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Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology Compass 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Ethical turn in the social sciences	87
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Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course	32
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore	30
When (Financial) Knowledge Isn't Power: How Race Disrupts Financial Literacy's Relationship to Health Precarity	28
School Cultures, Peer Cultures, and Inequality: Gender in K‐12 Schooling	25
Corporate Educational Philanthropy for Racialized Latin America: A Provocation for More Critical Studies	25
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Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation	24
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda	24
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries	22
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	21
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas	20
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach	18
Structures of Labor Exploitation: Sociology, Management, and Modern Slavery in the Global North	18
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	17
The Sociology of AI as an Emerging Field: Mapping Tensions and Boundaries	17
Manufacturing Consent: Faragism and the Hegemonic Struggle for Britain	17
Issue Information	16
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective	15
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine	15
Primary Habitus Formation in Families From the Upper Social Milieus	15
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions	15
Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South	15
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination	14

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Care, Justice, Protest and the Politics of Creative Work: Towards a Multi‐Scale Theory of Cultural Activism	13
Generative AI's Impacts on the Environment: What Can Critical Humanities Scholarship Offer Sociological Inquiry?	13
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future	12
When Gender Roles Turn Into Violence: Perspectives of Women and Men Perpetrators in Türkiye	12
Contain and Callout: A Critical Investigation of SWAT Team Use of Force Reporting and the Limits of Institutional Statistics	12
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New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers	12
Everyday Life Within Precarious Working Conditions: A Conceptual Home for the Practical, Subjective and Emotional Actions of Precariousness	12
Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey	12
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies	11
Unpacking “Expat”: Identity, Status, and Mobility Among Contemporary Western Residents in Türkiye	11
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Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness	11
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies	11
Gender Diversity and the Law in Pakistan: A Critical Review of Criminalization and Social Exclusion of Khawaja Sira/Hijra/Gender X	11
Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity	11
Parenting Culture in a Neoliberal Market Society and the “No‐Kids Zone” Controversy in South Korea	11
A Relational Theory of Inequality in the Criminal Legal System	11
Hacking age	10
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology	10
The Evolution and Potential of Emotional Healing Design: A Systematic Review With Thematic Analysis	10
Sociology Compass Editorial 2023	10
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing	10
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”	10
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z	10
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University	9
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Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?	9
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Uses of Anger, Love, and Joy: Emotions in Black Resistance	8
What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives	8
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action	8
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Islamophobia in Everyday Racial Encounters in Barcelona: The Emotional Impact on Maghrebi Communities in Spain	8
Femicide: A Need for Orientation	8
Informal Care Work From a Queer Lens: Challenging Heteronormative Paradigms	8
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Sociology Compass Editorial 2026	8
Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States	8
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	8
The strength of a weak tie in the innovative performance of firms: A case of Korean high‐tech manufacturing small and medium‐sized enterprises	7
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Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness	7
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Deficit‐Oriented Teacher Beliefs and Student Outcomes in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	7
Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework	7
The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders	7

Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas	7
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Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development	7
Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise	7
Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective	7
Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives	7
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)	7
The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France	7
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In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies	6
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again	6
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames	6
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	6
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education	6
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics	6
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism	6
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion	6
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula	6
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The Paradox of Modernity: The Creation of a Tradition of Anti‐Tradition	5
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Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	5
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation	5
Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere	5
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Masculinity and Mental Health in Later Life in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Review of Recent Literature	5
Research on Social Stratification in Brazil	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
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Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach	5
Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis	5
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships	5
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach	5
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world	5
Single Parenthood and Child Development in Contemporary China	5
Are Refugee Workers ‘Peers’, ‘Competitors’, or Both? Socioeconomic Justifications of Boundary Work Through the Lens of Native Employees	5
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A discussion on coloniality and global social theory	5
Ethical Analysis of Anomie: From Durkheim to the Digital Age	5
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research	5
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces	5
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Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	5
Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective	5
Evaluator versus Target Characteristics: What Impacts Blame‐Attribution in Inter‐ and Intra‐ethnic Sexual Violence?	4
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives	4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation	4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance	4
Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media	4
How do you measure trust in social institutions and health professionals? A systematic review of the literature (2012–2021)	4
Haunting details: A mixed‐methods study on predictors of details recalled from a victim narrative	4
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Critique and expansion of conceptions of control	4
Convivial and informal encounters with de‐radicalisation	4
Resisting Intensive Motherhood? Women's Accounts on Infant Feeding in Spain	4
Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate	4
The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations	4
A taxonomy of business models of digital care platforms in Spain	4
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives	4
Crimes against non‐human animals: Examining dog fighting in the UK and the USA through a green criminology perspective	4
Precarious work: A global perspective	4
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities	4
The Impossibility of Habitability: The Carceral State as Ecological Catastrophe	4
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Special issue—Highly religious young Catholics	4
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Using Time Use Data to Investigate Gender Inequalities: Enduring Patterns and New Dimensions	4
What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family	4
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness	4
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Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations	4
The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects	4
A Diachronic Comparative Study of Climate Change Discourse in China Daily and the New York Times: Analyzing the Evolution of Discursive Strategies	4
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Mapping Organizational Theory With SCRIPTS	4
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