OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Perspectives is 4. 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
Foreign Capital and Economic Growth: A Social Network Analysis, 2001–2017	70
Who Are Gun Owners in the United States? A Latent Class Analysis of the 2019 National Lawful Use of Guns Survey	57
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach	33
The Language of Immigration Coverage: The Arizona Republic and Media’s Role in the Production of Social Illegality	29
“You Start with the Youth”: Narratives of Deservingness and Dissent at a Homeless Service Organization	20
Diversity, Disrupted: A Critique of Neoliberal Difference in Tech Organizations	19
The Correlates of Panethnic Identification: Assessing Similarities and Differences among Latinos and Asians in the United States	18
Preferences for Paid Paternity Leave Availability, Lengths of Leave Offerings, and Government Funding of Paternity Leaves in the United States	18
“Of Course We Need to Help the Undocumented Immigrants!”: Twitter Discourse on the (Un)deservingness of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Intergroup Contact and White Racial Apathy: Findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR)	15
Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions	13
Time as a Resource for Constructing Long-term Visions among Two Generations of Feminist Activism in Peru and Ecuador	13
Exploring the Impact of Women’s Representation on the Professional Careers of Women of Color	13
Between Distancing and Interdependence: The Conflict of Solidarities in the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Durkheim’s Failed Darwinian Encounter: Missed Opportunities on the Path to a Post-exemptionalist Environmental Sociology	12
Local Confederate Memorialization and Gender-Ethnic Variation in Mental Health among Black Residents	10
“Everything Is Connected”: Health Lifestyles and Teenagers’ Social Distancing Behaviors in the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Exploring the Making of the Economy in South Korea: A Venue for Sociology and Science and Technology Studies	10
Industrial Pollution, Social Trust, and Civic Engagement: A Nationwide Study of the Socioenvironmental Nature of Social Capital	9
Climate Silence in Sociology? How Elite American Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies Treat Climate Change	9
Golden Years in the Red: Indebtedness Patterns across Cohorts of Older American Adults	9
Internal Migration and Cohabitation in China: A Mixed-method Study	9
Long-term Consequences of Men’s Migration for Women’s Well-being in a Rural African Setting	9
Peer and Community Influences on Adolescent Substance Use in the Context of Adverse Childhood Experiences	8
Corporate Responses to COVID-19: A Nonmarket Strategy Approach	8

Mental Illness and the Resilience of Deviance	7
“Because He’s My Baby”: The Role of Birth Order in How Mothers Explain Favoritism Toward Adult Children	6
Pharmaceuticalization to Opioid Pharmacovigilance: A Qualitative Investigation of the Impact of Opioid-related Policy Changes and the Perspectives of Residents and Chronic Non-cancer Pain Patients	6
Making the Grade during Pandemic: Early-stage and Late-stage Provisional Institutions	5
“I Could Feel His Sadness and Disdain as He Told Me”: A Qualitative Analysis of Black Women’s Accounts of Vicarious Racism	5
American Medical Sociology and Health Problems in the Global South	5
Elite Cues and the Rapid Decline in Trust in Science Agencies on COVID-19	5
“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t”: Perceived Discrimination and the Paradoxes of Assimilation among U.S. Muslims	5
The Allure of Transactional Intimacy in Sugar Dating	5
Worksites as Sacrifice Zones: Structural Precarity and COVID-19 in U.S. Meatpacking	5
Does Job Insecurity Motivate Protest Participation? A Multilevel Analysis of Working-Age People from 18 Developed Countries	5
The Cogs and Wheels of Authenticity: How Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs Explain the Unequal Appreciation of Authentic Products	4
Polarization and Persuasion: Engaging Sociology in the Moral Universe of a Divided Democracy	4
Arts for Whose Sake? Arts Course-taking and Math Achievement in US High Schools	4
Gun Ownership, Threat, and Gun Attitudes in an Experiment	4
Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation and the First Wave of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates: A Spatial Analysis of Four U.S. Cities	4
Family Socioeconomic Status in Adolescence and Gender Identification in Emerging Adulthood	4
Gun Dealer Motivations for Complying with the Law: Lessons from the Australian Experience of Gun Control	4
Moral Panic and Electric Micromobilities: Seeking Space for Mobility Justice	4
Families and Financial Support: Comparing Black and Asian American College Students	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Coronavirus (COVID-19) & Society	4