OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Sociology is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	223
Asian American Diversity and Growth	158
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	119
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	105
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	95
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	80
Democracy in the Global South	72
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	70
Online Nonprobability Samples	54
Trust in Social Relations	49
Sociology of Whiteness	48
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	47
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	46
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	44
Black Men and Black Masculinity	40
Survey Experiments in Sociology	34
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A Retrospective on Fundamental Cause Theory: State of the Literature and Goals for the Future	33
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	31
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	29
Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration	29
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	29
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	28
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	27
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	27

Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	26
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	25
The Legitimacy of Science	25
The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	24
Food and Inequality	24
Markets Everywhere: The Washington Consensus and the Sociology of Global Institutional Change	24
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	23
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	23
Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century	22
Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	22
The Sociology of Interpretation	18
How Threat Mobilizes the Resurgence and Persistence of US White Supremacist Activism: The 1980s to the Present	17
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Leveraging Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment for Sociological Investigations of Everyday Life	16
The Influence of Simmel on American Sociology Since 1975	15
New Destinations and the Changing Geography of Immigrant Incorporation	15
Online Illegal Cryptomarkets	15
Accounting for Credit	15
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media	15
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	14
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research	14
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	14
Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work	14
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment	13
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital	12
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	12
From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy	11
Social Ecological Systems in Flux	10
The Sociology of Police Behavior	9
The (Un)Managed Heart: Racial Contours of Emotion Work in Gendered Occupations	8
Populism Studies: The Case for Theoretical and Comparative Reconstruction	8
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The Sociology of Emotions in Latin America	7
The “Burden” of Oppositional Culture Among Black Youth in America	7
Gender in the Elite	7
Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors	7
Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework	6
Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification	6
Whatever Happened to Socialization?	6
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry	6
Rights in China: Myths, Abuses, and Politics	6
Sociology of Twitter/X: Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Directions	5
The Society of Algorithms	5
American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization	5
The Latino Middle Class	5