OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sociology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Alan Morris, Kath Hulse and Hal Pawson, The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Living with Uncertainty	22
Stuck between the Global North and South: Middling migrants in Australia and Singapore	20
Decolonising consciousness: Confronting and living with colonial truths in Australia	19
Structural violence of platform capitalism: A case study of online sex workers’ experiences	17
‘I leave most of the decisions up to her:’ Gendered parenting, un/equal decision work, and responsibility for COVID-19 vaccination	16
Making friends with the family: A fresh look at coming out	15
Reckonings with truth: Sovereign truths on Country	14
‘Hey lovely! Don’t miss this opportunity!’ Digital temporalities of wellness culture, email marketing, and the promise of abundance	13
Risk-taking and social inequality	12
Education's economic return in multicultural Australia: Demographic analysis	12
Rural youth in southern Nigeria: Fractured lives and ambitious futures	12
Split nationality households: A strategic response to optimise the citizenship constellations of transnational families	11
Changing the date: Local councils, Australia Day and cultures of national commemoration	10
Interdisciplinarity, art and immaterial labour in the creative economy: Maurizio Lazzarato and the production of value in ArtScience practice	10
Pox populi: Anti-vaxx, anti-politics	10
Youth and hospitality work: Skills, subjectivity and affective labour	9
Towards a minor sociology of futures: Shifting futures in Mass Observation accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
The ‘dead’ as agents of truth-telling: Lessons from Timor-Leste and the Indigenous repatriation movement	8
Book Review: Guy Standing The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class – Special COVID-19 Edition	7
The role of elite education in social reproduction in France, Belgium and Chile: Towards an analytical model	7
‘When you delete Tinder it’s a sign of commitment’: leaving dating apps and the reproduction of romantic, monogamous relationship practices	7
Characterising Australians who have high levels of anger towards Islam and Muslims	7
Institutional prestige, academic supervision and research productivity of international PhD students: Evidence from Chinese returnees	7
Coda: The last cultural capital survey?	6
Tracing the limits of epistemic agency in truth-telling about Australian settler colonialism	6

Introduction: Surveying the survey	6
‘On location’: The realities of precariousness on labour mobility for independent filmmakers in the Australian screen industry	5
Future/tense: A sociology of temporal dis/order	5
Special Issue: What do misinformation practices feel like? Embodiment, health and digital spaces	5
Virtually inclusive: The promises and experiences of women and gender diverse people in virtual production workplaces	5
Book Review: Robin Simmons and Kat Simpson, Education, Work and Social Change in Britain’s Former Coalfield Communities: The Ghost of Coal	5
Everyday refugee integration: A holistic reconceptualization of refugee integration through the everyday practices of Hazara Afghan refugees	5
Historical education and colonial racist violences: A contribution to debates on historic reparations for Black, Afro-descendant people in Colombia	5
‘Artists as workers’? Re-imagining cultural policy for insecure and precarious artists and cultural workers	5
Who is receiving financial transfers from family during young adulthood in Australia?	5
What comes after fields, capitals, habitus? Suggestions for future cultural consumption research in Australia	5
Legitimate culture, field of power, and domination	5
Engineering masculinity: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of trans masculine embodiment in magazines for trans men	4
Gender, doctorate holders, career path, and work–life balance within and outside of academia	4
Exploring trans youths’ future orientations as a product of experiences of dis/affirmation	4
‘People don't trust those pieces of paper that are provided’: A qualitative study of cultural planning and outsourced out-of-home care services in Western Australia	4
Exploring domains of contemporary Australian agrarianism	4
Teaching gender in and through uncertainty	4
Can a basic income help address homelessness? A Titmussian perspective	4
Book Review: Xinyu (Andy) Zhao Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrants: Making and Unmaking Boundaries Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrant	4
Truth Telling and Reconciliation in the Pacific: Solomon Islands' Experience	3
Social change and masculinities: Exploring favourable spaces?	3
Book Review: Paul Cloke, David Conradson, Eric Pawson and Harvey C. Perkins, The post-earthquake city: Disaster and recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand	3
Coloniality and decoloniality in ‘comfort women’ memory activism: Transnational and transgenerational truth-telling practices in Australia	3
How to navigate a pandemic: Competing discourses in The Australian Women's Weekly magazine	3
Book Review: Shanthi Robertson, Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyday Time	3
‘A self-launch to work…’: Exploring students’ use of university clubs in competitive labour markets	3
Re-politicising the future of work: Automation anxieties, universal basic income, and the end of techno-optimism	3
Book Review: Van Luyn and de la Fuente, Regional cultures, economies, and creativity: Innovating through place in Australia and beyond	2
The absorbent digital welfare state: Silencing dissent, steering progress	2
Book Review: Louise Ryan Social Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and Resources	2
The destabilising effect of feminist, queer-inclusion and therapeutic counter-discourse: A feminist poststructuralist account of change in men's friendships	2
Ambivalent presents, open futures: Affective constructions of the future among highly qualified Turkish migrants in Germany	2
Self-segregation strategies through school choice in Chile: A middle-class domain?	2
A basic income for a complex society: Introduction	2
Who enjoys being busy? On busyness as a gendered norm and technology of the self	2
Introduction to the digital welfare state: Contestations, considerations and entanglements	2
Book Review: Romit Chowdhury, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport	2
Digitalisation and the welfare state – how First Nations people experienced digitalised social security under the Cashless Debit Card	2
Cricket and the Beechworth Asylum, 1910–1915: A collective biography	2
Following a straight path? The social locations and sexual identity trajectories of emerging adult women	2
‘This is NOT human services’: Counter-mapping automated decision-making in social services in Australia	2
OBGYNs of TikTok and the role of misinformation in diffractive knowledge production	2
Book Review: Leah Williams Veazey, Migrant mothers in the digital age: Emotion and belonging in migrant maternal online communities	2
From Black squares to White guilt: The influence of Black Lives Matter on non-Indigenous views of the Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia	2
Problematising ‘visa determinism’: Contested and multifaceted migratory identities among student visa holders in Australia	2
The victims, villains and heroes of ‘panic buying’: News media attribution of responsibility for COVID-19 stockpiling	1
Public health pedagogy and digital misinformation: Health professional influencers and the politics of expertise	1
Belonging in England today: Schools, race, class and policy	1
Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health	1

Do-it-yourself lifestyle movements in grassroots activist communities: A case study of Brisbane, Australia	1
Shades of green: Change, continuity and conservation among Tasmanian forestry workers	1
Book Review: Well-being During the Pandemic: Comparative Perspectives from the Global North and South by Christian Suter, Jenny Chesters, and Sandra Fachelli Well-being	1
Book Review: Bronwyn Carlson, Tristan Kennedy, and Madi Day Global Networks of Indigeneity: Peoples, Sovereignty and Futures Global Networks of Indigeneity: Peoples,	1
Promising the earth: Forms of capital promised and pursued in Australian-Chinese research collaborations	1
Beyond swipes: Navigating COVID-19, dating apps and life politics	1
Changing masculinities? Using caring masculinity to analyse social media responses to the decline of men in Australian primary school teaching	1
Book Review: Streaming Sounds: Musical Listening in the Digital Age by Michael James Walsh	1
Preface	1
Younger generations’ expectations regarding artificial intelligence in the job market: Mapping accounts about the future relationship of automation and work	1
Basic income for creative justice: Weathering inequity in the creative industries during COVID-19	1
A matter of time? Institutional timescapes and gendered inequalities in the transition from education to employment in Australia	1
Work and wellbeing in remote Australia: Moving beyond punitive ‘workfare’	1
“The clock is ticking”: (dis)orientations to ageing and end-of-life care in advanced capitalism and care directives	1
Parallel lives or active citizens? Examining the interplay between multicultural service provision and civic engagement in Australia	1
Invisible innovation: Intellectual labour on regional university campuses in Australia	1
The ‘feminisation’ of psychiatric discourse: A Marxist analysis of women’s roles in neoliberal society	1
One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in ‘What I Eat In A Day’ videos	1
International students on the edge: The precarious impacts of financial stress	1
Understanding Covid-19 emergency social security measures as a from of basic income: Lessons from Australia	1