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 2021-02-01 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
Stop blaming external factors: A historical-sociological argument	12
Evaluating science: Opening a debate	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
The recent turn in analytical sociology: The dismissal of general theories, mental states, and analytic philosophy – and the old issue of mechanism explanations	8
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
Rethinking democracy in times of crises: Towards a pragmatist approach to the geographies of emerging publics	7
A theoretical framework for explaining the paradox of university rankings	6
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
Social representations of psychology: When paradoxes become a strength	5
‘Science’ has always been evaluated. . . and will always be	5
Between Michigan and Rochester: Identity-based thinking is cognitively primary	5
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
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
The boundary contest that never was: Shadow banking and the relation between monetary system and financial system	3
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