OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology is 3. 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
Corrigendum	73
Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement	57
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field	28
Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology	28
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment	26
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control	26
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders	21
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China	21
The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence: On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society	18
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries	17
The unclaimed: Abandonment and hope in the city of angels. By P.Prickett and S.Timmermans, London: Penguin Random House. 2024	16
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men	16
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics	16
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Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2024	16
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community	15
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change	15
Performing the people: Review of Isaac Ariail Reed’s Power in modernity: Agency relations and the creative destruction of the king’s two bodies	14
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China	14
Remarks on “relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state.” Gurminder K. Bhambra	14
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom	13
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900	13
Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide	12
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice	12
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway	12

Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures	12
Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research	11
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection	11
The relational costs of crossing class lines	11
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization	10
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital	10
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape	10
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’	9
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation	9
Corrigendum	9
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities	9
Webs of reciprocity: Colonial taxation and the need for reparations	8
How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices	8
Structure and social action: On constituting and connecting social worlds By JohnScott, Bingley: Emerald Publishing (Emerald Points), 2022, pp. 103	8
Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World’s Call Center Capital. Jeffrey J.Sallaz	8
How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment	8
Envisioning alternatives to capitalism: On recent debates from the great recession to the global pandemic	8
From public to commercial service: State‐market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–2021	8
Gray areas: How the way we work perpetuates racism and what we can do to fix it. By Adia HarveyWingfield, New York: HarperCollins Amistad. 2023. 304 pages. ISBN: 9780063079816	8
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”	7
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population	7
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’	7
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential. By HebaGowayed, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. 195 pages. £22.00 (pbk)	7
What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a correlational class analysis	7
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival	7
Agents of reform: Child labor and the origins of the welfare state. By ElisabethAnderson, Princeton (NJ), Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2021. pp. 384. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐691‐22089‐5	7
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed	6
When the ‘Old’ Attend to the ‘Old’: Female Direct Care Workers Doing Gendered and Classed Age in the Chinese Elder Care Industry	6
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?	6
The Body in Extremist White Supremacism	6
The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945. By DanielSmith, Manchester: 2023	6
Issue Information ‐ Toc	6
Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field	6
Threatening dystopias: The global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh. By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2021. p. 267 including front matter, appendices, g	6
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Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections	6
Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 9781009222280	6
Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront UnemploymentAliya HamidRaoOakland, California: University of California Press. 2020. 308 pp. £66.00 (Hardcover). £24.00 (Paperback).	6
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates	6
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility	6
Prestige Fetishism in the Academy: Comte's Mirror, the Magic Mirror or an Illusion of Reality?	5
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization	5
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK	5
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 2024	5
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement	5
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics	5
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 2017	5
Minding the curve: The influence of social origin on earnings inequality by education in Mexico	4
Social mobilization and political change in countries governed by the left: The cases of Argentina and Brazil	4
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China	4

Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time	4
Social character, interdependence, and the dualities of other‐directedness	4
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	4
Gender inequalities in unpaid public work: Retention, stratification and segmentation in the volunteer leadership of charities in England and Wales	4
‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid‐19 pandemic	4
Issue Information	4
Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance. By AlejandroPortes and Ariel C.Armony, New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. $35.00 / £30.00 (paper).	4
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine	4
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism	3
In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes	3
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality	3
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations	3
Side hustle safety net: How vulnerable workers survive precarious times. By AlexandreaRavenelle, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 344 pages. £25. ISBN: 9780520387300	3
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Does educational attainment matter for attitudes toward immigrants in Chile? Assessing the causality and generalizability of higher education's so‐called “liberalizing effect” on economic and cultural	3
Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach	3
(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations	3
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling	3
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Issue Information	3
Climate Moralities Offset: A Case of Formative Voluntary Carbon Markets	3
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment	3
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Resilience in the context ofconflict‐relatedsexual violence and beyond: A “sentient ecology” framework	3
Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices	3
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’	3
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora. By C. N.Eddins, 2021. 360 pp. £20.07 (paperback), open access (online)	3
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife	3