Most-cited Arts and Humanities papers of 2016, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Arts and Humanities research papers published in 2016, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
   Andreas Malm · 2016 · 1,390 citations
2. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
   Paul Bloom · 2016 · 1,012 citations
3. The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
   Benjamin H. Bratton · 2016 · 782 citations
4. Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body in social interaction
   Lorenza Mondada · 2016 · 765 citations
5. Exploring Engagement in Tasks in the Language Classroom
   Jenefer Philp, Susan Duchesne · 2016 · 737 citations · Free PDF
6. On "deep and surface anaphora"
   Eunice De Souza Lima Pontes · 2016 · 684 citations
7. A discussion of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso, 1985).
   Allen D. Hunter · 2016 · 667 citations
8. The NIMH Research Domain Criteria Initiative: Background, Issues, and Pragmatics
   Michael J. Kozak, Bruce N. Cuthbert · 2016 · 662 citations
9. Assessing the Gold Standard — Lessons from the History of RCTs
   Laura E. Bothwell, Jeremy A. Greene et al. · 2016 · 662 citations
10. Meta-analytic evidence for the persuasive effect of narratives on beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors
    Kurt H. Braddock, James Price Dillard · 2016 · 569 citations
11. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001
    Kanavillil Rajagopalan · 2016 · 554 citations
12. Technology in Language Use, Language Teaching, and Language Learning
    Dorothy M. Chun, Richard Kern et al. · 2016 · 526 citations
13. Renaissance Quarterly
    2016 · 505 citations
14. What is sustainable fashion?
    Claudia Elisabeth Henninger, Panayiota Alevizou et al. · 2016 · 499 citations · Free PDF
15. Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackLivesMatter
    Guobin Yang · 2016 · 498 citations
16. Editor’s Comments: Developing Propositions, a Process Model, or a Typology? Addressing the Challenges of Writing Theory Without a Boilerplate
    Joep Cornelissen · 2016 · 491 citations
17. Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context
    Paul Dourish · 2016 · 485 citations
18. Global patterns in the publishing of academic knowledge: Global North, global South
    Fran M Collyer · 2016 · 470 citations
19. Theorizing Affordances: From Request to Refuse
    Jenny L. Davis, James B. Chouinard · 2016 · 470 citations
20. The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology
    Carson T. Schütze · 2016 · 468 citations
21. ESL Learners' Writing Skills: Problems, Factors and Suggestions
    Muhammad Fareed, Almas Ashraf et al. · 2016 · 457 citations
22. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History
    William Whewell · 2016 · 456 citations
23. The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
    John Robert McNeill · 2016 · 444 citations
24. The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing: Experimental Evidence from The American Economic Review
    Rebecca M. Blank · 2016 · 437 citations
25. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
    Timothy Morton · 2016 · 437 citations

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