OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Perspectives is 4. 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
Exploring the Impact of Women’s Representation on the Professional Careers of Women of Color	72
Internal Migration and Cohabitation in China: A Mixed-method Study	60
Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions	34
“You Start with the Youth”: Narratives of Deservingness and Dissent at a Homeless Service Organization	20
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach	20
Fear and Stigma: How Undocumented Students Navigate Disclosure Amid Heightened Immigration Enforcement and Rising Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	16
The Side Hustle Safety Net: Precarious Workers and Gig Work during COVID-19	14
Families and Financial Support: Comparing Black and Asian American College Students	14
Racial Structural Conditions and Anti-Asian Hate Crimes	13
The U.S. Space of Lifestyles and Its Homologies	13
Centering the Most Marginalized: Black Women Movement Actors and Misogynoir in the Movement for Black Lives	10
PSA Presidential Address: The New Normal and the Redefinition of Deviance	10
Worth Less? Exploring the Effects of Subminimum Wages on Poverty among U.S. Hourly Workers	10
Connecting Spaces: Gender, Video Games and Computing in the Early Teens	9
Spillover Effects of Restrictive Immigration Policy on Latinx Citizens: Raising or Lowering Earnings?	9
“Longer than I Would’ve Originally Liked and Originally Thought”: Postsecondary Debt and Marriage Plans for Young Adults Coming of Age in the Great Recession	9
Controlling Defiance: An Examination of School Social Control in California School Districts	9
Body Size and Well-being in Adolescents: The Roles of Bullying Victimization and Body Image	8
Boundary-making in Conservation: The Configuration of Environmental Ontologies in the Andean Páramos	8
Intersectionality and Dependency Lenses in Neonatal Mortality: Evidence of Regional, Residential, and Socioeconomic Inequalities from Post-colonial Tanzania, 1991–2016	7
The Language of Immigration Coverage: The Arizona Republic and Media’s Role in the Production of Social Illegality	6
American Medical Sociology and Health Problems in the Global South	6
Disentangling Social Class–based Inequality: How Social Position Affects Evaluations of Economic and Cultural Markers of Social Class	6
Mental Illness and the Resilience of Deviance	6
Threat, Latinx Racialization, and Grassroots Leadership: Understanding Mobilization in Southern California’s Anti-Gang Injunction Movement	6

The Allure of Transactional Intimacy in Sugar Dating	5
Polarization and Persuasion: Engaging Sociology in the Moral Universe of a Divided Democracy	5
Secrets as Storytelling: Family Histories and Interpersonal Intimacy	5
Elite Cues and the Rapid Decline in Trust in Science Agencies on COVID-19	5
Democracy and Health in Developing Countries: New Cross-National Evidence, 1990–2016	5
“Because He’s My Baby”: The Role of Birth Order in How Mothers Explain Favoritism Toward Adult Children	5
Marginal Gentrification and Racial Capitalism in a Post-chocolate City	5
Conspicuously Concealed: Federal Funding, Knowledge Production, and the Criminalization of Gun Research	4
Gender Differences in Academic Efficacy across STEM Fields	4
“He Was Able to Rely on Me”: Negotiating the Sibling Intragenerational Bargain among Latino First-generation College Student Families	4
How Cultural Capital Shapes Mental Health Care Seeking in College	4
Sources of Mattering for Women and Men: Gender Differences and Similarities in Feelings of Social Significance	4
“I Would Give Anything to Talk about Aliens Now”: QAnon Conspiracy Theories and the Creation of Cognitive Deviance	4
Hidden to Whom? Aspects of Visibility among People Who Died While Affected by Homelessness and Implications for Outreach	4
Becoming a Survivor? Identity Creation Post-violence	4