Most-cited Arts and Humanities papers of 2018, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Arts and Humanities research papers published in 2018, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
   George Christopher Williams · 2018 · 2,780 citations
2. The SCARE 2018 statement: Updating consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) guidelines
   Riaz Agha, Mimi Rosealie Borrelli et al. · 2018 · 2,336 citations
3. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
   Felix Haas · 2018 · 1,121 citations
4. ECHO CHAMBERS AND EPISTEMIC BUBBLES
   C. Thi Nguyen · 2018 · 1,095 citations
5. Multiple Temporalities of Language and Body in Interaction: Challenges for Transcribing Multimodality
   Lorenza Mondada · 2018 · 1,057 citations
6. Goals and practicalities of immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry: A guide for submission to the British Journal of Pharmacology
   Steve P H Alexander, Richard E. Roberts et al. · 2018 · 890 citations
7. Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene: Ancestral dystopias and fantasies of climate change crises
   Kyle Powys Whyte · 2018 · 775 citations
8. Discourses Concerning Government
   Algernon Sidney · 2018 · 653 citations
9. Collective Trauma and the Social Construction of Meaning
   Gilad Hirschberger · 2018 · 574 citations · Free PDF
10. 1479 Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire
    Cara New Daggett · 2018 · 501 citations
11. Interactional Linguistics: Studying Language in Social Interaction
    Elizabeth Couper‐Kuhlen, Margret Selting · 2018 · 487 citations
12. Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence
    Gabrielle Hecht · 2018 · 483 citations
13. Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage
    David Mosse · 2018 · 480 citations
14. Cultural additivity: behavioural insights from the interaction of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in folktales
    Quan‐Hoang Vuong, Quang-Khiem Bui et al. · 2018 · 474 citations · Free PDF
15. Motivation, Emotion, Learning Experience, and Second Language Comprehensibility Development in Classroom Settings: A Cross‐Sectional and Longitudinal Study
    Kazuya Saito, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. · 2018 · 425 citations
16. Does the effect of enjoyment outweigh that of anxiety in foreign language performance?
    Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Mateb Alfawzan · 2018 · 418 citations · Free PDF
17. The Promises, Challenges, and Futures of Media Literacy
    Monica Bulger, Patrick Davison · 2018 · 418 citations
18. Measuring Syntactic Complexity in L2 Writing Using Fine‐Grained Clausal and Phrasal Indices
    Kristopher Kyle, Scott A. Crossley · 2018 · 401 citations
19. Making a difference: Language teaching for intercultural and international dialogue
    Michael Byram, Manuela Maria Wagner · 2018 · 390 citations
20. A General Critical Discourse Analysis Framework for Educational Research
    Dianna R. Mullet · 2018 · 386 citations
21. Mechanistic models versus machine learning, a fight worth fighting for the biological community?
    Ruth E. Baker, José-María Peña et al. · 2018 · 380 citations
22. Interaction and instructed second language acquisition
    Shawn Loewen, Masatoshi Sato · 2018 · 374 citations · Free PDF
23. Enjoyment and anxiety in second language communication: An idiodynamic approach
    Carmen Boudreau, Peter D. MacIntyre et al. · 2018 · 360 citations · Free PDF
24. ‘Personal data literacies’: A critical literacies approach to enhancing understandings of personal digital data
    Luci Pangrazio, Neil Selwyn · 2018 · 347 citations
25. Representation of Real-World Event Schemas during Narrative Perception
    Christopher A. Baldassano, Uri Hasson et al. · 2018 · 345 citations · Free PDF

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