OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Science Information sur les Sciences Sociales is 0. 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
Supply chain criticism: Seam, interval, hold	20
A theoretical framework for explaining the paradox of university rankings	20
Speculative fiction between criticism and catastrophism in the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin	16
Wolf in sheep’s clothing: An analysis of predatory journals through science mapping	14
L’action thérapeutique de la nachra : rite traditionnel féminin d’exorcisme à Constantine en Algérie	11
Migrations in postcolonial Italian literature: Quali-quantitative analysis in a social representation framework	9
The neoliberal transformation of academia–industry relationships in India: A critical assessment	8
The relative (in)visibility of sociologists in the French, American, British, and German national fields (1970–2018)	8
Do conspiracy theories circulating in the media or their debunking affect people’s trust in the media?	7
Du lamidalisme à la lamidalité du pouvoir au Nord-Cameroun	6
Students in unequal exchange: The European social space of Erasmus student mobility	6
Des adultes en formation : les caractéristiques personnelles comme obstacle	6
Le comportement préventif des Marocains durant la crise pandémique de Covid-19: à la maison, au marché et au travail	6
Who is to blame? Evaluations in academia spreading through relationships among multiple actor types	5
Hacking the border: Digital narratives of Russian asylum seekers after 2022	5
Why aren’t published works cited? Exploring the influences of bibliographic characteristics on uncitedness phenomenon in social sciences and arts and humanities	4
Trust and distrust in science: Embedding the interplay among scientists, mass media and public in Italy during the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak	4
Can social media data be freely used? Participants’ ethical perceptions toward using their social media data in research	4
Addressing the Ecological Emergency through urban governance: Debates over sustainable futures in Barcelona, Seville, and Bilbao	4
On situational analysis and the explanatory power of mechanisms: Analytical sociology and the deductive-nomological model	4
All power to the reviewers: British sociology under two-level supervision of the Research Excellence Framework	4
The gaming of citation and authorship in academic journals: a warning from medicine	4
Risk consciousness and public perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine passports	3
On the material supports of subjectivity: Mead, the self, and the new mastery of nature	3
Academics in the semi-periphery: Translation and linguistic strategies on the rocky road to publishing in English	3

Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology	3
Climbing the ladder to safety: A qualitative investigation of social mobility in Brazil	3
Violence on the horizon: Horizography and serendipity in the ethnographer’s Zimbabwean field	2
A futures study of life satisfaction among Iranian students	2
Women’s bodies and lives as symbols of patriarchal codes: Honor killings	2
Endogeneity and qualitative political analysis: Debates about method or debates about ontology?	2
Beyond coping and adaptation: Toward a sociology of coaching. A necessary paradigm shift to address contemporary dramatic social change	2
Rethinking early Soviet nationality policies within the poststructuralist context: Marxist legacy, Soviet nation-building, and contingency	2
Politics of translation: Assimilation and reflexivity in the transformation of academic texts	2
Is interdisciplinarity distinctive? Scientific collaborations through research projects in natural sciences	2
When automation hits home: Exploring the nuanced relationship between job risk and support for universal basic income	2
An ecological inference approach to the origins of proportional representation	1
Emotional advertising in Morocco during the COVID-19 pandemic: A semiotic analysis	1
The illusion of meritocracy	1
Capitalism, autocracy, distrust: Elements of a diagnosis of the present	1
Random grant allocation from the researchers’ perspective: Introducing the distinction into legitimate and illegitimate problems in Bourdieu’s field theory	1
Forest of silicon: Low-carbon energy and green colonialism in French Guiana	1
Are evaluative bibliometrics neoliberal? A historical and theoretical problematization	1
‘Forest passages’: Narratives of withdrawal and ecological thought	1
The recent turn in analytical sociology: The dismissal of general theories, mental states, and analytic philosophy – and the old issue of mechanism explanations	1
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	1
What is capitalism? Toward a working definition	1
Where does money come from? The dual circuit of money creation	1
Genealogies of scientifically induced biomobilities: Restoration ecology under climate emergency	0
The potential of benchmark challenges in the social sciences	0
The boundary contest that never was: Shadow banking and the relation between monetary system and financial system	0
The impact of Covid-19 on Moroccan students’ learning habits, mental health, and physical health (ENSA Fez as a case study)	0
Perceptions, défis et prises de positions concernant l’ Article Processing Charges (APC) dans la publication scientifique : une enquête auprès des chercheur·e·s du CONIC	0
Quo vadis Web of Science? The expansion and selection criteria of the Social Science Citation Index	0
Analysis of worldwide research on clientelism: Origins, evolution, and trends	0
Women’s perspectives on career successes and barriers: A qualitative meta-synthesis	0
Nostalgia for the light: The ecological emergency, the social sciences, and a (qualified) defense of human exceptionalism	0
Fringe nobles and boundary maintenance: An exploration	0
What is neoliberalism really? A global analysis of its real-world consequences for development, inequality, and democracy	0
The scope and limits of implicit bias training: An experimental study with Swedish social workers	0
The place of Russia’s political regime (2003–2023) on a conceptual map of the world’s autocracies	0
Stormy weather: Legacies of slavery and emergent forms of political-ecological relation in literary fiction of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans	0
Translating academia. Implications for knowledge production in the social sciences and the humanities	0
Barcelona residents’ concerns of heatwaves, air pollution, and noise: Examining the link between environmental exposures and risk perception	0
Using recorded visual data: Doing online interviews	0
Translating knowledge in the multilingual paradigm: Beyond epistemicide	0
Editorial	0
Methodological individualism and agent-based computational simulation: A reply to Kincaid and Zahle	0
Social science research: An analysis of BRICS countries	0
Les bases incarnées de l’institution monétaire	0
Oceanic cartographies: Poetics in a saturated medium	0
Adjunct rather than alternative in global governance: An examination of BRICS as an international bloc through the perception of its members	0
Introduction to special section: Causes and consequences of the current evaluation regime in (academic) science	0
‘Expanded translation’ and the construction of meaning: A case study from political activism	0
Identifying the potential of Internet use to mitigate cognitive bias of subjective socioeconomic status: A political ideology perspective in China	0

Migration potential from Iran: A cluster analysis of the main departure drivers	0
Post-truth, conspiracy, and fake news in the uncertain times of the COVID-19 pandemic in Morocco	0
Dimitri Ginev (1956–2021)	0
Melvin Pollner’s radically reflexive ethnomethodology in historical context	0
Advancing a system-level perspective in stakeholder theory: Insights from the institutional economics of John R. Commons	0
Swarms of comparison: Pests at the ends of the world	0
Practices in the translation and editing of humanities and social science texts for publication in English: A qualitative survey of language professionals	0
Between Michigan and Rochester: Identity-based thinking is cognitively primary	0
Les conditions sociales de la collaboration intellectuelle dans les moyens de grande diffusion. Le cas du journal espagnol El País (1986–1990)	0
Prejudice in children and extremism in adults: Intriguing mindset convergences	0
Approaching the ecological emergency: Intersections across the humanities and social sciences	0
COVID-19 – crisis events and social transformations	0
Organizational disintegration	0
Tarde’s ancestors. Imitation and crowds from Hobbes to Locke	0
A conceptual analysis of trust	0
The moral economy of student debt: A pharmacological approach	0
Research in the information age and the risks of researcher vicarious trauma	0
Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology	0
Recommendations on the translation of academic texts in the social sciences and the humanities	0
In the field of social sustainability: Navigating agri-food dynamics	0
Sonder le Feral Atlas : enquêtes de terrain holographiques	0