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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Society of Algorithms	164
New Directions in the Study of Institutional Logics: From Tools to Phenomena	97
Trust in Social Relations	94
A Retrospective on Fundamental Cause Theory: State of the Literature and Goals for the Future	78
Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring: The Rise of Field Experiments	72
The Sharing Economy: Rhetoric and Reality	64
Rethinking Culture and Cognition	54
Whatever Happened to Socialization?	53
Ethnography, Data Transparency, and the Information Age	38
Negative Social Ties: Prevalence and Consequences	35
American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization	34
The Social and Sociological Consequences of China's One-Child Policy	33
Social Inequality and the Future of US Life Expectancy	32
Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	31
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	30
Markets Everywhere: The Washington Consensus and the Sociology of Global Institutional Change	29
New Destinations and the Changing Geography of Immigrant Incorporation	25
University Governance in Meso and Macro Perspectives	23
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	22
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	21
Durable Wealth: Institutions, Mechanisms, and Practices of Wealth Perpetuation	21
Sociology of Whiteness	19
Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration	19
Racialized Reshuffling: Urban Change and the Persistence of Segregation in the Twenty-First Century	18
Recent Trends in Global Economic Inequality	18

Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	15
The Legacy of Shareholder Value Capitalism	15
The Civil Rights Revolution at Work: What Went Wrong	15
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	14
Conceptualizations of Race: Essentialism and Constructivism	13
The (Un)Managed Heart: Racial Contours of Emotion Work in Gendered Occupations	13
The “Burden” of Oppositional Culture Among Black Youth in America	12
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	12
Immigrant Organizations	12
Social Isolation: An Unequally Distributed Health Hazard	12
Populism Studies: The Case for Theoretical and Comparative Reconstruction	11
Neighborhood–School Structures: A New Approach to the Joint Study of Social Contexts	11
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	11
Causal Network Analysis	10
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry	10
Gender, Power, and Harassment: Sociology in the #MeToo Era	10
Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors	9
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	9
Black Men and Black Masculinity	8
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	8
Women's Health: Population Patterns and Social Determinants	8
Gender in the Elite	8
The Legitimacy of Science	7
Culture and Durable Inequality	7
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	7
The Influence of Simmel on American Sociology Since 1975	7
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	7
Cultural Objects, Material Culture, and Materiality	7
Poor People's Survival Strategies: Two Decades of Research in the Americas	6
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	6
Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework	6
The Knowledge-Based Economy and the Global South	5
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	5
The Sociology of Emotions in Latin America	5
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	5
The Social Impacts of Supply-Side Decarbonization	5