OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control	67
Corrigendum	56
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China	28
Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement	28
Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology	26
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment	25
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders	25
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field	20
Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide	17
Low life: William Hogarth, visual culture and sociologies of art	17
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway	17
The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence: On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society	16
Performing the people: Review of Isaac Ariail Reed’s Power in modernity: Agency relations and the creative destruction of the king’s two bodies	16
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection	15
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom	14
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change	14
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The unclaimed: Abandonment and hope in the city of angels. By P.Prickett and S.Timmermans, London: Penguin Random House. 2024	13
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics	13
Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2024	12
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900	12
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men	12
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries	11
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice	11
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China	10

Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community	10
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape	10
Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research	10
Remarks on “relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state.” Gurminder K. Bhambra	10
The relational costs of crossing class lines	10
Primary and secondary effects of social origins on educational attainment: New findings for England	10
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures	10
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital	10
An “illuminati” and its acolytes: Critical theory in the text and in the world	10
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization	9
Issue Information ‐ Toc	9
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation	9
Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World’s Call Center Capital. Jeffrey J.Sallaz	9
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’	9
Envisioning alternatives to capitalism: On recent debates from the great recession to the global pandemic	8
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population	8
Webs of reciprocity: Colonial taxation and the need for reparations	7
What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a correlational class analysis	7
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival	7
How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices	7
Corrigendum	7
Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections	7
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential. By HebaGowayed, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. 195 pages. £22.00 (pbk)	6
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’	6
How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment	6
From public to commercial service: State‐market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–2021	6
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”	6
Structure and social action: On constituting and connecting social worlds By JohnScott, Bingley: Emerald Publishing (Emerald Points), 2022, pp. 103	6
Gray areas: How the way we work perpetuates racism and what we can do to fix it. By Adia HarveyWingfield, New York: HarperCollins Amistad. 2023. 304 pages. ISBN: 9780063079816	6
Agents of reform: Child labor and the origins of the welfare state. By ElisabethAnderson, Princeton (NJ), Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2021. pp. 384. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐691‐22089‐5	6
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed	5
Inequality and the Chinese elite: Between international convergence and national divergence	5
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China	5
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement	5
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 2017	5
Threatening dystopias: The global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh. By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2021. p. 267 including front matter, appendices, g	5
Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront UnemploymentAliya HamidRaoOakland, California: University of California Press. 2020. 308 pp. £66.00 (Hardcover). £24.00 (Paperback).	5
Issue Information ‐ Toc	5
When the ‘Old’ Attend to the ‘Old’: Female Direct Care Workers Doing Gendered and Classed Age in the Chinese Elder Care Industry	5
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK	5
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?	5
Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field	5
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates	5
Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 9781009222280	5
Lives on track? Long‐term earnings returns to selective school placement in England and Denmark	5
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Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility	4
Gender inequalities in unpaid public work: Retention, stratification and segmentation in the volunteer leadership of charities in England and Wales	4
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	4
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine	4

Social mobilization and political change in countries governed by the left: The cases of Argentina and Brazil	4
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 2024	4
Social character, interdependence, and the dualities of other‐directedness	4
Issue Information	4
Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance. By AlejandroPortes and Ariel C.Armony, New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. $35.00 / £30.00 (paper).	4
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization	4
Minding the curve: The influence of social origin on earnings inequality by education in Mexico	4
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics	4
From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban top group transformation between 1988 and 2013	3
Does educational attainment matter for attitudes toward immigrants in Chile? Assessing the causality and generalizability of higher education's so‐called “liberalizing effect” on economic and cultural	3
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’	3
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife	3
‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid‐19 pandemic	3
Issue Information	3
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling	3
Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices	3
Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach	3
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora. By C. N.Eddins, 2021. 360 pp. £20.07 (paperback), open access (online)	3
Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time	3
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In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes	3
Resilience in the context ofconflict‐relatedsexual violence and beyond: A “sentient ecology” framework	3
Side hustle safety net: How vulnerable workers survive precarious times. By AlexandreaRavenelle, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 344 pages. £25. ISBN: 9780520387300	3
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Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment	3