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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	38
Making moral and economic inferior others: Everyday racialization of Asian migrants in South Korea	36
Reflections of a journal editor	34
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	30
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	30
Is religion the ‘opiate of the masses’? Religion and political trust in China	28
Social representations of ‘social distancing’ in response to COVID-19 in the UK media	24
Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to ‘Global Britain’	24
Reflections of a Monographs editor	22
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel	22
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control	19
Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement	19
LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach	17
Can a colonial flag become a banner for democracy? The Case of the Dragon and Lion flag and the 2019 Hong Kong protests	17
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	17
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union	17
CORRIGENDUM to “Swedish exceptionalism, herd immunity and the welfare state: A media analysis of struggles over the nature and legitimacy of the COVID-19 pandemic strategy in Sweden”	16
Afro-Belgian activist resistances to research procedures: Reflections on epistemic extractivism and decolonial interventions in sociological research	15
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey	15
Superdiversity: New paths for social sciences in the upcoming future	14
Current Sociology: a personal memoir	12
Risk, mourning, politics: Toward a transnational critical conception of grief for COVID-19 deaths in Iran	11
Past and present currents of sociology: 70 years of Current Sociology	11
Weaponized volunteering: Where and whither	11
The effects of economic globalization on fertility in developing countries, 1990–2018	11

‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana	9
Narrating the crisis: Moral regulation, overlapping responsibilities and COVID-19 in Canada	9
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea	9
Exploring biographical case reconstructions of women with housing instability experience in South Brazil	9
Protective abandonment: Risk, data, and surveillance of nuclear workers post Fukushima	8
Comments on Suraj Yengde’s lecture	8
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization	8
How long-distance nationalism shapes ‘us’ preferences of first-generation Taiwanese Americans	8
Men’s and women’s changing attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers in Australia	8
The weight of time and the unemployment experience: Daily life and future prospects	8
Nonprofits as socially responsible actors: Neoliberalism, institutional structures, and empowerment in the United Nations Global Compact	8
‘I can do things that others can’t’: Civic policing as weaponized volunteering in eThekwini, South Africa	8
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire	8
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	7
Moral regulation and a good moral panic: UK Polish migrant workers and the 2016 EU Referendum	7
Identity regulation and aesthetic control: The affordances and restraints of uniforms in service work	7
The literature/science boundary in sociological articles: Using fiction to discover patterns in co-authorship, author gender, and citation rank	7
The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey	7
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	7
Family formation trajectories and migration in the United States by the end of the 20th century	6
Warriors against the ‘War on Drugs’: Lay experts in Norwegian drug policy	6
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	6
Social networks as contexts for engagement and initiative: An empirical investigation	6
Weaponizing people in environmental conflicts: Capturing ‘hearts’, ‘minds’, and manufacturing ‘volunteers’ for extractive development	6
Introduction: The case for a value turn in childhood sociology	6
Beyond convergence and divergence: Towards a ‘both and’ approach to critical race and critical Indigenous studies in Australia	6
The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka	6
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	5
‘We are not sheep, I believe it is my choice’: Vaccine hesitancy and institutional agency among middle-class mothers in Russia	5
The trading house: A relational and configurational insight into family businesses	5
The currents of sociology: Redux	5
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship	5
‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration	5
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy	5
The network society in the ‘new normal times’: Crisis digitalization and adaption of cultural organizations in the COVID-19	5
Diasporic multiculturalism	5
Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital	4
Children’s life in superdiversity contexts: Impacts on the construction of a children’s citizenship – the Portuguese case	4
Fragile, limited, human	4
Confinement risks and social inequality in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina	4
Pandemic rage: Everyday frustrations in times of the COVID-19 crisis	4
The semiosis and the market: Peirce’s semiotics for economic sociology	4
Fiduciary relationships	4
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City	4
Alternative media framing of COVID-19 risks	4
Supporting oneself: The tensions of navigating a prolonged crisis among Spanish youth	4
Youth and the consumption of credit	4
Becoming a young radical right activist: Biographical pathways of the members of radical right organisations in Poland and Germany	4
Cultural wars and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Southeast Asia: ‘Asian values’, human rights, and the ‘homosexual turn’	4
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation	4