OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural Anthropology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	36
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Isha’s Wait	18
A Wild Boar Chase: Ecology of Harm and Half-Life Politics in Coastal Fukushima	17
The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek	15
The Dying Home: “Bad Deaths” and Spatial Inscriptions of Mourning in a Favela	14
Place, Time, and Affect: Changing Landscapes around a New Guinea Mining Area	14
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The End of Intimacy	14
Not Built to Last: Military Occupation and Ruination under Settler Colonialism	14
The Substitute and the Excuse	13
Infrastructural Decay	11
Through the Body of the Midwife	10
Fracking and Historicizing	10
Dissonance: Cartooning in Iran, Humor, and the Study of Things That Don’t Match	9
Circulating Objects, Changing Scales	9
Life before Vegetables: Nutrition, Cash, and Subjunctive Health in Samoa	9
Blessed Acts of Oblivion	8
Gaining Voice through Injury	8
“As if I Were an Illegal”	8
Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition	8
Malicious Game	8
From Hoping to Expecting: Cochlear Implantation and Habilitation in India	7
National Reconciliation in the Age of New Social Media	7

Good Bureaucrats and God: The Ethical Labor of the Public	7
Refusing the God Trick: Engaging Black Women’s Knowledge	6
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Black Feminist Citational Praxis and Disciplinary Belonging	6
Utopias of Oil	5
Plants, Pathogens, and the Politics of Care: Xylella fastidiosa and the Intra-active Breakdown of Mallorca’s Almond Ecology	5
No Stone Unturned	5
When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life	5
The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution	4
Virtuous Indecisiveness	4
Quantifying Vulnerability	4
Multiscale Home: Shifting Landscapes and Living-in-Movement in Haiti	4
“Life is a Gamble”	4
Be Kind: Negotiating Ethical Proximities in Aotearoa/New Zealand during COVID-19	4
Effective Cynicism	4
Deciphering a Non-meal	4
Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border	3
Opening Editorial	3
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Religious Afterlives of a Revolution	3
The Meme Radar	3
Oikography: Ethnographies of House-ing in Critical Times	3
Bureaucraft	3
Evoking Eternity	3
Of Feral and Obedient Cows	3
Borderlands as Barracks	3
Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature	3
Corporations and States	3
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Economy of Favors	3
Archives at the Margins: Toward a Liberatory Pedagogy in Anthropology	2
Orders of Protection	2
Care and Scale: Decorrelative Ethics in Algorithmic Recommendation	2
Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers	2
Anti-Blackness and Moral Repair	2
The Weightless State	2
Intercorporeal Togetherness: On Russian Blind Activists’ Technology of Disability Inclusion	2
Bioeconomy and Migrants’ Lives in Libya	2
Love as Enjoyment	1
(Re)Writing Anthropology and Raising Our Voices from the Academic Margins	1
Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential	1
Delivering the State	1
The Pandemic Imaginerie: Infectious Bodies and Military-Police Theater in Australia	1
Erratum for "Resisting Alternative Images"	1
On Chainsaws and Acoustic Violence: Sound and Deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico	1
Weedy Finance: Weather Insurance and Parametric Life on Unstable Grounds	1
Pedagogies of Prohibition: Time, Education, and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte	1
In the Shade of Hailstones: Life-Forming Realities among the Luo of Kano, Kenya	1
The Bioeconomics of Domesticating Zoonoses	1
The Paradox of Humanitarian Recognition	1

Vital Labors: Transacting Oocytes across Borders in the Post-Soviet Space	1
EU-Driven Border Control in Niger: From Migrants to Gold, Drugs, and Rare Animals	1
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#CiteBlackWomen	1
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“Too Much” Sand, Not Water: A Geostory of Himalayan Riverine Sediments as “Problem”	1
The Immune Home: Domestic Enclaves, Diffuse Protections	1
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The Multiply Produced Film: Collaboration, Ethnography, and Feminist Epistemology	1
Why Do “Good” Pictures Matter in Anthropology?	1
Centering Black Women: A Black Feminist Critique of Mainstream Anthropology from the Margins of an HBCU	1