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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Positioning and Pathways of Social Mobility of Intermarried Ukrainian Migrants in Poland	59
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-19	49
‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting	43
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity	43
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities	39
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	35
Homemade State: Motherhood, Citizenship and the Home in Child Welfare Encounters	32
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia	30
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition	27
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study	23
Classification and Control: Purity and Danger in Britain’s Asylum Regime	20
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time	20
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity	19
Living and Dying in Shadow Times	18
No Substitute for In-Person Interaction: Changing Modes of Social Contact during the Coronavirus Pandemic and Effects on the Mental Health of Adults in the UK	18
The Three Planet Problem of Protecting Girls and Women from Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the UK	18
Listening to Students’ Voices: Engaged Pedagogy as a Pathway to Pedagogical Possibilities	18
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State	17
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality	17
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes	17
Bourdieu and Sociological Biography: The Case of Vincent van Gogh’s Choice of Profession	16
Street-Level Bureaucrats in the Irish Privatised Asylum Regime: Experiences and Professional Identity	14
From Edgework to Edgeworking: The Interplay of Risk and the Life Course	14
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work	14
Religion, Diversity and Outgroup Tolerance Across 79 Countries: The ‘Homogenizing’ Role of Heterogeneity	14

Lying and Time: Moving beyond the Moral Question of Lying	14
A ‘Self-Made’ Billionaire? Gender and the Myth of Meritocratic Wealth	13
Understanding Disability and Cultural (Re)production: An Ethnography of Coaching Practice in High Performance Disability Sport	13
Book Review: Gargi Bhattacharya, Adam Elliot-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State	13
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory	13
Grudging Acts	12
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	12
Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class	12
The Reproduction of Wealth Inequality: How Middle- and Upper-Class Parents Instil Financial Orientations in Their Children	12
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men	12
‘It’s So Hard to Control It’: Navigating Responsible Digital Consumption in an Age of Individualisation	12
‘He is My Refuge’: Upward Mobility, Class Dislocation and Romantic Relationships	12
Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention?	11
Carrying the Domestic Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Gender, Class and the Domestic Division of Labour	11
The Structures of Accumulation, Financial Identity and Saving: Exploring the Social Space of Professions	11
Book Review: Alexandrina Vanke, The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggles VankeAlexandrinaThe Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet	11
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship	11
The Fate of Being a ‘Distressed Asset’: Insights into Women Returners’ Experiences in the UK	10
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom	10
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy	10
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’	10
Slave-Like Labor in Rural Southern Brazil: Insights from a Roundtable Discussion	10
‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India	10
Sci-fi Capital and Humanoid Robotics: Conjuring the Speculative Value of Not-Yet-Existing Technologies	9
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees	9
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology	9
Book Review: Michael Mann, On Wars MannMichaelOn WarsNew Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2023, £30.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780300266818), 616 pp.	9
The Way to Someone’s Mind Is through Their Stomach: Vegans and Culinary Activism	9
‘ You Need a Network ’: How Highly Skilled Refugees Build Social Networks to Convert Cultural Capital and Reclaim Professional Identities	9
Between Sustainability, Energy Practices and Class Dynamics: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Energy Consumption in Norway	8
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset	8
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel	8
Social Class Origin and Job Quality among Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations in the United Kingdom	8
Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty	8
Thank You to Referees	8
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act	8
On Being Seen in Unseen Places: A Dramaturgical View of the Night	8
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-19	8
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens	8
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis	7
Teaching Sociology in Contemporary Hungary	7
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies: Unpacking the Early Sedimentation of the Anti-European Super League Movement in English Football	7
‘The Green Areas Are Out of Our Reach’: Racialisation, Erasure and Resistance in UK Urban Greening Initiatives	7
University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale	7
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	7
The Rise and Fall of Sociology in Brazilian Schools: From Public Sociology to Public Attacks	7
Autocratic Power and Older Citizens: The Political Subjectification of Retirees in Belarus	7
Book Review: Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics GoodwinMatthewValues, Voice and Virtue: The New British PoliticsLondon:	7
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK	7
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich	7

Book Review: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim, Living with Health Inequalities: Upstream–Downstream Connections RogersAnnePilgrimDavidLiving with Health Ine	7
Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood	7
Thank You to Referees 2023–2024	6
Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions	6
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development	6
Solidarity with and against: Exploring Group Identification among Precarious Migrant Workers	6
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges	6
The Stateless Person, the Citizen and Human Rights: A Revised Neo-Hobbesian Theory of Human Rights for Sociology	6
From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities	6
The Sociology of Futurelessness	5
The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field	5
The Consequentiality of Absences in Social Settings: A Sensemaking Perspective	5
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015	5
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Gaming and Performance Metrics in Higher Education: The Consequences of Journal Lists	5
Racial Biofutures: COVID-19 and Black Futurity Otherwise	5
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity	5
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology’s Future: An Interview with John Scott	5
Sociology amid Climate Breakdown: A Call for Systemic Pedagogical Transformation	5
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group	5
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change	5
Immigrants’ Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany	5
Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic	5
Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences	5
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families	5
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis	5
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice	5
‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis	5
Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past	5
Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online Groups	5
Life-Cycle Economic Returns to Educational Mobility in Denmark	5