OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Sociological Review is 11. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment	143
Wealth Accumulation and Opportunity Hoarding: Class-Origin Wealth Gaps over a Quarter of a Century in a Scandinavian Country	107
Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and the Span of Adolescent Exposures	96
Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention: Perceptions of Distant Labor and Environmental Problems	83
Beyond Money Whitening: Racialized Hierarchies and Socioeconomic Escalators in Mexico	77
Acknowledgment of Referees	59
Born Again French: Explaining Inconsistency in Citizenship Declarations in French Longitudinal Data	54
Relative to Whom? Comment on “Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree”	49
ASR Editorial Transition	47
The “Dark Side” of Community Ties: Collective Action and Lynching in Mexico	43
Articulating the Pueblo Cubano: Women’s Politicization and Productivity in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959 to 1969	43
Feature-Based Structures of Opportunity: Genre Innovation in the American Popular Music Industry, 1958 to 2016	38
Is the Gender Wage Gap Really a Family Wage Gap in Disguise?	38
Index	35
Does Schooling Decrease Socioeconomic Inequality in Early Achievement? A Differential Exposure Approach	32
Learning to Think Like an Economist without Becoming One: Ambivalent Reproduction and Policy Couplings in a Masters of Public Affairs Program	30
Homicide and State History	27
Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap	26
Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights	25
Assessing the Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Thesis: An Experimental Test	24
Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions	24
Asymmetry by Design? Identity Obfuscation, Reputational Pressure, and Consumer Predation in U.S. For-Profit Higher Education	23
Collaborating in Class: Social Class Context and Peer Help-Seeking and Help-Giving in an Elite Engineering School	23
State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins	23
Judges as Party Animals: Retirement Timing by Federal Judges and Party Control of Judicial Appointments	20

The Culture of Censorship: State Intervention and Complicit Creativity in Global Film Production	19
Commitment through Sacrifice: How Longer Ramadan Fasting Strengthens Religiosity and Political Islam	18
The Risks of Renting on the Margins: Housing Informality and State Legibility in the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women	18
The Carceral Contradictions of Motherhood: How Mothers of Incarcerated Sons Parent in the Shadow of the Criminal Legal System	18
From Bat Mitzvah to the Bar: Religious Habitus, Self-Concept, and Women’s Educational Outcomes	18
White-Collar Opt-Out: How “Good Jobs” Fail Elite Workers	17
Next Steps for the Relative Education Hypothesis	16
Through the Front Door: Why Do Organizations (Still) Prefer Legacy Applicants?	16
Cultural Schemas: What They Are, How to Find Them, and What to Do Once You’ve Caught One	15
Identity Theft, Trust Breaches, and the Production of Economic Insecurity	15
Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps	15
Care Labor and Family Income Inequality: How Childcare Costs Exacerbate Inequality among U.S. Families	14
Operationalizing Legitimacy	14
Unrealized Integration in Education, Sociology, and Society	13
Associative Diffusion and the Pitfalls of Structural Reductionism	12
They Can’t All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Cumulative Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Elections	11
The Elements of Cultural Power: Novelty, Emotion, Status, and Cultural Capital	11
To Punish, Parent, or Palliate: Governing Urban Poverty through Institutional Failure	11
Party, Race, and Neutrality: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes toward Social Groups	11
The Consolidation of Education and Health in Families	11
Geographic Arbitrariness in Capital Punishment: Death as an Inhabited Institution	11
The Right to Work and American Inequality	11
Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China’s Platform Economy	11