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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	205
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	204
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	129
Editorial Board	76
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	61
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	51
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	42
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	37
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	35
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	33
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	30
When categories change value: How new educational resources reshape patterns of inequality	29
Regrets, she's had a few: Gender and regret of computer science and engineering degrees	27
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	27
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	25
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	24
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	24
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	22
What drives educational segregation and which communities are affected? Findings from a decomposition approach	22
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	19
State-level gender inequality and couples’ relative earnings following parenthood over four decades	19
Do geopolitical tensions increase negative attitudes toward minorities? Evidence from a natural experiment in India	18
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	18
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	18
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	16

Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	16
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	16
Editorial Board	16
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	16
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	16
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	16
Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany	14
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	14
The evolution of demographic methods	14
Criminal legal contact, labor market insecurity and labor market participation	14
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	14
Childhood exposure to local wealth inequality, economic isolation in schools, and inter-class social ties in adulthood	13
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	13
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	13
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	13
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries	12
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	12
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	12
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel	12
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	12
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	12
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	12
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	12
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	11
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	11
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	11
Editorial Board	11
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	11
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	10
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	10
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	10
Homeownership and political participation: The case of Hong Kong	10
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	10
Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors	9
From Islamic religiosity to political participation. The role of social exclusion and origin-country ties	9
Editorial Board	9
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	9
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	9
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	9
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
The role of assortative mating in marital infidelity: Insights from China	9
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	8
Editorial Board	8
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	8
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	8
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	8
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	8
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	8

Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	8
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	7
The structural fit of personal gender beliefs: A cross-national analysis of its implications for life satisfaction	7
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	7
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	7
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	7
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	7
Surveying the political divide: Public opinion in the era of partisan meaning-making	7
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	7
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	7
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think	6
Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers	6
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	6
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	6
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	6
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	6
Intersecting inequalities in retirement trajectories under a privatized pension system: Gender, labor force status, and occupational prestige	6
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	6
Men’s and women’s aversion to female breadwinning: Linking individual attitudes to macro-level contexts	6
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	6
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	6
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	6
Editorial Board	5
Editorial Board	5
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019	5
Educational assortative mating and changing patterns of parental financial investment in children, 1990–2024	5
The diffusion of federal Title IX complaints throughout U.S. colleges and universities, 1994–2014	5
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	5
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	5
Editorial Board	5
An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	5
Compensation or concordance between warmth and competence: Examining social class stereotypes in English and Chinese languages using natural language	5
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market	5
Gendered work and family trajectories: How do STEM graduates fare in the labor market?	5
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–2019	5
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	5
Is my manager feeling threatened by me? Racial differences in content and activation of threat metastereotypes	5
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–2019	5
Corrigendum to “The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019” [Soc. Sci. Res. (2025) Volume 132/103228]	5
Same degrees, different outcomes? Fields of study choices and gender wage inequality in Finland and Germany	5
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion	5