OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Problems 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Making racial demands: tracing the struggle over public safety in Minneapolis	113
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences	20
How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution	18
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology	16
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring	16
“The State is Coming”: The Emotional Content of State Formation through a Colombian Coca Substitution Program	16
Incels and gender inequality: changing tides in defining the far right	16
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison	16
“They don’t have to make room for me because this is their space”: Black College Students’ Narratives of Racism, Whiteness, and Mental Health	15
Temporal Autonomy: Schedule Instability as a Threat to Perceived Dignity in the U.S. Service Sector	15
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities	14
Stratified Private Safety Nets: How Legal Status Shapes Financial Contributions by Immigrant-Origin Young Adults	12
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec	12
Christian nationalism and ableism in the United States	12
Structural fire as a social problem: firehouse distribution disparities in New York City	12
Repertoire of Resilience: Black Women’s Social Resistance to Suicide	11
Predatory DEI: How Racialized Organizations Exacerbate Workplace Racial Stratification through Exploitative Diversity Work	11
Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention	10
Banning of cockfighting in Puerto Rico: assessing public support and opposition	10
Model Guardians: The Gendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers	10
Homelessness and race: the impact of structural conditions on Black, White, and Latine homelessness	10
Social Triage and Exclusions in Community Services for the Criminalized	10
Workplace Climates, Workplace Structures, and LGBTQ People’s Identity Disclosure: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis	10
“I can’t tell you what freedom is ’cause I’ve never seen it”: Addressing the Omission of Liberation Narratives in Sociology	9
“I Don’t Have Much Money, but I Have a Lot of Friends”: How Poor Older Latinxs Find Social Support in Peer Friendship Networks	9

Policing a Pandemic in New York City: How Do Community Features Matter in the Location of Social Distancing Violations?	9
More than Teacher Bias: A QuantCrit Analysis of Teachers’ Perceptions of Young Black Boys’ Noncognitive Skills	9
Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South	9
Handcrafted Careers: How Workers Navigate Racialized Career Pathways in the Craft Beer Industry	8
Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War	8
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life: A Role for Late Career Employment Quality?	8
Shuffle Out, Shuffle In: Child Protective Services Contact and Institutional Shuffling among Middle-Class Black Mothers	8
Double Citizenship as a Double-Edged Sword: Young Return Migrants’ Code-Switching for Belonging in Mexico	7
Political Invisibility: Rescue Acts by Mothers during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda	7
“He’s a Full-Blown Narcissist:” Tracing an Emerging Cultural Narrative in Action	7
On Our Own: Social Distance, Physical Loneliness, and Structural Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	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
Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood	7
Liminal Punishment and the Specter of Jail	7
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980–2010	7
Tipping Regimes: Organizational Dynamics and Labor Control Mechanisms on Nashville’s Honky-Tonk Row	7
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families	7
The Balancing Act of Family and College: Reciprocity and Its Consequences for Black Students	7
‘The system is engineered to do this’: Multilevel Disempowerment and Climate Injustice in Regulating Colorado’s Oil and Gas Development	7
Gender and Work: Online Job Platforms of the Chinese Ethnic Economy	6
Politics as a Vacation: Tourist Practices and the Building of the Nation-State	6
How Long Does Madness Take? Time and the Construction of Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Work	6
Women Who Break the Glass Ceiling Get a “Paper Cut”: Gender, Fame, and Media Sentiment	6
The Intensity of Local Immigration Conflict: Variations across Space and Time	6
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women	6
Environmental Inequality in the American Mind: The Problem of Color-Blind Environmental Racism	6
Organizational Practice and Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequality in Police Use-of-Force	6
A Vitapolitics Frame: How Trans Activists Make Sense of Trans Lives in Interactions with Allies	6
Black Boys’ Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health: Findings from the YBMen Project	6
In the face of adversity: healthcare navigation and strategies of resilience among transgender and nonbinary care-seekers	6
The Boys in Blue Are Watching You: The Shifting Metropolitan Landscape and Big Data Police Surveillance in the United States	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
Banging while Believing: The Intersection of Religiosity, Gang Membership, and Violence	5
Feeling Carcerality: How Carceral Seepage Shapes Racialized Emotions	5
Shared Satisfaction among Residents Living in Multiracial Neighborhoods	5
Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact	5
Mapping the Cultural Repertoires of Family Estrangement: A New Theory of Democratized Kinship	5
Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets	5
Historical Markers or Markers of White Supremacy? Confederate Memorialization, Racial Threat, and Hate Crime	5
Ethnic-Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination and Support for Black Lives Matter among Black American Youth	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
The enabling-helping dilemma: redefining behaviors and roles in the context of family, opioid addiction	5
Status Threat, Meritocracy, and the Politics of Solidarity in the Seoul Subway	5
Embedding Racism: City Government Credit Ratings and the Institutionalization of Race in Markets	5
Assessing the Risks of Risk Assessments: Institutional Tensions and Data Driven Judicial Decision-Making in U.S. Pretrial Hearings	4
Racial/ethnic neighborhood change and the distribution of health-related urban amenities over time	4
The Sociology of Property Value in a Climate-Changed United States	4

The Way of Migrant Brokers: Power, Competition, and the Misconversion Capital	4
Correction to: Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents	4
Belonging and Boundaries at an Elite University	4
Incarceration Exposure during Pregnancy and Father’s Acknowledgment of Paternity	4
Healthcare beyond the humanitarian niche: Syrian refugee-led organizations in Turkey	4
Masculinity Challenged: Emotional Responses to State Support for Women’s Employment in the United Arab Emirates	4
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Accumulation of Distrust	4
Correction to: Communication and Decision-Making Processes: Group-level Determinants of State Performance	4