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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	92
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	64
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	50
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	45
Does Increasing Immigration Affect Ethnic Minority Groups?	41
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	39
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	37
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	32
Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults	30
Access to Health Insurance and Health Care for Hispanic Children in the United States	29
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	27
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	23
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	22
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	22
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	22
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	22
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	21
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	20
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	19
North American Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration in the Time of COVID-19: The Role of National Attachment and Threat	19
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	19
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	18
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	18
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	17
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	17

Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	17
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	17
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	16
When Public Health Crises Become Entwined: How Trends in COVID-19, Deaths of Despair, and Well-Being Track across the United States	15
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	14
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	14
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	14
Beyond the Tipping Point: Searching for a New Vision for Latino College Success in the United States	13
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	12
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	12
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	11
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	11
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	11
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	10
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	10
Migration Decision-Making and Its Key Dimensions	9
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	9
Introduction	9
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	9
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	9
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	9
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
Understanding the Influence of Latino Diversity over Child Poverty in the United States	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
Opportunity and Place: Latino Children and America’s Future	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	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
Taking an Equity Lens: Reconceptualizing Research on Latinx Students’ Schooling Experiences and Educational Outcomes	7
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
Immigration and the Future of the Welfare State in Europe	7
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	7
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	7
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	7
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	7
Why Resistance to the Executive Power Grab in Tunisia Is Failing	6
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	6
Community Supervision and Employment	6
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland	6
Crashing without a Parachute: Racial and Educational Disparities in Unemployment during COVID-19	6
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	6
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing Laws in Reducing Gun Violence	6
An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News: Policy Mechanisms and Challenges to Impact	6
The “Infodemic” Infodemic: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Truth-Claims and the Need for (Not) Combatting Misinformation	6
“I Can’t Get Ahold of Them”: Perceptions of Administrative Burden and Administrative Exclusion across SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries	5
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Poverty	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
Reducing Complexity to Support Families Navigating Early Care and Education Systems	5
COVID-19 as America’s Stress Test	5

Investing in Latino Children and Youth: Volume Introduction and Overview	5
Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits over the Past Three Decades	5
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Well-Being	5
A Lost Decade: Policymakers Fiddled as Newsrooms Burned	5
The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context	5
Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa	4
The Consequences of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion: An Introduction to the Volume	4
The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability	4
Politics by Other Means: Civic Education in a Time of Controversy	4
From Prison to Entrepreneurship: Can Entrepreneurship be a Reentry Strategy for Justice-Impacted Individuals?	4
Legacies of the War on Poverty	4
Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity	4
Research on the Effects of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Observations and Recommendations	4
A Media Insider’s Wish List for Saving Local Journalism	4
Assessing the Civic-Building Capacities of Schools: Early Findings from a Survey of Parents and Students	4
Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?	4
Single-Parent Families and Public Policy in High-Income Countries: Introduction to the Volume	4
Understanding Risk and Implementing Data-Driven Solutions for Firearm Suicide	4
Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies	4
Changing Americans’ Attitudes about Immigration: Using Moral Framing to Bolster Factual Arguments	3
Single Parents Competing in a Dual-Earner Society: Social Policy to Level the Playing Field	3
Economics and Public Health: Two Perspectives on Firearm Injury Prevention	3
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance	3
When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict: Recognizing the Public’s Need for Debate while Combating Conspiracies and Misinformation	3
Fiscal Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on State and Local Governments	3
Inequality and Misperceptions of Group Concerns Threaten the Integrity and Societal Impact of Science	3
Introduction: The COVID-19 Shock to Our Deep Inequities: How to Mitigate the Impact	3
“Good Citizens” in Democratic Hard Times	3
Elite Collusion and Creeping Authoritarianism in Nicaragua: Lessons on Democratic Backsliding from an Outlier Case	3
The Child Tax Credit and Family Well-Being: An Overview of Reforms and Impacts	3
Socioeconomic Status as a Risk Factor in Economic and Physical Harm from COVID-19: Evidence from the United States	3
Civil Society, Realized: Equipping the Mass Public to Express Choice and Negotiate Power	3
Freedom of Speech in the Post-Floyd Era: Public Support for Political Tolerance	3
Effective Policies for Single-Parent Families and Prospects for Policy Reforms in the United States: Concluding Reflections	3
Knowledge of, about, for, and against Criminalized Migration	3
A Partisan Pandemic: How COVID-19 Was Primed for Polarization	3
Social and Structural Determinants of Community Firearm Violence and Community Trauma	3
The Macroeconomy and Poverty	3
American Democracy and Voter Suppression	2
Effects of Opioid Treatment Programs on Child Well-Being	2
The Fine Art of Camouflage: Migrant-Drug Distributors Negotiating Police Interactions in Switzerland	2
Local-Level Information-Seeking in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Repertoire Approach	2
Gender and Educational Differentials in Marital Sorting of Hispanic Young Adults	2
Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank	2
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic	2
“What Is Truth?” Negotiating Christian Convert Asylum Seekers’ Credibility	2
The Anxiety of Political Uncertainty: Insights from the Brexit Vote	2
Does the “Fascism Debate” Matter for Understanding 2024 American Politics?	2
Job-Related Programs for People on Supervision: Reframing the Problem	2
Urban Space and Social Cognition: The Effect of Urban Space on Intergroup Perceptions	2
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Parents’ Psychological Well-Being	2
Legislative Capture in Hungary: Well-Managed Autocratization	2
Fewer Burdens but Greater Inequality? Reevaluating the Safety Net through the Lens of Administrative Burden	2
From Supervision to Opportunity: Reimagining Probation and Parole	2
Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children	2
How Tax Credits Can Support Formerly Incarcerated Individuals and Their Families	2
Measuring What Matters: Data Absenteeism, Science Communication, and the Perpetuation of Inequities	2
Democratic Vulnerabilities and Pathways for Reform	2
Between Informality and (Il)legality: Congolese Migrants’ Survival Mechanisms in South Africa	2
Implications of Alternative Designs of the Child Tax Credit	2
The Health of Hispanic Children from Birth to Emerging Adulthood	2
Has the Opioid Crisis Affected Student Learning? A National Analysis of Growth Rates	2
How Multi-disciplinary Research Centers and Networks Can Advance the Science of Firearm Injury Prevention	2
Media Policy for an Informed Citizenry: Revisiting the Information Needs of Communities for Democracy in Crisis	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
The Problem with “Most People”: Racism and Ableism in U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Communication	2
American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion	2
Who Uses the Social Safety Net? Trends in Public Benefit Use among American Households with Children, 1980–2020	2
What Will This Do for the Poor? Rebecca Blank’s Economic Theology	2
Can Black Lives Matter within U.S. Democracy?	2