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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	131
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	127
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	89
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	46
Editorial Board	39
Long-term labor market returns to upper secondary school track choice: Leveraging idiosyncratic variation in peers’ choices	35
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	34
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	33
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	33
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	32
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	30
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	24
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	22
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	22
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	21
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	21
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	21
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	21
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	20
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	20
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	20
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	20
A path towards citizenship: The effects of early college high schools on criminal convictions and voting	20
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment	19
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	19

Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	18
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	18
Editorial Board	18
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	18
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	17
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	17
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	17
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	17
The evolution of demographic methods	16
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	15
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	15
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	14
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries	14
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	13
Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more?	13
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	13
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	13
Significant others? Social groups, income expectations, and redistributive preferences	13
An intersectional examination of the opportunity gap in science: A critical quantitative approach to latent class analysis	12
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	12
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	12
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	12
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	12
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	11
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	11
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	11
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	11
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	10
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	10
Secularism, family ties and loneliness: A multilevel longitudinal study of ten European societies	10
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	10
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	10
Editorial Board	10
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	10
Expectations of trustworthiness in cross-status interactions	9
The unequal consequences of family structures for infant health	9
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	9
Reflected appraisals across multiple reference groups: Discrepancies in self and individual delinquency	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
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	9
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	9
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	9
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	8
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	8
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	8
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	8
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	8
Editorial Board	8

Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	8
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	8
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	7
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	7
Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers	7
Corrigendum to “A tangled web: The reciprocal relationship between depression and educational outcomes in China” [Soc. Sci. Res. 85 (2020) 102353]	7
Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness	7
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	7
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think	7
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	7
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	7
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	7
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	7
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	7
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	7
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	7
Black-White disparities in women’s physical health: The role of socioeconomic status and racism-related stressors	6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	6
An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	6
Editorial Board	6
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
Editorial Board	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	6
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	6
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	6
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–2019	6
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	6