OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Sociology is 1. 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
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	56
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	30
Narratives of institutional trust: Turkish migrants’ comparative perspectives in Germany and Türkiye	25
Why Beijing+30 matters	19
From “iron fists” to digital traps: How contemporary legal policies bypass international gender standards	18
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	16
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	14
Ordinary consumption in extra-ordinarily small homes: Acquisition, storage and decluttering practices of micro-apartment residents	14
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia	14
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	13
Why and how lifestyle change to reduced consumption is an active part of the emerging sustainability transformation	13
Classes in transition: Intergenerational family trajectories and forced migration in historical context	12
Why the world still fails to end conflict-related sexual violence 30 years after the Beijing Declaration	11
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	11
Gendered exit and displacement: Social reproduction and automation in Bangladesh’s garment industry	10
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	9
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships	9
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	9
Leveraging expat bubbles: Migrant women’s information-gathering practices within Hong Kong spaces of expatriate privilege from arrival to post-divorce	8
Of love and loss: Negotiating masculinity and care in families of autistic children in China	8
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	8
Fluid yet sticky? Exploring social class through the lens of transnational migration	7
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science	7
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism	7
Ageism as labor precarity: Prescriptive stereotypes and the politics of informal work in the Global South	6

Race and/or caste: What is at stake?	6
Ethnographic inheritances in Kashmir: The academic and social life of an ethnographic monograph	6
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	6
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	6
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study	6
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	6
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	6
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	6
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud	6
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	5
Thirty years on: A conversation with Xingjuan Wang, a pioneer of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action	5
Can a colonial flag become a banner for democracy? The Case of the Dragon and Lion flag and the 2019 Hong Kong protests	5
Beyond democratic exposure: A cognitive-motivational-emotional analysis of political disaffection among highly skilled Chinese migrants in Germany	5
The returnscape: The labyrinthine return trajectories of temporary migrant workers	5
The impact of COVID 19 in Argentina and Chile’s informal settlement: Populous habitats and ways of living in times of crisis	5
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	5
Challenging the sociological canon: An analysis of theoretical practices in Norwegian sociology	5
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	5
Diasporic multiculturalism	5
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	5
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	5
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	5
‘I feel like I’m yours, but I’m not yours’: Three accounts to interpret an idiosyncratic form of dating and romantic relationship among young female college students in South Korea	5
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	5
My child is one in a million: Parents hesitant to vaccinate their children, or communities of practice in the field of (alternative) medicine	4
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell	4
“Do what that expert says – until you know better”: How people gauge expert advice	4
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts	4
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
The sociology of literature in Argentina: A little of its history and some notes on its present	4
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4
‘. . . You are a Muslim, and our village disapproves of this’: The objections of indigenous minority communities in Israel to women’s employment in the police on grounds of gender, nationality and cri	4
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	4
Tensional resonance: Queerness as praxis in grassroots queer spaces	4
Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach	3
Streamlining social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment for the 21st century – Perspectives from South Africa	3
The need for a sexual safety framework: Deployment-related sexual violence against US servicewomen and implications for the Women, Peace, and Security agenda	3
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union	3
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City	3
Primitive social theory: On the history of the ‘primitive concept’ in sociology and its applications under post-digital modernity	3
The intellectual biography of Syed Farid Alatas: Hegemonic orientations, epistemic decolonisation and the School of Autonomous Knowledge	3
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context	3
Feminist approaches to justice at Beijing +30	3
Entrapped subjects: Disciplinary techniques in China’s multi-level marketing organizations	3
Is ethics a Utopia? Yes, when moral distinctions impair the ethical aim	3
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy	3

‘Remittances’ in question: Circulating money and non-circulating words among multi-generational Palestinians in Italy	3
Racism and sexism during pandemic times: Experiences, narratives and coping mechanisms among Chinese women in the Netherlands	3
The semiosis and the market: Peirce’s semiotics for economic sociology	3
Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital	3
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives	3
Military social harm: An agenda for research	3
Race and caste in the making of US sociology	3
Extended family collaboration in childcare during the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic	2
Anti-consumerism as a class practice: Parental investment in a private kindergarten in Israel	2
‘Buddhist therapeutics’: The overlapping logics of religion and health in Italian Buddhism	2
Looking at human-centered artificial intelligence as a problem and prospect for sociology: An analytic review	2
Neo-colonial narratives in modern migration: Housing practices and class dynamics of Indian migrants in Frankfurt a.M	2
Family formation and health-related behavior: The case of meal skipping	2
Seven years passed	2
Remitting amid autocracy: Venezuelan migrant remittances to relatives enduring widespread structural violence	2
Conditional citizens: Sexual orientation and American patriotism	2
The state and the clinic: Migrant narratives in Italy’s healthcare system	2
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action	2
The necessary confluence of sociology and social impact assessment in the era of global change	2
Replace, absorb, serve: Data scientists talk about their aspired jurisdiction	2
Challenging the protest paradigm and winning legitimacy. Analysis of the representation of the social movement against femicide in the mainstream media in Mexico	2
‘Very unsure of what’s to come’: Salon worker experiences of COVID-19 in Australia during 2020	2
The synergies between the Geneva Conventions and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to combat sexual and gender-based violence against women in both times o	2
Race, caste and colonialism	2
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers	2
Reciprocity, trust and conflict: Volunteers and refugees in rural Germany	2
Narratives of acceptance in men’s journeys of hair loss: Identity reconstruction, masculinities and competing pressures	2
The construction of dual ethnic identity among multi-ethnic adolescents	2
Creativity, transcendence, and social constellations	1
Distinction by design: Classed national identity in Dubai’s market economy	1
Who are the experts? A study of the everyday enactment of expertise in mental health care	1
Bibliometric (in)visibilities in the global social sciences: Revisiting regional dynamics across Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex (1980–2023)	1
Mastering political time: China’s graduates in the quest for temporal sovereignty through civil service exam battles	1
The winners of marketisation: Welfare profit-makers legitimising private profits in publicly funded welfare services	1
Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context	1
Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil	1
Becoming a young radical right activist: Biographical pathways of the members of radical right organisations in Poland and Germany	1
Environmental anomie and the disruption of physical norms during disaster	1
Justifying contentious social and political claims using mundane language: An analysis of Canadian right-wing extremism	1
Redoing gender in lifestyle migrant women: From Spain to Greece and vice versa	1
Transactional pathways: Institutional possibilities for status and wealth under racial/caste capitalism	1
India and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: Thirty years of rhetoric, reform, and reckoning	1
Interpenetration and the town and gown divide: A systems theoretical reading of Porterhouse Blue	1
Planned meetings: Multiplicity, boxed-in dialogues, and deliberative bureaucracy as social form	1
Privilege and discrimination in identity politics: ‘Guiding Distinctions’ as a tool for analyzing social inequality	1
Exploring biographical case reconstructions of women with housing instability experience in South Brazil	1
Excluding themselves from development? Carework as a discursive resource for women farmers in Ethiopia	1
Youth and the consumption of credit	1
A sociological genealogy of transcendence	1
Reimagining independence: Relational selves in the Korean disability justice movement	1
Aggravated commodification as a new dimension of precarity in platform economy	1
Social media as a means of visual biographical performance and biographical work	1
Syed Hussein Alatas and decolonising social theory: From the lazy native to the captive mind	1
Weaponized volunteering: Where and whither	1
Repair and upcycling: Artisanal work as alternative engagement with socio-ecosystems	1
Distinguishing next society	1
Generative processes of social vulnerability to flood risk: A proposal for the strategic management of social impacts	1
Conflicting demands and emotional labour: Balancing and swapping at the front line of the welfare state	1
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel	1
If unequal, don’t change it? The inequality-redistribution puzzle among political elites	1
Comments on Suraj Yengde’s lecture	1
Nigeria’s political hangover: Military legacy, state repression and the #EndSARS protest movement	1
Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement	1
On the emergence and changing positions of old-established groupings in migration contexts: A process perspective on group formation in Jordan	1
Who recounts the Stalinist past? Mnemonic roles, acts of remembering and life-scripts in Russian families	1
On a quest for social mobility: The high-risk educational strategies of Indian medical students in Georgia	1