OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Applied Research, Diffractive Methodology, and the Research-Assemblage: Challenges and Opportunities	26
Awareness and Experience of Mindfulness in Britain	24
What Does it Mean to be a Cultural Omnivore? Conflicting Visions of Omnivorousness in Empirical Research	21
Bridging the Gap Between Methodology and Qualitative Data Analysis Software: A Practical Guide for Educators and Qualitative Researchers	16
Are Spanish Students Customers? Paradoxical Perceptions of the Impact of Marketisation on Higher Education in Spain	15
Who Cares? Social Mobility and the ‘Class Ceiling’ in Nursing	13
Discipline and Feed: Food Banks, Pastoral Power, and the Medicalisation of Poverty in the UK	13
When Technologies are Not Enough: The Challenges of Digital Interventions to Address Loneliness in Later Life	13
How Infrastructures and Practices Shape Each Other: Aggregation, Integration and the Introduction of Gas Central Heating	11
The Unbearable Precarity of Pursuing Freedom: A Critical Overview of the Spanish sí soy autónomo Movement	11
The Powerful Student Consumer and the Commodified Academic: A Depiction of the Marketised UK Higher Education System through a Textual Analysis of the ITV Drama Cheat	11
Ageing Activisms: A Narrative Exploration of Older Adults’ Experiences of Political Participation	11
Institutional Ethics Challenges to Sex Work Researchers: Committees, Communities, and Collaboration	10
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	10
Playing Your Life: Developing Strategies and Managing Impressions in the Game of Bridge	10
A Fish in Many Waters? Addressing Transnational Habitus and the Reworking of Bourdieu in Global Contexts	10
LGBT ‘Communities’ and the (Self-)regulation and Shaping of Intimacy	9
Talking the Talk of Social Mobility: The Political Performance of a Misguided Agenda	9
European Higher Education Students: Contested Constructions	8
What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic	8
The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations	8
Students of Academic Capitalism: Emotional Dimensions in the Commercialization of Higher Education	8
Ageing in Place Over Time: The Making and Unmaking of Home	7
What’s Work Got to Do with It? How Precarity Influences Radical Party Support in France and the Netherlands	7
Beyond a Dichotomous Understanding of Online Anonymity: Bridging the Macro and Micro Level	7

Stories Too Big for a Case File: Unaccompanied Young People Confront the Hostile Environment in Pandemic Times	6
Almost Confessional: Managing Emotions When Research Breaks Your Heart	6
Does Organisation Matter? Solidarity Approaches among Organisations and Sectors in Europe	6
Normal Island: COVID-19, Border Control, and Viral Nationalism in UK Public Health Discourse	6
‘. . . It Makes Me Want to Shut Down, Cover Up’: Female Bartenders’ Use of Emotional Labour While Receiving Unwanted Sexual Attention at a Public House	6
Nine Mechanisms of Job-Searching and Job-Finding Through Contacts Among Young Adults	6
What Happens Next? Using the Story Completion Method to Surface the Affects and Materialities of Digital Privacy Dilemmas	6
Youth Shifting Identities, Moving Aspirations, Changing Social Norms, and Positive Uncertainty in Ethiopia and Nepal	5
Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline	5
Risk Epistemologies and Aesthetic Reflexivity of a Disaster-Affected Community: Findings from Vietnam	5
Students in Marketised Higher Education Landscapes: An Introduction	5
‘I Don’t Want to Completely Lose Myself’: Social Mobility as Movement Across Classed, Ethnicised, and Gendered Spaces	5
Re-Imagining Social Mobility: The Role of Relationality, Social Class and Place in Qualitative Constructions of Mobility	5
The Preston Model: Economic Democracy, Cooperation, and Paradoxes in Organisational and Social Identification	5
Disentangling Meritocracy Among the Long-Range Upwardly Mobile: The Chilean Case	5
Men’s Explanations for Being Childless; a dynamic perspective	4
Understanding Brexit on Facebook: Developing Close-up, Qualitative Methodologies for Social Media Research	4
Something ‘Old’, Something ‘New’? The UK Space of Political Attitudes After the Brexit Referendum	4
‘Not Just Living in the Moment’: Constructing the ‘Enterprising’ and Future-Oriented Self Through the Consumption of No-and-Low-Alcohol Drinks	4
Different Routes to University: Exploring Intersectional and Multi-Dimensional Social Mobility Under A Comparative Approach in Chile	4
Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation	4
Small Stories of Home Moves: A Gendered and Generational Breadth-and-Depth Investigation	4
Frame Story Approach in Mixed and Multimethod Study on Non-Heterosexual Families in Poland	4
Shifting Narratives of the Self – Students’ Experiences of Chronicity and Multiplicity in the Management of Chronic Illness at University	4
Patterns of Labour Solidarity Towards Precarious Workers and the Unemployed in Critical Times in Greece, Poland, and the UK	4
Safety and Security Battles: Unpacking the Players and Arenas of the Safe Standing Movement in English Football (1989–2022)	4
Religion and Social Capital: Examining Social Networks and Religious Identification in the UK	4
No Appetite for Change: Culture, Liberalism, and Other Acts of Depoliticization in the Australian Obesity Debate	4
Failing to Perform Citizenship: Daily Narratives About Stockholm’s ‘vulnerable EU citizens’	4
‘It Is a Tradition in the Nuclear Industry . . . Secrecy’: Political Opportunity Structures and Nuclear Knowledge Production in France	4
Young People’s Perspectives on the Value and Meaning of Art during the Pandemic	4
Pathways for a ‘Good Death’: Understanding End-of-Life Practices Through An Ethnographic Study in Two Portuguese Palliative Care Units	4
Narratives of Leaving and Returning to Homeland: The Example of Greek Brain Drainers Living in the UK	4
‘Almost Everything in the House Now Is Plastic’: Foregrounding Plastic Materiality in Household Routines and Practices	4
A Creative Conversation for Re-imagining Creative Visual Methods with Children and Young People in Pandemic Times and Beyond	4
The Gambling Act 2005 and the (De)regulation of Commercial Gambling in Britain: A State-Corporate Harm	4
Hearing, Policing, and Using Gender Diversity: The Role of Institutional Gatekeepers in Researching Youth and Gender	3
A Young Disabled LGBT+ Researchers Group: Working Collaboratively to Explore the Lives of Young Autistic LGBT+ Persons	3
The Extent of Résumé Whitening	3
Austerity, Localism, and the Possibility of Politics: Explaining Variation in Three Local Social Security Schemes Between Elected Councils in England	3
Discordant Expectations of Global Intimacy: Desire and Inequality in Commercial Surrogacy	3
Edgework, Uncertainty, and Social Character	3
Doing being observed: Experimenting with collaborative focus group analysis in post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong	3
‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth	3
Utilising Mood Boards as an Image Elicitation Tool in Qualitative Research	3
Coaching and ‘Self-repair’: Examining the ‘Artful Practices’ of Coaching Work	3
‘Having money is not the essential thing . . . but . . . it gets everything moving’: Young Colombians Navigating Towards Uncertain Futures?	3
‘You Can’t Delete a Memory’: Managing the Data Past on Social Media in Everyday Life	3
What Is Solidarity About? Views of Transnational Organisations’ Activists in Germany, Poland, and Greece	3
‘Cause We’re All Just Part of the System Really’: Complicity and Resistance in Young Sportsmen’s Responses to Violence Against Women Prevention Campaigns in England	3

Introduction: Comparative European Perspectives on Transnational Solidarity Organisations	3
Recognising British Bodies: The Significance of Race and Whiteness in ‘Post-Racial’ Britain	3
Cultural Capital in China? Television Tastes and Cultural and Cosmopolitan Distinctions Among Beijing Youth	3
Institutional Gap and Mobility–Immobility Transition: International Students’ Study-to-Work Experience in China	3
Immigration, Race, and Nation in the UK: The Politics of Belonging on Twitter	2
‘Airport People’ in Transformation: Vertical Disintegration and the Reconfiguration of Occupational Belonging in Terminal Work at Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport	2
Raising ‘True Believers’: Anti-Abortion ‘Education’ for Primary Children in the UK	2
Calais Again	2
Cocreating with Young Fathers: Producing Community-Informed Training Videos to Foster more Inclusive Support Environments	2
‘I’m Not Victim-Blaming, But . . .’: Young People’s Discourses in Understanding Sexual Violence Against Women	2
Developing the Diary-Interview Approach to Study the Embodied, Tacit and Mundane Nutrition Information Behaviours of People with Type 2 Diabetes	2
Do Prostitution and Social Vulnerability Go Hand in Hand? Examining the Association Between Social Background and Prostitution Using Register Data	2
Traditional Inequalities and Inequalities of Tradition: Gender, Weddings, and Whiteness	2
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities	2
Preparing End-of-Life Talks in Palliative Care: Exploratory Remarks on a Social Process	2
Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic	2
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait	2
Ethnic Stereotypes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Minority Students’ Perspectives	2
‘It Feels Like a Big Performance’: Space, Performativity and Young Woman Skateboarders	2
On the Discrepancy of Descriptive Facts and Normative Values in Perceptions of Occupational Prestige	2
‘Go Home, Get a Job, and Pay Some Taxes to Replace a Bit of What You’ve Wasted’: Stigma Power and Solidarity in Response to Anti-Open-Cast Mining Activism in the Coalfields of Rural County Durh	2
Keeping It Real in Chinese Hip-Hop: Everyday Authenticity and Coming From the Street	2
The Cutaway to the Toilet: Towards a Visual Grammar of Spatial Stigma in Factual Welfare Television	2
Adult Children Move Out: Family Meals and Reflections on Parental Self-sacrifice at the Moment of Transition	2
Aspiring Minds: ‘A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making’	2
Work-Related Practices: An Analysis of Their Effect on the Emergence of Stable Practices in Daily Activity Schedules	2
The Productivity of Unemployment and the Temporality of Employment-to-Come: Older Disadvantaged Job Seekers	2
It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic	2
Moral Orders of Mobility: Youth Aspirations and ‘Doing’ Social Position in Finland	2
Everyday Intimacies and Inter-Ethnic Relationships: Tracing Entanglements of Gender and Race in Multicultural Singapore	2
Stigma Mutation: Tracking Lineage, Variation and Strength in Emerging COVID-19 Stigma	2
Furry Families: Ethical Entanglements Through More-than-Human Domestic Dramas	2
‘Vulnerability’ at Work: Instrumental Vulnerabilities Among Software Professionals	1
The Subcultural Imagination: Critically Negotiating the Co-Production of ‘Subcultural Subjects’ through the Lens of C. Wright Mills	1
Kelly Needs a New Coat: Views on Compensating Altruistic Surrogacy in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Explaining Regularities or Individual Outcomes: Chance and the Limits of Social Science	1
Making Sense of Social Mobility in Unequal Societies	1
Snapshots of Family: Family Representations and Practices of Mothering Displayed by Instamothers	1
Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants	1
Transnational Solidarity Organisations and their Main Features, before and since 2008: Adaptive and/or Autonomous?	1
Using a Range of Communication Tools to Interview a Hard-to-Reach Population	1
Cultural Omnivorousness and Status Inconsistency in Chile: The Role of Objective and Subjective Social Status	1
Sex Work in Slovenia: Assessing the Needs of Sex Workers	1
Public Demand for State Support in the Post-Communist Welfare State: The Case of Russia	1
Loners, Criminals, Mothers: The Gendered Misrecognition of Refugees in the British Tabloid News Media	1
Re-Conceptualising Repeat Reports of Hate Crime/Incidents as Hate Relationships Based on Coercive Control and Space for Action	1
Ethical Reflexivity, Care, and Slippery Data: Lessons From Working With the Mass Observation Project	1
Supporting LGBT+ People Experiencing Hate: Perspectives from LGBT+ Youth and Community Workers	1
The New Nones: An Empirical Study of Dual Religious and Political Non-affiliation	1
Creating Time for LGBT+ Disabled Youth: Co-production Outside Chrononormativity	1
Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?	1
A ‘Proper Night Out’: A Practice Theory Exploration of Gendered Drinking	1
Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital	1
Caring Masculinities in Theory and Practice: Reiterating the Relevance and Clarifying the Capaciousness of the Concept	1
Karl Mannheim on Fascism: Sociological Lessons About Populism and Democracy Today?	1
Class Incorporated: Stratified Patterns of Academic Engagement at a Highly Selective University	1
Solo-Living and Social Individualization: Analysis of Life Experience among Young Women in Spain	1
Food on the Margins: A Creative Film Collaboration to Amplify the Voices of Those Living with Food Insecurity	1
Data Protection in Sociological Health Research: A Critical Narrative about the Challenges of a New Regulatory Landscape	1
The Psychologization of Student Subjectivity in the Finnish Academia	1
Teachers’ Narratives of Life Satisfaction, Social Mobility, and Practical Sense of Inequalities in Chile	1
The Closing Educational Gap in E-privacy Management in European Perspective	1
How to Overcome the Secretiveness of a Group: Opportunities of Online Interviews	1
Exploring the Promise and Limitations of Autonomous Online Timelines to Understand Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Going Public: Performing Dying in the Second Decade of the 21st Century	1
Discourse Formation of Political Dissents via Twitter: Political Sociology of the Subversion Discourse in the Islamic Republic of Iran	1
Understanding ‘Gender Equality’: First-Time Parent Couples’ Practices and Perspectives on Working and Caring Post-Parenthood	1
‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age	1
Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment	1
Swiping as a Single Mom: A First Look at the Experiences of Single Mothers Who Use Tinder	1
A Life in Motion: Exploring Auto/Biographical Exchanges by ‘Walking With’ Nelson Sullivan	1
Stretching the Double Hermeneutic: A Critical Examination of Lay Meanings of ‘Emotional Labour’	1