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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire	42
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	39
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	39
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization	25
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	23
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	20
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	19
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers	19
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	19
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	16
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome	14
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia	14
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	14
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	12
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	12
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships	11
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	11
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)	11
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem	11
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science	10
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism	10
Citizenship as a caste marker: How persons experience cross-national inequality	10
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	10
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	10
The mechanisms of trust formation under different conditions of political identity: An experiment among Taiwanese voters	10

Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?	9
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	9
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	9
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	9
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	9
Race and/or caste: What is at stake?	8
A value turn in sociology	8
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study	8
The literature/science boundary in sociological articles: Using fiction to discover patterns in co-authorship, author gender, and citation rank	7
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems	7
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science	7
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud	7
Interrogating parenting and intergenerational relationships within national and transnational contexts	7
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	7
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	7
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	6
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea	6
Can a colonial flag become a banner for democracy? The Case of the Dragon and Lion flag and the 2019 Hong Kong protests	6
Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology	6
Diasporic multiculturalism	6
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	6
Editors’ foreword to the 70th anniversary volume	6
Reflections of a Monographs editor	6
‘. . . 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	5
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	5
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation	5
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	5
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain	5
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship	5
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	5
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell	5
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts	5
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts	4
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences	4
Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach	4
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union	4
Is ethics a Utopia? Yes, when moral distinctions impair the ethical aim	4
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana	4
Paid domestic work and outsourcing in South Africa: Clients’ views on trust, control and power relations	4
An emerging military-industrial-nonprofit complex? Exploring conscripted volunteering in Israel	4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	4
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies	4
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives	4