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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The stages of transfer: Explaining the divergent forms of zero-tolerance policing in Oakland, California and Lima, Peru	20
How do political opportunities impact protest potential? A multilevel cross-national assessment	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
A virtuous cycle? Migrant integration policies, attitudes toward immigration, and populist radical right voting in Europe	15
Does the class composition matter? Social and immigrant class composition in compulsory school and the trajectory to upper-secondary education in Germany and Switzerland	14
Book Review: Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic Simone Maddanu and Emanuele Toscano (eds)	12
The role of trust in Belarusian societal mobilization (2020–2021)	11
Global out-of-home childcare and world culture	10
Book review: A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China	10
Book review: Muslim American city: Gender and religion in Metro Detroit	10
National identity, support for democracy, and the mediating role of civic beliefs and participation	9
The impact of school social composition and neighborhood social mix on upper secondary exam performance in Ireland	9
Life satisfaction, skills diffusion, and the Japan Paradox: Toward multidisciplinary research on the skills trap	8
How democracy and inequality shaped the initial COVID-19 pandemic	8
Child poverty and academic skills at the national level: A longitudinal analysis of four waves of PISA	7
Financialization, confidence, and sovereign debt markets: The role of Credit Default Swaps in the Southern European debt crisis	7
Economic abuse: Coercive debt of Arab-Palestinian women in Israel	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
Explaining when older persons are perceived as a burden: A cross-national analysis of ageism	6
Book review: The limits of universal rule: Eurasian empires compared	6
Shifting surrogacies: Comparative ethnographies	6
Social selectivity and gender-segregation across fields of study: Comparative evidence from Austria	6
Book Review: At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia Phillip A Hough	6

“Doing family” from the standpoint of single Filipina migrant mothers	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
Book review: Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise	5
Book Review: Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice	5
The wages of ethnic power: Socioeconomic status, group threat, and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe	5
On the (im)possibility of state apologies for the colonial past in French and German memory politics	5
Contrasting perspectives: Belief in national superiority in relation to countries’ performance	5
(In)sufficient institutionalization? Norm articulation in the World Health Organization and infectious disease prevalence across the global South	5
Emotional reason: The Israeli scientific mind facing a German cultural mirror	5
Addressing the gender gap: Impact of institutions on women’s political participation in Africa	5
Animals in world society: Constitutional and legislative incorporation, 1972–2020	5
Confronting neoliberal education policies and COVID-19: Convergent trajectories of public school teacher resistance in Brazil and the United States	4
Book reviews: Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa	4
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
Book reviews: The World Cup as World History	4
Does inequality exacerbate status anxiety among higher earners? A longitudinal evaluation	4
Book reviews: Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential	4
Gendered labor contentions in the platform economy: Studying food-delivery and house-cleaning workers	4
Religious life in schooled society? A global study of the relationship between schooling and religiosity in 76 countries	4
The public life of care: How caregivers in the United States and India frame their contributions	4
Institutional characteristics of education systems and inequalities: Introduction III	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
Comparative camp governance: Power, autonomy, and pluralism	4
Culture compensates for weak institutions: Determinants of attitudes toward free-riding across the world	3
The relational preconditions of trust in collective action fields	3
“Climate translators” building trust and local democratic cooperation on green transition: Denmark and Germany	3
Conflictive clients and peripheral partners: How poor city-dwellers contest developer-led housing programs in two Latin American cities	3
Religion as a factor in cultural consumption: Religious denomination and its impact on reading practices and ballet-opera attendance in Europe	3
Perceptions of migrant domestic workers in rural Southern Europe: Insights from Italy and Spain	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
Childhood adversities and gender inequality in mental health: Do gendered institutions matter?	3
Book Review: Forced Out: Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope Susan J Terrio	3
Democracy as a trust-building learning process: Organizational dilemmas in social movements	3
Book reviews: The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture	3
Acceptance of political restrictions and societal polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative study of Austria and Hungary	3