OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Societies 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Are there limits to empathy? A survey experiment on empathic concern and perspective-taking as bases for attitudes towards different groups of refugees	30
Settling into uncertainty and risk amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	27
Switch on the Big Brother! Investigating the educational gradients in acceptance of online and public areas surveillance among European citizens	23
Solidarity test: challenges of forced LGBTIQ migration and activism in Central-Eastern European countries in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	18
EU identity visions and narratives of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in European Schools	17
The advantage of daughters in hypogamous families: parental heterogamy and educational outcomes among children of highly educated parents	17
The effects of Muslim immigration and demographic change on group boundaries in Germany	15
Do they think that joy and misery are temporary? Comparing trajectories of current and predicted life satisfaction across life events	14
Young adult mental health during the United Kingdom’s first COVID-19 lockdown: the benefit of living with parents and siblings	14
Polarizing social figures? Climate activists in German media and popular discourse	13
Ukrainian values: between the Slavic-Orthodox legacy and Europe's allure	13
Critical racial literacy and public sociology: Visiblizing race among local authorities in Ireland	13
Reasons for and consequences of ethnic differences in parental support during the transition to apprenticeship training in Germany	12
Parental decision-making regarding vaccination: The role of preschool enrolment sanctions, family policies and childcare expectation	12
One track mind: Secondary effects in school choice and social capital in a stratified system	11
The multiverse of social class. A large-scale assessment of macro-level, meso-level and micro-level approaches to class analysis	11
Class or regional cleavage? The Russian invasion and Ukraine’s ‘East/West’ divide	10
No evidence of a major learning slide 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	10
Greater local supply of language courses improves refugees’ labor market integration	10
No evidence of direct peer influence in upper-secondary track choice—evidence from Hungary	10
Does the prospect of further sovereignty loss fuel Euroscepticism? A population-based survey experiment	9
The gendered maths confidence gap, social influence and social integration	9
Convergence in action: framing the climate crisis at the 2021 Pre-COP counter-summit in Milan	9
Economic voting and state-business relations in OECD countries	9
Situating Muslims’ trust in parliament from a cross-national perspective: Islamic religiosity's impact in Western Europe	9

Disability, gender and hiring discrimination - a field experiment	9
Reference group effects and parental educational expectations: can big-fish-little-pond effects explain immigrant parents’ high expectations?	9
Successful due to STEM? Labour market returns to STEM qualifications among skilled immigrants in Germany	8
The timing of parental unemployment, insurance and children's education	8
Does the nuclear family affect social trust? Longitudinal evidence from Germany	8
New re-bordering left them alone and neglected: Czech cross-border commuters in German-Czech borderland	7
Food insecurity and changes in social citizenship. A comparative study of Rome, Barcelona and Athens	6
Motivation in the dynamics of European youth migration	6
Symbolic boundary work among Syrian refugees: perceived stigmas, responses, and cultural repertoires	6
Unequal effects on working time: immigrants’ vulnerability in the German labor market in the early COVID-19 pandemic	5
Is it possible to outsmart Uber? Individual working tactics within platform work in Poland	5
‘Stayhome’ as a YouTube performance: representing and reshaping domestic space under the 2020 covid lockdown in Italy	5
No one-size-fits-all solution. Effects of social policies on in-work poverty	5
How reception centers affect the integration of asylum seekers and recognized refugees	5
Housing conditions of single mothers in Europe: the role of housing policies	5
Narrowing inequalities through redistribution. A relational inequality approach to female managers and the gender wage gap	5
“Escape” from home? The moderating role of sexual orientation on the association between social origin and educational attainment	5
Does personality matter? Exploring its moderating role on the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic outgroup-size and preferences for Brexit	5
“Tell me more…”: The kind of information added influences ethnic discrimination in the Swiss rental housing market	5
Why small ethnic minorities participate in politics: comparing Jews and Poles in Bosnia and Herzegovina	5
An invitation to submit	5
Welcoming note and acknowledgements	4
A digital principal? Substantive representation in the case of the Italian Five Star Movement	4
Employees’ perceptions of co-workers’ internal promotion penalties: the role of gender, parenthood and part-time	4
Immigrant generation and religiosity: a study of Christian immigrant groups in 33 European countries	4
The forced migration from Ukraine after the full scale Russian invasion: dynamics and decision making drivers	4
Support for Ukrainian refugees after Russia's invasion of Ukraine: aid structure and resilience factors. Case studies of Lublin and Lutsk	4
Is the association between long-term care and subjective well-being socio-economically stratified? Evidence from Europe	4
Moving online: political parties and the internal use of digital tools in Hungary	4
The other civil society: digital media and grassroots illiberalism in Bulgaria	4
School Segregation and Native Flight: Evidence from School Catchment Area Borders	4
Ukrainian-American non-profits in 2014–2022: constructing diasporic Ukrainian identity through personal and collective narratives	3
Undeserving heirs: how the origins of wealth shape attitudes towards redistribution	3
Biopower in the age of the pandemic: the politics of COVID-19 in Denmark	3
Return to the South: economic (re)integration of return migrants, internal migrants, and non-migrants in post-recession Spain of the 2010s	3
Shortfalls of deliberative democracy in Georgia: the analysis of the General Assembly of a Settlement	3
Gender and unemployment: a vignette experiment on recruiters’ hiring intentions in sex-segregated occupations	3
Correction	3
The residential patterns of Swiss urban elites: continuity and change across elite categories (1890–2000)	3
Scepticism towards Islam or religiosity? An experimental approach to exploring scepticism towards Muslims in Norway	3
Rallying ‘round the drag: anti-gender mobilization and the mainstreaming of the far right	3
Essential Workers and Wage Inequality: Wage Differentials before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2006 to 2022	3
The effects of female education on child education: a prospective analysis	3
Religion and cultural capital in the UK today: identity, cultural engagement and the prevalence of multiple religious identities	2
Age of entry into early childhood education and care, literacy and reduction of educational inequality in Nordic countries	2
Stratification in parents’ selection of developmentally appropriate books for children: register-based evidence from Danish public libraries	2
Opinion polarization of immigration and EU attitudes between social classes – the limiting role of working class dissensus	2
Inequality at the top. Educational expansion, financial constraints and opportunities of university graduation by social origin	2
Institutional policies and individual decision-making in artistic migrations: the case of Spanish artists and art mediators in the European Union	2
The effect of the month of birth on academic achievement: heterogeneity by social origin and gender	2

Between north and south: decolonial isolationism of Russian social science in the state of war and beyond	2
Different sized belts: family strategies against financial shocks	2
European identity among ethnic majority and ethnic minority students: understanding the role of the school curriculum	2
Family resources and children’s skills: development of a skills attainment model	2
When promises reach boundaries: political participation in post-communist countries	2
(Dis-)Empowerment in context: a proto-evaluative perspective on welfare reform agendas and their impact, North-West and South	2
Women’s empowerment and social innovation in childcare: the case of Barcelona, Spain	2
Self-reported health and coping strategies of Ukrainian female refugees in the Czech Republic	2
Work life complexity no longer on the rise: trends among 1930s–1980s birth cohorts in Sweden	2
In-work poverty in Western Europe. A longitudinal perspective	1
Shifting solidarities: trends and developments in European societies	1
Ukrainian refugee solidarity mobilization online	1
Familial ties and their impact on the class conditions of migrant nurses in the Republic of Ireland	1
Civil society and sense of community in Ukraine: from dormancy to action	1
Increasing Work Intensity to Improve Economic Well-being. An Analysis Across European Countries	1
Is it racism? The belief in cultural superiority across Europe	1
Ukrainian refugee women’s experiences in Poland in the first months of Russian invasion: a qualitative account	1
Parental ages and the intergenerational transmission of education: evidence from Germany, Norway, and the United States	1
How perceived income inequality affects charitable giving and volunteering: assessing four mechanisms	1
Moving into multiculturalism. Multicultural attitudes of socially mobile individuals without a migration background	1
Natives’ and migrants’ employment uncertainty and childbearing during the great recession: a comparison between Italy and Sweden	1
Who gets the blame and who gets the credit? Policing, assistance, and political trust among the Roma in Europe	1
Who blames Brexit for their decision to leave the UK? The departure of skilled Germans from Britain after the referendum	1
A tribute to Agnes Skamballis	1
Cross-border cooperation in the border region of Germany, France, and Luxembourg in times of Covid-19	1
‘Not fighting corruption, but defeating it’: the populism of Zelensky’s Servant of the People in comparative perspective	1
The gendered division of cognitive household labor, mental load, and family–work conflict in European countries	1
Strategies of informal caregivers to adapt paid work	1
Whom do married and divorced parents consider kin?	1
Understanding Ukrainian society before and after the Russian invasion	1
Correction	1
Intra-couple gaps in retirees’ financial resources: Their extent and predictors across Eastern and Western Germany	1
Health selection into migration from Poland to the Netherlands: a matched case–control analysis	1
Transforming European Societies through open access and transparency*	1
Social solidarity with Ukrainian and Syrian refugees in the twitter discourse. A comparison between 2015 and 2022	1
The making of ethnic segregation on the labor market - evidence from a field experiment	1
Siblings’ class destinations: a study of the Norwegian upper class	1
Uneven shifts: the geography of occupational change in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, 1992–2018	1