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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Multidimensional gender ideologies: How do they relate to work-family arrangements of mothers with dependent children in Poland and western Germany?	26
How do political opportunities impact protest potential? A multilevel cross-national assessment	15
To be heard or not to be heard: Precarity in the lives of Turkish musicians in Paris and Istanbul	11
The dynamics of attitudes toward immigrants: Cohort analyses for Western EU member states	10
Threats for workers or opportunities for consumers? The impact of the Great Recession on perceived trade threat in 21 countries	10
Global out-of-home childcare and world culture	10
Does the class composition matter? Social and immigrant class composition in compulsory school and the trajectory to upper-secondary education in Germany and Switzerland	9
Book review: A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China	9
Book Review: Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic Simone Maddanu and Emanuele Toscano (eds)	8
A virtuous cycle? Migrant integration policies, attitudes toward immigration, and populist radical right voting in Europe	8
How democracy and inequality shaped the initial COVID-19 pandemic	8
Economic abuse: Coercive debt of Arab-Palestinian women in Israel	7
The role of trust in Belarusian societal mobilization (2020–2021)	7
Book review: Muslim American city: Gender and religion in Metro Detroit	7
Life satisfaction, skills diffusion, and the Japan Paradox: Toward multidisciplinary research on the skills trap	6
Child poverty and academic skills at the national level: A longitudinal analysis of four waves of PISA	6
The stratification of education systems and social background inequality of educational opportunity	6
Institutional characteristics of education systems and inequalities: Introduction II	5
Book Review: At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia Phillip A Hough	5
(In)sufficient institutionalization? Norm articulation in the World Health Organization and infectious disease prevalence across the global South	5
Book review: The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the “Deinstitutionalised” Community	5
Financialization, confidence, and sovereign debt markets: The role of Credit Default Swaps in the Southern European debt crisis	5
“Doing family” from the standpoint of single Filipina migrant mothers	5
Social selectivity and gender-segregation across fields of study: Comparative evidence from Austria	5
Explaining when older persons are perceived as a burden: A cross-national analysis of ageism	5

Book review: The limits of universal rule: Eurasian empires compared	5
On the (im)possibility of state apologies for the colonial past in French and German memory politics	5
Addressing the gender gap: Impact of institutions on women’s political participation in Africa	4
Emotional reason: The Israeli scientific mind facing a German cultural mirror	4
Book Review: Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice	4
Shifting surrogacies: Comparative ethnographies	4
Book review: Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise	4
Book review: On Feeding the Masses: An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China	4
Confronting neoliberal education policies and COVID-19: Convergent trajectories of public school teacher resistance in Brazil and the United States	3
Contrasting perspectives: Belief in national superiority in relation to countries’ performance	3
Institutional characteristics of education systems and inequalities: Introduction III	3
Book reviews: Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa	3
The public life of care: How caregivers in the United States and India frame their contributions	3
Integration policies and threat perceptions following the European migration crisis: New insights into the policy-threat nexus	3
Animals in world society: Constitutional and legislative incorporation, 1972–2020	3
Book reviews: Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential	3
Conflictive clients and peripheral partners: How poor city-dwellers contest developer-led housing programs in two Latin American cities	2
Book reviews: The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture	2
Religious life in schooled society? A global study of the relationship between schooling and religiosity in 76 countries	2
Culture compensates for weak institutions: Determinants of attitudes toward free-riding across the world	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
Acceptance of political restrictions and societal polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative study of Austria and Hungary	2
Book review: Divided by the Wall: Progressive and Conservative Immigration Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border	2
Does inequality exacerbate status anxiety among higher earners? A longitudinal evaluation	2
Book review: Collective Bargaining and Collective Action: Labour Agency and Governance in the 21st Century	2
“Climate translators” building trust and local democratic cooperation on green transition: Denmark and Germany	2
Childhood adversities and gender inequality in mental health: Do gendered institutions matter?	2
The relational preconditions of trust in collective action fields	2
Cross-national patterns of traditional and cyberbullying: The role of individual and social support indicators	2
Religion as a factor in cultural consumption: Religious denomination and its impact on reading practices and ballet-opera attendance in Europe	2
Book reviews: The World Cup as World History	2
Book Review: Forced Out: Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope Susan J Terrio	2
Democracy as a trust-building learning process: Organizational dilemmas in social movements	2
Book review: Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring	2
Book reviews: Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas	2
Book review: The Return of Geopolitics	2