OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	101
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	71
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	61
Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults	51
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	45
Does Increasing Immigration Affect Ethnic Minority Groups?	44
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	38
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	35
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	31
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	29
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	27
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	27
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	24
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	24
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	24
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	24
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	23
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	22
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	21
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	21
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	20
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	19
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	18
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	18
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	17

North American Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration in the Time of COVID-19: The Role of National Attachment and Threat	17
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	17
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	17
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	15
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	15
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	13
Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	13
When Public Health Crises Become Entwined: How Trends in COVID-19, Deaths of Despair, and Well-Being Track across the United States	12
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	12
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	11
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	11
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	11
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	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	10
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	9
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	9
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	9
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	8
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	8
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	8
Migration Decision-Making and Its Key Dimensions	8
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	8
Introduction	8
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	7
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	7
Immigration and the Future of the Welfare State in Europe	7
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	7
Plebiscitary Override in Venezuela: Erosion of Democracy and Deepening Authoritarianism	6
Is the Business of the Court (Still) Business?	6
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	6
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	6
The “Infodemic” Infodemic: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Truth-Claims and the Need for (Not) Combatting Misinformation	6
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	6
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	6
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool: An Analysis of the New Evidence	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
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	6