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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Research Online 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic	25
Doing the Unspeakable: Material Participation in Reprod-estr-uctive Labour	23
Revitalising Intimacy Research Through a Focus on Intimate Inequalities, Ruptures and Dissonances	22
Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital	19
Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?	18
Understanding ‘Gender Equality’: First-Time Parent Couples’ Practices and Perspectives on Working and Caring Post-Parenthood	13
Reflecting on Sociological Research Online	10
Gender Preferences for Children and Gender Relations in Contemporary China	10
Third-Sector Advocacy: An Exploration of the Work of Community Food Providers	10
Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants	10
‘Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Experience?’ Orientations Towards Listening to Open-Ended Survey Responses	10
Parenting in a Pandemic With Multiple Sclerosis	9
The Social Production of the Dead Human Body in the Practice of Teaching Anatomy Through Cadaveric Dissection	8
Book Review: Vera Caine, D Jean Clandinin and Sean Lessard, Narrative Inquiry: Philosophical Roots	8
Journeys Through Genomics: Co-Producing Visual Resources to Communicate Patient Experiences	8
Curating the ‘Care-Full’ Home: An Experiment in Satirical Interdisciplinarity in Social Research	8
#TheAfricaTheMediaNever ShowsYou: An Afrodiasporic Subaltern Counterpublic	8
‘We’ve Done Our Bit’: Post-COVID Experiences of Precarious Privilege Among Western International School Teachers in Shanghai	8
Politics of Utopias: A Review of ‘Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land?’ Valerie Padilla Carroll, Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land? Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular Culture	8
Connection Points: The Dynamics of Recruitment to Packaging-Free Shopping	7
Leaping the Abyss: The Problematic Translation of Social Research Results into Policy Recommendations	7
The Extent of Résumé Whitening	7
The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of COVID-19	7
Cultural Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature: Evidence for a Partial Overlap	7
Relational Logics of Child Maintenance and Post-separation Economic Abuse in Minoritised British South Asian Muslim Post-divorce Families	7

Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline	7
Walking the (Infrastructural) Line: Mobile and Embodied Explorations of Infrastructures and Their Impact on the Urban Landscape	7
‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age	6
‘Creating Poverty Chances’: Young People Confront Gambling Harms in Malawi	6
A Convergence of Opportunities: Understanding the High Elite University Progression of Disadvantaged Youth in an East London Locality	6
Looking Within: A Call for Greater Reflexivity in Expatriate Research	6
Book Review: Karen S Cook, Advanced Introduction to Social Capital	6
(Un)predicted Patterns in the Timing of Urban Shootings Across Six US Cities	5
‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth	5
No Raggedy Black Child: Attachment Parenting, Black Motherhood, and the Politics of Respectability	5
Broken (Again) – Making Sense of Ankle Fracture, Hospitalisation, and Early Recovery: An Autoethnography	5
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health: A Reflection Triggered by the VAX-TRUST Project Final Round Table	5
The Participatory Documentary ‘Age Is Just a Bingo Number’	5
It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic	5
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research: A Computational Abstract Analysis to Identify Latent Topics of Sociological Research Online	5
Book Review: Travis Kong, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China	4
Re-Defining the Family Biography When a Child Suffers from a Life-Limiting Illness: Insights from Mothers and Siblings	4
Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre	4
The Social Structures of Sleep: Effects of Work-Related and Family Constraints on Sleep Duration and Regularity Among French Workers	4
The Transformation of Parents’ Values and Aspirations for Their Children: A Retrospective Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Cultural Configurations	4
Engaging With Lived Experience: Towards a Sociological Biography of a Sociological Category	4
Book Review: Matthew O Jackson, The Human Network: How We’re Connected and Why It Matters	4
Life Satisfaction and Work–Life Balance: The Complexities of Gender Patterning	4
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	4
Sociology Meets History, in and Beyond England: Explorations in SRO ’s Archival Trove	4
Racialization within Antitrafficking Interventions Targeting Migrant Sex Workers: Findings from the SEXHUM Research Project in France	4
Superficial Allies: The Role of Legal Inclusion and Social Obedience in Stigma Processes	4
Warm Spaces as a New Manifestation of Austerity Localism	4
Food Systems Under Pressure	4
Book Review: Alex Edmans, May Contain Lies. How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases – and what we can do about it May Contain Lies. How st	4
The Temporal Limits of Single Positivity: Single Women in Postfeminist Culture	3
Book Review: Children and Youth in Armed Conflict: Responses, Resistance, and Portrayal in Media Children and Youth in Armed Conflict: Responses, Resistance, and Portrayal in Media (vol. 35, Sociologi	3
Stories Too Big for a Case File: Unaccompanied Young People Confront the Hostile Environment in Pandemic Times	3
Subject to Quarantine: A Narrative Analysis of COVID-19 Reporting in the Australian News Media	3
Sociology of Everyday Life in the Past and Future Uses of the Mass Observation Project: Methodology, Materiality and Personal Life	3
Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk? Experiences with Risks and Risk Management among Young Sugar Daters	3
Mediating Gender Norms Through the ‘Foodies’ Culture as Romantic Emotions	3
Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation	3
Sociological Research in the Digital Age: Where Have We Come From; Where Are We Going?	3
Images of the Present and Possible: Analyzing the Climate Movement Through Its Utopias	3
From Confrontation to Concession: Reconfiguring Public Space Through Public Square Dancing	3
Wearing the Saree in the Diaspora: An Auto-ethnographic Account of a Malaysian Indian Woman	3
Creative Co-Imagination in Transgenerational Comics Workshops	3
Screening for Parental Consent? Trans Youth and Informed Consent in Academic Research	3
‘Pollution’ and ‘Blaming’: A Sociological Analysis of the COVID-19 Time Through Cultural Perspective	3
‘I’ve Wondered Why Am I Here?’ Expectations of Old Age and the Ageing Body in a Longitudinal Study of a Dance Group	3
Data Protection in Sociological Health Research: A Critical Narrative about the Challenges of a New Regulatory Landscape	3
Book Review: Yi-Lin Chiang, Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	3
‘I am Lil’: Enabling Autistic Voices in Transitions from School to Adult Life through the Co-Creation of a Digital Story	3
Food on the Margins: A Creative Film Collaboration to Amplify the Voices of Those Living with Food Insecurity	3

Book Review: Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan (eds), The Future Is Degrowth. A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter	3
Social Conspiracies in Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenging Disease through Opposition and Suspicion	3
Outcomes of Academic Tracking Among Young Adults in the United States: A Longitudinal Survey Analysis	3
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities	3
Charting Sex Work in Malta: First Steps	3
‘Vulnerability’ at Work: Instrumental Vulnerabilities Among Software Professionals	3
Beyond Mental and Manual: Investigating the Historical and Contemporary Borderlands Between Working-Class and Middle-Class Masculinities	2
Using a Range of Communication Tools to Interview a Hard-to-Reach Population	2
The Gap between the Desired and Intended Number of Children – The Case of Czechia	2
What Happens Next? Using the Story Completion Method to Surface the Affects and Materialities of Digital Privacy Dilemmas	2
Book Review: Duane Rousselle, Psychoanalytic Sociology: A New Theory of the Social Bond Psychoanalytic Sociology: A New Theory of the Social Bond. Rousse	2
Chinese Square-Dancing: A Description of Group Cultural Life	2
Reimagining Work Stability: A Qualitative Longitudinal Case Study of the (Post)Pandemic Crises on Young People’s Experiences in the Labour Market	2
Sustainable City Stories – A Short Film Reflecting on Sustainability in Woolwich, London as Observed Walking by an Intergenerational Group of Residents	2
Unveiling the Veil: Examining Social Injustice and Marginalisation of Transgender Persons in Kashmir, India	2
Paying to Be at the Bridge Table: An Exploration of the Bridge Playing-Sponsor Experience in Mindsport	2
Networks on Paint! Conducting Sociograms Via Graphic Raster Editors as Embedded in Online Interviews	2
Space, Place, and Narrative Methodology: The Generative Potential of Interview Locations	2
Democratising Research Practices With Unaccompanied Refugee Young People Using Participatory Arts-Based Methods	2
The Impacts of Guanxi: Drug Policing Under Police Professionalisation in China	2
‘It Will Start With Me’: A Documentary Film Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Participatory Research	2
Territorial Stigma and the Moral Politics of Place: Boundary Work and Social Distance in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods	2
The Inverted Pyramid and Beyond: Perceptions of Distributive Justice Among (Highly) Qualified Workers in Contemporary Cuba	2
Book Review: Deping Xiang, Social Work for Poverty Alleviation (Poverty-Alleviation and Social Work in China) Social Work for Poverty Alleviation (Povert	2
‘Not Just Living in the Moment’: Constructing the ‘Enterprising’ and Future-Oriented Self Through the Consumption of No-and-Low-Alcohol Drinks	2
Book Review: Xueyi Lu, Social Construction and Social Development in Contemporary China	2
Book Review: Tony Bennett, Habit’s Pathways: Repetition, Power, Conduct	2
SRO Thank You to Referees 2024	2
Getting Under the Skin Trade: Towards a Global Sociology of Skin-Lightening Practices	2
Book Review: Fatma Müge Göçek and Gamze Evcimen, The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Sociology and The Middle East	2
The Self in Self-Help: A Re-Appraisal of Therapeutic Culture in a Time of Crisis	2
‘Unsponsoring Football’: Sign Value, Symbolic Exchange, and Simulacra in a Gambling-Related Marketing Campaign	2
Book Review: Blended Learning Solutions in Higher Education: History, Theory and Practice Blended Learning Solutions in Higher Education: History, Theory and Practice. HughesNeil. New York: Routledge,	1
Raising ‘True Believers’: Anti-Abortion ‘Education’ for Primary Children in the UK	1
Between Breaking Bad and Big Brother: Social Class and Television Preferences in Croatia	1
Migrant Women Opposing Governmental Performative Politics and the Hostile Environment	1
The Psychologization of Student Subjectivity in the Finnish Academia	1
Inequalities in the Risk of Multidimensional Downward Mobility From the Most Advantaged Backgrounds	1
Political Imagination and Social Change	1
Thank You to Referees	1
Beyond the Rhetoric of Revanchism Towards the Metropolitan Core: An Analysis of Symbolic Representations of Milan From Its Peripheries	1
Male Sex Workers as Situational Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Demographics, Motivations, and Practices of Male Sex Workers in the Tourism Industry in Botswana	1
‘Free Food Places’: Looking Beyond the Food Bank to Better Understand Alternative Models of Food Aid	1
Book Review: Ron Darvin and Tongle Sun, Intercultural Communication and Identity Intercultural Communication and Identity. DarvinRonSunTongle . London: C	1
The Unity Gym Project Podumentary : Joint Enterprise, Anti-Racism and Community Partnership	1
Transnationalization of Educational Aspirations: Evidence from China	1
Swiping as a Single Mom: A First Look at the Experiences of Single Mothers Who Use Tinder	1
The Perceptions of Prostitution, Sex Work, and Sex Trafficking among Young People in Spain	1
Non-Heteronormative Reproductive Tactics in Poland	1
Calais Again	1
Rethinking Veganism in the Digital Age. Innovating Methodology and Typology to Explore a Decade of Facebook Discourses	1
A Young Disabled LGBT+ Researchers Group: Working Collaboratively to Explore the Lives of Young Autistic LGBT+ Persons	1
Walking Methodologies in the Uplands of the North York Moors National Park	1
Book Review: Kalyani Devaki Menon, Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India. MenonKalyani Devaki. It	1
Resistance to Change: Intergenerational Class Mobility in Hungary, 1973–2018	1
‘In This Prison We Have Our Main Meal at 11:30 AM’. The Significance of ‘Time’ For Food Among People Serving Custodial Sentences in England and Wales	1
How to Overcome the Secretiveness of a Group: Opportunities of Online Interviews	1
CrossFit, Community, and Identity: A Gemeinschaft in a Liquid Modern World?	1
Understanding Food Assistance Through Care: Theoretical Insights	1
Voices Through Art: Co-Creating the School Daze Comic for and with Autistic Young People to Support Educational Transitions	1
Uncovering Inequalities in Greenspace Access: An Intersectional Agenda for New Sociological Enquiry	1
Work-Related Practices: An Analysis of Their Effect on the Emergence of Stable Practices in Daily Activity Schedules	1
Voices From the Archive: Lust, Legislation, Lunacy	1
As Is and Co-creating Theatre From Research to Stage: The Play’s The Thing	1
Book Review: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation	1
Social Categories and Boundary-Making: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Visual Tools to Study Boundary Work within Personal Networks	1
Constructing a Crisis: Mental Health, Higher Education and Policy Entrepreneurs	1
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait	1
Book Review: Roadmap For a New ModernityAndreas Reckwitz, The End of Illusions: Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity The End of Illusions: Politics, Economy,	1
Utopian Cartography and Political Imagination	1
Discourse Formation of Political Dissents via Twitter: Political Sociology of the Subversion Discourse in the Islamic Republic of Iran	1
The Emotional Labour of Labour Research: Reflections on Guanxi Network When Conducting Fieldwork in Mainland China	1
Book Review: Marie Chabrol, Anaïs Collet, Matthieu Giroud, Lydie Launay, Max Rousseau and Hovig Ter Minassian (Translated by Jean-Yves Bart), Gentrifications: Views from Europe	1
Parenting Expertise during Transitions-to-Motherhood. Exploring Transformations in Knowledge Regimes in Poland	1
‘I’m Not Victim-Blaming, But . . .’: Young People’s Discourses in Understanding Sexual Violence Against Women	1
What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic	1
Stimulating Political Imagination With Arts-Based Methods: The Case of Utopia Consultation	1
Book Review: Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America	1