OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information	89
Ethical turn in the social sciences	59
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda	34
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas	31
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach	29
Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course	28
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families	28
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore	24
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation	23
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries	22
Corporate Educational Philanthropy for Racialized Latin America: A Provocation for More Critical Studies	22
Issue Information	22
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda	20
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	20
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An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology	20
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
Issue Information	18
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Siblings caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness	17
Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay	16
Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women	16
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective	15
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions	15

A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination	15
Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South	14
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	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
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future	12
Issue Information	12
Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐19	11
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness	11
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	10
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers	10
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies	10
When Gender Roles Turn Into Violence: Perspectives of Women and Men Perpetrators in Türkiye	10
Femicide: A Need for Orientation	9
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z	9
The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans	9
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University	9
Issue Information	9
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What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives	9
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies	9
Hacking age	9
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?	9
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise	9
Teaching & learning guide for cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters	8
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action	8
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing	8
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”	8
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Issue Information	8
The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide	8
Sociology Compass Editorial 2023	8
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
Islamophobia in Everyday Racial Encounters in Barcelona: The Emotional Impact on Maghrebi Communities in Spain	7
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates	7
Informal Care Work From a Queer Lens: Challenging Heteronormative Paradigms	7
Issue Information	7
Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework	7
Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States	7
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology	7
The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders	7
Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas	7
Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives	7
The Evolution and Potential of Emotional Healing Design: A Systematic Review With Thematic Analysis	7
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	7
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Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula	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

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Spatial dynamics of protest: Themes and trajectories	6
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness	6
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In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies	6
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics	6
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion	6
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research	5
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism	5
Issue Information	5
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education	5
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again	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
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The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France	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
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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)	5
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames	5
Ethical Analysis of Anomie: From Durkheim to the Digital Age	5
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	4
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations	4
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness	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
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance	4
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A discussion on coloniality and global social theory	4
Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis	4
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation	4
Rationales for body camera implementation and outcome measures	4
Issue Information	4
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives	4
Issue Information	4
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces	4
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach	4
Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review	4
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	4
Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach	4
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships	4
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world	4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation	4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media	4
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities	4
Research on Social Stratification in Brazil	4
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature	4
Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field	4
Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective	4
A regional approach to militarized riskscapes: An environmental justice analysis of military proximity and air pollution in United States Environmental Protection Agency's regions	4
For a Du Boisian economic sociology	4