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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The New Realities of Working-Class Jobs: Employer Practices, Worker Protections, and Employee Voice to Improve Job Quality	88
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	57
Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa	45
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	40
The Wealth (Disadvantage) of Single-Parent Households	37
Parenting Contributions to Latinx Children’s Development in the Early Years	37
Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity	35
Legacies of the War on Poverty	35
Doubling Down on Racial Capitalism during COVID-19: Qualitative Interviews with Bank Employees	30
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	29
Cross-National Variation in the Relationship between Welfare Generosity and Single Mother Employment	27
Making Parental Leave Policies Work for Single Mothers: Lessons from Europe	26
How Multi-disciplinary Research Centers and Networks Can Advance the Science of Firearm Injury Prevention	23
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	20
Inequality and Misperceptions of Group Concerns Threaten the Integrity and Societal Impact of Science	20
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	19
Single Mothers’ Income in Twelve Rich Countries: Differences in Disadvantage across the Distribution	19
Will the Twain Ever Meet? Bridging the Gap Between Economics and Politics	18
The Consequences of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion: An Introduction to the Volume	18
The Anxiety of Political Uncertainty: Insights from the Brexit Vote	18
Case Studies of Effective Learning Climates for Civic Reasoning and Discussion	18
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	17
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	17
Repairing Journalism’s History of Anti-Black Harm	16
Does Increasing Immigration Affect Ethnic Minority Groups?	16

Local-Level Information-Seeking in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Repertoire Approach	15
Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?	15
Communities Moving Ahead, Falling Behind: Evidence from the Index of Deep Disadvantage	14
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	14
News Nationalization in a Digital Age: An Examination of How Local Protests Are Covered and Curated Online	13
From Crisis to Progress: Housing and Latino Youth since 2000	13
New Ideas for Improving the Economics of Producing Local Journalism	12
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	12
Fifty Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership	12
“What Is Truth?” Negotiating Christian Convert Asylum Seekers’ Credibility	12
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	12
Migration Decision-Making and Its Key Dimensions	11
The Number and Type of Private Firearms in the United States	11
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	11
Access to Health Insurance and Health Care for Hispanic Children in the United States	11
The Great Recession and Economic Outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in the United States	11
A Long Battle: Turkey’s Backsliding and Resistance Through Trench Warfare	10
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	9
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	9
Legislative Capture in Hungary: Well-Managed Autocratization	9
American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion	9
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	8
Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults	7
Challenges to Subnational Democracy in the United States, Past and Present	7
From Supervision to Opportunity: Reimagining Probation and Parole	7
Defining and Measuring Scientific Misinformation	7
Equitable Access to High-Quality Early Care and Education: Opportunities to Better Serve Young Hispanic Children and Their Families	7
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	6
Americans’ Attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act: What Role Do Beliefs Play?	6
Better Together? Multiplier and Spillover Effects in Two-Generation Initiatives	6
Effective Policies for Single-Parent Families and Prospects for Policy Reforms in the United States: Concluding Reflections	6
American Democracy and Voter Suppression	6
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	6
Major Means-Tested and Income Support Programs for the Working Class, 2009–2019	6
Has the Opioid Crisis Affected Student Learning? A National Analysis of Growth Rates	6
Introduction: The COVID-19 Shock to Our Deep Inequities: How to Mitigate the Impact	6
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	6
Changing Americans’ Attitudes about Immigration: Using Moral Framing to Bolster Factual Arguments	6
Single Parents Competing in a Dual-Earner Society: Social Policy to Level the Playing Field	6
“Por trocha”: Circumventing the Episodical Criminalization of Migration in the Andes	6
How Foreign- and U.S.-Born Latinos Fare during Recessions and Recoveries	6
The Promise and Challenge of Local Initiatives That Support Reentry and Reintegration	5
Restorative Justice, Civic Education, and Transformative Possibilities	5
Introduction	5
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	5
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Parents’ Psychological Well-Being	5
What Is Media Policy?	5
Information Inequality: How Race and Financial Access Reflect the Information Needs of Lower-Income Individuals	5
Adolescents’ Analyses of Digital Media Related to Race and Racism in the 2020 U.S. Election: An Assessment of Their Needs and Skills	4
Urban Space and Social Cognition: The Effect of Urban Space on Intergroup Perceptions	4

Loss of Life and Labor Productivity: The Canadian Opioid Crisis	4
Moderation, Realignment, or Transformation? Evaluating Three Approaches to America’s Crisis of Democracy	4
Understanding the Influence of Latino Diversity over Child Poverty in the United States	4
Immigration and the Future of the Welfare State in Europe	4
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	4
Economic Precarity among Single Parents in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Who Will Tell the Stories of Health Inequities? Platform Challenges (and Opportunities) in Local Civic Information Infrastructure	4
Can Black Lives Matter within U.S. Democracy?	4
The Health of Hispanic Children from Birth to Emerging Adulthood	4
“Good Citizens” in Democratic Hard Times	4
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	4
Civic Education in a Time of Democratic Crisis	4
Civil Society, Realized: Equipping the Mass Public to Express Choice and Negotiate Power	3
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	3
The Coalition Against Democratic Backsliding in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	3
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	3
The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress but by Factors That Could Be More Rapidly Addressed	3
Job-Related Programs for People on Supervision: Reframing the Problem	3
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	3
Democratic Capacity: Election Administration as Bulwark and Target	3
Immigration Policies and the Risks of Single Parenthood for Migrant Women	3
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	3
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	3
Labor Market Trends and Outcomes: What Has Changed since the Great Recession?	3
Elite Collusion and Creeping Authoritarianism in Nicaragua: Lessons on Democratic Backsliding from an Outlier Case	3
Does the “Fascism Debate” Matter for Understanding 2024 American Politics?	3
Social Capital in a Divided America: The Relationship between Economic Bridging and Affective Polarization	3
The Far-Right Threat in the United States: A European Perspective	3
Taking an Equity Lens: Reconceptualizing Research on Latinx Students’ Schooling Experiences and Educational Outcomes	3
The Fine Art of Camouflage: Migrant-Drug Distributors Negotiating Police Interactions in Switzerland	3
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	3
Is Citizen Science a Remedy for Inequality?	3
How Sticky Is Pink Slime? Assessing the Credibility of Deceptive Local Media	3
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	3
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	3
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	3
Prison, College, and the Labor Market: A Critical Analysis by Formerly Incarcerated and Justice-Impacted Students	3
Between Informality and (Il)legality: Congolese Migrants’ Survival Mechanisms in South Africa	3
A Partisan Pandemic: How COVID-19 Was Primed for Polarization	2
Democratic Vulnerabilities and Pathways for Reform	2
Means-Tested Safety Net Programs and Hispanic Families: Evidence from Medicaid, SNAP, and WIC	2
How Labor Market Institutions Matter for Worker Compensation	2
The Economic Status of People with Disabilities and Their Families since the Great Recession	2
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	2
The “Infodemic” Infodemic: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Truth-Claims and the Need for (Not) Combatting Misinformation	2
Knowledge of, about, for, and against Criminalized Migration	2
The New News Barons: Investment Ownership Reduces Newspaper Reporting Capacity	2
Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement	2
Making Sense of One Another while Crossing Borders: Social Cognition and Migration Politics	2
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	2
Who Uses the Social Safety Net? Trends in Public Benefit Use among American Households with Children, 1980–2020	2
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance	2
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	2
Implications of Alternative Designs of the Child Tax Credit	2
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	2
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives: Insights from Ohio: An Interview with Dr. Wendy Grove and Jennifer Vargo	2
What Will This Do for the Poor? Rebecca Blank’s Economic Theology	2
“I Can’t Get Ahold of Them”: Perceptions of Administrative Burden and Administrative Exclusion across SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Do Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Savings and Job Loss during COVID-19 Explain Disparities in Housing Hardships? A Moderated Mediation Analysis	2
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	2
Newly Poor Women and the Social Safety Net, 1990–2010	2
Social and Structural Determinants of Community Firearm Violence and Community Trauma	2
Freedom of Speech in the Post-Floyd Era: Public Support for Political Tolerance	2
¿Qué pasa with American News Media? How Digital-Native Latinx News Serves Community Information Needs Using Messaging Apps	2
Opportunity and Place: Latino Children and America’s Future	2
Crashing without a Parachute: Racial and Educational Disparities in Unemployment during COVID-19	2
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	2
Economics and Public Health: Two Perspectives on Firearm Injury Prevention	2
Nudging Social Media toward Accuracy	2
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	2
Forecasting under Uncertainty: How Network Composition Shapes Future-Oriented Cognition	2
Community Supervision, Housing Insecurity, and Homelessness	2
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	2