OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Social representations of ‘social distancing’ in response to COVID-19 in the UK media	34
Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean	32
Tackling COVID-19 risk in Hong Kong: Examining distrust, compliance and risk management	29
Panic, pizza and mainstreaming the alt-right: A social media analysis of Pizzagate and the rise of the QAnon conspiracy	28
‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration	27
Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy	26
LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach	25
The impossibility of gendered justice through surrogacy bans	24
Introduction: Towards a sociology of pandemics	24
Staying away, staying alive: Exploring risk and stigma of COVID-19 in the context of beliefs, actors and hierarchies in India	22
Alternative media framing of COVID-19 risks	22
Conclusions: Towards a sociology of pandemics and beyond	21
Swedish exceptionalism, herd immunity and the welfare state: A media analysis of struggles over the nature and legitimacy of the COVID-19 pandemic strategy in Sweden	18
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing	17
Men’s and women’s changing attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers in Australia	15
Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition	14
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain	13
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science	13
Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait	13
Wasta and its relationship to employment status and income in the Arab Middle East	12
Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to ‘Global Britain’	12
Criminalization of femicide in Latin America: Challenges of legal conceptualization	12
Social class, intensive parenting norms and parental values for children	12
How religion shapes immigrants’ integration: The case of Christian migrant churches in Italy	12
Pandemic rage: Everyday frustrations in times of the COVID-19 crisis	12

Understanding less-educated citizens’ (non-)participation in citizens’ initiatives: Feelings of entitlement and a taste for politics	11
Motherhood and the contradictions of feminism: Appraising claims towards emancipation in the perspective of surrogacy	10
From global risk to global threat: State capabilities and modernity in times of coronavirus	10
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences	10
Gendered parenting and returns from children in contemporary India: A study of IIT students and their parents	9
Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide	9
Nonprofits as socially responsible actors: Neoliberalism, institutional structures, and empowerment in the United Nations Global Compact	9
Road capitals: Reconceptualising street capital, value production and exchange in the context of road life in the UK	9
Superdiversity and social policies in a complex society: Social challenges in the 21st century	8
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control	8
Political sociology in a time of protest	8
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers	8
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category	8
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	8
From rain as risk to rain as resource: Professional and organizational changes in urban rainwater management	7
Beyond convergence and divergence: Towards a ‘both and’ approach to critical race and critical Indigenous studies in Australia	7
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems	7
Islamophobia and French academia	7
An integral model of cultural reproduction: The case of China	7
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	7
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension	6
Digital competences and skills as key factors between connectedness and tolerance to diversity on social networking sites: Case study of social work graduates on Facebook	6
Introduction: The case for a value turn in childhood sociology	6
The politics of deferral: Denaturalizing the ‘economic value’ of children’s labor in India	6
Characteristics of pandemic work–life balance in Slovenian military families during the lockdown: Who has paid the highest price?	6
Youth and the consumption of credit	6
Scaled, citizen-led, and public qualitative research: A framework for citizen social science	6
In search of the ‘best’ option: American private secondary education for upper-middle-class Chinese teenagers	6
Warriors against the ‘War on Drugs’: Lay experts in Norwegian drug policy	6
The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey	5
Commercial surrogacy in the age of intensive mothering	5
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem	5
‘I wish I were a plumber!’: Transnational class reconstructions across migrant experiences among Hong Kong’s professionals and managers	5
Trust in the military in post-authoritarian societies	5
Contentious buildings: The struggle against eviction in NYC’s Lower East Side	5
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas	5
Deconstructing social anthropology discourses in their support of surrogacy: The case of France	5
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies	5
Structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in academic publishing: The case of Philippine international migration scholarship	5
How to make sense of citizen expertise in participatory projects?	5
Forced returnee Bangladeshi female migrant domestic workers and their social reintegration experiences	4
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Neuroscience and the construction of a new child in early childhood education in Indonesia: A neoliberal legacy	4
Weaponizing people in environmental conflicts: Capturing ‘hearts’, ‘minds’, and manufacturing ‘volunteers’ for extractive development	4
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey	4
The German social space and its homologies: National variation on a basic structure	4
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts	4
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	4
Horizontal and vertical labour market movements in Austria: Do occupational transitions take women across gendered lines?	4
Patterns of support and conflict relationships in personal networks and perceived stress	4

The Safe Standing movement in English football: Mobilizing across the political and discursive fields of contention	4
A cautionary tale: CVE policy actors managing risk in Australian schools	4
Look up rather than down: Karl Polanyi’s fascism and radical right-wing ‘populism’	4
Narrating the crisis: Moral regulation, overlapping responsibilities and COVID-19 in Canada	4
Following Dutch healthcare professionals’ experiences during COVID-19: Tensions in everyday practices and policies amid shifting uncertainties	3
Looking laterally: The literary utopia and the task of critical social theory	3
Self-optimisation: Conceptual, discursive and historical perspectives	3
Afro-Belgian activist resistances to research procedures: Reflections on epistemic extractivism and decolonial interventions in sociological research	3
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	3
Risk, mourning, politics: Toward a transnational critical conception of grief for COVID-19 deaths in Iran	3
The critique and its critical moments: The recent pragmatic turn in French sociology	3
Class in Iceland	3
Not a mirror but a tool: User experience research and the production of useful social knowledge	3
Same work, same value? Paid domestic workers’ and housewives’ struggles for rights in Uruguay and Paraguay	3
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	3
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel	3
Parental aspirations, schools, and the limits of flexible citizenship: Examining elite return migrants’ schooling decisions	3
Cross-border reproductive care: Opinions and attitudes of society towards surrogate pregnancy	3
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)	3
The shift to cause framing in Egyptian LGBT advocacy after the January 25 revolution	3
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action	3
Social networks as contexts for engagement and initiative: An empirical investigation	3
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context	3
The weight of time and the unemployment experience: Daily life and future prospects	3
The advent of the citizen expert: Democratising or pushing the boundaries of expertise?	3
Moral regulation and a good moral panic: UK Polish migrant workers and the 2016 EU Referendum	3
Negotiating euthanasia: Civil society contesting ‘the completed life’	3
Disabled youth participation within activism and social movement bases: An empirical investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement	3
Isolation and immunity within the family: Commuter marriages in Southeast Asia	2
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	2
From self-censorship to contention: Shame triggered participation in the 2013 Gezi Protests	2
A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe	2
Nonviolent youth activism and symbolic violence: Some problems in Bourdieu’s notion of victim complicity	2
Including animals in sociology	2
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation	2
Cosmopolitan social infrastructure and immigrant cross-ethnic friendship	2
Superdiversity re-imagined: Applying superdiversity theory to research beyond migration studies	2
Confinement risks and social inequality in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina	2
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?	2
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea	2
Towards a Weberian sociology of intentional communities	2
The anti-vaccination Robinsons – Isolated actors of the mainstream vaccination discourse in Poland	2
How liminality enhances conviviality through multilingual co-creations: Young refugees in the Netherlands	2
The constitution of political contention: The case of protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century	2
Not transaction but service? Interrogating the multiple surrogacy narratives in India	2
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	2
Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital	2
Cultural wars and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Southeast Asia: ‘Asian values’, human rights, and the ‘homosexual turn’	2
Supporting oneself: The tensions of navigating a prolonged crisis among Spanish youth	2
The superdiverse precariat of British higher education?Limpiadoresrevisited	2
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	2
Grandparenting, filial piety, and well-being of Chinese-American older adults	2
Locating invisible privilege in Asia: Conceptual travel and contextual significance	2
Keeping it in the family: Cultural socialization among Haitian American families	2
Three shades of dismemberment anxiety about Armenians in Turkish politics	2
Pandemic racism and sexism in Australia: Responses and reflections among Asian women	2
Making military conscription count? Converting competencies between the civilian and military spheres in a neoliberal Estonia	2
‘Class and “Race”. . . the two antinomic poles of a permanent dialectic’: Racialization, racism and resistance in Japan	2
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship	2
A Black feminist approach to antiracist qualitative research methods: Commemorating the legacy of bell hooks	2
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy	2
Securitized volunteerism and neo-nationalism in Israel’s rural periphery	2
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana	2
Contested futures: The ‘humanitarian value’ of childhood in rural Sierra Leone	2