OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Sociology is 9. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy	378
The Society of Algorithms	115
Computational Social Science and Sociology	100
Climate Change and Society	98
Norms: An Integrated Framework	70
New Directions in the Study of Institutional Logics: From Tools to Phenomena	66
Trust in Social Relations	60
The Social Consequences of Disasters: Individual and Community Change	59
A Retrospective on Fundamental Cause Theory: State of the Literature and Goals for the Future	58
Urban Mobility and Activity Space	58
Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring: The Rise of Field Experiments	53
Social Networks and Cognition	52
Immigrant Selectivity Effects on Health, Labor Market, and Educational Outcomes	50
Relational Work in the Economy	48
Transnational Professionals	47
The Sharing Economy: Rhetoric and Reality	47
Sociology and the Climate Crisis	46
Sociology, Genetics, and the Coming of Age of Sociogenomics	45
Technologies and Health Inequities	44
Employer Decision Making	44
Whatever Happened to Socialization?	42
Return Migration Around the World: An Integrated Agenda for Future Research	41
Rethinking Culture and Cognition	39
Contemporary Social Movements in a Hybrid Media Environment	39
The Sociology of Creativity: Elements, Structures, and Audiences	35

Tracking US Social Change Over a Half-Century: The General Social Survey at Fifty	29
Why Sociology Matters to Race and Biosocial Science	28
Social Inequality and the Future of US Life Expectancy	27
Negative Social Ties: Prevalence and Consequences	25
The Social and Sociological Consequences of China's One-Child Policy	25
Advances in the Science of Asking Questions	25
Ethnography, Data Transparency, and the Information Age	25
The Comparative Politics of Collective Memory	24
Violence in Latin America: An Overview of Research and Issues	23
American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization	23
Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies	22
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	22
New Destinations and the Changing Geography of Immigrant Incorporation	21
Migration Patterns in East and Southeast Asia: Causes and Consequences	21
The Impact of Inequality on Intergenerational Mobility	21
Markets Everywhere: The Washington Consensus and the Sociology of Global Institutional Change	21
Organizations and the Governance of Urban Poverty	20
Cities of the Global South	20
Black Immigrants and the Changing Portrait of Black America	19
Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	17
University Governance in Meso and Macro Perspectives	16
Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration	16
Durable Wealth: Institutions, Mechanisms, and Practices of Wealth Perpetuation	13
The “Burden” of Oppositional Culture Among Black Youth in America	12
Multiracial Categorization, Identity, and Policy in (Mixed) Racial Formations	12
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	10
The (Un)Managed Heart: Racial Contours of Emotion Work in Gendered Occupations	10
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	10
The Civil Rights Revolution at Work: What Went Wrong	10
Recent Trends in Global Economic Inequality	10
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	9
Populism Studies: The Case for Theoretical and Comparative Reconstruction	9
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	9