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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Policymaker and Practitioner Perspectives and Insights from Birmingham, Alabama: An Interview with Judge Andra D. Sparks, Mankinta Holloway, and Melanie Colston	99
Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms	69
Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions	58
The Effects of Opioid Use during Pregnancy on Infant Health and Well-Being	48
White Racial Solidarity and Opposition to American Democracy	43
Does Increasing Immigration Affect Ethnic Minority Groups?	43
Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults	37
Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show	32
Access to Health Insurance and Health Care for Hispanic Children in the United States	31
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State	30
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	25
Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends	25
What the Sciences of Human Learning and Development Tell Us about Civic Reasoning and Discourse	24
Social Media Data for Firearms Research: Promise and Perils	23
Threats or Gains: The Battle over Participation in America’s Careening Democracy	22
Single Parents in High-Income Countries: What the United States Can Learn from Others	21
Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence	20
Using Technology and Iterative Research to Strengthen the Social Safety Net	20
Taking It to the States: The Origins of Critical Information Needs	19
Economics and Politics: On Narrowing the Gap	19
Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations	18
North American Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration in the Time of COVID-19: The Role of National Attachment and Threat	18
Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?	17
Against the Tide: The Counter-Repression Strategies of Sea Rescue Organizations in the Mediterranean	17

Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding American Exceptionalism	16
Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America	14
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole	14
Political Parties and Loser’s Consent in American Politics	14
When Public Health Crises Become Entwined: How Trends in COVID-19, Deaths of Despair, and Well-Being Track across the United States	13
Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next	12
Elite Collusion and Dismantling Democracy in Benin	11
Legislative Capture and Oligarchic Collusion: Two Pathways of Democratic Backsliding and Recovery in Moldova	11
Beyond the Tipping Point: Searching for a New Vision for Latino College Success in the United States	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
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
What We Learned from the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion	9
Civics on the Move: The Politics of Latinx Civic Integration	9
Civic Preparation of American Youth: Reflective Patriotism and Our Constitutional Democracy	8
Paying a Debt to Society: Expunging Criminal Records as a Pathway to Increased Employment	8
Lessons in Empowerment: The Civic Potential of Historically Grounded Conversations among Racially Marginalized Youth	8
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime	8
Migration Decision-Making and Its Key Dimensions	7
Understanding the Influence of Latino Diversity over Child Poverty in the United States	7
Introduction	7
Immigration and the Future of the Welfare State in Europe	7
Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks	7
The Future of Civic Education: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	7
Bucky, Becky, and Student Financial Aid Policy Design	7
“Stop the Steal”: Racial Resentment, Affective Partisanship, and Investigating the January 6th Insurrection	6
A Widening Moral Rift: The Complex Interactions between EU Externalization and Afghan Border Ecosystems	6
Crashing without a Parachute: Racial and Educational Disparities in Unemployment during COVID-19	6
Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999–2020	6
Threats to Science: Politicization, Misinformation, and Inequalities	6
Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: The International Comparative Context	6
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences	6
Donald Trump, Legal Realist	6
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and How to Move Forward	6
Taking an Equity Lens: Reconceptualizing Research on Latinx Students’ Schooling Experiences and Educational Outcomes	6