OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Put to the test: For a new sociology of testing	47
Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state	42
Ordinal citizenship	29
“This is a political movement, friend”: Why “incels” support violence	26
‘More options…less time’ in the ‘hustle culture’ of ‘generation sensible’: Individualization and drinking decline among twenty‐first century young adults	20
Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right? Education, class, multiparty competition, and redistribution in Western Europe	20
The absorption and multiplication of uncertainty in machine‐learning‐driven finance	19
Habitus and climate change: Exploring support and resistance to sustainable welfare and social–ecological transformations in Sweden	19
Understanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit*	17
Post‐industrial masculinities and gym culture: Graft, craft, and fraternity	16
“They don’t know what it’s like to be at the bottom”: Exploring the role of perceived cultural distance in less‐educated citizens’ discontent with politicians	15
The red and the black: China’s social credit experiment as a total test environment	15
Participation in civil society organizations and ethnic minorities’ interethnic friendships in Britain	14
Primary and secondary effects of social origins on educational attainment: New findings for England	14
Unveiling everyday discrimination. Two field experiments on discrimination against religious minorities in day‐to‐day interactions	12
The intergenerational transmission of language skill	12
Survival finance and the politics of equal pay	12
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China	12
British terrorism preemption: Subjectivity and disjuncture in Channel “de‐radicalization” interventions	12
A revolt of the deplored? The role of perceived cultural distance in the educational gradient in anti‐establishment politics	12
From starving artist to entrepreneur. Justificatory pluralism in visual artists' grant proposals	12
A “Phoenix” rising from the ashes: China’s Tongqi, marriage fraud, and resistance	11
From parvenu to “highbrow” tastes: The rise of cultural capital in China’s intergenerational elites	11
Belonging, believing, behaving, and Brexit: Channels of religiosity and religious identity in support for leaving the European Union*	10
Ethnic inequality in choice‐ and performance‐driven education systems: A longitudinal study of educational choices in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden	10

The adaptation of educational expectations in response to ability tracking: Variations by migration background	10
Older Iranian Muslim women’s experiences of sex and sexuality: A biographical approach	9
Rethinking respectability politics	9
How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices	9
The social stratification of time use patterns	9
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community	9
Damaged hardmen: Organized crime and the half‐life of deindustrialization	8
“Involved in something (involucrado en algo)”: Denial and stigmatization in Mexico’s “war on drugs”	8
Shame and (“managed”) resentment: Emotion and entitlement among Israeli mothers living in poverty	8
Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time	8
“If no one grieves, no one will remember”: Cultural palimpsests and the creation of social ties through rituals	7
The dark side of onward migration: Experiences and strategies of Italian‐Bangladeshis in the UK at the time of the post‐Brexit referendum	7
“It's hard to become mothers”: The moral economy of postponing motherhood in neoliberal Chile	7
Terrorist attacks and minority perceived discrimination	7
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015	7
“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story‐lines as emotion work	7
“You have to do something”: Snoring, sleep interembodiment and the emergence of agency	6
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital	6
Just what is critical race theory, and what is it doing in British sociology? From “BritCrit” to the racialized social system approach	6
Social capital as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps	6
Narrating inequality, eliding empire	6
Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: A sub‐national analysis of differences and trends over time	6
Conceptualising informal institutions: Drawing on the case of guanxi	6
Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media	6
How the past becomes the past: The temporal positioning of collective memory	6
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders	6
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations	5
From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban top group transformation between 1988 and 2013	5
From occupational to existential class: How to analyze class structure in hybrid societies (The case of Serbia)	5
How happenings do (not) turn into events: A typology and an application to the case of 9/11 in the American and Dutch public spheres	5
Societal religiosity and the gender gap in political interest, 1990–2014	5
“The whole thing is really managing crisis”: Practice theory insights into interpreters' work experiences of success and failure	5
Outward specific trust in the balancing of hierarchical government trust: Evidence from mainland China	5
Piketty comes to South Africa	5
Contested ease: Negotiating contradictory modes of elite distinction in face‐to‐face interaction	5
Profile of the super rich in China: A social space analysis	5
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent	5
Childhood disability, social class and social mobility: A neglected relationship	5
Resilience as a multi‐directional movement process: A conceptual and empirical exploration	5
Underground testing: Name‐altering practices as probes in electronic music	5
“The media love the artificial versions of what’s going on”: Media (mis)representations of Down’s syndrome	5
Public support for social security in 66 countries: Prosperity, inequality, and household income as interactive causes	5
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory	5
The structure of food taste in 21^st century Britain	5
The paradox of local inequality: Meritocratic beliefs in unequal localities	5
Legacies of civil wars: A 14‐year study of social conflicts and well‐being outcomes in farming economies	4
Historical change in an elite profession—Class origins and grades among law graduates over 200 years	4
Income inequality, cultural capital, and high school students' academic achievement in OECD countries: A moderated mediation analysis	4
Epistemology of surveillance: Revealing unmarked forms of discipline and punishment in Israeli academia	4
“I don’t think anybody really knows”: Constructing reflexive ignorance in climate change adaptation	4

Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions	4
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900	4
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	4
Below the radar: A U.K. benefit fraud media coverage tsunami—Impact, ideology, and society	4
Lives on track? Long‐term earnings returns to selective school placement in England and Denmark	4
Breaking the silence on femicide: How women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence	4
Public life as identity construction: A case study based on an SL square‐dancing group in Shanghai	4
A divided kingdom? Variation in polarization, sorting, and dimensional alignment among the British public, 1986–2018	4
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden	4
Understanding autonomy and relationality in men's lives	4
Intersectionality on the go: The diffusion of Black feminist knowledge across disciplinary and geographical borders	4
Occupational inequalities in volunteering participation: Using detailed data on jobs to explore the influence of habits and circumstances	4
Foreign aid and the rule of law: Institutional diffusion versus legal reach	4
Black lives matter, capital, and ideology: Spiraling out from India	4
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation	4
Making financial uncertainty count: Unit‐linked insurance, investment and the individualisation of financial risk in British life insurance	4
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change	4