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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding ‘Gender Equality’: First-Time Parent Couples’ Practices and Perspectives on Working and Caring Post-Parenthood	21
Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?	17
Making Sense of Social Mobility in Unequal Societies	16
Third-Sector Advocacy: An Exploration of the Work of Community Food Providers	16
Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic	15
Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital	12
Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants	10
Doing the Unspeakable: Material Participation in Reprod-estr-uctive Labour	10
‘Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Experience?’ Orientations Towards Listening to Open-Ended Survey Responses	9
The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of COVID-19	8
Gender Preferences for Children and Gender Relations in Contemporary China	8
The Social Production of the Dead Human Body in the Practice of Teaching Anatomy Through Cadaveric Dissection	8
Almost Confessional: Managing Emotions When Research Breaks Your Heart	8
Journeys Through Genomics: Co-Producing Visual Resources to Communicate Patient Experiences	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
Connection Points: The Dynamics of Recruitment to Packaging-Free Shopping	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
Book Review: Karen S Cook, Advanced Introduction to Social Capital	6
Book Review: Timothy S. Pedro and Windchief Sweeney (eds), Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities	6
The Extent of Résumé Whitening	6
#TheAfricaTheMediaNever ShowsYou: An Afrodiasporic Subaltern Counterpublic	6
Cultural Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature: Evidence for a Partial Overlap	6
Book Review: Sociologies of New Zealand	6
Walking the (Infrastructural) Line: Mobile and Embodied Explorations of Infrastructures and Their Impact on the Urban Landscape	6

Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline	6
Introduction: Comparative European Perspectives on Transnational Solidarity Organisations	6
Leaping the Abyss: The Problematic Translation of Social Research Results into Policy Recommendations	6
‘We’ve Done Our Bit’: Post-COVID Experiences of Precarious Privilege Among Western International School Teachers in Shanghai	6
A Convergence of Opportunities: Understanding the High Elite University Progression of Disadvantaged Youth in an East London Locality	5
‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age	5
Looking Within: A Call for Greater Reflexivity in Expatriate Research	5
Book Review: Michael Butter, The Nature of Conspiracy Theories	5
A ‘Proper Night Out’: A Practice Theory Exploration of Gendered Drinking	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	4
The Participatory Documentary ‘Age Is Just a Bingo Number’	4
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research: A Computational Abstract Analysis to Identify Latent Topics of Sociological Research Online	4
Engaging With Lived Experience: Towards a Sociological Biography of a Sociological Category	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
It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic	4
Racialization within Antitrafficking Interventions Targeting Migrant Sex Workers: Findings from the SEXHUM Research Project in France	4
(Un)predicted Patterns in the Timing of Urban Shootings Across Six US Cities	4
The Transformation of Parents’ Values and Aspirations for Their Children: A Retrospective Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Cultural Configurations	4
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	4
Book Review: Travis Kong, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China	4
‘Creating Poverty Chances’: Young People Confront Gambling Harms in Malawi	4
No Raggedy Black Child: Attachment Parenting, Black Motherhood, and the Politics of Respectability	4
‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth	4
Book Review: Matthew O Jackson, The Human Network: How We’re Connected and Why It Matters	4
Re-Defining the Family Biography When a Child Suffers from a Life-Limiting Illness: Insights from Mothers and Siblings	4
Life Satisfaction and Work–Life Balance: The Complexities of Gender Patterning	3
Talking the Talk of Social Mobility: The Political Performance of a Misguided Agenda	3
Recognising British Bodies: The Significance of Race and Whiteness in ‘Post-Racial’ Britain	3
‘Vulnerability’ at Work: Instrumental Vulnerabilities Among Software Professionals	3
Creative Co-Imagination in Transgenerational Comics Workshops	3
Do Different Types of Households Use Outsourced Domestic Cleaning Services for Different Reasons? An Explorative Study in South Africa	3
The Social Structures of Sleep: Effects of Work-Related and Family Constraints on Sleep Duration and Regularity Among French Workers	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 stories, statistic	3
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities	3
Outcomes of Academic Tracking Among Young Adults in the United States: A Longitudinal Survey Analysis	3
Food on the Margins: A Creative Film Collaboration to Amplify the Voices of Those Living with Food Insecurity	3
Mediating Gender Norms Through the ‘Foodies’ Culture as Romantic Emotions	3
Food Systems Under Pressure	3
Negotiating Masculinity in a Post-Socialist Society: The Case of Chinese Male Nurses	3
Sociology Meets History, in and Beyond England: Explorations in SRO ’s Archival Trove	3
Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation	3
Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk? Experiences with Risks and Risk Management among Young Sugar Daters	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 Opposition and Suspicion	3
Sociology of Everyday Life in the Past and Future Uses of the Mass Observation Project: Methodology, Materiality and Personal Life	3
Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre	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