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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Paul Lichterman, How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles	43
Crowds, Police and Provocations: Temporal Patterns of Rioting in Britain, 1800–1939	34
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity	30
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-19	29
‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting	29
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities	25
Global Inequality, Mobility Regimes and Transnational Capital: The Post-Graduation Plans of African Student Migrants	24
Social Positioning and Pathways of Social Mobility of Intermarried Ukrainian Migrants in Poland	24
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	23
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes	21
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia	21
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	20
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time	20
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study	18
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition	18
Homemade State: Motherhood, Citizenship and the Home in Child Welfare Encounters	16
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State	16
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity	16
Living and Dying in Shadow Times	15
From Edgework to Edgeworking: The Interplay of Risk and the Life Course	15
Bourdieu and Sociological Biography: The Case of Vincent van Gogh’s Choice of Profession	15
Lying and Time: Moving beyond the Moral Question of Lying	15
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work	15
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality	15
Understanding Disability and Cultural (Re)production: An Ethnography of Coaching Practice in High Performance Disability Sport	15

It Is My Turn Now: How and Why ‘Single’ Women Complain about Non-Reciprocal Gift-Giving	14
Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class	14
Book Review: Gargi Bhattacharya, Adam Elliot-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State	13
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory	13
Grudging Acts	12
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	12
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men	11
Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention?	11
Thank You to Referees	11
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy	11
‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India	11
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship	11
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’	11
The Fate of Being a ‘Distressed Asset’: Insights into Women Returners’ Experiences in the UK	11
‘He is My Refuge’: Upward Mobility, Class Dislocation and Romantic Relationships	11
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-19	11
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees	10
The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate	10
Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK	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	9
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset	9
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom	9
Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty	9
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology	9
Love’s Labour’s Lost? Separation as a Constraint on Displays of Transnational Daughterhood	9
The Way to Someone’s Mind Is through Their Stomach: Vegans and Culinary Activism	9
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel	8
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens	8
On Being Seen in Unseen Places: A Dramaturgical View of the Night	8
Book Review: Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics	8
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act	8
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies: Unpacking the Early Sedimentation of the Anti-European Super League Movement in English Football	8
Social Class Origin and Job Quality among Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations in the United Kingdom	8
Maximising Operational Effectiveness: Exploring Stigma, Militarism, and the Normative Connections to Military Partners’ Support-Seeking	8
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK	8
‘My Memories of the Time We Had Together Are More Important’: Direct Cremation and the Privatisation of UK Funerals	8
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis	8
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	8
University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale	7
Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood	7
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden	7
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges	7
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich	7
‘The Green Areas Are Out of Our Reach’: Racialisation, Erasure and Resistance in UK Urban Greening Initiatives	7
Autocratic Power and Older Citizens: The Political Subjectification of Retirees in Belarus	7
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development	6
Book Review: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim, Living with Health Inequalities: Upstream–Downstream Connections RogersAnnePilgrimDavidLiving with Health Inequalities: Upstr	6
From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities	6
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6

Thank You to Referees 2023–2024	6
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group	5
The Stateless Person, the Citizen and Human Rights: A Revised Neo-Hobbesian Theory of Human Rights for Sociology	5
The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field	5
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice	5
Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online Groups	5
The Sociology of Futurelessness	5
Book Review: Karen Patel, The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work and Inequalities	5
Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions	5
The Consequentiality of Absences in Social Settings: A Sensemaking Perspective	5
Solidarity with and against: Exploring Group Identification among Precarious Migrant Workers	5
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology’s Future: An Interview with John Scott	5
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change	5
Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past	5
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis	5
‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis	5
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015	5
Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic	5
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity	5