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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A theoretical framework for explaining the paradox of university rankings	41
Science needs more external evaluation, not less	15
Migrations in postcolonial Italian literature: Quali-quantitative analysis in a social representation framework	14
What makes a global movement? Analyzing the conditions for strong participation in the climate strike	12
The neoliberal transformation of academia–industry relationships in India: A critical assessment	12
The x and society syndrome	11
The relative (in)visibility of sociologists in the French, American, British, and German national fields (1970–2018)	11
Identity and change of a field: A literature analysis of the concept of social mobility	7
Do conspiracy theories circulating in the media or their debunking affect people’s trust in the media?	7
Students in unequal exchange: The European social space of Erasmus student mobility	7
Who is to blame? Evaluations in academia spreading through relationships among multiple actor types	6
Du lamidalisme à la lamidalité du pouvoir au Nord-Cameroun	6
All power to the reviewers: British sociology under two-level supervision of the Research Excellence Framework	6
Le comportement préventif des Marocains durant la crise pandémique de Covid-19: à la maison, au marché et au travail	6
Science evaluation – As it is, as it could be	5
Why aren’t published works cited? Exploring the influences of bibliographic characteristics on uncitedness phenomenon in social sciences and arts and humanities	5
The gaming of citation and authorship in academic journals: a warning from medicine	4
Trust and distrust in science: Embedding the interplay among scientists, mass media and public in Italy during the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak	4
Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology	4
On situational analysis and the explanatory power of mechanisms: Analytical sociology and the deductive-nomological model	4
Academics in the semi-periphery: Translation and linguistic strategies on the rocky road to publishing in English	4
Can social media data be freely used? Participants’ ethical perceptions toward using their social media data in research	4
On the material supports of subjectivity: Mead, the self, and the new mastery of nature	3
Endogeneity and qualitative political analysis: Debates about method or debates about ontology?	3
Politics of translation: Assimilation and reflexivity in the transformation of academic texts	3

Keep discussing evaluation – A personal and appreciative reflection	3
Risk consciousness and public perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine passports	3
Climbing the ladder to safety: A qualitative investigation of social mobility in Brazil	3
A futures study of life satisfaction among Iranian students	2
When automation hits home: Exploring the nuanced relationship between job risk and support for universal basic income	2
The recent turn in analytical sociology: The dismissal of general theories, mental states, and analytic philosophy – and the old issue of mechanism explanations	2
On the practical rationality of the use of homeopathy in the German-speaking social space: An integrated approach using geometric data analysis and regression analysis	2
Rethinking early Soviet nationality policies within the poststructuralist context: Marxist legacy, Soviet nation-building, and contingency	2
Women’s bodies and lives as symbols of patriarchal codes: Honor killings	2
An ecological inference approach to the origins of proportional representation	2
Random grant allocation from the researchers’ perspective: Introducing the distinction into legitimate and illegitimate problems in Bourdieu’s field theory	2
Beyond coping and adaptation: Toward a sociology of coaching. A necessary paradigm shift to address contemporary dramatic social change	2
Missed marks: This is no longer the 20th century	2
Violence on the horizon: Horizography and serendipity in the ethnographer’s Zimbabwean field	2
‘Science’ has always been evaluated. . . and will always be	2
If you do not deign to quantify, someone else will do it for you: In support of a balanced approach to the evaluation of science	2
Is interdisciplinarity distinctive? Scientific collaborations through research projects in natural sciences	2
Where does money come from? The dual circuit of money creation	1
The illusion of meritocracy	1
Capitalism, autocracy, distrust: Elements of a diagnosis of the present	1
Fringe nobles and boundary maintenance: An exploration	1
Tarde’s ancestors. Imitation and crowds from Hobbes to Locke	1
Introduction to special section: Causes and consequences of the current evaluation regime in (academic) science	1
Are evaluative bibliometrics neoliberal? A historical and theoretical problematization	1
Basic emotion theory, social constructionism, and the universal ethogram	1
Emotional advertising in Morocco during the COVID-19 pandemic: A semiotic analysis	1
The oracles of science: On grant peer review and competitive funding	1
Identifying the potential of Internet use to mitigate cognitive bias of subjective socioeconomic status: A political ideology perspective in China	1
Should science be evaluated?	1
What is capitalism? Toward a working definition	1
Max Weber and the chemistry of the Protestant ethic	1
Science evaluation and social transformations	1
‘Expanded translation’ and the construction of meaning: A case study from political activism	1
From ‘the people’ to the crowd: The push for independence in Catalonia	1