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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Dangerous Fieldwork: Reflections on Ethnographic Research with Irregular, Nigerian Streetwalkers and Madams in Spain	36
Performing Conservative Politics	15
Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures	15
Distinction at Work: Status Practices in A Community Production Environment	13
Crafting the Digital Self: Exploring Instagram Self-Portraiture as an Anthropological Endeavor	7
The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy	7
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice: Two Cases Showing the Importance of Embodiment and Reflexivity	7
Fruitful Unpredictabilities of the Field: Procedural Serendipity in a Multi-Sited Ethnography	6
The Companion: A Hospital Autoethnography on the Relationship Between Informal and Formal Institutions	6
Miles and Bars Between: The Tertiary Prisonization and Layered Liminality of Prison Visitation Transportation Services	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
The Moral Discourse of Free Speech: A Virtual Ethnographic Study	5
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility	5
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
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair	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
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel	4
“We All Play Pretty Much the Same, Except. . .”: Gender-Integrated Quidditch and the Persistence of Essentialist Ideology	3
“The Glorious Pain”: Attaining Pleasure and Gratification in Times of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) among Gym Goers	3
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working	3
“He’s Agonal”: An Insider’s Look into the Impact of Moral Injury Suffered While Policing on the Westside of Chicago	3
Doing/Undoing Stigma: The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma	3
That’s Gonna Leave a Mark: Positionality and Secondary Trauma in Researching Mass Killing and Genocide	3

My Cigarette Wife and Other Queer Tales of Kinship from Tunisia’s Contemporary Public Art Scene	3
The Mental Life of a Telephone Pole and Other Trifles: Affective Practices in the Context of Research Funding	2
It’s Understandable If It Destroys You, Right?—Grades, Students’ Self-Images, and Quantification	2
Some Methodological Insights from a Reflexive “Insider” Ethnography of Shiatsu Practice	2
Tradwives: Right-Wing Social Media Influencers	2
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Power, Positionality, and Limits of Ethnic Identity in the Ethnographies of the Far-Right	2
Affective Infrastructures of Immobility: Staying While Neighbors Are Leaving Rural Eastern Siberia	2
In the Saunas I’m Either Invisible or Camouflaged: Colonial Fantasies and Imaginations in Sydney’s Gay Saunas	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
“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
The Show Must Go On! An Autoethnography of (Re)socialization into Senior Policing in England and the Prominence of “Leadership Theatre”	2
“Re-Inventing How We Live in the City”: Well-being and the Los Angeles Ecovillage	2
The Janus Face of Organizational Knowing	2
Multifaceted Intergroup Relations in an American Town—Immigrant Intrusion, Symbiosis, and Invisibility	1
Touch Me if You Can: Intimate Bodies at Cuddle Parties	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
Engaging in Postconflict Violence: Militant Trajectories of Young Republican Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland	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
“Sticky, Yet Precarious”—An Ethnographic Insight of F&B Workers in Singapore	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
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
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
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
Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach	1
Modernity and Tradition at Sea: Filipino Seafarers and their Superstitious Beliefs	1
Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community	1
Gender and Legitimacy in Personal Service Occupations: The Case of End-of-Life Doulas and Death Midwives	1
The Making of Everyday Space of Publicness: Insights from a Mall in Beijing	1
All Her Glory: Modest Fashion and the Cosmopolitan Condition	1