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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Paul Lichterman, How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles	36
‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting	33
Social Positioning and Pathways of Social Mobility of Intermarried Ukrainian Migrants in Poland	29
Crowds, Police and Provocations: Temporal Patterns of Rioting in Britain, 1800–1939	28
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity	27
Global Inequality, Mobility Regimes and Transnational Capital: The Post-Graduation Plans of African Student Migrants	27
Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat	24
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities	22
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	21
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-19	21
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time	20
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition	18
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State	18
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality	17
Homemade State: Motherhood, Citizenship and the Home in Child Welfare Encounters	17
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes	17
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity	16
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study	16
Promoting Diversity but Striving for Excellence: Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Academic Hiring	15
Living and Dying in Shadow Times	15
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	15
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia	15
Lying and Time: Moving beyond the Moral Question of Lying	13
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work	13
It Is My Turn Now: How and Why ‘Single’ Women Complain about Non-Reciprocal Gift-Giving	13

Rethinking Social Roles: Conflict and Modern Life	13
Understanding Disability and Cultural (Re)production: An Ethnography of Coaching Practice in High Performance Disability Sport	13
Bourdieu and Sociological Biography: The Case of Vincent van Gogh’s Choice of Profession	13
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory	12
Book Review: Partha Chatterjee, I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today	12
Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class	12
Grudging Acts	11
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	11
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men	11
‘He is My Refuge’: Upward Mobility, Class Dislocation and Romantic Relationships	11
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	11
Civility and Rejection: The Contextuality of Cosmopolitan and Racist Behaviours	10
Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention?	10
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship	10
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy	10
The Fate of Being a ‘Distressed Asset’: Insights into Women Returners’ Experiences in the UK	10
Book Review: Michael Mann, On Wars MannMichaelOn WarsNew Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2023, £30.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780300266818), 616 pp.	10
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees	9
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-19	9
Book Review: Alicia M Walker, Chasing Masculinity: Men, Validation, and Infidelity	9
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’	9
Thank You to Referees	9
Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK	9
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology	8
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act	8
Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty	8
On Being Seen in Unseen Places: A Dramaturgical View of the Night	8
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset	8
Thank You to Referees	8
Love’s Labour’s Lost? Separation as a Constraint on Displays of Transnational Daughterhood	8
The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate	8
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis	8
‘My Memories of the Time We Had Together Are More Important’: Direct Cremation and the Privatisation of UK Funerals	8
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens	7
Book Review: Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics	7
Autocratic Power and Older Citizens: The Political Subjectification of Retirees in Belarus	7
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK	7
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel	7
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich	7
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies: Unpacking the Early Sedimentation of the Anti-European Super League Movement in English Football	7
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	7
Maximising Operational Effectiveness: Exploring Stigma, Militarism, and the Normative Connections to Military Partners’ Support-Seeking	7
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges	7
‘The Green Areas Are Out of Our Reach’: Racialisation, Erasure and Resistance in UK Urban Greening Initiatives	6
Thank You to Referees 2023–2024	6
Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood	6
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden	6
University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale	6
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online Groups	5

The Sociology of Futurelessness	5
Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions	5
The Stateless Person, the Citizen and Human Rights: A Revised Neo-Hobbesian Theory of Human Rights for Sociology	5
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change	5
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families	5
Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences	5
Immigrants’ Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany	5
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015	5
The Consequentiality of Absences in Social Settings: A Sensemaking Perspective	5
The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field	5
‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis	5
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group	5
Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic	5
Whose Lifestyle Matters at Johannesburg Pride? The Lifestylisation of LGBTQ+ Identities and the Gentrification of Activism	5
Book Review: Karen Patel, The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work and Inequalities	5
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice	5
From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities	5
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development	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