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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Narratives of institutional trust: Turkish migrants’ comparative perspectives in Germany and Türkiye	47
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	26
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	21
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization	21
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	19
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	17
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	16
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	13
Ordinary consumption in extra-ordinarily small homes: Acquisition, storage and decluttering practices of micro-apartment residents	13
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	13
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	13
Why and how lifestyle change to reduced consumption is an active part of the emerging sustainability transformation	12
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia	11
Why the world still fails to end conflict-related sexual violence 30 years after the Beijing declaration	10
Classes in transition: Intergenerational family trajectories and forced migration in historical context	10
Leveraging expat bubbles: Migrant women’s information-gathering practices within Hong Kong spaces of expatriate privilege from arrival to post-divorce	9
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	9
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships	9
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	9
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	9
Fluid yet sticky? Exploring social class through the lens of transnational migration	8
Of love and loss: Negotiating masculinity and care in families of autistic children in China	8
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
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	7

Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	6
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	6
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
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	6
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud	6
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study	6
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	6
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	6
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	5
A value turn in sociology	5
Challenging the sociological canon: An analysis of theoretical practices in Norwegian sociology	5
Beyond democratic exposure: A cognitive-motivational-emotional analysis of political disaffection among highly skilled Chinese migrants in Germany	5
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	5
Ethnographic inheritances in Kashmir: The academic and social life of an ethnographic monograph	5
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	5
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	5
The returnscape: The labyrinthine return trajectories of temporary migrant workers	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
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?	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
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	5
Diasporic multiculturalism	5
‘. . . 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
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	4
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	4
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts	4
The need for a sexual safety framework: Deployment-related sexual violence against US servicewomen and implications for the women, peace, and security agenda	4
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain	4
Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts	4
The sociology of literature in Argentina: A little of its history and some notes on its present	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell	4
The impact of COVID 19 in Argentina and Chile’s informal settlement: Populous habitats and ways of living in times of crisis	4
My child is one in a million: Parents hesitant to vaccinate their children, or communities of practice in the field of (alternative) medicine	4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	4
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4
Entrapped subjects: Disciplinary techniques in China’s multi-level marketing organizations	4
Military social harm: An agenda for research	3
Is ethics a Utopia? Yes, when moral distinctions impair the ethical aim	3
Race and caste in the making of US sociology	3
Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach	3
Racism and sexism during pandemic times: Experiences, narratives and coping mechanisms among Chinese women in the Netherlands	3
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City	3
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives	3
‘Remittances’ in question: Circulating money and non-circulating words among multi-generational Palestinians in Italy	3
Primitive social theory: On the history of the ‘primitive concept’ in sociology and its applications under post-digital modernity	3
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy	3
The intellectual biography of Syed Farid Alatas: Hegemonic orientations, epistemic decolonisation and the School of Autonomous Knowledge	3

Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union	3
The semiosis and the market: Peirce’s semiotics for economic sociology	3
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana	3
Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital	3
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context	3
Looking at human-centered artificial intelligence as a problem and prospect for sociology: An analytic review	2
Replace, absorb, serve: Data scientists talk about their aspired jurisdiction	2
Aggravated commodification as a new dimension of precarity in platform economy	2
Family formation and health-related behavior: The case of meal skipping	2
Redoing gender in lifestyle migrant women: From Spain to Greece and vice versa	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
The construction of dual ethnic identity among multi-ethnic adolescents	2
Social media as a means of visual biographical performance and biographical work	2
‘Very unsure of what’s to come’: Salon worker experiences of COVID-19 in Australia during 2020	2
Who recounts the Stalinist past? Mnemonic roles, acts of remembering and life-scripts in Russian families	2
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action	2
Extended family collaboration in childcare during the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic	2
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers	2
Anti-consumerism as a class practice: Parental investment in a private kindergarten in Israel	2
Narratives of acceptance in men’s journeys of hair loss: Identity reconstruction, masculinities and competing pressures	2
‘Buddhist therapeutics’: The overlapping logics of religion and health in Italian Buddhism	2
Streamlining social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment for the 21st century – Perspectives from South Africa	2
Neo-colonial narratives in modern migration: Housing practices and class dynamics of Indian migrants in Frankfurt a.M	2
The state and the clinic: Migrant narratives in Italy’s healthcare system	2
Disabled youth participation within activism and social movement bases: An empirical investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement	2
Remitting amid autocracy: Venezuelan migrant remittances to relatives enduring widespread structural violence	2
Seven years passed	2
Justifying contentious social and political claims using mundane language: An analysis of Canadian right-wing extremism	2
Publisher’s Note	2
On a quest for social mobility: The high-risk educational strategies of Indian medical students in Georgia	2
Reciprocity, trust and conflict: Volunteers and refugees in rural Germany	2
On the emergence and changing positions of old-established groupings in migration contexts: A process perspective on group formation in Jordan	2
The necessary confluence of sociology and social impact assessment in the era of global change	2
Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives	2
Environmental anomie and the disruption of physical norms during disaster	2
Race, caste and colonialism	2
Transactional pathways: Institutional possibilities for status and wealth under racial/caste capitalism	1
The winners of marketisation: Welfare profit-makers legitimising private profits in publicly funded welfare services	1
Becoming a young radical right activist: Biographical pathways of the members of radical right organisations in Poland and Germany	1
The surviving power of Brahmin privilege	1
Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement	1
Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context	1
Excluding themselves from development? Carework as a discursive resource for women farmers in Ethiopia	1
Bibliometric (in)visibilities in the global social sciences: Revisiting regional dynamics across Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex (1980–2023)	1
Introduction: Reconstructive biographical research	1
Repair and upcycling: Artisanal work as alternative engagement with socio-ecosystems	1
Who are the experts? A study of the everyday enactment of expertise in mental health care	1
Reimagining independence: Relational selves in the Korean disability justice movement	1
Creativity, transcendence, and social constellations	1
Empathy in research process: Study of women in sex work in India	1
Nigeria’s political hangover: Military legacy, state repression and the #EndSARS protest movement	1
Distinction by design: Classed national identity in Dubai’s market economy	1
Exploring biographical case reconstructions of women with housing instability experience in South Brazil	1
Weaponized volunteering: Where and whither	1
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel	1
Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil	1
The German social space and its homologies: National variation on a basic structure	1
India and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: Thirty years of rhetoric, reform, and reckoning	1
Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide	1
Distinguishing next society	1
Planned meetings: Multiplicity, boxed-in dialogues, and deliberative bureaucracy as social form	1
Generative processes of social vulnerability to flood risk: A proposal for the strategic management of social impacts	1
Privilege and discrimination in identity politics: ‘Guiding Distinctions’ as a tool for analyzing social inequality	1
‘Weaponized volunteering’ and re-considering the volunteering-weaponization divide	1
Syed Hussein Alatas and decolonising social theory: From the lazy native to the captive mind	1
Youth and the consumption of credit	1
Comments on Suraj Yengde’s lecture	1
Conflicting demands and emotional labour: Balancing and swapping at the front line of the welfare state	1
Mastering political time: China’s graduates in the quest for temporal sovereignty through civil service exam battles	1
Women’s lives and temporalities of fertility treatment	1
If unequal, don’t change it? The inequality-redistribution puzzle among political elites	1
From project-based to community-based social impact assessment: New social impact assessment pathways to build community resilience and enhance disaster risk reduction and climate action	1
Interpenetration and the town and gown divide: A systems theoretical reading of Porterhouse Blue	1
A sociological genealogy of transcendence	1
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension	1