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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“The State is Coming”: The Emotional Content of State Formation through a Colombian Coca Substitution Program	141
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences	22
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison	21
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology	19
The foundational role of legal status categories in stratifying job loss outcomes	18
Making racial demands: tracing the struggle over public safety in Minneapolis	18
Incels and gender inequality: changing tides in defining the far right	17
“They don’t have to make room for me because this is their space”: Black College Students’ Narratives of Racism, Whiteness, and Mental Health	16
Moral panic and the legislative attack on transgender rights: state-level pathways to anti-trans Lawmaking in the U.S	15
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec	15
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities	12
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring	12
Temporal Autonomy: Schedule Instability as a Threat to Perceived Dignity in the U.S. Service Sector	12
Stratified Private Safety Nets: How Legal Status Shapes Financial Contributions by Immigrant-Origin Young Adults	11
Predatory DEI: How Racialized Organizations Exacerbate Workplace Racial Stratification through Exploitative Diversity Work	11
Model Guardians: The Gendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers	11
Structural fire as a social problem: firehouse distribution disparities in New York City	11
Workplace Climates, Workplace Structures, and LGBTQ People’s Identity Disclosure: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis	10
“I don’t want them investigating shit and taking my kids”: Controlling Images and Chicanas’ Decarceral Motherwork in Police Encounters	10
Christian nationalism and ableism in the United States	10
Do transgender and non-binary workers in the U.S. retail and service sectors have lower quality jobs than their cisgender counterparts?	9
Homelessness and race: the impact of structural conditions on Black, White, and Latine homelessness	9
The making of an epidemic of pain	9
The 2025 SSSP presidential address. Insurgent sociology: toward emancipatory theory and action under racial capitalism	9
Banning of cockfighting in Puerto Rico: assessing public support and opposition	9

“Disconnected, Interrupted, Tied in Knots”: Communicative Capture in U.S. Prisons	9
Social Triage and Exclusions in Community Services for the Criminalized	9
Political Invisibility: Rescue Acts by Mothers during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda	8
Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War	8
“People love playing the ‘what are you?’ game with me”: Street Racialization of American Indian and Alaska Native individuals	8
More than Teacher Bias: A QuantCrit Analysis of Teachers’ Perceptions of Young Black Boys’ Noncognitive Skills	8
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life: A Role for Late Career Employment Quality?	8
“I can’t tell you what freedom is ’cause I’ve never seen it”: Addressing the Omission of Liberation Narratives in Sociology	7
A Matter of Time: The Life Course Implications of Deferred Action for Undocumented Latin American Immigrants in the United States	7
Shuffle Out, Shuffle In: Child Protective Services Contact and Institutional Shuffling among Middle-Class Black Mothers	7
‘The system is engineered to do this’: Multilevel Disempowerment and Climate Injustice in Regulating Colorado’s Oil and Gas Development	7
Tipping Regimes: Organizational Dynamics and Labor Control Mechanisms on Nashville’s Honky-Tonk Row	7
Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood	7
Handcrafted Careers: How Workers Navigate Racialized Career Pathways in the Craft Beer Industry	7
The Balancing Act of Family and College: Reciprocity and Its Consequences for Black Students	7
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families	6
“He’s a Full-Blown Narcissist:” Tracing an Emerging Cultural Narrative in Action	6
Making Gender Crises: State Newspapers and the Regulation of Gender Nonconformity in China	6
Gender and Work: Online Job Platforms of the Chinese Ethnic Economy	6
On Our Own: Social Distance, Physical Loneliness, and Structural Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Liminal Punishment and the Specter of Jail	6
A Vitapolitics Frame: How Trans Activists Make Sense of Trans Lives in Interactions with Allies	6
Double Citizenship as a Double-Edged Sword: Young Return Migrants’ Code-Switching for Belonging in Mexico	6
The Intensity of Local Immigration Conflict: Variations across Space and Time	6
Black Boys’ Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health: Findings from the YBMen Project	5
Shared Satisfaction among Residents Living in Multiracial Neighborhoods	5
Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets	5
Ethnic-Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination and Support for Black Lives Matter among Black American Youth	5
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women	5
Status Threat, Meritocracy, and the Politics of Solidarity in the Seoul Subway	5
Historical Markers or Markers of White Supremacy? Confederate Memorialization, Racial Threat, and Hate Crime	5
The Boys in Blue Are Watching You: The Shifting Metropolitan Landscape and Big Data Police Surveillance in the United States	5
In the face of adversity: healthcare navigation and strategies of resilience among transgender and nonbinary care-seekers	5
How Long Does Madness Take? Time and the Construction of Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Work	5
Negation claims: insights from elite philanthropists’ responses to moral devaluation	5
Transformative mothering on the inside: navigating the perils and possibilities of mothering while incarcerated	5
Feeling Carcerality: How Carceral Seepage Shapes Racialized Emotions	5
Gender Differences in the Geographic Breadth of Job Search: Examining Job Applications	4
The Struggle over How to Help Incarcerated People: A Field Analysis of the Penal Voluntary Sector	4
Assessing the Risks of Risk Assessments: Institutional Tensions and Data Driven Judicial Decision-Making in U.S. Pretrial Hearings	4
Brokers and Boundary Managers: School Expulsions amid the Non-Punitive Turn	4
The enabling-helping dilemma: redefining behaviors and roles in the context of family, opioid addiction	4
“Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions	4
Mapping the Cultural Repertoires of Family Estrangement: A New Theory of Democratized Kinship	4
Racial/ethnic neighborhood change and the distribution of health-related urban amenities over time	4
Correction to: Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents	4
“We Got Witnesses” Black Women’s Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement	4
Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact	4
Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy	4
Masculinity Challenged: Emotional Responses to State Support for Women’s Employment in the United Arab Emirates	4

Healthcare beyond the humanitarian niche: Syrian refugee-led organizations in Turkey	4
Rescaling Resettlement: Local Welcoming Policies and the Shaping of Refugee Belonging	4