OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory and Society 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory	37
Interview with Steve Brint for Theory and Society	31
Correction: From heterodoxy to pluralism: the need for a conservative paradigm in social science	25
Encounters, separations, and incursions: Theorizing the Black Panther Party’s challenge to the War on Poverty	23
Institutional time inequality: speed capital and the social distribution of waiting	19
Simulating theory and society: How multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling contributes to renewal and critique in social theory	17
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism	16
“Black people don’t love nature”: white environmentalist imaginations of cause, calling, and capacity	14
Retrospect & prospect: a post-progressive developmental evolutionary psychopathology	10
Virtue, moral teleology, and practice: bringing Alasdair MacIntyre into the sociology of morality	9
First impressions and the built environment: exploring zero acquaintance judgments in socio-spatial contexts	9
Corruption: A situational action view	9
Extending the reach of relational models theory: measurement, model mixing, null relations, and mere dominance	9
The gates to the profession are open: the alternative institutionalization of data science	9
The multivocality of the nation: political imagination and transformation in the emergence of African Nationalism	8
Collective learned helplessness: a conceptional framework	8
The stratification of emotions as a driving force in human societies	8
Correction to: Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo‑rural conception of the common good	8
Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees: an empirically grounded typology	7
Correction: Rethinking medicalization: unequal relations, hegemonic medicalization, and the medicalizing dividend	7
Tangled motivations: pathways to costly careers	7
Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence	7
What is assimilation, how do we measure it, and how do we know if a group has assimilated?	7
Positioning value: mapping the logics of persuasion in Science, with evidence from AI research	6
Nuclear denial in Japan: the network power of an energy industrial complex	6

The theory and function of Marxian water rent in the United States	6
Agency as conversion process	6
The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution	6
Theorizing sex work: a sectoral approach	6
Do social media platforms increase well-being? Three unresolved puzzles	6
Patterns of tolerance: how interaction culture and community relations explain political tolerance (and intolerance) in the American libertarian movement	5
Response to Commentaries	5
A strategy for developing explanatory theories in sociology	5
Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine	5
Identities, meaning, the social structure, and the life course: Developing identity theory in sociology	5
War by numbers: The sociology of counting in armed conflict	5
Bridging the gap: human societies as adaptive knowledge ecologies	5
Diversity, conflict, and normative neutrality: the university as a critical institution	5
The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024	4
Arbitrage in Sociological Theorizing: the case of W. E. B. Du Bois	4
Institutional fiefdoms: the implementation of governance and new norms within an emerging strategic action field	4
What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures	4
What makes randomized controlled trials so successful—for now? Or, on the consonances, compromises, and contradictions of a global interstitial field	4
A theory of core identities	4
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose: how to reverse the closing of the sociological imagination	4
The methodological stagnation of sociology is related to its left-wing skew	4
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets	4
Institutionalized Futurity Loss: How societies destroy future viability despite Adequacy and Capability	4
Distinguishing but not defining: How ambivalence affects contemporary identity disclosures	4
The art of the impossible: Utopia and instrumentalism in contemporary electoral politics	4
Evolutionary biology of human societies	3
Normative scientific conflict is unavoidable and should be welcomed	3
Moral entanglements with a changing climate	3
Computational structuralism: Toward a formal theory of meaning in the age of digital intelligence	3
The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division	3
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?	3
Appropriate research conduct in an age of political polarization: an intervention	3
The paradox of women’s marital freedom: nonlinear individualization in post-reform China	3
Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict	3
Experimentally falsifying ghost criminology: exercising rigor, exorcising residue	3
Beyond conflict: recovering the sociology of social progress	3
Narratives we live by: sequentiality and timeliness in temporal structuring of action	3
Misperceiving inequality: the social science of trends, causes, and consequences of economic inequality	3
Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response	3
What is society?	3
Interview with Alan Fiske for Theory and Society	3
What makes a good social science theory, and why the evolutionary model of the actor is one	3
From civil society to populism. Mapping a typology of political activism in Europe	3
Correction to: Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined linguistic community”	3
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition	3
Meritorious disparities: AP exams and the academic pipeline to medicine	3