OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Sociological Review is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
What Is Your Estimand? Defining the Target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory	127
Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China’s Platform Economy	93
The Wealth Inequality of Nations	76
Racial Discrimination in Housing: How Landlords Use Algorithms and Home Visits to Screen Tenants	71
Cultural Schemas: What They Are, How to Find Them, and What to Do Once You’ve Caught One	70
Inside the Black Box of Organizational Life: The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment	56
“Willing to Do Anything for My Kids”: Inventive Mothering, Diapers, and the Inequalities of Carework	55
Marriage and Masculinity: Male-Breadwinner Culture, Unemployment, and Separation Risk in 29 Countries	53
Triple Disadvantage: Neighborhood Networks of Everyday Urban Mobility and Violence in U.S. Cities	47
Wealth Accumulation and Opportunity Hoarding: Class-Origin Wealth Gaps over a Quarter of a Century in a Scandinavian Country	44
Creative Destruction: The Structural Consequences of Scientific Curation	43
Double Jeopardy: Teacher Biases, Racialized Organizations, and the Production of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline	41
Statistical Discrimination and the Rationalization of Stereotypes	39
Operationalizing Legitimacy	39
Who Controls Criminal Law? Racial Threat and the Adoption of State Sentencing Law, 1975 to 2012	38
College and the “Culture War”: Assessing Higher Education’s Influence on Moral Attitudes	36
Immigrant Sanctuary Policies and Crime-Reporting Behavior: A Multilevel Analysis of Reports of Crime Victimization to Law Enforcement, 1980 to 2004	36
Does Use of Emotion Increase Donations and Volunteers for Nonprofits?	35
Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and the Span of Adolescent Exposures	33
Intersecting the Academic Gender Gap: The Education of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual America	32
Hiring and Intra-occupational Gender Segregation in Software Engineering	30
Generalized Generosity: How the Norm of Generalized Reciprocity Bridges Collective Forms of Social Exchange	27
State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins	24
When Religion Hurts: Structural Sexism and Health in Religious Congregations	24
Categorical Distinctions and Claims-Making: Opportunity, Agency, and Returns from Wage Negotiations	23

Consolidated Advantage: New Organizational Dynamics of Wage Inequality	23
Alternative View of Modernity: The Subaltern Speaks	21
The Political Context and Infant Health in the United States	21
Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment	21
The Intersection of Racial and Gender Attitudes, 1977 through 2018	20
Discipline and Empower: The State Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers	20
Does Protest Against Police Violence Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1990 through 2019	19
How Legacies of Geopolitical Trauma Shape Popular Nationalism Today	17
The Variability of Occupational Attainment: How Prestige Trajectories Diversified within Birth Cohorts over the Twentieth Century	17
Online Conspiracy Groups: Micro-Bloggers, Bots, and Coronavirus Conspiracy Talk on Twitter	17
Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium	16
Does Schooling Decrease Socioeconomic Inequality in Early Achievement? A Differential Exposure Approach	16
Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents’ Developmental Expenditures	15
What’s in an Occupation? Investigating Within-Occupation Variation and Gender Segregation Using Job Titles and Task Descriptions	15
What’s Next? Artists’ Music after Grammy Awards	15
A New Look at the Separation Surge in Europe: Contrasting Adult and Child Perspectives	15
Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention: Perceptions of Distant Labor and Environmental Problems	14
Life Support: The Problems of Working for a Living	14
Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions	14
What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive?	14
Cognitive Authority and the Constraint of Attitude Change in Groups	13
The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline	13
Trajectory Guarding: Managing Unwanted, Ambiguously Sexual Interactions at Work	12
The Consolidation of Education and Health in Families	12
Translating Expertise across Work Contexts: U.S. Puppeteers Move from Stage to Screen	12
Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement	11
Change in Personal Culture over the Life Course	11
Asymmetry by Design? Identity Obfuscation, Reputational Pressure, and Consumer Predation in U.S. For-Profit Higher Education	11
Heterogeneous Effects of Intergenerational Social Mobility: An Improved Method and New Evidence	11
Ties That Remind: Known Family Connections to Past Events as Salience Cues and Collective Memory of Stalin’s Repressions of the 1930s in Contemporary Russia	10
Femininity Anchors: Heterosexual Relationships and Pregnancy as Sites of Harassment for U.S. Servicewomen	10
Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms	10
Pathways toward Inclusive Income Growth: A Comparative Decomposition of National Growth Profiles	10
How New Ideas Diffuse in Science	9
Beyond Money Whitening: Racialized Hierarchies and Socioeconomic Escalators in Mexico	9
“Born for a Storm”: Hard-Right Social Media and Civil Unrest	8
Facets of Specialization and Its Relation to Career Success: An Analysis of U.S. Sociology, 1980 to 2015	8
“There Is an Eye on Us”: International Imitation, Popular Representation, and the Regulation of Homosexuality in Senegal	8
Individual Empowerment, Institutional Confidence, and Vaccination Rates in Cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018	7
Not in My Schoolyard: Disability Discrimination in Educational Access	7
On the Methodological Difficulty of Identifying Implicit Racial Beliefs and Stereotypes	7
Another Person’s Peril: Peanut Allergy, Risk Perceptions, and Responsible Sociality	7
Ready to Rent: Administrative Decisions and Poverty Governance in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	7
To Punish, Parent, or Palliate: Governing Urban Poverty through Institutional Failure	7
Taking the Time: The Implications of Workplace Assessment for Organizational Gender Inequality	7
Who Counts as Family? How Standards Stratify Lives	7
From Bat Mitzvah to the Bar: Religious Habitus, Self-Concept, and Women’s Educational Outcomes	7
Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons	6
Commitment through Sacrifice: How Longer Ramadan Fasting Strengthens Religiosity and Political Islam	6
Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions	6

Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap	6
Understanding Patterns and Trends in Income Mobility through Multiverse Analysis	5
Technologies of Expertise: Opioids and Pain Management’s Credibility Crisis	5
“Everyone Thinks They’re Special”: How Schools Teach Children Their Social Station	5
Assessing the Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Thesis: An Experimental Test	5
Racial Inequality in Work Environments	5
The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom: Heterogeneous Institutions in World Society, 1960 to 2022	5