OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Sociology is 7. 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
Asian American Diversity and Growth	82
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	73
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	70
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	53
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	46
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System	44
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	44
Democracy in the Global South	43
Online Nonprobability Samples	40
Sociology of Whiteness	39
Thinking Like a Feminist: What Feminist Theory Has to Offer Sociology	39
Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege	38
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future	34
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	34
Survey Experiments in Sociology	34
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The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	33
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	33
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	30
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	29
Spatial Analysis of the Social World	28
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	28
The Legitimacy of Science	26
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	26
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)	25

Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century	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
Food and Inequality	22
Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today	21
Accounting for Credit	20
How Threat Mobilizes the Resurgence and Persistence of US White Supremacist Activism: The 1980s to the Present	20
Leveraging Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment for Sociological Investigations of Everyday Life	19
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media	17
Online Illegal Cryptomarkets	16
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	15
Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work	15
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	14
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research	12
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment	12
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	12
From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy	11
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The Sociology of Police Behavior	10
Gender in the Elite	10
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital	10
Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors	10
Social Ecological Systems in Flux	10
Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification	9
Rights in China: Myths, Abuses, and Politics	9
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry	8
Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework	8
The Latino Middle Class	8
Sociology of Twitter/X: Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Directions	7
Serendipitous Sociologist: Transitions and Turning Points in My Journey	7
American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization	7