OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Sociological Review is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Relative to Whom? Comment on “Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree”	99
Collaborating in Class: Social Class Context and Peer Help-Seeking and Help-Giving in an Elite Engineering School	74
From Bat Mitzvah to the Bar: Religious Habitus, Self-Concept, and Women’s Educational Outcomes	58
Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps	57
To Punish, Parent, or Palliate: Governing Urban Poverty through Institutional Failure	52
The Elements of Cultural Power: Novelty, Emotion, Status, and Cultural Capital	48
Essentializing Merit: Disability and Exclusion in Elite Private School Admissions	41
Consolidated Advantage: New Organizational Dynamics of Wage Inequality	36
Ready to Rent: Administrative Decisions and Poverty Governance in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	34
Not in My Schoolyard: Disability Discrimination in Educational Access	31
Acknowledgment of Referees	30
Clarity from Violence? Intragroup Aggression and the Structure of Status Hierarchies	30
The Agrarian Roots of Divergent Development: A Case Study of Twentieth-Century Brazil	30
Who Counts as Family? How Standards Stratify Lives	30
How Does Culture Matter for Attainment, and How Would We Know If It Did?	29
The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline	28
Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms	28
Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium	27
Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions	26
Index	24
Who Profits from Occupational Licensing?	22
Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences: Evidence from the Literary Field	22
Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy	21
Collaborating on the Carceral State: Political Elite Polarization and the Expansion of Federal Crime Legislation Networks, 1979 to 2005	21
Caught between Frontstage and Backstage: The Failure of the Federal Reserve to Halt Rule Evasion in the Financial Crisis of 1974	20

Individual Empowerment, Institutional Confidence, and Vaccination Rates in Cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018	20
How Work Becomes Invisible: The Erosion of the Wage Floor for Workers with Disabilities	20
Does Schooling Decrease Socioeconomic Inequality in Early Achievement? A Differential Exposure Approach	19
Hierarchies in the Decentralized Welfare State: Prioritization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	19
Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap	18
The Culture of Censorship: State Intervention and Complicit Creativity in Global Film Production	18
Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility	17
Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence	17
Is the Gender Wage Gap Really a Family Wage Gap in Disguise?	17
Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations	16
Religion, Perceptions of Scientists’ Moral Culture, and Support for Science in the United States	16
Editors’ Note, 2024 to 2026: Looking to W.E.B. Du Bois	15
Corrigendum	15
Uneven Mixing, Network Segregation, and Immigrant Integration	15
“Born for a Storm”: Hard-Right Social Media and Civil Unrest	15
Finding a Home during the Affordable Housing Crisis: How Social Ties Shape Renters’ Housing-Search Outcomes	15
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	14
Racial Discrimination in Housing: How Landlords Use Algorithms and Home Visits to Screen Tenants	13
What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive?	13
Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions	12
Time’s Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action	12
Beyond Money Whitening: Racialized Hierarchies and Socioeconomic Escalators in Mexico	12
Acknowledgment of Referees	12
Next Steps for the Relative Education Hypothesis	11
Commitment through Sacrifice: How Longer Ramadan Fasting Strengthens Religiosity and Political Islam	11
Associative Diffusion and the Pitfalls of Structural Reductionism	11
Does Protest Against Police Violence Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1990 through 2019	11
Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention: Perceptions of Distant Labor and Environmental Problems	11
Identity Theft, Trust Breaches, and the Production of Economic Insecurity	11
The Politics of Police	11
Discipline and Empower: The State Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers	10
The Labor of Distinction: Butlers, Service Work, and the Production of Elite Lifestyles	10
“There Is an Eye on Us”: International Imitation, Popular Representation, and the Regulation of Homosexuality in Senegal	10
Femininity Anchors: Heterosexual Relationships and Pregnancy as Sites of Harassment for U.S. Servicewomen	10
Heterogeneous Effects of Intergenerational Social Mobility: An Improved Method and New Evidence	10
Understanding Competition in Social Space: Religious Congregations in Manhattan, 1949 to 1999	9
Relational Risk: How Relationships Shape Personal Assessments of Risk and Mitigation	9
What’s in an Occupation? Investigating Within-Occupation Variation and Gender Segregation Using Job Titles and Task Descriptions	9
Marching to Her Own Beat: Asynchronous Teamwork and Gender Differences in Performance on Creative Projects	9
Intersecting the Academic Gender Gap: The Education of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual America	8
Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents’ Developmental Expenditures	8
Advancing Stratification Research by Measuring Non-declarative Cultural Capital: A National Population-Based Study Combining IAT and Survey Data	8
Racial Inequality in Work Environments	8
Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights	7
Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women	7
Homicide and State History	7
Party, Race, and Neutrality: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes toward Social Groups	7
Positioning Stories: Accounting for Insecure Work	7
They Can’t All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Cumulative Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Elections	7

Modernizing Leviathan: Carceral Reform and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Brazil’s Espírito Santo State	6
Unrealized Integration in Education, Sociology, and Society	6
The Complexity of Associative Diffusion: Reassessing the Relationship between Network Structure and Cultural Variation	6
Culture and Immigrant Selectivity in Shaping Asian American Education: Evidence from Historical Census Data	6
Inequality Below the Poverty Line since 1967: The Role of the U.S. Welfare State	5
Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States	5
Global Value Chains and Union Decline in Rich Democracies	5
Abortion Policies in a Polarizing World Society, 1970 to 2020	4
The Avoidance of Strong Ties	4
Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement	4
Collective Defense Mechanisms	4
Trojan Horse Technologies: Smuggling Criminal-Legal Logics into Healthcare Practice	4
Racial Inequality in 8th-Grade Math Course-Taking: Between-School Inequality, Local Achievement Queues, and Course Placements	4
Abortion and Women’s Future Socioeconomic Attainment	4
The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom: Heterogeneous Institutions in World Society, 1960 to 2022	4