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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Worldwide shadow education and social inequality: Explaining differences in the socioeconomic gap in access to shadow education across 63 societies	48
Economic conditions and perceptions of immigrants as an economic threat in Europe: Temporal dynamics and mediating processes	27
Social inequality in shadow education: The role of high-stakes testing	20
Public attitudes toward economic growth versus environmental sustainability dilemma: Evidence from Europe	14
The digital divide at school and at home: A comparison between schools by socioeconomic level across 47 countries	8
Spinners or sitters? Regimes of social reproduction and urban Chinese workers’ employment choices	8
The dynamics of attitudes toward immigrants: Cohort analyses for Western EU member states	8
Informality in action: A relational look at informal work	7
Institutional characteristics of education systems and inequalities—Introduction I	6
The memories of others: How leaders import collective memories in political speech	6
Social status inequality and depression in Europe	6
Does context matter? A cross-country investigation of the effects of the media context on external and internal political efficacy	6
Attitudes about paid parental leave: Cross-national comparisons and the significance of gendered expectations, family strains, and extant leave offerings	6
Country differences in the link between gender-role attitudes and marital centrality: Evidence from 24 countries	6
Emerging “repronubs” and “repropreneurs”: Transnational surrogacy in Ghana, Kazakhstan, and Laos	5
Homeownership regimes and class inequality among young adults	5
News coverage of social protests in global society	5
Does inequality exacerbate status anxiety among higher earners? A longitudinal evaluation	5
Queer decisions: Racial matching among gay male intended parents	4
Living the past? Do historical legacies moderate the relationship between national chauvinism/cultural patriotism and xenophobic attitudes toward immigrants	4
Violated entitlement and the nation: How feelings of relative deprivation shape nationalism and constructive patriotism	4
Explaining when older persons are perceived as a burden: A cross-national analysis of ageism	4
Global out-of-home childcare and world culture	4
Transnational migrant labor, split labor markets, and workers’ boundary-making practices in a Chinese state-sponsored workplace in Ecuador	3
The interplay of female empowerment and subjective beliefs about women in 51 countries	3

A comparative analysis of early childhood socioeconomic conditions and educational achievement 15 years later	3
Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison	3
Capitalism and nationalism in thelongue durée: Hegemony, crisis, and state-seeking nationalist mobilization, 1492–2013	3
The colonial origins of ethnic warfare: Re-examining the impact of communalizing colonial policies in the British and French Empires	3
Life satisfaction, skills diffusion, and the Japan Paradox: Toward multidisciplinary research on the skills trap	3
Post-industrial capitalism and trade union decline in affluent democracies	3
Inequalities in (trans)national surrogacy: A call for examining complex lived realities with an empirical lens	2
Democracy as a trust-building learning process: Organizational dilemmas in social movements	2
Wealth and preferences for redistribution: The effects of financial assets and home equity in 31 countries	2
Integration policies and threat perceptions following the European migration crisis: New insights into the policy-threat nexus	2
Animals in world society: Constitutional and legislative incorporation, 1972–2020	2
Shifting surrogacies: Comparative ethnographies	2
Financialization goes South: Foreign capital flows and financial accumulation in emerging markets	2
Paperwork: Following the trail of (identity) papers in transnational commercial surrogacy	2
General trust in the health care system and general trust in physicians: A multilevel analysis of 30 countries	2
Similar gaps, different paths? Comparing racial inequalities among BA holders in Brazil and the United States	2
Redefining norms, exploring new avenues: Negotiations of women informal workers in Delhi	2
From mass mobilization to neoliberal war-making: Labor strikes and military-industrial transformation in the United States	2
Social selectivity and gender-segregation across fields of study: Comparative evidence from Austria	2
The stratification of education systems and social background inequality of educational opportunity	2
Between-country inequalities in health lifestyles	2
Contrasting perspectives: Belief in national superiority in relation to countries’ performance	2