OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Sociological Review is 7. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Early Retirement and Social Class: A Health-Giving Choice for All?	40
The effect of school peers on residential mobility in young adulthood: evidence from Sweden	36
Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries	28
What (wo)men want? Evidence from a factorial survey on preferred work hours in couples after childbirth	27
The female-breadwinner well-being ‘penalty’: differences by men’s (un)employment and country	27
The temporal dimension of parental employment: Temporary contracts, non-standard work schedules, and children’s education in Germany	27
Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction	26
Changing flux, persisting barriers: assessing the career mobility regime changes in France	25
Intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on infant health: evidence from Swedish register data	24
Shouldering childhood: early behavioural traits and discrimination concerns	22
Are female-dominated occupations a secure option? Occupational gender segregation, accompanied occupational characteristics, and the risk of becoming unemployed	21
Fragmentation or integration? Ethnic diversity and the structural cohesion of adolescent social networks	20
Pathways to prosocial leadership: an online experiment on the effects of external subsidies and the relative price of giving	19
Increasingly polarized? Inequality, prosperity, and perceived socioeconomic conflict in advanced economies (1987–2019)	18
Hiring intentions at the intersection of gender, parenthood, and social status. A factorial survey experiment in the UK labour market	17
Words of change: The increase of gender-inclusive language in German media	17
Parental unemployment and adolescents’ subjective wellbeing—the moderating role of educational policies	17
Rebel without a Cause: The Effects of Social Origins and Disposable Income on Rule Violations	16
Targets of police attention. Discrimination in pedestrian stop-and-search of young people in Germany and France	16
Aleatoric governance: using lotteries to break the iron law of oligarchy	16
Linked generations: child’s transition into unemployment and parents’ mental well-being	15
Two faces of benefit generosity: comparing justice preferences in the access to and level of welfare benefits	15
Support for everyone or selection of some? Self-selection and assignment into a large-scale refugee mentoring program in Germany	15
Not all wealth is the same: types and levels of wealth and children’s university enrolment	15
What Drives Anti-Immigrant Sentiments Online? A Novel Approach Using Twitter	15

Birth cohort changes in fertility ideals: evidence from repeated cross-sectional surveys in Finland	14
Family Background, Educational Qualifications, and Labour Market Attainment: Evidence from Danish Siblings	14
Where DESO Disappears: Spatial Inequality and Social Stratification at Labour Market Entry	14
Is ‘immigrant optimism’ in educational choice a problem? Ethnic gaps in Swedish upper secondary school completion	14
Correction to: Not Cologne but the data collection (might have) changed everything: a cautionary tale on ignoring changes in data recording in sociological research	14
Why do gendered divisions of labour persist? Parental leave take-up among adoptive and biological parents	13
Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant–native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France	13
Taxed fairly? How differences in perception shape attitudes towards progressive taxation	12
The polarization of real estate ownership and increasing wealth inequality in Spain	12
Manager’s gender, supervisory style, and employee’s perception of the demanding work climate	12
At Which Age is Education the Great Equalizer? A Causal Mediation Analysis of the (In-)Direct Effects of Social Origin over the Life Course	11
The Generations and Gender Survey: a cross-national longitudinal resource	11
Correction to: Discrimination unveiled: a field experiment on the barriers faced by muslim women in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain	11
Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK	11
Information intervention on long-term earnings prospects and the gender gap in major choice	11
Who perceives lower wages for women to be fair? How perceptions of the fairness of men’s and women’s wages vary by firm and workplace characteristics	11
The later the better? A novel approach to estimating the effect of school starting age on ADHD and academic skills	11
Do refugee children impair the academic performance of native children in the school? Informative null results from Danish Register Data	11
Do African Americans overreport or underreport their experiences of discrimination? Evidence from list experiments	10
Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants	10
Cross-national variation in the skills trap: illuminating the heterogeneous economic returns to high cognitive skills	10
Does within-school between-class ability grouping harm the educational outcomes of socio-economically disadvantaged children? International evidence	10
Control variable selection in applied quantitative sociology: a critical review	9
Quantile regression estimands and models: revisiting the motherhood wage penalty debate	9
Does forming a nuclear family increase religiosity? Longitudinal evidence from the British Household Panel Survey	9
Swiss Job Market Monitor: A Rich Source of Demand-Side Micro Data of the Labour Market	9
Racial bias in media coverage: accounting for structural position and public interest	9
The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain	9
Does inequality undermine life satisfaction? Effective identification of country-level controls for a longitudinal investigation	8
Escaping one’s disadvantage? Neighbourhoods, socioeconomic origin and children’s adult life outcomes	8
Uncovering hidden opinions: social norms and the expression of xenophobic attitudes	8
Correction to: A Stall Only on the Surface? Working Hours and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Western Germany 1985–2014	8
National High-Stakes Testing, Gender, and School Stress in Europe: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis	8
The gendered effects of COVID-19 on well-being: a household perspective	8
Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations	8
Educational outcomes of UK LGB and heterosexual adolescents: exploring gendered differences and mechanisms	8
Radical right populism and the media: evidence from the supply side and demand side of political information in Germany	8
Women’s aversion to majors that (seemingly) require systemizing skills causes gendered field of study choice	8
The role of peers’ perceptions in ethnic self-identification	7
The gendered impact of parenthood on job-related training participation in Germany and the United Kingdom	7
Does more education lower the barriers to social mobility? An analysis of three birth cohorts during a period of educational expansion in Brazil	7
Social capital is associated with cooperation and indirect norm enforcement in the field: behavioural evidence from Switzerland	7
Telecommuting and division of domestic work: the role of gender role attitudes in Germany	7
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark	7
A Stall Only on the Surface? Working Hours and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Western Germany 1985–2014	7
Much to lose, no credentials to prove it – Educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees as means of occupational status re-attainment	7
Not in a Class of One’s Own: Social Origin Differentials in Applying to Gender-(A)Typical Fields of Study across the Educational Hierarchy	7
Social inequality in admission chances for prestigious higher education programs in Germany: do application patterns matter?	7