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Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Forum is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward a middle‐range theory of environmental morality	47
More Than Metaphors: Will Sociology Search for the Soul of Du Bois?	34
Racialized Organizations and the Interest Divergence Dilemma¹	28
COVID‐19 and U.S. Disputes Over Authority, 2020–2021: Implications for the Constructionist Analysis of Social Problems	23
Finding Joy in Artificial Experience	21
The Du Boisian Turn	20
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Issue Information	17
Issue Information	16
“You can't really turn it off”: The police “sixth sense” as cultural schema	14
The “Jewish turn” in contemporary Poland: Philosemitism, civic nationalism, and the construction of a symbolic other	14
The reach of decentralized poverty governance: Race, politics, and framing poverty in community action agency mission statements	14
Immigrant selectivity at school entry	14
Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Brief Introduction	13
Introduction: Special Issue on Social Constructionism	12
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Social Constructionism and Reality: The Case of Death by Execution	11
Collegiate Sports Participation, Academic Achievement, and Bachelor's Degree Completion¹	10
Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future By ZekeBaker, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024. 368 pp. $29.95. ISBN	10
“Racial Heterosexual Habitus” and Management of Racial Education Discussions Within Black Female/White Male Romantic Relationships¹	10
Going Places: First‐Generation College Students Framing Higher Education¹	10
A Social Disorganizational Theory of Suicide¹	9
Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking	9
Masculine, independent, and “not acting”: Hegemonic masculinity and femmephobia within an online community of queer men	9
“I'm Saving Fuel to Buy More Guns”: The Electric Vehicle as Cultural Object and Climate Policy Solution¹	9

About the Authors	8
Lessons From the Peripheries: Coloniality, Belonging, and Resistance Among U.S. Territorial Peoples	8
Navigating the City in Black and White	8
Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: A Cross‐National Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Capita, 1980–2018¹	8
Getting a Worker: Recruiters, Culture, and On‐the‐Job Skilling¹	8
Navigating the institutional maze of undocumented life	7
Rating Prestige: Status‐Seeking and Creditworthiness on the Global Stage¹	7
Strategic Choices: How Conservative Women Activists Remained Active throughout Tunisia's Democratic Transition	7
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Carnival, charisma, and kayfabe: The delegation of intellectual labor through ludic layering in Donald Trump's rhetorical style	6
Identity in the Gig Economy: Aspiration, Deidentification, and Collective Solidarity Among Platform Couriers	6
Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries	6
Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy. by Becker, Andréa. New York, NY. NYU Press, 2025. 208 pp. $28.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐47‐982660‐5	6
Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves. By StuartSchrader, New York: Basic Books, 2026. 432 pp. $34.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐54‐160803‐0	6
Climate Solidarity: A Framework and Research Agenda for Low‐Carbon Behavior	6
Micropolitics in School‐Based Health Centers' Provision of Sexual Health Services	6
Perfection and Humanity: Memories of Charles L. Bosk	5
Motherhood, Fatherhood, and the Gender Gap in Occupational Authority¹	5
In Medias Res: Using Sociology to Uncover the Harm of Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality in Colombia. Reflections on Public Sociology as a Graduate Student¹	5
School Choice Among Latinx Families: How Experiential Knowledge Informs Choice Over Time	5
Policy for People with the Fewest Choices: Ontology and Actorhood for Sex Trade Abolition	5
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The promise of public sociology in India: Looking at Burawoy and beyond	5
The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W.E.B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence. By Nahum DimitriChandler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025. 224 pp. $23.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐47‐803248‐9	4
Hidden in Plain Sight: “Neutral” Enclosures for High‐Skilled Immigrants During COVID‐19¹	4
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The Media Agenda‐Setting Role of Protests in Nondemocratic Regimes: A Case Study From Hungary	4
Doomed from the Let‐Go: Postincarceration Strategies for Managing Monetary Debt	4
Gendered Economy: Sociality and the Lesbian Consumer Market in China¹	4
The Stress of Expectation: The Significance of Gender on Concerns About Long‐Term Care Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults	4
Meeting empowerment: How styles of discursive frames vary across participatory settings	4
Superdiversity a Concept or a Theory?	4
Selective Reciprocity: Children's Academic Achievement and Parent–Child Communication in China	4
Decolonizing Academia: Epistemic Gatekeeping and Revisiting “Womanhood” in Global South Studies	4
It's Not for the Faint of Heart : Empathy Socialization Among Birth Doulas	4
Dreams of a Lifetime	4
Our “Zoological Connections” and Why They Matter	4
The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online. By Simon JamesCopland (ed.), Cambridge, UK:Polity Press, 2025. 208 pp. $22.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐956255‐8	4
Is There a Sociology of Suicide?	4
Muslim women's agency; getting past the binary trap	4
About the Authors	3
Dating at a Distance: Does It Take a Pandemic to Challenge Campus Sexual Culture?¹	3
Post‐National Solidarity: Re‐Thinking an Essential Concept for the Age of Global Uncertainty	3
The Impact of Early Life Victimization and Prejudice on Adult Socioeconomic Well‐Being Among Sexual Minority Populations	3
Between space, relational sociology, and Lefebvre's critique of modernity: An understanding of relational spatiality in trans‐actional perspective	3
There's Research on That: Translating and Sharing Sociology for Public Audiences	3
Why Epistemic Believing Makes Us Better (Public) Sociologists	3
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About the Authors	3
Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographic Changes in French Workplaces¹	3
Textbook Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, Helen Boardman, and Black Reconstruction in America	3
Gender, Authoritarian Populisms, and the Attack on Democracy	3
Trapped in a Maze	3
The marvelous ones: Drugs, gang violence, and resistance in East Los Angeles	3
Talking Past Each Other: The Debate Over College‐Level Prison Education As Represented in New York Print Media, 2013–2020	3
Following Transformative Projects As Pathways to Confronting Inequality	3
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Correction to Last Words	3
The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia	3
What Should Sociologists Do?	3
Missing Binds: How Absent Ties Unleash Migrant Worker Activism Under an Authoritarian Regime	3
The stigma trap: College‐educated, experienced, and long‐term unemployed By OferSharone. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024, 200 pp., Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2020, 186 pp.,	3
The Contrast‐Ridden World of the Migrant Entrepreneur in the Urban Margins	3
The Co‐Construction and Co‐Deconstruction of Childhood and Sociology	3
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