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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries	86
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda	57
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation	34
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas	29
Knowledge, boundaries, and bodies: Social construction between medical sociology and science and technology studies	28
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Ethical turn in the social sciences	27
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Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	25
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore	24
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families	23
Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course	22
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach	22
Corporate Educational Philanthropy for Racialized Latin America: A Provocation for More Critical Studies	21
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury	20
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Manipulating diversity: How diversity regimes at US universities can reinforce whiteness	19
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Siblings caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness	18
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Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay	18
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions	17
Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women	17
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination	16
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective	16

Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South	15
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine	15
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	15
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda	14
An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology	14
Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey	13
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future	13
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Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐19	13
Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity	13
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	13
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies	13
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers	12
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness	12
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies	12
Islamophobia in Everyday Racial Encounters in Barcelona: The Emotional Impact on Maghrebi Communities in Spain	10
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Femicide: A Need for Orientation	10
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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
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates	9
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise	9
The Evolution and Potential of Emotional Healing Design: A Systematic Review With Thematic Analysis	9
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z	9
What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives	9
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?	9
Hacking age	9
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”	8
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
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology	8
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The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing	8
The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide	8
Sociology Compass Editorial 2023	8
Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective	7
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New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	7
Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives	7
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Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework	7
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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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Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise	7
Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas	7
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Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States	7

The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders	7
Experiences of white‐collar job loss and job‐searching in the United States	7
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness	6
Spatial dynamics of protest: Themes and trajectories	6
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education	6
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 institution of medicine and transgender identity construction: Between a doc and a hard place	6
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)	6
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames	6
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula	6
The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France	6
Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development	6
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion	6
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Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism	5
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Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review	5
Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach	5
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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
Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis	5
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation	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
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again	5
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A discussion on coloniality and global social theory	5
For a Du Boisian economic sociology	5
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships	5
Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate	4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation	4
Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere	4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media	4
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations	4
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research	4
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature	4
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The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives	4
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives	4
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness	4
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces	4
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach	4
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	4
Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field	4
Research on Social Stratification in Brazil	4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance	4
Crimes against non‐human animals: Examining dog fighting in the UK and the USA through a green criminology perspective	4
What makes a developmental network state durable?	4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	4
Precarious work: A global perspective	4
Rationales for body camera implementation and outcome measures	4
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Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective	4
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world	4
What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family	4