OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Sociology is 23. 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
	38
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