OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Society is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
David E. Bernstein, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America	32
Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy	27
Dialing for Dollars, Dialing for Domination: Normatively Evaluating the Congressional Fundraising Imperative	18
The Interfaith Explosion in the 1960s: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel	14
Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress	13
P. F. Strawson, Lectures on Ethics, 1946	12
China in the Year 2050: A Look Backwards	11
Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal	11
Theories of Society in Historical Context(s): Enlisting Intellectual and Conceptual History	10
Agnes Callard, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life	10
Liberal Vestiges in an Illiberal Regime: The Case of Singapore	10
Michael Walzer, The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective	9
Does Philosophy Need to Know Its History?	8
Introduction to Forum: (Im)mobilities, Security, and Identities in West Africa Borderlands	7
Sincerity: The Impossible but Necessary Project	7
Robert J. Lieber, Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World	7
Hugh McLeod, Religion and the Rise of Sport in England	6
Charles Taylor, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment	6
David Runciman, The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs	6
Martijn Konings, The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, not People	6
Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will	6
Polly Low (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides	6
Brexit, the Rise of China, and the Future of the Liberal International Order and Great Power Competition	6
An Empirical Assessment of Gender Inequality in Human Development: Evidence from G20 Countries	6
Raymond Geuss: Not Thinking Like a Liberal	5

“But why isn’t it an accomplishment not to have children?”: A Qualitative Investigation into Millennial Perceptions of Voluntarily Childless Women	5
The Sahel: A Tragedy That Never Ends	5
Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Marxism	5
Shalamov’s New Prose	5
Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative	4
Ageing Widows in the Devotional Geography of Rural West Bengal	4
Robin Waterfield, Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy	4
Peter Poellner: Value in Modernity: The Philosophy of Existential Modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, Musil	4
Jon Cruddas, A Century of Labour	4
Border Governance, Migration Securitisation, and Security Challenges in Nigeria	4
Digital Mythologies	4
Kei Hiruta, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity	3
Jonathan Sumption, The Challenges of Democracy and The Rule of Law	3
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom	3
Publisher Correction to: Oaks and Class Struggle	3
Philip Pettit, When Minds Converse: A Social Genealogy of the Human Soul	3
Scientism, Pseudoscience and the Territorial Distinction Between Humanistic and Scientific Knowledge	3
Can the Metaverse Remedy Political Polarization?	3
Afro-indigenous Approaches to Pandemic Control and the Struggle for Decoloniality in Africa	3
The Experience of International Students: Biographical Narratives and Identities	3
US Universities in the Age of Trump: Is There a Way to Prevent Their Long-Term Decline?	3
Colin Mayer, Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them	3
Socrates’ Critique of Writing	3
Robert B. Brandom, A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology	3
Philip Kitcher, What’s the Use of Philosophy?	3
Quassim Cassam, Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis	3
Andrew R. Murphy, Toleration: A Very Short Introduction	3
Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke	3
The Political Economy of the Frankfurt School	3
New Perspectives on Contemporary African Security, Governance, Quality of Life, and Gender/Sexuality: Introduction to Special Issue	3
Book Reviews	3
Does Philosophy Need to Know Its History?	2
The Specter of Gentrification in a Pan-Asian Immigrant Neighborhood: Community Development and Resistance to Displacement in Portland’s Jade District	2
Edward Chancellor, The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest	2
Maksymilian Del Mar, Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy and Law	2
Michael Ignatieff, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times	2
James O’Brien, How They Broke Britain	2
George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson, The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (and How It Came to Control Your Life)	2
John Gray, The New Leviathans: Thoughts after Liberalism	2
Legal Pluralism as a Necessity: The Difficulty of Adjudicating Land Disputes in India	2
Toward a Definition of the Humanities	2
Some Reflections on “Transfer” from Herzl to Trump	2
Blue Economy Initiative: A Sustainable Strategy for ECOWAS Economic Restructuring and Development Amidst the Emergence of Confederal Sahel States	2
The Contemporary Generations in American Politics	2
Everything for My Children: Social Policies and Traces of Hope	2
Karl Schlögel, Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland	2
Paul Johnson and the Cultural Logic of the British Hard Right	2
Demographic Projections and Migration Governance: How Law Shapes the Perception of “Too Many”	2
AI and the Enigma of Human Moral Intelligence	2
Shelly Kagan, Answering Moral Skepticism	2

Joshua King, Rousseau and the Limits of the Liberal International Order	1
Ronnie A. Grinberg, Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals	1
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century	1
Nikhil Krishnan, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60	1
Bill McGuire, Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide	1
White Christian Nationalism and Youth Development in the USA	1
Angus Deaton, Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality	1
Émile Perreau-Saussine, Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography (translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski)	1
Publicking/Privating: The Gestural Politics of Digital Spaces	1
Threats to Academic Freedom in Higher Education	1
Jacob Soll, Free Market: The History of an Idea	1
Geographies of Public Deliberation: A Closer Look at the Ingredient of Space	1
Gamelan, Solidarity, and Democratic Values: A Cultural Shift Within the Badra Laras Community	1
Cameroonian Political Conflict, Displacement, and Refugee Women’s Struggle in the Informal Economy in Nigeria	1
Review of Two Books	1
Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber	1
Far Away Is Close at Hand: A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Cosmopolitanism	1
The Demise of the Humanities and What Aristotle Would Say About It	1
Progressivism, Old and New: The Spiritual Moorings of Progressive Reforms	1
Investigating the Sexist Implications of Bride Price (Lobola) in Zimbabwe	1
Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner (editors), History in the Humanities and Social Sciences	1
Sociology, Emotions, and the Training of Young Doctors in Four Latin American Countries	1
Vladislav M. Zubok, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet System	1
The Look and Intersubjectivity: Insights from Sartre and Schutz for Race Relations	1
The Great Canadian Paradox: Jordan Peterson, Right-Wing Canadian Internet Personalities, and the End of Canadian Exceptionalism?	1
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Call of the Tribe	1
Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope	1
Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time	1
The Financial Literacy Paradox in Gambling Disorder: Why Knowing Isn’t Doing	1
Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath	1
Erosions, Ruptures, and the Ending of International Orders: Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine in Historical Perspective	1
Weaponizing Juries in a Democracy	1
Jonathan Lear, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life	1
Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History	1
Christopher Janaway, Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will to Life	1
Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy	1
Minogue and the End of Conservatism	1
Social Housing Privatisation Under Neoliberal Agendas and Global Trends: A Comparative Study of the UK and China	1
John T. McGreevy, Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis	1
Anne Phillips, Unconditional Equals	1
Fintan O’ Toole, We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958	1
Twins as a Minority: A Minority Building Perspective	1
“This Is Not a Riot”: Activists’ Responses to Accusations of Violence in the Ferguson Unrest	1
Once Accessing the Internet, Less Trusting of Local Officials?	1
Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress	1
Review of Two Books	1
Wei Lu, Digital Divide: Concepts, Causes and Consequences. Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang University Press, 2024	1
Can Terrorism Ever Be Morally Justified?	1
J. Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century	1
Fragmented Discourses: The Indian Digital Public Sphere in a Post-truth Era	1
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed	1
Michael Mann, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis	1
Andrew Gamble, After Brexit and Other Essays	1
Kenneth Minogue, Conservatism, and the Challenge of the Reactionary Global Right	1
Georg Prochnik: Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution	1