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

Article	Citations
Workplace Networks and the Dynamics of Worker Organizing	35
Local Policing and the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented College Students	24
Predictive Algorithms and Perceptions of Fairness: Parent Attitudes Toward Algorithmic Resource Allocation in K-12 Education	18
Rising Educational Divides in Attitudes: How Polarization across Cohorts Can Mask Age-Related Polarization	18
Decomposing Heterogeneity in Inequality of Educational Opportunities: Family Income and Academic Performance in Brazilian Higher Education	15
The Religious Work Ethic and the Spirit of Patriarchy: Religiosity and the Gender Gap in Working for Its Own Sake, 1977 to 2018	13
Differences in the Risk of Grade Retention for Biracial and Monoracial Students in the United States, 2010 to 2019	13
Life-Course Transitions and Political Orientations	13
Who Learns from Deliberative Minipublics? Identity-Based Differences in Knowledge Gains across Thirteen Citizens' Initiative Review Experiments	12
Literary Fiction Indicates Early Modernization in China Prior to Western Influence	12
Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables	11
Opportunities for Faculty Tenure at Globally Ranked Universities: Cross-National Differences by Gender, Fields, and Tenure Status	11
Findings on Summer Learning Loss Often Fail to Replicate, Even in Recent Data	11
From Metallica to Mozart: Mapping the Cultural Hierarchy of Lifestyle Activities	11
The Stalled Gender Revolution and the Rise of Top Earnings in the United States, 1980 to 2017	10
The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution	10
The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century	10
Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure	9
Dog Whistles and Work Hours: The Political Activation of Labor Market Discrimination	8
Breaking Barriers or Persisting Traditions? Fertility Histories, Occupational Achievements, and Intergenerational Mobility of Italian Women	8
Some Birds Have Mixed Feathers: Bringing the Multiracial Population into the Study of Race Homophily	8
Examining Attitudes toward Asians throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic with Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey Experiments	8
Social Status and the Moral Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence	8
“Was It Me or Was It Gender Discrimination?” How Women Respond to Ambiguous Incidents at Work	8
Differences in Academic Preparedness Do Not Fully Explain Black–White Enrollment Disparities in Advanced High School Coursework	7

Classed Burdens: Habitus and Administrative Burden during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Status Ambiguity and Multiplicity in the Selection of NBA Awards	6
Inclusive but Not Integrative: Ethnoracial Boundaries and the Use of Spanish in the Market for Rental Housing	6
Shattered Dreams: Paternal Incarceration, Youth Expectations, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage	6
Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades	6
The Effect of Workplace Raids on Academic Performance: Evidence from Texas	5
Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data	5
Demographic Change and Group Boundaries in Germany: The Effect of Projected Demographic Decline on Perceptions of Who Has a Migration Background	4
Education and Social Fluidity: A Reweighting Approach	4
The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook during the U.S. 2020 Election	4
The Inequality of Lifetime Pensions	4
Emerging Pronoun Practices After the Procedural Turn: Disclosure, Discovery, and Repair	4
Schedule Unpredictability and High-Cost Debt: The Case of Service Workers	4
Life-Course Differences in Occupational Mobility Between Vocationally and Generally Trained Workers in Germany	4
Institutional Survival under Extreme State Repression and Subsequent Revival	4
How to Make a Functionalist Argument	4
The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom	3
The Effect of Workplace Raids on Academic Performance: Evidence from Texas	3
Evolutionary Influences on Assistance to Kin: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics	3
Measuring Memberships in Collectives in Light of Developments in Cognitive Science and Natural-Language Processing	3
Prosociality Beyond In-Group Boundaries: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Selection and Intergroup Interactions in a Multiethnic European Metropolis	3
Teacher Bias in Assessments by Student Ascribed Status: A Factorial Experiment on Discrimination in Education	3
From Social Alignment to Social Control: Reporting the Taliban in Afghanistan	3
Prejudice, Bigotry, and Support for Compensatory Interventions to Address Black–White Inequalities: Evidence from the General Social Survey, 2006 to 2020	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
Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment	2
When Do Haters Act? Peer Evaluation, Negative Relationships, and Brokerage	2
Do Organizational Policies Narrow Gender Inequality? Novel Evidence from Longitudinal Employer–Employee Data	2
An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences	2
Factorial Survey Experiments to Predict Real-World Behavior: A Cautionary Tale from Hiring Studies	2
Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities at Work	2
Layered Legacies. How Multiple Histories Shaped the Attitudes of Contemporary Europeans	2
Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class	2
Getting a Foot in the Door: A Meta-Analysis of U.S. Audit Studies of Gender Bias in Hiring	2
Intergenerational Social Mobility Among the Children of Immigrants in Western Europe: Between Socioeconomic Assimilation and Disadvantage	2
The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation	2