OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Perspectives 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the Impact of Women’s Representation on the Professional Careers of Women of Color	18
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach	13
Fear and Stigma: How Undocumented Students Navigate Disclosure Amid Heightened Immigration Enforcement and Rising Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	12
Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions	11
Internal Migration and Cohabitation in China: A Mixed-method Study	11
Families and Financial Support: Comparing Black and Asian American College Students	10
Centering the Most Marginalized: Black Women Movement Actors and Misogynoir in the Movement for Black Lives	9
The U.S. Space of Lifestyles and Its Homologies	9
Racial Structural Conditions and Anti-Asian Hate Crimes	9
Worth Less? Exploring the Effects of Subminimum Wages on Poverty among U.S. Hourly Workers	8
Controlling Defiance: An Examination of School Social Control in California School Districts	7
PSA Presidential Address: The New Normal and the Redefinition of Deviance	7
Sociologists and the Clinic: The Advent of Racialized Gender in Intersex/Trans Medicine	7
Where Do We Belong? Claiming Space in spite of . . .	7
Spillover Effects of Restrictive Immigration Policy on Latinx Citizens: Raising or Lowering Earnings?	6
Are Networks Great Equalizers? Intergenerational Closure, Cultural Capital, and Capital Conversion in Elementary Schools	6
Connecting Spaces: Gender, Video Games and Computing in the Early Teens	6
Intersectionality and Dependency Lenses in Neonatal Mortality: Evidence of Regional, Residential, and Socioeconomic Inequalities from Post-colonial Tanzania, 1991–2016	6
Body Size and Well-being in Adolescents: The Roles of Bullying Victimization and Body Image	6
Boundary-making in Conservation: The Configuration of Environmental Ontologies in the Andean Páramos	6
Toward Queer Anti-nationalist Belonging: LGBTQ+ Immigrants, Assimilation, and Transnational Attachments	6
Threat, Latinx Racialization, and Grassroots Leadership: Understanding Mobilization in Southern California’s Anti-Gang Injunction Movement	5
Is the Past Present? Localized Effects of Memorializing Lynching Victims on Intra- and Intergroup Attitudes	5
Disentangling Social Class–based Inequality: How Social Position Affects Evaluations of Economic and Cultural Markers of Social Class	5
Polarization and Persuasion: Engaging Sociology in the Moral Universe of a Divided Democracy	4

Democracy and Health in Developing Countries: New Cross-National Evidence, 1990–2016	4
Secrets as Storytelling: Family Histories and Interpersonal Intimacy	4
The Allure of Transactional Intimacy in Sugar Dating	4
American Medical Sociology and Health Problems in the Global South	4
Becoming a Survivor? Identity Creation Post-violence	4
Mental Illness and the Resilience of Deviance	4
“Because He’s My Baby”: The Role of Birth Order in How Mothers Explain Favoritism Toward Adult Children	4
Marginal Gentrification and Racial Capitalism in a Post-chocolate City	4
Racial Identity and Endorsements of Anti-Black and Anti-White Stereotypes	3
“I Would Give Anything to Talk about Aliens Now”: QAnon Conspiracy Theories and the Creation of Cognitive Deviance	3
“They Provide the Illusion of Safety”: Police at Pride and the Politics of Belonging	3
Environing Innovation: Toward an Ecological Pragmatism of Scientific Practice	3
The Myth of Personal Responsibility: Counter-stories of Black Girls’ Access to Achievement	3
Hidden to Whom? Aspects of Visibility among People Who Died While Affected by Homelessness and Implications for Outreach	3
“He Was Able to Rely on Me”: Negotiating the Sibling Intragenerational Bargain among Latino First-generation College Student Families	3
Evolving Emotion, Situated Context, and Movement Activism: The Case of Bereaved Families in South Korea	3
Long-term Consequences of Men’s Migration for Women’s Well-being in a Rural African Setting	2
Moral Panic and Electric Micromobilities: Seeking Space for Mobility Justice	2
Cohort Differences in Occupational Retention among Computer Science Degree Holders: Reassessing the Role of Family	2
“We’re Not All Anti-Choices”: How Controlling Images Shape Latina/x Feminist Abortion Advocacy	2
Article Reviewers, January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021	2
How Does Actual Inequality Shape People’s Perceptions of Inequality? A Class Perspective	2
Durkheim’s Failed Darwinian Encounter: Missed Opportunities on the Path to a Post-exemptionalist Environmental Sociology	2
Gun Ownership, Threat, and Gun Attitudes in an Experiment	2
“There’s the Black Woman Thing, and There’s the Age Thing”: Professional Black Women on the Downsides of “Black Don’t Crack” and Strategies for Confronting Ageism at Work	2
“Business as Usual”? Human Rights NGOs’ Adaptation Strategies to Repressive Legislation	2
Reciprocal Support within Intimate Relationships: Examining the Association with Depression and Anxiety	2
The Ongoing Process of HIV-Stigma (Re)Production	2
“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t”: Perceived Discrimination and the Paradoxes of Assimilation among U.S. Muslims	2
Does Job Insecurity Motivate Protest Participation? A Multilevel Analysis of Working-Age People from 18 Developed Countries	2
One and Many Asian America: Intra-Asian Ethnic Boundaries and Intermarriage	2
Schooled Families: Higher Education and Family Virtue	2
Ghetto Girls, Cholas, and Hot Cheeto Girls: Aesthetics and Heteronormativity	2
Walking That Fine Line: Doulas as Overseers of Evidence-based Practice	1
Pride and Protest: Horizontal and Vertical Emotional Response in the Aftermath of the 2019 Chilean Spring	1
Negotiating Utopia: An Affective, Autoethnographic Framework for Reflexivity	1
Family Socioeconomic Status in Adolescence and Gender Identification in Emerging Adulthood	1
Pharmaceuticalization to Opioid Pharmacovigilance: A Qualitative Investigation of the Impact of Opioid-related Policy Changes and the Perspectives of Residents and Chronic Non-cancer Pain Patients	1
Barriers and Boundaries: How Residents Make Meaning of Segregating Built Environments	1
Time as a Resource for Constructing Long-term Visions among Two Generations of Feminist Activism in Peru and Ecuador	1
Living a Childless Life: The Narratives of Midlife and Older Gay Men	1
Bathing the Dead, the Dirty Work: Stigmatization of Gassals in Modern Türkiye	1
“What Else Explains This Trauma but Porn?” Women Partners of Porn Addicts as Claims-Makers	1
Caregiving, Gender, and Health: The Moderating Role of Age	1
Climate Silence in Sociology? How Elite American Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies Treat Climate Change	1
At the Crossroads of Sociology and STS	1
Golden Years in the Red: Indebtedness Patterns across Cohorts of Older American Adults	1
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Homework Time among U.S. Teens	1
Subgroups of Risk and Adversity for Families Investigated for Child Maltreatment by Poverty Status	1
Unpacking the Influence of Islamic Religious Culture and Individual Religious Affiliation on Testing HIV-positive	1

The Correlates of Panethnic Identification: Assessing Similarities and Differences among Latinos and Asians in the United States	1
The Strange Career of Judge Lynch: How White Newspapers Covered Lynching in the United States 1880–1950	1
Who’s Eating Rice? Gay Vietnamese American Men’s Experiences With (Sexual) Racism	1
Local Confederate Memorialization and Gender-Ethnic Variation in Mental Health among Black Residents	1