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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Crowds, Police and Provocations: Temporal Patterns of Rioting in Britain, 1800–1939	52
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity	42
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities	38
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-19	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	31
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	29
Homemade State: Motherhood, Citizenship and the Home in Child Welfare Encounters	28
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State	27
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition	25
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study	22
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity	18
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia	18
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time	18
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
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality	17
Living and Dying in Shadow Times	17
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes	17
Bourdieu and Sociological Biography: The Case of Vincent van Gogh’s Choice of Profession	16
Classification and Control: Purity and Danger in Britain’s Asylum Regime	16
Street-Level Bureaucrats in the Irish Privatised Asylum Regime: Experiences and Professional Identity	16
Lying and Time: Moving beyond the Moral Question of Lying	15
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work	15
Understanding Disability and Cultural (Re)production: An Ethnography of Coaching Practice in High Performance Disability Sport	14
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory	13

Religion, Diversity and Outgroup Tolerance Across 79 Countries: The ‘Homogenizing’ Role of Heterogeneity	13
It Is My Turn Now: How and Why ‘Single’ Women Complain about Non-Reciprocal Gift-Giving	13
From Edgework to Edgeworking: The Interplay of Risk and the Life Course	13
Grudging Acts	12
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men	12
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	12
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	11
‘He is My Refuge’: Upward Mobility, Class Dislocation and Romantic Relationships	11
‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India	11
Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class	11
The Reproduction of Wealth Inequality: How Middle- and Upper-Class Parents Instil Financial Orientations in Their Children	11
Book Review: Alexandrina Vanke, The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggles VankeAlexandrinaThe Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet	11
A ‘Self-Made’ Billionaire? Gender and the Myth of Meritocratic Wealth	11
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy	11
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship	11
Thank You to Referees	10
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-19	10
The Fate of Being a ‘Distressed Asset’: Insights into Women Returners’ Experiences in the UK	10
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’	10
Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention?	10
Book Review: Michael Mann, On Wars MannMichaelOn WarsNew Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2023, £30.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780300266818), 616 pp.	9
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees	9
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset	9
‘ You Need a Network ’: How Highly Skilled Refugees Build Social Networks to Convert Cultural Capital and Reclaim Professional Identities	9
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom	9
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology	9
The Way to Someone’s Mind Is through Their Stomach: Vegans and Culinary Activism	9
Between Sustainability, Energy Practices and Class Dynamics: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Energy Consumption in Norway	8
Thank You to Referees	8
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens	8
Social Class Origin and Job Quality among Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations in the United Kingdom	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
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act	8
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel	8
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK	7
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	7
Book Review: Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics	7
‘The Green Areas Are Out of Our Reach’: Racialisation, Erasure and Resistance in UK Urban Greening Initiatives	7
Teaching Sociology in Contemporary Hungary	7
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis	7
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden	7
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges	7
The Rise and Fall of Sociology in Brazilian Schools: From Public Sociology to Public Attacks	7
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies: Unpacking the Early Sedimentation of the Anti-European Super League Movement in English Football	7
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich	7
Autocratic Power and Older Citizens: The Political Subjectification of Retirees in Belarus	7
University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale	6
Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood	6
Book Review: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim, Living with Health Inequalities: Upstream–Downstream Connections RogersAnnePilgrimDavidLiving with Health Inequalities: Upstr	6

‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis	5
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice	5
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development	5
Immigrants’ Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany	5
From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities	5
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015	5
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group	5
Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online Groups	5
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis	5
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change	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
The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field	5
Thank You to Referees 2023–2024	5
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology’s Future: An Interview with John Scott	5
The Stateless Person, the Citizen and Human Rights: A Revised Neo-Hobbesian Theory of Human Rights for Sociology	5
Solidarity with and against: Exploring Group Identification among Precarious Migrant Workers	5
Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past	5