OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Movement Studies is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word	55
Intimate Communities of hate: why social media fuels far-right extremism	32
Memory and social movements in modern and contemporary history: remembering past struggles and resourcing protest	27
Urban movements and climate change: loss, damage and radical adaptation	25
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	21
Retweet solidarity: transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK	16
A dilemma of visibility: discursive opportunities, audiences, and anti-migrant protest strategy	16
Political party affiliation strength and protest participation propensity: theory and evidence from Africa	15
Student movements as drivers of de-sectarianization in divided societies: the case of Lebanon’s Secular Club	15
Persistent chemicals, persistent activism: scientific opportunity structures and social movement organizing on contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances	14
Urban movements and municipalist governments in Spain: alliances, tensions, and achievements	14
Exploring social movements: theories, experiences, and trends edited by Biswajit Ghosh and the cultural production of social movements by Robert F. Carley	13
The digital divide within the women’s movement in Ghana: Implications for voice and inclusion	13
Performing civic spheres: aesthetic-political public appearance in the balfour protest in Israel	12
Imagining sovereign futures: the marriage equality movement in Taiwan	11
‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil	11
Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media	11
From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements	11
Politics as public art: the aesthetics of political organizing and social movements (Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies)	10
Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature	10
Framing the climate emergency: the role of music in extinction rebellion	10
Contentious gender politics in Italy and Croatia: diffusion of transnational anti-gender movements to national contexts	10
Organising outsourced workers in UK’s new trade unionism - emotions, protest, and collective identity	10
Unity through separation: spatial divisions and intra-movement relations in Lebanon’s October Uprising	10
Political imaginaries of solidarity: the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in Toronto	9

Social movements and the left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015)	8
“Cute saves the world!”: animal Internet Celebrities’ cute activism in the #adoptdon’tshop animal rescue campaign on social media	8
Sustaining a social movement through infrastructural followup: activist pedagogies and prefigurative politics in Narmada Bachao Andolan’s schools for life ( jeevanshalas	8
Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives: vegan men’s negotiations and performances of gender and eating	8
Close but not too close: opposition network strategy and democratization in Zambia	8
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024	8
Strategizing post-protest activism in abeyance: retaining activist capital under political constraint	7
Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement	7
Climate change or what? Prognostic framing by Fridays for Future protesters	7
Diffusion of intersectionality across contemporary Spanish activism: the case of Las Kellys	7
Offside politics during the democratic erosion: social movements and May 2023 presidential election cycle in Turkey	7
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: visions of Europe from the left to the far right	7
Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital	7
Networked sustainable lifestyle activism: growth and limits of zero waste movement in urban China	6
The political economy of the Spanish Indignados: political opportunities, social conflicts, and democratizing impacts	6
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	6
Far-right leadership in comparison: shifts and continuities in German-speaking movements	6
Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas, and Movements	6
Doubt to be certain: epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia	6
Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand	6
Social movement discourse: An introduction	6
Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008	6
The Copenhagen Experiment: testing the effectiveness of creative vs. conventional forms of activism	6
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011 movements	6
Resisting state-sanctioned precarity: social reproduction and anti-austerity organizing in Berlin	5
Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section	5
Mahad: the making of the first Dalit revolt	5
The power of slogans: using protest writings in social movement research	5
Activism and affective labor for digital direct action: the Mexican #MeToo campaign	5
“I Can be a Voice for People”: meaning making among transgender grassroots organizers in the US Southeast	5
Assessing the effect of activists and their legislative allies in the amendment of bills in Chile	5
Solidarity across borders: transnational implications from the Mahsa Amini movement	5
Saving ourselves: from climate shocks to climate action Saving ourselves: from climate shocks to climate action , by Dana R. Fisher, New York, Columbia University Press,	5
Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies	4
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice	4
Youth activism and (de)personalized remix on TikTok	4
When activists speak law to powerholders: comparative insights	4
Raising two fists: struggles for Black citizenship in multicultural Colombia	4
From quota reform to regime collapse: understanding the anti-discrimination movement in Bangladesh	4
Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	4
Climate change litigation in the news: litigation as public campaigning tool to legitimize climate-related responsibilities and solutions	4
The Swarm versus the Grassroots: places and networks of supporters and opponents of Black Lives Matter on Twitter	4
After Occupy: the politics of autonomy in an occupied building	4
People against nuclear energy: anti-nuclear movements in India People against nuclear energy: anti-nuclear movements in India . Ajmal Khan (editor), New Delhi, Sage &	4
Proactive internationalization and diaspora mobilization in a networked movement: the case of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill protests	4
Protesting during the covid-19 pandemic in Turkey: when moral indignation and economic grievances outweigh risks of infection and repression	4
Slow justice: a framework for tracing diffusion and legacies of resistance	4
Professionals in Revolt: Specialized Networks and Sectoral Mobilization in Hong Kong	4
The battle for the mountain of the Kurds: self-determination and ethnic cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava The battle for the mountain of the Kurds: self-determination and ethnic c	4
Does transnational contention lead to transnational memory? The online visual memory of the February 2003 anti-Iraq War protests	4