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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Narratives of institutional trust: Turkish migrants’ comparative perspectives in Germany and Türkiye	47
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	26
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	21
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization	21
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	19
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	17
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	16
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	13
Ordinary consumption in extra-ordinarily small homes: Acquisition, storage and decluttering practices of micro-apartment residents	13
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	13
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	13
Why and how lifestyle change to reduced consumption is an active part of the emerging sustainability transformation	12
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia	11
Why the world still fails to end conflict-related sexual violence 30 years after the Beijing declaration	10
Classes in transition: Intergenerational family trajectories and forced migration in historical context	10
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships	9
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	9
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	9
Leveraging expat bubbles: Migrant women’s information-gathering practices within Hong Kong spaces of expatriate privilege from arrival to post-divorce	9
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	9
Of love and loss: Negotiating masculinity and care in families of autistic children in China	8
Fluid yet sticky? Exploring social class through the lens of transnational migration	8
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism	7
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	7
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science	7

Ageism as labor precarity: Prescriptive stereotypes and the politics of informal work in the Global South	6
Race and/or caste: What is at stake?	6
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	6
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud	6
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study	6
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	6
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	6
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	6
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	6
A value turn in sociology	5
Challenging the sociological canon: An analysis of theoretical practices in Norwegian sociology	5
Beyond democratic exposure: A cognitive-motivational-emotional analysis of political disaffection among highly skilled Chinese migrants in Germany	5
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	5
Ethnographic inheritances in Kashmir: The academic and social life of an ethnographic monograph	5
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	5
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	5
The returnscape: The labyrinthine return trajectories of temporary migrant workers	5
‘I feel like I’m yours, but I’m not yours’: Three accounts to interpret an idiosyncratic form of dating and romantic relationship among young female college students in South Korea	5
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?	5
Can a colonial flag become a banner for democracy? The Case of the Dragon and Lion flag and the 2019 Hong Kong protests	5
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	5
Diasporic multiculturalism	5
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	5
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain	4
Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts	4
The sociology of literature in Argentina: A little of its history and some notes on its present	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell	4
The impact of COVID 19 in Argentina and Chile’s informal settlement: Populous habitats and ways of living in times of crisis	4
My child is one in a million: Parents hesitant to vaccinate their children, or communities of practice in the field of (alternative) medicine	4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	4
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4
Entrapped subjects: Disciplinary techniques in China’s multi-level marketing organizations	4
‘. . . You are a Muslim, and our village disapproves of this’: The objections of indigenous minority communities in Israel to women’s employment in the police on grounds of gender, nationality and cri	4
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	4
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	4
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts	4
The need for a sexual safety framework: Deployment-related sexual violence against US servicewomen and implications for the women, peace, and security agenda	4