OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Sociology is 17. 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
	27
Survey Experiments in Sociology	26
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	26
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	25
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	23
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	23
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	21
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	21
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	20
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	19
Food and Inequality	19
The Legitimacy of Science	19

The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	18
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
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	17