OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Sociology is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire	40
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	39
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	38
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization	28
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	23
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control	23
Moral regulation and a good moral panic: UK Polish migrant workers and the 2016 EU Referendum	22
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	19
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers	18
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	18
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	17
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	16
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	14
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)	14
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome	13
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	12
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	12
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	12
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships	11
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	11
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem	11
The mechanisms of trust formation under different conditions of political identity: An experiment among Taiwanese voters	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
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	9

Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?	9
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	9
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	9
Race and/or caste: What is at stake?	9
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	9
Citizenship as a caste marker: How persons experience cross-national inequality	9
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	9
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study	8
A value turn in sociology	8
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	8
Interrogating parenting and intergenerational relationships within national and transnational contexts	7
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud	7
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science	7
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	7
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	6
The literature/science boundary in sociological articles: Using fiction to discover patterns in co-authorship, author gender, and citation rank	6
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea	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
Risk, mourning, politics: Toward a transnational critical conception of grief for COVID-19 deaths in Iran	6
Reflections of a Monographs editor	6
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	6
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	5
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell	5
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship	5
Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology	5
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	5
Editors’ foreword to the 70th anniversary volume	5
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts	5
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain	5
Diasporic multiculturalism	5
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation	5
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	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
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts	4
Paid domestic work and outsourcing in South Africa: Clients’ views on trust, control and power relations	4
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences	4
Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach	4
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives	4
Is ethics a Utopia? Yes, when moral distinctions impair the ethical aim	4
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
An emerging military-industrial-nonprofit complex? Exploring conscripted volunteering in Israel	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
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy	4
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey	4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies	4
On the importance of taking risks	4

Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City	4
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union	4