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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital	38
Understanding ‘Gender Equality’: First-Time Parent Couples’ Practices and Perspectives on Working and Caring Post-Parenthood	20
Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants	18
Doing the Unspeakable: Material Participation in Reprod-estr-uctive Labour	15
Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?	14
Third-Sector Advocacy: An Exploration of the Work of Community Food Providers	13
Making Sense of Social Mobility in Unequal Societies	13
Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic	12
‘Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Experience?’ Orientations Towards Listening to Open-Ended Survey Responses	11
Supporting LGBT+ People Experiencing Hate: Perspectives from LGBT+ Youth and Community Workers	11
Almost Confessional: Managing Emotions When Research Breaks Your Heart	10
Gender Preferences for Children and Gender Relations in Contemporary China	9
The Social Production of the Dead Human Body in the Practice of Teaching Anatomy Through Cadaveric Dissection	9
Journeys Through Genomics: Co-Producing Visual Resources to Communicate Patient Experiences	9
Connection Points: The Dynamics of Recruitment to Packaging-Free Shopping	8
The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of COVID-19	8
Book Review: Vera Caine, D Jean Clandinin and Sean Lessard, Narrative Inquiry: Philosophical Roots	7
Curating the ‘Care-Full’ Home: An Experiment in Satirical Interdisciplinarity in Social Research	7
#TheAfricaTheMediaNever ShowsYou: An Afrodiasporic Subaltern Counterpublic	7
‘We’ve Done Our Bit’: Post-COVID Experiences of Precarious Privilege Among Western International School Teachers in Shanghai	7
Book Review: Timothy S. Pedro and Windchief Sweeney (eds), Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities	6
Book Review: Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power	6
Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline	6
What’s Work Got to Do with It? How Precarity Influences Radical Party Support in France and the Netherlands	6
Book Review: Sociologies of New Zealand	6

The Extent of Résumé Whitening	6
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	6
Introduction: Comparative European Perspectives on Transnational Solidarity Organisations	6
Leaping the Abyss: The Problematic Translation of Social Research Results into Policy Recommendations	6
Walking the (Infrastructural) Line: Mobile and Embodied Explorations of Infrastructures and Their Impact on the Urban Landscape	6
A Convergence of Opportunities: Understanding the High Elite University Progression of Disadvantaged Youth in an East London Locality	5
The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations	5
Looking Within: A Call for Greater Reflexivity in Expatriate Research	5
Book Review: Karen S Cook, Advanced Introduction to Social Capital	5
A ‘Proper Night Out’: A Practice Theory Exploration of Gendered Drinking	5
(Un)predicted Patterns in the Timing of Urban Shootings Across Six US Cities	5
Coming to Terms with the Greek Crisis: Highly Educated Young Women’s Employment Struggles in Conditions of Economic Austerity	5
‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age	5
Book Review: Michael Butter, The Nature of Conspiracy Theories	4
The Closing Educational Gap in E-privacy Management in European Perspective	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
The Participatory Documentary ‘Age Is Just a Bingo Number’	4
‘Creating Poverty Chances’: Young People Confront Gambling Harms in Malawi	4
Racialization within Antitrafficking Interventions Targeting Migrant Sex Workers: Findings from the SEXHUM Research Project in France	4
‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth	4
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
Broken (Again) – Making Sense of Ankle Fracture, Hospitalisation, and Early Recovery: An Autoethnography	4
It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic	4
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research: A Computational Abstract Analysis to Identify Latent Topics of Sociological Research Online	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
Images of the Present and Possible: Analyzing the Climate Movement Through Its Utopias	3
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities	3
Data Protection in Sociological Health Research: A Critical Narrative about the Challenges of a New Regulatory Landscape	3
Social Conspiracies in Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenging Disease through Oppositon and Suspicion	3
Talking the Talk of Social Mobility: The Political Performance of a Misguided Agenda	3
Negotiating Masculinity in a Post-Socialist Society: The Case of Chinese Male Nurses	3
Food Systems Under Pressure	3
The Social Structures of Sleep: Effects of Work-Related and Family Constraints on Sleep Duration and Regularity Among French Workers	3
‘Vulnerability’ at Work: Instrumental Vulnerabilities Among Software Professionals	3
Sociology of Everyday Life in the Past and Future Uses of the Mass Observation Project: Methodology, Materiality and Personal Life	3
Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment	3
‘Having money is not the essential thing . . . but . . . it gets everything moving’: Young Colombians Navigating Towards Uncertain Futures?	3
‘Pollution’ and ‘Blaming’: A Sociological Analysis of the COVID-19 Time Through Cultural Perspective	3
Do Different Types of Households Use Outsourced Domestic Cleaning Services for Different Reasons? An Explorative Study in South Africa	3
Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre	3
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	3
Creative Co-Imagination in Transgenerational Comics Workshops	3
Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation	3
Mediating Gender Norms Through the ‘Foodies’ Culture as Romantic Emotions	3
Outcomes of Academic Tracking Among Young Adults in the United States: A Longitudinal Survey Analysis	3
Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk? Experiences with Risks and Risk Management among Young Sugar Daters	3
Sociology Meets History, in and Beyond England: Explorations in SRO ’s Archival Trove	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
Superficial Allies: The Role of Legal Inclusion and Social Obedience in Stigma Processes	3
Recognising British Bodies: The Significance of Race and Whiteness in ‘Post-Racial’ Britain	3
Book Review: May Contain Lies. How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases – and what we can do about it	3