OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of RSF-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	65
The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality	36
Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality	32
Listening to the Voices of America	28
Hyper-Illegality, Reentry, and Everyday Life in the United States Post-Deportation	28
Finding Integrated Schools? Latino Families Settle in Diverse Suburbs, 2000–2015	25
Why Reparations? Race and Public Opinion Toward Reparations	24
No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19	22
Do Perceptions of Privilege Enhance—or Impede—Perceptions of Intelligence? Evidence from a National Survey Experiment	21
Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data	21
Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes: (Un)desired and (Un)planned Reasons for Changing Childcare Arrangements	20
Settlement Duration Matters: Deportation Threat and Safety Net Participation Among Mixed-Status Families	19
A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts	18
Social, Resource, and Institution Disruptions and the Evolving Lives of Economically Vulnerable Older Adults: Implications for Policies and Programs in the New Normal	18
The Social and Political Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Introduction	18
Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Local Proposals for Black Reparations	17
Living Alone for Black and White Men and Women over Four Decades, 1980–2019	16
Movin’ On Up? The Role of Growing Up Rural in Shaping Why Working-Class Men Do—and Don’t—Seek to Improve Their Labor-Market Prospects	15
Inequality and the Status Window: Inequality, Conflict, and the Salience of Status Differences in Conflicts over Resources	15
Growing Up in Rural America	15
Ethnoracial Transformations? Linking Administrative Data to Explain Changes in Identification	15
Crafting Democratic Futures: Understanding Political Conditions and Racialized Attitudes Toward Black Reparations	14
Not Just White Soccer Moms: Voting in Suburbia in the 2016 and 2020 Elections	14
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems	13
The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020: Continuity, Change, and Implications	13

The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Educational Attainment	13
Urgent Returns: The Link Between Family and the Remigration Intentions of Deported Central Americans in an Era of Border Externalization	13
“I Used to Get WIC . . . But Then I Stopped”: How WIC Participants Perceive the Value and Burdens of Maintaining Benefits	13
Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children	13
Motivated by Money? Class, Gender, Race, and Workers’ Accounts of Platform-Based Gig Work Participation	12
Catching Up and Coping in the COVID Economy	11
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Latino Immigrants	11
Do Consequences of Parental Job Displacement for Infant Health Vary Across Local Economic Contexts?	10
Some Surviving, Others Thriving: Inequality in Loss and Coping During the Pandemic	10
Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Racial and Ethnic Status Distinctions and Discrimination: The Effects of Prior Contact and Group Interaction	9
Caregiving in a Crisis: Mothers’ Parenting Experiences and the Persistence of Class-Based Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Life During COVID for Court-Involved People	9
The Transition from Prison to Community	9
Inequality in the Origins and Experiences of Pain: What “Big (Qualitative) Data” Reveal About Social Suffering in the United States	9
Institutional Capacities, Partisan Divisions, and Federal Tensions in U.S. Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
“But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!” How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs	9
Introduction: The Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19	9
“Disconnected” Men: Understanding Men’s Joint Roles as Workers and Romantic Partners	8
COVID-19 and Emergency Rental Assistance: Impact on Rent Arrears, Debt, and the Well-Being of Renters in Philadelphia	8
The “Rise” of Multiracials? Examining the Growth in Multiracial Identification in the 2020 U.S. Census	8
How Americans Judge: A Topology of Moral Communities	8
The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility	8
Families’ Job Characteristics and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Differences by Income, Race-Ethnicity, and Nativity	8
Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-Related Discourse Across Social Class	8
Depopulation, Deaths, Diversity, and Deprivation: The 4Ds of Rural Population Change	7
Coming of Age in Appalachia, Emerging or Expedited Adulthood?	7
Stalled Progress? Five Decades of Black-White and Rural-Urban Income Gaps	7
Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status: Women’s Deference to Men in Wealthy Families	7
Exploring the Trade-Off Between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneous Responses to Adversity and Disruptive Events Among Disadvantaged Black Youth	7
The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity	7
The Political Implications of Economic Lives: Listening to AVP Respondents’ Perceptions of Efficacy	6
Do Federal Place-Based Policies Improve Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities?	6
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	6
Rural Kids and Wealth	6
Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans	6
Gender Minority Status and Family Inequality in the United States	6
The Black Suburban Sort: Is Suburbanization Diversifying Blacks’ Racial Attitudes?	6
Moving Out to Move Up: Higher Education as a Mobility Pathway in the Rural South	6
The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality	5
Growing Up in Rural America	5
The Impact of Remote Hearing Policies on Racial Equity in Criminal Case Outcomes During the Pandemic	5
Multiple Meritocracies: A Text-Based Analysis of Personal Narratives Revealing Distinct Frames of Success	5
Making Sense of Health-Related Labor-Market Exits and Disability: Evidence from the American Voices Project	5
“Turning Their Back on Kids”: Inclusions, Exclusions, and the Contradictions of Schooling in Gentrifying Rural Communities	5
Frontiers of Research on Racial Inequalities in Criminal Justice	5
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010	5
Introduction	5
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness	5
“We Keep Each Other Safe”: San Francisco Bay Area Community-Based Organizations Respond to Enduring Crises in the COVID-19 Era	4

Future, Interrupted: Examining the Impact of a Large Worksite Enforcement Operation on Students’ Educational and Workforce Pathways	4
Administrative Burden and the Reproduction of Settler Colonialism: A Case Study of the Indian Child Welfare Act	4
A Qualitative Examination of Work, Families, and Schools in Low-Income Latinx Communities During Strict Immigration Enforcement	4
Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans	4
Racial Diversity and Segregation: Comparing Principal Cities, Inner-Ring Suburbs, Outlying Suburbs, and the Suburban Fringe	4
Representative Voices: Native American Representation, Political Power, and COVID-19 in U.S. States	4
New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York	4
Suffering, the Safety Net, and Disparities During COVID-19	4
What Makes a Reparation Successful? A Discussion to Inform Design of Reparations to Black Americans	4
Administrative Burdens in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs	4
The Not-So-New South Suburbs: Asian Immigration and the Politics of School Integration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina	4
Stepping In and Stepping Away: Variation in How Children Navigate Responsibilities Stemming from Paternal Incarceration	3
When Mamaw Becomes Mom: Social Capital and Kinship Family Formation amid the Rural Opioid Crisis	3
U.S. Trends in Job Stability by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity from 1996 to 2020	3
Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K–12 Schools and Other Public Services	3
Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation	3
The Politics of Expedience: Evanston, Illinois, and the Fight for Reparations	3
We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work	3
Using Urban Renewal Records to Advance Reparative Justice	3
The Scope of Racial Bias in Policing: Behavioral Science’s Role in a Systemic Problem	3
Climate of Exclusion: Spillover Effects of Home-Country Natural Disasters on Immigrant Removals from the United States	3
Disastrous Burdens: Hurricane Katrina, Federal Housing Assistance, and Well-Being	3
The Presentation of Self in Virtual Life: Disinformation Warnings and the Spread of Misinformation Regarding COVID-19	3
Racial-Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between an Early Elementary School ADHD Diagnosis and Later Child Well-Being	3
Politicizing Status Loss Among Trump Supporters in 2020	3
Information Trust Falls: The Role of Social Networks and Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Suburbanites	3
Administrative Burdens and Economic Insecurity Among Black, Latino, and White Families	3