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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Collaborating in Class: Social Class Context and Peer Help-Seeking and Help-Giving in an Elite Engineering School	112
To Punish, Parent, or Palliate: Governing Urban Poverty through Institutional Failure	70
The Elements of Cultural Power: Novelty, Emotion, Status, and Cultural Capital	56
Pedagogy of Fear: Folklore and the Far-Right in Weimar Germany	46
Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps	44
Not in My Schoolyard: Disability Discrimination in Educational Access	44
Ready to Rent: Administrative Decisions and Poverty Governance in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	43
Essentializing Merit: Disability and Exclusion in Elite Private School Admissions	43
The Agrarian Roots of Divergent Development: A Case Study of Twentieth-Century Brazil	34
How Does Culture Matter for Attainment, and How Would We Know If It Did?	31
How Values and Uncertainty Shape Scientific Advance in Peer Review	29
Clarity from Violence? Intragroup Aggression and the Structure of Status Hierarchies	27
The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline	27
Acknowledgment of Referees	26
Index	26
Who Profits from Occupational Licensing?	24
Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions	24
How Religious Subcultures Interact with Gender to Shape Educational Trajectories: A Rejoinder to Brady, Luft, and Zuckerman Sivan	23
“Choppy Waters”: Navigating Political Generational Conflict in Social Movement Organizations	23
Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences: Evidence from the Literary Field	23
The Influence “Paradox”: When More Network Ties Lead to Less Change	22
Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy	22
How Work Becomes Invisible: The Erosion of the Wage Floor for Workers with Disabilities	22
Caught between Frontstage and Backstage: The Failure of the Federal Reserve to Halt Rule Evasion in the Financial Crisis of 1974	22
Collaborating on the Carceral State: Political Elite Polarization and the Expansion of Federal Crime Legislation Networks, 1979 to 2005	22

Hierarchies in the Decentralized Welfare State: Prioritization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program	22
Individual Empowerment, Institutional Confidence, and Vaccination Rates in Cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018	21
Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap	19
(Trans)National Gender Expertise and the Politics of Recognition	18
The Culture of Censorship: State Intervention and Complicit Creativity in Global Film Production	18
Is the Gender Wage Gap Really a Family Wage Gap in Disguise?	18
Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility	17
Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations	17
Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence	17
Collateral Decision-Making: The Case of Pretrial Detention and the Criminal Courts	17
“Born for a Storm”: Hard-Right Social Media and Civil Unrest	16
Religion, Perceptions of Scientists’ Moral Culture, and Support for Science in the United States	16
Uneven Mixing, Network Segregation, and Immigrant Integration	15
Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters	15
Finding a Home during the Affordable Housing Crisis: How Social Ties Shape Renters’ Housing-Search Outcomes	15
Editors’ Note, 2024 to 2026: Looking to W.E.B. Du Bois	14
Time’s Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action	13
What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive?	13
Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions	13
The Corner, the Crew, and the Digital Street: Multiplex Networks of Gang Online-Offline Conflict Dynamics in the Digital Age	13
Beyond Money Whitening: Racialized Hierarchies and Socioeconomic Escalators in Mexico	13
Identity Theft, Trust Breaches, and the Production of Economic Insecurity	12
Acknowledgment of Referees	12
Index	12
Commitment through Sacrifice: How Longer Ramadan Fasting Strengthens Religiosity and Political Islam	12
Femininity Anchors: Heterosexual Relationships and Pregnancy as Sites of Harassment for U.S. Servicewomen	12
The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children	11
State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019	11
The Labor of Distinction: Butlers, Service Work, and the Production of Elite Lifestyles	10
The Politics of Police	10
Between Two Rituals: Face and Effervescence as Moments of Social Life	10
Time and Climate Change: U.S. Media Representations of Climate Actions, Horizons, and Events (2000 to 2021)	9
Who Can Have a Baby? Social Norms and the Right to Reproduce	9
Understanding Competition in Social Space: Religious Congregations in Manhattan, 1949 to 1999	8
Racial Inequality in Work Environments	8
Advancing Stratification Research by Measuring Non-declarative Cultural Capital: A National Population-Based Study Combining IAT and Survey Data	8
Marching to Her Own Beat: Asynchronous Teamwork and Gender Differences in Performance on Creative Projects	8
Relational Risk: How Relationships Shape Personal Assessments of Risk and Mitigation	8
Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights	7
Culture and Immigrant Selectivity in Shaping Asian American Education: Evidence from Historical Census Data	7
Homicide and State History	7
Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia’s Civil War	7
Positioning Stories: Accounting for Insecure Work	7
Salience Shifts and Managerial Discretion: How Periods of Islamist Terrorism Affect the Employment of Middle Eastern Men	7
When Political Pivots Shift Behaviors but Not Beliefs: Evidence from Trump’s Position Reversal over Facemasks during the COVID-19 Crisis	7
Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence	6
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
Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States	6

Unrealized Integration in Education, Sociology, and Society	6
Inequality Below the Poverty Line since 1967: The Role of the U.S. Welfare State	5
Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement	5
Collective Defense Mechanisms	5
Modernizing Leviathan: Carceral Reform and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Brazil’s Espírito Santo State	5
Trojan Horse Technologies: Smuggling Criminal-Legal Logics into Healthcare Practice	5
Living with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns	5
Global Value Chains and Union Decline in Rich Democracies	5