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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum	73
Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology	58
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control	30
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China	27
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment	22
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders	22
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field	20
Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement	19
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice	18
The Strength of Weak Ties? Understanding Educational Differences in Parents' Childcare Benefit Knowledge by Applying a Social Capital Approach	17
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway	17
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community	17
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men	16
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries	16
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The unclaimed: Abandonment and hope in the city of angels. By P.Prickett and S.Timmermans, London: Penguin Random House. 2024	16
Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2024	15
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change	14
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics	14
Remarks on “relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state.” Gurminder K. Bhambra	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
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom	12
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures	12
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection	11

Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research	11
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China	11
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization	11
The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence: On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society	11
The relational costs of crossing class lines	11
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation	10
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities	10
Structure and social action: On constituting and connecting social worlds By JohnScott, Bingley: Emerald Publishing (Emerald Points), 2022, pp. 103	9
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital	9
Corrigendum	9
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape	9
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’	9
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
From public to commercial service: State‐market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–2021	8
The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945. By DanielSmith, Manchester: 2023	8
Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections	8
How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices	8
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population	8
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
Envisioning alternatives to capitalism: On recent debates from the great recession to the global pandemic	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
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential. By HebaGowayed, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. 195 pages. £22.00 (pbk)	7
Webs of reciprocity: Colonial taxation and the need for reparations	7
How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment	7
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’	7
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”	7
Issue Information ‐ Toc	6
Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 9781009222280	6
Decolouring. The Racial Imprints of Upward Mobility in Lima's Dominant Class	6
Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence: Findings From an Australian Study	6
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates	6
When the ‘Old’ Attend to the ‘Old’: Female Direct Care Workers Doing Gendered and Classed Age in the Chinese Elder Care Industry	6
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed	6
The Body in Extremist White Supremacism	6
Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field	5
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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).	5
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?	5
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility	5
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China	5
Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront UnemploymentAliya HamidRaoOakland, California: University of California Press. 2020. 308 pp. £66.00 (Hardcover). £24.00 (Paperback).	5
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	5
Social mobilization and political change in countries governed by the left: The cases of Argentina and Brazil	5
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 2024	5
Prestige Fetishism in the Academy: Comte's Mirror, the Magic Mirror or an Illusion of Reality?	4
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization	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
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment	4

Issue Information	4
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 2017	4
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	4
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine	4
Minding the curve: The influence of social origin on earnings inequality by education in Mexico	4
What is the Liberalizing Potential of Higher Education? An Analysis of Academic Fields and Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment Across 32 Countries	4
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics	4
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement	4
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK	4
Social character, interdependence, and the dualities of other‐directedness	4
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife	4
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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
Climate Moralities Offset: A Case of Formative Voluntary Carbon Markets	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
(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations	3
From Dyadic Distance to Space in Family Networks: Reciprocity of Family Support in Switzerland	3
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism	3
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Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach	3
In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes	3
Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time	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
Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices	3
Resilience in the context ofconflict‐relatedsexual violence and beyond: A “sentient ecology” framework	3
Issue Information	3