OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory and Society is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Dependence and precarity in the platform economy	150
The ethnographer and the algorithm: beyond the black box	93
The case for an inhabited institutionalism in organizational research: interaction, coupling, and change reconsidered	37
Loops, ladders and links: the recursivity of social and machine learning	36
Digital hyperconnectivity and the self	34
Prisons as porous institutions	29
Seeing like a city: how tech became urban	24
The work-technology nexus and working-class environmentalism: Workerism versus capitalist noxiousness in Italy’s Long 1968	23
Theorizing disaster communitas	23
Agency in historical institutionalism: Coalitional work in the creation, maintenance, and change of institutions	18
Data orientalism: on the algorithmic construction of the non-Western other	17
Making platforms work: relationship labor and the management of publics	16
A history of post-communist remembrance: from memory politics to the emergence of a field of anticommunism	13
The person of the category: the pricing of risk and the politics of classification in insurance and credit	12
Cultural citizenship without state: historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model	10
Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City	10
Tripartite guanxi: resolving kin and non-kin discontinuities in Chinese connections	10
Ambivalent economizations: the case of value added modeling in teacher evaluation	9
A story of nimble knowledge production in an era of academic capitalism	9
Gender and charismatic power	9
The logic of quantification: institutionalizing numerical thinking	9
The racialization of privacy: racial formation as a family affair	7
Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market	7
A sociological agenda for the tech age	6
Populism and the double liberalism: exploring the links	6

Embeddedness and cohesion: regimes of urban public goods distribution	6
Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory	6
The academic Trumpists: American professors who support the Trump presidency	6
Immigration, opportunity, and assimilation in a technology economy	6
Theorizing refugeedom: becoming young political subjects in Beirut	6
Distributive effervescence: emotional energy and social cohesion in secularizing societies	6
Rereading Durkheim in light of Jewish law: how a traditional rabbinic thought-model shapes his scholarship	5
Toward a theory of alienation: futurelessness in financial capitalism	5
Getting real: heuristics in sociological knowledge	4
Agency as conversion process	4
What is the force of forced migration? Diagnosis and critique of a conceptual relativization	4
Towards a sociology of imagination	4
Toward a sociology of finitude: life, death, and the question of limits	4
Economics as symbolic capital: The consecration of elite business schools	4
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–1894	4
The paradox of victory: social movement fields, adverse outcomes, and social movement success	4
From industrial to digital citizenship: rethinking social rights in cyberspace	4
Settler colonialism and sociological knowledge: insights and directions forward	4