OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	54
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	42
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	40
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	37
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	31
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	31
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	25
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	25
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	20
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	20
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	18
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	18
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	17
Instrumenting the Online Information Environment	17
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	16
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	16
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	16
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	15
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	13
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	13
Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	12
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	12
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	12
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	12
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	12

First Surveillance: An Anthropology of Gen Z Parental Internet Supervision	11
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	11
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	10
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	10
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	10
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	10
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	9
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	9
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	9
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	9
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	9
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	8
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	8
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	8
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	8
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	8
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	8
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	8
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	8
Introduction	8
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	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 Myths of Platform Governance: How Tech Works to Create Online Trust and Safety	8
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	8
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
Community Supervision and Employment	7
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	7
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Well-Being	7
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	7
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool: An Analysis of the New Evidence	7
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	7
Inside the Launch: Product Design, Platform Power, and the New Rules of Governance	7
Not Quite the Wild West, Not Entirely Black Boxes: The Governance of Online Platforms and the Evolving Field of Trust and Safety	7
Is the Business of the Court (Still) Business?	7
An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News: Policy Mechanisms and Challenges to Impact	7
“I Can’t Get Ahold of Them”: Perceptions of Administrative Burden and Administrative Exclusion across SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid during the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context	6
Understanding Risk and Implementing Data-Driven Solutions for Firearm Suicide	6
Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits over the Past Three Decades	6
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Poverty	6
A Lost Decade: Policymakers Fiddled as Newsrooms Burned	6
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	6
Improving Social Media with Middleware	6
Why Resistance to the Executive Power Grab in Tunisia Is Failing	6
Reducing Complexity to Support Families Navigating Early Care and Education Systems	6
Building a Healthy Online Ecosystem: Purpose-Driven Organizational Culture and Diverse Workforces	6
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing Laws in Reducing Gun Violence	6
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland	6
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries	6

The Post-API Age of Social Media Data Access: Past, Present, and Future	6
Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies	5
A Media Insider’s Wish List for Saving Local Journalism	5
Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity	5
Of Mukhalas and Magafe : Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa	5
Politics by Other Means: Civic Education in a Time of Controversy	5
Research on the Effects of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Observations and Recommendations	5
Legacies of the War on Poverty	5
From Prison to Entrepreneurship: Can Entrepreneurship be a Reentry Strategy for Justice-Impacted Individuals?	5
Assessing the Civic-Building Capacities of Schools: Early Findings from a Survey of Parents and Students	5
Single-Parent Families and Public Policy in High-Income Countries: Introduction to the Volume	5
Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?	5
Effective Policies for Single-Parent Families and Prospects for Policy Reforms in the United States: Concluding Reflections	4
Economics and Public Health: Two Perspectives on Firearm Injury Prevention	4
Social and Structural Determinants of Community Firearm Violence and Community Trauma	4
Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children	4
The Consequences of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion: An Introduction to the Volume	4
Middleware and the Illusory Promise of End-User Control	4
Freedom of Speech in the Post-Floyd Era: Public Support for Political Tolerance	4
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance	4
Fiscal Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on State and Local Governments	4
Single Parents Competing in a Dual-Earner Society: Social Policy to Level the Playing Field	4
Elite Collusion and Creeping Authoritarianism in Nicaragua: Lessons on Democratic Backsliding from an Outlier Case	4
Knowledge of, about, for, and against Criminalized Migration	4
The Child Tax Credit and Family Well-Being: An Overview of Reforms and Impacts	4
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic	4
Has the Opioid Crisis Affected Student Learning? A National Analysis of Growth Rates	3
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Parents’ Psychological Well-Being	3
Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court, and American Constitutionalism	3
The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And What Comes Next?	3
The Problem with “Most People”: Racism and Ableism in U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Communication	3
How Multi-disciplinary Research Centers and Networks Can Advance the Science of Firearm Injury Prevention	3
Race, Affirmative Action, Antidiscrimination, and the Roberts Court	3
American Democracy and Voter Suppression	3
Fewer Burdens but Greater Inequality? Reevaluating the Safety Net through the Lens of Administrative Burden	3
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence	3
Effects of Opioid Treatment Programs on Child Well-Being	3
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	3
Legislative Capture in Hungary: Well-Managed Autocratization	3
From Supervision to Opportunity: Reimagining Probation and Parole	3
The Politics of Engagement in Platform Governance	3
How Tax Credits Can Support Formerly Incarcerated Individuals and Their Families	3
The Macroeconomy and Poverty	3
Media Policy for an Informed Citizenry: Revisiting the Information Needs of Communities for Democracy in Crisis	3
Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank	3
Local-Level Information-Seeking in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Repertoire Approach	3