OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography is 3. 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
Performing Conservative Politics	14
Dangerous Fieldwork: Reflections on Ethnographic Research with Irregular, Nigerian Streetwalkers and Madams in Spain	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
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
Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener: An Autoethnography and Exploration of COVID-19, Risk, and Responsibility	6
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
“I’m a Million Times More Confident Now”: Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Self-Concept Repair	5
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
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
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
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