OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Quarterly is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Romantic Relationships and Depressive Symptoms among Young Women	24
The Everynight Politics of Expatriate Gay Men Across the Global South: Forging Community in Buenos Aires, Flirting with Nonexistence in Dubai	21
How Do You Interview a River? Translating the Social Role of Natural Entities	16
Congregations in Context: Clarifying the Religious Ecology of Crime	14
Contentious Civic Spheres and Gender Inequality	13
“I Don’t Care Who Rules in the White House”: Boundary-Training in Science and Everyday Politics of Knowledge	10
Beyond Remittances: How Face Drives Immigration Stories of Undocumented and Mixed-status Chinese Immigrant Families	10
Drag and the New Political Economy of Queer Nightlife	10
The Local Welfare State and Differences in Racialized Poverty	10
Correction	8
I Love a Piano: How a Philadelphia Piano Bar Maintains Its Gay Reputation Through Interaction Rituals	8
It’s a Matter of Institutional Trust: Seasonal Childhood Vaccine Uptake During a Time of Mixed Messages in Alberta, Canada	7
Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Prison: Experiences of Social Ties Within the Total Institution	6
Editors’ Farewell	6
Populism, Emotions, and Boundary Work Among Political Activists in the Trump Era	6
How Age Shapes Ethno-Racial Disparities in Accessing Mortgage Credit	6
The Interaction and Amplification of World Society Norms: A Case Study of Environmental Conservation, Gender Equality, and Formal Education	5
Toxic Personal Care: Selling Gendered Marketing and Chemical Toxicity Through Personal Care Products	5
Civil Society and Democracy under Pressure: Does Authoritarian Mobilization and Party Incapacity Diminish the Positive Effect of Civil Society?	5
Political Claimsmaking and Emotional Expression	5
The Scope, Issues, and Disruptiveness of Campus Protest in the United States, 2017–2024	5
Are More Educated States More Gay-Friendly? How the Increase in College Attainment Promotes Acceptance of Gay Men and Lesbians	5
From Rights Claims to Quality Frames in US Child Care Advocacy	4
Trajectories of Deprivation: Linking Neighborhood Change with Presence of Social Service Organizations	4
Uncertain Belonging: Asexuality and Queer Nightlife	4

Colorblind Cops in Christian America: Christian Nationalism, Race, Politics, and Beliefs About Racist Policing	4
Circling Back: The Aftermath of Campus Activism, Racism, and Institutional Responses	4
Labor Market Inequality, Debt, and the Consequences of Sub-Baccalaureate Higher Education	4
Our Kind of American: Christian Nationalism, Race, and Contingent Views of Cultural Membership	4
“Everybody Has a Past”: Stigma, Organizational Practices, and Small Business Evaluation of Applicants with Criminal Records	3
Beyond Petroleum? The Diffusion of Alternative Fuels in the United States, 1994–2015	3
Evidence, Expertise, and Exploration: Politics of Knowledge in Gender Therapy	3
When Protest Becomes Institutionalized: Evidence from the Chilean Student Movement Under Military Rule, 1982–1989	3
High Hopes: Gender Trends in Educational Expectations for Graduate and Professional School, 1976-2019	3
Ethnicity, Poverty, Race, and the Unequal Distribution of US Safe Drinking Water Act Violations, 2016-2018	3
Assessing the Anti-Globalization Movement: Protest Against the WTO, IMF, and World Bank in Cross-National Perspective	3
Immigrant Threat or Institutional Context? Examining Police Agency and County Context and the Implementation of the 287(g) Program	3
Moving Away from One’s Origins: Predictors of Becoming a First-Generation College Graduate and Not Becoming a Continuing-Generation Graduate	3
Investigating the Newsworthiness of Bias-Motivated Murders: A Media Distortion Analysis	3
The Cultural Field of Queer Nightlife: Organizations, Artists, and Curatorial Activism	2
Toward a Sociology of Transportation	2
Athletes without Athletics: Reproducing Racialized Inequities in the Absence of Formal Structures	2
Measuring Cross-National Variations in Religiosity and Attitudes Toward Science and Technology Using Machine Learning	2
Mobilizing Equal Employment Rights: The Social and Political Determinants of Discrimination Complaints (2009–2018)	2
Power & Moral Capital - A “Theory of Access” for People Receiving Public Assistance in Rural USA	2
“I Don’t Know Where the Lesbians Are”: LGBTQ+ Bars and Women’s Experiences of Community in Central Florida	2
Left Behind: Yachts, Dinghies, and Perceptions of Social Inequality in COVID-19	2
Working Part-Time: Earnings Penalties Among People with Disabilities Across Occupational Groups in France	2
Some States Stepping In: Politics and Discourse in Foreclosure Prevention Legislation Outcomes During the Financial Crisis	2
Doing Sexuality: How Married Bisexual, Queer, and Pansexual People Navigate Passing and Erasure	2
Self-Worth Through Expertise: Experiences of Prime-Age Men Who are Out of the Formal Labor Force	2
Rhizomatic Labor and Connective Action: Feminist Student Activism in China’s Illiberal Opportunity Structures	2
Network Position Affects Social Status in Early Adolescence	2
Correction	2
Does the Free Market Kill Us? A Cross-National Study on Labor Market Freedom, Culture, and Lethal Violence	2
Grappling with Chance in a Changing World: Towards a Typology and Understanding of Fortune	2
Direct Democracy as a Call for Social Engagement in Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Student-Led Protests in Serbia	2
Signals from the School: Do Positive and Negative Messages Shape Family Involvement?	1
Gender and Linked Lives in Chinese Beliefs About Adulthood	1
Letter from the New Editor-in-Chief	1
Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Farm Animal Welfare: An Empirical Analysis Using the Voiceless Animal Cruelty Index	1
The Racialized American Dream: Predictors for the 21 ^st Century	1
“Value-Conditioned Interest”: Secularity, Institutional Support, and the Sociology of Religion in Graduate Departments	1
Perceiving Protest: How Publics View the Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest	1
Making Sense (And Use) of Community Conversations: The Sudden and Unexpected Joy of Sociology	1
What Does “Living Alone” Mean? Exploring the Practices of Solo-Living	1
Sad Puppies and SJWs: Symbolic Revolution and Challenges to Field Orthodoxy in the Struggle for Control of Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards	1
Front-Stage Politics: Visual Identity and Discourse on the Far Right	1
Deciding for Her: Religio-Political Conservatism, Christian Nationalism, and Public Opposition to Legal Abortion Across Circumstances	1
Staging Disruption: (In)visibility, Tactical Decision-Making, and Student Protest in Chile Across Three Protest Cycles, 2001–2012	1
Elite Cueing, Gender, and the Partisan Gap in Environmental Support	1
How Local Perceptions Contribute to Urban Environmental Activism: Evidence from the Chicago Metropolitan Area	1
Mooring Christian Nationalism: How Religious Institutions, Participation, and Beliefs Inform Christian Nationalism	1
The New Class and Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Wisconsin	1
Empty Promises: Why and How Community Colleges Exclude Undocumented Students from “Free College” Promise Programs	1

For the Children: Attitudes Toward Marriage and Divorce in the United States	1
Guest, Family, or Roommate? How Framing Guides Private Hospitality of Ukrainian Refugees in Poland	1
The Sociology of Queer Nightlife	1
Joy Beyond the Gender Binary: Experiences, Constructions, and Barriers of Joy in Nonbinary Lives	1
Psychiatric Labels: Exploring Indirect and Direct Assessments of Task Performance	1
Prefigurating Democracy: The Pro-Palestinian Student Camps as Eventful Protests	1
Fronts and Friends: Social Contingencies in the Management of Drug Debt	1
Flexible Work Schedules and Labor Market Exits: A Longitudinal Analysis of Gender and Parenthood Differences in Germany	1