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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	41
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire	41
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	28
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization	25
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	22
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	21
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	21
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers	16
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	16
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	15
Ordinary consumption in extra-ordinarily small homes: Acquisition, storage and decluttering practices of micro-apartment residents	15
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia	14
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome	13
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	13
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	12
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
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem	11
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	11
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	10
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships	10
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	10
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science	10
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism	10
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	9

Race and/or caste: What is at stake?	9
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	9
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?	9
A value turn in sociology	8
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science	8
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud	7
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	7
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	7
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	7
Interrogating parenting and intergenerational relationships within national and transnational contexts	7
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	7
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	6
Reflections of a Monographs editor	6
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study	6
Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology	6
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea	6
The literature/science boundary in sociological articles: Using fiction to discover patterns in co-authorship, author gender, and citation rank	6
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	6
Can a colonial flag become a banner for democracy? The Case of the Dragon and Lion flag and the 2019 Hong Kong protests	6
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems	6
Diasporic multiculturalism	5
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship	5
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	5
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation	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	5
Editors’ foreword to the 70th anniversary volume	5
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell	5
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain	5
The impact of COVID 19 in Argentina and Chile’s informal settlement: Populous habitats and ways of living in times of crisis	4
An emerging military-industrial-nonprofit complex? Exploring conscripted volunteering in Israel	4
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union	4
Is ethics a Utopia? Yes, when moral distinctions impair the ethical aim	4
The semiosis and the market: Peirce’s semiotics for economic sociology	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	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
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey	4
Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach	4
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies	4
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	4
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts	4
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts	4
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences	4
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana	4
On the importance of taking risks	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	4
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City	3

Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital	3
Racism and sexism during pandemic times: Experiences, narratives, and coping mechanisms among Chinese women in the Netherlands	3
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers	3
Receptivity to different types of migrants in Taiwan: Civic behavior and support for same-sex marriage as novel correlates	3
Race and caste in the making of US sociology	3
Military social harm: An agenda for research	3
The intellectual biography of Syed Farid Alatas: Hegemonic orientations, epistemic decolonisation and the School of Autonomous Knowledge	3
How to make sense of citizen expertise in participatory projects?	3
Challenging the protest paradigm and winning legitimacy. Analysis of the representation of the social movement against femicide in the mainstream media in Mexico	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
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy	3
Negotiating euthanasia: Civil society contesting ‘the completed life’	3
Nonviolent youth activism and symbolic violence: Some problems in Bourdieu’s notion of victim complicity	3
Streamlining social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment for the 21st century – Perspectives from South Africa	3
Family formation and health-related behavior: The case of meal skipping	2
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action	2
Who recounts the Stalinist past? Mnemonic roles, acts of remembering and life-scripts in Russian families	2
Justifying contentious social and political claims using mundane language: An analysis of Canadian right-wing extremism	2
Anti-consumerism as a class practice: Parental investment in a private kindergarten in Israel	2
Replace, absorb, serve: Data scientists talk about their aspired jurisdiction	2
Reciprocity, trust and conflict: Volunteers and refugees in rural Germany	2
Publisher’s Note	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
Aggravated commodification as a new dimension of precarity in platform economy	2
‘We do things that matter’: Humanitarian representations of health and welfare services for forced migrants	2
Race, caste and colonialism	2
The necessary confluence of sociology and social impact assessment in the era of global change	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
Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives	2
‘Very unsure of what’s to come’: Salon worker experiences of COVID-19 in Australia during 2020	2
On the emergence and changing positions of old-established groupings in migration contexts: A process perspective on group formation in Jordan	2
Structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in academic publishing: The case of Philippine international migration scholarship	2
Seven years passed	2
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context	2
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The surviving power of Brahmin privilege	1
Distinguishing next society	1
Women’s lives and temporalities of fertility treatment	1
The constitution of political contention: The case of protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century	1
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel	1
Creativity, transcendence, and social constellations	1
Transactional pathways: Institutional possibilities for status and wealth under racial/caste capitalism	1
Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil	1
A sociological genealogy of transcendence	1
Conflicting demands and emotional labour: Balancing and swapping at the front line of the welfare state	1
Exploring biographical case reconstructions of women with housing instability experience in South Brazil	1
Reflections of a journal editor	1
Extended family collaboration in childcare during the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic	1
Weaponized volunteering: Where and whither	1
Generative processes of social vulnerability to flood risk: A proposal for the strategic management of social impacts	1
Interpenetration and the town and gown divide: A systems theoretical reading of Porterhouse Blue	1
Not a mirror but a tool: User experience research and the production of useful social knowledge	1
‘Weaponized volunteering’ and re-considering the volunteering-weaponization divide	1
Parental aspirations, schools, and the limits of flexible citizenship: Examining elite return migrants’ schooling decisions	1
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension	1
Youth and the consumption of credit	1
Excluding themselves from development? Carework as a discursive resource for women farmers in Ethiopia	1
Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context	1
Planned meetings: Multiplicity, boxed-in dialogues, and deliberative bureaucracy as social form	1
Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement	1
Comments on Suraj Yengde’s lecture	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
Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide	1
Scaled, citizen-led, and public qualitative research: A framework for citizen social science	1
Introduction: Reconstructive biographical research	1
If unequal, don’t change it? The inequality-redistribution puzzle among political elites	1
Empathy in research process: Study of women in sex work in India	1
Becoming a young radical right activist: Biographical pathways of the members of radical right organisations in Poland and Germany	1
The winners of marketisation: Welfare profit-makers legitimising private profits in publicly funded welfare services	1
Mastering political time: China’s graduates in the quest for temporal sovereignty through civil service exam battles	1
Is religion the ‘opiate of the masses’? Religion and political trust in China	1
Disabled youth participation within activism and social movement bases: An empirical investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement	1