OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Sociology is 24. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Asian American Diversity and Growth	82
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	73
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	70
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	53
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	46
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	44
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	44
Democracy in the Global South	43
Online Nonprobability Samples	40
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	39
Sociology of Whiteness	39
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	38
Survey Experiments in Sociology	34
	34
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	34
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	34
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	33
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	33
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	30
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	29
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	28
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	28
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	26
The Legitimacy of Science	26
Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century	25

The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	25
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	25
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	24
The Sociology of Interpretation	24