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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The gendered pandemic: The implications of COVID‐19 for work and family	163
When “model minorities” become “yellow peril”—Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the COVID‐19 pandemic	152
The structural roots of food insecurity: How racism is a fundamental cause of food insecurity	87
Beyond resilience: Resistance in the lives of LGBTQ youth	61
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates	37
Is America coming apart? Socioeconomic segregation in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and social networks, 1970–2020	31
Sociological perspectives on artificial intelligence: A typological reading	25
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature	24
Veganism as a lifestyle movement	23
Gerontocracy in a comparative perspective: Explaining why political leaders are (almost always) older than their constituents	23
Mother needs a bigger “helper”: A critique of “wine mom” discourse as conformity to hegemonic intensive motherhood	23
Is there a global super‐bourgeoisie?	22
Crime and deviance during the COVID‐19 pandemic	22
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	21
Black women’s mental health matters: Theoretical perspectives and future directions	20
Black monument matters: Place‐based commemoration and abolitionist memory work	18
Intersectionality and coalitions in social movement research—A survey and outlook	18
Intersectionality and social movements: Intersectional challenges and imperatives in the study of social movements	18
Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality: Second chances or Matthew Effects?	18
Innovation and creativity in creative industries	17
Can TV shows promote acceptance of sexual and ethnic minorities? A literature review of television effects on diversity attitudes	17
Unequal effects of disruptive events	17
Schools as racialized organizations in policy and practice	17
Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic	16
Problematizing the “informal sector”: 50 years of critique, clarification, qualification, and more critique	15

Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda	15
A sociology of counter‐revolution in Egypt	14
What is algorithmic governance?	14
Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice	14
Disability and climate change: A critical realist model of climate justice	13
The frontiers of new psychedelic therapies: A survey of sociological themes and issues	13
Homemaking in the public. On the scales and stakes of framing, feeling, and claiming extra‐domestic space as “home”	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
The politics of neoliberalism in Latin America: dynamics of resilience and contestation	11
Coalition‐building and the forging of solidarity across difference and inequality	11
Freezing time? The sociology of egg freezing	11
Violence against transgender people in the United States: Field growth, data dilemmas, and knowledge gaps	10
Women, work, and opportunities: From neoliberal to feminist mentoring	10
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	10
Unequal foodwork: Situating the sociology of feeding within diet and nutrition disparities	10
For a Du Boisian economic sociology	9
The persistence of gendered dating	9
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	9
In sickness and in health: The politics of public health and their implications during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Theorizing surveillance and social spacingthroughfootball: The fan‐opticon and beyond	8
Dynamics of an American countermovement: Blue Lives Matter	8
Cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters?	8
Manipulating diversity: How diversity regimes at US universities can reinforce whiteness	8
What do we know about LGBQ+ college student academic experiences and outcomes?	8
The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans	8
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	8
Hegemonic whiteness: Expanding and operationalizing the conceptual framework	7
Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review	7
Family formation under the law: How immigration laws construct contemporary Latino/a immigrant families in the U.S.	7
The social movement for reproductive justice: Emergence, intersectional strategies, and theory building	7
Mobilizing motherhood: The gendered burden of environmental protection	7
Youth underemployment: A review of research on young people and the problems of less(er) employment in an era of mass education	7
Men, masculinities, and gender‐based violence: The broadening scope of recent research	7
Humor and satire in politics: Introducing cultural sociology to the field	7
A comprehensive review of quantitative research on crime, the built environment, land use, and physical geography	7
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
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives	6
Privacy violations and procedural justice in the United States prisons and jails	6
The sociology of Catholicism: A review of research and scholarship	6
Orania: A white homeland in post‐apartheid South Africa	6
Social welfare in the light of topic modelling	6
Intersectional oppression: A reflexive dialogue between Muslim academics and their experiences of Islamophobia and exclusion in UK Higher Education	6
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations	6
Shifting categories, changing attitudes: A boundary work approach in the study of attitudes toward migrants	6
Financial literacy education: An opportunity for colleges and sociology	6
How do you measure trust in social institutions and health professionals? A systematic review of the literature (2012–2021)	6
Punishment, support, or discipline? Taking stock of recent debates about homeless governance in neoliberal cities	6

Working‐class Latina/o youth navigating stratification and inequality: A review of literature	6
Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field	6
Decentering intensive mothering: More fully accounting for race and class in motherhood norms	6
The racial state and the violent (re)production of educational inequality	5
Gender and innovation through an intersectional lens: Re‐imagining academic entrepreneurship in the United States	5
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities	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
An intersectional approach to military sexual violence	5
Continuity of the “code”: A review of the subcultures and informal social norms in prisons, streets, and schools	5
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness	5
The racialized patterns of police violence: The critical importance of research as praxis	5
An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology	5
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families	5
Invisible no more: White racialization and the localness of racial identity	5
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise	5
Academic parenthood: Navigating structure and culture in an elite occupation	5
Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis	5
Beyond measurement of the motherhood penalty: How social locations shape mothers' work decisions and stratify outcomes	5
Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities	4
Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us	4
Intergenerational relations of older immigrants in the United States	4
Policing cities: Incivility, disorder, and societal transformations	4
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries	4
The impacts of corruption on forest loss: A review of cross‐national trends	4
Why not? Explaining sympathizers' non‐participation: The example of Hong Kong's 2019 social movement	4
Marriage matters for Black middle‐class women: A review of Black American marriages, work, and family life	4
Protecting Black mothers: How the history of midwifery can inform doula activism	4
Diffusion of innovations through social networks: Determinants and implications	4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	4
Toward a sociology of family movements: Lessons from the Global South	4
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics	4
Gender and craft drinks	4
Procedural (in)justice, emotions, and compliance	4
Migration and the senses	4
Global gendered anti‐Black belonging and racial ideology	4
“The First Mark of Pain”: Toward a child‐centered methodological reorientation of social theory, race and corporal punishment in American life	4
Conceptualizing homonationalism: (Re‐)Formulation, application, and debates of expansion	4
Being black and non‐citizen in South Africa: Intersecting race, white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa	4
A culture of whiteness: How integration failed in cities, suburbs, and small towns	3
Non‐experts’ participation in processes of scientific knowledge creation: The case of Citizen Science	3
Racism and pride in attitudes toward confederate symbols	3
Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?	3
How do macro‐ and micro‐level changes interact in the emergence of educational outcomes?	3
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	3
Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology	3
Sibling caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness	3
Toward an agency‐centered iterative approach to social movement repression	3
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness	3
Rethinking the “buffering” theory of neighborhood racial transition	3
“I'm going to do battle… I'm going to do some good”. Biographical trajectories, moral politics, and public engagement among highly religious young Catholics in Spain and Mexico	3
Ethnic‐racial socialization in mono‐racial Asian American and Pacific Islander families: A 21‐year systematic literature review	3
Globally aspired, locally constrained; how national education test regime in Turkey shapes middle‐class parenting	3
Last meals and final statements: Social science research on America's death row	3
Tweakments: Non‐surgical beauty technologies and future directions for the sociology of the body	3
Acknowledging the historical contributions of Black Youth's civic engagement in society	3
Racialized parenting in the United States	3
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach	3
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research	3