OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Societies 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The COVID-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family	182
The impact of COVID-19 on gender inequality in the labor market and gender-role attitudes	174
Cause for concerns: gender inequality in experiencing the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany	127
Cybercrime and shifts in opportunities during COVID-19: a preliminary analysis in the UK	115
Parenthood as a driver of increased gender inequality during COVID-19? Exploratory evidence from Germany	103
The pandemic and the academic mothers: present hardships and future perspectives	100
Changes in employment and relationship satisfaction in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the German family Panel	75
‘I'm more afraid of racism than of the virus!’: racism awareness and resistance among Chinese migrants and their descendants in France during the Covid-19 pandemic	74
Searching for comfort in religion: insecurity and religious behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	72
On solidarity and volunteering during the COVID-19 crisis in Denmark: the impact of social networks and social media groups on the distribution of support	69
Who cares when care closes? Care-arrangements and parental working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	67
Coming together or coming apart? Changes in social cohesion during the Covid-19 pandemic in England	64
The impact of COVID-19 on the gender division of childcare work in Hungary	60
The ‘lonely raver’: music livestreams during COVID-19 as a hotline to collective consciousness?	56
Social inequality in the homeschooling efforts of German high school students during a school closing period	50
The Covid-19 crisis: the end of a borderless Europe?	45
A gendered lens on COVID-19 employment and social policies in Europe	44
The impact of the coronavirus crisis on European societies. What have we learnt and where do we go from here? – Introduction to the COVID volume	44
Who is most affected by the Corona crisis? An analysis of changes in stress and well-being in Switzerland	43
Childcare-policy responses in the COVID-19 pandemic: unpacking cross-country variation	41
Covid-19, social class and work experience in Germany: inequalities in work-related health and economic risks	39
Social networking sites use and life satisfaction. A quantitative study on older people living in Europe	37
Stability or change of public opinion and values during the coronavirus crisis? Exploring Dutch longitudinal panel data	35
Marriage and cohabitation under uncertainty: the role of narratives of the future during the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Factors explaining social resilience against COVID-19: the case of Spain	31

Suspicious minds in times of crisis: determinants of Romanians’ beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories	30
Unequal tensions: the effects of the coronavirus pandemic in light of subjective health and social inequality dimensions in Germany	29
Platform work during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of Glovo couriers in Poland	28
Negotiating the different degrees of precarity in the UK academia during the Covid-19 pandemic	25
Forced adaptations of sporting behaviours during the Covid-19 pandemic and their effects on subjective well-being	25
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ethnic discrimination on the housing market	24
Fertility and the COVID-19 crisis: do gender roles really matter?	23
The welfare state and risk perceptions: the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic and public concern in 70 countries	22
Fare differently, feel differently: mental well-being of UK-born and foreign-born working men during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Cross-country differences in anxiety and behavioral response to the Covid-19 pandemic	22
The impact of distance learning on the social practices of schoolchildren during the COVID-19 pandemic: reconstructing values of migrant children in Poland	21
Setback in labour market integration due to the Covid-19 crisis? An explorative insight on forced migrants’ vulnerability in Germany	21
Economic disturbances in the COVID-19 crisis and their gendered impact on unpaid activities in Germany and Italy	21
Pro-migrant protest in times of COVID-19: intersectional boundary spanning and hybrid protest practices	21
Reading the changing dynamic of urban social distances during the COVID-19 pandemic via Twitter	21
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on risk perceptions: differences between ethnic groups in Germany	20
The bright side of the crisis. The positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic according to the Poles	20
Education, health behavior, and working conditions during the pandemic: evidence from a German sample	19
COVID-19 and orientations towards solidarity: the cases of Spain, Hungary, and Romania	18
Everything is inside the home: the boundaries of home confinement during the Italian lockdown	17
Lockdown and adaptation: residential mobility in Spain during the COVID-19 crisis	16
Experience, stereotypes and discrimination. Employers’ reflections on their hiring behavior	16
Cross-border cooperation in the border region of Germany, France, and Luxembourg in times of Covid-19	15
Subjective social mobility and health in Germany	15
From liberalism to biopolitics: investigating the Norwegian government’s two responses to Covid-19	15
How Covid-19 affects prostitution markets in the Netherlands and Belgium: dynamics and vulnerabilities under a lockdown	14
Contextual explanations of radical right-wing party support in Sweden: a multilevel analysis	14
Crises redefined: towards new spaces for social innovation in inner areas?	13
The coronavirus crisis and the legitimation crisis of neoliberalism	11
Restricted religion. Compliance, vicariousness, and authority during the Corona pandemic in Switzerland	11
Upper-class romance: homogamy at the apex of the class structure	11
Which socio-economic comparison groups do individuals choose and why?	11
Poles in the face of forced isolation. A study of the Polish society during the Covid-19 pandemic based on ‘Pandemic Diaries’ competition	10
Is the distribution of NEETs and early leavers from education and training converging across the regions of the European Union?	10
New re-bordering left them alone and neglected: Czech cross-border commuters in German-Czech borderland	10
Ethnic discrimination against second-generation immigrants in hiring: empirical evidence from a correspondence test	10
Attitudes towards European financial solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic: evidence from a net-contributor country	10
Uniting the far right: how the far-right extremist, New Right, and populist frames overlap on Twitter – a German case study	10
Who values status seeking? A cross-European comparison of social gradients and societal conditions	9
Cultural productivism and public support for the universal basic income from a cross-national perspective	8
The spatial dimension of coronavirus crisis management and the role of subnational actors in the German–Polish border region	8
The network structure of trust in the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Natives’ and migrants’ employment uncertainty and childbearing during the great recession: a comparison between Italy and Sweden	7
Shaping resilience: how work team characteristics affect occupational commitment in health care interns during a pandemic	7
The evolution of social vulnerability in Greece during the economic crisis (2008-2017)	7
Stand together or alone? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic	7
No evidence of a major learning slide 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	7
Economic crisis and social capital in European societies: the role of politics in understanding short-term changes in social capital	7
Moving online: political parties and the internal use of digital tools in Hungary	7
Dying is normal, dying with the coronavirus is not: a sociological analysis of the implicit norms behind the criticism of Swedish ‘exceptionalism’	7

‘Stay home’: age and gender frames and limits of residential family solidarities in the times of lockdown (a French example)	6
Sociodemographic analysis of an accelerated transition: the rise of solo living in Spain	6
Greater local supply of language courses improves refugees’ labor market integration	6
Migrants’ subjective well-being in Europe: does relative income matter?	6
I’ve changed my mind. The intentions to be childless, their stability and realisation	6
Are radical right and radical left voters direct democrats? Explaining differences in referendum support between radical and moderate voters in Europe	6
The relevance of public employment services for the labour market integration of low-qualified young people – a cross-European perspective	5
Racist morbidities: a conjunctural analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Convergences and divergences of a Bourdieusian and occupation-based approach to social class: evidence from Croatia	5
Re-theorising participation in undeclared work in the European Union: lessons from a 2019 Eurobarometer survey	5
Temporary employment in Europe: stagnating rates and rising risks	5
Is it racism? The belief in cultural superiority across Europe	5
Enhancing, suppressing or something in between – loneliness and five forms of political participation across Europe	5
Party affiliation and support for Muslim newcomers: masked opposition in the Norwegian context	5
Solidarity test: challenges of forced LGBTIQ migration and activism in Central-Eastern European countries in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	4
Gender differences in fairness evaluations of own earnings in 28 European countries	4
Is beauty-based inequality gendered? A systematic review of gender differences in socioeconomic outcomes of physical attractiveness in labor markets	4
The political aspects of solidarity mobilizations in the context of shrinking civil society during the first wave of COVID-19	4
Immigrant generation and religiosity: a study of Christian immigrant groups in 33 European countries	4
Ukrainian refugee solidarity mobilization online	4
New member state workers in Western European labour markets. Are they civically stratified?	4
Labour market prospects of young adults in Europe: differential effects of social origin during the Great Recession	4
Jobs against poverty: a fixed-effects analysis on the link between gaining employment and exiting poverty in Europe	3
Civil society and sense of community in Ukraine: from dormancy to action	3
Narratives of Catholic women against ‘Gender ideology’ in Italian schools: defending childhood, struggling with pluralism	3
The effects of direct and indirect contact on prejudice: 2007 and 2017 results among Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots	3
‘Stayhome’ as a YouTube performance: representing and reshaping domestic space under the 2020 covid lockdown in Italy	3
Subjective social status in places that don’t matter: geographical inequalities in France and Germany	3
Wellbeing in local areas: how trust, happiness, social distance and experience of discrimination differ in the perceived ethnic enclave	3
Is it possible to outsmart Uber? Individual working tactics within platform work in Poland	3
Religion and cultural capital in the UK today: identity, cultural engagement and the prevalence of multiple religious identities	3
A European civil society elite? Analysing capital and drama at the European Economic and Social Committee	3
A typology of social characters and various means of control: an analysis of communication during the early stages of the corona pandemic in Germany	3
Precariousness in Norway and Sweden: a comparative register-based study of longstanding precarious attachment to the labour market 1996–2015	3
The intergenerational transmission of social advantage and disadvantage: comprehensive evidence on the association of parents’ and children’s educational attainments, class, earnings, and status	3
The relevance of contextual generalised trust in explaining individual immigration sentiments	3
Calling for an alternative emancipation? Female discourses in the Polish radical-nationalist movement	3
Moving into multiculturalism. Multicultural attitudes of socially mobile individuals without a migration background	3