OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science is 6. 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
Does Increasing Immigration Affect Ethnic Minority Groups?	89
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	62
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	48
Access to Health Insurance and Health Care for Hispanic Children in the United States	40
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	39
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	39
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	39
Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults	35
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	34
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	30
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	29
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	26
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	25
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	21
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	21
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	20
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	20
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	20
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	19
North American Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration in the Time of COVID-19: The Role of National Attachment and Threat	18
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	18
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	18
Disparate Recoveries: Wealth, Race, and the Working Class after the Great Recession	18
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	18
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	17

Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	16
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	15
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	15
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	15
Beyond the Tipping Point: Searching for a New Vision for Latino College Success in the United States	14
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	14
When Public Health Crises Become Entwined: How Trends in COVID-19, Deaths of Despair, and Well-Being Track across the United States	14
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	14
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	13
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	12
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	12
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	12
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	11
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	11
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	11
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	11
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	10
Migration Decision-Making and Its Key Dimensions	10
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	9
Understanding the Influence of Latino Diversity over Child Poverty in the United States	9
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	9
Immigration and the Future of the Welfare State in Europe	9
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	8
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
Introduction	7
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	7
Crashing without a Parachute: Racial and Educational Disparities in Unemployment during COVID-19	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	7
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	7
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	7
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	7
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	6
Opportunity and Place: Latino Children and America’s Future	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
Why Resistance to the Executive Power Grab in Tunisia Is Failing	6
Taking an Equity Lens: Reconceptualizing Research on Latinx Students’ Schooling Experiences and Educational Outcomes	6
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	6
Community Supervision and Employment	6
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland	6
The “Infodemic” Infodemic: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Truth-Claims and the Need for (Not) Combatting Misinformation	6
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	6
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing Laws in Reducing Gun Violence	6
An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News: Policy Mechanisms and Challenges to Impact	6