OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	55
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	44
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	41
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	37
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	33
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	26
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	20
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	20
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	18
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	17
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	16
Instrumenting the Online Information Environment	16
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	16
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	14
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	14
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	13
Single-Sex Public Schools for Boys: Reflections After 25 Years	13
The Evolved Male in the Modern Classroom	13
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	12
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	12
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	12
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	11
Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	11

Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	10
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	10
First Surveillance: An Anthropology of Gen Z Parental Internet Supervision	10
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	10
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	10
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	10
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	9
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	9
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	9
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	9
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	9
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	9
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
The Myths of Platform Governance: How Tech Works to Create Online Trust and Safety	8
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	8
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	8
Education Policy in Support of Boys and Men	8
Introduction	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	7
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	7
Mentoring Relationships in the Lives of Boys and Young Men	7
Turning Insight into Impact for Indiana’s Male Students	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
Is the Business of the Court (Still) Business?	7
Not Quite the Wild West, Not Entirely Black Boxes: The Governance of Online Platforms and the Evolving Field of Trust and Safety	7
Gender, Ethnoracial, and Economic Differences in the Predictive Power of Early-Grade Test Scores on College Enrollment and Degree Completion	7
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	7
Why Now? Why Education?	7