# 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2415597115) · 1,390 citations
2. [Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2798520127) · 1,012 citations
3. [The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2406607025) · 782 citations
4. [Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body in social interaction](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2464690791) · 765 citations
5. [Exploring Engagement in Tasks in the Language Classroom](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2315740750) · 737 citations · Free PDF
6. [On "deep and surface anaphora"](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2331260012) · 684 citations
7. [A discussion of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso, 1985).](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2404133002) · 667 citations
8. [The NIMH Research Domain Criteria Initiative: Background, Issues, and Pragmatics](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2278265690) · 662 citations
9. [Assessing the Gold Standard — Lessons from the History of RCTs](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2413861456) · 662 citations
10. [Meta-analytic evidence for the persuasive effect of narratives on beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2293452863) · 569 citations
11. [Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2507704800) · 554 citations
12. [Technology in Language Use, Language Teaching, and Language Learning](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2293736253) · 526 citations
13. [Renaissance Quarterly](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4245038980) · 505 citations
14. [What is sustainable fashion?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2395089532) · 499 citations · Free PDF
15. [Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackLivesMatter](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2514696358) · 498 citations
16. [Editor’s Comments: Developing Propositions, a Process Model, or a Typology? Addressing the Challenges of Writing Theory Without a Boilerplate](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2471545370) · 491 citations
17. [Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2517842678) · 485 citations
18. [Global patterns in the publishing of academic knowledge: Global North, global South](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2549421751) · 470 citations
19. [Theorizing Affordances: From Request to Refuse](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2625444930) · 470 citations
20. [The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2024988999) · 468 citations
21. [ESL Learners' Writing Skills: Problems, Factors and Suggestions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2565251468) · 457 citations
22. [The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1548825708) · 456 citations
23. [The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2798698960) · 444 citations
24. [The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing: Experimental Evidence from The American Economic Review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1536128219) · 437 citations
25. [Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2521517147) · 437 citations

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