OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Sociology is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	64
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	63
Asian American Diversity and Growth	53
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	39
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	35
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	34
Democracy in the Global South	33
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	33
Sociology of Whiteness	31
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	30
Online Nonprobability Samples	30
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	29
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	28
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Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	26
Survey Experiments in Sociology	26
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	25
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	23
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	23
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	21
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	21
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	20
The Legitimacy of Science	19
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	19
Food and Inequality	19

The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	18
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	17
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	17
Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century	17
Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	16
The Sociology of Interpretation	15
How Threat Mobilizes the Resurgence and Persistence of US White Supremacist Activism: The 1980s to the Present	14
Accounting for Credit	12
Leveraging Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment for Sociological Investigations of Everyday Life	12
Online Illegal Cryptomarkets	10
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media	10
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	9
Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work	9
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	8
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research	8
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	8
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment	8
Gender in the Elite	7
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital	7
Social Ecological Systems in Flux	7
The Sociology of Police Behavior	7
From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy	7
Rights in China: Myths, Abuses, and Politics	6
Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework	6
Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors	6
Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification	6
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Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry	5
Sociology of Twitter/X: Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Directions	5
The Latino Middle Class	5
Serendipitous Sociologist: Transitions and Turning Points in My Journey	4
Presumed Competent: The Strategic Adaptation of Asian Americans in Education and the Labor Market	4
American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization	4
The Sociology of Entrepreneurship Revisited	4
Neighborhood–School Structures: A New Approach to the Joint Study of Social Contexts	4