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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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When (Financial) Knowledge Isn't Power: How Race Disrupts Financial Literacy's Relationship to Health Precarity	103
School Cultures, Peer Cultures, and Inequality: Gender in K‐12 Schooling	66
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries	35
Corporate Educational Philanthropy for Racialized Latin America: A Provocation for More Critical Studies	34
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach	32
Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course	29
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore	27
Ethical turn in the social sciences	26
Issue Information	26
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation	26
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda	25
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Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas	24
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families	24
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	22
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Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective	20
Issue Information	20
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury	19
Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay	17
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Siblings caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness	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
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	16

An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology	16
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions	15
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine	15
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda	14
Primary Habitus Formation in Families From the Upper Social Milieus	13
Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South	13
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness	12
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies	12
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies	11
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future	11
Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey	11
Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐19	11
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers	11
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Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity	10
Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States	10
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	10
When Gender Roles Turn Into Violence: Perspectives of Women and Men Perpetrators in Türkiye	10
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What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives	9
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action	9
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Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?	9
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”	9
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z	9
Hacking age	9
The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide	9
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University	8
Femicide: A Need for Orientation	8
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing	8
Gender Diversity and the Law in Pakistan: A Critical Review of Criminalization and Social Exclusion of Khawaja Sira/Hijra/Gender X	8
The Evolution and Potential of Emotional Healing Design: A Systematic Review With Thematic Analysis	8
Issue Information	8
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise	8
Sociology Compass Editorial 2023	8
Islamophobia in Everyday Racial Encounters in Barcelona: The Emotional Impact on Maghrebi Communities in Spain	8
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An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology	7
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Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective	7
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	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
Informal Care Work From a Queer Lens: Challenging Heteronormative Paradigms	7
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates	7
Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise	7
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

Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework	7
Issue Information	6
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The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion	6
The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France	6
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Ethical Analysis of Anomie: From Durkheim to the Digital Age	6
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics	6
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In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies	6
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again	6
Issue Information	5
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
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Spatial dynamics of protest: Themes and trajectories	5
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula	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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Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach	5
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness	5
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames	5
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education	5
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Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field	5
Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development	5
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism	5
Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review	4
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation	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
Precarious work: A global perspective	4
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Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives	4
Crimes against non‐human animals: Examining dog fighting in the UK and the USA through a green criminology perspective	4
Research on Social Stratification in Brazil	4
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research	4
Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere	4
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Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis	4
The Paradox of Modernity: The Creation of a Tradition of Anti‐Tradition	4
Rationales for body camera implementation and outcome measures	4
For a Du Boisian economic sociology	4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation	4
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The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature	4
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces	4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance	4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media	4
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Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective	4
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	4
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory	4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	4
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world	4
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness	4
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations	4
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Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach	4
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships	4