OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Research Online 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Consuming UK Transnational Higher Education in China: A Bourdieusian Approach to Chinese Students’ Perceptions and Experiences	21
Awareness and Experience of Mindfulness in Britain	18
Applied Research, Diffractive Methodology, and the Research-Assemblage: Challenges and Opportunities	15
Are Spanish Students Customers? Paradoxical Perceptions of the Impact of Marketisation on Higher Education in Spain	14
Early-Career Women Academics: Between Neoliberalism and Gender Conservatism	12
What Does it Mean to be a Cultural Omnivore? Conflicting Visions of Omnivorousness in Empirical Research	12
Bridging the Gap Between Methodology and Qualitative Data Analysis Software: A Practical Guide for Educators and Qualitative Researchers	11
Who Cares? Social Mobility and the ‘Class Ceiling’ in Nursing	11
Transnational Solidarity, Migration, and the Refugee Crisis: (In)Formal Organising and Political Environments in Greece, Germany, and Denmark	11
How Infrastructures and Practices Shape Each Other: Aggregation, Integration and the Introduction of Gas Central Heating	10
Institutional Ethics Challenges to Sex Work Researchers: Committees, Communities, and Collaboration	10
When Technologies are Not Enough: The Challenges of Digital Interventions to Address Loneliness in Later Life	9
Playing Your Life: Developing Strategies and Managing Impressions in the Game of Bridge	9
‘Not All of Us Can Be Nurses’: Proposing and Resisting Entrepreneurship Education in Rural Lesotho	8
Hysteresis Effects and Emotional Suffering: Chinese Rural Students’ First Encounters With the Urban University	8
European Higher Education Students: Contested Constructions	8
Students of Academic Capitalism: Emotional Dimensions in the Commercialization of Higher Education	8
Forever ‘Becoming’? Negotiating Gendered and Ageing Embodiment in Everyday Life	7
Discipline and Feed: Food Banks, Pastoral Power, and the Medicalisation of Poverty in the UK	7
Balancing Time – University Students’ Study Practices and Policy Perceptions of Time	7
Talking the Talk of Social Mobility: The Political Performance of a Misguided Agenda	7
Work after Death: An Examination of the Relationship between Grief, Emotional Labour, and the Lived Experience of Returning to Work after a Bereavement	7
‘I Think I Stick Out a Bit’: The Classification of Reproductive Decision-Making	7
From Streetscapes to Sofas: Representations of Place and Space in Britain’s Benefit Blackspots	6
Capturing Conflicting Accounts of Domestic Labour: The Household Portrait as a Methodology	6

The Powerful Student Consumer and the Commodified Academic: A Depiction of the Marketised UK Higher Education System through a Textual Analysis of the ITV DramaCheat	6
What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic	6
The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations	6
Does Organisation Matter? Solidarity Approaches among Organisations and Sectors in Europe	6
‘21st Century Welfare’ in Historical Perspective: Disciplinary Welfare in the Depression of the 1930s and Its Implications for Today	6
Beyond a Dichotomous Understanding of Online Anonymity: Bridging the Macro and Micro Level	6
Students in Marketised Higher Education Landscapes: An Introduction	5
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	5
LGBT ‘Communities’ and the (Self-)regulation and Shaping of Intimacy	5
Ageing Activisms: A Narrative Exploration of Older Adults’ Experiences of Political Participation	5
What Happens Next? Using the Story Completion Method to Surface the Affects and Materialities of Digital Privacy Dilemmas	5
Re-Imagining Social Mobility: The Role of Relationality, Social Class and Place in Qualitative Constructions of Mobility	5
Nine Mechanisms of Job-Searching and Job-Finding Through Contacts Among Young Adults	5
Narratives of Leaving and Returning to Homeland: The Example of Greek Brain Drainers Living in the UK	4
Ageing in Place Over Time: The Making and Unmaking of Home	4
Different Routes to University: Exploring Intersectional and Multi-Dimensional Social Mobility Under A Comparative Approach in Chile	4
Disentangling Meritocracy Among the Long-Range Upwardly Mobile: The Chilean Case	4
Risk Epistemologies and Aesthetic Reflexivity of a Disaster-Affected Community: Findings from Vietnam	4
Men’s Explanations for Being Childless; a dynamic perspective	4
Youth Shifting Identities, Moving Aspirations, Changing Social Norms, and Positive Uncertainty in Ethiopia and Nepal	4
Something ‘Old’, Something ‘New’? The UK Space of Political Attitudes After the Brexit Referendum	4
Almost Confessional: Managing Emotions When Research Breaks Your Heart	4
Normal Island: COVID-19, Border Control, and Viral Nationalism in UK Public Health Discourse	4
The Unbearable Precarity of Pursuing Freedom: A Critical Overview of the Spanish sí soy autónomo Movement	4
Patterns of Labour Solidarity Towards Precarious Workers and the Unemployed in Critical Times in Greece, Poland, and the UK	4
What’s Work Got to Do with It? How Precarity Influences Radical Party Support in France and the Netherlands	4
Creative Methodologies for a Mobile Criminology: Walking as Critical Pedagogy	4
Failing to Perform Citizenship: Daily Narratives About Stockholm’s ‘vulnerable EU citizens’	4
A Fish in Many Waters? Addressing Transnational Habitus and the Reworking of Bourdieu in Global Contexts	3
Doing being observed: Experimenting with collaborative focus group analysis in post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong	3
The Long and Winding Road: Archiving and Re-Using Qualitative Data from 12 Research Projects Spanning 16 Years	3
Pathways for a ‘Good Death’: Understanding End-of-Life Practices Through An Ethnographic Study in Two Portuguese Palliative Care Units	3
‘Almost Everything in the House Now Is Plastic’: Foregrounding Plastic Materiality in Household Routines and Practices	3
Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline	3
‘I Don’t Want to Completely Lose Myself’: Social Mobility as Movement Across Classed, Ethnicised, and Gendered Spaces	3
The Methodological Potential of Scrapbooking: Theory, Application, and Evaluation	3
Resilience, Relationality, and Older People: The Importance of Intergenerationality	3
Young People’s Perspectives on the Value and Meaning of Art during the Pandemic	3
Stories Too Big for a Case File: Unaccompanied Young People Confront the Hostile Environment in Pandemic Times	3
Introduction: Comparative European Perspectives on Transnational Solidarity Organisations	3
Coaching and ‘Self-repair’: Examining the ‘Artful Practices’ of Coaching Work	3
Discordant Expectations of Global Intimacy: Desire and Inequality in Commercial Surrogacy	3
Students as ‘Animal Laborans’? Tracing Student Politics in a Marketised Higher Education Setting	3
Transnational Activism for Global Crises: Resources Matter! Transnational Solidarity Organisations in Comparative Perspective	3
Frame Story Approachin Mixed and Multimethod Study on Non-Heterosexual Families in Poland	3
‘. . . It Makes Me Want to Shut Down, Cover Up’: Female Bartenders’ Use of Emotional Labour While Receiving Unwanted Sexual Attention at a Public House	3
The Extent of Résumé Whitening	3
Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation	3
Recognising British Bodies: The Significance of Race and Whiteness in ‘Post-Racial’ Britain	3
What Is Solidarity About? Views of Transnational Organisations’ Activists in Germany, Poland, and Greece	3

‘Cause We’re All Just Part of the System Really’: Complicity and Resistance in Young Sportsmen’s Responses to Violence Against Women Prevention Campaigns in England	2
The Cutaway to the Toilet: Towards a Visual Grammar of Spatial Stigma in Factual Welfare Television	2
The Preston Model: Economic Democracy, Cooperation, and Paradoxes in Organisational and Social Identification	2
Moral Orders of Mobility: Youth Aspirations and ‘Doing’ Social Position in Finland	2
Edgework, Uncertainty, and Social Character	2
Communities of Practice of Transition: An Analytical Framework for Studying Change-Focussed Groups	2
‘Airport People’ in Transformation: Vertical Disintegration and the Reconfiguration of Occupational Belonging in Terminal Work at Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport	2
‘Go Home, Get a Job, and Pay Some Taxes to Replace a Bit of What You’ve Wasted’: Stigma Power and Solidarity in Response to Anti-Open-Cast Mining Activism in the Coalfields of Rural County Durh	2
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait	2
A Young Disabled LGBT+ Researchers Group: Working Collaboratively to Explore the Lives of Young Autistic LGBT+ Persons	2
‘It Is a Tradition in the Nuclear Industry . . . Secrecy’: Political Opportunity Structures and Nuclear Knowledge Production in France	2
‘Having money is not the essential thing . . . but . . . it gets everything moving’: Young Colombians Navigating Towards Uncertain Futures?	2
It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic	2
Adult Children Move Out: Family Meals and Reflections on Parental Self-sacrifice at the Moment of Transition	2
The Myth of Old Age: Addressing the Issue of Dependency and Contribution in Old Age Using Empirical Examples From the United Kingdom	2
Safety and Security Battles: Unpacking the Players and Arenas of the Safe Standing Movement in English Football (1989–2022)	2
‘You Can’t Delete a Memory’: Managing the Data Past on Social Media in Everyday Life	2
Developing the Diary-Interview Approach to Study the Embodied, Tacit and Mundane Nutrition Information Behaviours of People with Type 2 Diabetes	2
Calais Again	2
A Creative Conversation for Re-imagining Creative Visual Methods with Children and Young People in Pandemic Times and Beyond	2
The Gambling Act 2005 and the (De)regulation of Commercial Gambling in Britain: A State-Corporate Harm	2
Understanding Brexit on Facebook: Developing Close-up, Qualitative Methodologies for Social Media Research	2
Ethnic Stereotypes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Minority Students’ Perspectives	2
Austerity, Localism, and the Possibility of Politics: Explaining Variation in Three Local Social Security Schemes Between Elected Councils in England	2
Cocreating with Young Fathers: Producing Community-Informed Training Videos to Foster more Inclusive Support Environments	2
Preparing End-of-Life Talks in Palliative Care: Exploratory Remarks on a Social Process	2
A ‘Proper Night Out’: A Practice Theory Exploration of Gendered Drinking	2
Dementia asZeitgeist: Social Problem Construction and the Role of a Contemporary Distraction	2
Institutional Gap and Mobility–Immobility Transition: International Students’ Study-to-Work Experience in China	2
Stigma Mutation: Tracking Lineage, Variation and Strength in Emerging COVID-19 Stigma	2
Small Stories of Home Moves: A Gendered and Generational Breadth-and-Depth Investigation	2
Religion and Social Capital: Examining Social Networks and Religious Identification in the UK	2
‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth	2
Do Prostitution and Social Vulnerability Go Hand in Hand? Examining the Association Between Social Background and Prostitution Using Register Data	1
Solo-Living and Social Individualization: Analysis of Life Experience among Young Women in Spain	1
Sacred Game: A Goffmanian Ethnography of a Women-Only Public Place in South Korea	1
Cultural Capital in China? Television Tastes and Cultural and Cosmopolitan Distinctions Among Beijing Youth	1
Furry Families: Ethical Entanglements Through More-than-Human Domestic Dramas	1
Ethical Reflexivity, Care, and Slippery Data: Lessons From Working With the Mass Observation Project	1
Teachers’ Narratives of Life Satisfaction, Social Mobility, and Practical Sense of Inequalities in Chile	1
The Subcultural Imagination: Critically Negotiating the Co-Production of ‘Subcultural Subjects’ through the Lens of C. Wright Mills	1
Snapshots of Family: Family Representations and Practices of Mothering Displayed by Instamothers	1
Utilising Mood Boards as an Image Elicitation Tool in Qualitative Research	1
Work-Related Practices: An Analysis of Their Effect on the Emergence of Stable Practices in Daily Activity Schedules	1
‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age	1
Transnational Solidarity Organisations and their Main Features, before and since 2008: Adaptive and/or Autonomous?	1
Keeping It Real in Chinese Hip-Hop: Everyday Authenticity and Coming From the Street	1
Sex Work in Slovenia: Assessing the Needs of Sex Workers	1
Food on the Margins: A Creative Film Collaboration to Amplify the Voices of Those Living with Food Insecurity	1
The Psychologization of Student Subjectivity in the Finnish Academia	1
Traditional Inequalities and Inequalities of Tradition: Gender, Weddings, and Whiteness	1
The Long 2015 in Germany: Activists’ Pro-Refugee Frames and Media Counter Frames	1
Kelly Needs a New Coat: Views on Compensating Altruistic Surrogacy in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic	1
Creating Time for LGBT+ Disabled Youth: Co-production Outside Chrononormativity	1
Shifting Narratives of the Self – Students’ Experiences of Chronicity and Multiplicity in the Management of Chronic Illness at University	1
The Productivity of Unemployment and the Temporality of Employment-to-Come: Older Disadvantaged Job Seekers	1
On the Discrepancy of Descriptive Facts and Normative Values in Perceptions of Occupational Prestige	1
Swiping as a Single Mom: A First Look at the Experiences of Single Mothers Who Use Tinder	1
Public Demand for State Support in the Post-Communist Welfare State: The Case of Russia	1
Class Incorporated: Stratified Patterns of Academic Engagement at a Highly Selective University	1
Everyday Intimacies and Inter-Ethnic Relationships: Tracing Entanglements of Gender and Race in Multicultural Singapore	1
Outsider Inspections of Closed Institutions: An Insider Ethnographic View of Institutional Display	1
Re-Conceptualising Repeat Reports of Hate Crime/Incidents as Hate Relationships Based on Coercive Control and Space for Action	1
The New Nones: An Empirical Study of Dual Religious and Political Non-affiliation	1
Aspiring Minds: ‘A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making’	1
‘It Feels Like a Big Performance’: Space, Performativity and Young Woman Skateboarders	1
Making Sense of Social Mobility in Unequal Societies	1
Interventional STS: A Framework for Developing Workable Technologies	1
The Closing Educational Gap in E-privacy Management in European Perspective	1
Sexual Wellbeing and Social Class in Britain: An Analysis of Nationally Representative Survey Data	1
‘I’m Not Victim-Blaming, But . . .’: Young People’s Discourses in Understanding Sexual Violence Against Women	1