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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization	47
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	32
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire	27
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	22
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	18
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	14
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia	14
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	14
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	13
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	12
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	11
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	11
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)	11
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome	11
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships	11
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	11
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem	10
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	9
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	9
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science	9
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism	9
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	9
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?	8

LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	8
Race and/or caste: What is at stake?	7
A value turn in sociology	7
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science	6
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	6
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	6
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	6
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	6
Interrogating parenting and intergenerational relationships within national and transnational contexts	6
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems	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
Editors’ foreword to the 70th anniversary volume	5
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts	5
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation	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
Diasporic multiculturalism	5
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	5
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	5
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	5
Reflections of a Monographs editor	5
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell	5
The literature/science boundary in sociological articles: Using fiction to discover patterns in co-authorship, author gender, and citation rank	5
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain	4
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	4
An emerging military-industrial-nonprofit complex? Exploring conscripted volunteering in Israel	4
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey	4
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences	4
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts	4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	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
Paid domestic work and outsourcing in South Africa: Clients’ views on trust, control and power relations	4
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives	4
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies	4
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	4
The impact of COVID 19 in Argentina and Chile’s informal settlement: Populous habitats and ways of living in times of crisis	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
Is ethics a Utopia? Yes, when moral distinctions impair the ethical aim	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
The semiosis and the market: Peirce’s semiotics for economic sociology	3
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union	3
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy	3
Racism and sexism during pandemic times: Experiences, narratives, and coping mechanisms among Chinese women in the Netherlands	3
Primitive social theory: On the history of the ‘primitive concept’ in sociology and its applications under post-digital modernity	3
The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka	3
Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach	3
Race and caste in the making of US sociology	3
The intellectual biography of Syed Farid Alatas: Hegemonic orientations, epistemic decolonisation and the School of Autonomous Knowledge	3
On the importance of taking risks	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
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City	3
Military social harm: An agenda for research	3
Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital	3
Streamlining social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment for the 21st century – Perspectives from South Africa	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
Anti-consumerism as a class practice: Parental investment in a private kindergarten in Israel	2
Remitting amid autocracy: Venezuelan migrant remittances to relatives enduring widespread structural violence	2
Looking at human-centered artificial intelligence as a problem and prospect for sociology: An analytic review	2
Family formation and health-related behavior: The case of meal skipping	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
Publisher’s Note	2
Reciprocity, trust and conflict: Volunteers and refugees in rural Germany	2
Race, caste and colonialism	2
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action	2
On the emergence and changing positions of old-established groupings in migration contexts: A process perspective on group formation in Jordan	2
How to make sense of citizen expertise in participatory projects?	2
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers	2
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context	2
Seven years passed	2
The construction of dual ethnic identity among multi-ethnic adolescents	2
Replace, absorb, serve: Data scientists talk about their aspired jurisdiction	2
Mastering political time: China’s graduates in the quest for temporal sovereignty through civil service exam battles	1
Transactional pathways: Institutional possibilities for status and wealth under racial/caste capitalism	1
Disabled youth participation within activism and social movement bases: An empirical investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement	1
Aggravated commodification as a new dimension of precarity in platform economy	1
Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context	1
Becoming a young radical right activist: Biographical pathways of the members of radical right organisations in Poland and Germany	1
Distinguishing next society	1
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension	1
Empathy in research process: Study of women in sex work in India	1
Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement	1
Generative processes of social vulnerability to flood risk: A proposal for the strategic management of social impacts	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
Youth and the consumption of credit	1
A sociological genealogy of transcendence	1
‘Very unsure of what’s to come’: Salon worker experiences of COVID-19 in Australia during 2020	1
Justifying contentious social and political claims using mundane language: An analysis of Canadian right-wing extremism	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
The winners of marketisation: Welfare profit-makers legitimising private profits in publicly funded welfare services	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
The constitution of political contention: The case of protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century	1
The surviving power of Brahmin privilege	1
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Comments on Suraj Yengde’s lecture	1
If unequal, don’t change it? The inequality-redistribution puzzle among political elites	1
Reflections of a journal editor	1
Conflicting demands and emotional labour: Balancing and swapping at the front line of the welfare state	1
Extended family collaboration in childcare during the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic	1
Social media as a means of visual biographical performance and biographical work	1
Environmental anomie and the disruption of physical norms during disaster	1
Privilege and discrimination in identity politics: ‘Guiding Distinctions’ as a tool for analyzing social inequality	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
Women’s lives and temporalities of fertility treatment	1
‘Weaponized volunteering’ and re-considering the volunteering-weaponization divide	1
Scaled, citizen-led, and public qualitative research: A framework for citizen social science	1
Weaponized volunteering: Where and whither	1
Excluding themselves from development? Carework as a discursive resource for women farmers in Ethiopia	1
Exploring biographical case reconstructions of women with housing instability experience in South Brazil	1
Creativity, transcendence, and social constellations	1