OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Sociology is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	229
Asian American Diversity and Growth	167
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	124
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	108
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	98
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	82
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	75
Democracy in the Global South	73
Online Nonprobability Samples	58
Sociology of Whiteness	54
Trust in Social Relations	51
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	48
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	47
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	45
Black Men and Black Masculinity	42
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Survey Experiments in Sociology	37
Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration	34
A Retrospective on Fundamental Cause Theory: State of the Literature and Goals for the Future	32
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	31
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	29
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	29
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	29
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	28
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	28

Spatial Analysis of the Social World	27
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	27
Food and Inequality	26
The Legitimacy of Science	26
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	25
Markets Everywhere: The Washington Consensus and the Sociology of Global Institutional Change	25
The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation	25
Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response	24
The Sociology of Interpretation	24
Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century	24
Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	23
Leveraging Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment for Sociological Investigations of Everyday Life	19
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How Threat Mobilizes the Resurgence and Persistence of US White Supremacist Activism: The 1980s to the Present	18
New Destinations and the Changing Geography of Immigrant Incorporation	17
Accounting for Credit	17
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	16
The Influence of Simmel on American Sociology Since 1975	16
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment	16
Online Illegal Cryptomarkets	16
Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work	16
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media	16
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research	15
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	15
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital	15
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	15
From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy	14
Social Ecological Systems in Flux	13
The Sociology of Police Behavior	12
The Sociology of Emotions in Latin America	12
Populism Studies: The Case for Theoretical and Comparative Reconstruction	11
The (Un)Managed Heart: Racial Contours of Emotion Work in Gendered Occupations	9
Gender in the Elite	8
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The “Burden” of Oppositional Culture Among Black Youth in America	7
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry	7
Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors	7
Rights in China: Myths, Abuses, and Politics	7
Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification	7
Sociology of Twitter/X: Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Directions	6
The Society of Algorithms	6
American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization	6
Whatever Happened to Socialization?	6
The Latino Middle Class	6
Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework	6
Serendipitous Sociologist: Transitions and Turning Points in My Journey	5
The Sociology of Entrepreneurship Revisited	5
The Social Construction of Skill in International Migration: Perspectives from Asia	5
The Demise of Affirmative Action in College Admissions	5
The Cultural, Definitional, and Institutional Politics of Healthcare	5