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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	188
Widening Educational Disparities in Health and Longevity	103
Online Illegal Cryptomarkets	102
Asian American Diversity and Growth	89
Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work	83
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media	68
Presumed Competent: The Strategic Adaptation of Asian Americans in Education and the Labor Market	60
Serendipitous Sociologist: Transitions and Turning Points in My Journey	53
Racialized Horizontal Stratification in US Higher Education: Politics, Process, and Consequences	41
Diversifying Gender Categories and the Sex/Gender System	36
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The Influence of Simmel on American Sociology Since 1975	33
Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration	32
The Social Construction of Skill in International Migration: Perspectives from Asia	31
Survey Experiments in Sociology	30
Land Inequalities in the United States	29
Neighborhood–School Structures: A New Approach to the Joint Study of Social Contexts	25
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	24
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	23
New Directions in the Study of Institutional Logics: From Tools to Phenomena	22
A Retrospective on Fundamental Cause Theory: State of the Literature and Goals for the Future	21
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	19
The Sociology of Entrepreneurship Revisited	19
Sojourners, Not Settlers: Temporary Labor Migration Since the Nineteenth Century	18
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment	18

Subnational Environmental Policy: Trends and Issues	17
The Rise and Fall of the Sociology of the Global City	17
Social Issues in Contemporary Russia: Women's Rights, Corruption, and Immigration Through Three Sociological Lenses	15
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	15
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research	15
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	15
Cultural Objects, Material Culture, and Materiality	13
The Social and Sociological Consequences of China's One-Child Policy	12
Life's Work: History, Biography, and Ideas	12
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	12
Recent Trends in Global Economic Inequality	12
University Governance in Meso and Macro Perspectives	11
Social Isolation: An Unequally Distributed Health Hazard	11
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	11
Culture and Durable Inequality	10
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	10
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	10
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	9
The Civil Rights Revolution at Work: What Went Wrong	9
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	9
Democracy in the Global South	8
The Sociology of Emotions in Latin America	8
From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy	8
Populism Studies: The Case for Theoretical and Comparative Reconstruction	8
Gender in the Elite	8
Social Ecological Systems in Flux	7
Gender, Power, and Harassment: Sociology in the #MeToo Era	7
The Social Impacts of Supply-Side Decarbonization	7
The Sociology of Police Behavior	6
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	6
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	6
Political Demography: The Political Consequences of Structural Population Change	5
Immigrant Organizations	5
Gobernanza Criminal y la Crisis de los Estados Latinoamericanos Contemporáneos	5
Durable Wealth: Institutions, Mechanisms, and Practices of Wealth Perpetuation	5
The Plot Thickens: A Sociology of Conspiracy Theories	5
Women's Health: Population Patterns and Social Determinants	5
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	5