OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Problems is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“The State is Coming”: The Emotional Content of State Formation through a Colombian Coca Substitution Program	88
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison	67
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences	44
How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution	41
“Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate”: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab	23
The Alien Citizen: Social Distance and the Economic Returns to Naturalization in the Southwest	23
America’s Most Divided Sport: Polarization and Inequality in Attitudes about Youth Football	20
“Dream like the Whites”: Disjunctures in Racial Experiences and Interpretations of Low-Income First-Generation Students of Color and Their Parents	20
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology	20
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities	19
“They don’t have to make room for me because this is their space”: Black College Students’ Narratives of Racism, Whiteness, and Mental Health	18
Crafting Charismatic Cops: Community Policing and the Faulty Reputations Paradigm	17
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec	16
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring	16
“Trans Enough”: Examining the Boundaries of Transgender-Identity Membership	16
Colorism in Punishment among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System	15
Temporal Autonomy: Schedule Instability as a Threat to Perceived Dignity in the U.S. Service Sector	15
Model Guardians: The Gendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers	14
Stratified Private Safety Nets: How Legal Status Shapes Financial Contributions by Immigrant-Origin Young Adults	14
Slow Violence and theGas Peeditin Neoliberal India	13
Gentrified Discipline: The Impact of Gentrification on Exclusionary Punishment in Public Schools	12
Predatory DEI: How Racialized Organizations Exacerbate Workplace Racial Stratification through Exploitative Diversity Work	12
Repertoire of Resilience: Black Women’s Social Resistance to Suicide	12
Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South	11
Workplace Climates, Workplace Structures, and LGBTQ People’s Identity Disclosure: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis	11

Social Triage and Exclusions in Community Services for the Criminalized	11
Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention	11
“I Don’t Have Much Money, but I Have a Lot of Friends”: How Poor Older Latinxs Find Social Support in Peer Friendship Networks	11
Policing a Pandemic in New York City: How Do Community Features Matter in the Location of Social Distancing Violations?	10
“I can’t tell you what freedom is ’cause I’ve never seen it”: Addressing the Omission of Liberation Narratives in Sociology	10
Political Invisibility: Rescue Acts by Mothers during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda	10
More than Teacher Bias: A QuantCrit Analysis of Teachers’ Perceptions of Young Black Boys’ Noncognitive Skills	10
Handcrafted Careers: How Workers Navigate Racialized Career Pathways in the Craft Beer Industry	10
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life: A Role for Late Career Employment Quality?	10
Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood	10
Double Citizenship as a Double-Edged Sword: Young Return Migrants’ Code-Switching for Belonging in Mexico	9
Protective State Policies and the Employment of Fathers with Criminal Records	9
Shuffle Out, Shuffle In: Child Protective Services Contact and Institutional Shuffling among Middle-Class Black Mothers	9
Loneliness Loves Company, Some More than Others: Social Ties, Form of Engagement, and Their Relation to Loneliness	9
Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War	9
Liminal Punishment and the Specter of Jail	8
On Our Own: Social Distance, Physical Loneliness, and Structural Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
The Balancing Act of Family and College: Reciprocity and Its Consequences for Black Students	8
“He’s a Full-Blown Narcissist:” Tracing an Emerging Cultural Narrative in Action	8
‘The system is engineered to do this’: Multilevel Disempowerment and Climate Injustice in Regulating Colorado’s Oil and Gas Development	8
A Vitapolitics Frame: How Trans Activists Make Sense of Trans Lives in Interactions with Allies	7
Making Gender Crises: State Newspapers and the Regulation of Gender Nonconformity in China	7
A Matter of Time: The Life Course Implications of Deferred Action for Undocumented Latin American Immigrants in the United States	7
Tipping Regimes: Organizational Dynamics and Labor Control Mechanisms on Nashville’s Honky-Tonk Row	7
The Intensity of Local Immigration Conflict: Variations across Space and Time	7
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families	7
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980–2010	6
Black Boys’ Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health: Findings from the YBMen Project	6
How Long Does Madness Take? Time and the Construction of Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Work	6
Politics as a Vacation: Tourist Practices and the Building of the Nation-State	6
Environmental Inequality in the American Mind: The Problem of Color-Blind Environmental Racism	6
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women	6
Gender and Work: Online Job Platforms of the Chinese Ethnic Economy	6
Thanks to Reviewers	6
Organizational Practice and Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequality in Police Use-of-Force	6
Narrowing Racial Differences in Trust: How Discrimination Shapes Trust in a Racialized Society	5
Ethnic-Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination and Support for Black Lives Matter among Black American Youth	5
The Boys in Blue Are Watching You: The Shifting Metropolitan Landscape and Big Data Police Surveillance in the United States	5
Correction to: Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents	5
Embedding Racism: City Government Credit Ratings and the Institutionalization of Race in Markets	5
Shared Satisfaction among Residents Living in Multiracial Neighborhoods	5
Banging while Believing: The Intersection of Religiosity, Gang Membership, and Violence	5
Varieties of Sugar Dating in Sweden: Content, Compensation, Motivations	5
Rescaling Resettlement: Local Welcoming Policies and the Shaping of Refugee Belonging	5
Gender Differences in the Geographic Breadth of Job Search: Examining Job Applications	5
Historical Markers or Markers of White Supremacy? Confederate Memorialization, Racial Threat, and Hate Crime	5
The Ideal Delegation: How Institutional Privilege Silences “Developing” Nations in the UN Climate Negotiations	5
Status Threat, Meritocracy, and the Politics of Solidarity in the Seoul Subway	5
Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets	5
Index to Volume 68	5

“We Got Witnesses” Black Women’s Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement	5
Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy	5
Women Who Break the Glass Ceiling Get a “Paper Cut”: Gender, Fame, and Media Sentiment	5
Feeling Carcerality: How Carceral Seepage Shapes Racialized Emotions	5