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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	92
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	64
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	50
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	45
Does Increasing Immigration Affect Ethnic Minority Groups?	41
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	39
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	37
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	32
Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults	30
Access to Health Insurance and Health Care for Hispanic Children in the United States	29
Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action	27
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	23
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	22
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	22
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	22
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	22
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	21
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	20
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	19
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	19
North American Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration in the Time of COVID-19: The Role of National Attachment and Threat	19
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	18
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	18
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	17
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	17

Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	17
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	17
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	16
When Public Health Crises Become Entwined: How Trends in COVID-19, Deaths of Despair, and Well-Being Track across the United States	15
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	14
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	14
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	14
Beyond the Tipping Point: Searching for a New Vision for Latino College Success in the United States	13
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	12
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018	12
Why Do People under Community Supervision Work and Earn So Little? And What Can Policy Do to Increase Their Employment and Earnings?	11
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	11
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	11
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	10
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	10
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	9
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
Migration Decision-Making and Its Key Dimensions	9
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	9
Introduction	9
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	9
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	9
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
Understanding the Influence of Latino Diversity over Child Poverty in the United States	8
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	7
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	7
Opportunity and Place: Latino Children and America’s Future	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	7
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	7
Taking an Equity Lens: Reconceptualizing Research on Latinx Students’ Schooling Experiences and Educational Outcomes	7
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
Immigration and the Future of the Welfare State in Europe	7
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	7
The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence	7