OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology Compass 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation	66
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore	41
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Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda	27
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries	25
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach	25
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families	24
Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course	24
Ethical turn in the social sciences	24
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	23
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas	23
Knowledge, boundaries, and bodies: Social construction between medical sociology and science and technology studies	22
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Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South	21
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Teaching & Learning Guide for: Siblings caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness	19
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination	18
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury	18
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine	18
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	18
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions	17
An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology	17
Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women	16

Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay	14
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Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective	14
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda	13
Manipulating diversity: How diversity regimes at US universities can reinforce whiteness	13
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness	13
Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey	13
Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity	13
Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐19	12
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	12
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing	11
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies	11
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers	11
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future	11
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Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”	10
Teaching & learning guide for cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters	10
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z	9
The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide	9
Femicide: A Need for Orientation	9
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Sociology Compass Editorial 2023	8
What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives	8
Hacking age	8
The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans	7
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?	7
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Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective	7
Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework	7
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University	7
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology	7
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action	7
Maintenance work: Interrogating the sociology of art	7
Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise	7
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise	7
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	7
Experiences of white‐collar job loss and job‐searching in the United States	7
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Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates	7
Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives	6
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism	6
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education	6
The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders	6
The strength of a weak tie in the innovative performance of firms: A case of Korean high‐tech manufacturing small and medium‐sized enterprises	6
Protect the land. Poison the sea. An environmental history of the Kirkcudbright Training Area and the firing of depleted uranium by the British Army (1982–2013)	6
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Beyond the undertheorized role of organizational power as political power in theories of the state	6
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The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames	6
Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas	6
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Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula	5
A regional approach to militarized riskscapes: An environmental justice analysis of military proximity and air pollution in United States Environmental Protection Agency's regions	5
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	5
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships	5
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again	5
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness	5
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics	5
Spatial dynamics of protest: Themes and trajectories	5
Rationales for body camera implementation and outcome measures	5
Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective	5
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The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France	5
Inside the ivory tower, the view from a “space invader”: An exploratory study into the ways racialized PhD students experience white ignorance in elite universities in the UK	5
Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development	5
The institution of medicine and transgender identity construction: Between a doc and a hard place	5
Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review	5
Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach	5
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A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation	4
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces	4
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach	4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance	4
For a Du Boisian economic sociology	4
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research	4
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Research on Social Stratification in Brazil	4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation	4
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Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis	4
Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field	4
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory	4
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world	4
Precarious work: A global perspective	4
Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere	4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	4
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What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family	3
Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate	3
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature	3
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives	3
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Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness	3
What makes a developmental network state durable?	3
The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects	3
Sexual and gender identity work on social media	3
Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives	3
Haunting details: A mixed‐methods study on predictors of details recalled from a victim narrative	3
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Crimes against non‐human animals: Examining dog fighting in the UK and the USA through a green criminology perspective	3
Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality: Second chances or Matthew Effects?	3
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations	3
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities	3
A taxonomy of business models of digital care platforms in Spain	3
Convivial and informal encounters with de‐radicalisation	3
Resisting Intensive Motherhood? Women's Accounts on Infant Feeding in Spain	3