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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	226
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	222
Editorial Board	143
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	81
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	67
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	53
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	44
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	40
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	38
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	34
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	33
Regrets, she's had a few: Gender and regret of computer science and engineering degrees	33
When categories change value: How new educational resources reshape patterns of inequality	32
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	31
Toward a formal sociological model of partner search	31
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	26
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	24
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	24
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	23
What drives educational segregation and which communities are affected? Findings from a decomposition approach	20
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	20
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	19
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	18
Do geopolitical tensions increase negative attitudes toward minorities? Evidence from a natural experiment in India	18
State-level gender inequality and couples’ relative earnings following parenthood over four decades	18

Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	17
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	17
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	17
Criminal legal contact, labor market insecurity and labor market participation	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	15
Editorial Board	15
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	14
The evolution of demographic methods	14
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	14
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	14
Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany	13
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	13
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	13
Childhood exposure to local wealth inequality, economic isolation in schools, and inter-class social ties in adulthood	13
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	13
The intergenerational mobility advantage of educators’ children: Capital embedded in occupations	13
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	12
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel	12
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	12
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	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
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	12
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	12
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	12
Catalysts and buffers: How diversity and status in social networks shape attitudes towards inequality in contemporary societies	11
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	11
Editorial Board	11
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	11
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	11
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	11
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	11
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
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
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	10
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	9
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	9
From Islamic religiosity to political participation. The role of social exclusion and origin-country ties	9
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	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
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	8
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	8
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	8
Corrigendum to “Educational assortative mating and changing patterns of parental financial investment in children, 1990–2024” [Soc. Sci. Res. 136C (2026) 103347]	8
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Americans' views of religion in public life: The effect of three cultural models on attitudes toward religious and nonreligious groups	8

Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	8
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	8
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools	8
Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors	8
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	7
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	7
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	7
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	7
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	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
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	7
The structural fit of personal gender beliefs: A cross-national analysis of its implications for life satisfaction	7
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	7
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
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	6
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	6
Men’s and women’s aversion to female breadwinning: Linking individual attitudes to macro-level contexts	6
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	6
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	6
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	6
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
Educational assortative mating and changing patterns of parental financial investment in children, 1990–2024	6
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	5
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	5
Editorial Board	5
A Schumpeter hotel? Surname status inequality and persistence in Sweden, 1880–2015	5
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–2019	5
Socioeconomic divides in curricular pathways: Unpacking decision-making mechanisms and peer effects	5
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	5
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	5
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	5
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	5
Editorial Board	5
An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	5
The diffusion of federal Title IX complaints throughout U.S. colleges and universities, 1994–2014	5
Employment stability and social origin: Cumulative advantages in young adults’ homeownership and financial asset accumulation	5
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market	5
Editorial Board	5
Is my manager feeling threatened by me? Racial differences in content and activation of threat metastereotypes	5
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019	5
Editorial Board	5
Horizontal stratification and educational homogamy in South Korea: Marriage patterns and preferences across elite- and non-elite university graduates	5
Editorial Board	5
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–2019	5
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	5
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion	5
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	5
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	5
Compensation or concordance between warmth and competence: Examining social class stereotypes in English and Chinese languages using natural language	5