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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	56
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	30
Narratives of institutional trust: Turkish migrants’ comparative perspectives in Germany and Türkiye	25
Why Beijing+30 matters	19
From “iron fists” to digital traps: How contemporary legal policies bypass international gender standards	18
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	16
Ordinary consumption in extra-ordinarily small homes: Acquisition, storage and decluttering practices of micro-apartment residents	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
Why and how lifestyle change to reduced consumption is an active part of the emerging sustainability transformation	13
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	13
Classes in transition: Intergenerational family trajectories and forced migration in historical context	12
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	11
Why the world still fails to end conflict-related sexual violence 30 years after the Beijing Declaration	11
Gendered exit and displacement: Social reproduction and automation in Bangladesh’s garment industry	10
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	9
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	9
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships	9
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	8
Leveraging expat bubbles: Migrant women’s information-gathering practices within Hong Kong spaces of expatriate privilege from arrival to post-divorce	8
Of love and loss: Negotiating masculinity and care in families of autistic children in China	8
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism	7
Fluid yet sticky? Exploring social class through the lens of transnational migration	7
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science	7
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	6

Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	6
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud	6
Ageism as labor precarity: Prescriptive stereotypes and the politics of informal work in the Global South	6
Race and/or caste: What is at stake?	6
Ethnographic inheritances in Kashmir: The academic and social life of an ethnographic monograph	6
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	6
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	6
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study	6
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	6
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	5
Challenging the sociological canon: An analysis of theoretical practices in Norwegian sociology	5
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	5
Diasporic multiculturalism	5
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	5
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	5
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	5
‘I feel like I’m yours, but I’m not yours’: Three accounts to interpret an idiosyncratic form of dating and romantic relationship among young female college students in South Korea	5
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	5
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	5
Thirty years on: A conversation with Xingjuan Wang, a pioneer of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action	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
Beyond democratic exposure: A cognitive-motivational-emotional analysis of political disaffection among highly skilled Chinese migrants in Germany	5
The returnscape: The labyrinthine return trajectories of temporary migrant workers	5
The impact of COVID 19 in Argentina and Chile’s informal settlement: Populous habitats and ways of living in times of crisis	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
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	4
Tensional resonance: Queerness as praxis in grassroots queer spaces	4
My child is one in a million: Parents hesitant to vaccinate their children, or communities of practice in the field of (alternative) medicine	4
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell	4
“Do what that expert says – until you know better”: How people gauge expert advice	4
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts	4
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
The sociology of literature in Argentina: A little of its history and some notes on its present	4
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4