OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Information sur les Sciences Sociales is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A theoretical framework for explaining the paradox of university rankings	39
Science needs more external evaluation, not less	17
Migrations in postcolonial Italian literature: Quali-quantitative analysis in a social representation framework	15
What makes a global movement? Analyzing the conditions for strong participation in the climate strike	14
The relative (in)visibility of sociologists in the French, American, British, and German national fields (1970–2018)	12
The neoliberal transformation of academia–industry relationships in India: A critical assessment	11
Do conspiracy theories circulating in the media or their debunking affect people’s trust in the media?	10
The x and society syndrome	10
Identity and change of a field: A literature analysis of the concept of social mobility	7
Rethinking democracy in times of crises: Towards a pragmatist approach to the geographies of emerging publics	6
Du lamidalisme à la lamidalité du pouvoir au Nord-Cameroun	6
Students in unequal exchange: The European social space of Erasmus student mobility	6
Le comportement préventif des Marocains durant la crise pandémique de Covid-19: à la maison, au marché et au travail	5
Who is to blame? Evaluations in academia spreading through relationships among multiple actor types	5
All power to the reviewers: British sociology under two-level supervision of the Research Excellence Framework	5
Science evaluation – As it is, as it could be	5
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
Why aren’t published works cited? Exploring the influences of bibliographic characteristics on uncitedness phenomenon in social sciences and arts and humanities	4
On the material supports of subjectivity: Mead, the self, and the new mastery of nature	4
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
Climbing the ladder to safety: A qualitative investigation of social mobility in Brazil	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

Keep discussing evaluation – A personal and appreciative reflection	3
Is digitalization a problem solver or a fire accelerator? Situating digital technologies in sustainability discourses	3
Risk consciousness and public perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine passports	3
Politics of translation: Assimilation and reflexivity in the transformation of academic texts	3
Endogeneity and qualitative political analysis: Debates about method or debates about ontology?	3
Is interdisciplinarity distinctive? Scientific collaborations through research projects in natural sciences	3