Social Problems

Papers
(The H4-Index of Social Problems is 15. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
“The State is Coming”: The Emotional Content of State Formation through a Colombian Coca Substitution Program92
The Alien Citizen: Social Distance and the Economic Returns to Naturalization in the Southwest46
“Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate”: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab45
How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution26
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology24
America’s Most Divided Sport: Polarization and Inequality in Attitudes about Youth Football23
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison23
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences21
“Dream like the Whites”: Disjunctures in Racial Experiences and Interpretations of Low-Income First-Generation Students of Color and Their Parents18
“Trans Enough”: Examining the Boundaries of Transgender-Identity Membership18
Crafting Charismatic Cops: Community Policing and the Faulty Reputations Paradigm17
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities17
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring17
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec16
Temporal Autonomy: Schedule Instability as a Threat to Perceived Dignity in the U.S. Service Sector15
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