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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Are there limits to empathy? A survey experiment on empathic concern and perspective-taking as bases for attitudes towards different groups of refugees	39
Solidarity test: challenges of forced LGBTIQ migration and activism in Central-Eastern European countries in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	38
Ukrainian values: between the Slavic-Orthodox legacy and Europe's allure	33
Settling into uncertainty and risk amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	33
Do they think that joy and misery are temporary? Comparing trajectories of current and predicted life satisfaction across life events	31
Polarizing social figures? Climate activists in German media and popular discourse	29
The effects of Muslim immigration and demographic change on group boundaries in Germany	26
Young adult mental health during the United Kingdom’s first COVID-19 lockdown: the benefit of living with parents and siblings	25
One track mind: secondary effects in school choice and social capital in a stratified system	22
Parental decision-making regarding vaccination: the role of preschool enrolment sanctions, family policies and childcare expectation	21
No evidence of direct peer influence in upper-secondary track choice—evidence from Hungary	21
Reasons for and consequences of ethnic differences in parental support during the transition to vocational training in Germany	21
Class or regional cleavage? The Russian invasion and Ukraine’s ‘East/West’ divide	20
Critical racial literacy and public sociology: visibilizing race among local authorities in Ireland	20
Integration for whom? The migration bias in social norms	19
Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe	18
The multiverse of social class: a large-scale assessment of macro-level, meso-level and micro-level approaches to class analysis	16
Does the prospect of further sovereignty loss fuel Euroscepticism? A population-based survey experiment	13
No evidence of a major learning slide 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	13
Economic voting and state-business relations in OECD countries	12
Reference group effects and parental educational expectations: can big-fish-little-pond effects explain immigrant parents’ high expectations?	12
Convergence in action: framing the climate crisis at the 2021 Pre-COP counter-summit in Milan	12
The gendered maths confidence gap, social influence and social integration	11
Disability, gender, and hiring discrimination: a field experiment	11
Another child? Determinants and timing of fertility for parents of a child with a disability	11

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

Scepticism towards Islam or religiosity? An experimental approach to exploring scepticism towards Muslims in Norway	3
When promises reach boundaries: political participation in post-communist countries	2
Inequality at the top. Educational expansion, financial constraints and opportunities of university graduation by social origin	2
Intra-couple gaps in retirees’ financial resources: their extent and predictors across Eastern and Western Germany	2
Opinion polarization of immigration and EU attitudes between social classes – the limiting role of working class dissensus	2
Ukrainian refugee solidarity mobilization online	2
Self-reported health and coping strategies of Ukrainian female refugees in the Czech Republic	2
Ethnic discrimination in the Hungarian rental housing market	2
Tracing the evolution of preschool's impact on education over a century: Spain, 1900–1973	2
Does more knowledge on anti-discrimination law relate to more support for anti-discrimination policy on the rental housing market?	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
The effect of the month of birth on academic achievement: heterogeneity by social origin and gender	2
Family resources and children’s skills: development of a skills attainment model	2
Genetic risks for depression and educational achievement in adolescence	2
Working on an algorithm-controlled platform as a content creator: what explains unequal earnings on YouTube?	2
Work life complexity no longer on the rise: trends among 1930s–1980s birth cohorts in Sweden	2
Between north and south: decolonial isolationism of Russian social science in the state of war and beyond	2
The geography of child disability in Italy: new evidence from administrative data	2
Different sized belts: family strategies against financial shocks	2
Religion and cultural capital in the UK today: identity, cultural engagement and the prevalence of multiple religious identities	2