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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Social representations of ‘social distancing’ in response to COVID-19 in the UK media	34
Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean	32
Tackling COVID-19 risk in Hong Kong: Examining distrust, compliance and risk management	29
Panic, pizza and mainstreaming the alt-right: A social media analysis of Pizzagate and the rise of the QAnon conspiracy	28
‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration	27
Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy	26
LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach	25
Introduction: Towards a sociology of pandemics	24
The impossibility of gendered justice through surrogacy bans	24
Alternative media framing of COVID-19 risks	22
Staying away, staying alive: Exploring risk and stigma of COVID-19 in the context of beliefs, actors and hierarchies in India	22
Conclusions: Towards a sociology of pandemics and beyond	21
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	18
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing	17
Men’s and women’s changing attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers in Australia	15
Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition	14
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science	13
Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait	13
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain	13
Criminalization of femicide in Latin America: Challenges of legal conceptualization	12
Social class, intensive parenting norms and parental values for children	12
How religion shapes immigrants’ integration: The case of Christian migrant churches in Italy	12
Pandemic rage: Everyday frustrations in times of the COVID-19 crisis	12
Wasta and its relationship to employment status and income in the Arab Middle East	12
Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to ‘Global Britain’	12

Understanding less-educated citizens’ (non-)participation in citizens’ initiatives: Feelings of entitlement and a taste for politics	11
Motherhood and the contradictions of feminism: Appraising claims towards emancipation in the perspective of surrogacy	10
From global risk to global threat: State capabilities and modernity in times of coronavirus	10
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences	10
Gendered parenting and returns from children in contemporary India: A study of IIT students and their parents	9
Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide	9
Nonprofits as socially responsible actors: Neoliberalism, institutional structures, and empowerment in the United Nations Global Compact	9
Road capitals: Reconceptualising street capital, value production and exchange in the context of road life in the UK	9
Political sociology in a time of protest	8
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers	8
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category	8
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	8
Superdiversity and social policies in a complex society: Social challenges in the 21st century	8
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control	8
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems	7
Islamophobia and French academia	7
An integral model of cultural reproduction: The case of China	7
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	7
From rain as risk to rain as resource: Professional and organizational changes in urban rainwater management	7
Beyond convergence and divergence: Towards a ‘both and’ approach to critical race and critical Indigenous studies in Australia	7
The politics of deferral: Denaturalizing the ‘economic value’ of children’s labor in India	6
Characteristics of pandemic work–life balance in Slovenian military families during the lockdown: Who has paid the highest price?	6
Youth and the consumption of credit	6
Scaled, citizen-led, and public qualitative research: A framework for citizen social science	6
In search of the ‘best’ option: American private secondary education for upper-middle-class Chinese teenagers	6
Warriors against the ‘War on Drugs’: Lay experts in Norwegian drug policy	6
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension	6
Digital competences and skills as key factors between connectedness and tolerance to diversity on social networking sites: Case study of social work graduates on Facebook	6
Introduction: The case for a value turn in childhood sociology	6
Commercial surrogacy in the age of intensive mothering	5
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem	5
‘I wish I were a plumber!’: Transnational class reconstructions across migrant experiences among Hong Kong’s professionals and managers	5
Trust in the military in post-authoritarian societies	5
Contentious buildings: The struggle against eviction in NYC’s Lower East Side	5
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas	5
Deconstructing social anthropology discourses in their support of surrogacy: The case of France	5
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies	5
Structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in academic publishing: The case of Philippine international migration scholarship	5
How to make sense of citizen expertise in participatory projects?	5
The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey	5
The German social space and its homologies: National variation on a basic structure	4
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts	4
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	4
Horizontal and vertical labour market movements in Austria: Do occupational transitions take women across gendered lines?	4
Patterns of support and conflict relationships in personal networks and perceived stress	4
The Safe Standing movement in English football: Mobilizing across the political and discursive fields of contention	4
A cautionary tale: CVE policy actors managing risk in Australian schools	4
Look up rather than down: Karl Polanyi’s fascism and radical right-wing ‘populism’	4
Narrating the crisis: Moral regulation, overlapping responsibilities and COVID-19 in Canada	4
Forced returnee Bangladeshi female migrant domestic workers and their social reintegration experiences	4

Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Neuroscience and the construction of a new child in early childhood education in Indonesia: A neoliberal legacy	4
Weaponizing people in environmental conflicts: Capturing ‘hearts’, ‘minds’, and manufacturing ‘volunteers’ for extractive development	4
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey	4