OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science is 7. 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
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	33
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
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
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
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	25
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	25
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	24
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	22
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	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
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	15
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	15
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	14
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
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	13
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	11
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
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	10
First Surveillance: An Anthropology of Gen Z Parental Internet Supervision	10
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
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
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
“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
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
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