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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	32
Listening to the Voices of America	24
Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality	23
The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality	21
Why Reparations? Race and Public Opinion Toward Reparations	20
Finding Integrated Schools? Latino Families Settle in Diverse Suburbs, 2000–2015	20
No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19	16
Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes: (Un)desired and (Un)planned Reasons for Changing Childcare Arrangements	14
Social, Resource, and Institution Disruptions and the Evolving Lives of Economically Vulnerable Older Adults: Implications for Policies and Programs in the New Normal	14
Do Perceptions of Privilege Enhance—or Impede—Perceptions of Intelligence? Evidence from a National Survey Experiment	14
The Social and Political Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Introduction	14
Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data	14
A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts	14
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	13
Living Alone for Black and White Men and Women over Four Decades, 1980–2019	13
Inequality and the Status Window: Inequality, Conflict, and the Salience of Status Differences in Conflicts over Resources	12
Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Local Proposals for Black Reparations	12
Ethnoracial Transformations? Linking Administrative Data to Explain Changes in Identification	12
“I Used to Get WIC . . . But Then I Stopped”: How WIC Participants Perceive the Value and Burdens of Maintaining Benefits	12
Growing Up in Rural America	12
Crafting Democratic Futures: Understanding Political Conditions and Racialized Attitudes Toward Black Reparations	11
The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020: Continuity, Change, and Implications	11
Not Just White Soccer Moms: Voting in Suburbia in the 2016 and 2020 Elections	11
Do Consequences of Parental Job Displacement for Infant Health Vary Across Local Economic Contexts?	10
Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children	10

Motivated by Money? Class, Gender, Race, and Workers’ Accounts of Platform-Based Gig Work Participation	10
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems	10
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Educational Attainment	10
Catching Up and Coping in the COVID Economy	10
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Latino Immigrants	9
Caregiving in a Crisis: Mothers’ Parenting Experiences and the Persistence of Class-Based Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Institutional Capacities, Partisan Divisions, and Federal Tensions in U.S. Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Monetary Sanctions and Symbiotic Harms	9
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions	9
Some Surviving, Others Thriving: Inequality in Loss and Coping During the Pandemic	9
Reinforcing the Web of Municipal Courts: Evidence and Implications Post-Ferguson	9
Racial and Ethnic Status Distinctions and Discrimination: The Effects of Prior Contact and Group Interaction	9
Sensemaking in the Legal System: A Comparative Case Study of Changes to Monetary Sanction Laws	9
Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Life During COVID for Court-Involved People	9
“But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!” How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs	8
Inequality in the Origins and Experiences of Pain: What “Big (Qualitative) Data” Reveal About Social Suffering in the United States	8
Introduction: The Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19	8
The “Rise” of Multiracials? Examining the Growth in Multiracial Identification in the 2020 U.S. Census	7
The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility	7
Native Americans and Monetary Sanctions	7
How Americans Judge: A Topology of Moral Communities	7
Families’ Job Characteristics and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Differences by Income, Race-Ethnicity, and Nativity	7
“Disconnected” Men: Understanding Men’s Joint Roles as Workers and Romantic Partners	7
COVID-19 and Emergency Rental Assistance: Impact on Rent Arrears, Debt, and the Well-Being of Renters in Philadelphia	6
Stalled Progress? Five Decades of Black-White and Rural-Urban Income Gaps	6
Coming of Age in Appalachia, Emerging or Expedited Adulthood?	6
Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-Related Discourse Across Social Class	6
Depopulation, Deaths, Diversity, and Deprivation: The 4Ds of Rural Population Change	6
Exploring the Trade-Off Between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneous Responses to Adversity and Disruptive Events Among Disadvantaged Black Youth	6
Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status: Women’s Deference to Men in Wealthy Families	5
Rural Kids and Wealth	5
Gender Minority Status and Family Inequality in the United States	5
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	5
The Black Suburban Sort: Is Suburbanization Diversifying Blacks’ Racial Attitudes?	5
The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity	5
The Political Implications of Economic Lives: Listening to AVP Respondents’ Perceptions of Efficacy	5
Do Federal Place-Based Policies Improve Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities?	4
Making Sense of Health-Related Labor-Market Exits and Disability: Evidence from the American Voices Project	4
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America	4
The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality	4
Growing Up in Rural America	4
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010	4
Representative Voices: Native American Representation, Political Power, and COVID-19 in U.S. States	4
Moving Out to Move Up: Higher Education as a Mobility Pathway in the Rural South	4
Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans	4
The Impact of Remote Hearing Policies on Racial Equity in Criminal Case Outcomes During the Pandemic	4
Introduction	4
Racial Diversity and Segregation: Comparing Principal Cities, Inner-Ring Suburbs, Outlying Suburbs, and the Suburban Fringe	3
What Makes a Reparation Successful? A Discussion to Inform Design of Reparations to Black Americans	3

Suffering, the Safety Net, and Disparities During COVID-19	3
“We Keep Each Other Safe”: San Francisco Bay Area Community-Based Organizations Respond to Enduring Crises in the COVID-19 Era	3
Monetary Sanctions and Housing Instability	3
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions	3
Punishing Immigrants: The Consequences of Monetary Sanctions in the Crimmigration System	3
A Qualitative Examination of Work, Families, and Schools in Low-Income Latinx Communities During Strict Immigration Enforcement	3
Administrative Burdens in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs	3
“Turning Their Back on Kids”: Inclusions, Exclusions, and the Contradictions of Schooling in Gentrifying Rural Communities	3
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness	3
Administrative Burden and the Reproduction of Settler Colonialism: A Case Study of the Indian Child Welfare Act	3
Stepping In and Stepping Away: Variation in How Children Navigate Responsibilities Stemming from Paternal Incarceration	3
New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York	3
Multiple Meritocracies: A Text-Based Analysis of Personal Narratives Revealing Distinct Frames of Success	3
The Not-So-New South Suburbs: Asian Immigration and the Politics of School Integration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina	3
Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans	3
Private Probation Costs, Compliance, and the Proportionality of Punishment: Evidence from Georgia and Missouri	3
When Mamaw Becomes Mom: Social Capital and Kinship Family Formation amid the Rural Opioid Crisis	3
We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work	3