OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Dangerous Fieldwork: Reflections on Ethnographic Research with Irregular, Nigerian Streetwalkers and Madams in Spain	37
Performing Conservative Politics	17
Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures	15
The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy	15
Distinction at Work: Status Practices in A Community Production Environment	7
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice: Two Cases Showing the Importance of Embodiment and Reflexivity	7
Crafting the Digital Self: Exploring Instagram Self-Portraiture as an Anthropological Endeavor	7
Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services	6
The Companion: A Hospital Autoethnography on the Relationship Between Informal and Formal Institutions	6
Fruitful Unpredictabilities of the Field: Procedural Serendipity in a Multi-Sited Ethnography	6
“SHE CAN GET A VISA”: How Nationality and Class Shape Decision Making at a Kenyan NGO	5
Peripheral Positionality: Conducting Ethnography With Youth as a Researcher from the “Peripheries”	5
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair	5
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study	5
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel	5
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility	4
An Autoethnography beyond Academia: The Embodiment of Motorcycle Maintenance	4
Because the World Did Not End When I Was Seventeen: From Death Anxiety to Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Self-Transcendence During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Helping Mom Die: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Preparing for Death	4
Indigenous Experiences and Contributions to Western Scientific Knowledge Systems: An Ethnographic Exploration	4
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working	3
That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide	3
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers	3
“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago	3
My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene	3

“We All Play Pretty Much the Same, Except. . .”: Gender-Integrated Quidditch and the Persistence of Essentialist Ideology	3
The Show Must Go On! An Autoethnography of (Re)socialization into Senior Policing in England and the Prominence of “Leadership Theatre”	2
“We Have Two Engines, and We Must Keep Them Both Running”: The Combination of Institutional and Symbolic Resources in the “Socio-Emotional Organizing” of Solo Self-Employed Workers	2
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer	2
“Re-Inventing How We Live in the City”: Well-being and the Los Angeles Ecovillage	2
Norm-Critical Teaching in Practice? An Observational Study of a Campus-Based Clinical Learning Environment in Nursing Education	2
Counteracting Stigma-Power: An Ethnographic Case Study of an Independent Community Food Hub	2
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right	2
It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification	2
The Janus Face of Organizational Knowing	2
Some Methodological Insights from a Reflexive “Insider” Ethnography of Shiatsu Practice	2
Modernity and Tradition at Sea: Filipino Seafarers and their Superstitious Beliefs	2
In the Saunas I’m Either Invisible or Camouflaged: Colonial Fantasies and Imaginations in Sydney’s Gay Saunas	2
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma	2
Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia	2
The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding	2
Tradwives: Right-Wing Social Media Influencers	2
Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach	2
Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties	1
The Digitalization of Ethnography: A Scoping Review of Methods in Netnography	1
Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community	1
Engaging in Postconflict Violence: Militant Trajectories of Young Republican Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland	1
“This is Tunisia, Speak Arabic:”: Multi lingual Ideology and Identities in Tunisia	1
Like Water: Feeling and Negotiating Relational Complexity in School-Based Ethnographic Childhood Research in China Through the Lens of Emotional Reflexivity	1
“Why Won’t You Let Me Hit On You?”: Sexual Harassment in Fieldwork as Data	1
“A Population at Risk”: Ageism Toward Elders During the COVID-19 Era in Israel	1
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes	1
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City	1
Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations	1
Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility	1
The Making of Everyday Space of Publicness: Insights from a Mall in Beijing	1
Mujeres Guerreras: Negotiating Women’s Empowerment in Colombia	1
“Sticky, Yet Precarious”—An Ethnographic Insight of F&B Workers in Singapore	1
Balancing Acts and Ways of Knowing: Environmental Anthropology as a Collaborative Companion in the Anthropocene	1
Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK Offshore Drilling Platform	1
Boundary Work and Strategies of Compliance: The Underlife of the Ivory Tower	1
All Her Glory: Modest Fashion and the Cosmopolitan Condition	1
The Price of Consent: Identity Wages in the Games Industry	1
Erving Goffman: The Social Science Maverick. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Impact of the Most Cited American Sociologist	1
Killed For Good: Hunters, Biologists, and the Ethical Paradoxes of Wildlife Management in North America	1