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

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	166
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	162
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	108
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	59
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	49
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	44
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	40
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	39
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	39
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	32
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	29
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	29
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	27
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	26
Long-term labor market returns to upper secondary school track choice: Leveraging idiosyncratic variation in peers’ choices	26
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	25
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	25
What drives educational segregation and which communities are affected? Findings from a decomposition approach	24
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	24
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	24
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	24
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	22
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	22
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	20
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment	19

Editorial Board	18
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	18
The evolution of demographic methods	18
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	18
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	18
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	17
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	17
Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany	16
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	16
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	15
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	15
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	15
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	15
An intersectional examination of the opportunity gap in science: A critical quantitative approach to latent class analysis	14
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	14
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	14
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	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
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	13
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	13
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	12
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	12
Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more?	12
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel	12
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	12
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	11
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	11
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	11
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	11
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
Homeownership and political participation: The case of Hong Kong	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
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	11
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	10
Secularism, family ties and loneliness: A multilevel longitudinal study of ten European societies	10
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	10
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	10
Editorial Board	10
Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors	10
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	10
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	10
Editorial Board	10
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools	10
The role of assortative mating in marital infidelity: Insights from China	9
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	9
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	9
Editorial Board	9
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	9
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	9

How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	9
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	8
Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness	8
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	8
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	8
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	8
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	8
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	8
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	8
Surveying the political divide: Public opinion in the era of partisan meaning-making	8
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	7
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	7
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	7
Corrigendum to “A tangled web: The reciprocal relationship between depression and educational outcomes in China” [Soc. Sci. Res. 85 (2020) 102353]	7
Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers	7
Men’s and women’s aversion to female breadwinning: Linking individual attitudes to macro-level contexts	7
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	7
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	7
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	7
Intersecting inequalities in retirement trajectories under a privatized pension system: Gender, labor force status, and occupational prestige	7
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	7
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	7
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think	7
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	6
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	6
Gender, union formation, and assortative mating among older women	6
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019	6
Editorial Board	6
An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion	6