OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Research 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	196
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	195
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	125
Editorial Board	73
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	61
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	51
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	42
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	35
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	33
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	33
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	30
When categories change value: How new educational resources reshape patterns of inequality	28
Regrets, she's had a few: Gender and regret of computer science and engineering degrees	28
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	28
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	27
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	27
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	25
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	24
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment	24
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	23
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	23
Do geopolitical tensions increase negative attitudes toward minorities? Evidence from a natural experiment in India	21
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	21
State-level gender inequality and couples’ relative earnings following parenthood over four decades	19
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	18

Editorial Board	18
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	18
What drives educational segregation and which communities are affected? Findings from a decomposition approach	18
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	18
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	17
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	16
Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany	16
The evolution of demographic methods	16
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	16
Criminal legal contact, labor market insecurity and labor market participation	15
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	15
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	15
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	14
Childhood exposure to local wealth inequality, economic isolation in schools, and inter-class social ties in adulthood	14
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	14
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	13
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries	13
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	13
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	13
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	13
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	12
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	12
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	12
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	12
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel	12
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	11
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	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
Editorial Board	11
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	11
Homeownership and political participation: The case of Hong Kong	11
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	11
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	10
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	10
Editorial Board	10
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	10
The role of assortative mating in marital infidelity: Insights from China	10
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	10
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	10
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	10
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	9
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	9
Editorial Board	9
From Islamic religiosity to political participation. The role of social exclusion and origin-country ties	9
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	9
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	9
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools	9
Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors	9

Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	9
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	8
Surveying the political divide: Public opinion in the era of partisan meaning-making	8
The structural fit of personal gender beliefs: A cross-national analysis of its implications for life satisfaction	8
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	8
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	8
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	8
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	8
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	8
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	7
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	7
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	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
Men’s and women’s aversion to female breadwinning: Linking individual attitudes to macro-level contexts	7
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	7
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	7
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	7
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	6
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019	6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	6
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	6
Educational assortative mating and changing patterns of parental financial investment in children, 1990–2024	6
Is my manager feeling threatened by me? Racial differences in content and activation of threat metastereotypes	6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	6
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think	6
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	6
Compensation or concordance between warmth and competence: Examining social class stereotypes in English and Chinese languages using natural language	6
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	6
Intersecting inequalities in retirement trajectories under a privatized pension system: Gender, labor force status, and occupational prestige	6
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	6
Editorial Board	5
An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	5
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	5
Belief change in times of crisis: Providing facts about COVID-19-induced inequalities closes the partisan divide but fuels intra-partisan polarization about inequality	5
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market	5
Editorial Board	5
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion	5
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–2019	5
The diffusion of federal Title IX complaints throughout U.S. colleges and universities, 1994–2014	5
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–2019	5
Editorial Board	5
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	5
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	5
Persistent disparities in affordable rental housing among America's ethnoracial groups	5