OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Sociology is 25. 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
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	80
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	71
Asian American Diversity and Growth	68
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	49
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	45
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	43
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	42
Democracy in the Global South	41
Online Nonprobability Samples	39
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	37
Sociology of Whiteness	37
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	35
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A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	34
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	33
Survey Experiments in Sociology	33
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	31
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	31
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	29
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	27
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	27
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	26
The Legitimacy of Science	26
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	26
The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	25