OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Research 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
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	107
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	101
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	71
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	37
Who influences lower-status individuals more: People of higher-status outgroups or people of their lower-status ingroup? Examining the difference between matters of opinion and matters of fact	32
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	31
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	30
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	30
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	29
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	28
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	28
Long-term labor market returns to upper secondary school track choice: Leveraging idiosyncratic variation in peers’ choices	27
Editorial Board	27
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	23
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	22
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	20
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	20
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	20
A path towards citizenship: The effects of early college high schools on criminal convictions and voting	19
Subjective health in adolescence: Comparing the reliability of contemporaneous, retrospective, and proxy reports of overall health	19
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	19
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	18
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	18
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	18
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment	17

Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	17
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	17
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	16
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	16
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	16
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	16
Editorial Board	15
The evolution of demographic methods	15
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	15
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	14
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	14
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	14
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	14
Significant others? Social groups, income expectations, and redistributive preferences	14
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	13
The achilles heel of democracy? A macro cross-national assessment of the correlates of state legitimacy	12
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	12
Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more?	12
Why do some occupations offer more part-time work than others? Reciprocal dynamics in occupational gender segregation and occupational part-time work in West Germany, 1976–2010	12
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries	12
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	12
An intersectional examination of the opportunity gap in science: A critical quantitative approach to latent class analysis	12
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	11
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	11
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
Under the influence of our older brother and sister: The association between sibling gender configuration and STEM degrees	10
Editorial Board	10
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	10
Reflected appraisals across multiple reference groups: Discrepancies in self and individual delinquency	10
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	10
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	10
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	10
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	9
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools	9
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	9
Expectations of trustworthiness in cross-status interactions	9
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	9
The unequal consequences of family structures for infant health	9
Secularism, family ties and loneliness: A multilevel longitudinal study of ten European societies	9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	9
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	8
Later timing but informed decision? Delayed postgraduate attainment and U.S. college graduates’ earnings	8
Editorial Board	8
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	8
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	8
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	7
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	7
Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness	7
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	7
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	7

Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	7
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	7
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	7
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	6
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	6
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	6
Black-White disparities in women’s physical health: The role of socioeconomic status and racism-related stressors	6
Corrigendum to “A tangled web: The reciprocal relationship between depression and educational outcomes in China” [Soc. Sci. Res. 85 (2020) 102353]	6
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	6
Cross-national attitudes about paid parental leave offerings for fathers	6
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think	6
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	6
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	6
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	6
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	6
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	6
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	6
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
Belief change in times of crisis: Providing facts about COVID-19-induced inequalities closes the partisan divide but fuels intra-partisan polarization about inequality	5
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	5
Field-specific cultural capital and persistence in college majors	5
Editorial Board	5
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–2019	5
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	5
Race, gender, and power in Asian American interracial marriages	5
Editorial Board	5
Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	5
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market	5
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion	5
Gender, union formation, and assortative mating among older women	5
Editorial Board	5
Editorial Board	5
An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	5