OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 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
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	101
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	71
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	61
Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults	51
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	45
Does Increasing Immigration Affect Ethnic Minority Groups?	44
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	38
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	35
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	31
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	29
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	27
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	27
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	24
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	24
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	24
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	24
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	23
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	22
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	21
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	21
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	20
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	19
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	18
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	18
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	17

Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	17
North American Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration in the Time of COVID-19: The Role of National Attachment and Threat	17
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	17
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	15
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	15
Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	13
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	13
When Public Health Crises Become Entwined: How Trends in COVID-19, Deaths of Despair, and Well-Being Track across the United States	12
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	12
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	11
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	11
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	11
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	10
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	10
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	10
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	9
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	9
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	9
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	8
Migration Decision-Making and Its Key Dimensions	8
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	8
Introduction	8
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	8
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	8
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	7
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	7
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	7
Immigration and the Future of the Welfare State in Europe	7
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool: An Analysis of the New Evidence	6
Crashing without a Parachute: Racial and Educational Disparities in Unemployment during COVID-19	6
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	6
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	6
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	6
Is the Business of the Court (Still) Business?	6
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	6
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	6
The “Infodemic” Infodemic: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Truth-Claims and the Need for (Not) Combatting Misinformation	6
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	6
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	6
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Well-Being	5
An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News: Policy Mechanisms and Challenges to Impact	5
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	5
The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context	5
“I Can’t Get Ahold of Them”: Perceptions of Administrative Burden and Administrative Exclusion across SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
COVID-19 as America’s Stress Test	5
Reducing Complexity to Support Families Navigating Early Care and Education Systems	5
In Electoral Disputes, State Justices Are Less Reliable GOP Allies than the U.S. Supreme Court—That’s the “Problem” the Independent State Legislature Claim Hopes to Solve	5

Community Supervision and Employment	5
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Poverty	5
Understanding Risk and Implementing Data-Driven Solutions for Firearm Suicide	5
Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits over the Past Three Decades	5
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland	4
A Lost Decade: Policymakers Fiddled as Newsrooms Burned	4
Single-Parent Families and Public Policy in High-Income Countries: Introduction to the Volume	4
Politics by Other Means: Civic Education in a Time of Controversy	4
Legacies of the War on Poverty	4
Research on the Effects of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Observations and Recommendations	4
Why Resistance to the Executive Power Grab in Tunisia Is Failing	4
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries	4
A Media Insider’s Wish List for Saving Local Journalism	4
Inequality and Misperceptions of Group Concerns Threaten the Integrity and Societal Impact of Science	4
Assessing the Civic-Building Capacities of Schools: Early Findings from a Survey of Parents and Students	4
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing Laws in Reducing Gun Violence	4
The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability	4
Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies	4
From Prison to Entrepreneurship: Can Entrepreneurship be a Reentry Strategy for Justice-Impacted Individuals?	4
Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa	4
Social and Structural Determinants of Community Firearm Violence and Community Trauma	3
The Macroeconomy and Poverty	3
Knowledge of, about, for, and against Criminalized Migration	3
Elite Collusion and Creeping Authoritarianism in Nicaragua: Lessons on Democratic Backsliding from an Outlier Case	3
Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity	3
Introduction: The COVID-19 Shock to Our Deep Inequities: How to Mitigate the Impact	3
The Child Tax Credit and Family Well-Being: An Overview of Reforms and Impacts	3
Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children	3
Fiscal Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on State and Local Governments	3
Socioeconomic Status as a Risk Factor in Economic and Physical Harm from COVID-19: Evidence from the United States	3
Freedom of Speech in the Post-Floyd Era: Public Support for Political Tolerance	3
Single Parents Competing in a Dual-Earner Society: Social Policy to Level the Playing Field	3
Changing Americans’ Attitudes about Immigration: Using Moral Framing to Bolster Factual Arguments	3
Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?	3
Economics and Public Health: Two Perspectives on Firearm Injury Prevention	3
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance	3
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic	3
Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court, and American Constitutionalism	3
When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict: Recognizing the Public’s Need for Debate while Combating Conspiracies and Misinformation	3
A Partisan Pandemic: How COVID-19 Was Primed for Polarization	3
Effective Policies for Single-Parent Families and Prospects for Policy Reforms in the United States: Concluding Reflections	3
The Consequences of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion: An Introduction to the Volume	3
Civil Society, Realized: Equipping the Mass Public to Express Choice and Negotiate Power	3
“Good Citizens” in Democratic Hard Times	3
Measuring What Matters: Data Absenteeism, Science Communication, and the Perpetuation of Inequities	3
How Tax Credits Can Support Formerly Incarcerated Individuals and Their Families	3
The Fine Art of Camouflage: Migrant-Drug Distributors Negotiating Police Interactions in Switzerland	2
Has the Opioid Crisis Affected Student Learning? A National Analysis of Growth Rates	2
The Roberts Court and Executive Power	2
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Parents’ Psychological Well-Being	2
Legislative Capture in Hungary: Well-Managed Autocratization	2
Local-Level Information-Seeking in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Repertoire Approach	2
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Colorado: An Interview with Dr. Ki’i Powell, Ian McMahon, Michael Martinez-Schiferl, Rebecca Balu, and Samantha O’Neill Dunbar	2
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence	2
From Supervision to Opportunity: Reimagining Probation and Parole	2
What Will This Do for the Poor? Rebecca Blank’s Economic Theology	2
The Anxiety of Political Uncertainty: Insights from the Brexit Vote	2
Who Uses the Social Safety Net? Trends in Public Benefit Use among American Households with Children, 1980–2020	2
Can Black Lives Matter within U.S. Democracy?	2
American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion	2
Effects of Opioid Treatment Programs on Child Well-Being	2
The Problem with “Most People”: Racism and Ableism in U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Communication	2
Race, Affirmative Action, Antidiscrimination, and the Roberts Court	2
The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And What Comes Next?	2
Job-Related Programs for People on Supervision: Reframing the Problem	2
Beyond the Police: Community-Led Partnerships for Meaningful Crime Prevention and Social Justice	2
American Democracy and Voter Suppression	2
Urban Space and Social Cognition: The Effect of Urban Space on Intergroup Perceptions	2
“What Is Truth?” Negotiating Christian Convert Asylum Seekers’ Credibility	2
Media Policy for an Informed Citizenry: Revisiting the Information Needs of Communities for Democracy in Crisis	2
Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank	2
Fewer Burdens but Greater Inequality? Reevaluating the Safety Net through the Lens of Administrative Burden	2
How Multi-disciplinary Research Centers and Networks Can Advance the Science of Firearm Injury Prevention	2