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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobility Optimism in an Age of Rising Inequality	13
In-and-Beyond State Power: How Political Equality Moderates the Economic Growth-CO₂ Emissions Relationship, 1990-2014	12
“Systems Change Not Climate Change”: Support for a Radical Shift Away from Capitalism at Mainstream U.S. Climate Change Protest Events	11
A Link to the Past: Race, Lynchings, and the Passage of Stand-Your-Ground Laws	9
Porn as a Threat to the Mythic Social Order: Christian Nationalism, Anti-Pornography Legislation, and Fear of Pornography as a Public Menace	8
China, Mining, and Forests: A Cross-National Test of Ecologically Unequal Exchange	8
Gender Differences in Adolescents’ Work and Family Orientations in the United States	8
Race, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Politics of Respectability among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Racial Minorities	7
Characteristics of the Most Productive U.S. Sociology Faculty and Departments: Institution Type, Gender, and Journal Concentration	7
“We Know What They’re Going Through”: Social Support from Similar versus Significant Others	7
Sharing the Same Space: How the Memory of the Holocaust Travels in Political Speech	7
Who is the (“Ideal”) Victim of Labor Exploitation? Two Qualitative Vignette Studies on Labor Inspectors’ Discretion	7
Photo Elicitation and the Sociology of Taste: A Review of the Field, Empirical Illustrations, Arguments for A “Return to Photography”	6
Attitudes toward Immigration as a Sense of Group Position	6
Egocentric Contact Networks of Older Adults: Featuring Quantity, Strength and Function of Ties	5
COVID-19’s Impact on Gendered Household Food Practices: Eating and Feeding as Expressions of Competencies, Moralities, and Mobilities	5
First-Generation Students, College Majors, and Gendered Pathways	5
A Public Health Frame for Fracking? Predicting Public Support for Hydraulic Fracturing	5
State Presence, Armed Actors, and Criminal Violence in Central America	5
Status Politics and the Political Influences of Concealed Handgun License Demand in Texas	5
Black-White Differences in the Reciprocal Relationship Between Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Distress	4
Uncertain Adolescent Educational Expectations and College Matriculation in the Wake of the Great Recession	4
LG but Not T: Opposition to Transgender Rights Amidst Gay and Lesbian Acceptance	4
Change in the Spatial Clustering of Poor Neighborhoods within U.S. Counties and Its Impact on Homicide: An Analysis of Metropolitan Counties, 1980-2010	4
The Collective Construction of Need: Group Styles of Determining Deservingness in Christian Social Service Agencies	4

The Significance of Race: Overcoming Obstacles in the Adoption of Ban the Box Laws	4
Filling Empty Promises? Foreign Aid and Human Rights Decoupling, 1981-2011	4
Combating Inequality: The Between- and Within-Group Effects of Unionization on Earnings for People with Different Disabilities	4
The Effects of Adolescent and Early Adulthood Intimate Partner Violence on Adult Socioeconomic Well-being	4
Left Behind: Yachts, Dinghies, and Perceptions of Social Inequality in COVID-19	3
This Land Is (Not) Your Land: Race and Ascripted Americanness in the Formation of Attitudes about Immigrants	3
Identifying the Undeserving Poor: The Effect of Racial, Ethnic, and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment on State Medicaid Eligibility	3
Ethnicity, Poverty, Race, and the Unequal Distribution of US Safe Drinking Water Act Violations, 2016-2018	3
Echo Chambers in a Closed Community: Vaccine Uptake and Perceived Effectiveness among the Amish and Old Order Mennonites	3
Our Kind of American: Christian Nationalism, Race, and Contingent Views of Cultural Membership	3
Human Rights and Dissent in Hybrid Environments: The Impact of Shifting Rights Regimes	3
Differential Effectiveness of Regional Trade Agreements, 1958-2012: The Conditioning Effects from Homophily and World-System Status	3
Attitudes about Affirmative Action in Higher Education Admissions	3
Threats and Norms: Multicultural Policies and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigrants	3
The Inequality Trap & Willingness-to-Pay for Environmental Protections: The Contextual Effect of Income Inequality on Affluence & Trust	2
Agrochemical Exposure & Environmental Illness: Legal Repression of Latin American Banana Workers	2
Friendship versus Faith: How Latter-day Saint College Students Manage the Conflicts between Their Beliefs about Homosexuality and Their Friendships with Gay and Lesbian Persons	2
Mobilizing Usual versus Unusual Protesters. Information Channel Openness and Persuasion Tie Strength in 71 Demonstrations in Nine Countries	2
Subjective Class Identification in Australia: Do Social Networks Matter?	2
Premature Death Risk from Young Adulthood Incarceration	2
The Political-Economy of Local Land-Use Policy: Place-Making and the Relative Power of Business, Civil Society, and Government	2
Connecting the “Others”: White Anti-Semitic and Anti-Muslim Views in America	2
Fear of Crime on Community Engagement: Nonadditive and Nonlinear Effects by Gender	2
Building Expectations and Keeping Customers Happy: How Charter School Leaders Recruit and Retain Families	2
Multilevel Modeling of Health Inequalities at the Intersection of Multiple Social Identities in Canada	2
The Inevitability and Promise of Historical Sociology	1
Screen Time, Social Media, and Religious Commitment among Adolescents	1
Walking the Intra-Racial Tightrope: Balancing Exclusion and Inclusion within a Black Social Club	1
“I Want to Reclaim Christianity”: Boundary Work among Inclusive Christians	1
Surrogacy and Medicalization: Navigating Power, Control, and Autonomy in Embodied Labor	1
Social Change and Gendered Reaction to the Threat of Victimization, 1973-2016: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis	1
Civil Society and Democracy under Pressure: Does Authoritarian Mobilization and Party Incapacity Diminish the Positive Effect of Civil Society?	1
Unequal Early Adulthoods: Racial and Ethnic Wealth Disparities during the Great Recession	1
Are More Educated States More Gay-Friendly? How the Increase in College Attainment Promotes Acceptance of Gay Men and Lesbians	1
Assessing the Anti-Globalization Movement: Protest Against the WTO, IMF, and World Bank in Cross-National Perspective	1
Unconventional Work, Conventional Problems: Gig Microtask Work, Inequality, and the Flexibility Mystique	1
Beyond Remittances: How Face Drives Immigration Stories of Undocumented and Mixed-status Chinese Immigrant Families	1
Ethnic Diversity, Social Identity, and Social Withdrawal: Investigating Putnam’s Constrict Thesis	1
The Coming Majority-Minority State?: Media Coverage of U.S. Census Projections, Demographic Threat, and the Construction of Racial Boundaries	1
All by Himself? Trump, Isolationism, and the American Electorate	1
Immigration Coverage in the Black Press and the General Audience Press: What Can Mixed Methods Reveal about Race and Immigration?	1
The Combined Impact of Workplace and Occupational Gender Composition on Workers’ Mental Health and Employment Consequences	1
Poverty, Prevalences, and Penalties in U.S. States, 1993-2016	1
“Shelter at Home, if You Can:” Community Vulnerability and Residential Sequestering During the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020	1
Crafting the Conditions for Professional Membership: Women of Color Navigating Inclusion into Academia	1
Immigration and Crime in the Local News: Exploring the Macrolevel Covariates of Coverage and Framing	1
Pipes or Prisms? Personal Networks, Network Mechanisms, and Formal Support Receipt In The Wake Of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill	1
Doing Sexuality: How Married Bisexual, Queer, and Pansexual People Navigate Passing and Erasure	1
“That’s How Family Is: We Take, Give, and Give Back”: Low-Income Mothers’ (In)ability to Rely on Kin at the Intersection of Familism and Individualism	1