Subfield · Anthropology
Most cited papers in Anthropology
What are the most cited papers in Anthropology?
The most cited paper in Anthropology is "IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP" (Paula J Reimer et al., 2010), with 10,058 citations. Next come "Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography" (7,717) and "A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome" (4,626).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,213 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP Paula J Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon | 2010 | 10,058 |
| 2 | Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography George E. Marcus · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 1995 | 7,717 |
| 3 | A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome Richard Edward Green et al. · Science | 6 May 2010 | 4,626 |
| 4 | Geology of mankind Paul J. Crutzen · Nature | 3 Jan 2002 | 4,513 |
| 5 | The Last Glacial Maximum Peter U. Clark, Arthur S. Dyke, Jeremy D. Shakun et al. · Science | 7 Aug 2009 | 3,661 |
| 6 | Strategy and Structure: Lynn Harold Vogel, Irma Patterson · Administration in Social Work | 18 Jul 1986 | 3,529 |
| 7 | Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference Akhil Gupta, JAMES G. FERGUSON · Cultural Anthropology | Feb 1992 | 3,466 |
| 8 | A High-Resolution Absolute-Dated Late Pleistocene Monsoon Record from Hulu Cave, China Yujia Wang, Hai Cheng, Richard Lawrence Edwards et al. · Science | 14 Dec 2001 | 3,280 |
| 9 | Ancient Admixture in Human History Nick Patterson, Priya Moorjani, Yontao Luo et al. · Genetics | 8 Sep 2012 | 3,251 |
| 10 | Organizational Culture: Can It Be a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage? Jay Bryan Barney · Academy of Management Review | Jul 1986 | 3,152 |
| 11 | Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering Anna K. Behrensmeyer · Paleobiology | 1978 | 2,900 |
| 12 | Post-glacial re-colonization of European biota Godfrey M. Hewitt · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | Sep 1999 | 2,876 |
| 13 | Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties Sherry B. Ortner · Comparative Studies in Society and History | 1984 | 2,866 |
| 14 | Beyond “identity” Rogers Brubaker, Frederick Cooper · Theory and Society | Feb 2000 | 2,845 |
| 15 | The temporality of the landscape Tim Ingold · World Archaeology | Oct 1993 | 2,759 |
| 16 | Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years Jean-Noël Jouzel et al. · Science | 5 Jul 2007 | 2,743 |
| 17 | The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior Sally McBrearty, Alison S. Brooks · Journal of Human Evolution | Nov 2000 | 2,725 |
| 18 | Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality JAMES G. FERGUSON, Akhil Gupta · American Ethnologist | Nov 2002 | 2,670 |
| 19 | Willow Smoke and Dogs’ Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation Lewis R. Binford · American Antiquity | 1980 | 2,646 |
| 20 | Holocene climate variability Paul A. Mayewski, Eelco E. Rohling, Jay Curt Stager et al. · Quaternary Research | 21 Oct 2004 | 2,636 |
| 21 | Research methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and quantitative approaches Peter W. Van Arsdale · Evaluation Practice | Dec 1996 | 2,560 |
| 22 | The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology Nancy Scheper‐Hughes, Margaret M. Lock · Medical Anthropology Quarterly | Mar 1987 | 2,542 |
| 23 | ADOPTION OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICE BY SUBSIDIARIES OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: INSTITUTIONAL AND RELATIONAL EFFECTS. Tatiana Kostova, K. F. Roth · Academy of Management Journal | Feb 2002 | 2,528 |
| 24 | OPTICAL DATING OF SINGLE AND MULTIPLE GRAINS OF QUARTZ FROM JINMIUM ROCK SHELTER, NORTHERN AUSTRALIA: PART I, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND STATISTICAL MODELS* R. F. Galbraith, Richard G. Roberts, G.M. Laslett et al. · Archaeometry | Aug 1999 | 2,522 |
| 25 | blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state Akhil Gupta · American Ethnologist | May 1995 | 2,515 |
| 26 | National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity Among Scholars and Refugees Liisa H. Malkki · Cultural Anthropology | Feb 1992 | 2,491 |
| 27 | The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains Kay Prüfer et al. · Nature | 18 Dec 2013 | 2,458 |
| 28 | Radiocarbon Calibration and Analysis of Stratigraphy: The OxCal Program Christopher Bronk Ramsey · Radiocarbon | 1995 | 2,444 |
| 29 | Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom Walter D. Mignolo · Theory Culture & Society | Dec 2009 | 2,336 |
| 30 | Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples Sara Johansson · Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development | 30 May 2013 | 2,334 |
| 31 | the romance of resistance: tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women Lila Abu‐Lughod · American Ethnologist | Feb 1990 | 2,329 |
| 32 | An Anthropology of Structural Violence Paul Farmer · Current Anthropology | 24 May 2004 | 2,294 |
| 33 | geomorph: an r package for the collection and analysis of geometric morphometric shape data Dean C. Adams, Erik Otárola‐Castillo · Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 25 Jan 2013 | 2,247 |
| 34 | THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY Eben Kirksey, Stefan Helmreich · Cultural Anthropology | 13 Oct 2010 | 2,243 |
| 35 | Methods and code for ‘classical’ age-modelling of radiocarbon sequences Maarten Blaauw · Quaternary Geochronology | 9 Feb 2010 | 2,238 |
| 36 | Is the Resource-Based “View” a Useful Perspective for Strategic Management Research? Yes Jay Bryan Barney · Academy of Management Review | 2001 | 2,230 |
| 37 | Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge Arun Agrawal · Development and Change | Jul 1995 | 2,190 |
| 38 | The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World John Borneman · American Anthropologist | 20 Aug 2005 | 2,173 |
| 39 | A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual Matthias Meyer et al. · Science | Sep 2012 | 2,157 |
| 40 | Anthropology in the Margins of the State Robert M. Hayden · American Anthropologist | Dec 2005 | 2,075 |
| 41 | Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia David Emil Reich et al. · Nature | Dec 2010 | 2,049 |
| 42 | Strategy‐making and environment: The third link Danny L. Miller, Peter H. Friesen · Strategic Management Journal | Jul 1983 | 1,993 |
| 43 | IS SLACK GOOD OR BAD FOR INNOVATION? Nitin Nohria, Ranjay Gulati · Academy of Management Journal | Oct 1996 | 1,967 |
| 44 | Alliances in Industrial Purchasing: The Determinants of Joint Action in Buyer-Supplier Relationships Jan B. Heide, George John · Journal of Marketing Research | Feb 1990 | 1,921 |
| 45 | CONFIGURATIONAL APPROACHES TO ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS. Alan D. Meyer, Anne S. Y. Tsui, C. R. Hinings · Academy of Management Journal | Dec 1993 | 1,916 |
| 46 | Preparation and characterization of bone and tooth collagen for isotopic analysis Stanley H. Ambrose · Journal of Archaeological Science | Jul 1990 | 1,873 |
| 47 | Diasporas James Lowry Clifford · Cultural Anthropology | Aug 1994 | 1,871 |
| 48 | An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word For Colonialism Zoe Todd · Journal of Historical Sociology | Mar 2016 | 1,856 |
| 49 | mapDamage2.0: fast approximate Bayesian estimates of ancient DNA damage parameters Hákon Jónsson, Aurélien Ginolhac, Mikkel Schubert et al. · Bioinformatics | 23 Apr 2013 | 1,831 |
| 50 | Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal Sherry B. Ortner · Comparative Studies in Society and History | 1995 | 1,820 |
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