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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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Ethical turn in the social sciences	79
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Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course	31
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore	29
When (Financial) Knowledge Isn't Power: How Race Disrupts Financial Literacy's Relationship to Health Precarity	27
School Cultures, Peer Cultures, and Inequality: Gender in K‐12 Schooling	25
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	24
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Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach	24
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries	23
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation	22
Corporate Educational Philanthropy for Racialized Latin America: A Provocation for More Critical Studies	22
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas	21
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda	20
Structures of Labor Exploitation: Sociology, Management, and Modern Slavery in the Global North	19
Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South	17
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Primary Habitus Formation in Families From the Upper Social Milieus	16
Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women	16
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine	15
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions	15
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	15
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination	15
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Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future	13
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective	13
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When Gender Roles Turn Into Violence: Perspectives of Women and Men Perpetrators in Türkiye	13
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies	12
Contain and Callout: A Critical Investigation of SWAT Team Use of Force Reporting and the Limits of Institutional Statistics	12
Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey	12
Everyday Life Within Precarious Working Conditions: A Conceptual Home for the Practical, Subjective and Emotional Actions of Precariousness	12
Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity	12
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers	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
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University	11
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness	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
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	11
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z	11
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology	10
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Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?	10
Sociology Compass Editorial 2023	10
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Informal Care Work From a Queer Lens: Challenging Heteronormative Paradigms	10
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”	9
What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives	9
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The Evolution and Potential of Emotional Healing Design: A Systematic Review With Thematic Analysis	9
Gender Diversity and the Law in Pakistan: A Critical Review of Criminalization and Social Exclusion of Khawaja Sira/Hijra/Gender X	9
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action	9
Uses of Anger, Love, and Joy: Emotions in Black Resistance	9
Sociology Compass Editorial 2026	8
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	8
Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States	8
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing	8
Hacking age	8
Islamophobia in Everyday Racial Encounters in Barcelona: The Emotional Impact on Maghrebi Communities in Spain	8
Femicide: A Need for Orientation	8
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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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Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives	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
Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective	7
Deficit‐Oriented Teacher Beliefs and Student Outcomes in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	7
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Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas	7
Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise	7
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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)	7
In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies	6
Ethical Analysis of Anomie: From Durkheim to the Digital Age	6
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula	6
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism	6
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames	6
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education	6
The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France	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
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again	6
Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development	6
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness	6
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion	6
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics	6
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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
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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
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research	5
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships	5
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	5
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations	5
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world	5
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Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis	5
Are Refugee Workers ‘Peers’, ‘Competitors’, or Both? Socioeconomic Justifications of Boundary Work Through the Lens of Native Employees	5
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation	5
Single Parenthood and Child Development in Contemporary China	5
Precarious work: A global perspective	5
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	5
Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective	5
The Paradox of Modernity: The Creation of a Tradition of Anti‐Tradition	5
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory	5
Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere	4
Using Time Use Data to Investigate Gender Inequalities: Enduring Patterns and New Dimensions	4
The Impossibility of Habitability: The Carceral State as Ecological Catastrophe	4
The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations	4
How do you measure trust in social institutions and health professionals? A systematic review of the literature (2012–2021)	4
A Diachronic Comparative Study of Climate Change Discourse in China Daily and the New York Times: Analyzing the Evolution of Discursive Strategies	4
Resisting Intensive Motherhood? Women's Accounts on Infant Feeding in Spain	4
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives	4
Convivial and informal encounters with de‐radicalisation	4
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness	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
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A taxonomy of business models of digital care platforms in Spain	4
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Beyond Reverse Racism: A Research Note on How White College Students Construct the Myth of Silencing in the Classroom	4
Haunting details: A mixed‐methods study on predictors of details recalled from a victim narrative	4
Evaluator versus Target Characteristics: What Impacts Blame‐Attribution in Inter‐ and Intra‐ethnic Sexual Violence?	4
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Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate	4
Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media	4
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces	4
Crimes against non‐human animals: Examining dog fighting in the UK and the USA through a green criminology perspective	4
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities	4
Learning to labour in the gym: Training to fight to reimagine the self and work under neoliberalism	4
Status Concerns Drive Self‐Optimization: The Role of Status Seeking, Status Anxiety, and Competitive Working Climate	4
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Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach	4
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The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects	4
What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family	4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance	4