OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Sociologica is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How to work with Niklas Luhmann? A practical guide	19
From artistic consecration to degradation: The case of Sven Hassel	17
Scientification of politics or politicisation of science? Parliamentary committee hearings on the Finnish alcohol policy reforms in 1994 and 2017 as epistemic work	12
Professional talk on cybervetting: Accounting for a contested practise	9
A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in tertiary education	9
Ambivalent perceptions of the Other: Towards a dual-process sociology of intercultural relations	8
Political changemakers in Norway: The strategies and political ideas of welfare providers	8
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis: An interactionist analysis of ethnic minority parents’ fears of child welfare services	7
How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state?	7
Formal commitments versus actual practices? Narratives as tools of epistemic governance in the debate over Finnish forestry	5
The impact of the parental division of paid labour on depressive symptoms: The moderating role of social policies	5
Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership	5
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence	5
Book Review: The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion	4
Emergent numeracy: How the crowd wisdom of non-rounding survey respondents generates accurate immigration estimates	4
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats	4
Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States	4
Book Review: Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries	3
Book Review: Civic Engagement in Scandinavia: Volunteering, Informal Help and Giving in Denmark, Norway and Sweden	3
Book Review: The Racialized Social System	3
Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate	3
Work–family conflict: A classed phenomenon?	3
Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology	2
Book Review: Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry	2
Are general skills important for vocationally educated?	2

Towards ‘augmented sociology’? A practice-oriented framework for using large language model-powered chatbots	2
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory DunajĽubomír, SmithJeremy, and MertelKurt (eds.), Civilization, Modernity, and Criti	2
Book Review: COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities	2
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance	2
Researching high-skilled migrants between social stratification and methodological nationalism	2
Planning for the future in the shadow of the polycrisis: Young women's uncertain transitions to adulthood	2
Of babies, bathwater, and big data: Going beneath the surface of Franzén’s (2023) Google Trends recommendations	2
Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization: Crime and local institutions, the case of the UK	2
Book Review: The New Handbook of Political Sociology	2
The neglected organisation of failure: Activities, infrastructures and subjectivities	2
Book Review: Post-Democracy: After the Crises	2
When Baehr met Steffen: Appraising classicality through the lens of neglect	2
A need to be recognised: On the importance of shared semantics for young adults while not in education or employment	2
Book Review: Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities	1
Big data, big problems: Why scientists should refrain from using Google Trends	1
Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?	1
Social background and school track choice: An analysis informed by the rational choice framework	1
Book Review: Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution	1
Labour market disadvantage or poor health upon arrival? An examination of the native–immigrant gap in early retirement on a disability pension	1
From worker investment to family investment: Shifting logics of child welfare in Denmark, 1920s–1970s	1
The natural dividend: An introduction to resource rents	1
Book Review: Interactional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty	1
Book Review: Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures by Max Weber	1
Dark resonance: On the possibility of resonance with death	1
Selective re-partnering? Mental health and life satisfaction among separated single mothers in Germany and the UK	1
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	1
The effect of positive feedback on primary school students’ academic self-concept: Gender heterogeneity in a light-touch randomized intervention	1
Book Review: Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools	1
Book Review: Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State	1
After the organization: Symbolic capital and negative expert knowledge in post-whistleblowing careers	1
Multiple jeopardy, national wealth and perceived discrimination: Subjective health of intersecting minority groups across 28 countries	1
Book Review: Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden	1
Rally around the flag? Explaining changes in Swedish public opinion toward NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine	1
Searching for lasting biculturalism: An Imitation Game inquiry	1
Balancing acts of kindness: Reassessing the relationship between informal helping and formal volunteering	1
Book Review: War, Survival Units and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Process-Relational Perspective	1
Crime, culture or war? Justifying military responses to violence against civilians	1
Effective subunits in ineffective systems: Simultaneous tight and loose coupling in higher education data use	1
The role of education and social background in the changing political involvement of adolescents – a comparative approach	1