OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Sociology is 19. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	68
Asian American Diversity and Growth	65
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	60
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	43
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	37
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	37
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	35
Democracy in the Global South	35
Sociology of Whiteness	35
Online Nonprobability Samples	33
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	32
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	31
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	30
	28
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	27
Survey Experiments in Sociology	27
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	25
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	24
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	24
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	24
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	23
The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	20
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	20
The Legitimacy of Science	20
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	20

Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	19
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	19
Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	19