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This year, our journals published almost 800 articles, garnering more than 2.1 million views! We’d like to thank all of the authors, reviewers, editors, and readers who helped us produce and share this work.
Below is a list of the most-read article published in each journal in 2025, but be sure to visit each journal’s homepage to see all of the incredible pieces that have come out over the past year!
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production
Jordi Armani Rivera Prince, Emily M. Blackwood, Madeleine Landrum, Emily B. P. Milton, Elizabeth L. Rodgers, Monica Barnes, Elizabeth Chin, Christa Craven, Kristina Douglass, María José Figuerero Torres, María A. Gutiérrez, Sarah Herr, Lisa Hodgetts, Kirk A. Maasch, Kylie E. Quave, Danilyn Rutherford, Daniel H. Sandweiss
I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists
Hugh Gusterson
Alejandro Echeverria
Affirming children’s dignity in their affective flow in play-based science inquiry
Christine Lee, Tessaly Jen, Sarah Lee, D. Teo Keifert, Noel Enyedy
Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas
Dylan H. O’Brien
Reports of non-physical beings assisting in reiki sessions
Helané Wahbeh, Beth Glick, Juliette Gallo, Garret Yount
“Activism was a survival strategy”: Chronic illness and the power of endometriosis activism as work
Anika König, Caroline Meier zu Biesen
The disappearance of urban horses and the rise of homelessness and mental illness
Vincent Laliberté
Religious afterlives of a revolution
Amira Mittermaier
Developing the Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project
Hanna Garth, Tessa Desmond, Kimberly Jackson, Gloria Wade Gayles, Holly Smith, Bonnetta Adeeb, E. Fatimah Hassan, Christian Keeve, JahAsia Jacobs, Ayluonne Tereszkiewicz, Justice Madden
Heangjin Park
Séamus A. Power, Crystal Shackleford, Friedolin Merhout, Richard A. Shweder
Megan A. Carney
Russian late-liberalism: Notes hierarchy, responsibility, and legally ownerless dogs
Xenia Cherkaev
The tentacles of surveillance: Cephalopods and United States satellite intelligence
Andrew Bickford
Popularizing autogestión: Punk, Zapatismo, and anarchist ethics in Mexico City
Livia K. Stone
Archie Crowley
Adeola Oni-Orisan, Sheyda M. Aboii, Ugo Felicia Edu
De-hoarding the museum: Repatriation and the “loss” of collections
Krystiana L. Krupa
Property and the matter of belonging
LaShandra Sullivan, Meghan Morris, Gregory Duff Morton, Lee Cabatingan
Voicing silences in the colonial photographic archive
Paul Basu
