OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Sociology is 1. 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
Philipp Korom, Star Sociologists: Anatomy of a Disciplinary Elite	25
Richard C Koo, Pursued Economy: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies	12
Moncef Marzouki, الدوحة .مجدد سياسي لفكر أسس أي : والبدائل المراجعات: [Reviews and Alternatives: Which Foundations for a Renewed Political Thought?] منصف ،المرزوقي	12
Gender-based and intersectional violence in migration and refugee contexts: A contextual global approach	11
The global contours of race and histories of racialisation in the East of Europe	11
Better-off abroad? The overqualification of Eastern migrants to Western Europe	11
Jiong Tu, 如何有尊严地离去？：关于临终、死亡与安宁疗护的社会学研究 [ In Search of a ‘Good Death’: A Sociological Study of Dying, Death, and Hospice Care in Contemporary China ] TuJ	11
Propaganda channels and their comparative effectiveness: The case of Russia’s war in Ukraine	10
Wenkai Sun, Population and Labor Market Policies in China’s Reform Process	8
Ali L Ezzatyar, Iranian Immigration to Israel: History and Voices, in the Shadow of Kings	8
Volker Kirchberg and Tasos Zembylas, The Social Organization of Arts: A Theoretical Compendium KirchbergVolkerZembylasTasos, The Social Organization of A	8
Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett, Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology	8
Mothers, sons, sisters and grief in the gangster economy: US necrogovernance in Philadelphia’s low-income Puerto Rican diaspora	7
Misalignments: House money and inflationary experiences	7
Reclaiming morality for sociology AdánJosé PérezMoral Sociology for a New Epoch, Cascade Books: Eugene, OR, 2025; 194 pp.: ISBN 13 979-8385227976, $27	7
The role of working women in social mobility in Spain	7
Mahmoud Dhaouadi, Les troubles identitaires maghrebins selon le paradigme de la troisième dimension humaine [Problems of Identity in the Maghreb According to the Third Human Dimension Paradigm]	7
Understanding revolutions: About the trilogy of Azmi Bishara	6
Sword of Damocles hanging over grassroots cadres in China: Understanding the accountability in campaign-style enforcement	6
Diane Vaughan, Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk	6
Alexandrina Vanke, The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle	6
Digital divides in the AI era: Socioeconomic stratification and the dual role of digital payments in China	6
The gangster imagination	6
David Theo Goldberg, Dread: Facing Futureless Futures	6
Fear of crime in the context of gender and ambivalent sexism in Turkey	5

Tracing the long-term effects of social movements: Insights from Spain’s 15-M “Indignados” movement	5
Localism and cosmopolitanism in Shanghai’s civil society	5
Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa, trans. by Valentine A. Pakis, Late Modernity in Crisis. Why We Need a Theory of Society	5
Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev, From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology (3 Volumes)	5
Sociology of homosexuality in twenty-first-century China	5
Risk processing: Mothering in a time of fear	5
Trust and the educational gap in the demand for redistribution: Evidence from the World Values Survey and the European Value Study	5
Scales of violence: Iranian Kurdistan in context	5
From shared grievances to collective action: A multilevel study of economic adversity and protest	4
Jean Yen-Chun Lin, A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities	4
Moral superiority over the state: Young people’s experience of inflation and the rise of the libertarian right in Argentina	4
Creolizing the Modern : A study of local/global interfaces of colonial power	4
From disillusionment to devotion: How perceptions of social mobility influence religious beliefs through attitudes toward government in China	4
Jennifer Carlson, Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy	4
The nature of standards: How standards shape the value of nature	4
Who are the ‘real’ people? The concept of relational popular identity and the self-identification of populist voters in Poland	4
National patterns of inequality coverage: Japanese and South Korean newspapers, 1990–2021	4
What do people look for in a potential partner after the age of 50?	4
Seasonality as value(s) in organic farming: On the conflict on heating greenhouses in France	3
Coordinating localism and cosmopolitanism in social science studies: Perspective on the debate of ‘indigenization’ in China	3
What occupation does not tell about: Measuring status in Ukraine’s capital	3
Crowding out local initiative in the protection of heritage agri-food specialties: The growing hegemony of sui generis Geographical Indication in East Asia	3
Michael Burawoy, Public Sociology	3
‘Stres’ and self-protection: Migrant workers facing everyday violence in Taiwan’s fisheries	3
Tracking the cost of living, for whom and at what price? A political economy of price indicators in Madagascar	3
Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber	3
‘I was the best-known barika in town’: The life story of a female heroin dealer in post-Soviet Georgia	3
Shaohua Guo, The evolution of the Chinese internet: Creative visibility in the digital public	3
Note from the editors and Letter from the SSA	2
Michèle Lamont, Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World LamontMichèle, Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World, Allan Lan	2
The occupation of state housing as a moral obligation? Housing welfare in Gauteng between reciprocity and liberalism	2
The relationship among generalized trust, social networks, and social resources across 30 countries	2
Wang Longfei, 全民皆兵：太行根据地的武装体系 (1937—1945) [The Entire Nation in Arms: The Armed Force System in the Taihang Base Area, 1937–1945] LongfeiWang全民皆兵：太行根据地的武	2
Managing protracted displacement: How anchoring shapes ‘agency-in-waiting’ among middle-class Ukrainian female refugees in Berlin	2
Tactical urbanisms: Navigating colonial legacies and contemporary urban development practices in Africa	2
Expertise, translation, and pandemics	2
Nazanin Shahrokni, Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran	2
Analyzing the debates on the issue of indigenization of social sciences in China: A perspective of performance	2
Mapping redistribution in terms of family: A European comparison	1
Trends in intergenerational class mobility and education in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, over common birth cohorts	1
Daniel Skinner, Jonathan R Wynn, and Berkeley Franz, The City and The Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities SkinnerDanielWynnJonathan	1
Self-entrepreneurship in uncertain futures: The case of performing artists in Italy	1
Sreedeep Bhattacharya, Consumerist Encounters: Flirting With Things and Images	1
From gang member to counterinsurgent to family man: A life amid Colombia’s complex conflict	1
Shai M Dromi and Samuel D Stabler, Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science DromiShai MStablerSamuel D, Moral Minefields: How Sociologists	1
A global migration industry in local contexts: Home care and domestic work brokerage in Austria and Sri Lanka	1
Beyond fragmented authoritarianism? Studies of bureaucratic behavior in contemporary China and its contributions to general bureaucratic theory	1
Romit Chowdhury, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport ChowdhuryRomitCity of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on P	1
Leontina Hormel, Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities HormelLeontina, Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities,	1
Pandemic patriotism: Official speeches in the face of the global COVID-19 crisis	1

Women’s decision-making power and contraceptive use in Nigeria	1
Debra J Davidson, Feeling Climate Change: How Emotions Govern Our Responses to the Climate Emergency DavidsonDebra J, Feeling Climate Change: How Emotion	1
Thematic Section: Femicide – a persistence social issue	1
Digital-social construction of willingness to pay in online marketplace: Economic sociology of the digital functional food market in Indonesia	1
Peter Staudenmaier, Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right	1
The impact of high and low levels of old-age insurance on intergenerational family support: A comparison perspective	1
How do you know? Seven theses on qualitative sociology as theory and method	1
Jennifer E. Shaw, Tender Labour: Migrant Care Work, Filipina/o Young People, and Family Life across Borders ShawJennifer E.Tender Labour: Migrant Care Wo	1
Elite middle school students’ citizenship competence learning in Shanghai	1
Creolizing the Modern : an interdisciplinary interimperial reading of modern Transylvania	1
Sociology of organizations in the twenty-first century	1
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, translated by David Ownby, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World	1
Lacerated minds, stolen dreams: Experiences of Bangladeshi women migrants in Saudi Arabia	1
Religion, secularization, and far-right support in the Netherlands, Hungary, and Italy	1
Grandparental childcare and maternal labor supply in Chinese families with young children: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies	1
Privilege, place, and patronage: ‘Giving something back’ to Wales	1
Alka V. Menon, Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards	1
Professional scaling work: How professional segments claim new jurisdictions in a world of trans-local connections	1
Democratic backsliding against a rising wave of support for democracy? Explaining trends in attitudes toward democracy in Poland (1995–2021)	1
Not only cosmopolitan but also local: Fei Xiaotong’s social surveys in the 1930s and 1940s	1
Sari Hanafi, Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology HanafiSariAgainst Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology, Liverpo	1