# 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1480083809) · 2,780 citations
2. [The SCARE 2018 statement: Updating consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) guidelines](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2897748473) · 2,336 citations
3. [Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4302325760) · 1,121 citations
4. [ECHO CHAMBERS AND EPISTEMIC BUBBLES](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2890058952) · 1,095 citations
5. [Multiple Temporalities of Language and Body in Interaction: Challenges for Transcribing Multimodality](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2793998950) · 1,057 citations
6. [Goals and practicalities of immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry: A guide for submission to the British Journal of Pharmacology](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2792530460) · 890 citations
7. [Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene: Ancestral dystopias and fantasies of climate change crises](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2807026069) · 775 citations
8. [Discourses Concerning Government](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1505441735) · 653 citations
9. [Collective Trauma and the Social Construction of Meaning](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2887116766) · 574 citations · Free PDF
10. [1479 Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2809174364) · 501 citations
11. [Interactional Linguistics: Studying Language in Social Interaction](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2990698409) · 487 citations
12. [Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2791261394) · 483 citations
13. [Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2808869140) · 480 citations
14. [Cultural additivity: behavioural insights from the interaction of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in folktales](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2902417118) · 474 citations · Free PDF
15. [Motivation, Emotion, Learning Experience, and Second Language Comprehensibility Development in Classroom Settings: A Cross‐Sectional and Longitudinal Study](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2786367559) · 425 citations
16. [Does the effect of enjoyment outweigh that of anxiety in foreign language performance?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2795088672) · 418 citations · Free PDF
17. [The Promises, Challenges, and Futures of Media Literacy](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2801480010) · 418 citations
18. [Measuring Syntactic Complexity in L2 Writing Using Fine‐Grained Clausal and Phrasal Indices](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2790130598) · 401 citations
19. [Making a difference: Language teaching for intercultural and international dialogue](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2785078620) · 390 citations
20. [A General Critical Discourse Analysis Framework for Educational Research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2794426459) · 386 citations
21. [Mechanistic models versus machine learning, a fight worth fighting for the biological community?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2804500674) · 380 citations
22. [Interaction and instructed second language acquisition](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2804104977) · 374 citations · Free PDF
23. [Enjoyment and anxiety in second language communication: An idiodynamic approach](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2794714523) · 360 citations · Free PDF
24. [‘Personal data literacies’: A critical literacies approach to enhancing understandings of personal digital data](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2891266252) · 347 citations
25. [Representation of Real-World Event Schemas during Narrative Perception](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2950457889) · 345 citations · Free PDF

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