OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Societies is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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	36
Settling into uncertainty and risk amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	35
Solidarity test: challenges of forced LGBTIQ migration and activism in Central-Eastern European countries in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	32
EU identity visions and narratives of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in European Schools	32
Young adult mental health during the United Kingdom’s first COVID-19 lockdown: the benefit of living with parents and siblings	28
The effects of Muslim immigration and demographic change on group boundaries in Germany	27
Ukrainian values: between the Slavic-Orthodox legacy and Europe's allure	24
Do they think that joy and misery are temporary? Comparing trajectories of current and predicted life satisfaction across life events	24
Polarizing social figures? Climate activists in German media and popular discourse	22
No evidence of a major learning slide 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	21
Integration for whom? The migration bias in social norms	19
Class or regional cleavage? The Russian invasion and Ukraine’s ‘East/West’ divide	19
Reasons for and consequences of ethnic differences in parental support during the transition to vocational training in Germany	18
No evidence of direct peer influence in upper-secondary track choice—evidence from Hungary	18
One track mind: secondary effects in school choice and social capital in a stratified system	17
Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe	16
Critical racial literacy and public sociology: visibilizing race among local authorities in Ireland	15
Parental decision-making regarding vaccination: the role of preschool enrolment sanctions, family policies and childcare expectation	15
The multiverse of social class: a large-scale assessment of macro-level, meso-level and micro-level approaches to class analysis	15
Greater local supply of language courses improves refugees’ labor market integration	13
The gendered maths confidence gap, social influence and social integration	13
Does the prospect of further sovereignty loss fuel Euroscepticism? A population-based survey experiment	13
Reference group effects and parental educational expectations: can big-fish-little-pond effects explain immigrant parents’ high expectations?	12
Economic voting and state-business relations in OECD countries	11
Situating Muslims’ trust in parliament from a cross-national perspective: Islamic religiosity's impact in Western Europe	11

Motivation in the dynamics of European youth migration	11
Convergence in action: framing the climate crisis at the 2021 Pre-COP counter-summit in Milan	11
Disability, gender, and hiring discrimination: a field experiment	11
The timing of parental unemployment, insurance and children's education	10
Another child? Determinants and timing of fertility for parents of a child with a disability	10
Successful due to STEM? Labour market returns to STEM qualifications among skilled immigrants in Germany	10
Why should I care? Family old-age caregiving and preferences for family or public care provision in France	9
Interconnections between anti-immigration and pronatalist family policy discourse in Hungary	9
The gendered division of paid labour among families of children with disabilities: a comparative approach	9
Symbolic boundary work among Syrian refugees: perceived stigmas, responses, and cultural repertoires	8
Housing conditions of single mothers in Europe: the role of housing policies	8
Narrowing inequalities through redistribution. A relational inequality approach to female managers and the gender wage gap	8
Food insecurity and changes in social citizenship. A comparative study of Rome, Barcelona and Athens	8
Is social heterogeneity in classrooms associated with reduced achievement inequality? The role of help-seeking in peer networks	8
“Escape” from home? The moderating role of sexual orientation on the association between social origin and educational attainment	8
No one-size-fits-all solution: effects of social policies on in-work poverty	8
Unequal effects on working time: immigrants’ vulnerability in the German labor market in the early COVID-19 pandemic	7
Network resources and the gender wage gap: capital differences, return differences, and capital specificity	7
Does personality matter? Exploring its moderating role on the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic outgroup-size and preferences for Brexit	7
Editorial: What we promised, and what we delivered	6
A digital principal? Substantive representation in the case of the Italian Five Star Movement	6
Is it possible to outsmart Uber? Individual working tactics within platform work in Poland	6
Finding a job through social networks: monetary and nonmonetary returns for employed and unemployed job seekers	6
‘Tell me more…’: the kind of information added influences ethnic discrimination in the Swiss rental housing market	6
How reception centers affect the integration of asylum seekers and recognized refugees	6
The geography of tertiary education inequality in Europe: a within- and cross-country analysis over time	6
Automation risks versus skill requirements: occupational determinants of expectations and political preferences in knowledge societies	6