Most cited papers in Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
What are the most cited papers in Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies?
The most cited paper in Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies is "Professional Vision" (Charles Goodwin, 1994), with 3,090 citations. Next come "Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight" (1,127) and "Verbal Art as Performance1" (1,124).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 84 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Professional Vision Charles Goodwin · American Anthropologist | Sep 1994 | 3,090 |
| 2 | Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight Clifford Geertz · Daedalus | Sep 2005 | 1,127 |
| 3 | Verbal Art as Performance1 Richard W Bauman · American Anthropologist | Jun 1975 | 1,124 |
| 4 | The mommy myth the idealization of motherhood and how it has undermined all women Susan Jane Douglas, Meredith W. Michaels | 2005 | 730 |
| 5 | The Socio‐Cultural Context of Rape: A Cross‐Cultural Study Peggy Reeves Sanday · Journal of Social Issues | Oct 1981 | 567 |
| 6 | The Cheese and the Worms. The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller Carlo Ginzburg, John A. Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi et al. · Renaissance and Reformation | 31 Dec 1969 | 506 |
| 7 | Genomic and archaeological evidence suggest a dual origin of domestic dogs Laurent Frantz et al. · Science | 2 Jun 2016 | 469 |
| 8 | Journal of Folklore Research Ray B. Browne · The Journal of American Culture | Jun 2009 | 436 |
| 9 | Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750 Rudolf Schmid, Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park · Taxon | Aug 1998 | 399 |
| 10 | Genetic relationship of populations in China Jiayou Chu, Wei Huang, Sulan Kuang et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 29 Sep 1998 | 397 |
| 11 | Chinese and European American Cultural Models of the Self Reflected in Mothers' Childrearing Beliefs Ruth K. Chao · Ethos | Sep 1995 | 391 |
| 12 | ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BODY Rosemary A. Joyce · Annual Review of Anthropology | 16 Jun 2005 | 385 |
| 13 | The laws of sympathetic magic Paul N. Rozin, Carol J. Nemeroff · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 26 Jan 1990 | 379 |
| 14 | Rumor, Gossip and Urban Legends Nicholas DiFonzo, Prashant Bordia · Diogenes | Feb 2007 | 356 |
| 15 | performance and the cultural construction of reality Edward L. Schieffelin · American Ethnologist | Nov 1985 | 322 |
| 16 | Family Rituals Steven J. Wolin, Linda A. Bennett · Family Process | Sep 1984 | 265 |
| 17 | The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny Glynn Custred · Journal of American Folklore | 2018 | 254 |
| 18 | Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation David W. Edgington · Pacific Affairs | Mar 1999 | 245 |
| 19 | Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature John Allen Paulos, Susan Stewart · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1980 | 232 |
| 20 | The Tribe Called Wannabee: Playing Indian in America and Europe Rayna Green · Folklore | 1988 | 229 |
| 21 | ‘Nasty neighbours’ rather than ‘dear enemies’ in a social carnivore Corsin A. Müller, Marta B. Manser · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 16 Jan 2007 | 227 |
| 22 | Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500–1800 Elizabeth Phillipa Neale · Ethnomusicology | May 2011 | 206 |
| 23 | Explaining wartime rape Jonathan Gottschall · The Journal of Sex Research | May 2004 | 204 |
| 24 | The History of Farm Foxes Undermines the Animal Domestication Syndrome Kathryn A. Lord, Greger Larson, Raymond Coppinger et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 3 Dec 2019 | 202 |
| 25 | The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood Jamshid Johari Tehrani · PLoS ONE | 13 Nov 2013 | 202 |
| 26 | The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool Joscha Gretzinger et al. · Nature | 21 Sep 2022 | 192 |
| 27 | Training Disadvantaged Preschoolers on Various Fantasy Activities: Effects on Cognitive Functioning and Impulse Control Eli Saltz, David J. Dixon, James E. Johnson · Child Development | Jun 1977 | 191 |
| 28 | Evaluating the roles of directed breeding and gene flow in animal domestication Fiona B. Marshall, Keith M. Dobney, Tim P. Denham et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 21 Apr 2014 | 186 |
| 29 | Children's Literature Comes of Age: Toward a New Aesthetic Maria Nikolajeva | 1996 | 180 |
| 30 | Knuckle-Walking and the Problem of Human Origins Russell H. Tuttle · Science | 21 Nov 1969 | 172 |
| 31 | Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities Tara Browner · American Anthropologist | 20 Aug 2005 | 160 |
| 32 | Comments on Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking Carl G. Hempel · Synthese | Oct 1980 | 160 |
| 33 | Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technologies of Enchantment Eric Gable · Visual Anthropology Review | Mar 2002 | 155 |
| 34 | The cultural model of “the good farmer” and the environmental question in Finland Tiina Silvasti · Agriculture and Human Values | Jun 2003 | 155 |
| 35 | Digital Arabs Vít Šisler · European Journal of Cultural Studies | 15 Apr 2008 | 152 |
| 36 | The phylogeny of The Canterbury Tales Adrian C. Barbrook, Christopher J. Howe, Norman F. Blake et al. · Nature | 27 Aug 1998 | 152 |
| 37 | American Myth, American Reality Gene M. Gressley, James Oliver Robertson · Western Historical Quarterly | Jul 1982 | 151 |
| 38 | Ancient Genomes Reveal Yamnaya-Related Ancestry and a Potential Source of Indo-European Speakers in Iron Age Tianshan Chao Ning, Chuan‐Chao Wang, Shizhu Gao et al. · Current Biology | 25 Jul 2019 | 147 |
| 39 | MENARCHE AND THE (HETERO)SEXUALIZATION OF THE FEMALE BODY Janet S. Lee · Gender & Society | Sep 1994 | 146 |
| 40 | Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice: Beyond Representation and Meaning Bruce Kapferer · Social Analysis | 2004 | 144 |
| 41 | Thought Styles: Critical Essays on Good Taste. Christoph Brumann, Mary Douglas · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Mar 1998 | 141 |
| 42 | A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland Laoise Teresa Moore, Brian McEvoy, Eleanor Cape et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics | 6 Jan 2006 | 140 |
| 43 | The Nature of Play: Great Apes and Humans Khalisa Herman · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | Nov 2006 | 140 |
| 44 | Interestingness of children's reading material Richard C. Anderson, Larry L. Shirey, Paul T. Wilson et al. · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | Sep 1984 | 139 |
| 45 | The Acultural Dimensions of Chronic Pain: Flawed Reality Construction and the Problem of Meaning Richard A. Hilbert · Social Problems | Apr 1984 | 134 |
| 46 | Narrative as Social Practice: Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal Oral Traditions Gunter Senft · Journal of Pragmatics | 28 Dec 2005 | 133 |
| 47 | Distinctive African American Names: An Experimental, Historical, and Linguistic Analysis of Innovation Stanley Lieberson, Kelly S. Mikelson · American Sociological Review | Dec 1995 | 132 |
| 48 | The Vore Site, 48Ck302, A Stratified Buffalo Jump In The Wyoming Black Hills Charles A. Reher, George C. Frison · Plains Anthropologist | May 1980 | 132 |
| 49 | The Use of Dolls to Interview Young Children: Issues of Symbolic Representation Judy S. DeLoache, Donald P. Marzolf · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | Aug 1995 | 131 |
| 50 | The ‘Parson's Tale’ and the Quitting of the ‘Canterbury Tales’ Lee W. Patterson · Traditio | 1978 | 130 |
Citations are OpenAlex's own counts, from its 2026-09-23 snapshot, so the ranking can differ from Google Scholar or Web of Science. A paper is listed for a field when OpenAlex files it under one of the field's topics; retracted papers and papers whose citation count cannot be traced to citing works are left out, and a preprint and the article it became are shown once. Release dates are OpenAlex's: where a source gave only a month or a year, that is what is shown. How the lists are chosen.