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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy	33
Dangerous Fieldwork: Reflections on Ethnographic Research with Irregular, Nigerian Streetwalkers and Madams in Spain	14
Performing Conservative Politics	14
Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures	12
Distinction at Work: Status Practices in A Community Production Environment	11
The Power to be Ethical: Controlling Moral Assemblages in Border Militias	10
Crafting the Digital Self: Exploring Instagram Self-Portraiture as an Anthropological Endeavor	8
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice: Two Cases Showing the Importance of Embodiment and Reflexivity	7
Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services	7
The Companion: A Hospital Autoethnography on the Relationship Between Informal and Formal Institutions	7
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility	6
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study	6
“You Kind of Find Yourself Helpless”: Teens’ Identity Constructions and Responses to Childhood Trauma	6
“SHE CAN GET A VISA”: How Nationality and Class Shape Decision Making at a Kenyan NGO	6
Peripheral Positionality: Conducting Ethnography With Youth as a Researcher from the “Peripheries”	6
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair	5
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	5
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel	5
Helping Mom Die: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Preparing for Death	5
Indigenous Experiences and Contributions to Western Scientific Knowledge Systems: An Ethnographic Exploration	4
“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago	4
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers	4
That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide	4
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working	4
“We All Play Pretty Much the Same, Except. . .”: Gender-Integrated Quidditch and the Persistence of Essentialist Ideology	4

The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding	4
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma	3
It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification	3
Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia	3
Filtering Touch: An Ethnography of Dirt, Danger, and Industrial Robots	3
My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene	3
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right	3
“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	3
Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach	2
The Show Must Go On! An Autoethnography of (Re)socialization into Senior Policing in England and the Prominence of “Leadership Theatre”	2
Some Methodological Insights from a Reflexive “Insider” Ethnography of Shiatsu Practice	2
“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks	2
Surveillance, Radicalization, and Prison Change Self-Analysis of an Ethnographic Survey Under Tension	2
“Re-Inventing How We Live in the City”: Well-being and the Los Angeles Ecovillage	2
The Janus Face of Organizational Knowing	2
Modernity and Tradition at Sea: Filipino Seafarers and their Superstitious Beliefs	2
Norm-Critical Teaching in Practice? An Observational Study of a Campus-Based Clinical Learning Environment in Nursing Education	2
A Widow and a Questionable Autoethnographer	2
In the Saunas I’m Either Invisible or Camouflaged: Colonial Fantasies and Imaginations in Sydney’s Gay Saunas	2
Tradwives: Right-Wing Social Media Influencers	2
Four Distinct Cultures of Oilfield Masculinity, but Absent Hegemonic Masculinity: Some Multiple Masculinities Perspectives from a Remote UK Offshore Drilling Platform	1
Facing the Storm: Our First Annual Faculty of Color Writing Retreat as a Microcosm for Being a Black Woman in the Academy	1
Digital Encounters of Surrogacy: Nodes of a Fictional Ethnography	1
Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community	1
Constructing Authentic Spectatorship at an Esports Bar	1
Erving Goffman: The Social Science Maverick. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Impact of the Most Cited American Sociologist	1
Engaging in Postconflict Violence: Militant Trajectories of Young Republican Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland	1
Implicating Ourselves Through Our Research: A Duoethnography of Researcher Reflexivity	1
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes	1
Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations	1
The Digitalization of Ethnography: A Scoping Review of Methods in Netnography	1
“A Population at Risk”: Ageism Toward Elders During the COVID-19 Era in Israel	1
“Why Won’t You Let Me Hit On You?”: Sexual Harassment in Fieldwork as Data	1
Like Water: Feeling and Negotiating Relational Complexity in School-Based Ethnographic Childhood Research in China Through the Lens of Emotional Reflexivity	1
“Sticky, Yet Precarious”—An Ethnographic Insight of F&B Workers in Singapore	1
Killed For Good: Hunters, Biologists, and the Ethical Paradoxes of Wildlife Management in North America	1
Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties	1
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City	1
Counteracting Stigma-Power: An Ethnographic Case Study of an Independent Community Food Hub	1
Boundary Work and Strategies of Compliance: The Underlife of the Ivory Tower	1
Mujeres Guerreras: Negotiating Women’s Empowerment in Colombia	1
“This is Tunisia, Speak Arabic:”: Multi lingual Ideology and Identities in Tunisia	1
The Making of Everyday Space of Publicness: Insights from a Mall in Beijing	1
Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility	1