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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families	213
Land Inequalities in the United States	142
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences	117
Online Illegal Cryptomarkets	102
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media	92
Presumed Competent: The Strategic Adaptation of Asian Americans in Education and the Labor Market	76
Serendipitous Sociologist: Transitions and Turning Points in My Journey	70
Diversifying Gender Categories and the Sex/Gender System	66
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The Influence of Simmel on American Sociology Since 1975	47
The Perils and Promises of Unequal Democracy: Insights from the Sociology of India	46
Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration	45
The Social Construction of Skill in International Migration: Perspectives from Asia	44
Survey Experiments in Sociology	43
The Cultural, Definitional, and Institutional Politics of Healthcare	34
Neighborhood–School Structures: A New Approach to the Joint Study of Social Contexts	32
The Sociology of Entrepreneurship Revisited	29
Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work	29
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective	27
Asian American Diversity and Growth	26
Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+	26
Widening Educational Disparities in Health and Longevity	26
A Retrospective on Fundamental Cause Theory: State of the Literature and Goals for the Future	25
New Directions in the Study of Institutional Logics: From Tools to Phenomena	24
Racialized Horizontal Stratification in US Higher Education: Politics, Process, and Consequences	24

Sojourners, Not Settlers: Temporary Labor Migration Since the Nineteenth Century	23
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment	23
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research	22
The Rise and Fall of the Sociology of the Global City	22
What Makes Weak Ties Strong?	22
The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement	21
Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration	21
Life's Work: History, Biography, and Ideas	20
Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States	20
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South	19
Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	16
The Impact of Undocumented Status in the United States: Empirical Challenges and New Frontiers	15
The Assembly of an American Sociologist	14
Social Isolation: An Unequally Distributed Health Hazard	14
The Social and Sociological Consequences of China's One-Child Policy	13
Cultural Objects, Material Culture, and Materiality	13
Social Issues in Contemporary Russia: Women's Rights, Corruption, and Immigration Through Three Sociological Lenses	12
Culture and Durable Inequality	12
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning	12
Subnational Environmental Policy: Trends and Issues	12
Diverging Destinies in East Asia	12
Recent Trends in Global Economic Inequality	12
Ethnography, Data Transparency, and the Information Age	11
University Governance in Meso and Macro Perspectives	11
Immigrant Organizations	10
Populism Studies: The Case for Theoretical and Comparative Reconstruction	10
Durable Wealth: Institutions, Mechanisms, and Practices of Wealth Perpetuation	8
The Sociology of Emotions in Latin America	8
Measuring Ethnic Diversity	8
From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy	7
Gender in the Elite	7
The Social Impacts of Supply-Side Decarbonization	6
Democracy in the Global South	6
Gender, Power, and Harassment: Sociology in the #MeToo Era	5
Political Demography: The Political Consequences of Structural Population Change	5
Social Ecological Systems in Flux	5
The Sociology of Police Behavior	5
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies	5
Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption	5
The Plot Thickens: A Sociology of Conspiracy Theories	5