OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Science 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Workplace Networks and the Dynamics of Worker Organizing	38
Rising Educational Divides in Attitudes: How Polarization across Cohorts Can Mask Age-Related Polarization	30
Predictive Algorithms and Perceptions of Fairness: Parent Attitudes Toward Algorithmic Resource Allocation in K-12 Education	23
Decomposing Heterogeneity in Inequality of Educational Opportunities: Family Income and Academic Performance in Brazilian Higher Education	21
Life-Course Transitions and Political Orientations	19
Decoupling Inequality and Stratification in the American Wealth Distribution, 1989–2022	19
Differences in the Risk of Grade Retention for Biracial and Monoracial Students in the United States, 2010 to 2019	17
Who Learns from Deliberative Minipublics? Identity-Based Differences in Knowledge Gains across Thirteen Citizens' Initiative Review Experiments	17
Literary Fiction Indicates Early Modernization in China Prior to Western Influence	15
Pathways to Independence: The Dynamics of Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood	14
Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables	13
Opportunities for Faculty Tenure at Globally Ranked Universities: Cross-National Differences by Gender, Fields, and Tenure Status	13
Findings on Summer Learning Loss Often Fail to Replicate, Even in Recent Data	12
From Metallica to Mozart: Mapping the Cultural Hierarchy of Lifestyle Activities	12
The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century	12
Breaking Barriers or Persisting Traditions? Fertility Histories, Occupational Achievements, and Intergenerational Mobility of Italian Women	11
Leveraging Genomic Data to Document Within-Race Attractiveness Penalties Among Black Americans	11
“Was It Me or Was It Gender Discrimination?” How Women Respond to Ambiguous Incidents at Work	10
Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure	10
Some Birds Have Mixed Feathers: Bringing the Multiracial Population into the Study of Race Homophily	10
The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution	10
Changing Opportunity: Rising Local Wealth Inequality and Growing Class Gaps in Income Mobility	9
Examining Attitudes toward Asians throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic with Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey Experiments	9
Differences in Academic Preparedness Do Not Fully Explain Black–White Enrollment Disparities in Advanced High School Coursework	8
Classed Burdens: Habitus and Administrative Burden during the COVID-19 Pandemic	8

Social Status and the Moral Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence	8
Public Support for the Legalization of Undocumented Immigrants during the 2016 Presidential Campaign	8
Shattered Dreams: Paternal Incarceration, Youth Expectations, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage	7
Fathers’ Military Service and Children’s College Attainment	7
Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications	6
The Effect of Workplace Raids on Academic Performance: Evidence from Texas	6
Inclusive but Not Integrative: Ethnoracial Boundaries and the Use of Spanish in the Market for Rental Housing	6
Status Ambiguity and Multiplicity in the Selection of NBA Awards	6
Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data	6
Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades	6
The Inequality of Lifetime Pensions	5
The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States	5
Institutional Survival under Extreme State Repression and Subsequent Revival	5
There Is Cumulative Status Bias and Status Entrenchment in NBA Awards: Comment on McMahan and Shor (2024)	4
The Intergenerational Reach of Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences: Associations with Children’s Emotional Support and Cognitive Stimulation	4
Life-Course Differences in Occupational Mobility Between Vocationally and Generally Trained Workers in Germany	4
Emerging Pronoun Practices After the Procedural Turn: Disclosure, Discovery, and Repair	4
How to Make a Functionalist Argument	4
The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support	4
Echo Chambers Are Defined by Conflict, Not Isolation	4
The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook during the U.S. 2020 Election	4
From Social Alignment to Social Control: Reporting the Taliban in Afghanistan	4
Clickbait Crime News? Metrics and Professional Authority in Local Newsrooms	4
Beyond Text: Using AI-Generated Visual Conjoints to Study Gender and Housework Attribution	4
Dissecting Taste Distinction: Cultural Tastes and Perceptions of Individuals’ Status and Qualities	4
Evolutionary Influences on Assistance to Kin: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics	4
Prosociality Beyond In-Group Boundaries: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Selection and Intergroup Interactions in a Multiethnic European Metropolis	3
Declining Inequality and Persistent Inequality Structures	3
Quantities of Interest for Interactions and the Pitfalls of Assuming Linear Treatment Effects	3
The Exception to Women’s Advantage: How Rurality, Red Counties, and the Local Economy Shape Gender Gaps in Educational Attainment	3
Factorial Survey Experiments to Predict Real-World Behavior: A Cautionary Tale from Hiring Studies	3
Colorism Revisited: The Effects of Skin Color on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States	3
Does Unprecedented Mass Immigration Fuel Ethnic Discrimination? A Two-Wave Field Experiment in the German Housing Market	3
The Effect of Workplace Raids on Academic Performance: Evidence from Texas	3
The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom	3
The Effect of the Texas Migrant Busing Program on the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election	3
Teacher Bias in Assessments by Student Ascribed Status: A Factorial Experiment on Discrimination in Education	3
Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection	3
Access to Higher Education and Support for Meritocracy: Effort, Skill, and Education as Components of Merit	3
The Causal Impact of Segregation on a Disparity: A Gap-Closing Approach	3
Making Progress in the Chicago Police Department, 1862–2024	3
Commuting and Gender Differences in Job Opportunities	2
Layered Legacies. How Multiple Histories Shaped the Attitudes of Contemporary Europeans	2
An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences	2
Intergenerational Social Mobility Among the Children of Immigrants in Western Europe: Between Socioeconomic Assimilation and Disadvantage	2
Categorical Engagement and the Contingent Nature of Typicality Effects	2
Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities at Work	2
Eurythmics or Xenakis? Cultural Tastes (Are Not Made of Genes): Comment on Jæger and Møllegaard, “Where Do Cultural Tastes Come From? Genes, Environments, or Experiences”	2
A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race	2
When Do Haters Act? Peer Evaluation, Negative Relationships, and Brokerage	2

Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment	2
The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation	2
How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?	2
Marginal Odds Ratios: What They Are, How to Compute Them, and Why Sociologists Might Want to Use Them	2
Do Organizational Policies Narrow Gender Inequality? Novel Evidence from Longitudinal Employer–Employee Data	2
The Cultural and Symbolic Foundations of Status Hierarchies: A Rejoinder to Biegert, Kühhirt, and Van Lanker	2
What You Need to Know When Estimating Monthly Impact Functions: Comment on Hudde and Jacob, “There’s More in the Data!”	2
Getting a Foot in the Door: A Meta-Analysis of U.S. Audit Studies of Gender Bias in Hiring	2
Using Machine Learning to Uncover the Semantics of Concepts: How Well Do Typicality Measures Extracted from a BERT Text Classifier Match Human Judgments of Genre Typicality?	2
’13 Reasons Why’ Probably Increased Emergency Room Visits for Self-Harm among Teenage Girls	2