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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Expanded translation’ and the construction of meaning: A case study from political activism	45
Le comportement préventif des Marocains durant la crise pandémique de Covid-19: à la maison, au marché et au travail	36
On the difference between the social and the cultural: Reconstructing historical-geographical materialism	34
An ecological inference approach to the origins of proportional representation	15
Du lamidalisme à la lamidalité du pouvoir au Nord-Cameroun	14
Evaluating science: Opening a debate	12
Stop blaming external factors: A historical-sociological argument	12
Random grant allocation from the researchers’ perspective: Introducing the distinction into legitimate and illegitimate problems in Bourdieu’s field theory	11
Tarde’s ancestors. Imitation and crowds from Hobbes to Locke	10
The oracles of science: On grant peer review and competitive funding	9
Fringe nobles and boundary maintenance: An exploration	8
The impact of Covid-19 on Moroccan students’ learning habits, mental health, and physical health (ENSA Fez as a case study)	8
The recent turn in analytical sociology: The dismissal of general theories, mental states, and analytic philosophy – and the old issue of mechanism explanations	8
Rethinking democracy in times of crises: Towards a pragmatist approach to the geographies of emerging publics	7
Who is to blame? Evaluations in academia spreading through relationships among multiple actor types	6
COVID-19 – crisis events and social transformations	6
Beyond coping and adaptation: Toward a sociology of coaching. A necessary paradigm shift to address contemporary dramatic social change	6
A theoretical framework for explaining the paradox of university rankings	6
‘Science’ has always been evaluated. . . and will always be	5
Between Michigan and Rochester: Identity-based thinking is cognitively primary	5
Social representations of psychology: When paradoxes become a strength	5
Why aren’t published works cited? Exploring the influences of bibliographic characteristics on uncitedness phenomenon in social sciences and arts and humanities	4
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	4
Futures of sustainability: Trajectories and conflicts	4
Editorial	4

Introduction to special section: Causes and consequences of the current evaluation regime in (academic) science	4
When two science disciplines meet: Evaluating dynamics of conjunction. The encounter between astrophysics and artificial intelligence	4
Basic emotion theory, social constructionism, and the universal ethogram	3
On situational analysis and the explanatory power of mechanisms: Analytical sociology and the deductive-nomological model	3
Science evaluation – As it is, as it could be	3
The boundary contest that never was: Shadow banking and the relation between monetary system and financial system	3
Translating knowledge in the multilingual paradigm: Beyond epistemicide	2
Practices of sustainability and the enactment of their natures/cultures: Ecosystem services, rights of nature, and geoengineering	2
Organizational disintegration	2
Honor killing as a dark side of modernity: Prevalence, common discourses, and a critical view	2
Science needs more external evaluation, not less	2
Les conditions sociales de la collaboration intellectuelle dans les moyens de grande diffusion. Le cas du journal espagnol El País (1986–1990)	2
Trust and distrust in science: Embedding the interplay among scientists, mass media and public in Italy during the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak	2
Arguments against efficiency in science	2
What makes a global movement? Analyzing the conditions for strong participation in the climate strike	2
From ‘the people’ to the crowd: The push for independence in Catalonia	2
All power to the reviewers: British sociology under two-level supervision of the Research Excellence Framework	2
Sonder le Feral Atlas : enquêtes de terrain holographiques	2
Mapping the field of misinformation correction and its effects: A review of four decades of research	2
Adjunct rather than alternative in global governance: An examination of BRICS as an international bloc through the perception of its members	2
Practices in the translation and editing of humanities and social science texts for publication in English: A qualitative survey of language professionals	1
The place of Russia’s political regime (2003–2023) on a conceptual map of the world’s autocracies	1
Melvin Pollner’s radically reflexive ethnomethodology in historical context	1
Becoming vegan: A study of career and habitus	1
Advancing a system-level perspective in stakeholder theory: Insights from the institutional economics of John R. Commons	1
Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology	1
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	1
Migrations in postcolonial Italian literature: Quali-quantitative analysis in a social representation framework	1
Can social media data be freely used? Participants’ ethical perceptions toward using their social media data in research	1
Translating academia. Implications for knowledge production in the social sciences and the humanities	1
Max Weber and the chemistry of the Protestant ethic	1
The gaming of citation and authorship in academic journals: a warning from medicine	1
Should science be evaluated?	1
Using recorded visual data: Doing online interviews	1
Emotional advertising in Morocco during the COVID-19 pandemic: A semiotic analysis	1
Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology	1