OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Sociology is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Collective Action, Democratization, and Violence: Dynamics of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey	76
State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations	30
Getting In: Status Stratification and the Pursuit of the Good College Party	14
Making a Market for NGOs: Chinese Neo-Corporatism and Its Divergent Patterns of Regulating Migrant Labor	13
What Makes a Relationship Serious? Race, Religion, and Emotions in South Asian Muslim Immigrants’ Romantic Meaning-Making	13
How Place Matters for Migrants’ Socio-Legal Experiences: Local Reasoning about the Law and the Importance of Becoming a “Moral Insider”	11
Classmates or Colleagues? How Elite Students Learn to Manage One Another	10
What is “Qualitative” in Qualitative Research? Why the Answer Does not Matter but the Question is Important	9
“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers	9
In the Eye of the Beholder: Exploring Perceived Access in an Urban Resource Desert	8
Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring	8
“A Problem with the Person”: Class Blindness and the Reproduction of Social Class Inequality	7
Ideological Consolidation, Subject Formation, and the Discursive Creation of the “New Woman” in Revolutionary Cuba	7
Thick Construction as a Variant of Theory-Driven Ethnography	7
Correction to: Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols	6
The Moral Work of Participation: Disillusio, Expertise, and Urban Planning Under Neoliberalism	6
‘It Isn't Charity because We've Paid into it’: Social Citizenship and the Moral Economy of Welfare Recipients in the Wake of 2012 UK Welfare Reform Act	5
Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding	5
Is the Ethnographic Fact Conquered or Co-Constructed?	4
Environmental Authenticity: Constructing Nature in Postindustrial Parks	4
Neighborhood as Theater: Building a Goffmanian Framework for Comparative Urban Ethnography	4
Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic	4
Privileged but not in Power: How Asian American Tech Workers use Racial Strategies to Deflect and Confront Race and Racism	4
The Work of Fantasy: A Study of Masculinizing Practices in Strip Clubs Across Three U.S. Midwestern Metropolitan Areas	4
Who Should be Considered Indigenous? Intrastate Bureaucratic Jurisdictional Struggles Over Indigeneity in Peru	4

How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts	4
Sociology from a Distance: Remote Interviews and Feminist Methods	4
A Sharp Ethnographer for Swedish Researchers	4
Power, Positionality, and the Ethic of Care in Qualitative Research	3
Pathways to Mobility: Family and Education in the Lives of Latinx Youth	3
Diagnosis as Subculture: Subversions of Health and Medical Knowledges in the Orthorexia Recovery Community on Instagram	3
Labor Borders: Recruitment of Central American Migrants in “Exodus” through Southern Mexico and Indigenous Mexican “Braceros” in the Californian Fields	3
Environmental Sociology is Running Late: Catching Up in a Faltering World	3
Digital Ethnography for Sociology: Craft, Rigor, and Creativity	3
Sousveillance Work: Monitoring and Managing-Up in Patrimonial Hollywood	3