OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Sociological Review 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Collaborating in Class: Social Class Context and Peer Help-Seeking and Help-Giving in an Elite Engineering School	115
Pedagogy of Fear: Folklore and the Far-Right in Weimar Germany	78
The Elements of Cultural Power: Novelty, Emotion, Status, and Cultural Capital	61
The Gendered Intergenerational Transmission of Managerial Status	51
Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps	50
To Punish, Parent, or Palliate: Governing Urban Poverty through Institutional Failure	50
Not in My Schoolyard: Disability Discrimination in Educational Access	49
Essentializing Merit: Disability and Exclusion in Elite Private School Admissions	48
Ready to Rent: Administrative Decisions and Poverty Governance in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	35
How Does Culture Matter for Attainment, and How Would We Know If It Did?	34
How Values and Uncertainty Shape Scientific Advance in Peer Review	32
Unstable Work in a Fissured Economy: Tracking Employment in Subcontractor Establishments in France	31
Acknowledgment of Referees	31
Index	29
Clarity from Violence? Intragroup Aggression and the Structure of Status Hierarchies	29
The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline	29
How Religious Subcultures Interact with Gender to Shape Educational Trajectories: A Rejoinder to Brady, Luft, and Zuckerman Sivan	27
Who Profits from Occupational Licensing?	26
The Influence “Paradox”: When More Network Ties Lead to Less Change	26
Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions	25
“Choppy Waters”: Navigating Political Generational Conflict in Social Movement Organizations	25
Caught between Frontstage and Backstage: The Failure of the Federal Reserve to Halt Rule Evasion in the Financial Crisis of 1974	24
Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences: Evidence from the Literary Field	24
How Work Becomes Invisible: The Erosion of the Wage Floor for Workers with Disabilities	23
Collaborating on the Carceral State: Political Elite Polarization and the Expansion of Federal Crime Legislation Networks, 1979 to 2005	23

Individual Empowerment, Institutional Confidence, and Vaccination Rates in Cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018	21
Is the Gender Wage Gap Really a Family Wage Gap in Disguise?	21
Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy	21
Hierarchies in the Decentralized Welfare State: Prioritization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	21
Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap	20
The Culture of Censorship: State Intervention and Complicit Creativity in Global Film Production	20
Collateral Decision-Making: The Case of Pretrial Detention and the Criminal Courts	19
(Trans)National Gender Expertise and the Politics of Recognition	19
Religion, Perceptions of Scientists’ Moral Culture, and Support for Science in the United States	18
Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility	18
Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters	17
“Born for a Storm”: Hard-Right Social Media and Civil Unrest	16
Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations	15
Uneven Mixing, Network Segregation, and Immigrant Integration	15
Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence	15
Finding a Home during the Affordable Housing Crisis: How Social Ties Shape Renters’ Housing-Search Outcomes	14
Editors’ Note, 2024 to 2026: Looking to W.E.B. Du Bois	14
What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive?	14
The Corner, the Crew, and the Digital Street: Multiplex Networks of Gang Online-Offline Conflict Dynamics in the Digital Age	14
Acknowledgment of Referees	13
Beyond Money Whitening: Racialized Hierarchies and Socioeconomic Escalators in Mexico	13
The Politics of Police	12
Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions	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
Index	12
State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019	11
Between Two Rituals: Face and Effervescence as Moments of Social Life	10
The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children	10
The Labor of Distinction: Butlers, Service Work, and the Production of Elite Lifestyles	10
Who Can Have a Baby? Social Norms and the Right to Reproduce	9
Relational Risk: How Relationships Shape Personal Assessments of Risk and Mitigation	9
Understanding Competition in Social Space: Religious Congregations in Manhattan, 1949 to 1999	9
Racial Inequality in Work Environments	9
Marching to Her Own Beat: Asynchronous Teamwork and Gender Differences in Performance on Creative Projects	9
When Political Pivots Shift Behaviors but Not Beliefs: Evidence from Trump’s Position Reversal over Facemasks during the COVID-19 Crisis	8
Time and Climate Change: U.S. Media Representations of Climate Actions, Horizons, and Events (2000 to 2021)	8
Positioning Stories: Accounting for Insecure Work	8
Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia’s Civil War	8
Advancing Stratification Research by Measuring Non-declarative Cultural Capital: A National Population-Based Study Combining IAT and Survey Data	8
Culture and Immigrant Selectivity in Shaping Asian American Education: Evidence from Historical Census Data	8
Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights	8
Homicide and State History	8
Global Value Chains and Union Decline in Rich Democracies	7
They Can’t All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Cumulative Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Elections	7
Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence	7
Living with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns	7
Salience Shifts and Managerial Discretion: How Periods of Islamist Terrorism Affect the Employment of Middle Eastern Men	7
Party, Race, and Neutrality: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes toward Social Groups	7
Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States	7

Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women	7
Unrealized Integration in Education, Sociology, and Society	7
Modernizing Leviathan: Carceral Reform and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Brazil’s Espírito Santo State	6
Racial Inequality in 8th-Grade Math Course-Taking: Between-School Inequality, Local Achievement Queues, and Course Placements	6
Collective Defense Mechanisms	6
Inequality Below the Poverty Line since 1967: The Role of the U.S. Welfare State	6