OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology is 2. 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
Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology	78
Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement	66
Corrigendum	41
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders	36
Issue Information	29
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment	23
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control	22
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China	21
On Medical Domination	20
Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide	19
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field	19
Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2024	19
Remarks on “relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state.” Gurminder K. Bhambra	18
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom	17
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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	16
The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence: On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society	15
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway	15
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice	14
The Electoral Coalition of the Radical Right in Western Europe	14
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics	14
Cooling Out or Branching Out? Accounting for the Aspirations‐Attainment Paradox Among Immigrant Youth in Sweden	14
The Strength of Weak Ties? Understanding Educational Differences in Parents' Childcare Benefit Knowledge by Applying a Social Capital Approach	12
Dependence and Precarity in the Gig Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Platform Work and Mental Distress	12
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change	12

The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900	11
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men	11
The relational costs of crossing class lines	11
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection	11
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures	11
Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research	10
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital	9
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape	9
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization	9
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities	9
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’	9
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation	9
Structure and social action: On constituting and connecting social worlds By JohnScott, Bingley: Emerald Publishing (Emerald Points), 2022, pp. 103	8
Envisioning alternatives to capitalism: On recent debates from the great recession to the global pandemic	8
Corrigendum	8
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population	8
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’	8
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	8
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”	7
What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a correlational class analysis	7
The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945. By DanielSmith, Manchester: 2023	7
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival	7
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential. By HebaGowayed, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. 195 pages. £22.00 (pbk)	7
How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment	7
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Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence: Findings From an Australian Study	7
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	7
Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections	7
Issue Information	7
When the ‘Old’ Attend to the ‘Old’: Female Direct Care Workers Doing Gendered and Classed Age in the Chinese Elder Care Industry	6
Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 9781009222280	6
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed	6
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).	5
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK	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
Decolouring. The Racial Imprints of Upward Mobility in Lima's Dominant Class	5
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	5
Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation	5
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?	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
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Comparing Transgender Identities in the Census of Scotland and the Census of England and Wales	5
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 2017	5
Gender inequalities in unpaid public work: Retention, stratification and segmentation in the volunteer leadership of charities in England and Wales	5
The Body in Extremist White Supremacism	5
Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront UnemploymentAliya HamidRaoOakland, California: University of California Press. 2020. 308 pp. £66.00 (Hardcover). £24.00 (Paperback).	5
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 2024	5
Prestige Fetishism in the Academy: Comte's Mirror, the Magic Mirror or an Illusion of Reality?	4
‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid‐19 pandemic	4

Issue Information	4
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility	4
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics	4
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment	4
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement	4
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China	4
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism	4
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(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations	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
Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time	3
Climate Moralities Offset: A Case of Formative Voluntary Carbon Markets	3
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Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices	3
What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil	3
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality	3
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine	3
From Dyadic Distance to Space in Family Networks: Reciprocity of Family Support in Switzerland	3
Normative Cumulation: Justifying the Production of Knowledge in American Family Demography	3
Issue Information	3
Resilience in the context ofconflict‐relatedsexual violence and beyond: A “sentient ecology” framework	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
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife	3
What is the Liberalizing Potential of Higher Education? An Analysis of Academic Fields and Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment Across 32 Countries	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
The big con. How the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies. By MarianaMazzucato and RosieCollington. Penguin. 2023. pp. 352.	2
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Royal power in the market‐oriented society: The Swedish King's consecration of business and corporate elites	2
Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology	2
How kin help with parental investments	2
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity	2
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed	2
“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture	2
Who's a good citizen? Status and power in minority and majority youths' conceptions of citizenship	2
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In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes	2
Risk, Reciprocity, and Academic Pursuit in India	2
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent	2
The social life of money for children	2
Meritocratic beliefs in the United States, Finland, and China: A multidimensional approach using latent class analysis	2
The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile	2
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. By KoheiSaito, New York, USA: Astra House. 2024. pp. 288. $18.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9781662602726	2
Review of the Book The Chile Project . By SebastiánEdwards, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 9780691	2
Issue Information	2
The government of emergency: Vital systems, expertise, and the politics of security. By Stephen J.Collier and AndrewLakoff, Princeton University Press. 2021	2
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations	2
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’	2
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions	2
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden	2
The Link Between Contextual Poverty and Academic Achievement: Evidence Using Panel Data From a Lower‐Middle‐Income Country	2
Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality	2
Social stratification in meaningful work: Occupational class disparities in the United Kingdom	2
Reconsidering reparations. By Olúfẹ́mi O.Táíwò, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022	2
A conceptual refinement of ritual: The case of guanxi	2
Regional variation in intergenerational social mobility in Britain	2
Trolling is Not the Point: Ideological Violence and the Limits of Digital Safety	2
Lagging behind by doing good: How volunteering prolongs unemployment	2
The Quantified Scholar: An introduction to the book	2
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling	2