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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	109
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	75
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	63
Does Increasing Immigration Affect Ethnic Minority Groups?	54
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	47
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	47
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	40
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	37
Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults	32
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	31
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	31
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	30
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	26
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	26
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	25
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	24
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	23
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	23
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	23
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	22
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	21
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	19
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	19
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	19
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	18

Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	18
North American Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration in the Time of COVID-19: The Role of National Attachment and Threat	18
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	17
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	16
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	15
Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	14
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	13
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	12
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	12
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	12
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	12
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	12
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
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	10
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	10
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
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	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
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
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	8
Migration Decision-Making and Its Key Dimensions	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	8
Immigration and the Future of the Welfare State in Europe	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	7
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	7
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	7
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	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	6
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	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
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool: An Analysis of the New Evidence	6
The “Infodemic” Infodemic: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Truth-Claims and the Need for (Not) Combatting Misinformation	6
Is the Business of the Court (Still) Business?	6
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	6
An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News: Policy Mechanisms and Challenges to Impact	6
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	6
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	6
Community Supervision and Employment	6
Research on the Effects of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Observations and Recommendations	5
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Poverty	5
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	5
Understanding Risk and Implementing Data-Driven Solutions for Firearm Suicide	5
Why Resistance to the Executive Power Grab in Tunisia Is Failing	5

COVID-19 as America’s Stress Test	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
Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits over the Past Three Decades	5
Legislative Capture and Democratic Careening in Poland	5
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Well-Being	5
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries	5
The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context	5
A Lost Decade: Policymakers Fiddled as Newsrooms Burned	5
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing Laws in Reducing Gun Violence	5
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
The Consequences of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion: An Introduction to the Volume	4
Assessing the Civic-Building Capacities of Schools: Early Findings from a Survey of Parents and Students	4
Single-Parent Families and Public Policy in High-Income Countries: Introduction to the Volume	4
Legacies of the War on Poverty	4
Inequality and Misperceptions of Group Concerns Threaten the Integrity and Societal Impact of Science	4
The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic Vulnerability	4
A Media Insider’s Wish List for Saving Local Journalism	4
Politics by Other Means: Civic Education in a Time of Controversy	4
Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?	4
Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity	4
The Problem with “Most People”: Racism and Ableism in U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Communication	3
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence	3
Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court, and American Constitutionalism	3
Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children	3
The Child Tax Credit and Family Well-Being: An Overview of Reforms and Impacts	3
Freedom of Speech in the Post-Floyd Era: Public Support for Political Tolerance	3
Changing Americans’ Attitudes about Immigration: Using Moral Framing to Bolster Factual Arguments	3
“Good Citizens” in Democratic Hard Times	3
Single Parents Competing in a Dual-Earner Society: Social Policy to Level the Playing Field	3
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic	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
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 Macroeconomy and Poverty	3
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance	3
Civil Society, Realized: Equipping the Mass Public to Express Choice and Negotiate Power	3
Effective Policies for Single-Parent Families and Prospects for Policy Reforms in the United States: Concluding Reflections	3
Introduction: The COVID-19 Shock to Our Deep Inequities: How to Mitigate the Impact	3
Socioeconomic Status as a Risk Factor in Economic and Physical Harm from COVID-19: Evidence from the United States	3
Effects of Opioid Treatment Programs on Child Well-Being	3
Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank	3
Social and Structural Determinants of Community Firearm Violence and Community Trauma	3
Fiscal Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on State and Local Governments	3
A Partisan Pandemic: How COVID-19 Was Primed for Polarization	3
Economics and Public Health: Two Perspectives on Firearm Injury Prevention	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
When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict: Recognizing the Public’s Need for Debate while Combating Conspiracies and Misinformation	3
The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And What Comes Next?	3