OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	134
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	90
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	65
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	55
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	50
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	42
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	39
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	38
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	33
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	33
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	33
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	33
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	32
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	29
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	27
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	25
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	25
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	25
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	25
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	24
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	22
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	22
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	21
Instrumenting the Online Information Environment	19
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	18

Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	17
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	15
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	15
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	14
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	14
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	14
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	13
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	11
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	11
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	11
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	11
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	10
First Surveillance: An Anthropology of Gen Z Parental Internet Supervision	10
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	9
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	9
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	9
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	9
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	9
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	9
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	8
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	8
Introduction	8
The Myths of Platform Governance: How Tech Works to Create Online Trust and Safety	8
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	8
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	8
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
Not Quite the Wild West, Not Entirely Black Boxes: The Governance of Online Platforms and the Evolving Field of Trust and Safety	7
Is the Business of the Court (Still) Business?	7
An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News: Policy Mechanisms and Challenges to Impact	7
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	7
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
The “Infodemic” Infodemic: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Truth-Claims and the Need for (Not) Combatting Misinformation	7
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	7
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	7
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits over the Past Three Decades	6
Community Supervision and Employment	6
“I Can’t Get Ahold of Them”: Perceptions of Administrative Burden and Administrative Exclusion across SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context	6
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Poverty	6
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	6
Inside the Launch: Product Design, Platform Power, and the New Rules of Governance	6
Reducing Complexity to Support Families Navigating Early Care and Education Systems	6
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland	6
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool: An Analysis of the New Evidence	6
Understanding Risk and Implementing Data-Driven Solutions for Firearm Suicide	6

In Electoral Disputes, State Justices Are Less Reliable GOP Allies than the U.S. Supreme Court—That’s the “Problem” the Independent State Legislature Claim Hopes to Solve	6
A Lost Decade: Policymakers Fiddled as Newsrooms Burned	5
Why Resistance to the Executive Power Grab in Tunisia Is Failing	5
Building a Healthy Online Ecosystem: Purpose-Driven Organizational Culture and Diverse Workforces	5
Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies	5
Improving Social Media with Middleware	5
The Post-API Age of Social Media Data Access: Past, Present, and Future	5
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries	5
Assessing the Civic-Building Capacities of Schools: Early Findings from a Survey of Parents and Students	5
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Well-Being	5
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing Laws in Reducing Gun Violence	5
The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability	5
Research on the Effects of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Observations and Recommendations	5
Freedom of Speech in the Post-Floyd Era: Public Support for Political Tolerance	4
Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?	4
Single-Parent Families and Public Policy in High-Income Countries: Introduction to the Volume	4
Changing Americans’ Attitudes about Immigration: Using Moral Framing to Bolster Factual Arguments	4
Politics by Other Means: Civic Education in a Time of Controversy	4
The Child Tax Credit and Family Well-Being: An Overview of Reforms and Impacts	4
A Partisan Pandemic: How COVID-19 Was Primed for Polarization	4
Middleware and the Illusory Promise of End-User Control	4
From Prison to Entrepreneurship: Can Entrepreneurship be a Reentry Strategy for Justice-Impacted Individuals?	4
The Consequences of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion: An Introduction to the Volume	4
Legacies of the War on Poverty	4
Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa	4
Elite Collusion and Creeping Authoritarianism in Nicaragua: Lessons on Democratic Backsliding from an Outlier Case	4
When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict: Recognizing the Public’s Need for Debate while Combating Conspiracies and Misinformation	4
Economics and Public Health: Two Perspectives on Firearm Injury Prevention	4
Effective Policies for Single-Parent Families and Prospects for Policy Reforms in the United States: Concluding Reflections	4
Inequality and Misperceptions of Group Concerns Threaten the Integrity and Societal Impact of Science	4
Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity	4
A Media Insider’s Wish List for Saving Local Journalism	4
Single Parents Competing in a Dual-Earner Society: Social Policy to Level the Playing Field	4
“Good Citizens” in Democratic Hard Times	4
Civil Society, Realized: Equipping the Mass Public to Express Choice and Negotiate Power	4
Knowledge of, about, for, and against Criminalized Migration	4
Media Policy for an Informed Citizenry: Revisiting the Information Needs of Communities for Democracy in Crisis	3
Effects of Opioid Treatment Programs on Child Well-Being	3
Local-Level Information-Seeking in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Repertoire Approach	3
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Colorado: An Interview with Dr. Ki’i Powell, Ian McMahon, Michael Martinez-Schiferl, Rebecca Balu, and Samantha O’Neill Dunbar	3
Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court, and American Constitutionalism	3
Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children	3
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance	3
The Problem with “Most People”: Racism and Ableism in U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Communication	3
The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And What Comes Next?	3
How Multi-disciplinary Research Centers and Networks Can Advance the Science of Firearm Injury Prevention	3
Race, Affirmative Action, Antidiscrimination, and the Roberts Court	3
How Tax Credits Can Support Formerly Incarcerated Individuals and Their Families	3
Fiscal Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on State and Local Governments	3
Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank	3
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence	3
Fewer Burdens but Greater Inequality? Reevaluating the Safety Net through the Lens of Administrative Burden	3
Legislative Capture in Hungary: Well-Managed Autocratization	3
American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion	3
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic	3
Measuring What Matters: Data Absenteeism, Science Communication, and the Perpetuation of Inequities	3
Social and Structural Determinants of Community Firearm Violence and Community Trauma	3
The Macroeconomy and Poverty	3