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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic	25
Doing the Unspeakable: Material Participation in Reprod-estr-uctive Labour	23
Revitalising Intimacy Research Through a Focus on Intimate Inequalities, Ruptures and Dissonances	22
Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital	19
Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?	18
Understanding ‘Gender Equality’: First-Time Parent Couples’ Practices and Perspectives on Working and Caring Post-Parenthood	13
‘Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Experience?’ Orientations Towards Listening to Open-Ended Survey Responses	10
Reflecting on Sociological Research Online	10
Gender Preferences for Children and Gender Relations in Contemporary China	10
Third-Sector Advocacy: An Exploration of the Work of Community Food Providers	10
Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants	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	8
Book Review: Vera Caine, D Jean Clandinin and Sean Lessard, Narrative Inquiry: Philosophical Roots	8
Journeys Through Genomics: Co-Producing Visual Resources to Communicate Patient Experiences	8
Curating the ‘Care-Full’ Home: An Experiment in Satirical Interdisciplinarity in Social Research	8
#TheAfricaTheMediaNever ShowsYou: An Afrodiasporic Subaltern Counterpublic	8
‘We’ve Done Our Bit’: Post-COVID Experiences of Precarious Privilege Among Western International School Teachers in Shanghai	8
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	8
Connection Points: The Dynamics of Recruitment to Packaging-Free Shopping	7
Leaping the Abyss: The Problematic Translation of Social Research Results into Policy Recommendations	7
The Extent of Résumé Whitening	7
The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of COVID-19	7
Cultural Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature: Evidence for a Partial Overlap	7
Relational Logics of Child Maintenance and Post-separation Economic Abuse in Minoritised British South Asian Muslim Post-divorce Families	7

Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline	7
Walking the (Infrastructural) Line: Mobile and Embodied Explorations of Infrastructures and Their Impact on the Urban Landscape	7
‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age	6
‘Creating Poverty Chances’: Young People Confront Gambling Harms in Malawi	6
A Convergence of Opportunities: Understanding the High Elite University Progression of Disadvantaged Youth in an East London Locality	6
Looking Within: A Call for Greater Reflexivity in Expatriate Research	6
Book Review: Karen S Cook, Advanced Introduction to Social Capital	6
It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic	5
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research: A Computational Abstract Analysis to Identify Latent Topics of Sociological Research Online	5
(Un)predicted Patterns in the Timing of Urban Shootings Across Six US Cities	5
‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth	5
No Raggedy Black Child: Attachment Parenting, Black Motherhood, and the Politics of Respectability	5
Broken (Again) – Making Sense of Ankle Fracture, Hospitalisation, and Early Recovery: An Autoethnography	5
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health: A Reflection Triggered by the VAX-TRUST Project Final Round Table	5
The Participatory Documentary ‘Age Is Just a Bingo Number’	5
Book Review: Travis Kong, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China	4
Re-Defining the Family Biography When a Child Suffers from a Life-Limiting Illness: Insights from Mothers and Siblings	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
The Transformation of Parents’ Values and Aspirations for Their Children: A Retrospective Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Cultural Configurations	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
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	4
Sociology Meets History, in and Beyond England: Explorations in SRO ’s Archival Trove	4
Racialization within Antitrafficking Interventions Targeting Migrant Sex Workers: Findings from the SEXHUM Research Project in France	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
Food Systems Under Pressure	4
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	4
Charting Sex Work in Malta: First Steps	3
‘Vulnerability’ at Work: Instrumental Vulnerabilities Among Software Professionals	3
The Temporal Limits of Single Positivity: Single Women in Postfeminist Culture	3
Book Review: Children and Youth in Armed Conflict: Responses, Resistance, and Portrayal in Media Children and Youth in Armed Conflict: Responses, Resistance, and Portrayal in Media (vol. 35, Sociologi	3
Stories Too Big for a Case File: Unaccompanied Young People Confront the Hostile Environment in Pandemic Times	3
Subject to Quarantine: A Narrative Analysis of COVID-19 Reporting in the Australian News Media	3
Sociology of Everyday Life in the Past and Future Uses of the Mass Observation Project: Methodology, Materiality and Personal Life	3
Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk? Experiences with Risks and Risk Management among Young Sugar Daters	3
Mediating Gender Norms Through the ‘Foodies’ Culture as Romantic Emotions	3
Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation	3
Sociological Research in the Digital Age: Where Have We Come From; Where Are We Going?	3
Images of the Present and Possible: Analyzing the Climate Movement Through Its Utopias	3
From Confrontation to Concession: Reconfiguring Public Space Through Public Square Dancing	3
Wearing the Saree in the Diaspora: An Auto-ethnographic Account of a Malaysian Indian Woman	3
Creative Co-Imagination in Transgenerational Comics Workshops	3
Screening for Parental Consent? Trans Youth and Informed Consent in Academic Research	3
‘Pollution’ and ‘Blaming’: A Sociological Analysis of the COVID-19 Time Through Cultural Perspective	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
Data Protection in Sociological Health Research: A Critical Narrative about the Challenges of a New Regulatory Landscape	3
Book Review: Yi-Lin Chiang, Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	3

‘I am Lil’: Enabling Autistic Voices in Transitions from School to Adult Life through the Co-Creation of a Digital Story	3
Food on the Margins: A Creative Film Collaboration to Amplify the Voices of Those Living with Food Insecurity	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
Social Conspiracies in Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenging Disease through Opposition and Suspicion	3
Outcomes of Academic Tracking Among Young Adults in the United States: A Longitudinal Survey Analysis	3
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities	3