OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Research Online 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 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
Institutional Ethics Challenges to Sex Work Researchers: Committees, Communities, and Collaboration	10
How Infrastructures and Practices Shape Each Other: Aggregation, Integration and the Introduction of Gas Central Heating	10
Playing Your Life: Developing Strategies and Managing Impressions in the Game of Bridge	9
When Technologies are Not Enough: The Challenges of Digital Interventions to Address Loneliness in Later Life	9
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
‘Not All of Us Can Be Nurses’: Proposing and Resisting Entrepreneurship Education in Rural Lesotho	8
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
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
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
From Streetscapes to Sofas: Representations of Place and Space in Britain’s Benefit Blackspots	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
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
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
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
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