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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire	39
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	38
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	37
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization	28
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control	27
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	23
Moral regulation and a good moral panic: UK Polish migrant workers and the 2016 EU Referendum	22
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	21
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	19
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	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	18
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	16
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)	15
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	14
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome	13
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	13
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	12
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships	12
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	11
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem	11
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism	10
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	9
The mechanisms of trust formation under different conditions of political identity: An experiment among Taiwanese voters	9
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	9

Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	9
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science	9
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	9
Citizenship as a caste marker: How persons experience cross-national inequality	9
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	9
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?	8
Race and/or caste: What is at stake?	8
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	8
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems	8
Interrogating parenting and intergenerational relationships within national and transnational contexts	8
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study	7
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	7
Class in Iceland	7
A value turn in sociology	7
Reflections of a Monographs editor	6
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	6
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud	6
The literature/science boundary in sociological articles: Using fiction to discover patterns in co-authorship, author gender, and citation rank	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
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science	6
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	6
Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology	5
Diasporic multiculturalism	5
Editors’ foreword to the 70th anniversary volume	5
Men’s and women’s changing attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers in Australia	5
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship	5
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation	5
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea	5
Risk, mourning, politics: Toward a transnational critical conception of grief for COVID-19 deaths in Iran	5
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts	5
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives	4
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing	4
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	4
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
Contentious buildings: The struggle against eviction in NYC’s Lower East Side	4
An emerging military-industrial-nonprofit complex? Exploring conscripted volunteering in Israel	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
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell	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
Paid domestic work and outsourcing in South Africa: Clients’ views on trust, control and power relations	4
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies	4
The financialization of non-financial firms: The case of South Korea, 1997–2015	4
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	4