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 2021-11-01 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
To be heard or not to be heard: Precarity in the lives of Turkish musicians in Paris and Istanbul	14
The stages of transfer: Explaining the divergent forms of zero-tolerance policing in Oakland, California and Lima, Peru	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
How democracy and inequality shaped the initial COVID-19 pandemic	11
Book Review: Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic Simone Maddanu and Emanuele Toscano (eds)	11
Book review: A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China	9
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
Child poverty and academic skills at the national level: A longitudinal analysis of four waves of PISA	8
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
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
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
Explaining when older persons are perceived as a burden: A cross-national analysis of ageism	6
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
“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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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