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 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
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
How Infrastructures and Practices Shape Each Other: Aggregation, Integration and the Introduction of Gas Central Heating	11
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
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
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
The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations	8
Students of Academic Capitalism: Emotional Dimensions in the Commercialization of Higher Education	8
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
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
Ageing in Place Over Time: The Making and Unmaking of Home	7

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
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
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
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
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
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
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