OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current 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
Social representations of ‘social distancing’ in response to COVID-19 in the UK media	32
For a comparative sociology of home: Relationships, cultures, structures	28
Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean	27
Identifying femicide locally and globally: Understanding the utility and accessibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators	26
Tackling COVID-19 risk in Hong Kong: Examining distrust, compliance and risk management	26
Panic, pizza and mainstreaming the alt-right: A social media analysis of Pizzagate and the rise of the QAnon conspiracy	23
Introduction: Towards a sociology of pandemics	23
‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration	22
Alternative media framing of COVID-19 risks	20
The impossibility of gendered justice through surrogacy bans	20
Conclusions: Towards a sociology of pandemics and beyond	20
Staying away, staying alive: Exploring risk and stigma of COVID-19 in the context of beliefs, actors and hierarchies in India	18
Architectures of asylum: Making home in a state of permanent temporariness	17
Sociology’s encounter with the decolonial: The problematique of indigenous vs that of coloniality, extraversion and colonial modernity	17
Home experiences and homemaking practices of single Syrian refugees in an innovative housing project in Amsterdam	17
Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy	17
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing	15
Punctuated temporalities: Temporal borders in student-migrants’ everyday lives	15
Swedish exceptionalism, herd immunity and the welfare state: A media analysis of struggles over the nature and legitimacy of the COVID-19 pandemic strategy in Sweden	15
LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach	15
Researching identities through material possessions: The case of diasporic objects	14
Gendered objects and gendered spaces: The invisibilities of ‘knife’ crime	12
Theorizing societalization across borders: Globality, transnationality, postcoloniality	11
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain	11
Men’s and women’s changing attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers in Australia	11

Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to ‘Global Britain’	11
How religion shapes immigrants’ integration: The case of Christian migrant churches in Italy	10
Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition	10
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science	9
Wasta and its relationship to employment status and income in the Arab Middle East	9
Motherhood and the contradictions of feminism: Appraising claims towards emancipation in the perspective of surrogacy	9
Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait	9
Social class, intensive parenting norms and parental values for children	9
Nonprofits as socially responsible actors: Neoliberalism, institutional structures, and empowerment in the United Nations Global Compact	9
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences	9
Developing the concept of society: Institutional domains, regimes of inequalities and complex systems in a global era	9
Colonial management of death: To be or not to be dead in Palestine	9
Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide	8
Pandemic rage: Everyday frustrations in times of the COVID-19 crisis	8
Understanding less-educated citizens’ (non-)participation in citizens’ initiatives: Feelings of entitlement and a taste for politics	8
From global risk to global threat: State capabilities and modernity in times of coronavirus	8
Road capitals: Reconceptualising street capital, value production and exchange in the context of road life in the UK	8
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control	7
Political sociology in a time of protest	7
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	7
Superdiversity and social policies in a complex society: Social challenges in the 21st century	7
Theorizing large-scale societal relations through the conceptual lens of cross-border assemblages	7
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers	6
Introduction: The case for a value turn in childhood sociology	6
An integral model of cultural reproduction: The case of China	6
Re-thinking society: How can sociological theories help us understand global and cross-border social contexts?	6
Gendered parenting and returns from children in contemporary India: A study of IIT students and their parents	6
Religion and everyday cosmopolitanism among religious and non-religious urban youth	6
Clodomiro Almeyda and Roger Vekemans: The tension between autonomy and political commitment in the institutionalization of Chilean sociology, 1957–1973	6
Beyond convergence and divergence: Towards a ‘both and’ approach to critical race and critical Indigenous studies in Australia	6
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category	6
Economizing the political: Workfare reform in strategic management mode	5
Islamophobia and French academia	5
From rain as risk to rain as resource: Professional and organizational changes in urban rainwater management	5
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas	5
Neuroscience and the construction of a new child in early childhood education in Indonesia: A neoliberal legacy	5
‘I wish I were a plumber!’: Transnational class reconstructions across migrant experiences among Hong Kong’s professionals and managers	5
Commercial surrogacy in the age of intensive mothering	5
Criminalization of femicide in Latin America: Challenges of legal conceptualization	5
The racial fix and environmental state formation	5
The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey	5
The German social space and its homologies: National variation on a basic structure	4
Trust in the military in post-authoritarian societies	4
The persistent protest cycle: A case study of contained political incorporation	4
In search of the ‘best’ option: American private secondary education for upper-middle-class Chinese teenagers	4
Digital competences and skills as key factors between connectedness and tolerance to diversity on social networking sites: Case study of social work graduates on Facebook	4
Look up rather than down: Karl Polanyi’s fascism and radical right-wing ‘populism’	4
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies	4
The politics of deferral: Denaturalizing the ‘economic value’ of children’s labor in India	4
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension	4

How to make sense of citizen expertise in participatory projects?	4
Palestinian mothers in Israel: Can a welfare-to-work program enhance their social capital?	4
Horizontal and vertical labour market movements in Austria: Do occupational transitions take women across gendered lines?	4
Nota home: Shelter families living in Canadian motels	4
The Safe Standing movement in English football: Mobilizing across the political and discursive fields of contention	4
Scaled, citizen-led, and public qualitative research: A framework for citizen social science	4
Weaponizing people in environmental conflicts: Capturing ‘hearts’, ‘minds’, and manufacturing ‘volunteers’ for extractive development	4
Deconstructing social anthropology discourses in their support of surrogacy: The case of France	4