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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The gendered pandemic: The implications of COVID‐19 for work and family	161
When “model minorities” become “yellow peril”—Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the COVID‐19 pandemic	142
The structural roots of food insecurity: How racism is a fundamental cause of food insecurity	76
Beyond resilience: Resistance in the lives of LGBTQ youth	59
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates	35
Is America coming apart? Socioeconomic segregation in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and social networks, 1970–2020	26
Sociological perspectives on artificial intelligence: A typological reading	24
The racial and colonial dimensions of gentrification	24
Mother needs a bigger “helper”: A critique of “wine mom” discourse as conformity to hegemonic intensive motherhood	23
Gerontocracy in a comparative perspective: Explaining why political leaders are (almost always) older than their constituents	22
Crime and deviance during the COVID‐19 pandemic	22
Is there a global super‐bourgeoisie?	21
Veganism as a lifestyle movement	21
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature	20
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	20
Black women’s mental health matters: Theoretical perspectives and future directions	19
Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality: Second chances or Matthew Effects?	18
Intersectionality and social movements: Intersectional challenges and imperatives in the study of social movements	18
Intersectionality and coalitions in social movement research—A survey and outlook	18
Black monument matters: Place‐based commemoration and abolitionist memory work	17
Children of immigrants as “brokers” in an era of exclusion	17
Unequal effects of disruptive events	17
Can TV shows promote acceptance of sexual and ethnic minorities? A literature review of television effects on diversity attitudes	17
Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic	16
Schools as racialized organizations in policy and practice	16

Healthcare professionals' trust in patients: A review of the empirical and theoretical literatures	15
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda	15
Problematizing the “informal sector”: 50 years of critique, clarification, qualification, and more critique	15
A sociology of counter‐revolution in Egypt	14
What is algorithmic governance?	14
Homemaking in the public. On the scales and stakes of framing, feeling, and claiming extra‐domestic space as “home”	13
Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice	13
Innovation and creativity in creative industries	13
The frontiers of new psychedelic therapies: A survey of sociological themes and issues	12
Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status	12
We must do better: Ableism and fatphobia in sociology	12
Race and inequality at work: An occupational perspective	11
Freezing time? The sociology of egg freezing	11
Coalition‐building and the forging of solidarity across difference and inequality	11
Disability and climate change: A critical realist model of climate justice	11
The politics of neoliberalism in Latin America: dynamics of resilience and contestation	11
Neighborhood reputations as symbolic and stratifying mechanisms in the urban hierarchy	10
Women, work, and opportunities: From neoliberal to feminist mentoring	10
Policing counter‐protest	10
Unequal foodwork: Situating the sociology of feeding within diet and nutrition disparities	10
The persistence of gendered dating	9
Violence against transgender people in the United States: Field growth, data dilemmas, and knowledge gaps	9
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	9
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	9
Dynamics of an American countermovement: Blue Lives Matter	8
The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans	8
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	8
In sickness and in health: The politics of public health and their implications during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Social media as public journalism? Protest reporting in the digital era	8
For a Du Boisian economic sociology	8
Cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters?	8
Manipulating diversity: How diversity regimes at US universities can reinforce whiteness	8
Mobilizing motherhood: The gendered burden of environmental protection	7
A comprehensive review of quantitative research on crime, the built environment, land use, and physical geography	7
What do we know about LGBQ+ college student academic experiences and outcomes?	7
Humor and satire in politics: Introducing cultural sociology to the field	7
Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review	7
Men, masculinities, and gender‐based violence: The broadening scope of recent research	7
Towards a theoretical understanding of the selfie: A descriptive review	7
Youth underemployment: A review of research on young people and the problems of less(er) employment in an era of mass education	7
Financial literacy education: An opportunity for colleges and sociology	6
Everyday terrorism: Campus sexual violence and the neoliberal university	6
The family as gender and sexuality factory: A review of the literature and future directions	6
Intersectional oppression: A reflexive dialogue between Muslim academics and their experiences of Islamophobia and exclusion in UK Higher Education	6
The sociology of Catholicism: A review of research and scholarship	6
Family formation under the law: How immigration laws construct contemporary Latino/a immigrant families in the U.S.	6
Orania: A white homeland in post‐apartheid South Africa	6
Social welfare in the light of topic modelling	6
Punishment, support, or discipline? Taking stock of recent debates about homeless governance in neoliberal cities	6
Theorizing surveillance and social spacingthroughfootball: The fan‐opticon and beyond	6

Shifting categories, changing attitudes: A boundary work approach in the study of attitudes toward migrants	6
The social movement for reproductive justice: Emergence, intersectional strategies, and theory building	6
Hegemonic whiteness: Expanding and operationalizing the conceptual framework	6
How do you measure trust in social institutions and health professionals? A systematic review of the literature (2012–2021)	6
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives	6
Privacy violations and procedural justice in the United States prisons and jails	6
Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field	6
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise	5
Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis	5
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families	5
Decentering intensive mothering: More fully accounting for race and class in motherhood norms	5
Gender and innovation through an intersectional lens: Re‐imagining academic entrepreneurship in the United States	5
Continuity of the “code”: A review of the subcultures and informal social norms in prisons, streets, and schools	5
The racialized patterns of police violence: The critical importance of research as praxis	5
Invisible no more: White racialization and the localness of racial identity	5
Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐19	5
Political non‐participation in elections, civic life and social movements	5
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries	4
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics	4
Conceptualizing homonationalism: (Re‐)Formulation, application, and debates of expansion	4
Marriage matters for Black middle‐class women: A review of Black American marriages, work, and family life	4
Gender and craft drinks	4
Diffusion of innovations through social networks: Determinants and implications	4
Intergenerational relations of older immigrants in the United States	4
Policing cities: Incivility, disorder, and societal transformations	4
Working‐class Latina/o youth navigating stratification and inequality: A review of literature	4
Toward a sociology of family movements: Lessons from the Global South	4
Being black and non‐citizen in South Africa: Intersecting race, white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa	4
The racial state and the violent (re)production of educational inequality	4
Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us	4
Academic parenthood: Navigating structure and culture in an elite occupation	4
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness	4
Beyond measurement of the motherhood penalty: How social locations shape mothers' work decisions and stratify outcomes	4
“The First Mark of Pain”: Toward a child‐centered methodological reorientation of social theory, race and corporal punishment in American life	4
An intersectional approach to military sexual violence	4
Why not? Explaining sympathizers' non‐participation: The example of Hong Kong's 2019 social movement	4
Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities	4
Protecting Black mothers: How the history of midwifery can inform doula activism	4
Migration and the senses	4
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities	4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	4
How do macro‐ and micro‐level changes interact in the emergence of educational outcomes?	3
An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology	3
Is “Latino” useful? Diversity, commonality, and politics	3
A culture of whiteness: How integration failed in cities, suburbs, and small towns	3
Racism and pride in attitudes toward confederate symbols	3
Toward an agency‐centered iterative approach to social movement repression	3
Rethinking the “buffering” theory of neighborhood racial transition	3
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach	3
Global gendered anti‐Black belonging and racial ideology	3
Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology	3
Globally aspired, locally constrained; how national education test regime in Turkey shapes middle‐class parenting	3
Sibling caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness	3
Procedural (in)justice, emotions, and compliance	3
Acknowledging the historical contributions of Black Youth's civic engagement in society	3
Racialized parenting in the United States	3
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations	3
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	3
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research	3
The impacts of corruption on forest loss: A review of cross‐national trends	3
Non‐experts’ participation in processes of scientific knowledge creation: The case of Citizen Science	3
Tweakments: Non‐surgical beauty technologies and future directions for the sociology of the body	3
Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?	3