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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	102
Asian American Diversity and Growth	80
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	80
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	69
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	58
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	52
Democracy in the Global South	52
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	48
Sociology of Whiteness	47
Online Nonprobability Samples	45
Gender and the Far-Right	44
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	42
Discrimination and Health Inequalities	41
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	41
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	40
Luck and Predictability in the Life Course	38
Sending Money Home: Understanding the Social Dynamics of Migrant Remittances	38
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	36
Survey Experiments in Sociology	36
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Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	35
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	34
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	34
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	34
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	34

Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	33
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	33
The Legitimacy of Science	30
The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	30
Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century	28
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	27
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	26
The Architecture of Global Capital: Elites, States, and the New Geography of Wealth	23
Food and Inequality	22
The Sociology of Interpretation	22
Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	19
Leveraging Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment for Sociological Investigations of Everyday Life	18
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media	18
Accounting for Credit	18
How Threat Mobilizes the Resurgence and Persistence of US White Supremacist Activism: The 1980s to the Present	18
Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work	18
Online Illegal Cryptomarkets	16
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	15
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	14
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	14
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment	13
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research	13
The Sociology of Police Behavior	12
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital	12
Social Ecological Systems in Flux	12
Gender in the Elite	12
From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy	12
Rights in China: Myths, Abuses, and Politics	11
Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors	11
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Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification	10
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry	10
Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework	10
American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization	9
The Division of Labor Under Strain: Increasing Task Burdens, Insufficient Coordination Capacity, and the Possible Impacts of Artificial Intelligence	9
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The Latino Middle Class	9
Poverty and Public Policy in the Context of Crisis	8
Presumed Competent: The Strategic Adaptation of Asian Americans in Education and the Labor Market	8
Sociology of Twitter/X: Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Directions	8
Serendipitous Sociologist: Transitions and Turning Points in My Journey	8