OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Sociological Review is 5. 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
Relative to Whom? Comment on “Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree”	181
Collaborating in Class: Social Class Context and Peer Help-Seeking and Help-Giving in an Elite Engineering School	119
Networks, Property, and the Division of Labor	91
From Bat Mitzvah to the Bar: Religious Habitus, Self-Concept, and Women’s Educational Outcomes	89
The Elements of Cultural Power: Novelty, Emotion, Status, and Cultural Capital	65
Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps	64
To Punish, Parent, or Palliate: Governing Urban Poverty through Institutional Failure	52
Ready to Rent: Administrative Decisions and Poverty Governance in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	52
Who Counts as Family? How Standards Stratify Lives	48
Consolidated Advantage: New Organizational Dynamics of Wage Inequality	41
Essentializing Merit: Disability and Exclusion in Elite Private School Admissions	37
Not in My Schoolyard: Disability Discrimination in Educational Access	31
Clarity from Violence? Intragroup Aggression and the Structure of Status Hierarchies	29
The Agrarian Roots of Divergent Development: A Case Study of Twentieth-Century Brazil	29
Acknowledgment of Referees	29
Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms	28
What Is Your Estimand? Defining the Target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory	26
The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline	26
Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium	26
Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences: Evidence from the Literary Field	24
Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions	24
Index	24
Caught between Frontstage and Backstage: The Failure of the Federal Reserve to Halt Rule Evasion in the Financial Crisis of 1974	20
Collaborating on the Carceral State: Political Elite Polarization and the Expansion of Federal Crime Legislation Networks, 1979 to 2005	20
Who Profits from Occupational Licensing?	20

Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy	19
Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap	19
How Work Becomes Invisible: The Erosion of the Wage Floor for Workers with Disabilities	19
Hierarchies in the Decentralized Welfare State: Prioritization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	19
Individual Empowerment, Institutional Confidence, and Vaccination Rates in Cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018	19
The Culture of Censorship: State Intervention and Complicit Creativity in Global Film Production	17
Does Schooling Decrease Socioeconomic Inequality in Early Achievement? A Differential Exposure Approach	17
Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence	17
Is the Gender Wage Gap Really a Family Wage Gap in Disguise?	17
Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations	16
Religion, Perceptions of Scientists’ Moral Culture, and Support for Science in the United States	16
“Born for a Storm”: Hard-Right Social Media and Civil Unrest	15
Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility	15
Finding a Home during the Affordable Housing Crisis: How Social Ties Shape Renters’ Housing-Search Outcomes	14
Corrigendum	14
Uneven Mixing, Network Segregation, and Immigrant Integration	14
Bloodlines: National Border Crossings and Antisemitism in Weimar Germany	13
Editors’ Note, 2024 to 2026: Looking to W.E.B. Du Bois	13
The Corner, the Crew, and the Digital Street: Multiplex Networks of Gang Online-Offline Conflict Dynamics in the Digital Age	13
Acknowledgment of Referees	12
What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive?	12
Racial Discrimination in Housing: How Landlords Use Algorithms and Home Visits to Screen Tenants	12
Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention: Perceptions of Distant Labor and Environmental Problems	11
Time’s Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action	11
Beyond Money Whitening: Racialized Hierarchies and Socioeconomic Escalators in Mexico	11
Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions	11
The Politics of Police	10
Associative Diffusion and the Pitfalls of Structural Reductionism	10
Commitment through Sacrifice: How Longer Ramadan Fasting Strengthens Religiosity and Political Islam	10
Next Steps for the Relative Education Hypothesis	10
Identity Theft, Trust Breaches, and the Production of Economic Insecurity	10
Does Protest Against Police Violence Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1990 through 2019	9
Discipline and Empower: The State Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers	9
The Labor of Distinction: Butlers, Service Work, and the Production of Elite Lifestyles	9
“There Is an Eye on Us”: International Imitation, Popular Representation, and the Regulation of Homosexuality in Senegal	9
Femininity Anchors: Heterosexual Relationships and Pregnancy as Sites of Harassment for U.S. Servicewomen	9
Heterogeneous Effects of Intergenerational Social Mobility: An Improved Method and New Evidence	9
Ties That Remind: Known Family Connections to Past Events as Salience Cues and Collective Memory of Stalin’s Repressions of the 1930s in Contemporary Russia	9
Marching to Her Own Beat: Asynchronous Teamwork and Gender Differences in Performance on Creative Projects	8
Advancing Stratification Research by Measuring Non-declarative Cultural Capital: A National Population-Based Study Combining IAT and Survey Data	8
Relational Risk: How Relationships Shape Personal Assessments of Risk and Mitigation	8
What’s in an Occupation? Investigating Within-Occupation Variation and Gender Segregation Using Job Titles and Task Descriptions	8
Understanding Competition in Social Space: Religious Congregations in Manhattan, 1949 to 1999	8
Racial Inequality in Work Environments	7
Intersecting the Academic Gender Gap: The Education of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual America	7
Positioning Stories: Accounting for Insecure Work	7
Homicide and State History	7
Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights	7
Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents’ Developmental Expenditures	7
They Can’t All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Cumulative Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Elections	6

Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women	6
Party, Race, and Neutrality: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes toward Social Groups	6
Unrealized Integration in Education, Sociology, and Society	6
Culture and Immigrant Selectivity in Shaping Asian American Education: Evidence from Historical Census Data	5
The Complexity of Associative Diffusion: Reassessing the Relationship between Network Structure and Cultural Variation	5
Modernizing Leviathan: Carceral Reform and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Brazil’s Espírito Santo State	5
Cultural Schemas: What They Are, How to Find Them, and What to Do Once You’ve Caught One	5
Inequality Below the Poverty Line since 1967: The Role of the U.S. Welfare State	5