OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Problems 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Bridging Boundaries? The Effect of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ties across Racial Groups	58
Unwitting Accomplices: Equal Treatment and the Perpetuation of Racialized Information Inequality in School Choice	44
Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage	30
“I Thought This Was a Ghost Neighborhood”: How Youth Respond to Neighborhood Change	28
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era?	24
Young Black Women’s Perceptions of Otherfather Involvement	20
Navigating Spatial Enclosures: Race, Place, and School Policing	17
Letter from the New Editorial Team	16
The Intensity of Local Immigration Conflict: Variations across Space and Time	15
Black Women as Superwomen? The Mental Health Effects of Superwoman Schema, Socioeconomic Status, and Financial Strain	13
Race and Ideology in a Pandemic: White Privilege and Patterns of Risk Perception during COVID-19	13
Thanks to Reviewers	13
Retheorizing Intersectional Identities with the Study of Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants	13
Borders, Politics, and Bounded Sympathy: How U.S. Television News Constructs Refugees, 1980–2016	12
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980–2010	11
“The State is Coming”: The Emotional Content of State Formation through a Colombian Coca Substitution Program	11
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison	11
The White View of Black America: Three Forms of Prejudice	10
The Alien Citizen: Social Distance and the Economic Returns to Naturalization in the Southwest	10
Authoritarian Populism and Social Discomfort in Everyday Life	10
Risky Routes, Safe Suspicions: Gender, Class, and Cabs in Hyderabad, India	10
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology	10
America’s Most Divided Sport: Polarization and Inequality in Attitudes about Youth Football	9
The Dynamic Racial Structure and Disparities in Neighborhood Crime Change	9
Politics as a Vacation: Tourist Practices and the Building of the Nation-State	9

Paved with Good Intentions: Moral Evaluation of Volunteer Tourism as Social Action	9
Family Composition, Race, and Teachers’ Perceptions of Parent-Teacher Alliance	8
The Micro-politics of Recognition and Care: How Adult Children in Urban China Negotiate Relationships with Emigrant Siblings	8
How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution	8
Surveilling Sureties: How Privately Mediated Monetary Sanctions Enroll and Responsibilize Families	8
The Effect of Community Organizing on Landlords’ Use of Eviction Filing: Evidence from U.S. Cities	8
Mechanisms Linking High Residential Mobility to Decreased Contraceptive Use: The Importance of Method Availability	8
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline	7
Fired and Evicted: Istanbul Doorkeepers’ Strategies of Navigating Employment and Housing Precarity	7
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth	7
Saving Face While (Not) Talking about Race: How Undergraduates Inhabit Racialized Structures at an Elite and Predominantly White College	7
“Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate”: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab	7
The Long-Term Consequences of Imprisoning Our Youth: The Lasting Impact of Time Spent in Adult Jails and Prisons	7
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences	7
Interpersonal Discrimination as a Potential Source of Individual-Level Anomie and its Consequences for Suicide Ideation	6
The 2023 SSSP Presidential Address Recycled: The Emergence and Re-emergence of Social Problems	6
Crafting Charismatic Cops: Community Policing and the Faulty Reputations Paradigm	6
“Jocks Gone Wild”: Masculinity, Sexual Bullying, and the Legal Normalization of Boys’ Victimization	6
Cultural Resistance to Policy Change: Welfare Privatization, Policy Feedback, and the Moral Economy of Welfare	6
Making the Cut: Status, Credentials, and Hiring in Medicine	6
Rooting Race in Place: Whites’ Racial Learning in Southern Kinds of Places	6
Rhetorical and Organizational Typification of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking as Discrete Forms of Violence	6
Thanks to Reviewers	6
The High Cost of Doing Good: Earnings in Social Assistance Jobs in the United States	5
Housing Market Appreciation and the White-Black Wealth Gap	5
Diversity as Philanthropy: Diversity Ideology among Pastors, Professors, and Professionals of Color	5
Boosting Your Enemies to Garner the Sympathy of Friends: Pro-Fracking Industry Communications and the Geography of Contention	5
Shifting Cohort Patterns in the Use of Drugs with Elevated Overdose Risk in the United States	5
Latinxs and Racial Frames: The Evolution of Settler Colonial Ideologies in New Mexico	5
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring	5
Black Boys’ Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health: Findings from the YBMen Project	5
I Know Why the White Lady Cries: Growing Pains of an Antiracist Cleft Habitus	4
Penalizing Nonconformity: Gender Nonconformity at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Identity in the Labor Market	4
Gendering and Degendering: The Problem of Men’s Victimization in Intimate Partner Relations in Social and Crisis Workers’ Talk	4
Chronic, Disruptive, or Resistant? Target Ecologies and the Medicalization of Homelessness in California	4
A Moral Dilemma of “Selling Out”: Race, Class, and Career Considerations among Elite College Students	4
Do College Social Justice Activists Stop When They Graduate? Explaining Volunteer Activist Participation in a Life Course Transition	4
Religion, Race, and Perceptions of Police Harassment	4
Long after “People before Highways”: Social Movements and Expert Activism in Greater Boston, 1960–2016	4
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities	4
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec	4
“Dream like the Whites”: Disjunctures in Racial Experiences and Interpretations of Low-Income First-Generation Students of Color and Their Parents	4
Persuasive Action and Ideological Polarization in Congress	4
The Theatre of Entrepreneurship: Learning to Perform the Speculative Self in University Entrepreneurship Programs	4
Does Racial Bias Explain the Black-White Sentencing Gap across U.S. Courts?	4
The Framing of Minority Threat and Moralization to Criminalize Behavior: The Case of Cannabis in the Early 20th Century	4
Strategic Citizenship in China: Birth Tourism and the “American Hukou”	4
Intersecting Inequalities: Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Differences in Math Achievement and School Contexts in California	3
Intensive Naming: Concerted Cultivation and Flexible Ethnicity among U.S. Middle-Class Mexican-Origin Parents	3
Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America	3

Different Time Frames, Different Futures: How Disadvantaged Youth Project Realistic and Idealistic Futures	3
To Align or Misalign?: Interpreting INGO-State Partnership in Cambodia	3
Unequal Upsides? The Status-Based Inequalities in the Relationship Between Schedule Control and Job Pressure	3
Communication and Decision-Making Processes: Group-level Determinants of State Performance	3
Unfit Stewards: The Role of the Intensive Pet Parenting Ideology in Constructing Racialized Narratives	3
A Culture of White Violence: The Enduring Impact of Slavery on Contemporary Interracial Killings	3
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women	3
Colorism in Punishment among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System	3
Populism and Carbon Tax Justice: The Yellow Vest Movement in France	3
How Long Does Madness Take? Time and the Construction of Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Work	3
Dispossessory Citizenship: The Settler Colonial State and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Relocation Program, 1952–1972	3
Racial Polarization in Attitudes towards the Criminal Legal System	3
Environmental Inequality in the American Mind: The Problem of Color-Blind Environmental Racism	3
Organizational Practice and Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequality in Police Use-of-Force	3
“Trans Enough”: Examining the Boundaries of Transgender-Identity Membership	3
Surviving Capitalism: Affordability as a Racial “Wage” in Contemporary Housing Markets	3
Grieving in the “Golden Cage”: How Unauthorized Immigrants Contend with Death and Mourn from Afar	3
How “Ceremonial Openness” Prevents Organizational Change: An Analysis of Corporate Earnings Calls in the Oil and Gas Industry, 2007–2020	3
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth	3
“When They Hand You Your Uniform, They Forget to Say, ‘Hand Me Your Soul’”: Incidents and Impacts of Institutional Betrayal in Canadian Police Services	3
College Choices, Choice Dilemmas: Black Advantaged Parents’ Views of Their Children’s College Options	3
Criminalized or Medicalized? Examining the Role of Race in Responses to Drug Use	3