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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants	23
Making Sense of Social Mobility in Unequal Societies	21
‘Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Experience?’ Orientations Towards Listening to Open-Ended Survey Responses	20
Third-Sector Advocacy: An Exploration of the Work of Community Food Providers	17
Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital	13
Doing the Unspeakable: Material Participation in Reprod-estr-uctive Labour	13
Understanding ‘Gender Equality’: First-Time Parent Couples’ Practices and Perspectives on Working and Caring Post-Parenthood	12
Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?	10
Revitalising Intimacy Research Through a Focus on Intimate Inequalities, Ruptures and Dissonances	10
The Social Production of the Dead Human Body in the Practice of Teaching Anatomy Through Cadaveric Dissection	9
Gender Preferences for Children and Gender Relations in Contemporary China	9
Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic	9
Parenting in a Pandemic With Multiple Sclerosis	8
Journeys Through Genomics: Co-Producing Visual Resources to Communicate Patient Experiences	8
‘We’ve Done Our Bit’: Post-COVID Experiences of Precarious Privilege Among Western International School Teachers in Shanghai	7
Leaping the Abyss: The Problematic Translation of Social Research Results into Policy Recommendations	7
Curating the ‘Care-Full’ Home: An Experiment in Satirical Interdisciplinarity in Social Research	7
#TheAfricaTheMediaNever ShowsYou: An Afrodiasporic Subaltern Counterpublic	7
Book Review: Vera Caine, D Jean Clandinin and Sean Lessard, Narrative Inquiry: Philosophical Roots	7
The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of COVID-19	7
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	7
Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline	7
Connection Points: The Dynamics of Recruitment to Packaging-Free Shopping	7
A Convergence of Opportunities: Understanding the High Elite University Progression of Disadvantaged Youth in an East London Locality	6
Cultural Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature: Evidence for a Partial Overlap	6

The Extent of Résumé Whitening	6
Looking Within: A Call for Greater Reflexivity in Expatriate Research	6
Walking the (Infrastructural) Line: Mobile and Embodied Explorations of Infrastructures and Their Impact on the Urban Landscape	6
Book Review: Karen S Cook, Advanced Introduction to Social Capital	6
Relational Logics of Child Maintenance and Post-separation Economic Abuse in Minoritised British South Asian Muslim Post-divorce Families	6
It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic	5
The Participatory Documentary ‘Age Is Just a Bingo Number’	5
No Raggedy Black Child: Attachment Parenting, Black Motherhood, and the Politics of Respectability	5
A ‘Proper Night Out’: A Practice Theory Exploration of Gendered Drinking	5
‘Creating Poverty Chances’: Young People Confront Gambling Harms in Malawi	5
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research: A Computational Abstract Analysis to Identify Latent Topics of Sociological Research Online	5
‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age	5
‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth	5
Racialization within Antitrafficking Interventions Targeting Migrant Sex Workers: Findings from the SEXHUM Research Project in France	5
(Un)predicted Patterns in the Timing of Urban Shootings Across Six US Cities	4
Book Review: Travis Kong, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China	4
Engaging With Lived Experience: Towards a Sociological Biography of a Sociological Category	4
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	4
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health: A Reflection Triggered by the VAX-TRUST Project Final Round Table	4
The Transformation of Parents’ Values and Aspirations for Their Children: A Retrospective Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Cultural Configurations	4
Re-Defining the Family Biography When a Child Suffers from a Life-Limiting Illness: Insights from Mothers and Siblings	4
Food Systems Under Pressure	4
Book Review: Matthew O Jackson, The Human Network: How We’re Connected and Why It Matters	4
Broken (Again) – Making Sense of Ankle Fracture, Hospitalisation, and Early Recovery: An Autoethnography	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
Life Satisfaction and Work–Life Balance: The Complexities of Gender Patterning	4
Mediating Gender Norms Through the ‘Foodies’ Culture as Romantic Emotions	3
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 stories, statistic	3
Sociology Meets History, in and Beyond England: Explorations in SRO ’s Archival Trove	3
‘Vulnerability’ at Work: Instrumental Vulnerabilities Among Software Professionals	3
Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation	3
Wearing the Saree in the Diaspora: An Auto-ethnographic Account of a Malaysian Indian Woman	3
Getting Under the Skin Trade: Towards a Global Sociology of Skin-Lightening Practices	3
Creative Co-Imagination in Transgenerational Comics Workshops	3
Sociological Research in the Digital Age: Where Have We Come From; Where Are We Going?	3
Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk? Experiences with Risks and Risk Management among Young Sugar Daters	3
‘Pollution’ and ‘Blaming’: A Sociological Analysis of the COVID-19 Time Through Cultural Perspective	3
Screening for Parental Consent? Trans Youth and Informed Consent in Academic Research	3
Do Different Types of Households Use Outsourced Domestic Cleaning Services for Different Reasons? An Explorative Study in South Africa	3
Data Protection in Sociological Health Research: A Critical Narrative about the Challenges of a New Regulatory Landscape	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
Book Review: Psychoanalytic Sociology: A New Theory of the Social Bond Psychoanalytic Sociology: A New Theory of the Social Bond. RousselleDuane. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. ISBN: 978-135041018	3
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities	3
Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre	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
Talking the Talk of Social Mobility: The Political Performance of a Misguided Agenda	3
The Social Structures of Sleep: Effects of Work-Related and Family Constraints on Sleep Duration and Regularity Among French Workers	3
Social Conspiracies in Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenging Disease through Opposition and Suspicion	3
Sociology of Everyday Life in the Past and Future Uses of the Mass Observation Project: Methodology, Materiality and Personal Life	3

Images of the Present and Possible: Analyzing the Climate Movement Through Its Utopias	3
Book Review: Yi-Lin Chiang, Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	3
Outcomes of Academic Tracking Among Young Adults in the United States: A Longitudinal Survey Analysis	3
The Inverted Pyramid and Beyond: Perceptions of Distributive Justice Among (Highly) Qualified Workers in Contemporary Cuba	2
What Happens Next? Using the Story Completion Method to Surface the Affects and Materialities of Digital Privacy Dilemmas	2
On the Discrepancy of Descriptive Facts and Normative Values in Perceptions of Occupational Prestige	2
Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment	2
Stories Too Big for a Case File: Unaccompanied Young People Confront the Hostile Environment in Pandemic Times	2
Beyond Mental and Manual: Investigating the Historical and Contemporary Borderlands Between Working-Class and Middle-Class Masculinities	2
‘Not Just Living in the Moment’: Constructing the ‘Enterprising’ and Future-Oriented Self Through the Consumption of No-and-Low-Alcohol Drinks	2
‘They Wouldn’t Mind Pushing People Off the Bus’: Exploring Power in Practice Theory through the Work of Simultaneous Interpreters	2
Using a Range of Communication Tools to Interview a Hard-to-Reach Population	2
Networks on Paint! Conducting Sociograms Via Graphic Raster Editors as Embedded in Online Interviews	2
Democratising Research Practices With Unaccompanied Refugee Young People Using Participatory Arts-Based Methods	2
Book Review: Fatma Müge Göçek and Gamze Evcimen, The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Sociology and The Middle East	2
Subject to Quarantine: A Narrative Analysis of COVID-19 Reporting in the Australian News Media	2
Cultural Omnivorousness and Status Inconsistency in Chile: The Role of Objective and Subjective Social Status	2
Unveiling the Veil: Examining Social Injustice and Marginalisation of Transgender Persons in Kashmir, India	2
The Self in Self-Help: A Re-Appraisal of Therapeutic Culture in a Time of Crisis	2
SRO Thank You to Referees 2024	2
The Impacts of Guanxi: Drug Policing Under Police Professionalisation in China	2
Book Review: Tony Bennett, Habit’s Pathways: Repetition, Power, Conduct	2
‘It Will Start With Me’: A Documentary Film Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Participatory Research	2
‘I am Lil’: Enabling Autistic Voices in Transitions from School to Adult Life through the Co-Creation of a Digital Story	2
Food on the Margins: A Creative Film Collaboration to Amplify the Voices of Those Living with Food Insecurity	2
Sustainable City Stories – A Short Film Reflecting on Sustainability in Woolwich, London as Observed Walking by an Intergenerational Group of Residents	2
Political Imagination and Social Change	1
Voices From the Archive: Lust, Legislation, Lunacy	1
Thank You to Referees	1
Stimulating Political Imagination With Arts-Based Methods: The Case of Utopia Consultation	1
Book Review: Ron Darvin and Tongle Sun, Intercultural Communication and Identity Intercultural Communication and Identity. DarvinRonSunTongle . London: Cambridge Univers	1
Non-Heteronormative Reproductive Tactics in Poland	1
Migrant Women Opposing Governmental Performative Politics and the Hostile Environment	1
Rethinking Veganism in the Digital Age. Innovating Methodology and Typology to Explore a Decade of Facebook Discourses	1
Book Review: Social Work for Poverty Alleviation (Poverty-Alleviation and Social Work in China) Social Work for Poverty Alleviation (Poverty-Alleviation and Social Work in China). XiangDeping. Berlin:	1
Book Review: Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America	1
‘Unsponsoring Football’: Sign Value, Symbolic Exchange, and Simulacra in a Gambling-Related Marketing Campaign	1
The Perceptions of Prostitution, Sex Work, and Sex Trafficking among Young People in Spain	1
Chinese Square-Dancing: A Description of Group Cultural Life	1
‘I’m Not Victim-Blaming, But . . .’: Young People’s Discourses in Understanding Sexual Violence Against Women	1
Transnationalization of Educational Aspirations: Evidence from China	1
Parenting Expertise during Transitions-to-Motherhood. Exploring Transformations in Knowledge Regimes in Poland	1
What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic	1
Resistance to Change: Intergenerational Class Mobility in Hungary, 1973–2018	1
As Is and Co-creating Theatre From Research to Stage: The Play’s The Thing	1
Understanding Food Assistance Through Care: Theoretical Insights	1
Work-Related Practices: An Analysis of Their Effect on the Emergence of Stable Practices in Daily Activity Schedules	1
The Psychologization of Student Subjectivity in the Finnish Academia	1
Shifting Narratives of the Self – Students’ Experiences of Chronicity and Multiplicity in the Management of Chronic Illness at University	1
Between Breaking Bad and Big Brother: Social Class and Television Preferences in Croatia	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
A Young Disabled LGBT+ Researchers Group: Working Collaboratively to Explore the Lives of Young Autistic LGBT+ Persons	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
Book Review: Xueyi Lu, Social Construction and Social Development in Contemporary China	1
Swiping as a Single Mom: A First Look at the Experiences of Single Mothers Who Use Tinder	1
Voices Through Art: Co-Creating the School Daze Comic for and with Autistic Young People to Support Educational Transitions	1
Kelly Needs a New Coat: Views on Compensating Altruistic Surrogacy in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Walking Methodologies in the Uplands of the North York Moors National Park	1
CrossFit, Community, and Identity: A Gemeinschaft in a Liquid Modern World?	1
The Gambling Act 2005 and the (De)regulation of Commercial Gambling in Britain: A State-Corporate Harm	1
Book Review: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation	1
Male Sex Workers as Situational Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Demographics, Motivations, and Practices of Male Sex Workers in the Tourism Industry in Botswana	1
‘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	1
Calais Again	1
Uncovering Inequalities in Greenspace Access: An Intersectional Agenda for New Sociological Enquiry	1
Social Categories and Boundary-Making: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Visual Tools to Study Boundary Work within Personal Networks	1
Paying to Be at the Bridge Table: An Exploration of the Bridge Playing-Sponsor Experience in Mindsport	1
Book Review: Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India. MenonKalyani Devaki. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 20	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
Inequalities in the Risk of Multidimensional Downward Mobility From the Most Advantaged Backgrounds	1
‘Free Food Places’: Looking Beyond the Food Bank to Better Understand Alternative Models of Food Aid	1
Love and Narcissism in Reality Television	1
Constructing a Crisis: Mental Health, Higher Education and Policy Entrepreneurs	1
The Unity Gym Project Podumentary : Joint Enterprise, Anti-Racism and Community Partnership	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
Raising ‘True Believers’: Anti-Abortion ‘Education’ for Primary Children in the UK	1
Re-Conceptualising Repeat Reports of Hate Crime/Incidents as Hate Relationships Based on Coercive Control and Space for Action	1