame	1
The Potential of “Watchful” Care: Preventing Suicide with Aloha in Hawaii	1