OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Sociological Review is 8. 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
The effect of school peers on residential mobility in young adulthood: evidence from Sweden	60
What (wo)men want? Evidence from a factorial survey on preferred work hours in couples after childbirth	41
The temporal dimension of parental employment: Temporary contracts, non-standard work schedules, and children’s education in Germany	33
The female-breadwinner well-being ‘penalty’: differences by men’s (un)employment and country	30
Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries	29
Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction	28
Shouldering childhood: early behavioural traits and discrimination concerns	27
Pathways to prosocial leadership: an online experiment on the effects of external subsidies and the relative price of giving	24
Changing flux, persisting barriers: assessing the career mobility regime changes in France	22
Fragmentation or integration? Ethnic diversity and the structural cohesion of adolescent social networks	20
Increasingly polarized? Inequality, prosperity, and perceived socioeconomic conflict in advanced economies (1987–2019)	20
Are female-dominated occupations a secure option? Occupational gender segregation, accompanied occupational characteristics, and the risk of becoming unemployed	19
Words of change: The increase of gender-inclusive language in German media	19
Intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on infant health: evidence from Swedish register data	19
Not all wealth is the same: types and levels of wealth and children’s university enrolment	17
School competition, academic achievement, and stratification in a predominantly non-public education system	17
Support for everyone or selection of some? Self-selection and assignment into a large-scale refugee mentoring program in Germany	16
Targets of police attention. Discrimination in pedestrian stop-and-search of young people in Germany and France	16
Linked generations: child’s transition into unemployment and parents’ mental well-being	16
Birth cohort changes in fertility ideals: evidence from repeated cross-sectional surveys in Finland	15
Two faces of benefit generosity: comparing justice preferences in the access to and level of welfare benefits	15
Manager’s gender, supervisory style, and employee’s perception of the demanding work climate	15
Aleatoric governance: using lotteries to break the iron law of oligarchy	15
Hiring intentions at the intersection of gender, parenthood, and social status. A factorial survey experiment in the UK labour market	15
Correction to: Not Cologne but the data collection (might have) changed everything: a cautionary tale on ignoring changes in data recording in sociological research	15

Parental unemployment and adolescents’ subjective wellbeing—the moderating role of educational policies	15
Taxed fairly? How differences in perception shape attitudes towards progressive taxation	14
Do refugee children impair the academic performance of native children in the school? Informative null results from Danish Register Data	14
Why do gendered divisions of labour persist? Parental leave take-up among adoptive and biological parents	14
The polarization of real estate ownership and increasing wealth inequality in Spain	13
Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant–native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France	13
Correction to: Discrimination unveiled: a field experiment on the barriers faced by muslim women in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain	13
Is ‘immigrant optimism’ in educational choice a problem? Ethnic gaps in Swedish upper secondary school completion	13
Information intervention on long-term earnings prospects and the gender gap in major choice	13
Changing regional university availability and inequality of educational opportunity in Japan	13
The long-term effects of childhood residential mobility on social capital	13
The later the better? A novel approach to estimating the effect of school starting age on ADHD and academic skills	13
Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK	12
Cross-national variation in the skills trap: illuminating the heterogeneous economic returns to high cognitive skills	12
The Generations and Gender Survey: a cross-national longitudinal resource	12
Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants	12
Does within-school between-class ability grouping harm the educational outcomes of socio-economically disadvantaged children? International evidence	12
Who perceives lower wages for women to be fair? How perceptions of the fairness of men’s and women’s wages vary by firm and workplace characteristics	12
Do African Americans overreport or underreport their experiences of discrimination? Evidence from list experiments	12
Control variable selection in applied quantitative sociology: a critical review	11
Quantile regression estimands and models: revisiting the motherhood wage penalty debate	11
Parenthood, occupational sex segregation, and wage: motherhood penalty and fatherhood premium in China	10
Radical right populism and the media: evidence from the supply side and demand side of political information in Germany	10
Does inequality undermine life satisfaction? Effective identification of country-level controls for a longitudinal investigation	10
Does forming a nuclear family increase religiosity? Longitudinal evidence from the British Household Panel Survey	10
Women’s aversion to majors that (seemingly) require systemizing skills causes gendered field of study choice	10
Racial bias in media coverage: accounting for structural position and public interest	10
Correction to: A Stall Only on the Surface? Working Hours and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Western Germany 1985–2014	10
Escaping one’s disadvantage? Neighbourhoods, socioeconomic origin and children’s adult life outcomes	10
The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain	10
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark	9
Educational outcomes of UK LGB and heterosexual adolescents: exploring gendered differences and mechanisms	9
The gendered effects of COVID-19 on well-being: a household perspective	9
Does more education lower the barriers to social mobility? An analysis of three birth cohorts during a period of educational expansion in Brazil	9
The role of peers’ perceptions in ethnic self-identification	9
Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations	9
The gendered impact of parenthood on job-related training participation in Germany and the United Kingdom	9
Much to lose, no credentials to prove it – Educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees as means of occupational status re-attainment	9
Uncovering hidden opinions: social norms and the expression of xenophobic attitudes	9
Social capital is associated with cooperation and indirect norm enforcement in the field: behavioural evidence from Switzerland	8
Telecommuting and division of domestic work: the role of gender role attitudes in Germany	8
Social inequality in admission chances for prestigious higher education programs in Germany: do application patterns matter?	8
Technological change, training, and within-firm wage inequality in Germany	8
Positive effects of his and her income on first births: couple-level evidence from longitudinal tax data in Italy	8