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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	68
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	50
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	42
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	39
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	29
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	29
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	23
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	23
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	20
How Meritocracy Became Self-Defeating	18
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	18
The Meritocracy Debate of the Eighteenth Century	18
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	16
The Evolved Male in the Modern Classroom	15
Single-Sex Public Schools for Boys: Reflections After 25 Years	15
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	15
Instrumenting the Online Information Environment	14
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	13
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	13
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	12
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	12
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	11
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	11
Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	11
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	11

Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	11
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	10
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	9
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	9
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	9
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	9
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	9
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	9
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	9
Education Policy in Support of Boys and Men	9
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	9
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	9
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	8
Introduction	8
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	8
The Myths of Platform Governance: How Tech Works to Create Online Trust and Safety	8
“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	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	7
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
Mentoring Relationships in the Lives of Boys and Young Men	7
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
Why Now? Why Education?	7
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
Turning Insight into Impact for Indiana’s Male Students	7
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	6
An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News: Policy Mechanisms and Challenges to Impact	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
Gender, Ethnoracial, and Economic Differences in the Predictive Power of Early-Grade Test Scores on College Enrollment and Degree Completion	6
Inside the Launch: Product Design, Platform Power, and the New Rules of Governance	6
Should Gender Gaps Be Incorporated into School Accountability Measures? If So, How?	6
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	6
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	6
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool: An Analysis of the New Evidence	6
Do Male Teachers Matter to Boys’ Education?	6
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	6
Understanding Risk and Implementing Data-Driven Solutions for Firearm Suicide	5
Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits over the Past Three Decades	5
Building a Healthy Online Ecosystem: Purpose-Driven Organizational Culture and Diverse Workforces	5
Improving Social Media with Middleware	5
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing Laws in Reducing Gun Violence	5
Why Resistance to the Executive Power Grab in Tunisia Is Failing	5
The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context	5
The Post-API Age of Social Media Data Access: Past, Present, and Future	5
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Poverty	5

Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland	5
A Lost Decade: Policymakers Fiddled as Newsrooms Burned	5
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Well-Being	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
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries	4
Assessing the Civic-Building Capacities of Schools: Early Findings from a Survey of Parents and Students	4
Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity	4
The Consequences of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion: An Introduction to the Volume	4
Elite Collusion and Creeping Authoritarianism in Nicaragua: Lessons on Democratic Backsliding from an Outlier Case	4
Research on the Effects of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Observations and Recommendations	4
A Media Insider’s Wish List for Saving Local Journalism	4
Legacies of the War on Poverty	4
Meritocracy in Historical Perspective	4
Economics and Public Health: Two Perspectives on Firearm Injury Prevention	4
Reducing Complexity to Support Families Navigating Early Care and Education Systems	4
Politics by Other Means: Civic Education in a Time of Controversy	4
Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies	4
Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?	4
Of Mukhalas and Magafe : Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa	4
Middleware and the Illusory Promise of End-User Control	4
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 Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance	3
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence	3
The Limits of Meritocracy in a Racially Divided Society	3
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic	3
The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And What Comes Next?	3
Effects of Opioid Treatment Programs on Child Well-Being	3
Social and Structural Determinants of Community Firearm Violence and Community Trauma	3
Knowledge of, about, for, and against Criminalized Migration	3
The Macroeconomy and Poverty	3
Fiscal Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on State and Local Governments	3
The Problem with “Most People”: Racism and Ableism in U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Communication	3
The Child Tax Credit and Family Well-Being: An Overview of Reforms and Impacts	3
Freedom of Speech in the Post-Floyd Era: Public Support for Political Tolerance	3
Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court, and American Constitutionalism	3
Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank	3