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

Article	Citations
Collaborating in Class: Social Class Context and Peer Help-Seeking and Help-Giving in an Elite Engineering School	89
To Punish, Parent, or Palliate: Governing Urban Poverty through Institutional Failure	81
The Elements of Cultural Power: Novelty, Emotion, Status, and Cultural Capital	63
From Bat Mitzvah to the Bar: Religious Habitus, Self-Concept, and Women’s Educational Outcomes	59
Essentializing Merit: Disability and Exclusion in Elite Private School Admissions	45
Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps	45
Not in My Schoolyard: Disability Discrimination in Educational Access	39
Ready to Rent: Administrative Decisions and Poverty Governance in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	38
Who Counts as Family? How Standards Stratify Lives	37
Acknowledgment of Referees	36
The Agrarian Roots of Divergent Development: A Case Study of Twentieth-Century Brazil	35
How Values and Uncertainty Shape Scientific Advance in Peer Review	32
Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms	31
Clarity from Violence? Intragroup Aggression and the Structure of Status Hierarchies	27
How Does Culture Matter for Attainment, and How Would We Know If It Did?	27
Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium	27
The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline	23
Index	22
Who Profits from Occupational Licensing?	22
“Choppy Waters”: Navigating Political Generational Conflict in Social Movement Organizations	22
Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions	21
How Religious Subcultures Interact with Gender to Shape Educational Trajectories: A Rejoinder to Brady, Luft, and Zuckerman Sivan	21
Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences: Evidence from the Literary Field	21
Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy	20
How Work Becomes Invisible: The Erosion of the Wage Floor for Workers with Disabilities	20

Caught between Frontstage and Backstage: The Failure of the Federal Reserve to Halt Rule Evasion in the Financial Crisis of 1974	20
Hierarchies in the Decentralized Welfare State: Prioritization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	20
Collaborating on the Carceral State: Political Elite Polarization and the Expansion of Federal Crime Legislation Networks, 1979 to 2005	20
Individual Empowerment, Institutional Confidence, and Vaccination Rates in Cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018	19
Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap	18
The Culture of Censorship: State Intervention and Complicit Creativity in Global Film Production	17
Is the Gender Wage Gap Really a Family Wage Gap in Disguise?	16
(Trans)National Gender Expertise and the Politics of Recognition	16
Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility	15
Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations	15
Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence	15
“Born for a Storm”: Hard-Right Social Media and Civil Unrest	15
Religion, Perceptions of Scientists’ Moral Culture, and Support for Science in the United States	14
Editors’ Note, 2024 to 2026: Looking to W.E.B. Du Bois	14
Corrigendum	14
Uneven Mixing, Network Segregation, and Immigrant Integration	14
Finding a Home during the Affordable Housing Crisis: How Social Ties Shape Renters’ Housing-Search Outcomes	14
The Corner, the Crew, and the Digital Street: Multiplex Networks of Gang Online-Offline Conflict Dynamics in the Digital Age	14
Bloodlines: National Border Crossings and Antisemitism in Weimar Germany	13
What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive?	13
Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions	12
Beyond Money Whitening: Racialized Hierarchies and Socioeconomic Escalators in Mexico	12
Identity Theft, Trust Breaches, and the Production of Economic Insecurity	12
Time’s Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action	12
Acknowledgment of Referees	12
Commitment through Sacrifice: How Longer Ramadan Fasting Strengthens Religiosity and Political Islam	12
Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention: Perceptions of Distant Labor and Environmental Problems	12
Index	11
The Politics of Police	11
Femininity Anchors: Heterosexual Relationships and Pregnancy as Sites of Harassment for U.S. Servicewomen	11
The Labor of Distinction: Butlers, Service Work, and the Production of Elite Lifestyles	11
Understanding Competition in Social Space: Religious Congregations in Manhattan, 1949 to 1999	10
Relational Risk: How Relationships Shape Personal Assessments of Risk and Mitigation	10
Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents’ Developmental Expenditures	10
Advancing Stratification Research by Measuring Non-declarative Cultural Capital: A National Population-Based Study Combining IAT and Survey Data	10
Who Can Have a Baby? Social Norms and the Right to Reproduce	10
Marching to Her Own Beat: Asynchronous Teamwork and Gender Differences in Performance on Creative Projects	10
Intersecting the Academic Gender Gap: The Education of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual America	9
Positioning Stories: Accounting for Insecure Work	9
Racial Inequality in Work Environments	9
Homicide and State History	9
Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights	8
Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women	8
Culture and Immigrant Selectivity in Shaping Asian American Education: Evidence from Historical Census Data	8
Party, Race, and Neutrality: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes toward Social Groups	7
Global Value Chains and Union Decline in Rich Democracies	7
Unrealized Integration in Education, Sociology, and Society	7
Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia’s Civil War	7
They Can’t All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Cumulative Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Elections	7
Abortion and Women’s Future Socioeconomic Attainment	6

Collective Defense Mechanisms	6
Modernizing Leviathan: Carceral Reform and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Brazil’s Espírito Santo State	6
Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States	6
Inequality Below the Poverty Line since 1967: The Role of the U.S. Welfare State	6
Trojan Horse Technologies: Smuggling Criminal-Legal Logics into Healthcare Practice	5
Racial Inequality in 8th-Grade Math Course-Taking: Between-School Inequality, Local Achievement Queues, and Course Placements	5
The Avoidance of Strong Ties	5
Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement	5
Abortion Policies in a Polarizing World Society, 1970 to 2020	5