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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Collective Action, Democratization, and Violence: Dynamics of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey	34
State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations	16
Getting In: Status Stratification and the Pursuit of the Good College Party	15
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	10
Classmates or Colleagues? How Elite Students Learn to Manage One Another	9
How Place Matters for Migrants’ Socio-Legal Experiences: Local Reasoning about the Law and the Importance of Becoming a “Moral Insider”	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	9
“A Problem with the Person”: Class Blindness and the Reproduction of Social Class Inequality	7
Cultural Discrepancies in Interaction: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men Encounter Popular Psychology	7
Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring	7
Thick Construction as a Variant of Theory-Driven Ethnography	7
The Moral Work of Participation: Disillusio, Expertise, and Urban Planning Under Neoliberalism	6
Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding	5
Ideological Consolidation, Subject Formation, and the Discursive Creation of the “New Woman” in Revolutionary Cuba	5
Correction to: Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols	5
Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic	4
Is the Ethnographic Fact Conquered or Co-Constructed?	4
The Work of Fantasy: A Study of Masculinizing Practices in Strip Clubs Across Three U.S. Midwestern Metropolitan Areas	4
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts	4
‘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	4
Environmental Authenticity: Constructing Nature in Postindustrial Parks	4
Who Should be Considered Indigenous? Intrastate Bureaucratic Jurisdictional Struggles Over Indigeneity in Peru	4
Privileged but not in Power: How Asian American Tech Workers use Racial Strategies to Deflect and Confront Race and Racism	3

Environmental Sociology is Running Late: Catching Up in a Faltering World	3
Neighborhood as Theater: Building a Goffmanian Framework for Comparative Urban Ethnography	3
Sociology from a Distance: Remote Interviews and Feminist Methods	3
A Sharp Ethnographer for Swedish Researchers	3
Pathways to Mobility: Family and Education in the Lives of Latinx Youth	3