OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Science Information sur les Sciences Sociales is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Stop evaluating science: A historical-sociological argument	40
Why are conspiracy theories more successful in some countries than in others? An exploratory study on Internet users from 22 Western and non-Western countries	23
Climate emotions and emotional climates: The emotional map of ecological crises and the blind spots on our sociological landscapes	22
Is digitalization a problem solver or a fire accelerator? Situating digital technologies in sustainability discourses	15
The other road to serfdom: The rise of the rentier class in post-Soviet economies	12
Personal metrics: Users’ experiences and perceptions of self-tracking practices and data	11
Becoming vegan: A study of career and habitus	7
The Swedish space of lifestyles and symbolic domination	7
Mechanistic explanations in the cognitive social sciences: Lessons from three case studies	7
What makes a global movement? Analyzing the conditions for strong participation in the climate strike	7
The oracles of science: On grant peer review and competitive funding	7
Futures of sustainability: Perspectives on social imaginaries and social transformation. A comment on Frank Adloff and Sighard Neckel’s research program	6
A theoretical framework for explaining the paradox of university rankings	6
Honor killing as a dark side of modernity: Prevalence, common discourses, and a critical view	6
Futures of sustainability: Trajectories and conflicts	6
Why do Spanish fathers still make little use of the family-friendly measures?	5
Is interdisciplinarity distinctive? Scientific collaborations through research projects in natural sciences	5
From ‘the people’ to the crowd: The push for independence in Catalonia	5
In search of civil society: From peasant populism to postpeasant illiberalism in provincial Hungary	5
Stop blaming external factors: A historical-sociological argument	5
Covid-19 and freedom	4
Mapping the field of misinformation correction and its effects: A review of four decades of research	4
Random grant allocation from the researchers’ perspective: Introducing the distinction into legitimate and illegitimate problems in Bourdieu’s field theory	4
Towards sustainable property? Exploring the entanglement of ownership and sustainability	4
Bringing home the bacon: Testing a moderated mediation model of job insecurity, work–family conflict, and parent–child attachment	4

Take politics off the table: A study of Italian youth’s self-managed dairy restriction and healthy consumerism	4
Political discourse and mobility of worlds: Arguments for methodological narrative\institutional dualism	4
Crises of the communist and neoliberal orders 30 years later: A structural comparison between 1975 and 2019 Poland	4
Varieties of ‘rationality’ and the question of their continued theoretical relevance	3
Russia: Colonial, anticolonial, postcolonial Empire?	3
Rethinking democracy in times of crises: Towards a pragmatist approach to the geographies of emerging publics	3
Max Weber and the chemistry of the Protestant ethic	3
Arguments against efficiency in science	3
The gaming of citation and authorship in academic journals: a warning from medicine	3
Practices of sustainability and the enactment of their natures/cultures: Ecosystem services, rights of nature, and geoengineering	3
Rationality, strategic interactions, and theories of middle range	2
Women’s perspectives on career successes and barriers: A qualitative meta-synthesis	2
Basic emotion theory, social constructionism, and the universal ethogram	2
One rationality to rule them all	2
Are evaluative bibliometrics neoliberal? A historical and theoretical problematization	2
Russia’s ‘fortresses of solitude’: Social imaginaries of loneliness after the fall of the USSR	2
Defending the role of rationality in the social sciences, rationally	2
Who is to blame? Evaluations in academia spreading through relationships among multiple actor types	2
Keep discussing evaluation – A personal and appreciative reflection	2
Introduction to special section: Causes and consequences of the current evaluation regime in (academic) science	2
1989 as a mimetic revolution: Russia and the challenge of post-communism	2
Evaluating science: Opening a debate	2
Should science be evaluated?	1
Social representations of psychology: When paradoxes become a strength	1
Science needs more external evaluation, not less	1
The impact of Covid-19 on Moroccan students’ learning habits, mental health, and physical health (ENSA Fez as a case study)	1
Science evaluation and social transformations	1
When did 1989 end?	1
Can social media data be freely used? Participants’ ethical perceptions toward using their social media data in research	1
A critical review of interdisciplinary perspectives on the paradox of prosocial compared to antisocial manifestations of empathy	1
Science evaluation – As it is, as it could be	1
On situational analysis and the explanatory power of mechanisms: Analytical sociology and the deductive-nomological model	1
‘Science’ has always been evaluated. . . and will always be	1
Endogeneity and qualitative political analysis: Debates about method or debates about ontology?	1
On the material supports of subjectivity: Mead, the self, and the new mastery of nature	1
Imagined geography of Russia in Western travelogues: Conceptualizing space through history	1
All power to the reviewers: British sociology under two-level supervision of the Research Excellence Framework	1
If you do notdeignto quantify, someone else will do it for you: In support of a balanced approach to the evaluation of science	1
COVID-19 – crisis events and social transformations	1
The neurosociology of Auguste Comte	1
Where does money come from? The dual circuit of money creation	1
What is capitalism? Toward a working definition	1
The neoliberal transformation of academia–industry relationships in India: A critical assessment	1