OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Research is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	140
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	139
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	91
Editorial Board	51
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	41
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	39
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	35
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	35
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	34
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	31
Long-term labor market returns to upper secondary school track choice: Leveraging idiosyncratic variation in peers’ choices	26
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	23
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	22
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	22
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	22
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	22
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	22
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	21
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment	21
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	21
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	21
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	20
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	20
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	19
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	18

Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	17
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	17
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	17
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	17
The evolution of demographic methods	16
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	16
Editorial Board	16
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	16
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	15
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	14
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries	13
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	13
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	13
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	13
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	13
Significant others? Social groups, income expectations, and redistributive preferences	13
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	13
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	13
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	13
Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more?	12
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	12
An intersectional examination of the opportunity gap in science: A critical quantitative approach to latent class analysis	12
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	11
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	11
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	10
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	10
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	10
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	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
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	10
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	9
Secularism, family ties and loneliness: A multilevel longitudinal study of ten European societies	9
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	9
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	9
Reflected appraisals across multiple reference groups: Discrepancies in self and individual delinquency	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	9
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools	9
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	9
The unequal consequences of family structures for infant health	9
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	8
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	8
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	8
Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness	8
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	8
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	8
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	8

How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	8
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	8
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	8
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	8
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	8
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	7
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	7
Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers	7
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	7
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	7
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	7
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	7
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	7
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	7
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think	7
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	7
Editorial Board	6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Editorial Board	6
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market	6
Corrigendum to “A tangled web: The reciprocal relationship between depression and educational outcomes in China” [Soc. Sci. Res. 85 (2020) 102353]	6
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	6
An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	6
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	6
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	6
Editorial Board	6
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–2019	6
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	6