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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	55
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	44
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	41
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	37
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	33
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	26
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	26
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	20
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	20
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	18
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	18
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	17
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	16
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	16
Instrumenting the Online Information Environment	16
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	14
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	14
Single-Sex Public Schools for Boys: Reflections After 25 Years	13
The Evolved Male in the Modern Classroom	13
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	13
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	12
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	12
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	12
Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	11
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	11

First Surveillance: An Anthropology of Gen Z Parental Internet Supervision	10
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	10
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	10
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	10
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	10
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	10
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	9
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	9
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	9
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	9
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	9
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	9
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	8
Education Policy in Support of Boys and Men	8
Introduction	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	8
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	8
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	8
The Myths of Platform Governance: How Tech Works to Create Online Trust and Safety	8
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	8
Is the Business of the Court (Still) Business?	7
Not Quite the Wild West, Not Entirely Black Boxes: The Governance of Online Platforms and the Evolving Field of Trust and Safety	7
Gender, Ethnoracial, and Economic Differences in the Predictive Power of Early-Grade Test Scores on College Enrollment and Degree Completion	7
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	7
Why Now? Why Education?	7
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	7
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	7
Mentoring Relationships in the Lives of Boys and Young Men	7
Turning Insight into Impact for Indiana’s Male Students	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News: Policy Mechanisms and Challenges to Impact	6
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	6
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Well-Being	6
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Poverty	6
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland	6
Inside the Launch: Product Design, Platform Power, and the New Rules of Governance	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
Do Male Teachers Matter to Boys’ Education?	6
Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits over the Past Three Decades	6
Reducing Complexity to Support Families Navigating Early Care and Education Systems	6
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool: An Analysis of the New Evidence	6
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	6
Should Gender Gaps Be Incorporated into School Accountability Measures? If So, How?	6
Why Resistance to the Executive Power Grab in Tunisia Is Failing	6
A Lost Decade: Policymakers Fiddled as Newsrooms Burned	6
Building a Healthy Online Ecosystem: Purpose-Driven Organizational Culture and Diverse Workforces	5
The Post-API Age of Social Media Data Access: Past, Present, and Future	5

Improving Social Media with Middleware	5
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing Laws in Reducing Gun Violence	5
Understanding Risk and Implementing Data-Driven Solutions for Firearm Suicide	5
Research on the Effects of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Observations and Recommendations	5
The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context	5
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries	5
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	5
A Media Insider’s Wish List for Saving Local Journalism	4
Single-Parent Families and Public Policy in High-Income Countries: Introduction to the Volume	4
Legacies of the War on Poverty	4
Effective Policies for Single-Parent Families and Prospects for Policy Reforms in the United States: Concluding Reflections	4
Elite Collusion and Creeping Authoritarianism in Nicaragua: Lessons on Democratic Backsliding from an Outlier Case	4
Economics and Public Health: Two Perspectives on Firearm Injury Prevention	4
Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies	4
Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity	4
Of Mukhalas and Magafe : Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa	4
Assessing the Civic-Building Capacities of Schools: Early Findings from a Survey of Parents and Students	4
Freedom of Speech in the Post-Floyd Era: Public Support for Political Tolerance	4
The Child Tax Credit and Family Well-Being: An Overview of Reforms and Impacts	4
Single Parents Competing in a Dual-Earner Society: Social Policy to Level the Playing Field	4
Politics by Other Means: Civic Education in a Time of Controversy	4
The Consequences of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion: An Introduction to the Volume	4
Middleware and the Illusory Promise of End-User Control	4
Knowledge of, about, for, and against Criminalized Migration	4
Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?	4
The Macroeconomy and Poverty	3
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence	3
Fiscal Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on State and Local Governments	3
Media Policy for an Informed Citizenry: Revisiting the Information Needs of Communities for Democracy in Crisis	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
The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And What Comes Next?	3
Social and Structural Determinants of Community Firearm Violence and Community Trauma	3
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic	3
Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank	3
The Problem with “Most People”: Racism and Ableism in U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Communication	3
Effects of Opioid Treatment Programs on Child Well-Being	3
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance	3
Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children	3
Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court, and American Constitutionalism	3
Fewer Burdens but Greater Inequality? Reevaluating the Safety Net through the Lens of Administrative Burden	3
How Multi-disciplinary Research Centers and Networks Can Advance the Science of Firearm Injury Prevention	3