OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Movement Studies is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Intimate Communities of hate: why social media fuels far-right extremism	60
Memory and social movements in modern and contemporary history: remembering past struggles and resourcing protest	28
Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word	27
Urban movements and climate change: loss, damage and radical adaptation	26
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	20
A dilemma of visibility: discursive opportunities, audiences, and anti-migrant protest strategy	18
Student movements as drivers of de-sectarianization in divided societies: the case of Lebanon’s Secular Club	15
Retweet solidarity: transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK	15
Exploring social movements: theories, experiences, and trends edited by Biswajit Ghosh and the cultural production of social movements by Robert F. Carley	15
Political party affiliation strength and protest participation propensity: theory and evidence from Africa	14
Persistent chemicals, persistent activism: scientific opportunity structures and social movement organizing on contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances	14
From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements	14
Imagining sovereign futures: the marriage equality movement in Taiwan	13
‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil	13
Performing civic spheres: aesthetic-political public appearance in the balfour protest in Israel	13
Contentious gender politics in Italy and Croatia: diffusion of transnational anti-gender movements to national contexts	12
Politics as public art: the aesthetics of political organizing and social movements (Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies)	12
Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media	12
Political imaginaries of solidarity: the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in Toronto	11
Organising outsourced workers in UK’s new trade unionism - emotions, protest, and collective identity	11
Close but not too close: opposition network strategy and democratization in Zambia	10
Framing the climate emergency: the role of music in Extinction Rebellion	10
Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives: vegan men’s negotiations and performances of gender and eating	10
Sustaining a social movement through infrastructural followup: activist pedagogies and prefigurative politics in Narmada Bachao Andolan’s schools for life ( jeevanshalas	10
Unity through separation: spatial divisions and intra-movement relations in Lebanon’s October Uprising	10

Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature	10
Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement	9
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: visions of Europe from the left to the far right	9
Diffusion of intersectionality across contemporary Spanish activism: the case of Las Kellys	9
“Cute saves the world!”: animal Internet Celebrities’ cute activism in the #adoptdon’tshop animal rescue campaign on social media	9
Social movements and the left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015)	9
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024	8
Offside politics during the democratic erosion: social movements and May 2023 presidential election cycle in Turkey	8
Climate change or what? Prognostic framing by Fridays for Future protesters	8
Far-right leadership in comparison: shifts and continuities in German-speaking movements	8
Strategizing post-protest activism in abeyance: retaining activist capital under political constraint	8
Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital	8
Networked sustainable lifestyle activism: growth and limits of zero waste movement in urban China	7
Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008	7
Doubt to be certain: epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia	7
Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas, and Movements	7
The political economy of the Spanish Indignados: political opportunities, social conflicts, and democratizing impacts	7
Social movement discourse: An introduction	7
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011 movements	6
Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand	6
Assessing the effect of activists and their legislative allies in the amendment of bills in Chile	6
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	6
The Copenhagen Experiment: testing the effectiveness of creative vs. conventional forms of activism	6
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,	6
The power of slogans: using protest writings in social movement research	6
Activism and affective labor for digital direct action: the Mexican #MeToo campaign	6
Resisting state-sanctioned precarity: social reproduction and anti-austerity organizing in Berlin	6
Solidarity across borders: transnational implications from the Mahsa Amini movement	5
Slow justice: a framework for tracing diffusion and legacies of resistance	5
Mahad: the making of the first Dalit revolt	5
Youth activism and (de)personalized remix on TikTok	5
“I Can be a Voice for People”: meaning making among transgender grassroots organizers in the US Southeast	5
Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies	5
Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section	5
From quota reform to regime collapse: understanding the anti-discrimination movement in Bangladesh	5
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice	5
Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	5
Climate change litigation in the news: litigation as public campaigning tool to legitimize climate-related responsibilities and solutions	5
Protesting during the covid-19 pandemic in Turkey: when moral indignation and economic grievances outweigh risks of infection and repression	5