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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
David John Frank and John W Meyer, The University and the Global Knowledge Society	31
Zygmunt Bauman, Culture and Art: Selected Writings	13
Moncef Marzouki, الدوحة .مجدد سياسي لفكر أسس أي : والبدائل المراجعات: [Reviews and Alternatives: Which Foundations for a Renewed Political Thought?] منصف ،المرزوقي	10
Frédéric Lordon, Figures du Communisme	10
Better-off abroad? The overqualification of Eastern migrants to Western Europe	10
Philipp Korom, Star Sociologists: Anatomy of a Disciplinary Elite	10
Richard C Koo, Pursued Economy: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies	9
Gender-based and intersectional violence in migration and refugee contexts: A contextual global approach	8
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	8
Propaganda channels and their comparative effectiveness: The case of Russia’s war in Ukraine	7
Wenkai Sun, Population and Labor Market Policies in China’s Reform Process	7
The global contours of race and histories of racialisation in the East of Europe	7
Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett, Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology	6
Ali L Ezzatyar, Iranian Immigration to Israel: History and Voices, in the Shadow of Kings	6
The role of working women in social mobility in Spain	6
Localism and cosmopolitanism in Shanghai’s civil society	5
Mothers, sons, sisters and grief in the gangster economy: US necrogovernance in Philadelphia’s low-income Puerto Rican diaspora	5
David Theo Goldberg, Dread: Facing Futureless Futures	5
The gangster imagination	5
Judith Lorber, The New Gender Paradox	5
Understanding revolutions: About the trilogy of Azmi Bishara	5
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]	5
Alexandrina Vanke, The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle	5
Misalignments: House money and inflationary experiences	5
Diane Vaughan, Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk	5

Sword of Damocles hanging over grassroots cadres in China: Understanding the accountability in campaign-style enforcement	5
Scales of violence: Iranian Kurdistan in context	4
Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa, trans. by Valentine A. Pakis, Late Modernity in Crisis. Why We Need a Theory of Society	4
From the editor	4
Jean Yen-Chun Lin, A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities	4
Sociology of homosexuality in twenty-first-century China	4
Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev, From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology (3 Volumes)	4
Fear of crime in the context of gender and ambivalent sexism in Turkey	4
Risk processing: Mothering in a time of fear	4
Trust and the educational gap in the demand for redistribution: Evidence from the World Values Survey and the European Value Study	4
From shared grievances to collective action: A multilevel study of economic adversity and protest	4
Who are the ‘real’ people? The concept of relational popular identity and the self-identification of populist voters in Poland	4
The nature of standards: How standards shape the value of nature	3
What do people look for in a potential partner after the age of 50?	3
Actorhood, Agency and Power in Modernity	3
Moral superiority over the state: Young people’s experience of inflation and the rise of the libertarian right in Argentina	3
Creolizing the Modern : A study of local/global interfaces of colonial power	3
Peter Baldwin, Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History	3
Jennifer Carlson, Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy	3
National patterns of inequality coverage: Japanese and South Korean newspapers, 1990–2021	3
Tracking the cost of living, for whom and at what price? A political economy of price indicators in Madagascar	3
Emmanuel C. Onyeozili, Biko Agozino, Augustine Agu and Patrick Ibe, Community Policing in Nigeria: Rationale, Principles, and Practice	3
‘Stres’ and self-protection: Migrant workers facing everyday violence in Taiwan’s fisheries	2
Crowding out local initiative in the protection of heritage agri-food specialties: The growing hegemony of sui generis Geographical Indication in East Asia	2
Shaohua Guo, The evolution of the Chinese internet: Creative visibility in the digital public	2
Managing protracted displacement: How anchoring shapes ‘agency-in-waiting’ among middle-class Ukrainian female refugees in Berlin	2
Nazanin Shahrokni, Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran	2
New York’s New School for Social Research: Renewing a distinguished legacy	2
Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber	2
Coordinating localism and cosmopolitanism in social science studies: Perspective on the debate of ‘indigenization’ in China	2
What occupation does not tell about: Measuring status in Ukraine’s capital	2
Seasonality as value(s) in organic farming: On the conflict on heating greenhouses in France	2
Michael Burawoy, Public Sociology	2
‘I was the best-known barika in town’: The life story of a female heroin dealer in post-Soviet Georgia	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	1
The relationship among generalized trust, social networks, and social resources across 30 countries	1
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, translated by David Ownby, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World	1
Sociology of organizations in the twenty-first century	1
Mapping redistribution in terms of family: A European comparison	1
Cognition and protest in democratic and authoritarian regimes, 1981–2020	1
Democratic backsliding against a rising wave of support for democracy? Explaining trends in attitudes toward democracy in Poland (1995–2021)	1
Religion, secularization, and far-right support in the Netherlands, Hungary, and Italy	1
Digital-social construction of willingness to pay in online marketplace: Economic sociology of the digital functional food market in Indonesia	1
Self-entrepreneurship in uncertain futures: The case of performing artists in Italy	1
Note from the editors and Letter from the SSA	1
Tactical urbanisms: Navigating colonial legacies and contemporary urban development practices in Africa	1
Pandemic patriotism: Official speeches in the face of the global COVID-19 crisis	1
Not only cosmopolitan but also local: Fei Xiaotong’s social surveys in the 1930s and 1940s	1
Leontina Hormel, Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities HormelLeontina, Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities,	1
Jessica A. J. Rich, State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil	1

Grandparental childcare and maternal labor supply in Chinese families with young children: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies	1
Daniel Skinner, Jonathan R Wynn, and Berkeley Franz, The City and The Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities SkinnerDanielWynnJonathan	1
Trends in intergenerational class mobility and education in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, over common birth cohorts	1
Thematic Section: Femicide – a persistence social issue	1
The occupation of state housing as a moral obligation? Housing welfare in Gauteng between reciprocity and liberalism	1
Analyzing the debates on the issue of indigenization of social sciences in China: A perspective of performance	1
Expertise, translation, and pandemics	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
Creolizing the Modern : an interdisciplinary interimperial reading of modern Transylvania	1
Guo Taihui, 历史社会学的力量	1
Debra J Davidson, Feeling Climate Change: How Emotions Govern Our Responses to the Climate Emergency DavidsonDebra J, Feeling Climate Change: How Emotion	1
Sreedeep Bhattacharya, Consumerist Encounters: Flirting With Things and Images	1
Lacerated minds, stolen dreams: Experiences of Bangladeshi women migrants in Saudi Arabia	1