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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	120
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	81
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	59
Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults	49
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	47
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	41
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	37
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	35
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	32
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	32
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	31
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	31
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	29
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	28
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	27
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	26
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	25
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	23
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	23
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	22
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	22
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	21
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	19
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	19
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	19

Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	18
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	17
Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	16
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	15
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	15
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	13
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	13
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	13
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	13
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	11
When Public Health Crises Become Entwined: How Trends in COVID-19, Deaths of Despair, and Well-Being Track across the United States	11
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	10
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	10
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	9
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	9
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	9
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	9
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	9
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	9
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	8
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	8
Introduction	8
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	8
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	8
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	8
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
The “Infodemic” Infodemic: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Truth-Claims and the Need for (Not) Combatting Misinformation	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	7
Is the Business of the Court (Still) Business?	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
Crashing without a Parachute: Racial and Educational Disparities in Unemployment during COVID-19	7
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	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
COVID-19 as America’s Stress Test	6
Reducing Complexity to Support Families Navigating Early Care and Education Systems	6
An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News: Policy Mechanisms and Challenges to Impact	6
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	6
Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits over the Past Three Decades	6
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Well-Being	6
Community Supervision and Employment	6
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool: An Analysis of the New Evidence	6
The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context	6
Understanding Risk and Implementing Data-Driven Solutions for Firearm Suicide	6
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland	5
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries	5

A Media Insider’s Wish List for Saving Local Journalism	5
From Prison to Entrepreneurship: Can Entrepreneurship be a Reentry Strategy for Justice-Impacted Individuals?	5
A Lost Decade: Policymakers Fiddled as Newsrooms Burned	5
Research on the Effects of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Observations and Recommendations	5
The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability	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
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
Why Resistance to the Executive Power Grab in Tunisia Is Failing	5
Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies	5
Politics by Other Means: Civic Education in a Time of Controversy	5
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Poverty	5
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing Laws in Reducing Gun Violence	5
When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict: Recognizing the Public’s Need for Debate while Combating Conspiracies and Misinformation	4
Legacies of the War on Poverty	4
Changing Americans’ Attitudes about Immigration: Using Moral Framing to Bolster Factual Arguments	4
Introduction: The COVID-19 Shock to Our Deep Inequities: How to Mitigate the Impact	4
Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa	4
A Partisan Pandemic: How COVID-19 Was Primed for Polarization	4
The Child Tax Credit and Family Well-Being: An Overview of Reforms and Impacts	4
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance	4
Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?	4
Inequality and Misperceptions of Group Concerns Threaten the Integrity and Societal Impact of Science	4
Single Parents Competing in a Dual-Earner Society: Social Policy to Level the Playing Field	4
Knowledge of, about, for, and against Criminalized Migration	4
Freedom of Speech in the Post-Floyd Era: Public Support for Political Tolerance	4
Socioeconomic Status as a Risk Factor in Economic and Physical Harm from COVID-19: Evidence from the United States	4
Effective Policies for Single-Parent Families and Prospects for Policy Reforms in the United States: Concluding Reflections	4
“Good Citizens” in Democratic Hard Times	4
The Consequences of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion: An Introduction to the Volume	4
Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity	4
Elite Collusion and Creeping Authoritarianism in Nicaragua: Lessons on Democratic Backsliding from an Outlier Case	4
Civil Society, Realized: Equipping the Mass Public to Express Choice and Negotiate Power	4
Economics and Public Health: Two Perspectives on Firearm Injury Prevention	4
Media Policy for an Informed Citizenry: Revisiting the Information Needs of Communities for Democracy in Crisis	3
Beyond the Police: Community-Led Partnerships for Meaningful Crime Prevention and Social Justice	3
Legislative Capture in Hungary: Well-Managed Autocratization	3
How Multi-disciplinary Research Centers and Networks Can Advance the Science of Firearm Injury Prevention	3
Effects of Opioid Treatment Programs on Child Well-Being	3
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence	3
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic	3
Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children	3
Social and Structural Determinants of Community Firearm Violence and Community Trauma	3
The Problem with “Most People”: Racism and Ableism in U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Communication	3
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Parents’ Psychological Well-Being	3
American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion	3
Local-Level Information-Seeking in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Repertoire Approach	3
From Supervision to Opportunity: Reimagining Probation and Parole	3
Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank	3
Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court, and American Constitutionalism	3
The Macroeconomy and Poverty	3
How Tax Credits Can Support Formerly Incarcerated Individuals and Their Families	3
The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And What Comes Next?	3
Race, Affirmative Action, Antidiscrimination, and the Roberts Court	3
Has the Opioid Crisis Affected Student Learning? A National Analysis of Growth Rates	3
Fewer Burdens but Greater Inequality? Reevaluating the Safety Net through the Lens of Administrative Burden	3
Measuring What Matters: Data Absenteeism, Science Communication, and the Perpetuation of Inequities	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
Fiscal Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on State and Local Governments	3