OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Age and Life Satisfaction: Getting Control Variables under Control	40
A Methodology for the Marginalised: Surviving Oppression and Traumatic Fieldwork in the Neoliberal Academy	36
Deflecting Privilege: Class Identity and the Intergenerational Self	35
Who Deserves Compassion? The Moral and Emotional Dilemmas of Volunteering in the ‘Refugee Crisis’	29
Digitizing Sociology: Continuity and Change in the Internet Era	27
Left Behind in the Hungarian Rustbelt: The Cultural Political Economy of Working-Class Neo-Nationalism	25
From Passion to Compassion: A Caring Inquiry into Creative Work as Socially Engaged Art	23
Family Wealth and the Class Ceiling: The Propulsive Power of The Bank of Mum and Dad	22
Digital Technology and Older People: Towards a Sociological Approach to Technology Adoption in Later Life	21
A Dependent Structure of Interdependence: Structure and Agency in Relational Perspective	21
Telling Reproductive Stories: Social Scripts, Relationality and Donor Conception	21
Ethnic Penalties and Hiring Discrimination: Comparing Results from Observational Studies with Field Experiments in the UK	21
Alcohol and Flourishing for Australian Women in Midlife: A Qualitative Study of Negotiating (Un)Happiness	20
Are Poor Parents Poor Parents? The Relationship between Poverty and Parenting among Mothers in the UK	19
Protests and Policies: How Radical Social Movement Activists Engage with Climate Policy Dilemmas	19
Everyday Nation in Times of Rising Nationalism	18
Post-Truth Society? An Eliasian Sociological Analysis of Knowledge in the 21st Century	17
No Time for a ‘Time Out’? Managing Time around (Non)Drinking	16
Disembedded or Deeply Embedded? A Multi-Level Network Analysis of Online Labour Platforms	16
Women’s Consumption of Pornography: Pleasure, Contestation, and Empowerment	16
The Mobilisation of AI in Education: A Bourdieusean Field Analysis	14
Sociology, Sociology and the Cultural and Creative Industries	14
Turning the Decolonial Gaze towards Ourselves: Decolonising the Curriculum and ‘Decolonial Reflexivity’ in Sociology and Social Theory	13
Promoting Diversity but Striving for Excellence: Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Academic Hiring	13
Mothering through and in Violence: Discourses of the ‘Good Mother’	13

Sober Rebels or Good Consumer-Citizens? Anti-Consumption and the ‘Enterprising Self’ in Early Sobriety	13
At Home in the Restaurant: Familiarity, Belonging and Material Culture in Ecuadorian Restaurants in Madrid	13
Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport	13
Conceptualising Socio-Economic Formations of Labour and Workers’ Power in Global Production Networks	13
Coronavirus Conjuncture: Nationalism and Pandemic States	12
Rethinking the Domestic Division of Labour: Exploring Change and Continuity in the Context of Redundancy	12
The Guardians of the Welfare State: Universal Credit, Welfare Control and the Moral Economy of Frontline Work in Austerity Britain	12
The Wageless Life of Creative Workers: Alternative Economic Practices, Commoning and Consumption Work in Cultural Labour	11
The Established and the Delegated: The Division of Labour of Domination among Effective Agents on the Field of Power in Denmark	11
Multifocal Integration and Marginalisation: A Theoretical Model and an Empirical Study on Three Immigrant Groups	10
‘It Gets Really Boring if You Stay at Home’: Women, Work and Temporalities in Urban India	10
Whose Lifestyle Matters at Johannesburg Pride? The Lifestylisation of LGBTQ+ Identities and the Gentrification of Activism	10
Gloomy at the Top: How the Wealthiest 0.1% Feel about the Rest	10
Understanding Lived Experiences of Food Insecurity through a Paraliminality Lens	10
‘It Feels Like Life Is Narrowing’: Aspirational Lifestyles and Ambivalent Futures among Norwegian ‘Top Girls’	10
The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State	9
Black Men’s Experiences of Colourism in the UK	9
Global Multiple Migration: Class-Based Mobility Capital of Elite Chinese Gay Men	9
Developing the Concept of Belonging Work for Social Research	9
Iconic Architecture and Middle-Class Politics of Memory in a Deindustrialized City	9
Entangled and Estranged: Living and Dying in Relation (to Cancer)	9
Sticking Together in ‘Divided Britain’: Talking Brexit in Everyday Family Relationships	9
Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain	8
Between Post-Racial Ideology and Provincial Universalisms: Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Thought and COVID-19 in Britain	8
Rethinking Institutional Habitus in Education: A Relational Approach for Studying Its Sources and Impacts	8
Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles in the Remote Gig Economy	8
Writing Class In and Out: Constructions of Class in Elite Businesswomen’s Autobiographies	8
COVID-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism	8
Truth, Proof, Sleuth: Trust in Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and Other Sources of Identity Information among Australian Donor-Conceived People	7
The Moral Boundary Drawing of Class: Social Inequality and Young Precarious Workers in Poland and Germany	7
From Me to You: Time Together and Subjective Well-Being in the UK	7
Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture	7
Beyond the Nation? Or Back to It? Current Trends in the Sociology of Nations and Nationalism	7
Ethnic, Religious and Gender Differences in Intragenerational Economic Mobility in England and Wales	7
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work among Marginalised STEMM Undergraduates in the UK	7
Global Inequality, Mobility Regimes and Transnational Capital: The Post-Graduation Plans of African Student Migrants	7
Who Counts as an Authentic Indigenous? Collective Identity Negotiations in the Chilean Urban Context	7
Future Building and Emotional Reflexivity: Gendered or Queered Navigations of Agency in Non-Normative Relationships?	7
‘A Baby Is a Baby’: The Asha Protests and the Sociology of Affective Post-Nationalism	7
Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option	7
Black Lives Matter: The Role of Emotions in Political Engagement	7
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology	6
Co-Sleeping with Partners and Pets as a Family Practice of Intimacy: Israeli Couples’ Narratives of Creating Kinship	6
Grudging Acts	6
The Purity of Dirt: Revisiting Mary Douglas in the Light of Contemporary Consumer Interpretations of Naturalness, Purity and Dirt	6
The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations	6
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities	6
(Invisible) Displays of Survivalist Intensive Motherhood among UK Brexit Preppers	6
Class Reimagined? Intersectionality and Industrial Action – the British Airways Dispute of 2009–2011	6
Mobile Nationalism: Parenting and Articulations of Belonging among Globally Mobile Professionals	6

The Role of Civil Society in Political Repression: The UK Prevent Counter-Terrorism Programme	6
Gay Male Football Fans’ Experiences: Authenticity, Belonging and Conditional Acceptance	6
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK	6
Making Sense of the Social, Making the ‘Social Sense’: The Development of Children’s Perception and Judgement of Social Class	6
The Sociology of Futurelessness	6
Work-Time, Male-Breadwinning and the Division of Domestic Labour: Male Part-Time and Full-Time Workers in Unsettled Times	6
‘I’m Mum and Dad in One, Basically’: Doing and Displaying ‘Good Lone Motherhood’	6
When Same-Sex Couples Say ‘I Do’: Display Work and the (Re)Production of the Wedding Rite	6
Who Can Represent the Nation? Elite Athletes, Global Mega Events and the Contested Boundaries of National Belonging	5
The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate	5
Individualization and Individualism: Facets and Turning Points of the Entrepreneurial Self among Young People in Italy	5
Civility and Rejection: The Contextuality of Cosmopolitan and Racist Behaviours	5
The Burden of Conviviality: British Bangladeshi Muslims Navigating Diversity in London, Luton and Birmingham	5
Intersectional Inequalities and Intimate Relationships: Dating, Class and ‘Race/Ethnicity’ among Divorced Women in the ‘Second Phase’ of Life	5
Telling the Right Story at the Right Time: Women Seeking Asylum with Stories of Trafficking into the Sex Industry	5
Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw	5
Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK	5
Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences	5
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	5
Vulnerability, Space and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Building Spatial Resilience	5
Performing Trustworthiness: The ‘Credibility Work’ of Prominent Sociologists	5
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden	5
Bring Your Own Politics: Life Strategies and Mobilization in Response to Urban Redevelopment	5
Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century	5
Ambivalent Strategies: Student-Migrant-Workers’ Efforts at Challenging Administrative Bordering	5
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy	5
Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change: The Case of EU Migrants in Brexit Britain	5
Rethinking Social Roles: Conflict and Modern Life	5