OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Comparative Sociology is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How do political opportunities impact protest potential? A multilevel cross-national assessment	20
From outrage to action: Explaining mass mobilization against the far right in Germany	19
To be heard or not to be heard: Precarity in the lives of Turkish musicians in Paris and Istanbul	17
Multidimensional gender ideologies: How do they relate to work-family arrangements of mothers with dependent children in Poland and western Germany?	17
Threats for workers or opportunities for consumers? The impact of the Great Recession on perceived trade threat in 21 countries	16
The stages of transfer: Explaining the divergent forms of zero-tolerance policing in Oakland, California and Lima, Peru	15
The social contingency of weight: National obesity prevalence as a moderator of the link between individual obesity and mental health	13
Book review: A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China	12
Global out-of-home childcare and world culture	11
Book Review: Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic Simone Maddanu and Emanuele Toscano (eds)	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	10
The role of trust in Belarusian societal mobilization (2020–2021)	9
A virtuous cycle? Migrant integration policies, attitudes toward immigration, and populist radical right voting in Europe	9
The impact of school social composition and neighborhood social mix on upper secondary exam performance in Ireland	9
How democracy and inequality shaped the initial COVID-19 pandemic	8
Book review: Muslim American city: Gender and religion in Metro Detroit	8
Child poverty and academic skills at the national level: A longitudinal analysis of four waves of PISA	7
Economic abuse: Coercive debt of Arab-Palestinian women in Israel	7
National identity, support for democracy, and the mediating role of civic beliefs and participation	7
Life satisfaction, skills diffusion, and the Japan Paradox: Toward multidisciplinary research on the skills trap	7
Book Review: Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football CanadaTracie, Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, University of California Press: Oakl	7
Book review: The limits of universal rule: Eurasian empires compared	6
Book Review: At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia Phillip A Hough	6
On the (im)possibility of state apologies for the colonial past in French and German memory politics	6
Social selectivity and gender-segregation across fields of study: Comparative evidence from Austria	6

(In)sufficient institutionalization? Norm articulation in the World Health Organization and infectious disease prevalence across the global South	6
Explaining when older persons are perceived as a burden: A cross-national analysis of ageism	6
Book Review: Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice	5
Contrasting perspectives: Belief in national superiority in relation to countries’ performance	5
Addressing the gender gap: Impact of institutions on women’s political participation in Africa	5
Shifting surrogacies: Comparative ethnographies	5
Animals in world society: Constitutional and legislative incorporation, 1972–2020	5
The wages of ethnic power: Socioeconomic status, group threat, and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe	5
Emotional reason: The Israeli scientific mind facing a German cultural mirror	5
Book review: Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise	5
Book Review: Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion AdamczykAmy, Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion, Oxford University Pre	5
“Doing family” from the standpoint of single Filipina migrant mothers	5
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	4
Comparative camp governance: Power, autonomy, and pluralism	4
Book reviews: Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa	4
Institutional characteristics of education systems and inequalities: Introduction III	4
Gendered labor contentions in the platform economy: Studying food-delivery and house-cleaning workers	4
Book Review: Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States Joanna Rak RakJoanna, Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member	4
Book reviews: Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential	4
Confronting neoliberal education policies and COVID-19: Convergent trajectories of public school teacher resistance in Brazil and the United States	4
The public life of care: How caregivers in the United States and India frame their contributions	4
Book Review: Forced Out: Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope Susan J Terrio	4
Book reviews: The World Cup as World History	4
“Climate translators” building trust and local democratic cooperation on green transition: Denmark and Germany	3
Childhood adversities and gender inequality in mental health: Do gendered institutions matter?	3
Religion as a factor in cultural consumption: Religious denomination and its impact on reading practices and ballet-opera attendance in Europe	3
The relational preconditions of trust in collective action fields	3
Religious life in schooled society? A global study of the relationship between schooling and religiosity in 76 countries	3
Acceptance of political restrictions and societal polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative study of Austria and Hungary	3
Culture compensates for weak institutions: Determinants of attitudes toward free-riding across the world	3
Conflictive clients and peripheral partners: How poor city-dwellers contest developer-led housing programs in two Latin American cities	3
Perceptions of migrant domestic workers in rural Southern Europe: Insights from Italy and Spain	3
Book reviews: The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture	3
Free-market institutions and income inequality: Did the link persist around the world even in times of falling within-country inequality, 2000–2021?	3
Democracy as a trust-building learning process: Organizational dilemmas in social movements	3