OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Sociological Review is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
ASR Editorial Transition	166
Does Schooling Decrease Socioeconomic Inequality in Early Achievement? A Differential Exposure Approach	108
Collaborating in Class: Social Class Context and Peer Help-Seeking and Help-Giving in an Elite Engineering School	84
Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap	81
Articulating the Pueblo Cubano: Women’s Politicization and Productivity in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959 to 1969	71
The Carceral Contradictions of Motherhood: How Mothers of Incarcerated Sons Parent in the Shadow of the Criminal Legal System	59
Index	56
Feature-Based Structures of Opportunity: Genre Innovation in the American Popular Music Industry, 1958 to 2016	48
The Risks of Renting on the Margins: Housing Informality and State Legibility in the COVID-19 Pandemic	48
Asymmetry by Design? Identity Obfuscation, Reputational Pressure, and Consumer Predation in U.S. For-Profit Higher Education	40
Learning to Think Like an Economist without Becoming One: Ambivalent Reproduction and Policy Couplings in a Masters of Public Affairs Program	38
Homicide and State History	34
The “Dark Side” of Community Ties: Collective Action and Lynching in Mexico	32
The Culture of Censorship: State Intervention and Complicit Creativity in Global Film Production	29
Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights	27
Judges as Party Animals: Retirement Timing by Federal Judges and Party Control of Judicial Appointments	26
Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions	26
Acknowledgment of Referees	24
Relative to Whom? Comment on “Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree”	24
Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention: Perceptions of Distant Labor and Environmental Problems	24
Born Again French: Explaining Inconsistency in Citizenship Declarations in French Longitudinal Data	23
State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins	22
(Not) Getting What You Deserve: How Misrecognized Evaluators Reproduce Misrecognition in Peer Evaluations	20
Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment	20
Time’s Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action	19

Beyond Money Whitening: Racialized Hierarchies and Socioeconomic Escalators in Mexico	18
Wealth Accumulation and Opportunity Hoarding: Class-Origin Wealth Gaps over a Quarter of a Century in a Scandinavian Country	18
Networks, Property, and the Division of Labor	18
Assessing the Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Thesis: An Experimental Test	18
Geographic Arbitrariness in Capital Punishment: Death as an Inhabited Institution	18
Is the Gender Wage Gap Really a Family Wage Gap in Disguise?	18
Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women	17
Commitment through Sacrifice: How Longer Ramadan Fasting Strengthens Religiosity and Political Islam	16
From Bat Mitzvah to the Bar: Religious Habitus, Self-Concept, and Women’s Educational Outcomes	16
Through the Front Door: Why Do Organizations (Still) Prefer Legacy Applicants?	15
Unrealized Integration in Education, Sociology, and Society	15
Party, Race, and Neutrality: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes toward Social Groups	15
The Right to Work and American Inequality	14
Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps	14
Next Steps for the Relative Education Hypothesis	14
The Elements of Cultural Power: Novelty, Emotion, Status, and Cultural Capital	13
Care Labor and Family Income Inequality: How Childcare Costs Exacerbate Inequality among U.S. Families	12
To Punish, Parent, or Palliate: Governing Urban Poverty through Institutional Failure	12
They Can’t All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Cumulative Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Elections	12
Associative Diffusion and the Pitfalls of Structural Reductionism	12
The Consolidation of Education and Health in Families	11
Cultural Schemas: What They Are, How to Find Them, and What to Do Once You’ve Caught One	11
Operationalizing Legitimacy	11
Identity Theft, Trust Breaches, and the Production of Economic Insecurity	11
Online Conspiracy Groups: Micro-Bloggers, Bots, and Coronavirus Conspiracy Talk on Twitter	11
White-Collar Opt-Out: How “Good Jobs” Fail Elite Workers	11
Keeping the Family Fortune: How Bureaucratic Practices Preserve Elite Multigenerational Wealth	10
How Legacies of Geopolitical Trauma Shape Popular Nationalism Today	10
Femininity Anchors: Heterosexual Relationships and Pregnancy as Sites of Harassment for U.S. Servicewomen	10
Consolidated Advantage: New Organizational Dynamics of Wage Inequality	10
“Born for a Storm”: Hard-Right Social Media and Civil Unrest	9
Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations	9
Gender in the Markets for Expertise	9
The Political Context and Infant Health in the United States	8
Modernizing Leviathan: Carceral Reform and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Brazil’s Espírito Santo State	8
Global Value Chains and Union Decline in Rich Democracies	8
Index	8
The Cultural Consequences of Market Transition: An Empirical Examination of Rising Materialism in Twenty-First-Century China	7
Does Protest Against Police Violence Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1990 through 2019	7
Honor among Crooks: The Role of Trust in Obfuscated Disreputable Exchange	7
The Complexity of Associative Diffusion: Reassessing the Relationship between Network Structure and Cultural Variation	7
Flexible Austerity: Negotiating the Unequal Effects of Resource Shortages in Racialized Organizations	6
ASR Editorial Transition	6
Moralizing the Production and Sale of Student Papers in Uganda	6
The Politics of Police	6
Not in My Schoolyard: Disability Discrimination in Educational Access	5
Reiterated Fact-Making: Explaining Transformation and Continuity in Scientific Facts	5
Polyoccupationalism: Expertise Stretch and Status Stretch in the Postindustrial Era	5
Essentializing Merit: Disability and Exclusion in Elite Private School Admissions	5
Ready to Rent: Administrative Decisions and Poverty Governance in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	5

Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons	5
Religion, Perceptions of Scientists’ Moral Culture, and Support for Science in the United States	5
Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility	5
Generalized Generosity: How the Norm of Generalized Reciprocity Bridges Collective Forms of Social Exchange	5
Who Counts as Family? How Standards Stratify Lives	5
Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence	5
Doing Genders: Partner’s Gender and Labor Market Behavior	5
The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline	4
Inequality Below the Poverty Line since 1967: The Role of the U.S. Welfare State	4