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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Hysteresis and the sociological perspective in a time of crisis	17
Overcoming failure in higher education: Social inequalities and compensatory advantage in dropout patterns	16
Gender differences in child and adolescent daily activities: A cross-national time use study	11
Has the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo fuelled resistance towards Muslim immigrants in Europe? Results from a natural experiment in six European countries	11
Too many immigrants: How does local diversity contribute to attitudes toward immigration?	11
Why do people perceive themselves as being downwardly or upwardly mobile?	11
Unemployment and political trust across 24 Western democracies: Evidence on a welfare state paradox	10
The worth of art education: Students’ justifications of a contestable educational choice	10
Who moves from fixed-term to open-ended contracts? Youth employment transitions in a segmented labour market	9
The welfare state criticism of the losers of modernization: How social experiences of resentment shape populist welfare critique	9
The opportunity structure of segregation: School choice and school segregation in Sweden	9
The role of culture in the gendered division of domestic labor: Evidence from migrant populations in Europe	8
Narratives of the mystical among users of psychedelics	8
Labour migration and increasing inequality in Norway	7
Social origin and compensation patterns over the occupational career in Italy	7
Participation in labour market programmes: A positive or negative signal of employability?	6
Constructing fatherhood in the North and South: Paid parental leave, work and care in Iceland and Spain	6
A socio-spatial research agenda on the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Career stability in turbulent times: A cross-cohort study of mid-careers in Finland	5
Employment among female immigrants to Europe	5
Gender differences and similarities in work preferences: Results from a factorial survey experiment	5
The institutional machinery of expertise: Producing facts, figures and futures in COVID-19	4
Understanding the immigrant-native gap in childcare use: An empirical exploration for 21 European countries	4
Ambivalent perceptions of the Other: Towards a dual-process sociology of intercultural relations	4
Big data, big problems: Why scientists should refrain from using Google Trends	4

How material deprivation impacted economic stress across European countries during the great recession. A lesson on social comparisons	4
Need, competence and compliance: Selective empowering in the distribution of medical technologies in the Norwegian health care system	3
The unwilling foils of the political right: The cultural elite in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers	3
How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state?	3
When and how does volunteering influence wages? – Evidence from panel data	3
A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in tertiary education	3
Divorce and female labour force participation: Do women who expect an upcoming divorce increase their employment? Evidence from Flanders	2
Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States	2
Does housing instability matter for youths’ educational attainment? Findings from Swedish longitudinal register data	2
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence	2
A need to be recognised: On the importance of shared semantics for young adults while not in education or employment	2
Resisting or maintaining gender inequality? Wedding traditions among Norwegian millennials	2
Formal commitments versus actual practices? Narratives as tools of epistemic governance in the debate over Finnish forestry	2
Pharmaceutical lobbying and pandemic stockpiling: A feeling of déjà vu in the Nordic countries and why the sociological perspective is crucial to understand COVID-19	2
The effects of parenting on early adolescents’ noncognitive skills: Evidence from a sample of twins in Germany	2
The impact of having a child with special needs: Labour market adaptations of immigrant and majority mothers	2
The role of partnering and assortative mating for income inequality: The case of Finland, 1991–2014	2