OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Problems is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Making racial demands: tracing the struggle over public safety in Minneapolis	26
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences	24
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison	22
The foundational role of legal status categories in stratifying job loss outcomes	20
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology	20
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec	19
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring	18
“They don’t have to make room for me because this is their space”: Black College Students’ Narratives of Racism, Whiteness, and Mental Health	15
Jurisdictional gerrymandering: The Authority of Problems without Solutions	15
Temporal Autonomy: Schedule Instability as a Threat to Perceived Dignity in the U.S. Service Sector	13
Incels and gender inequality: changing tides in defining the far right	13
Moral panic and the legislative attack on transgender rights: state-level pathways to anti-trans Lawmaking in the U.S	12
Model Guardians: The Gendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers	12
Predatory DEI: How Racialized Organizations Exacerbate Workplace Racial Stratification through Exploitative Diversity Work	12
Structural fire as a social problem: firehouse distribution disparities in New York City	12
Christian nationalism and ableism in the United States	11
Banning of cockfighting in Puerto Rico: assessing public support and opposition	11
Stratified Private Safety Nets: How Legal Status Shapes Financial Contributions by Immigrant-Origin Young Adults	11
Workplace Climates, Workplace Structures, and LGBTQ People’s Identity Disclosure: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis	11
“Disconnected, Interrupted, Tied in Knots”: Communicative Capture in U.S. Prisons	10
Do transgender and non-binary workers in the U.S. retail and service sectors have lower quality jobs than their cisgender counterparts?	10
The making of an epidemic of pain	9
Homelessness and race: the impact of structural conditions on Black, White, and Latine homelessness	9
“I don’t want them investigating shit and taking my kids”: Controlling Images and Chicanas’ Decarceral Motherwork in Police Encounters	9
Social Triage and Exclusions in Community Services for the Criminalized	9

More than Teacher Bias: A QuantCrit Analysis of Teachers’ Perceptions of Young Black Boys’ Noncognitive Skills	9
The 2025 SSSP presidential address. Insurgent sociology: toward emancipatory theory and action under racial capitalism	9
Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War	9
Shuffle Out, Shuffle In: Child Protective Services Contact and Institutional Shuffling among Middle-Class Black Mothers	8
Political Invisibility: Rescue Acts by Mothers during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda	8
Handcrafted Careers: How Workers Navigate Racialized Career Pathways in the Craft Beer Industry	8
“People love playing the ‘what are you?’ game with me”: Street Racialization of American Indian and Alaska Native individuals	8
Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood	7
“He’s a Full-Blown Narcissist:” Tracing an Emerging Cultural Narrative in Action	7
A Matter of Time: The Life Course Implications of Deferred Action for Undocumented Latin American Immigrants in the United States	7
“I can’t tell you what freedom is ’cause I’ve never seen it”: Addressing the Omission of Liberation Narratives in Sociology	7
Tipping Regimes: Organizational Dynamics and Labor Control Mechanisms on Nashville’s Honky-Tonk Row	7
Creating food commons: successes and barriers to creating just sustainable food systems in ecological intentional communities	7
‘The system is engineered to do this’: Multilevel Disempowerment and Climate Injustice in Regulating Colorado’s Oil and Gas Development	7
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life: A Role for Late Career Employment Quality?	7
Double Citizenship as a Double-Edged Sword: Young Return Migrants’ Code-Switching for Belonging in Mexico	7
Liminal Punishment and the Specter of Jail	7
A Vitapolitics Frame: How Trans Activists Make Sense of Trans Lives in Interactions with Allies	6
In the face of adversity: healthcare navigation and strategies of resilience among transgender and nonbinary care-seekers	6
Gender and Work: Online Job Platforms of the Chinese Ethnic Economy	6
Making Gender Crises: State Newspapers and the Regulation of Gender Nonconformity in China	6
The Balancing Act of Family and College: Reciprocity and Its Consequences for Black Students	6
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women	6
The Intensity of Local Immigration Conflict: Variations across Space and Time	6
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families	6
Replacing dad? How extended family support shapes gendered allocation of time in middle-class North American families	6
How Long Does Madness Take? Time and the Construction of Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Work	6
On Our Own: Social Distance, Physical Loneliness, and Structural Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Policing homelessness: neighborhood predictors of clearing encampments and vehicle residences	5
Population for civilization: the aspiration for whiteness in (post)colonial Korea	5
Black Boys’ Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health: Findings from the YBMen Project	5
An immigrant paradox in the black box? Evaluating prison disciplinary infractions among foreign- and native-born persons	5
Opting in or opting out? Dilemmas for parents and administrators addressing racial inequality in urban schools	5
Negation claims: insights from elite philanthropists’ responses to moral devaluation	5
Gender Differences in the Geographic Breadth of Job Search: Examining Job Applications	4
Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets	4
The Boys in Blue Are Watching You: The Shifting Metropolitan Landscape and Big Data Police Surveillance in the United States	4
The Struggle over How to Help Incarcerated People: A Field Analysis of the Penal Voluntary Sector	4
The asset economy and its politics: homeownership and class in the United States, 1985–2022	4
Masculinity Challenged: Emotional Responses to State Support for Women’s Employment in the United Arab Emirates	4
Racial/ethnic neighborhood change and the distribution of health-related urban amenities over time	4
Status Threat, Meritocracy, and the Politics of Solidarity in the Seoul Subway	4
Feeling Carcerality: How Carceral Seepage Shapes Racialized Emotions	4
The enabling-helping dilemma: redefining behaviors and roles in the context of family, opioid addiction	4
Correction to: “Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions	4
Assessing the Risks of Risk Assessments: Institutional Tensions and Data Driven Judicial Decision-Making in U.S. Pretrial Hearings	4
From the yellow vests to anti-Covid measures protests: rethinking movement Spillover through a processual and biographical approach	4
Transformative mothering on the inside: navigating the perils and possibilities of mothering while incarcerated	4
Ethnic-Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination and Support for Black Lives Matter among Black American Youth	4
Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact	4

“Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions	4
Correction to: Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents	4
Mapping the Cultural Repertoires of Family Estrangement: A New Theory of Democratized Kinship	4