OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Sociologica 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Professional talk on cybervetting: Accounting for a contested practise	21
Political changemakers in Norway: The strategies and political ideas of welfare providers	19
A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in tertiary education	14
How to work with Niklas Luhmann? A practical guide	13
Scientification of politics or politicisation of science? Parliamentary committee hearings on the Finnish alcohol policy reforms in 1994 and 2017 as epistemic work	10
Ambivalent perceptions of the Other: Towards a dual-process sociology of intercultural relations	9
The impact of the parental division of paid labour on depressive symptoms: The moderating role of social policies	8
How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state?	8
Formal commitments versus actual practices? Narratives as tools of epistemic governance in the debate over Finnish forestry	8
Book Review: The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion	7
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence	7
Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States	7
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis: An interactionist analysis of ethnic minority parents’ fears of child welfare services	7
Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership	5
Emergent numeracy: How the crowd wisdom of non-rounding survey respondents generates accurate immigration estimates	4
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats	4
Unraveling the role of material conditions in eco-habitus: Studying eco-friendly energy practices across social classes	4
Book Review: Civic Engagement in Scandinavia: Volunteering, Informal Help and Giving in Denmark, Norway and Sweden	4
Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate	4
Work–family conflict: A classed phenomenon?	4
Book Review: The Racialized Social System	4
Book Review: The New Handbook of Political Sociology	4
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance	3
Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology	3
Book Review: Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry	3

Are general skills important for vocationally educated?	3
The neglected organisation of failure: Activities, infrastructures and subjectivities	3
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory DunajĽubomír, SmithJeremy, and MertelKurt (eds.), Civilization, Modernity, and Criti	2
Social background and school track choice: An analysis informed by the rational choice framework	2
Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?	2
Balancing acts of kindness: Reassessing the relationship between informal helping and formal volunteering	2
Book Review: Post-Democracy: After the Crises	2
Radical right support and the deepened rural-urban and educational divides among younger generations	2
Book Review: COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities	2
A need to be recognised: On the importance of shared semantics for young adults while not in education or employment	2
Book Review: Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution	2
Towards ‘augmented sociology’? A practice-oriented framework for using large language model-powered chatbots	2
Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization: Crime and local institutions, the case of the UK	2
When Baehr met Steffen: Appraising classicality through the lens of neglect	2
Of babies, bathwater, and big data: Going beneath the surface of Franzén’s (2023) Google Trends recommendations	2
Searching for lasting biculturalism: An Imitation Game inquiry	2
Selective re-partnering? Mental health and life satisfaction among separated single mothers in Germany and the UK	2
Researching high-skilled migrants between social stratification and methodological nationalism	2
Planning for the future in the shadow of the polycrisis: Young women's uncertain transitions to adulthood	2