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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	127
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	87
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	61
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	53
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	48
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	41
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	36
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	35
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	32
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	32
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	32
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	31
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	29
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	28
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	27
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	25
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	24
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	24
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	23
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	23
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	21
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	21
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	19
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	19
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	17
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	15
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	14
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	14
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	13
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	13
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	13
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	11
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	11
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	10
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	10
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	10
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	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
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	9
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	9
Introduction	8
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	8
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	8
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	8
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	8
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	8
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	8
Is the Business of the Court (Still) Business?	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	7
The “Infodemic” Infodemic: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Truth-Claims and the Need for (Not) Combatting Misinformation	7
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	7
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	7