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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital	32
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	23
Risk Epistemologies and Aesthetic Reflexivity of a Disaster-Affected Community: Findings from Vietnam	17
Doing the Unspeakable: Material Participation in Reprod-estr-uctive Labour	15
Raising ‘True Believers’: Anti-Abortion ‘Education’ for Primary Children in the UK	14
The Perceptions of Prostitution, Sex Work, and Sex Trafficking among Young People in Spain	13
Using a Range of Communication Tools to Interview a Hard-to-Reach Population	12
Voices Through Art: Co-Creating the School Daze Comic for and with Autistic Young People to Support Educational Transitions	12
What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic	12
Book Review: Intercultural Communication and Identity	12
No Appetite for Change: Culture, Liberalism, and Other Acts of Depoliticization in the Australian Obesity Debate	12
The Inverted Pyramid and Beyond: Perceptions of Distributive Justice Among (Highly) Qualified Workers in Contemporary Cuba	11
Book Review: Travis Kong, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China	10
‘Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Experience?’ Orientations Towards Listening to Open-Ended Survey Responses	9
Rethinking Empowerment: Young African Migrants’ Understandings of Power and Empowerment in Ghana	9
Parenting Expertise during Transitions-to-Motherhood. Exploring Transformations in Knowledge Regimes in Poland	8
Book Review: Matthew O Jackson, The Human Network: How We’re Connected and Why It Matters	8
Calais Again	7
Book Review: Social Movement Discourse: An Introduction	7
Third-Sector Advocacy: An Exploration of the Work of Community Food Providers	7
Male Sex Workers as Situational Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Demographics, Motivations, and Practices of Male Sex Workers in the Tourism Industry in Botswana	7
Book Review: Lyn Spillman, What Is Cultural Sociology?	6
Thank You to Referees	6
Work-Related Practices: An Analysis of Their Effect on the Emergence of Stable Practices in Daily Activity Schedules	6
The Productivity of Unemployment and the Temporality of Employment-to-Come: Older Disadvantaged Job Seekers	6

A Community Unimagined: The Influence of Individualistic Culture among Chinese Entrepreneurs in Ikebukuro, Tokyo	6
Normal Island: COVID-19, Border Control, and Viral Nationalism in UK Public Health Discourse	6
CrossFit, Community, and Identity: A Gemeinschaft in a Liquid Modern World?	5
The Transformation of Parents’ Values and Aspirations for Their Children: A Retrospective Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Cultural Configurations	5
Making Sense of Social Mobility in Unequal Societies	5
Going Public: Performing Dying in the Second Decade of the 21st Century	5
Engaging With Lived Experience: Towards a Sociological Biography of a Sociological Category	5
The Impacts of Guanxi: Drug Policing Under Police Professionalisation in China	5
Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?	4
Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic	4
Chinese Square-Dancing: A Description of Group Cultural Life	4
Life Satisfaction and Work–Life Balance: The Complexities of Gender Patterning	4
Understanding ‘Gender Equality’: First-Time Parent Couples’ Practices and Perspectives on Working and Caring Post-Parenthood	4
Almost Confessional: Managing Emotions When Research Breaks Your Heart	4
Book Review: The New Minority: People Without a Migration Background in the Superdiverse City	4
The Gambling Act 2005 and the (De)regulation of Commercial Gambling in Britain: A State-Corporate Harm	4
What Happens Next? Using the Story Completion Method to Surface the Affects and Materialities of Digital Privacy Dilemmas	4
Failing to Perform Citizenship: Daily Narratives About Stockholm’s ‘vulnerable EU citizens’	4
Superficial Allies: The Role of Legal Inclusion and Social Obedience in Stigma Processes	4
Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants	4
A Fish in Many Waters? Addressing Transnational Habitus and the Reworking of Bourdieu in Global Contexts	4
Beyond Local Domains: Connective Ontology in (Post-)Cognitive Sociology	4
Small Stories of Home Moves: A Gendered and Generational Breadth-and-Depth Investigation	4
SRO Thank You to Referees 2024	4
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait	4
Book Review: Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order	4
Institutional Gap and Mobility–Immobility Transition: International Students’ Study-to-Work Experience in China	3
Teachers’ Narratives of Life Satisfaction, Social Mobility, and Practical Sense of Inequalities in Chile	3
‘They are Alone in Their Parenthood’: Parenting Support and (Re)building Community	3
Talking the Talk of Social Mobility: The Political Performance of a Misguided Agenda	3
Book Review: May Contain Lies. How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases – and what we can do about it	3
Kelly Needs a New Coat: Views on Compensating Altruistic Surrogacy in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
Aspiring Minds: ‘A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making’	3
Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre	3
Hearing, Policing, and Using Gender Diversity: The Role of Institutional Gatekeepers in Researching Youth and Gender	3
Nested Narratives: Biographical Accounts of Unlived Experience Across Three Narrative Orders	3
Negotiating Masculinity in a Post-Socialist Society: The Case of Chinese Male Nurses	3
Adult Children Move Out: Family Meals and Reflections on Parental Self-sacrifice at the Moment of Transition	3
‘Unsponsoring Football’: Sign Value, Symbolic Exchange, and Simulacra in a Gambling-Related Marketing Campaign	3
Digital Therapeutic Cultures and Their New Regime of Psychological Truth	3
The Social Structures of Sleep: Effects of Work-Related and Family Constraints on Sleep Duration and Regularity Among French Workers	3
‘Flow’: A Film About the Disclosure of Childhood Sexual Abuse	3
‘I Don’t Want to Completely Lose Myself’: Social Mobility as Movement Across Classed, Ethnicised, and Gendered Spaces	3
Domestic ‘Disposal Work’ and Plastics Recycling – Unwrapping Everyday Entanglements of Practice, Roles, and Responsibilities	3
Transnationalization of Educational Aspirations: Evidence from China	3
Book Review: Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action	3
China’s Individualized Transformation: State, Society, and People – A New ‘Suku’ Study of Demobilized Soldiers in City S	3
The Re-enchantment of Food: An Introduction	3