OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Sociology is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Collective Action, Democratization, and Violence: Dynamics of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey	71
State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations	30
Getting In: Status Stratification and the Pursuit of the Good College Party	14
What Makes a Relationship Serious? Race, Religion, and Emotions in South Asian Muslim Immigrants’ Romantic Meaning-Making	13
Making a Market for NGOs: Chinese Neo-Corporatism and Its Divergent Patterns of Regulating Migrant Labor	13
How Place Matters for Migrants’ Socio-Legal Experiences: Local Reasoning about the Law and the Importance of Becoming a “Moral Insider”	11
Classmates or Colleagues? How Elite Students Learn to Manage One Another	10
“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers	9
What is “Qualitative” in Qualitative Research? Why the Answer Does not Matter but the Question is Important	9
“A Problem with the Person”: Class Blindness and the Reproduction of Social Class Inequality	8
Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring	8
Correction to: Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols	7
Ideological Consolidation, Subject Formation, and the Discursive Creation of the “New Woman” in Revolutionary Cuba	7
Thick Construction as a Variant of Theory-Driven Ethnography	7
Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic	6
The Moral Work of Participation: Disillusio, Expertise, and Urban Planning Under Neoliberalism	6
Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding	5
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts	5
The Work of Fantasy: A Study of Masculinizing Practices in Strip Clubs Across Three U.S. Midwestern Metropolitan Areas	4
Neighborhood as Theater: Building a Goffmanian Framework for Comparative Urban Ethnography	4
Is the Ethnographic Fact Conquered or Co-Constructed?	4
Sociology from a Distance: Remote Interviews and Feminist Methods	4
Environmental Authenticity: Constructing Nature in Postindustrial Parks	4
Who Should be Considered Indigenous? Intrastate Bureaucratic Jurisdictional Struggles Over Indigeneity in Peru	4
A Sharp Ethnographer for Swedish Researchers	4

Privileged but not in Power: How Asian American Tech Workers use Racial Strategies to Deflect and Confront Race and Racism	4
‘It Isn't Charity because We've Paid into it’: Social Citizenship and the Moral Economy of Welfare Recipients in the Wake of 2012 UK Welfare Reform Act	4
Ethnography Upgraded	3
Sousveillance Work: Monitoring and Managing-Up in Patrimonial Hollywood	3
Digital Ethnography for Sociology: Craft, Rigor, and Creativity	3
Power, Positionality, and the Ethic of Care in Qualitative Research	3
Labor Borders: Recruitment of Central American Migrants in “Exodus” through Southern Mexico and Indigenous Mexican “Braceros” in the Californian Fields	3
Becoming Visible in the Public Sphere: Mobile Home Park Residents’ Political Engagement in City Council Hearings	3
Diagnosis as Subculture: Subversions of Health and Medical Knowledges in the Orthorexia Recovery Community on Instagram	3
Pathways to Mobility: Family and Education in the Lives of Latinx Youth	3
Environmental Sociology is Running Late: Catching Up in a Faltering World	3