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

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	33
Solidarity test: challenges of forced LGBTIQ migration and activism in Central-Eastern European countries in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	32
Switch on the Big Brother! Investigating the educational gradients in acceptance of online and public areas surveillance among European citizens	29
EU identity visions and narratives of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in European Schools	26
Settling into uncertainty and risk amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	26
The effects of Muslim immigration and demographic change on group boundaries in Germany	22
Young adult mental health during the United Kingdom’s first COVID-19 lockdown: the benefit of living with parents and siblings	21
Polarizing social figures? Climate activists in German media and popular discourse	19
Ukrainian values: between the Slavic-Orthodox legacy and Europe's allure	19
Class or regional cleavage? The Russian invasion and Ukraine’s ‘East/West’ divide	17
Do they think that joy and misery are temporary? Comparing trajectories of current and predicted life satisfaction across life events	17
Critical racial literacy and public sociology: visibilizing race among local authorities in Ireland	17
No evidence of direct peer influence in upper-secondary track choice—evidence from Hungary	16
Reasons for and consequences of ethnic differences in parental support during the transition to vocational training in Germany	15
No evidence of a major learning slide 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark	15
Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe	15
Integration for whom? The migration bias in social norms	13
The multiverse of social class: a large-scale assessment of macro-level, meso-level and micro-level approaches to class analysis	13
One track mind: secondary effects in school choice and social capital in a stratified system	13
Parental decision-making regarding vaccination: the role of preschool enrolment sanctions, family policies and childcare expectation	13
Does the prospect of further sovereignty loss fuel Euroscepticism? A population-based survey experiment	12
The gendered maths confidence gap, social influence and social integration	12
Situating Muslims’ trust in parliament from a cross-national perspective: Islamic religiosity's impact in Western Europe	12
Reference group effects and parental educational expectations: can big-fish-little-pond effects explain immigrant parents’ high expectations?	12
Greater local supply of language courses improves refugees’ labor market integration	12

Convergence in action: framing the climate crisis at the 2021 Pre-COP counter-summit in Milan	12
Does the nuclear family affect social trust? Longitudinal evidence from Germany	11
Disability, gender, and hiring discrimination: a field experiment	11
Economic voting and state-business relations in OECD countries	11
Successful due to STEM? Labour market returns to STEM qualifications among skilled immigrants in Germany	10
New re-bordering left them alone and neglected: Czech cross-border commuters in German-Czech borderland	10
Motivation in the dynamics of European youth migration	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	8
The timing of parental unemployment, insurance and children's education	8
Symbolic boundary work among Syrian refugees: perceived stigmas, responses, and cultural repertoires	8
An invitation to submit	7
Food insecurity and changes in social citizenship. A comparative study of Rome, Barcelona and Athens	7
‘Stayhome’ as a YouTube performance: representing and reshaping domestic space under the 2020 covid lockdown in Italy	7
Does personality matter? Exploring its moderating role on the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic outgroup-size and preferences for Brexit	7
Housing conditions of single mothers in Europe: the role of housing policies	6
“Escape” from home? The moderating role of sexual orientation on the association between social origin and educational attainment	6
Unequal effects on working time: immigrants’ vulnerability in the German labor market in the early COVID-19 pandemic	6
The geography of intergenerational mobility in Europe	6
Narrowing inequalities through redistribution. A relational inequality approach to female managers and the gender wage gap	6
No one-size-fits-all solution: effects of social policies on in-work poverty	6
The geography of tertiary education inequality in Europe: a within- and cross-country analysis over time	6
Is it possible to outsmart Uber? Individual working tactics within platform work in Poland	6
‘Tell me more…’: the kind of information added influences ethnic discrimination in the Swiss rental housing market	6
Why small ethnic minorities participate in politics: comparing Jews and Poles in Bosnia and Herzegovina	6
A digital principal? Substantive representation in the case of the Italian Five Star Movement	6
How reception centers affect the integration of asylum seekers and recognized refugees	6