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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Stop evaluating science: A historical-sociological argument	45
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	32
Climate emotions and emotional climates: The emotional map of ecological crises and the blind spots on our sociological landscapes	31
Is digitalization a problem solver or a fire accelerator? Situating digital technologies in sustainability discourses	15
Honor killing as a dark side of modernity: Prevalence, common discourses, and a critical view	14
Personal metrics: Users’ experiences and perceptions of self-tracking practices and data	14
A theoretical framework for explaining the paradox of university rankings	9
Mechanistic explanations in the cognitive social sciences: Lessons from three case studies	9
Becoming vegan: A study of career and habitus	9
What makes a global movement? Analyzing the conditions for strong participation in the climate strike	8
The Swedish space of lifestyles and symbolic domination	8
The gaming of citation and authorship in academic journals: a warning from medicine	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	7
Is interdisciplinarity distinctive? Scientific collaborations through research projects in natural sciences	6
Random grant allocation from the researchers’ perspective: Introducing the distinction into legitimate and illegitimate problems in Bourdieu’s field theory	6
Bringing home the bacon: Testing a moderated mediation model of job insecurity, work–family conflict, and parent–child attachment	6
Stop blaming external factors: A historical-sociological argument	6
Futures of sustainability: Trajectories and conflicts	6
Covid-19 and freedom	5
From ‘the people’ to the crowd: The push for independence in Catalonia	5
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
Basic emotion theory, social constructionism, and the universal ethogram	4
Rethinking democracy in times of crises: Towards a pragmatist approach to the geographies of emerging publics	4

Towards sustainable property? Exploring the entanglement of ownership and sustainability	4
Max Weber and the chemistry of the Protestant ethic	4
Who is to blame? Evaluations in academia spreading through relationships among multiple actor types	4
What is neoliberalism really? A global analysis of its real-world consequences for development, inequality, and democracy	4
Mapping the field of misinformation correction and its effects: A review of four decades of research	4
One rationality to rule them all	4
Varieties of ‘rationality’ and the question of their continued theoretical relevance	3
All power to the reviewers: British sociology under two-level supervision of the Research Excellence Framework	3
The place of Russia’s political regime (2003–2023) on a conceptual map of the world’s autocracies	3
Practices of sustainability and the enactment of their natures/cultures: Ecosystem services, rights of nature, and geoengineering	3
Women’s perspectives on career successes and barriers: A qualitative meta-synthesis	3
Arguments against efficiency in science	3
Rationality, strategic interactions, and theories of middle range	2
Sociology of a disciplinary bifurcation: Bruno Latour and his move from philosophy/theology to sociology in the early 1970s	2
Can social media data be freely used? Participants’ ethical perceptions toward using their social media data in research	2
On situational analysis and the explanatory power of mechanisms: Analytical sociology and the deductive-nomological model	2
Are evaluative bibliometrics neoliberal? A historical and theoretical problematization	2
Keep discussing evaluation – A personal and appreciative reflection	2
Should science be evaluated?	2
Evaluating science: Opening a debate	2
Politics of translation: Assimilation and reflexivity in the transformation of academic texts	2
Academics in the semi-periphery: Translation and linguistic strategies on the rocky road to publishing in English	2
Introduction to special section: Causes and consequences of the current evaluation regime in (academic) science	2
Post-truth, conspiracy, and fake news in the uncertain times of the COVID-19 pandemic in Morocco	1
On the material supports of subjectivity: Mead, the self, and the new mastery of nature	1
Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology	1
Social representations of psychology: When paradoxes become a strength	1
COVID-19 – crisis events and social transformations	1
Women’s bodies and lives as symbols of patriarchal codes: Honor killings	1
Endogeneity and qualitative political analysis: Debates about method or debates about ontology?	1
Risk consciousness and public perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine passports	1
Practices in the translation and editing of humanities and social science texts for publication in English: A qualitative survey of language professionals	1
A critical review of interdisciplinary perspectives on the paradox of prosocial compared to antisocial manifestations of empathy	1
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	1
The impact of Covid-19 on Moroccan students’ learning habits, mental health, and physical health (ENSA Fez as a case study)	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
Trust and distrust in science: Embedding the interplay among scientists, mass media and public in Italy during the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak	1
Defending the role of rationality in the social sciences, rationally	1
Science needs more external evaluation, not less	1
‘Science’ has always been evaluated. . . and will always be	1
Science evaluation and social transformations	1