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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	26
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	21
‘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
Ordinary consumption in extra-ordinarily small homes: Acquisition, storage and decluttering practices of micro-apartment residents	15
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	15
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers	14
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia	13
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	12
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	12
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)	11
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome	11
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	11
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	11
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	11
The mechanisms of trust formation under different conditions of political identity: An experiment among Taiwanese voters	10
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem	10
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science	10
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	10
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
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?	9

On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism	9
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	9
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	9
A value turn in sociology	8
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems	8
Race and/or caste: What is at stake?	8
Interrogating parenting and intergenerational relationships within national and transnational contexts	8
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	7
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	7
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science	7
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	7
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud	7
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study	7
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	7
Reflections of a Monographs editor	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
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	6
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	6
Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology	6
The literature/science boundary in sociological articles: Using fiction to discover patterns in co-authorship, author gender, and citation rank	6
Diasporic multiculturalism	5
Editors’ foreword to the 70th anniversary volume	5
The impact of COVID 19 in Argentina and Chile’s informal settlement: Populous habitats and ways of living in times of crisis	5
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation	5
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	5
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	5
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship	5
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts	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	4
‘. . . 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
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies	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
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	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
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana	4
An emerging military-industrial-nonprofit complex? Exploring conscripted volunteering in Israel	4
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences	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