OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Comparative Sociology is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Multidimensional gender ideologies: How do they relate to work-family arrangements of mothers with dependent children in Poland and western Germany?	15
The stages of transfer: Explaining the divergent forms of zero-tolerance policing in Oakland, California and Lima, Peru	14
To be heard or not to be heard: Precarity in the lives of Turkish musicians in Paris and Istanbul	14
How do political opportunities impact protest potential? A multilevel cross-national assessment	13
Threats for workers or opportunities for consumers? The impact of the Great Recession on perceived trade threat in 21 countries	12
Book Review: Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic Simone Maddanu and Emanuele Toscano (eds)	11
How democracy and inequality shaped the initial COVID-19 pandemic	11
Book review: Muslim American city: Gender and religion in Metro Detroit	9
Global out-of-home childcare and world culture	9
The role of trust in Belarusian societal mobilization (2020–2021)	9
Book review: A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China	9
A virtuous cycle? Migrant integration policies, attitudes toward immigration, and populist radical right voting in Europe	8
Does the class composition matter? Social and immigrant class composition in compulsory school and the trajectory to upper-secondary education in Germany and Switzerland	8
Child poverty and academic skills at the national level: A longitudinal analysis of four waves of PISA	8
Institutional characteristics of education systems and inequalities: Introduction II	7
Economic abuse: Coercive debt of Arab-Palestinian women in Israel	7
Financialization, confidence, and sovereign debt markets: The role of Credit Default Swaps in the Southern European debt crisis	7
Book review: The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the “Deinstitutionalised” Community	7
Life satisfaction, skills diffusion, and the Japan Paradox: Toward multidisciplinary research on the skills trap	7
Social selectivity and gender-segregation across fields of study: Comparative evidence from Austria	6
On the (im)possibility of state apologies for the colonial past in French and German memory politics	6
Explaining when older persons are perceived as a burden: A cross-national analysis of ageism	6
(In)sufficient institutionalization? Norm articulation in the World Health Organization and infectious disease prevalence across the global South	5
Book review: The limits of universal rule: Eurasian empires compared	5
“Doing family” from the standpoint of single Filipina migrant mothers	5

Shifting surrogacies: Comparative ethnographies	5
Book Review: Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice	5
Book Review: At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia Phillip A Hough	5
Contrasting perspectives: Belief in national superiority in relation to countries’ performance	4
Book reviews: Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa	4
The public life of care: How caregivers in the United States and India frame their contributions	4
Addressing the gender gap: Impact of institutions on women’s political participation in Africa	4
Animals in world society: Constitutional and legislative incorporation, 1972–2020	4
Book reviews: Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential	4
Emotional reason: The Israeli scientific mind facing a German cultural mirror	4
Book review: Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise	4
Institutional characteristics of education systems and inequalities: Introduction III	4
Comparative camp governance: Power, autonomy, and pluralism	3
Book Review: Marginalised Voices in Criminology StockdaleKelly J.AddisonMichelle (eds), Marginalised Voices in Criminology, Routledge: London, 2024; 252 pp. Hardback ISBN: 9781032198088, 170 USD; Pape	3
Book Review: Forced Out: Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope Susan J Terrio	3
Religious life in schooled society? A global study of the relationship between schooling and religiosity in 76 countries	3
Confronting neoliberal education policies and COVID-19: Convergent trajectories of public school teacher resistance in Brazil and the United States	3
Does inequality exacerbate status anxiety among higher earners? A longitudinal evaluation	3
“Climate translators” building trust and local democratic cooperation on green transition: Denmark and Germany	3
Book Review: Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States Joanna Rak RakJoanna, Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States, Routled	3
Gendered labor contentions in the platform economy: Studying food-delivery and house-cleaning workers	3
Book reviews: The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture	3
Book reviews: The World Cup as World History	3
Book Review: Handbook of Political Islam in Europe: Activities, Means, and Strategies from Salafists to the Muslim Brotherhood and Beyond JägerThomasThieleRalph, Handbook of Political Islam in Europe:	2
Book Review: Women in Yoruba Religions Oyeronke Olademo	2
Perceptions of migrant domestic workers in rural Southern Europe: Insights from Italy and Spain	2
Acceptance of political restrictions and societal polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative study of Austria and Hungary	2
Book reviews: Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas	2
Childhood adversities and gender inequality in mental health: Do gendered institutions matter?	2
Cross-national patterns of traditional and cyberbullying: The role of individual and social support indicators	2
Book Review: Higher Powers: Alcohol and after in Uganda’s Capital City ScherzChinaMpangaGeorgeNamirembeSarah, Higher Powers: Alcohol and after in Uganda’s Capital City, University of California Press:	2
Variations of science-related populism in comparative perspective: A multilevel segmentation analysis of supporters and opponents of populist demands toward science	2
Students and protests: A quantitative cross-national analysis	2
Culture compensates for weak institutions: Determinants of attitudes toward free-riding across the world	2
Religion as a factor in cultural consumption: Religious denomination and its impact on reading practices and ballet-opera attendance in Europe	2
Book review: Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring	2
Book review: The Return of Geopolitics	2
From mass mobilization to neoliberal war-making: Labor strikes and military-industrial transformation in the United States	2
Explaining informal workers’ organizing experiments: A cross-country study of Brazil, China, and India	2
Army embeddedness, political opportunities and threats, and the dynamics of contention: Understanding the varying role of the armed forces in the Egyptian, Syrian, and Libyan 2011 revolts	2
Democracy as a trust-building learning process: Organizational dilemmas in social movements	2
Conflictive clients and peripheral partners: How poor city-dwellers contest developer-led housing programs in two Latin American cities	2
Free-market institutions and income inequality: Did the link persist around the world even in times of falling within-country inequality, 2000–2021?	2
The relational preconditions of trust in collective action fields	2
Book reviews: Mafia Politics	2
Book review: Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology	2
Transnational migrant labor, split labor markets, and workers’ boundary-making practices in a Chinese state-sponsored workplace in Ecuador	1
Queer decisions: Racial matching among gay male intended parents	1
School composition and academic achievement: The case of Russian-medium and Polish-medium schools in Lithuania	1
Corrigendum to “Comparative camp governance: Power, autonomy, and pluralism”	1

Cumulative advantages and disadvantages in attainment of higher education: Set-analytic comparison of asymmetric inequalities in six European countries	1
A systematic review of empirical literature on the segregation of educational institutions and its consequences in Finland	1
Echoes of uncertainty: Reimagining complexity of global risks in the shadow of the Russian–Ukrainian conflict	1
Mosaic of beliefs: Comparing gender ideology in China across generation, geography, and gender	1
Poverty, inequality, and redistribution: An analysis of the equalizing effects of social investment policy	1
Introduction to the special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology on “National identity, nationalism, patriotism, and globalization”	1
The financial dimension of organizational stratification in European higher education	1
Fragmentation of women’s transnational social movement organizations and women’s political empowerment worldwide, 1990–2021	1
Leaving out of necessity or out of ambition? The impact of socio-economic development on factors of youth emigration from countries of South Eastern Europe	1
Concerns about immigration and demand for social protection: The implications of political regimes	1
Book Review: Weber’s Scorecard: State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe Since Charlemagne PageEdward C, Weber’s Scorecard: State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe S	1
Exams or applications? Elite Taiwanese students’ perceptions and navigation of college admissions systems	1
Seeking asylum during a pandemic: A postcolonial media discourse analysis	1
Pro-integration policies and the occupational expectations of immigrant youth	1
Book review: Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr, Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South	1
Multidimensional domestic gender inequality and the global diffusion of women’s ministries, 1975–2015	1
Book review: Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance Is Failing and What We Can Do about It	1
Individual responsibility or trust in the state: A comparison of surrogates’ legal consciousness	1
Book review: Locally Led Peacebuilding: Global Case Studies	1
Book reviews: Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State	1
Legitimation of earnings inequality between regular and non-regular workers: A comparison of Japan, South Korea, and the United States	1
Migrant selectivity in risk orientation and language proficiency: A comparative study of recent refugees and other immigrants in Germany	1
Book review: Eric Mielants and Katsiaryna Salavei Bardos (eds), Economic Cycles and Social Movements: Past, Present and Future	1
The smart camp as classroom: Control, education, and agency in Muslim internment in Northwest China	1
School segregation, student achievement, and educational attainment in Hungary	1
Paperwork: Following the trail of (identity) papers in transnational commercial surrogacy	1
Financialization and top incomes in emerging economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium in the BRIC	1
General trust in the health care system and general trust in physicians: A multilevel analysis of 30 countries	1
Participation in shadow education and academic performance: A comparison of upper secondary school students in Ireland and Germany	1
Book reviews: The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750–1848	1
Living the past? Do historical legacies moderate the relationship between national chauvinism/cultural patriotism and xenophobic attitudes toward immigrants	1