OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Sociology 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Asian American Diversity and Growth	106
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	82
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	81
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	74
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	60
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	57
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	54
Democracy in the Global South	50
Online Nonprobability Samples	50
Gender and the Far-Right	45
Sociology of Whiteness	45
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	43
Discrimination and Health Inequalities	43
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	42
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	42
Luck and Predictability in the Life Course	39
Sending Money Home: Understanding the Social Dynamics of Migrant Remittances	39
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	38
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The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	37
Survey Experiments in Sociology	37
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	37
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	36
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	36
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	36

Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	35
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	35
The Legitimacy of Science	33
The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	30
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	29
Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century	28
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	27
The Architecture of Global Capital: Elites, States, and the New Geography of Wealth	24
The Sociology of Interpretation	23
Food and Inequality	22
Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	21
Leveraging Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment for Sociological Investigations of Everyday Life	20
Accounting for Credit	19
How Threat Mobilizes the Resurgence and Persistence of US White Supremacist Activism: The 1980s to the Present	19
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media	18
Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work	18
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	16
Online Illegal Cryptomarkets	16
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	16
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research	14
Qualitative Research in an Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Analysis, Workflow, and Computation	14
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment	14
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital	13
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	13
The Sociology of Police Behavior	12
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Gender in the Elite	12
From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy	12
Social Ecological Systems in Flux	12
Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification	11
Rights in China: Myths, Abuses, and Politics	11
Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors	11
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Sociology of Twitter/X: Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Directions	9
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry	9
The Division of Labor Under Strain: Increasing Task Burdens, Insufficient Coordination Capacity, and the Possible Impacts of Artificial Intelligence	9
Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework	9
American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization	9
The Latino Middle Class	9
Serendipitous Sociologist: Transitions and Turning Points in My Journey	8
Poverty and Public Policy in the Context of Crisis	8
The Demise of Affirmative Action in College Admissions	8
Presumed Competent: The Strategic Adaptation of Asian Americans in Education and the Labor Market	8
Widening Educational Disparities in Health and Longevity	8