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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants	23
Making Sense of Social Mobility in Unequal Societies	21
‘Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Experience?’ Orientations Towards Listening to Open-Ended Survey Responses	20
Third-Sector Advocacy: An Exploration of the Work of Community Food Providers	17
Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital	13
Doing the Unspeakable: Material Participation in Reprod-estr-uctive Labour	13
Understanding ‘Gender Equality’: First-Time Parent Couples’ Practices and Perspectives on Working and Caring Post-Parenthood	12
Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?	10
Revitalising Intimacy Research Through a Focus on Intimate Inequalities, Ruptures and Dissonances	10
The Social Production of the Dead Human Body in the Practice of Teaching Anatomy Through Cadaveric Dissection	9
Gender Preferences for Children and Gender Relations in Contemporary China	9
Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic	9
Parenting in a Pandemic With Multiple Sclerosis	8
Journeys Through Genomics: Co-Producing Visual Resources to Communicate Patient Experiences	8
‘We’ve Done Our Bit’: Post-COVID Experiences of Precarious Privilege Among Western International School Teachers in Shanghai	7
Leaping the Abyss: The Problematic Translation of Social Research Results into Policy Recommendations	7
Curating the ‘Care-Full’ Home: An Experiment in Satirical Interdisciplinarity in Social Research	7
#TheAfricaTheMediaNever ShowsYou: An Afrodiasporic Subaltern Counterpublic	7
Book Review: Vera Caine, D Jean Clandinin and Sean Lessard, Narrative Inquiry: Philosophical Roots	7
The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of COVID-19	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
Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline	7
Connection Points: The Dynamics of Recruitment to Packaging-Free Shopping	7
A Convergence of Opportunities: Understanding the High Elite University Progression of Disadvantaged Youth in an East London Locality	6
Cultural Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature: Evidence for a Partial Overlap	6

The Extent of Résumé Whitening	6
Looking Within: A Call for Greater Reflexivity in Expatriate Research	6
Walking the (Infrastructural) Line: Mobile and Embodied Explorations of Infrastructures and Their Impact on the Urban Landscape	6
Book Review: Karen S Cook, Advanced Introduction to Social Capital	6
Relational Logics of Child Maintenance and Post-separation Economic Abuse in Minoritised British South Asian Muslim Post-divorce Families	6
It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic	5
The Participatory Documentary ‘Age Is Just a Bingo Number’	5
No Raggedy Black Child: Attachment Parenting, Black Motherhood, and the Politics of Respectability	5
A ‘Proper Night Out’: A Practice Theory Exploration of Gendered Drinking	5
‘Creating Poverty Chances’: Young People Confront Gambling Harms in Malawi	5
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research: A Computational Abstract Analysis to Identify Latent Topics of Sociological Research Online	5
‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age	5
‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth	5
Racialization within Antitrafficking Interventions Targeting Migrant Sex Workers: Findings from the SEXHUM Research Project in France	5
(Un)predicted Patterns in the Timing of Urban Shootings Across Six US Cities	4
Book Review: Travis Kong, Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China	4
Engaging With Lived Experience: Towards a Sociological Biography of a Sociological Category	4
How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory	4
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health: A Reflection Triggered by the VAX-TRUST Project Final Round Table	4
The Transformation of Parents’ Values and Aspirations for Their Children: A Retrospective Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Cultural Configurations	4
Re-Defining the Family Biography When a Child Suffers from a Life-Limiting Illness: Insights from Mothers and Siblings	4
Food Systems Under Pressure	4
Book Review: Matthew O Jackson, The Human Network: How We’re Connected and Why It Matters	4
Broken (Again) – Making Sense of Ankle Fracture, Hospitalisation, and Early Recovery: An Autoethnography	4
Superficial Allies: The Role of Legal Inclusion and Social Obedience in Stigma Processes	4
Warm Spaces as a New Manifestation of Austerity Localism	4
Life Satisfaction and Work–Life Balance: The Complexities of Gender Patterning	4
Mediating Gender Norms Through the ‘Foodies’ Culture as Romantic Emotions	3
Book Review: Alex Edmans, May Contain Lies. How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases – and what we can do about it May Contain Lies. How stories, statistic	3
Sociology Meets History, in and Beyond England: Explorations in SRO ’s Archival Trove	3
‘Vulnerability’ at Work: Instrumental Vulnerabilities Among Software Professionals	3
Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation	3
Wearing the Saree in the Diaspora: An Auto-ethnographic Account of a Malaysian Indian Woman	3
Getting Under the Skin Trade: Towards a Global Sociology of Skin-Lightening Practices	3
Creative Co-Imagination in Transgenerational Comics Workshops	3
Sociological Research in the Digital Age: Where Have We Come From; Where Are We Going?	3
Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk? Experiences with Risks and Risk Management among Young Sugar Daters	3
‘Pollution’ and ‘Blaming’: A Sociological Analysis of the COVID-19 Time Through Cultural Perspective	3
Screening for Parental Consent? Trans Youth and Informed Consent in Academic Research	3
Do Different Types of Households Use Outsourced Domestic Cleaning Services for Different Reasons? An Explorative Study in South Africa	3
Data Protection in Sociological Health Research: A Critical Narrative about the Challenges of a New Regulatory Landscape	3
Book Review: Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan (eds), The Future Is Degrowth. A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter	3
Book Review: Psychoanalytic Sociology: A New Theory of the Social Bond Psychoanalytic Sociology: A New Theory of the Social Bond. RousselleDuane. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. ISBN: 978-135041018	3
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities	3
Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre	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
Talking the Talk of Social Mobility: The Political Performance of a Misguided Agenda	3
The Social Structures of Sleep: Effects of Work-Related and Family Constraints on Sleep Duration and Regularity Among French Workers	3
Social Conspiracies in Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenging Disease through Opposition and Suspicion	3
Sociology of Everyday Life in the Past and Future Uses of the Mass Observation Project: Methodology, Materiality and Personal Life	3

Images of the Present and Possible: Analyzing the Climate Movement Through Its Utopias	3
Book Review: Yi-Lin Chiang, Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	3
Outcomes of Academic Tracking Among Young Adults in the United States: A Longitudinal Survey Analysis	3