OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Comparative Sociology is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Worldwide shadow education and social inequality: Explaining differences in the socioeconomic gap in access to shadow education across 63 societies	53
Economic conditions and perceptions of immigrants as an economic threat in Europe: Temporal dynamics and mediating processes	31
Social inequality in shadow education: The role of high-stakes testing	27
Public attitudes toward economic growth versus environmental sustainability dilemma: Evidence from Europe	19
The digital divide at school and at home: A comparison between schools by socioeconomic level across 47 countries	12
The dynamics of attitudes toward immigrants: Cohort analyses for Western EU member states	12
Attitudes about paid parental leave: Cross-national comparisons and the significance of gendered expectations, family strains, and extant leave offerings	8
Does inequality exacerbate status anxiety among higher earners? A longitudinal evaluation	7
Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison	7
News coverage of social protests in global society	7
Emerging “repronubs” and “repropreneurs”: Transnational surrogacy in Ghana, Kazakhstan, and Laos	7
Institutional characteristics of education systems and inequalities—Introduction I	6
Global out-of-home childcare and world culture	6
Explaining when older persons are perceived as a burden: A cross-national analysis of ageism	6
The interplay of female empowerment and subjective beliefs about women in 51 countries	6
The colonial origins of ethnic warfare: Re-examining the impact of communalizing colonial policies in the British and French Empires	5
Social status inequality and depression in Europe	5
Queer decisions: Racial matching among gay male intended parents	5
Post-industrial capitalism and trade union decline in affluent democracies	5
Violated entitlement and the nation: How feelings of relative deprivation shape nationalism and constructive patriotism	5
Homeownership regimes and class inequality among young adults	5
The consequences of trust and repression on the rise and fall of movements in authoritarian regimes	4
Life satisfaction, skills diffusion, and the Japan Paradox: Toward multidisciplinary research on the skills trap	4
A comparative analysis of early childhood socioeconomic conditions and educational achievement 15 years later	4
Inequalities in (trans)national surrogacy: A call for examining complex lived realities with an empirical lens	4

General trust in the health care system and general trust in physicians: A multilevel analysis of 30 countries	4
Integration policies and threat perceptions following the European migration crisis: New insights into the policy-threat nexus	4
Similar gaps, different paths? Comparing racial inequalities among BA holders in Brazil and the United States	4
Living the past? Do historical legacies moderate the relationship between national chauvinism/cultural patriotism and xenophobic attitudes toward immigrants	4
The stratification of education systems and social background inequality of educational opportunity	4
School segregation, student achievement, and educational attainment in Hungary	4
Transnational migrant labor, split labor markets, and workers’ boundary-making practices in a Chinese state-sponsored workplace in Ecuador	3
The politics of anti-austerity protest: South Korea in 1997–1998 and Greece in 2009–2010	3
Social selectivity and gender-segregation across fields of study: Comparative evidence from Austria	3
Democracy as a trust-building learning process: Organizational dilemmas in social movements	3
Varieties of capitalism and income inequality	2
The impact of marketization on school segregation and educational equity and effectiveness: Evidence from Australia and Canada	2
Trust is personal and professional: The role of trust in the rise and fall of a South African civil society coalition	2
Financialization goes South: Foreign capital flows and financial accumulation in emerging markets	2
Between-country inequalities in health lifestyles	2
Mosaic of beliefs: Comparing gender ideology in China across generation, geography, and gender	2
Exclusionary attitudes toward immigrants: Globalization and configurations of ascribed and achieved status across 14 European countries	2
Shifting surrogacies: Comparative ethnographies	2
Paperwork: Following the trail of (identity) papers in transnational commercial surrogacy	2
WINGOs as conduits of world culture, their relationships with emancipative values, and women’s political empowerment worldwide, 1981–2020	2
“Climate translators” building trust and local democratic cooperation on green transition: Denmark and Germany	2
Animals in world society: Constitutional and legislative incorporation, 1972–2020	2
Do secondary education systems influence the overeducation risk of university graduates? A cross-national analysis by field of study and social background	2
Globalization, contextual threat perception, and nativist backlash: A cross-national examination of ethnic nationalism and anti-immigrant prejudice	2
From mass mobilization to neoliberal war-making: Labor strikes and military-industrial transformation in the United States	2
The rules of the game: Healthcare systems and cross-national attitudes about healthcare provision	2
Cross-national differences in the association between intergenerational support and fertility in East Asia	2
Patterns of overeducation among highly educated mobile intra-EU workers, 2005–2016: Enlargement, financial crisis, and mobility	2
Contrasting perspectives: Belief in national superiority in relation to countries’ performance	2