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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Paul Lichterman, How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles	37
Social Positioning and Pathways of Social Mobility of Intermarried Ukrainian Migrants in Poland	34
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-19	29
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity	29
Global Inequality, Mobility Regimes and Transnational Capital: The Post-Graduation Plans of African Student Migrants	29
Crowds, Police and Provocations: Temporal Patterns of Rioting in Britain, 1800–1939	29
‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting	25
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities	24
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	23
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State	22
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition	22
Homemade State: Motherhood, Citizenship and the Home in Child Welfare Encounters	20
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity	19
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality	19
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia	17
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study	17
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	17
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes	16
Living and Dying in Shadow Times	16
Promoting Diversity but Striving for Excellence: Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Academic Hiring	16
Bourdieu and Sociological Biography: The Case of Vincent van Gogh’s Choice of Profession	15
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time	15
Understanding Disability and Cultural (Re)production: An Ethnography of Coaching Practice in High Performance Disability Sport	14
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work	14
Lying and Time: Moving beyond the Moral Question of Lying	14

Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class	13
Grudging Acts	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
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men	13
It Is My Turn Now: How and Why ‘Single’ Women Complain about Non-Reciprocal Gift-Giving	13
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory	13
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	13
The Fate of Being a ‘Distressed Asset’: Insights into Women Returners’ Experiences in the UK	12
‘He is My Refuge’: Upward Mobility, Class Dislocation and Romantic Relationships	12
Civility and Rejection: The Contextuality of Cosmopolitan and Racist Behaviours	11
Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention?	11
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy	11
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship	11
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-19	10
Thank You to Referees	10
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’	10
‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India	10
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom	9
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset	9
Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK	9
The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate	9
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees	9
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act	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
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology	9
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel	8
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens	8
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK	8
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	8
Thank You to Referees	8
‘My Memories of the Time We Had Together Are More Important’: Direct Cremation and the Privatisation of UK Funerals	8
On Being Seen in Unseen Places: A Dramaturgical View of the Night	8
Love’s Labour’s Lost? Separation as a Constraint on Displays of Transnational Daughterhood	8
Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty	8
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis	8
Book Review: Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics	7
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich	7
‘The Green Areas Are Out of Our Reach’: Racialisation, Erasure and Resistance in UK Urban Greening Initiatives	7
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges	7
Autocratic Power and Older Citizens: The Political Subjectification of Retirees in Belarus	7
Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood	7
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies: Unpacking the Early Sedimentation of the Anti-European Super League Movement in English Football	7
Maximising Operational Effectiveness: Exploring Stigma, Militarism, and the Normative Connections to Military Partners’ Support-Seeking	7
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden	7
University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale	7
Thank You to Referees 2023–2024	6
The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field	6
The Stateless Person, the Citizen and Human Rights: A Revised Neo-Hobbesian Theory of Human Rights for Sociology	6
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Book Review: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim, Living with Health Inequalities: Upstream–Downstream Connections RogersAnnePilgrimDavidLiving with Health Inequalities: Upstr	6

From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities	6
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development	6
‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis	6
Work-Time, Male-Breadwinning and the Division of Domestic Labour: Male Part-Time and Full-Time Workers in Unsettled Times	5
Book Review: Karen Patel, The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work and Inequalities	5
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice	5
Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic	5
The Sociology of Futurelessness	5
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology’s Future: An Interview with John Scott	5
Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions	5
Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past	5
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015	5
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis	5
Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online Groups	5
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity	5
Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences	5
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change	5
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group	5
The Consequentiality of Absences in Social Settings: A Sensemaking Perspective	5
Immigrants’ Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany	5