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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	41
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire	41
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	28
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	22
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	21
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	21
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	16
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers	16
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	15
Ordinary consumption in extra-ordinarily small homes: Acquisition, storage and decluttering practices of micro-apartment residents	15
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia	14
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome	13
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	13
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	12
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	11
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	11
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)	11
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem	11
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism	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
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	10
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science	10
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	9

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