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

Article	Citations
David E. Bernstein, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America	27
The Use of Federal Criminal Law to Enforce Moral Sensibilities – A Critical Review	26
Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy	25
Dialing for Dollars, Dialing for Domination: Normatively Evaluating the Congressional Fundraising Imperative	22
The Interfaith Explosion in the 1960s: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel	19
Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress	18
P. F. Strawson, Lectures on Ethics, 1946	18
Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal	15
“Living-Dead”: The Transformative Power of Educating the Body	14
China in the Year 2050: A Look Backwards	13
An Evolutionary Institutionalist Explanation of the Philippines’ Militaristic COVID-19 Approach	12
Liberal Vestiges in an Illiberal Regime: The Case of Singapore	11
Theories of Society in Historical Context(s): Enlisting Intellectual and Conceptual History	10
Agnes Callard, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life	9
Face Culture and Conspicuous Consumption: A Case Study of Wuyi Rock Tea Drinkers in China	8
Does Philosophy Need to Know Its History?	8
Robert D. Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again	8
Michael Walzer, The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective	8
Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers	7
Robert Skidelsky: Money and Government: A Challenge to Mainstream Economics	6
Sincerity: The Impossible but Necessary Project	6
Robert J. Lieber, Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World	6
Introduction to Forum: (Im)mobilities, Security, and Identities in West Africa Borderlands	6
Hugh McLeod, Religion and the Rise of Sport in England	6
“But why isn’t it an accomplishment not to have children?”: A Qualitative Investigation into Millennial Perceptions of Voluntarily Childless Women	5

David Runciman, The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs	5
Polly Low (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides	5
Charles Taylor, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment	5
An Empirical Assessment of Gender Inequality in Human Development: Evidence from G20 Countries	5
Brexit, the Rise of China, and the Future of the Liberal International Order and Great Power Competition	5
Party Politics vs. Grievance Politics: Competing Modes of Representative Democracy	5
Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will	5
Martijn Konings, The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, not People	5
The Sahel: A Tragedy That Never Ends	4
Robin Waterfield, Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy	4
Raymond Geuss: Not Thinking Like a Liberal	4
Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Marxism	4
Shalamov’s New Prose	4
Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke	3
Digital Mythologies	3
The Experience of International Students: Biographical Narratives and Identities	3
Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative	3
Border Governance, Migration Securitisation, and Security Challenges in Nigeria	3
Publisher Correction to: Oaks and Class Struggle	3
Can the Metaverse Remedy Political Polarization?	3
Ageing Widows in the Devotional Geography of Rural West Bengal	3
Peter Poellner: Value in Modernity: The Philosophy of Existential Modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, Musil	3
Afro-indigenous Approaches to Pandemic Control and the Struggle for Decoloniality in Africa	3
Andrew R. Murphy, Toleration: A Very Short Introduction	3
Kei Hiruta, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity	3
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom	3
US Universities in the Age of Trump: Is There a Way to Prevent Their Long-Term Decline?	3
Jonathan Sumption, The Challenges of Democracy and The Rule of Law	3
Jon Cruddas, A Century of Labour	3
Statehood and Justice	3
Quassim Cassam, Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis	3
Philip Kitcher, What’s the Use of Philosophy?	3
Colin Mayer, Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them	2
Socrates’ Critique of Writing	2
Robert B. Brandom, A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology	2
Paul Johnson and the Cultural Logic of the British Hard Right	2
Legal Pluralism as a Necessity: The Difficulty of Adjudicating Land Disputes in India	2
Book Reviews	2
The Political Economy of the Frankfurt School	2
New Perspectives on Contemporary African Security, Governance, Quality of Life, and Gender/Sexuality: Introduction to Special Issue	2
Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends	2
Everything for My Children: Social Policies and Traces of Hope	2
George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson, The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (and How It Came to Control Your Life)	2
Philip Pettit, When Minds Converse: A Social Genealogy of the Human Soul	2
Scientism, Pseudoscience and the Territorial Distinction Between Humanistic and Scientific Knowledge	2
John Gray, The New Leviathans: Thoughts after Liberalism	2
The Specter of Gentrification in a Pan-Asian Immigrant Neighborhood: Community Development and Resistance to Displacement in Portland’s Jade District	2
Demographic Projections and Migration Governance: How Law Shapes the Perception of “Too Many”	2
Jonathan Lear, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life	1
Andrew Gamble, After Brexit and Other Essays	1

Maksymilian Del Mar, Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy and Law	1
James O’Brien, How They Broke Britain	1
AI and the Enigma of Human Moral Intelligence	1
Edward Chancellor, The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest	1
Threats to Academic Freedom in Higher Education	1
Kenneth Minogue, Conservatism, and the Challenge of the Reactionary Global Right	1
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century	1
Michael Mann, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis	1
Publicking/Privating: The Gestural Politics of Digital Spaces	1
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Call of the Tribe	1
Jacob Soll, Free Market: The History of an Idea	1
John T. McGreevy, Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis	1
The Financial Literacy Paradox in Gambling Disorder: Why Knowing Isn’t Doing	1
Twins as a Minority: A Minority Building Perspective	1
J. Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century	1
The Great Canadian Paradox: Jordan Peterson, Right-Wing Canadian Internet Personalities, and the End of Canadian Exceptionalism?	1
Review of Two Books	1
Geographies of Public Deliberation: A Closer Look at the Ingredient of Space	1
Sociology, Emotions, and the Training of Young Doctors in Four Latin American Countries	1
Investigating the Sexist Implications of Bride Price (Lobola) in Zimbabwe	1
Some Reflections on “Transfer” from Herzl to Trump	1
Correction to: David Stasavage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History From Antiquity to Today	1
Does Philosophy Need to Know Its History?	1
Karl Schlögel, Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland	1
Michael Ignatieff, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times	1
Peter Burke: The Polymath: a Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag	1
Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber	1
Matthew Rose, A World After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right	1
Joshua King, Rousseau and the Limits of the Liberal International Order	1
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed	1
Vladislav M. Zubok, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet System	1
Fragmented Discourses: The Indian Digital Public Sphere in a Post-truth Era	1
Review of Two Books	1
Angus Deaton, Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality	1
David Goodall, The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985: A Memoir edited by Frank Sheridan	1
White Christian Nationalism and Youth Development in the USA	1
Nikhil Krishnan, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60	1
Can Terrorism Ever Be Morally Justified?	1
Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History	1
Erosions, Ruptures, and the Ending of International Orders: Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine in Historical Perspective	1
The Contemporary Generations in American Politics	1
Blue Economy Initiative: A Sustainable Strategy for ECOWAS Economic Restructuring and Development Amidst the Emergence of Confederal Sahel States	1
Toward a Definition of the Humanities	1
QAnon: The Calm Before the Storm	1
Shelly Kagan, Answering Moral Skepticism	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
Political Philosophy’s Methodological Moment and the Rise of Public Political Philosophy	1
Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time	1
Michele Alacevich, Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography	1
Weaponizing Juries in a Democracy	1
Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy	1
Cameroonian Political Conflict, Displacement, and Refugee Women’s Struggle in the Informal Economy in Nigeria	1
Once Accessing the Internet, Less Trusting of Local Officials?	1
Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress	1
Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath	1
Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope	1