OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of RSF-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 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
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	73
Listening to the Voices of America	32
The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality	29
Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality	29
Finding Integrated Schools? Latino Families Settle in Diverse Suburbs, 2000–2015	27
Hyper-Illegality, Reentry, and Everyday Life in the United States Post-Deportation	27
Tale of Two Storms: Neighborhood Racial Change After Hurricanes Sandy and Harvey	24
Why Reparations? Race and Public Opinion Toward Reparations	23
The Shift to Stock-Based Compensation and the Asian American–White Pay Gap Revisited	22
Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data	21
Do Perceptions of Privilege Enhance—or Impede—Perceptions of Intelligence? Evidence from a National Survey Experiment	19
Settlement Duration Matters: Deportation Threat and Safety Net Participation Among Mixed-Status Families	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
No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19	18
How Asian Americans Fare in the Labor Market: The Intersection of Education, Gender, and Ethnicity	16
A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts	15
The Social and Political Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Introduction	14
Social Class Targeting of Property Buyouts	14
The Revolving Door of Risk: Climate Hazards, Risk Containment, and the Hidden Social Dynamics of Managed Retreat	13
Living Alone for Black and White Men and Women over Four Decades, 1980–2019	13
Place, History, and Food Apartheid: Reframing How Low-Income Black Mothers Make Ends Meet	13
Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Local Proposals for Black Reparations	12
Not Just White Soccer Moms: Voting in Suburbia in the 2016 and 2020 Elections	12
Ethnoracial Transformations? Linking Administrative Data to Explain Changes in Identification	12
Inequality and the Status Window: Inequality, Conflict, and the Salience of Status Differences in Conflicts over Resources	11

“I Used to Get WIC . . . But Then I Stopped”: How WIC Participants Perceive the Value and Burdens of Maintaining Benefits	11
Urgent Returns: The Link Between Family and the Remigration Intentions of Deported Central Americans in an Era of Border Externalization	11
Crafting Democratic Futures: Understanding Political Conditions and Racialized Attitudes Toward Black Reparations	11
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Educational Attainment	11
Narrowing the Gender Wage Gap Among Computer Science Professionals: What Differentiates the Earnings of Asian and White Workers?	10
Income Dynamics and Income Inadequacy at the Transition to Parenthood, 1983–2019	10
The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020: Continuity, Change, and Implications	10
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Latino Immigrants	9
Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children	9
Catching Up and Coping in the COVID Economy	9
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems	9
Motivated by Money? Class, Gender, Race, and Workers’ Accounts of Platform-Based Gig Work Participation	9
Do Consequences of Parental Job Displacement for Infant Health Vary Across Local Economic Contexts?	9
Racial and Ethnic Status Distinctions and Discrimination: The Effects of Prior Contact and Group Interaction	8
Some Surviving, Others Thriving: Inequality in Loss and Coping During the Pandemic	8
Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Economic Exchange and Relational Work in Doubled-Up Households	8
Life During COVID for Court-Involved People	7
Introduction: The Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19	7
The “Rise” of Multiracials? Examining the Growth in Multiracial Identification in the 2020 U.S. Census	7
“But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!” How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs	7
Caregiving in a Crisis: Mothers’ Parenting Experiences and the Persistence of Class-Based Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Inequality in the Origins and Experiences of Pain: What “Big (Qualitative) Data” Reveal About Social Suffering in the United States	7
The Transition from Prison to Community	7
Institutional Capacities, Partisan Divisions, and Federal Tensions in U.S. Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
How Americans Judge: A Topology of Moral Communities	6
Growing Adaptability Among Undocumented Communities During Climate-Induced Disasters: An Analysis of the Role of Migrant-Serving Organizations	6
The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility	6
Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-Related Discourse Across Social Class	6
Exploring the Trade-Off Between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneous Responses to Adversity and Disruptive Events Among Disadvantaged Black Youth	6
Depopulation, Deaths, Diversity, and Deprivation: The 4Ds of Rural Population Change	5
Three Decades Since Making Ends Meet : How Single-Mother Families Survive Today	5
The Black Suburban Sort: Is Suburbanization Diversifying Blacks’ Racial Attitudes?	5
Fifty Worlds of Welfare: State Discretion and Social Citizenship Since 1994	5
Stalled Progress? Five Decades of Black-White and Rural-Urban Income Gaps	5
Gender Minority Status and Family Inequality in the United States	5
The Political Implications of Economic Lives: Listening to AVP Respondents’ Perceptions of Efficacy	5
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	5
Betting on Business: How Family Wealth and Ethnic Capital Shape Choices and Constraints for Chinese Americans’ Entrepreneurial Pathways	5
COVID-19 and Emergency Rental Assistance: Impact on Rent Arrears, Debt, and the Well-Being of Renters in Philadelphia	5
Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status: Women’s Deference to Men in Wealthy Families	5
Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans	5
The Not-So-New South Suburbs: Asian Immigration and the Politics of School Integration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina	4
Making Sense of Health-Related Labor-Market Exits and Disability: Evidence from the American Voices Project	4
The Impact of Remote Hearing Policies on Racial Equity in Criminal Case Outcomes During the Pandemic	4
Multiple Meritocracies: A Text-Based Analysis of Personal Narratives Revealing Distinct Frames of Success	4
Representative Voices: Native American Representation, Political Power, and COVID-19 in U.S. States	4
Introduction	4
The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality	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
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010	4
Frontiers of Research on Racial Inequalities in Criminal Justice	4
Administrative Burdens in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs	4
Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans	3
Nonmarital Childbearing and Family Structure Among Asian Americans: The Role of Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity, and Immigration	3
“We Keep Each Other Safe”: San Francisco Bay Area Community-Based Organizations Respond to Enduring Crises in the COVID-19 Era	3
The Scope of Racial Bias in Policing: Behavioral Science’s Role in a Systemic Problem	3
New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York	3
Racial Diversity and Segregation: Comparing Principal Cities, Inner-Ring Suburbs, Outlying Suburbs, and the Suburban Fringe	3
Weather Extremes in Indigenous Communities in Mexico and Undocumented US Migration and Its Duration	3
Poverty Disparities and the Reconfiguration of Social Provisioning: White, Black, and Latino Single-Mother Families, 1996–2018	3
Stepping In and Stepping Away: Variation in How Children Navigate Responsibilities Stemming from Paternal Incarceration	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
Guaranteed Income Programs: Single Parents, Spending, and Debt	3
Racial-Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between an Early Elementary School ADHD Diagnosis and Later Child Well-Being	3
The Rise of the Carceral State: Foundations and Contours of a Rapidly Changing Criminal Legal System	2
The “Model Minority” from Education to the Workplace	2
The Presentation of Self in Virtual Life: Disinformation Warnings and the Spread of Misinformation Regarding COVID-19	2
Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K–12 Schools and Other Public Services	2
Administrative Burdens and Economic Insecurity Among Black, Latino, and White Families	2
“I Could Be Unemployed the Rest of the Year”: Unprecedented Times and the Challenges of “Making More”	2
Misalignment of Housing Growth and Population Trends: Cohort Size and Lagging Measurements Through Recession and Recovery	2
Climate of Exclusion: Spillover Effects of Home-Country Natural Disasters on Immigrant Removals from the United States	2
U.S. Trends in Job Stability by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity from 1996 to 2020	2
Politicizing Status Loss Among Trump Supporters in 2020	2
Using Urban Renewal Records to Advance Reparative Justice	2
Disastrous Burdens: Hurricane Katrina, Federal Housing Assistance, and Well-Being	2
Unpacking the Politics of the US Deportation System	2
Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation	2
The Social, Political, and Economic Consequences of Climate Hazards	2
Information Trust Falls: The Role of Social Networks and Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Suburbanites	2
Recipients’ Experiences of the Evolving Tax-Based Safety Net: The Case of the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit	2
The Politics of Expedience: Evanston, Illinois, and the Fight for Reparations	2
How Helping Can Reinforce or Attenuate Status Inequalities: The Case of Nonprofit Organizations	2