OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Cultural Sociology is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Protest Event, Political Culture, and Biography: Post-protest Local Activism in Russia	18
Thanks to Reviewers	11
Culture and poverty from a lifeworld stance: rehabilitating a controversial conceptual pair	10
“We love martyrdom, but we also love life”: Coptic cultural trauma between martyrdom and rights	8
Theorizing the performance of (racialized) difference: the case studies of Asian artists in classical music	8
Thanks to Reviewers	7
Transforming the sacred: a neo-Durkheimian analysis of the aesthetic modification and cultural resignification of Barcelona’s municipal crèche (1961–2021)	6
From incorporation to emplacement in the cultural sociology of immigration	6
When the political tail wags the religious dog, and vice versa. Religion, hegemony, and democracy in contemporary North America	5
Ethical dilemmas of minority creative workers in the cultural industries: Palestinian actors in Israeli films and dramas	5
Reading Hong Kong literarily across two generations: localism and translocality	4
Making sense of sibling economic gaps: racialized meritocratic frames, economic inequalities, and family relationships	4
Social skills and audience agency in improvised social performance	4
The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport	4
Popular transformations: the introduction of an Arab American superhero and negotiation of a popular iconic change in the civil sphere	4
Correction: When something is happening but you don’t know what it is: mood and agency after a stolen election	4
Rapport: affective cultural structures in sociological inquiry	4
“We don’t fit at all”: the symbolic boundaries of libertarians connected to the academy	3
Gliding on the edge of the iron cage: performing rationality and artistry in the sport of figure skating	3
Harry Potter and the ‘Death of the Actor’: reimagining fusion in cultural pragmatics	3
Living in the shadow of market competition: career commitment and orders of worth of social workers in Shanghai	3
Gifting of Hagia Sophia: icon’s role in extractive sacralization	2
Bringing power down to earth: a multidimensional model of power	2
Max Weber and China: a defense	2
The resurgence of antisemitism: insights from cultural sociology	2

Appropriating the civil sphere: the construction of German collective identity by right-wing populist actors during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
The many faces of race: toward a global cultural sociology of co-descent	2
The Winding Path, Smith, P. (2020) Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020. Cambridge: Polity	2
A sociology of the “and one!”: the culture of charisma in pickup basketball	2
Correction: How to divide people with things: division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy	2
Write it out loud? Civil engagement through reading fiction	2
Why do states discriminate between refugee groups? Understanding how Syrian and Ukrainian refugees were framed in Germany and Poland	2
From multiculturalism to antisemitism? Revisiting the Jewish question in America	2
Capital and distinction or goods and traditions? Toward a post-Bourdieusian cultural theory	2
Sonic double consciousness: public radio voices of color	2
Stigma management, group interaction, and cultural trauma: a Rwanda–Germany comparison	2
The mobilization of “a difficult past” in narrating the Russian invasion of Ukraine by the German and Italian backlash	2
Discursive combat: the question of Palestine	2