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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	68
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	50
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	42
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	39
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	29
The Search for Social Justice in School-Based Crime and Delinquency Prevention	29
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	23
Making Social Justice Nonnegotiable in Crime Prevention: Case Studies of Youth (In)Justice	23
The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Food Insecurity and Financial Hardship	20
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	18
The Meritocracy Debate of the Eighteenth Century	18
How Meritocracy Became Self-Defeating	18
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	16
Single-Sex Public Schools for Boys: Reflections After 25 Years	15
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction	15
The Evolved Male in the Modern Classroom	15
Instrumenting the Online Information Environment	14
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	13
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	13
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	12
Social Medicine for Social Justice: Perspectives on Violence Prevention	12
Reimagining Policing in Minneapolis: Balancing Crime Prevention and Social Justice	11
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	11
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	11
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	11

Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	11
First Surveillance: An Anthropology of Gen Z Parental Internet Supervision	10
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	10
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	9
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	9
Education Policy in Support of Boys and Men	9
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	9
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	9
The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies	9
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	9
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	9
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	9
Balancing Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of Government and Citizens in Combatting Gun Violence	9
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	9
Introduction	8
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	8
The Myths of Platform Governance: How Tech Works to Create Online Trust and Safety	8
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	8
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	8
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	8
Mentoring Relationships in the Lives of Boys and Young Men	7
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	7
Why Now? Why Education?	7
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	7
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	7
Turning Insight into Impact for Indiana’s Male Students	7
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	7
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	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