OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Research Online is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

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

‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age	6
Cultural Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature: Evidence for a Partial Overlap	6
A ‘Proper Night Out’: A Practice Theory Exploration of Gendered Drinking	6
A Convergence of Opportunities: Understanding the High Elite University Progression of Disadvantaged Youth in an East London Locality	6
Relational Logics of Child Maintenance and Post-separation Economic Abuse in Minoritised British South Asian Muslim Post-divorce Families	6
The Extent of Résumé Whitening	6
Looking Within: A Call for Greater Reflexivity in Expatriate Research	6
The Participatory Documentary ‘Age Is Just a Bingo Number’	5
(Un)predicted Patterns in the Timing of Urban Shootings Across Six US Cities	5
No Raggedy Black Child: Attachment Parenting, Black Motherhood, and the Politics of Respectability	5
‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth	5
It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic	5
Racialization within Antitrafficking Interventions Targeting Migrant Sex Workers: Findings from the SEXHUM Research Project in France	5
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research: A Computational Abstract Analysis to Identify Latent Topics of Sociological Research Online	5
‘Creating Poverty Chances’: Young People Confront Gambling Harms in Malawi	5
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health: A Reflection Triggered by the VAX-TRUST Project Final Round Table	5
Broken (Again) – Making Sense of Ankle Fracture, Hospitalisation, and Early Recovery: An Autoethnography	5
The Transformation of Parents’ Values and Aspirations for Their Children: A Retrospective Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Cultural Configurations	4
Warm Spaces as a New Manifestation of Austerity Localism	4
Re-Defining the Family Biography When a Child Suffers from a Life-Limiting Illness: Insights from Mothers and Siblings	4
‘I’ve Wondered Why Am I Here?’ Expectations of Old Age and the Ageing Body in a Longitudinal Study of a Dance Group	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
Food Systems Under Pressure	4
Sociology Meets History, in and Beyond England: Explorations in SRO ’s Archival Trove	4
Book Review: Travis Kong, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China	4
Superficial Allies: The Role of Legal Inclusion and Social Obedience in Stigma Processes	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
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	4
Wearing the Saree in the Diaspora: An Auto-ethnographic Account of a Malaysian Indian Woman	3
Images of the Present and Possible: Analyzing the Climate Movement Through Its Utopias	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
Social Conspiracies in Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenging Disease through Opposition and Suspicion	3
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities	3
Screening for Parental Consent? Trans Youth and Informed Consent in Academic Research	3
Mediating Gender Norms Through the ‘Foodies’ Culture as Romantic Emotions	3
Book Review: Yi-Lin Chiang, Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	3
Stories Too Big for a Case File: Unaccompanied Young People Confront the Hostile Environment in Pandemic Times	3
‘I am Lil’: Enabling Autistic Voices in Transitions from School to Adult Life through the Co-Creation of a Digital Story	3
Getting Under the Skin Trade: Towards a Global Sociology of Skin-Lightening Practices	3
Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk? Experiences with Risks and Risk Management among Young Sugar Daters	3
Do Different Types of Households Use Outsourced Domestic Cleaning Services for Different Reasons? An Explorative Study in South Africa	3
‘Pollution’ and ‘Blaming’: A Sociological Analysis of the COVID-19 Time Through Cultural Perspective	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 st	3
Data Protection in Sociological Health Research: A Critical Narrative about the Challenges of a New Regulatory Landscape	3
Outcomes of Academic Tracking Among Young Adults in the United States: A Longitudinal Survey Analysis	3
Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment	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

Sociological Research in the Digital Age: Where Have We Come From; Where Are We Going?	3
Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation	3
Creative Co-Imagination in Transgenerational Comics Workshops	3
Talking the Talk of Social Mobility: The Political Performance of a Misguided Agenda	3
Sociology of Everyday Life in the Past and Future Uses of the Mass Observation Project: Methodology, Materiality and Personal Life	3
‘Vulnerability’ at Work: Instrumental Vulnerabilities Among Software Professionals	3
Food on the Margins: A Creative Film Collaboration to Amplify the Voices of Those Living with Food Insecurity	3