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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding ‘Gender Equality’: First-Time Parent Couples’ Practices and Perspectives on Working and Caring Post-Parenthood	39
Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants	21
Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?	19
Making Sense of Social Mobility in Unequal Societies	16
Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic	15
Third-Sector Advocacy: An Exploration of the Work of Community Food Providers	15
‘Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Experience?’ Orientations Towards Listening to Open-Ended Survey Responses	14
Doing the Unspeakable: Material Participation in Reprod-estr-uctive Labour	12
Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital	11
Almost Confessional: Managing Emotions When Research Breaks Your Heart	11
Journeys Through Genomics: Co-Producing Visual Resources to Communicate Patient Experiences	9
Gender Preferences for Children and Gender Relations in Contemporary China	9
The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of COVID-19	8
The Social Production of the Dead Human Body in the Practice of Teaching Anatomy Through Cadaveric Dissection	8
‘We’ve Done Our Bit’: Post-COVID Experiences of Precarious Privilege Among Western International School Teachers in Shanghai	7
Book Review: Vera Caine, D Jean Clandinin and Sean Lessard, Narrative Inquiry: Philosophical Roots	7
Curating the ‘Care-Full’ Home: An Experiment in Satirical Interdisciplinarity in Social Research	7
Politics of Utopias: A Review of ‘Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land?’ Valerie Padilla Carroll, Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land? Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular Culture	7
Connection Points: The Dynamics of Recruitment to Packaging-Free Shopping	7
What’s Work Got to Do with It? How Precarity Influences Radical Party Support in France and the Netherlands	6
Book Review: Sociologies of New Zealand	6
The Extent of Résumé Whitening	6
Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline	6
Introduction: Comparative European Perspectives on Transnational Solidarity Organisations	6
Leaping the Abyss: The Problematic Translation of Social Research Results into Policy Recommendations	6

Walking the (Infrastructural) Line: Mobile and Embodied Explorations of Infrastructures and Their Impact on the Urban Landscape	6
Book Review: Timothy S. Pedro and Windchief Sweeney (eds), Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities	6
Book Review: Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power	6
#TheAfricaTheMediaNever ShowsYou: An Afrodiasporic Subaltern Counterpublic	6
‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age	5
A ‘Proper Night Out’: A Practice Theory Exploration of Gendered Drinking	5
Racialization within Antitrafficking Interventions Targeting Migrant Sex Workers: Findings from the SEXHUM Research Project in France	5
Book Review: Karen S Cook, Advanced Introduction to Social Capital	5
Looking Within: A Call for Greater Reflexivity in Expatriate Research	5
It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic	5
Coming to Terms with the Greek Crisis: Highly Educated Young Women’s Employment Struggles in Conditions of Economic Austerity	5
A Convergence of Opportunities: Understanding the High Elite University Progression of Disadvantaged Youth in an East London Locality	5
Book Review: Michael Butter, The Nature of Conspiracy Theories	5
Broken (Again) – Making Sense of Ankle Fracture, Hospitalisation, and Early Recovery: An Autoethnography	5
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health: A Reflection Triggered by the VAX-TRUST Project Final Round Table	4
Book Review: Matthew O Jackson, The Human Network: How We’re Connected and Why It Matters	4
Superficial Allies: The Role of Legal Inclusion and Social Obedience in Stigma Processes	4
‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth	4
(Un)predicted Patterns in the Timing of Urban Shootings Across Six US Cities	4
Life Satisfaction and Work–Life Balance: The Complexities of Gender Patterning	4
Re-Defining the Family Biography When a Child Suffers from a Life-Limiting Illness: Insights from Mothers and Siblings	4
Book Review: Travis Kong, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China	4
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research: A Computational Abstract Analysis to Identify Latent Topics of Sociological Research Online	4
‘Creating Poverty Chances’: Young People Confront Gambling Harms in Malawi	4
No Raggedy Black Child: Attachment Parenting, Black Motherhood, and the Politics of Respectability	4
The Transformation of Parents’ Values and Aspirations for Their Children: A Retrospective Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Cultural Configurations	4
Engaging With Lived Experience: Towards a Sociological Biography of a Sociological Category	4
The Closing Educational Gap in E-privacy Management in European Perspective	4
The Participatory Documentary ‘Age Is Just a Bingo Number’	4
‘Pollution’ and ‘Blaming’: A Sociological Analysis of the COVID-19 Time Through Cultural Perspective	3
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	3
Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre	3
Negotiating Masculinity in a Post-Socialist Society: The Case of Chinese Male Nurses	3
‘Having money is not the essential thing . . . but . . . it gets everything moving’: Young Colombians Navigating Towards Uncertain Futures?	3
Food on the Margins: A Creative Film Collaboration to Amplify the Voices of Those Living with Food Insecurity	3
Social Conspiracies in Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenging Disease through Opposition and Suspicion	3
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities	3
Sociology of Everyday Life in the Past and Future Uses of the Mass Observation Project: Methodology, Materiality and Personal Life	3
Recognising British Bodies: The Significance of Race and Whiteness in ‘Post-Racial’ Britain	3
Talking the Talk of Social Mobility: The Political Performance of a Misguided Agenda	3
Book Review: May Contain Lies. How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases – and what we can do about it	3
Food Systems Under Pressure	3
‘Vulnerability’ at Work: Instrumental Vulnerabilities Among Software Professionals	3
Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk? Experiences with Risks and Risk Management among Young Sugar Daters	3
Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment	3
A Life in Motion: Exploring Auto/Biographical Exchanges by ‘Walking With’ Nelson Sullivan	3
Creative Co-Imagination in Transgenerational Comics Workshops	3
Sociology Meets History, in and Beyond England: Explorations in SRO ’s Archival Trove	3
Do Different Types of Households Use Outsourced Domestic Cleaning Services for Different Reasons? An Explorative Study in South Africa	3
The Social Structures of Sleep: Effects of Work-Related and Family Constraints on Sleep Duration and Regularity Among French Workers	3

Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation	3
‘I’ve Wondered Why Am I Here?’ Expectations of Old Age and the Ageing Body in a Longitudinal Study of a Dance Group	3
Book Review: The Future Is Degrowth. A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism	3
Data Protection in Sociological Health Research: A Critical Narrative about the Challenges of a New Regulatory Landscape	3
Mediating Gender Norms Through the ‘Foodies’ Culture as Romantic Emotions	3
Outcomes of Academic Tracking Among Young Adults in the United States: A Longitudinal Survey Analysis	3