OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association is 5. 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
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity	70
Social Positioning and Pathways of Social Mobility of Intermarried Ukrainian Migrants in Poland	68
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-19	56
‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting	53
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State	51
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia	42
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time	35
Living and Dying in Shadow Times	25
Classification and Control: Purity and Danger in Britain’s Asylum Regime	23
The Three Planet Problem of Protecting Girls and Women from Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the UK	23
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition	22
Listening to Students’ Voices: Engaged Pedagogy as a Pathway to Pedagogical Possibilities	22
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity	21
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	20
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes	19
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality	18
Vocational narratives: How students make sense of their educational choices	17
No Substitute for In-Person Interaction: Changing Modes of Social Contact during the Coronavirus Pandemic and Effects on the Mental Health of Adults in the UK	17
Religion, Diversity and Outgroup Tolerance Across 79 Countries: The ‘Homogenizing’ Role of Heterogeneity	16
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study	16
From Edgework to Edgeworking: The Interplay of Risk and the Life Course	16
The social production of small urban rivers: The (re)making of two riverside spaces in Lewisham	16
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work	15
A ‘Self-Made’ Billionaire? Gender and the Myth of Meritocratic Wealth	15
Street-Level Bureaucrats in the Irish Privatised Asylum Regime: Experiences and Professional Identity	15

‘It’s So Hard to Control It’: Navigating Responsible Digital Consumption in an Age of Individualisation	15
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men	15
Modern Slavery, Immigration Regimes and Migrant Workers in Social Care	15
Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class	15
‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India	14
Grudging Acts	14
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory	14
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	14
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship	13
Book Review: Alexandrina Vanke, The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggles VankeAlexandrinaThe Urban Life of Workers	13
Carrying the Domestic Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Gender, Class and the Domestic Division of Labour	12
‘He is My Refuge’: Upward Mobility, Class Dislocation and Romantic Relationships	11
The Fate of Being a ‘Distressed Asset’: Insights into Women Returners’ Experiences in the UK	11
The Structures of Accumulation, Financial Identity and Saving: Exploring the Social Space of Professions	11
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom	10
Slave-Like Labor in Rural Southern Brazil: Insights from a Roundtable Discussion	10
Digital Patriarchy and the Perceived Threat of Andrew Tate: Women’s Experiences in the Platformed Risk Society	10
Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention?	10
The Reproduction of Wealth Inequality: How Middle- and Upper-Class Parents Instil Financial Orientations in Their Children	10
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’	10
Precarious futures: Future-making and employment management in freelance work	10
The Way to Someone’s Mind Is through Their Stomach: Vegans and Culinary Activism	9
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-19	9
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset	9
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens	9
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees	9
Sci-fi Capital and Humanoid Robotics: Conjuring the Speculative Value of Not-Yet-Existing Technologies	9
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	9
‘ You Need a Network ’: How Highly Skilled Refugees Build Social Networks to Convert Cultural Capital and Reclaim Professional Identities	9
The Invisible Super-Rich? A Quantitative Analysis of the Press Coverage of Germany’s Wealth Elite	9
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel	9
Book Review: Michael Mann, On Wars MannMichaelOn WarsNew Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2023, £30.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780300266818), 616 pp.	9
Thank You to Referees	8
Between Sustainability, Energy Practices and Class Dynamics: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Energy Consumption in Norway	8
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges	8
Teaching Sociology in Contemporary Hungary	8
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act	8
The Rise and Fall of Sociology in Brazilian Schools: From Public Sociology to Public Attacks	8
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies : Unpacking the Early Sedimentation	8
Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty	8
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis	8
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich	8
Social Class Origin and Job Quality among Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations in the United Kingdom	8
On Being Seen in Unseen Places: A Dramaturgical View of the Night	8
Autocratic Power and Older Citizens: The Political Subjectification of Retirees in Belarus	7
Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood	7
The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field	7
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice	7
Book Review: Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics GoodwinMatthewValues, Voice and Virtue: The New British PoliticsLondon:	7
Book Review: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim, Living with Health Inequalities: Upstream–Downstream Connections RogersAnnePilgrimDavidLiving with Health Ine	7

From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities	7
‘The Green Areas Are Out of Our Reach’: Racialisation, Erasure and Resistance in UK Urban Greening Initiatives	7
University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale	7
Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions	7
Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past	6
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change	6
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015	6
The Consequentiality of Absences in Social Settings: A Sensemaking Perspective	6
Contested capital: Class and the sociology of work	6
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development	6
Thank You to Referees 2023–2024	6
Solidarity with and against: Exploring Group Identification among Precarious Migrant Workers	6
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group	6
Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic	6
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis	6
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Sociology amid Climate Breakdown: A Call for Systemic Pedagogical Transformation	6
Life-Cycle Economic Returns to Educational Mobility in Denmark	6
Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences	5
Powerful or Disempowering Knowledge? The Teaching of Sociology in English Schools and Colleges	5
Gaming and Performance Metrics in Higher Education: The Consequences of Journal Lists	5
The Sociology of Futurelessness	5
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity	5
Real Utopia as a Method? Utopian-Sociological Paths from Jameson’s Universal Army to a Postcapitalist Post Office	5
Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online Groups	5
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families	5
Immigrants’ Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany	5
Racial Biofutures: COVID-19 and Black Futurity Otherwise	5
Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research	5
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology’s Future: An Interview with John Scott	5
Book Review: Sergio Tonkonoff, Reintroducing Gabriel Tarde TonkonoffSergioReintroducing Gabriel TardeLondon/New York: Routledge, 2024, £33.59 pbk (ISBN:	5