OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Science Information sur les Sciences Sociales is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A theoretical framework for explaining the paradox of university rankings	16
What makes a global movement? Analyzing the conditions for strong participation in the climate strike	16
Migrations in postcolonial Italian literature: Quali-quantitative analysis in a social representation framework	14
L’action thérapeutique de la nachra : rite traditionnel féminin d’exorcisme à Constantine en Algérie	13
The neoliberal transformation of academia–industry relationships in India: A critical assessment	12
Wolf in sheep’s clothing: An analysis of predatory journals through science mapping	12
The relative (in)visibility of sociologists in the French, American, British, and German national fields (1970–2018)	9
The x and society syndrome	8
Do conspiracy theories circulating in the media or their debunking affect people’s trust in the media?	7
Students in unequal exchange: The European social space of Erasmus student mobility	6
Du lamidalisme à la lamidalité du pouvoir au Nord-Cameroun	6
Des adultes en formation : les caractéristiques personnelles comme obstacle	6
Who is to blame? Evaluations in academia spreading through relationships among multiple actor types	5
All power to the reviewers: British sociology under two-level supervision of the Research Excellence Framework	5
Hacking the border: Digital narratives of Russian asylum seekers after 2022	5
Le comportement préventif des Marocains durant la crise pandémique de Covid-19: à la maison, au marché et au travail	5
Trust and distrust in science: Embedding the interplay among scientists, mass media and public in Italy during the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak	4
On situational analysis and the explanatory power of mechanisms: Analytical sociology and the deductive-nomological model	4
Can social media data be freely used? Participants’ ethical perceptions toward using their social media data in research	4
Why aren’t published works cited? Exploring the influences of bibliographic characteristics on uncitedness phenomenon in social sciences and arts and humanities	4
On the material supports of subjectivity: Mead, the self, and the new mastery of nature	3
Climbing the ladder to safety: A qualitative investigation of social mobility in Brazil	3
Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology	3
Risk consciousness and public perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine passports	3
The gaming of citation and authorship in academic journals: a warning from medicine	3

Academics in the semi-periphery: Translation and linguistic strategies on the rocky road to publishing in English	3
When automation hits home: Exploring the nuanced relationship between job risk and support for universal basic income	2
Rethinking early Soviet nationality policies within the poststructuralist context: Marxist legacy, Soviet nation-building, and contingency	2
Violence on the horizon: Horizography and serendipity in the ethnographer’s Zimbabwean field	2
An ecological inference approach to the origins of proportional representation	2
Endogeneity and qualitative political analysis: Debates about method or debates about ontology?	2
Politics of translation: Assimilation and reflexivity in the transformation of academic texts	2
A futures study of life satisfaction among Iranian students	2
Random grant allocation from the researchers’ perspective: Introducing the distinction into legitimate and illegitimate problems in Bourdieu’s field theory	2
The recent turn in analytical sociology: The dismissal of general theories, mental states, and analytic philosophy – and the old issue of mechanism explanations	2
Is interdisciplinarity distinctive? Scientific collaborations through research projects in natural sciences	2
Women’s bodies and lives as symbols of patriarchal codes: Honor killings	2
Beyond coping and adaptation: Toward a sociology of coaching. A necessary paradigm shift to address contemporary dramatic social change	2
On the practical rationality of the use of homeopathy in the German-speaking social space: An integrated approach using geometric data analysis and regression analysis	2
Basic emotion theory, social constructionism, and the universal ethogram	1
What is capitalism? Toward a working definition	1
Fringe nobles and boundary maintenance: An exploration	1
Emotional advertising in Morocco during the COVID-19 pandemic: A semiotic analysis	1
Where does money come from? The dual circuit of money creation	1
‘Expanded translation’ and the construction of meaning: A case study from political activism	1
The illusion of meritocracy	1
Max Weber and the chemistry of the Protestant ethic	1
Capitalism, autocracy, distrust: Elements of a diagnosis of the present	1
Are evaluative bibliometrics neoliberal? A historical and theoretical problematization	1