OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Sociology is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Asian American Diversity and Growth	75
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	68
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	66
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	45
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	44
Democracy in the Global South	41
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	40
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	40
Sociology of Whiteness	36
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	36
Online Nonprobability Samples	36
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	33
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	33
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Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	32
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	32
Survey Experiments in Sociology	29
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	28
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	27
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	26
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	26
The Legitimacy of Science	24
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	24
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	24
The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	23

The Sociology of Interpretation	22
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
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	22
Food and Inequality	19
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	19
How Threat Mobilizes the Resurgence and Persistence of US White Supremacist Activism: The 1980s to the Present	18
Leveraging Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment for Sociological Investigations of Everyday Life	17
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media	14
Accounting for Credit	14
Online Illegal Cryptomarkets	14
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	13
Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work	13
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment	12
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research	12
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	11
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	11
Social Ecological Systems in Flux	10
The Sociology of Police Behavior	10
From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy	10
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital	10
Gender in the Elite	9
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Rights in China: Myths, Abuses, and Politics	8
Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors	8
Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification	8
Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework	7
The Latino Middle Class	6
The Sociology of Entrepreneurship Revisited	6
American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization	6
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry	6
Sociology of Twitter/X: Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Directions	6