OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Societies is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Settling into uncertainty and risk amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	30
Are there limits to empathy? A survey experiment on empathic concern and perspective-taking as bases for attitudes towards different groups of refugees	28
Switch on the Big Brother! Investigating the educational gradients in acceptance of online and public areas surveillance among European citizens	28
Solidarity test: challenges of forced LGBTIQ migration and activism in Central-Eastern European countries in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	23
EU identity visions and narratives of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in European Schools	21
The effects of Muslim immigration and demographic change on group boundaries in Germany	19
Ukrainian values: between the Slavic-Orthodox legacy and Europe's allure	17
Young adult mental health during the United Kingdom’s first COVID-19 lockdown: the benefit of living with parents and siblings	16
Do they think that joy and misery are temporary? Comparing trajectories of current and predicted life satisfaction across life events	16
Polarizing social figures? Climate activists in German media and popular discourse	15
Class or regional cleavage? The Russian invasion and Ukraine’s ‘East/West’ divide	14
Integration for whom? The migration bias in social norms	14
Greater local supply of language courses improves refugees’ labor market integration	14
No evidence of direct peer influence in upper-secondary track choice—evidence from Hungary	14
Reasons for and consequences of ethnic differences in parental support during the transition to vocational training in Germany	13
Critical racial literacy and public sociology: visibilizing race among local authorities in Ireland	12
The multiverse of social class: a large-scale assessment of macro-level, meso-level and micro-level approaches to class analysis	12
Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe	12
One track mind: secondary effects in school choice and social capital in a stratified system	12
Parental decision-making regarding vaccination: the role of preschool enrolment sanctions, family policies and childcare expectation	11
No evidence of a major learning slide 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	11
Reference group effects and parental educational expectations: can big-fish-little-pond effects explain immigrant parents’ high expectations?	10
Does the prospect of further sovereignty loss fuel Euroscepticism? A population-based survey experiment	10
Situating Muslims’ trust in parliament from a cross-national perspective: Islamic religiosity's impact in Western Europe	10
The gendered maths confidence gap, social influence and social integration	10

Economic voting and state-business relations in OECD countries	10
Disability, gender and hiring discrimination: a field experiment	9
Convergence in action: framing the climate crisis at the 2021 Pre-COP counter-summit in Milan	9
Does the nuclear family affect social trust? Longitudinal evidence from Germany	9
The timing of parental unemployment, insurance and children's education	8
Successful due to STEM? Labour market returns to STEM qualifications among skilled immigrants in Germany	8
Symbolic boundary work among Syrian refugees: perceived stigmas, responses, and cultural repertoires	7
New re-bordering left them alone and neglected: Czech cross-border commuters in German-Czech borderland	7
Motivation in the dynamics of European youth migration	7
Interconnections between anti-immigration and pronatalist family policy discourse in Hungary	6
Food insecurity and changes in social citizenship. A comparative study of Rome, Barcelona and Athens	6
“Escape” from home? The moderating role of sexual orientation on the association between social origin and educational attainment	6
Does personality matter? Exploring its moderating role on the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic outgroup-size and preferences for Brexit	6
‘Stayhome’ as a YouTube performance: representing and reshaping domestic space under the 2020 covid lockdown in Italy	6
Why small ethnic minorities participate in politics: comparing Jews and Poles in Bosnia and Herzegovina	5
An invitation to submit	5
Housing conditions of single mothers in Europe: the role of housing policies	5
Support for Ukrainian refugees after Russia's invasion of Ukraine: aid structure and resilience factors. Case studies of Lublin and Lutsk	5
A digital principal? Substantive representation in the case of the Italian Five Star Movement	5
Narrowing inequalities through redistribution. A relational inequality approach to female managers and the gender wage gap	5
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
Employees’ perceptions of co-workers’ internal promotion penalties: the role of gender, parenthood and part-time	5
‘Tell me more…’: the kind of information added influences ethnic discrimination in the Swiss rental housing market	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
The geography of tertiary education inequality in Europe: a within- and cross-country analysis over time	5
Immigrant generation and religiosity: a study of Christian immigrant groups in 33 European countries	5
Undeserving heirs: how the origins of wealth shape attitudes towards redistribution	4
Migrant workers’ representation and the appeal of independent grassroots unionism: insights from Britain and Italy	4
Shortfalls of deliberative democracy in Georgia: the analysis of the General Assembly of a Settlement	4
Rallying ‘round the drag: anti-gender mobilization and the mainstreaming of the far right	4
Gender and unemployment: a vignette experiment on recruiters’ hiring intentions in sex-segregated occupations	4
The forced migration from Ukraine after the full scale Russian invasion: dynamics and decision making drivers	4
Biopower in the age of the pandemic: the politics of COVID-19 in Denmark	4
Scepticism towards Islam or religiosity? An experimental approach to exploring scepticism towards Muslims in Norway	4
Is the association between long-term care and subjective well-being socio-economically stratified? Evidence from Europe	4
School segregation and native flight: evidence from school catchment area borders	4
The effects of female education on child education: a prospective analysis	3
Essential workers and wage inequality: wage differentials before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, 2006 to 2022	3
Between north and south: decolonial isolationism of Russian social science in the state of war and beyond	3
Women’s empowerment and social innovation in childcare: the case of Barcelona, Spain	3
When promises reach boundaries: political participation in post-communist countries	3
Ukrainian-American non-profits in 2014–2022: constructing diasporic Ukrainian identity through personal and collective narratives	3
(Dis-)Empowerment in context: a proto-evaluative perspective on welfare reform agendas and their impact, North-West and South	3
Correction	3
The effect of the month of birth on academic achievement: heterogeneity by social origin and gender	3
Different sized belts: family strategies against financial shocks	3
The residential patterns of Swiss urban elites: continuity and change across elite categories (1890–2000)	3
Return to the South: economic (re)integration of return migrants, internal migrants, and nonmigrants in post-recession Spain of the 2010s	3

Age of entry into early childhood education and care, literacy and reduction of educational inequality in Nordic countries	3
Opinion polarization of immigration and EU attitudes between social classes – the limiting role of working class dissensus	3
Tracing the evolution of preschool’s impact on education over a century: Spain, 1900-1973	3
Stratification in parents’ selection of developmentally appropriate books for children: register-based evidence from Danish public libraries	3
Union democracy from below: social media, gender, and online grassroots activism	2
Work life complexity no longer on the rise: trends among 1930s–1980s birth cohorts in Sweden	2
Does more knowledge on anti-discrimination law relate to more support for anti-discrimination policy on the rental housing market?	2
Religion and cultural capital in the UK today: identity, cultural engagement and the prevalence of multiple religious identities	2
Is it racism? The belief in cultural superiority across Europe	2
Inequality at the top. Educational expansion, financial constraints and opportunities of university graduation by social origin	2
Cross-border cooperation in the border region of Germany, France, and Luxembourg in times of Covid-19	2
Family resources and children’s skills: development of a skills attainment model	2
Intra-couple gaps in retirees’ financial resources: their extent and predictors across Eastern and Western Germany	2
Institutional policies and individual decision-making in artistic migrations: the case of Spanish artists and art mediators in the European Union	2
Who blames Brexit for their decision to leave the UK? The departure of skilled Germans from Britain after the referendum	2
What is the effect of providing information about the science behind vaccination? A population-based survey-experiment on support for the MMR vaccine	2
Self-reported health and coping strategies of Ukrainian female refugees in the Czech Republic	2
Civil society and sense of community in Ukraine: from dormancy to action	2
Ukrainian refugee solidarity mobilization online	2
European identity among ethnic majority and ethnic minority students: understanding the role of the school curriculum	2