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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Positioning and Pathways of Social Mobility of Intermarried Ukrainian Migrants in Poland	76
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-19	62
‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting	60
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time	56
The Three Planet Problem of Protecting Girls and Women from Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the UK	42
Listening to Students’ Voices: Engaged Pedagogy as a Pathway to Pedagogical Possibilities	37
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity	26
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	26
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes	24
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality	22
Vocational narratives: How students make sense of their educational choices	22
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	22
The social production of small urban rivers: The (re)making of two riverside spaces in Lewisham	20
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition	20
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia	20
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study	20
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State	20
Living and Dying in Shadow Times	19
Classification and Control: Purity and Danger in Britain’s Asylum Regime	19
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work	18
From Edgework to Edgeworking: The Interplay of Risk and the Life Course	18
Modern Slavery, Immigration Regimes and Migrant Workers in Social Care	18
Street-Level Bureaucrats in the Irish Privatised Asylum Regime: Experiences and Professional Identity	17
Religion, Diversity and Outgroup Tolerance Across 79 Countries: The ‘Homogenizing’ Role of Heterogeneity	16
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory	15

Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class	15
‘It’s So Hard to Control It’: Navigating Responsible Digital Consumption in an Age of Individualisation	15
A ‘Self-Made’ Billionaire? Gender and the Myth of Meritocratic Wealth	15
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	15
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men	14
Book Review: Alexandrina Vanke, The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggles VankeAlexandrinaThe Urban Life of Workers	13
‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India	13
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship	12
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
Slave-Like Labor in Rural Southern Brazil: Insights from a Roundtable Discussion	11
The Reproduction of Wealth Inequality: How Middle- and Upper-Class Parents Instil Financial Orientations in Their Children	11
Carrying the Domestic Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Gender, Class and the Domestic Division of Labour	11
Precarious futures: Future-making and employment management in freelance work	11
The Structures of Accumulation, Financial Identity and Saving: Exploring the Social Space of Professions	11
‘ You Need a Network ’: How Highly Skilled Refugees Build Social Networks to Convert Cultural Capital and Reclaim Professional Identities	10
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’	10
The Way to Someone’s Mind Is through Their Stomach: Vegans and Culinary Activism	10
The Invisible Super-Rich? A Quantitative Analysis of the Press Coverage of Germany’s Wealth Elite	10
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom	10
Book Review: Michael Mann, On Wars MannMichaelOn WarsNew Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2023, £30.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780300266818), 616 pp.	10
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees	10
Sci-fi Capital and Humanoid Robotics: Conjuring the Speculative Value of Not-Yet-Existing Technologies	10
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset	9
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis	9
Teaching Sociology in Contemporary Hungary	9
Book review: Michelle Jackson, The Division of Rationalized Labor MichelleJackson, The Division of Rationalized Labor, Harvard University Press: Cambridg	9
Digital Patriarchy and the Perceived Threat of Andrew Tate: Women’s Experiences in the Platformed Risk Society	9
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel	9
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	9
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-19	9
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens	9
On Being Seen in Unseen Places: A Dramaturgical View of the Night	9
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act	8
The nexus between enslavement and migration: Changing belongings in Darfur and North Africa	8
Social Class Origin and Job Quality among Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations in the United Kingdom	8
Between Sustainability, Energy Practices and Class Dynamics: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Energy Consumption in Norway	8
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies : Unpacking the Early Sedimentation	8
Thank You to Referees	8
The Rise and Fall of Sociology in Brazilian Schools: From Public Sociology to Public Attacks	8
University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale	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
Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood	7
‘The Green Areas Are Out of Our Reach’: Racialisation, Erasure and Resistance in UK Urban Greening Initiatives	7
Autocratic Power and Older Citizens: The Political Subjectification of Retirees in Belarus	7
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich	7
The Consequentiality of Absences in Social Settings: A Sensemaking Perspective	6
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group	6
Contested capital: Class and the sociology of work	6

The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field	6
Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past	6
Sociology amid Climate Breakdown: A Call for Systemic Pedagogical Transformation	6
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities	6
Thank You to Referees 2023–2024	6
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges	6
Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions	6
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015	6
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis	6
Solidarity with and against: Exploring Group Identification among Precarious Migrant Workers	6
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice	6
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change	5
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology’s Future: An Interview with John Scott	5
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families	5
Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences	5
Gaming and Performance Metrics in Higher Education: The Consequences of Journal Lists	5
Regulating from below: Direct action, precarious labour, and worker-led regulation in Spain	5
Book Review: Sergio Tonkonoff, Reintroducing Gabriel Tarde TonkonoffSergioReintroducing Gabriel TardeLondon/New York: Routledge, 2024, £33.59 pbk (ISBN:	5
Racial Biofutures: COVID-19 and Black Futurity Otherwise	5
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity	5
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development	5
Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic	5
Immigrants’ Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany	5
The Sociology of Futurelessness	5