OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Research is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	154
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	146
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	96
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	55
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	43
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	41
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	37
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	35
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	35
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	31
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	26
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	26
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	24
Who influences lower-status individuals more: People of higher-status outgroups or people of their lower-status ingroup? Examining the difference between matters of opinion and matters of fact	24
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	23
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment	23
Long-term labor market returns to upper secondary school track choice: Leveraging idiosyncratic variation in peers’ choices	23
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	23
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	22
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	22
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	22
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	22
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	22
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	21
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	19

Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	18
Editorial Board	18
The evolution of demographic methods	17
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	17
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	16
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	16
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	16
Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany	16
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	16
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	15
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	15
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	14
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	14
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries	14
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel	14
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	13
Significant others? Social groups, income expectations, and redistributive preferences	13
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	13
An intersectional examination of the opportunity gap in science: A critical quantitative approach to latent class analysis	13
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	13
Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more?	12
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	12
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	12
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	12
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	12
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	11
Why do some occupations offer more part-time work than others? Reciprocal dynamics in occupational gender segregation and occupational part-time work in West Germany, 1976–2010	11
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	11
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	11
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
Homeownership and political participation: The case of Hong Kong	10
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	10
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	10
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	10
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	10
Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors	9
Reflected appraisals across multiple reference groups: Discrepancies in self and individual delinquency	9
Editorial Board	9
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	9
Editorial Board	9
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools	9
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	9
The unequal consequences of family structures for infant health	9
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	9
Secularism, family ties and loneliness: A multilevel longitudinal study of ten European societies	9
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	9
Editorial Board	8
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	8
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	8

Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	8
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	8
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	8
Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness	8
Surveying the political divide: Public opinion in the era of partisan meaning-making	8
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	8
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	8
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	8
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	7
Men’s and women’s aversion to female breadwinning: Linking individual attitudes to macro-level contexts	7
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think	7
Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers	7
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	7
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	7
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	7
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	7
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	7
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	7
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	7
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019	6
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	6
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	6
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	6
Editorial Board	6
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	6
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
Editorial Board	6
Belief change in times of crisis: Providing facts about COVID-19-induced inequalities closes the partisan divide but fuels intra-partisan polarization about inequality	6
Corrigendum to “A tangled web: The reciprocal relationship between depression and educational outcomes in China” [Soc. Sci. Res. 85 (2020) 102353]	6
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Editorial Board	6
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	6