OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ethnography is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections	20
The passion of aging: The representation of localism in spiritual eldercare of Naxi in Lijiang	15
Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra	15
Close encounters with a third leg: Including fieldwork experiences of sexual harassment as research data	12
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics	8
Becoming ‘international’: Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification	8
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre	8
Immersive scholarship: Inhabiting and crafting storied lifeworlds through ethnographic research retreats	7
Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain	6
Concrete sectarianism: Revisiting the Lebanese civil war through Beirut’s built environment	6
“Been there, done that but also not quite:” Discoveries and limitations in an evaluative, short-term, and multi-sited ethnography of the boy scouts of America	6
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age	6
Im/material and intimate relations: Considering ethnographic methodologies for already-surveilled communities	6
Men in aprons versus men in suits: Reshaping masculinities within a Japanese nonprofit promoting fatherhood	5
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the U.S	5
Firsthand practice: Resolving structure and change in Japanese regional cuisine	5
Composite ethnography: Collective encounters with emergent objects in the anthropocene	5
Changing the world in three minutes? A duoethnographic provocation of 3MT in neoliberal Australian universities	5
Lebensraum, geopolitics and race—Palestine as a feminist issue in German-speaking academia	5
The Halfie Predicament in the Ethnography of Religion: Fieldwork with Iranian-Americana Muslim Women in Los Angeles	4
Close quarters. Sailing the murky waters of an ethnography ‘at-home’	4
Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens	4
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb	4
Ambiguous interventions: The social consequences of assistance in the field	3
Observations from the field: On the body, gender, and Al wehdat camp in Amman, Jordan	3

Interstitial position or ‘bastard’ status? Interpreters at the French National Court of Asylum	3
Making mistakes in ethnography	3
Love and agency in ethnographic fieldwork with children	3
From strangers to families?: Post-reunion kin relationships in Spanish-Nepali adoptions	3
Presence from another world. An ethnography on paranormal investigation and the social interaction with ghosts	3
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan	3
‘Say it in Swedish!’: Babies, belonging and multilingualism in an integration initiative activity in Sweden	3
BROAD DATA: Ethnographic methods in the age of interdisciplinary collaboration	3
Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka	2
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India	2
Rapping our reality: Young people approaching the Haitian future in the subjunctive	2
The gaze in tourism settings: An ethnographical approach above and beyond the theory of the tourist gaze	2
Fostering contemplative ethnographers: A tale of fieldwork ethics, vulnerability, and trauma in neoliberal academia	2
‘We have something in common … it’s true’: Reflections on the politics and practice of solidarities in and through ethnographic co-research	2
Learning to (depoliticize) critique: Critical knowledge and the formation of elite habitus in a predominantly White institution	2
Chop money life: Joblessness, unretirement, and dependence among transport workers in urban Ghana	2
“We are simply being pressed out, slowly but surely” - Unhoused peoples’ experience with exclusionary design	2
“Why should we have to eat the chicken’s butt?” - Everyday consumption, deservingness and inclusion in rural Hungary	2
The activism of young muslims in Italy: Citizens ‘crossing borders’ in search of recognition	2
Affective encounters with waste: The role of affects in trash activism	2
Walking the streets: Embodied experiences of place making in Old Bhopal, India	2
Time and the remains of war: Retazos of morgues and minefields in Colombia	2
The challenges of reciprocity: Access, uncertainty, and politics	2
Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil	2
Field notes from the margins: Rethinking ethnographic presence through interpretive transcription and online interviewing	2
Sacrificial heroes: Masculinity, class, and waste picking in Iran	2
America materialis: Things and meaning in a donation warehouse	2
Beyond Big Brother: How to Study Tech-Driven Authoritarianism With Restricted Access to State Institutions	2
Institutional adaptation of managerialism in Chinese higher education: A faculty-centered ethnographic analysis of everyday practices	2