OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Japan Journal 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy	33
Genpatsu Jiko to ‘Shoku’: Shijō, Komyunikēshon, Sabetsu (The Nuclear Disaster and ‘Food’. The Market, Communication, Discrimination)	10
Three is Company, Four is a Crowd? Perceptions of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace	8
Nihon kishō gyōsei-shi no kenkyū: Tenkiyohō ni okeru kanryōsei to shakai (Building Expertise and Reputation: A History of the Japan Meteorological Agency)	8
The US–Japan alliance and the role of the US Marines on Okinawa in extended deterrence	7
Public support for governments in China and Japan during a global health crisis	6
Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege	6
Japan’s Extreme Infrastructure: Fortress-ification, Resilience, and Extreme Nature	5
Toshi Kyojū no Shakaigaku: Shakai Chōsa kara yomitoku Nihon no Jūtaku Seisaku (Sociology of Urban Settlements: Japanese Housing Policy as Interpreted from Social Surveys)	4
Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition	4
Sengo nihon no kankei shūfuku gaikō: Kokusai seiji riron ni yoru rekishi bunseki (Postwar Japanese Relations Restoration Diplomacy: Historical Analysis Through International Political Theory)	4
A Japanese Subjective Well-Being Indicator Based on Twitter Data	3
In Remembrance of Ehud Harari	3
Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Partnership and Mobility	3
The COVID-19 crisis as a double-edged revealer: Japanese employees’ hope for change in corporate warrior culture and the gendered impediments to such change	2
The influence of offline and online local community engagement and collective efficacy on COVID-19 self-efficacy: a study of six prefectures in Japan	2
Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan	2
Rethinking Locality in Japan	2
Nihon Kyōsantō – “Kakumei” o Yume mita 100-nen (The Japanese Communist Party: 100 Years of Dreaming of “Revolution”)	2
Why Not Mahan? Path Dependence in Modern Japanese Geostrategic Thinking of the Pacific	2
Cultural fluency required? Interrogating ethnocentrism in the employment of white-collar Asian migrants in Japan	2
Disability Prestige and Perceived Disability Disadvantage: Intersubjective Structure of Disability as a Social Disadvantage in the Japanese Metropolitan Area	1
Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture	1
Yorokonde Morau: the shared well-being experience of making others happy (and feeling happy because of it)	1
Hate on the Bookshelves: Explaining the Phenomenon of Anti-Korean Hate Books in Japan	1

Correction to: Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline)	1
Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan	1
Shin Reisen, Shin Detanto to Nihon no Higashi Ajia Gaikō: Ōhira, Suzuki, Nakasone no Taikan Kyōryoku o Chūshin ni	1
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan	1
Korona Kiki no Seiji: Abe Seiken vs. Chiji (The Politics of the COVID-19 Crisis: The Abe Administration vs. the Governors)	1
Education and Social Justice in Japan	1
Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits	1
Securing a place for death: social capital and Muslim migrants’ struggle for burial cemeteries in contemporary Japan	1
Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture	1
Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific	1
Ties of Possibility: Selecting Future Founders in Tokyo’s Start-up Ecosystem	1
Gendai Nihon no daihyōsei minshuseiji: Yūkensha to seijika	1