OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Perspectives is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the Impact of Women’s Representation on the Professional Careers of Women of Color	17
Internal Migration and Cohabitation in China: A Mixed-method Study	15
Fear and Stigma: How Undocumented Students Navigate Disclosure Amid Heightened Immigration Enforcement and Rising Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	12
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach	11
Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions	10
Centering the Most Marginalized: Black Women Movement Actors and Misogynoir in the Movement for Black Lives	9
Families and Financial Support: Comparing Black and Asian American College Students	9
The U.S. Space of Lifestyles and Its Homologies	8
Worth Less? Exploring the Effects of Subminimum Wages on Poverty among U.S. Hourly Workers	8
PSA Presidential Address: The New Normal and the Redefinition of Deviance	7
Racial Structural Conditions and Anti-Asian Hate Crimes	7
Spillover Effects of Restrictive Immigration Policy on Latinx Citizens: Raising or Lowering Earnings?	6
Connecting Spaces: Gender, Video Games and Computing in the Early Teens	6
“Longer than I Would’ve Originally Liked and Originally Thought”: Postsecondary Debt and Marriage Plans for Young Adults Coming of Age in the Great Recession	6
Controlling Defiance: An Examination of School Social Control in California School Districts	6
Boundary-making in Conservation: The Configuration of Environmental Ontologies in the Andean Páramos	6
Sociologists and the Clinic: The Advent of Racialized Gender in Intersex/Trans Medicine	6
Polarization and Persuasion: Engaging Sociology in the Moral Universe of a Divided Democracy	5
Intersectionality and Dependency Lenses in Neonatal Mortality: Evidence of Regional, Residential, and Socioeconomic Inequalities from Post-colonial Tanzania, 1991–2016	5
Toward Queer Anti-nationalist Belonging: LGBTQ+ Immigrants, Assimilation, and Transnational Attachments	5
Mental Illness and the Resilience of Deviance	5
“Because He’s My Baby”: The Role of Birth Order in How Mothers Explain Favoritism Toward Adult Children	5
Disentangling Social Class–based Inequality: How Social Position Affects Evaluations of Economic and Cultural Markers of Social Class	5
Threat, Latinx Racialization, and Grassroots Leadership: Understanding Mobilization in Southern California’s Anti-Gang Injunction Movement	5
American Medical Sociology and Health Problems in the Global South	5

Body Size and Well-being in Adolescents: The Roles of Bullying Victimization and Body Image	5
The Allure of Transactional Intimacy in Sugar Dating	5
Becoming a Survivor? Identity Creation Post-violence	4
Sources of Mattering for Women and Men: Gender Differences and Similarities in Feelings of Social Significance	4
Marginal Gentrification and Racial Capitalism in a Post-chocolate City	4
Secrets as Storytelling: Family Histories and Interpersonal Intimacy	4