OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Societies is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Settling into uncertainty and risk amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	35
Are there limits to empathy? A survey experiment on empathic concern and perspective-taking as bases for attitudes towards different groups of refugees	34
Solidarity test: challenges of forced LGBTIQ migration and activism in Central-Eastern European countries in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	32
EU identity visions and narratives of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in European Schools	30
Young adult mental health during the United Kingdom’s first COVID-19 lockdown: the benefit of living with parents and siblings	29
Do they think that joy and misery are temporary? Comparing trajectories of current and predicted life satisfaction across life events	26
Ukrainian values: between the Slavic-Orthodox legacy and Europe's allure	26
The effects of Muslim immigration and demographic change on group boundaries in Germany	22
Polarizing social figures? Climate activists in German media and popular discourse	22
Integration for whom? The migration bias in social norms	21
Parental decision-making regarding vaccination: the role of preschool enrolment sanctions, family policies and childcare expectation	20
Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe	19
Reasons for and consequences of ethnic differences in parental support during the transition to vocational training in Germany	19
No evidence of direct peer influence in upper-secondary track choice—evidence from Hungary	18
Critical racial literacy and public sociology: visibilizing race among local authorities in Ireland	17
No evidence of a major learning slide 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	16
Class or regional cleavage? The Russian invasion and Ukraine’s ‘East/West’ divide	15
One track mind: secondary effects in school choice and social capital in a stratified system	13
Does the prospect of further sovereignty loss fuel Euroscepticism? A population-based survey experiment	13
The multiverse of social class: a large-scale assessment of macro-level, meso-level and micro-level approaches to class analysis	13
Greater local supply of language courses improves refugees’ labor market integration	13
The gendered maths confidence gap, social influence and social integration	12
Reference group effects and parental educational expectations: can big-fish-little-pond effects explain immigrant parents’ high expectations?	11
Convergence in action: framing the climate crisis at the 2021 Pre-COP counter-summit in Milan	11
Disability, gender, and hiring discrimination: a field experiment	11

Economic voting and state-business relations in OECD countries	11
Situating Muslims’ trust in parliament from a cross-national perspective: Islamic religiosity's impact in Western Europe	11
Why should I care? Family old-age caregiving and preferences for family or public care provision in France	10
Motivation in the dynamics of European youth migration	10
Another child? Determinants and timing of fertility for parents of a child with a disability	10
The timing of parental unemployment, insurance and children's education	10
Successful due to STEM? Labour market returns to STEM qualifications among skilled immigrants in Germany	10
The gendered division of paid labour among families of children with disabilities: a comparative approach	9
Symbolic boundary work among Syrian refugees: perceived stigmas, responses, and cultural repertoires	9
Interconnections between anti-immigration and pronatalist family policy discourse in Hungary	9
Narrowing inequalities through redistribution. A relational inequality approach to female managers and the gender wage gap	8
“Escape” from home? The moderating role of sexual orientation on the association between social origin and educational attainment	8
Network resources and the gender wage gap: capital differences, return differences, and capital specificity	8
Food insecurity and changes in social citizenship. A comparative study of Rome, Barcelona and Athens	8
No one-size-fits-all solution: effects of social policies on in-work poverty	7
Is social heterogeneity in classrooms associated with reduced achievement inequality? The role of help-seeking in peer networks	7
Does personality matter? Exploring its moderating role on the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic outgroup-size and preferences for Brexit	7
Unequal effects on working time: immigrants’ vulnerability in the German labor market in the early COVID-19 pandemic	6
Finding a job through social networks: monetary and nonmonetary returns for employed and unemployed job seekers	6
‘Tell me more…’: the kind of information added influences ethnic discrimination in the Swiss rental housing market	6
Digital citizens or digital outcasts? On the evolving relation between social stratification and utilization of e-administration	6
How reception centers affect the integration of asylum seekers and recognized refugees	6
Housing conditions of single mothers in Europe: the role of housing policies	6
Automation risks versus skill requirements: occupational determinants of expectations and political preferences in knowledge societies	6
Editorial: What we promised, and what we delivered	5
A digital principal? Substantive representation in the case of the Italian Five Star Movement	5
Employees’ perceptions of co-workers’ internal promotion penalties: the role of gender, parenthood and part-time	5
The geography of tertiary education inequality in Europe: a within- and cross-country analysis over time	5
The geography of intergenerational mobility in Europe	5
Migrant workers’ representation and the appeal of independent grassroots unionism: insights from Britain and Italy	5
Is it possible to outsmart Uber? Individual working tactics within platform work in Poland	5
School segregation and native flight: evidence from school catchment area borders	4
Undeserving heirs: how the origins of wealth shape attitudes towards redistribution	4
The parental care burden of child disability	4
The forced migration from Ukraine after the full scale Russian invasion: dynamics and decision making drivers	4
Is the association between long-term care and subjective well-being socio-economically stratified? Evidence from Europe	4
Workplace variation in migrant job searches: cohesion unites, bonuses do not divide	4
Gender and unemployment: a vignette experiment on recruiters' hiring intentions in sex-segregated occupations	4
Support for Ukrainian refugees after Russia's invasion of Ukraine: aid structure and resilience factors. Case studies of Lublin and Lutsk	4
Rallying ‘round the drag: anti-gender mobilization and the mainstreaming of the far right	4
The residential patterns of Swiss urban elites: continuity and change across elite categories (1890–2000)	3
The effects of female education on child education: a prospective analysis	3
Correction	3
Ukrainian-American non-profits in 2014–2022: constructing diasporic Ukrainian identity through personal and collective narratives	3
Shortfalls of deliberative democracy in Georgia: the analysis of the General Assembly of a Settlement	3
Workers of the world, unite (and cooperate): changing coordination strategies of organized labor in post-socialist settings	3
Scepticism towards Islam or religiosity? An experimental approach to exploring scepticism towards Muslims in Norway	3
Essential workers and wage inequality: wage differentials before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, 2006 to 2022	3
Far-right contention in civil society: multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets	3
Return to the South: economic (re)integration of return migrants, internal migrants, and nonmigrants in post-recession Spain of the 2010s	3

The effect of the month of birth on academic achievement: heterogeneity by social origin and gender	2
Between north and south: decolonial isolationism of Russian social science in the state of war and beyond	2
Ethnic discrimination in the Hungarian rental housing market	2
Age of entry into early childhood education and care, literacy and reduction of educational inequality in Nordic countries	2
Inequality at the top. Educational expansion, financial constraints and opportunities of university graduation by social origin	2
Religion and cultural capital in the UK today: identity, cultural engagement and the prevalence of multiple religious identities	2
Does more knowledge on anti-discrimination law relate to more support for anti-discrimination policy on the rental housing market?	2
Tracing the evolution of preschool’s impact on education over a century: Spain, 1900-1973	2
Stratification in parents’ selection of developmentally appropriate books for children: register-based evidence from Danish public libraries	2
Different sized belts: family strategies against financial shocks	2
Working on an algorithm-controlled platform as a content creator: what explains unequal earnings on YouTube?	2
Ukrainian refugee solidarity mobilization online	2
Anti-Jewish bias in German higher education: results from a survey experiment among students at a German university	2
Work life complexity no longer on the rise: trends among 1930s–1980s birth cohorts in Sweden	2
Family resources and children’s skills: development of a skills attainment model	2
Intra-couple gaps in retirees’ financial resources: their extent and predictors across Eastern and Western Germany	2
Self-reported health and coping strategies of Ukrainian female refugees in the Czech Republic	2
Women’s empowerment and social innovation in childcare: the case of Barcelona, Spain	2
Opinion polarization of immigration and EU attitudes between social classes – the limiting role of working class dissensus	2
When promises reach boundaries: political participation in post-communist countries	2
Institutional policies and individual decision-making in artistic migrations: the case of Spanish artists and art mediators in the European Union	2
The geography of child disability in Italy: new evidence from administrative data	2
What is the effect of providing information about the science behind vaccination? A population-based survey experiment on support for the MMR vaccine	2