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

Article	Citations
The effects of female education on child education: a prospective analysis	48
Symbolic Boundary Work among Syrian Refugees: Perceived Stigmas, Responses, and Cultural Repertoires	43
The residential patterns of Swiss urban elites. Continuity and change across elite categories (1890-2000)	33
Essential Workers and Wage Inequality: Wage Differentials before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2006 to 2022	32
Are there limits to empathy? A survey experiment on empathic concern and perspective-taking as bases for attitudes towards different groups of refugees	27
Correction	27
Social stratification in science: the ultra-elite in the UK	25
Forced adaptations of sporting behaviours during the Covid-19 pandemic and their effects on subjective well-being	18
The standard of living among the poor across Europe. Does employment make a difference?	18
Forced displacement in Ukraine: understanding the decision-making process	16
Strategies of informal caregivers to adapt paid work	16
Solidarity test: challenges of forced LGBTIQ migration and activism in Central-Eastern European countries in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	15
The advantage of daughters in hypogamous families: parental heterogamy and educational outcomes among children of highly educated parents	12
Settling into uncertainty and risk amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	12
Switch on the Big Brother! Investigating the educational gradients in acceptance of online and public areas surveillance among European citizens	11
From male dominance to sharing: partner’s class and female political party identification 1964–2010	11
Food insecurity and changes in social citizenship. A comparative study of Rome, Barcelona and Athens	10
The political aspects of solidarity mobilizations in the context of shrinking civil society during the first wave of COVID-19	10
Between north and south: decolonial isolationism of Russian social science in the state of war and beyond	9
Subjective financial insecurity and support for European unification	9
Ukrainian-American non-profits in 2014–2022: constructing diasporic Ukrainian identity through personal and collective narratives	9
Narrowing inequalities through redistribution. A relational inequality approach to female managers and the gender wage gap	9
Correction	9
The effect of the month of birth on academic achievement: heterogeneity by social origin and gender	9
‘Escape’ from Home? The Moderating Role of Sexual Orientation on the Association Between Social Origin and Educational Attainment	8

Does personality matter? Exploring its moderating role on the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic outgroup-size and preferences for Brexit	8
Uneven Shifts: The Geography of Occupational Change in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom 1992–2018	8
Do they think that joy and misery are temporary? Comparing trajectories of current and predicted life satisfaction across life events	8
How activists build power: passive beneficiary involvement and empowerment in the platform of those affected by mortgages	7
Self-reported health and coping strategies of Ukrainian female refugees in the Czech Republic	7
A European civil society elite? Analysing capital and drama at the European Economic and Social Committee	7
When promises reach boundaries: political participation in post-communist countries	7
‘Stayhome’ as a YouTube performance: representing and reshaping domestic space under the 2020 covid lockdown in Italy	7
(Dis-)Empowerment in context: a proto-evaluative perspective on welfare reform agendas and their impact, North-West and South	7
Everything is inside the home: the boundaries of home confinement during the Italian lockdown	6
Ukrainian values: between the Slavic-Orthodox legacy and Europe's allure	6
A tribute to Agnes Skamballis	6
Young adult mental health during the United Kingdom’s first COVID-19 lockdown: the benefit of living with parents and siblings	6
European sociology's rapid response	5
An invitation to submit	5
Interethnic weak ties online and out-group attitudes among Dutch ethnic majority adolescents	5
A typology of social characters and various means of control: an analysis of communication during the early stages of the corona pandemic in Germany	5
Ukrainian refugee women’s experiences in Poland in the first months of Russian invasion: a qualitative account	5
Why small ethnic minorities participate in politics: comparing Jews and Poles in Bosnia and Herzegovina	5
Housing conditions of single mothers in Europe: the role of housing policies	5
Age of entry into early childhood education and care, literacy and reduction of educational inequality in Nordic countries	5
EU identity visions and narratives of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in European Schools	5
Academic achievement gaps by migration background at school starting age in Ireland	4
Health selection into migration from Poland to the Netherlands: a matched case–control analysis	4
Women’s empowerment and social innovation in childcare: the case of Barcelona, Spain	4
Opinion polarization of immigration and EU attitudes between social classes – the limiting role of working class dissensus	4
Subjective social mobility and health in Germany	4
Stratification in parents’ selection of developmentally appropriate books for children: register-based evidence from Danish public libraries	4
Moving into multiculturalism. Multicultural attitudes of socially mobile individuals without a migration background	4
The evolution of social vulnerability in Greece during the economic crisis (2008-2017)	3
Siblings’ class destinations: A study of the Norwegian upper class	3
Gender compositions of occupations and firms jointly shape switches from gender-atypical towards more gender-typical positions	3
Refusal as a critique of the order of things: Bifurcations and utopian longings in contemporary rural France	3
How reception centers affect the integration of asylum seekers and recognized refugees	3
Unequal tensions: the effects of the coronavirus pandemic in light of subjective health and social inequality dimensions in Germany	3
Re-theorising participation in undeclared work in the European Union: lessons from a 2019 Eurobarometer survey	3
Institutional context and life satisfaction: does the rule of law moderate well-being inequalities?	3
Decline in informal helping during the first COVID-19 lockdown: a longitudinal analysis of Dutch data	3
Medically assisted reproduction and non-normative family forms: legislation and public opinion in Europe	3
Between structure and agency: the use of conditional welfare through the lens of social capital	3
No evidence of direct peer influence in upper-secondary track choice—evidence from Hungary	3
European identity among ethnic majority and ethnic minority students: understanding the role of the school curriculum	3
Reasons for and consequences of ethnic differences in parental support during the transition to apprenticeship training in Germany	3
Family resources and children’s skills: development of a skills attainment model	3
Cross-border cooperation in the border region of Germany, France, and Luxembourg in times of Covid-19	3
Ukrainian refugee solidarity mobilization online	3
Unequal effects on working time: immigrants’ vulnerability in the German labor market in the early COVID-19 pandemic	3
Religion and cultural capital in the UK today: identity, cultural engagement and the prevalence of multiple religious identities	2
Class or regional cleavage? The Russian invasion and Ukraine’s ‘East/West’ divide	2
Inequality at the top. Educational expansion, financial constraints and opportunities of university graduation by social origin	2

Situating Muslims' trust in parliament from a cross-national perspective: Islamic religiosity's impact in Western Europe	2
Intra-couple gaps in retirees’ financial resources: Their extent and predictors across Eastern and Western Germany	2
Does the prospect of further sovereignty loss fuel Euroscepticism? A population-based survey experiment	2
Crises redefined: towards new spaces for social innovation in inner areas?	2
No evidence of a major learning slide 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	2
Work life complexity no longer on the rise: trends among 1930s–1980s birth cohorts in Sweden	2
Disability, gender and hiring discrimination - a field experiment	2
Reference Group Effects and Parental Educational Expectations: Can Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effects Explain Immigrant Parents’ High Expectations?	2
Overeducation among EU and Third-Country Immigrants in Europe: The role of Institutions, Policies and Culture	2
Institutional policies and individual decision-making in artistic migrations: the case of Spanish artists and art mediators in the European Union	2
Calling for an alternative emancipation? Female discourses in the Polish radical-nationalist movement	2
Greater local supply of language courses improves refugees’ labor market integration	2
Cleavage politics in ordinary reasoning: How common sense divides	2
Is beauty-based inequality gendered? A systematic review of gender differences in socioeconomic outcomes of physical attractiveness in labor markets	2
Perceived Societal Discrimination among Immigrants across 17 European Countries: Extending the Integration Paradox?	2
A digital principal? Substantive representation in the case of the Italian Five Star Movement	2
Parental investment or parenting stress? Examining the links between poverty and child development in Ireland	2