OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Sociology is 18. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	223
Asian American Diversity and Growth	158
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	119
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	105
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	95
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	80
Democracy in the Global South	72
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	70
Online Nonprobability Samples	54
Trust in Social Relations	49
Sociology of Whiteness	48
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	47
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	46
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	44
Black Men and Black Masculinity	40
Survey Experiments in Sociology	34
	34
A Retrospective on Fundamental Cause Theory: State of the Literature and Goals for the Future	33
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	31
Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration	29
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	29
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	29
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	28
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	27
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	27

Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	26
The Legitimacy of Science	25
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	25
Markets Everywhere: The Washington Consensus and the Sociology of Global Institutional Change	24
The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	24
Food and Inequality	24
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	23
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	23
Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	22
Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century	22
The Sociology of Interpretation	18