OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Sociologica is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in tertiary education	20
How to work with Niklas Luhmann? A practical guide	19
Care for thy neighbour: A study of neighbours’ caregiving intentions by likelihood of reciprocity and previous caregiving experience	12
Scientification of politics or politicisation of science? Parliamentary committee hearings on the Finnish alcohol policy reforms in 1994 and 2017 as epistemic work	11
Book Review: Inside Digital Advertising: Platforms, Power, and Material Politics by Donald MacKenzie and Koray Caliskan MacKenzieDonaldCaliskanKoray, Ins	10
Universalism in flux – Welfare profit-makers’ views towards the institution of welfare universalism	9
Book Review: Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation by Roland Paulsen PaulsenRoland, Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation. New York: Routledge, 202	9
Formal commitments versus actual practices? Narratives as tools of epistemic governance in the debate over Finnish forestry	8
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis: An interactionist analysis of ethnic minority parents’ fears of child welfare services	8
Cultural dispositions and economic choice: How field-specific logics shape ‘rational’ economic behaviour	7
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence	7
Book Review: The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion	6
Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership	6
Adaptability versus resistance: Strategies for emergency remote education amid COVID-19 in Swedish higher education	6
Emergent numeracy: How the crowd wisdom of non-rounding survey respondents generates accurate immigration estimates	6
Does the left still own social policies? The effect of incumbent partisanship on citizens’ perceptions of public spending in Spain	5
Book Review: The Racialized Social System	5
Work–family conflict: A classed phenomenon?	5
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats	5
Center-based formal childcare closes gaps, others may widen them: How childcare arrangements shape early educational inequality	5
Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate	5
Social investment in action: From policy vision to everyday realities	4
Divorce risk and political distrust: Gendered consequences of couple instability	4
Book Review: The New Handbook of Political Sociology	4
Unraveling the role of material conditions in eco-habitus: Studying eco-friendly energy practices across social classes	4

From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance	4
Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology	4
Towards ‘augmented sociology’? A practice-oriented framework for using large language model-powered chatbots	3
The neglected organisation of failure: Activities, infrastructures and subjectivities	3
Are general skills important for vocationally educated?	3
Book Review: Post-Democracy: After the Crises	3
Planning for the future in the shadow of the polycrisis: Young women's uncertain transitions to adulthood	3
A need to be recognised: On the importance of shared semantics for young adults while not in education or employment	3
Book Review: Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry	3
Private surveillance in public spaces: A new mode of policing and surveillance in Sweden	3
Woke/anti-woke dynamics in Norway, 2014–2023	3
Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization: Crime and local institutions, the case of the UK	3
Balancing acts of kindness: Reassessing the relationship between informal helping and formal volunteering	3
Searching for lasting biculturalism: An Imitation Game inquiry	3
Researching high-skilled migrants between social stratification and methodological nationalism	3
Radical right support and the deepened rural-urban and educational divides among younger generations	3
Book Review: COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities	3
Of babies, bathwater, and big data: Going beneath the surface of Franzén’s (2023) Google Trends recommendations	3
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory DunajĽubomír, SmithJeremy, and MertelKurt (eds.), Civilization, Modernity, a	3
Book Review: The Origins of Human Social Nature: Westermarckian Sociology and Social Anthropology by Otto Pipatti PipattiOtto, The Origins of Human Socia	2
Book Review: Nature-Made Economy. Cod, Capitalization, and the Great Economization of the Ocean by Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse AsdalKristinHuseTone, Na	2
Who thinks ideologically about welfare state reform? Partisanship and attitude consistency in politicians’ and mass public perceptions about the consequences of welfare service privatization in Sweden	2
Dark resonance: On the possibility of resonance with death	2
Multiple jeopardy, national wealth and perceived discrimination: Subjective health of intersecting minority groups across 28 countries	2
The effect of positive feedback on primary school students’ academic self-concept: Gender heterogeneity in a light-touch randomized intervention	2
Beyond rational choice: A neo-Bourdieusian gravity model of social practice	2
Selective re-partnering? Mental health and life satisfaction among separated single mothers in Germany and the UK	2
Rally around the flag? Explaining changes in Swedish public opinion toward NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine	2
Book Review: Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools	2
The role of education and social background in the changing political involvement of adolescents – a comparative approach	2
After the organization: Symbolic capital and negative expert knowledge in post-whistleblowing careers	2
Entrenched and unequal at the top: Brazilian capitalism and the social space of its corporate elite	2
Book Review: Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden	2
Book Review: Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science by Besnik Pula PulaBesnik, Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Int	2
Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?	2
Book Review: Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution	2
We the elite, they the people: Educational identity and perceived polarisation	2
Book Review: War, Survival Units and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Process-Relational Perspective	2
Group formation and social structure: On networks and identities	2
Big data, big problems: Why scientists should refrain from using Google Trends	2