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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity	70
Social Positioning and Pathways of Social Mobility of Intermarried Ukrainian Migrants in Poland	68
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-19	56
‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting	53
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State	51
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia	42
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time	35
Living and Dying in Shadow Times	25
The Three Planet Problem of Protecting Girls and Women from Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the UK	23
Classification and Control: Purity and Danger in Britain’s Asylum Regime	23
Listening to Students’ Voices: Engaged Pedagogy as a Pathway to Pedagogical Possibilities	22
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition	22
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity	21
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	20
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes	19
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality	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	17
Vocational narratives: How students make sense of their educational choices	17
From Edgework to Edgeworking: The Interplay of Risk and the Life Course	16
The social production of small urban rivers: The (re)making of two riverside spaces in Lewisham	16
Religion, Diversity and Outgroup Tolerance Across 79 Countries: The ‘Homogenizing’ Role of Heterogeneity	16
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study	16
Modern Slavery, Immigration Regimes and Migrant Workers in Social Care	15
Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class	15
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work	15

A ‘Self-Made’ Billionaire? Gender and the Myth of Meritocratic Wealth	15
Street-Level Bureaucrats in the Irish Privatised Asylum Regime: Experiences and Professional Identity	15
‘It’s So Hard to Control It’: Navigating Responsible Digital Consumption in an Age of Individualisation	15
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men	15
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	14
‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India	14
Grudging Acts	14
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory	14
Book Review: Alexandrina Vanke, The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggles VankeAlexandrinaThe Urban Life of Workers	13
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship	13
Carrying the Domestic Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Gender, Class and the Domestic Division of Labour	12
The Fate of Being a ‘Distressed Asset’: Insights into Women Returners’ Experiences in the UK	11
The Structures of Accumulation, Financial Identity and Saving: Exploring the Social Space of Professions	11
‘He is My Refuge’: Upward Mobility, Class Dislocation and Romantic Relationships	11
Digital Patriarchy and the Perceived Threat of Andrew Tate: Women’s Experiences in the Platformed Risk Society	10
Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention?	10
The Reproduction of Wealth Inequality: How Middle- and Upper-Class Parents Instil Financial Orientations in Their Children	10
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’	10
Precarious futures: Future-making and employment management in freelance work	10
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom	10
Slave-Like Labor in Rural Southern Brazil: Insights from a Roundtable Discussion	10
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	9
‘ You Need a Network ’: How Highly Skilled Refugees Build Social Networks to Convert Cultural Capital and Reclaim Professional Identities	9
The Invisible Super-Rich? A Quantitative Analysis of the Press Coverage of Germany’s Wealth Elite	9
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel	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
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-19	9
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset	9
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens	9
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees	9
Sci-fi Capital and Humanoid Robotics: Conjuring the Speculative Value of Not-Yet-Existing Technologies	9
Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty	8
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis	8
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich	8
Social Class Origin and Job Quality among Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations in the United Kingdom	8
On Being Seen in Unseen Places: A Dramaturgical View of the Night	8
Thank You to Referees	8
Between Sustainability, Energy Practices and Class Dynamics: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Energy Consumption in Norway	8
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges	8
Teaching Sociology in Contemporary Hungary	8
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act	8
The Rise and Fall of Sociology in Brazilian Schools: From Public Sociology to Public Attacks	8
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies : Unpacking the Early Sedimentation	8
Book Review: Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics GoodwinMatthewValues, Voice and Virtue: The New British PoliticsLondon:	7
Book Review: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim, Living with Health Inequalities: Upstream–Downstream Connections RogersAnnePilgrimDavidLiving with Health Ine	7
From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities	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
Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions	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
The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field	7
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice	7
Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic	6
Thank You to Referees 2023–2024	6
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Sociology amid Climate Breakdown: A Call for Systemic Pedagogical Transformation	6
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis	6
Life-Cycle Economic Returns to Educational Mobility in Denmark	6
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015	6
The Consequentiality of Absences in Social Settings: A Sensemaking Perspective	6
Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past	6
Contested capital: Class and the sociology of work	6
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change	6
Solidarity with and against: Exploring Group Identification among Precarious Migrant Workers	6
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group	6
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development	6
Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online Groups	5
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families	5
Immigrants’ Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany	5
Racial Biofutures: COVID-19 and Black Futurity Otherwise	5
Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research	5
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology’s Future: An Interview with John Scott	5
Book Review: Sergio Tonkonoff, Reintroducing Gabriel Tarde TonkonoffSergioReintroducing Gabriel TardeLondon/New York: Routledge, 2024, £33.59 pbk (ISBN:	5
Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences	5
Powerful or Disempowering Knowledge? The Teaching of Sociology in English Schools and Colleges	5
Gaming and Performance Metrics in Higher Education: The Consequences of Journal Lists	5
The Sociology of Futurelessness	5
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity	5
Real Utopia as a Method? Utopian-Sociological Paths from Jameson’s Universal Army to a Postcapitalist Post Office	5