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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The gendered pandemic: The implications of COVID‐19 for work and family	135
When “model minorities” become “yellow peril”—Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the COVID‐19 pandemic	124
The structural roots of food insecurity: How racism is a fundamental cause of food insecurity	62
Beyond resilience: Resistance in the lives of LGBTQ youth	47
Theorizing race and settler colonialism within U.S. sociology	36
Mobile communication and refugees: An analytical review of academic literature	32
Racial/ethnic segregation and health disparities: Future directions and opportunities	30
Digital technologies and power dynamics in the organization: A conceptual review of remote working and wearable technologies at work	29
The racial and colonial dimensions of gentrification	23
Sociological perspectives on artificial intelligence: A typological reading	22
Mother needs a bigger “helper”: A critique of “wine mom” discourse as conformity to hegemonic intensive motherhood	19
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates	19
When class is colorblind: A race‐conscious model for cultural capital research in education	19
Is there a global super‐bourgeoisie?	18
Is America coming apart? Socioeconomic segregation in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and social networks, 1970–2020	18
Crime and deviance during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Veganism as a lifestyle movement	17
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature	16
Intersectionality and social movements: Intersectional challenges and imperatives in the study of social movements	15
Gerontocracy in a comparative perspective: Explaining why political leaders are (almost always) older than their constituents	15
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	15
Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic	15
A sociology of counter‐revolution in Egypt	14
Children of immigrants as “brokers” in an era of exclusion	13
Schools as racialized organizations in policy and practice	13

Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality: Second chances or Matthew Effects?	13
Can TV shows promote acceptance of sexual and ethnic minorities? A literature review of television effects on diversity attitudes	13
Black women’s mental health matters: Theoretical perspectives and future directions	13
Intersectionality and coalitions in social movement research—A survey and outlook	13
The politics of neoliberalism in Latin America: dynamics of resilience and contestation	12
Unequal effects of disruptive events	12
Problematizing the “informal sector”: 50 years of critique, clarification, qualification, and more critique	12
Sexuality and digital Space	12
Healthcare professionals' trust in patients: A review of the empirical and theoretical literatures	11
Black monument matters: Place‐based commemoration and abolitionist memory work	10
What is algorithmic governance?	10
Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice	10
We must do better: Ableism and fatphobia in sociology	10
Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status	9
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda	9
Disability and climate change: A critical realist model of climate justice	9
Homemaking in the public. On the scales and stakes of framing, feeling, and claiming extra‐domestic space as “home”	9
Policing counter‐protest	9
Women, work, and opportunities: From neoliberal to feminist mentoring	9
The frontiers of new psychedelic therapies: A survey of sociological themes and issues	9
Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future	9
Innovation and creativity in creative industries	8
Freezing time? The sociology of egg freezing	8
Toward a multifaceted understanding of Lareau's “sense of entitlement”: Bridging sociological and psychological constructs	8
Racial microaggressions: Bridging psychology and sociology and future research considerations	8
Proposing a sociology of donation: The donation of body parts and products for art, education, research, or treatment	8
In sickness and in health: The politics of public health and their implications during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Coalition‐building and the forging of solidarity across difference and inequality	8
The persistence of gendered dating	7
Race and inequality at work: An occupational perspective	7
For a Du Boisian economic sociology	7
The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans	7
Moving beyond class: A critical review of labor‐environmental conflicts from the global south	7
How can stigma contribute to our understanding of the formation and mobilization of collective identities in health social movements?	7
Cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters?	7
Violence against transgender people in the United States: Field growth, data dilemmas, and knowledge gaps	7
Dynamics of an American countermovement: Blue Lives Matter	6
The family as gender and sexuality factory: A review of the literature and future directions	6
Punishment, support, or discipline? Taking stock of recent debates about homeless governance in neoliberal cities	6
Reframing the whistleblower in research: Truth‐tellers as whistleblowers in changing cultural contexts	6
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	6
Men, masculinities, and gender‐based violence: The broadening scope of recent research	6
Mobilizing motherhood: The gendered burden of environmental protection	6
Humor and satire in politics: Introducing cultural sociology to the field	6
Manipulating diversity: How diversity regimes at US universities can reinforce whiteness	6
Youth underemployment: A review of research on young people and the problems of less(er) employment in an era of mass education	6
What do we know about LGBQ+ college student academic experiences and outcomes?	6
Theorizing race in Hawai‘i: Centering place, indigeneity, and settler colonialism	6
Towards a theoretical understanding of the selfie: A descriptive review	6
Unequal foodwork: Situating the sociology of feeding within diet and nutrition disparities	6

Everyday terrorism: Campus sexual violence and the neoliberal university	5
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives	5
Neighborhood context and racial/ethnic disparities in judicial processing	5
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	5
Orania: A white homeland in post‐apartheid South Africa	5
Review of Carceral State Studies and Application	5
Social media as public journalism? Protest reporting in the digital era	5
The social movement for reproductive justice: Emergence, intersectional strategies, and theory building	5
Privacy violations and procedural justice in the United States prisons and jails	5
A comprehensive review of quantitative research on crime, the built environment, land use, and physical geography	5
Social welfare in the light of topic modelling	5
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	5
Neighborhood reputations as symbolic and stratifying mechanisms in the urban hierarchy	5
Shifting categories, changing attitudes: A boundary work approach in the study of attitudes toward migrants	5
Conceptualizing homonationalism: (Re‐)Formulation, application, and debates of expansion	4
Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities	4
Theorizing surveillance and social spacingthroughfootball: The fan‐opticon and beyond	4
The racialized patterns of police violence: The critical importance of research as praxis	4
Working‐class Latina/o youth navigating stratification and inequality: A review of literature	4
Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field	4
Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review	4
User‐generated online queer media and the politics of queer visibility	4
Gender and craft drinks	4
Continuity of the “code”: A review of the subcultures and informal social norms in prisons, streets, and schools	4
Intersectional oppression: A reflexive dialogue between Muslim academics and their experiences of Islamophobia and exclusion in UK Higher Education	4
Academic parenthood: Navigating structure and culture in an elite occupation	4
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families	4
Family formation under the law: How immigration laws construct contemporary Latino/a immigrant families in the U.S.	4
Toward a sociology of family movements: Lessons from the Global South	4
Sibling caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness	4
Migration and the senses	4
Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐19	4
Are social movements truly social? The prosocial and antisocial outcomes of social movements	4
The sociology of Catholicism: A review of research and scholarship	4
Political non‐participation in elections, civic life and social movements	4
Racialized parenting in the United States	3
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	3
Between research and revival. Emerging trends among highly religious young Catholics in Italy	3
Decentering intensive mothering: More fully accounting for race and class in motherhood norms	3
Why not? Explaining sympathizers' non‐participation: The example of Hong Kong's 2019 social movement	3
Invisible no more: White racialization and the localness of racial identity	3
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise	3
Intergenerational relations of older immigrants in the United States	3
How do macro‐ and micro‐level changes interact in the emergence of educational outcomes?	3
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	3
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics	3
An intersectional approach to military sexual violence	3
Marriage matters for Black middle‐class women: A review of Black American marriages, work, and family life	3
Procedural (in)justice, emotions, and compliance	3
Protecting Black mothers: How the history of midwifery can inform doula activism	3
Rethinking the “buffering” theory of neighborhood racial transition	3
Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis	3
Global gendered anti‐Black belonging and racial ideology	3
The impacts of corruption on forest loss: A review of cross‐national trends	3
The racial state and the violent (re)production of educational inequality	3
Hegemonic whiteness: Expanding and operationalizing the conceptual framework	3
Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us	3
Gender and innovation through an intersectional lens: Re‐imagining academic entrepreneurship in the United States	3