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

Article	Citations
David E. Bernstein, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America	36
Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy	28
Dialing for Dollars, Dialing for Domination: Normatively Evaluating the Congressional Fundraising Imperative	22
The Interfaith Explosion in the 1960s: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel	17
Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress	16
Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal	15
P. F. Strawson, Lectures on Ethics, 1946	15
China in the Year 2050: A Look Backwards	13
Theories of Society in Historical Context(s): Enlisting Intellectual and Conceptual History	12
Agnes Callard, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life	11
Liberal Vestiges in an Illiberal Regime: The Case of Singapore	10
Michael Walzer, The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective	10
Does Philosophy Need to Know Its History?	9
Cognitive Processes Underlying Drug-Related Recidivism: A Qualitative Study	8
Homo Putans and Anticipatory Supposition: The Formation of Possible Futures	8
Robert J. Lieber, Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World	7
Hugh McLeod, Religion and the Rise of Sport in England	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
David Runciman, The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs	6
Sincerity: The Impossible but Necessary Project	6
Brexit, the Rise of China, and the Future of the Liberal International Order and Great Power Competition	6
Introduction to Forum: (Im)mobilities, Security, and Identities in West Africa Borderlands	6
Polly Low (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides	6
An Empirical Assessment of Gender Inequality in Human Development: Evidence from G20 Countries	6

“But why isn’t it an accomplishment not to have children?”: A Qualitative Investigation into Millennial Perceptions of Voluntarily Childless Women	6
Participation, Recruitment, and Representation: Explaining Women’s Political Inclusion in South Asia, India, and Conflict-Affected Jammu and Kashmir	5
Commercialization of Painting in Nigeria Artistic Landscape	5
The Sahel: A Tragedy That Never Ends	5
Charles Taylor, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment	5
Ageing Widows in the Devotional Geography of Rural West Bengal	4
Afro-indigenous Approaches to Pandemic Control and the Struggle for Decoloniality in Africa	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
The Experience of International Students: Biographical Narratives and Identities	4
Jonathan Sumption, The Challenges of Democracy and The Rule of Law	4
Raymond Geuss: Not Thinking Like a Liberal	4
Introducing Regulatory Intermediaries to the Cross-Border Data Transfer Regime in China	4
Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative	4
Jon Cruddas, A Century of Labour	4
Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Marxism	4
Passive or Pragmatic or Resistant? Responses of Second-Generation Nigerian Christians to Racism in Britain	4
Revisiting the Effect of Star Power and Award History on Opening Month Box Office Performance	3
Border Governance, Migration Securitisation, and Security Challenges in Nigeria	3
Philip Kitcher, What’s the Use of Philosophy?	3
Scientism, Pseudoscience and the Territorial Distinction Between Humanistic and Scientific Knowledge	3
Socrates’ Critique of Writing	3
Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke	3
Digital Mythologies	3
US Universities in the Age of Trump: Is There a Way to Prevent Their Long-Term Decline?	3
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom	3
Can the Metaverse Remedy Political Polarization?	3
New Perspectives on Contemporary African Security, Governance, Quality of Life, and Gender/Sexuality: Introduction to Special Issue	3
A Triptych of Social Care in Britain	3
Andrew R. Murphy, Toleration: A Very Short Introduction	3
When Support Becomes Burdensome: Unequal and Problematic Ties in Personal Networks and Mental Health Among Chinese University Students	3
Philip Pettit, When Minds Converse: A Social Genealogy of the Human Soul	3
Colin Mayer, Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them	3
Gender, Space, and the Fear of Crime: A Photovoice Study	3
Some Reflections on “Transfer” from Herzl to Trump	2
The Era of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) and Marx’s Communist Prediction: A Perspective Based on Dialectical Materialism	2
Does Philosophy Need to Know Its History?	2
Legal Pluralism as a Necessity: The Difficulty of Adjudicating Land Disputes in India	2
Karl Schlögel, Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland	2
Interrogating the Nexus between Problematic Mobile Phone Use, Dependence, and Their Cumulative Impact on Students in Higher Education	2
The Political Economy of the Frankfurt School	2
John Gray, The New Leviathans: Thoughts after Liberalism	2
Demographic Projections and Migration Governance: How Law Shapes the Perception of “Too Many”	2
Paul Johnson and the Cultural Logic of the British Hard Right	2
The Contemporary Generations in American Politics	2
Fear and Mistrust in Identity: State Power, Compliance Ubumwe and Hotel Rwanda’s Paul Rusesabagina Factor in an Enduring Hutu-Tutsi Conflict in the Great Lakes	2
Blue Economy Initiative: A Sustainable Strategy for ECOWAS Economic Restructuring and Development Amidst the Emergence of Confederal Sahel States	2
Toward a Definition of the Humanities	2
AI and the Enigma of Human Moral Intelligence	2
Book Reviews	2

What Is To Be Done?	2
Maksymilian Del Mar, Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy and Law	2
Weaponizing Juries in a Democracy	2
Shelly Kagan, Answering Moral Skepticism	2
Jonathan Lear, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life	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
Everything for My Children: Social Policies and Traces of Hope	2
Gen Z Revolt 2025 and the Future of Democratic Renewal in Nepal	2
George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson, The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (and How It Came to Control Your Life)	2
James O’Brien, How They Broke Britain	2
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed	2
Living Communication Tools: Military Labor and Structural Harm of Modern Japanese Pigeons	1
Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere, Edited by Omar Kasmani	1
Joshua King, Rousseau and the Limits of the Liberal International Order	1
Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress	1
Geographies of Public Deliberation: A Closer Look at the Ingredient of Space	1
Andrew Gamble, After Brexit and Other Essays	1
Linking Responsibility to Accountability: A Qur’anic Temporal-Structural Lens on Morocco’s Court of Accounts and the Theory–Practice Gap	1
Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History	1
Bold Dressing and Intimate Scenes in Pakistani Dramas: A Qualitative Study of PEMRA Guidelines and Channel Practices	1
John T. McGreevy, Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis	1
Vladislav M. Zubok, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet System	1
Nikhil Krishnan, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60	1
Jacob Soll, Free Market: The History of an Idea	1
Kenneth Minogue, Conservatism, and the Challenge of the Reactionary Global Right	1
White Christian Nationalism and Youth Development in the USA	1
Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy	1
Publicking/Privating: The Gestural Politics of Digital Spaces	1
What Is a Woman in the Eyes of a Ghanaian Gen-Z? The Evolution of Femininity and Gender Norms Among Young Ghanaians	1
Development Paradoxes: Understanding the Effects of Neoliberal State’s Policies on “Oikos” through Sex Workers’ Narratives in a Himalayan State	1
Michael Mann, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis	1
Review of Two Books	1
Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath	1
Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber	1
Critical Discourse Analysis of Islam and Academic Integrity: Portraying Indonesian Scholars’ Perspectives	1
Sociology, Emotions, and the Training of Young Doctors in Four Latin American Countries	1
Shared Memory, Uneven Archives: Rethinking Municipal Recordkeeping in Galicia	1
Cameroonian Political Conflict, Displacement, and Refugee Women’s Struggle in the Informal Economy in Nigeria	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
Review of Two Books	1
The Demise of the Humanities and What Aristotle Would Say About It	1
Magic Money’s Theater of Time: Games, Fiction, and the Ethics of Digital Economies	1
Revisiting Dependency in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Analysis of Africa–China Relations	1
Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope	1
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Call of the Tribe	1
Bifurcated Mobilities: Caste, Discrimination, and the Myth of Muslim Homogeneity in India	1
The Financial Literacy Paradox in Gambling Disorder: Why Knowing Isn’t Doing	1
Far Away Is Close at Hand: A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Cosmopolitanism	1
J. Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century	1
Wei Lu, Digital Divide: Concepts, Causes and Consequences. Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang University Press, 2024	1
Gamelan, Solidarity, and Democratic Values: A Cultural Shift Within the Badra Laras Community	1
The Great Canadian Paradox: Jordan Peterson, Right-Wing Canadian Internet Personalities, and the End of Canadian Exceptionalism?	1
Fragmented Discourses: The Indian Digital Public Sphere in a Post-truth Era	1
Can Terrorism Ever Be Morally Justified?	1
Twins as a Minority: A Minority Building Perspective	1
Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time	1
Threats to Academic Freedom in Higher Education	1
Food Politics and Popular Culture in Hilda Baci’s 2025 Jollof Rice Guinness World Record	1
Campus Culture, Same-Sex Relationships, and the Ambivalent Role of Social Work: Evidence from a Nigerian University	1
Once Accessing the Internet, Less Trusting of Local Officials?	1