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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	68
Asian American Diversity and Growth	65
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	60
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	43
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	37
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	37
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	35
Democracy in the Global South	35
Sociology of Whiteness	35
Online Nonprobability Samples	33
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	32
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	31
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	30
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Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	27
Survey Experiments in Sociology	27
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	25
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	24
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	24
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	24
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	23
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	20
The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	20
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	20
The Legitimacy of Science	20

Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	19
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	19
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	19
The Sociology of Interpretation	17
Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century	16
Food and Inequality	16
How Threat Mobilizes the Resurgence and Persistence of US White Supremacist Activism: The 1980s to the Present	14
Accounting for Credit	12
Leveraging Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment for Sociological Investigations of Everyday Life	12
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media	12
Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work	11
Online Illegal Cryptomarkets	10
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	10
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research	9
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	9
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	9
The Sociology of Police Behavior	8
From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy	8
Social Ecological Systems in Flux	8
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment	8
Gender in the Elite	8
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital	8
Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors	7
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Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification	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
Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework	5
American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization	5
The Latino Middle Class	5
Sociology of Twitter/X: Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Directions	5