OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sociology 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A sociology of Covid-19	93
A sociology of the Covid-19 pandemic: A commentary and research agenda for sociologists	55
Coronavirus, domestic labour and care: Gendered roles locked down	49
COVID-19/Sociology	42
Subjecting pandemic sport to a sociological procedure	26
Behind the French controversy over the medical treatment of Covid-19: The role of the drug industry	17
Youth, social cohesion and digital life: From risk and resilience to a global digital citizenship approach	17
‘It’s like having one more family member’: Private hospitality, affective responsibility and intimate boundaries within refugee hosting networks	16
Family formation among lalas (lesbians) in urban China: Strategies for forming families and navigating relationships with families of origin	16
Sociology in a crisis: Covid-19 and the colonial politics of knowledge production in Aotearoa New Zealand	15
Textures of diversity: Socio-material arrangements, atmosphere, and social inclusion in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood	15
Decolonising the health and well-being of Aboriginal men in Australia	12
Bodies, non-human matter and the micropolitical production of sociomaterial dis/advantage	12
Marriage equality in Australia: The ‘no’ vote and symbolic violence	11
Claiming ‘anti-white racism’ in Australia: Victimhood, identity, and privilege	11
Family relationships and LGB first homelessness in Australia: What do we know and where should we go?	11
Policy implementation and refugee settlement: The perceptions and experiences of street-level bureaucrats in Launceston, Tasmania	10
Creative arts workers during the Covid-19 pandemic: Social imaginaries in lockdown	10
Affective design and memetic qualities: Generating affect and political engagement through bushfire TikToks	10
The emotional trade-off between meaningful and precarious work in new economies	10
Constructing a sense of home: Older Chinese migrants ageing in a foreign land	10
An agenda for Australian rural sociology: Troubling the white middle-class farming woman	10
Serial migration, multiple belongings and orientations toward the future: The perspective of middle-class migrants in Singapore	10
The thing-power of the Facebook assemblage: Why do users stay on the platform?	9
Hospitality and hostility: The dilemmas of intimate life and refugee hosting	8

Navigating ‘thin’ dating markets: Mid-life repartnering in the era of dating apps and websites	8
Displacements of gender: Research on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy	8
Science under Covid-19’s magnifying glass: Lessons from the first months of the chloroquine debate in the French press	7
A woman’s place is in the ‘home’? Gender-specific hiring patterns in academia in gender-equal Norway	7
Religious diversity, legislation, and Christian privilege	7
Brexit barbarization? The UK leaving the EU as de-civilizing trend	7
Should I use my ‘weak’ social capital or ‘strong’ guanxi? Reviewing and critiquing two theories in the context of Western-Chinese migration	7
One globalisation or many? Risk society in the age of the Anthropocene	7
Conceptualising organisational cultural lag: Marriage equality and Australian sport	7
‘Not in my name’: Empathy and intimacy in volunteer refugee hosting	6
Covid-19 and the civilizing process	6
‘Learning her culture and growing up strong’: Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander fathers, children and the sharing of culture	6
Navigating the ethnic boundary: From ‘in-between’ to plural ethnicities among Thai middle-class migrant women in Hong Kong	6
Ethics in neoliberalism? Parental responsibility and education policy in Chile and Australia	6
Australians’ divergent opinions about Islam and Muslims	6
African migrant women in the aged care sector: Conceptualising experiences of racism, micro-aggressions and Otherness	6
OBGYNs of TikTok and the role of misinformation in diffractive knowledge production	6
Special issue introduction: Post-national formations and cosmopolitanism	6
‘What do bisexuals look like? I don’t know!’ Visibility, gender, and safety among plurisexuals	6
Institutional prestige, academic supervision and research productivity of international PhD students: Evidence from Chinese returnees	5
A call to rethink the Global North university: Mobilising disabled students’ experiences through the encounter of Critical Disability Studies and Epistemologies of the South	5
‘Wir schaffen das’: Hope and hospitality beyond the humanitarian border	5
Transcultural capital and emergent identities among migrant youth	5
One person, three identities? Examining re-politicization of ethnic, national, and Australian identities among 1.5-generation Taiwanese immigrants in Australia	5
Promoting healthy futures in a rural refugee resettlement location: A community-based participatory research intervention	5
The role of elite education in social reproduction in France, Belgium and Chile: Towards an analytical model	5
LGBTIQ+ break-up assemblages: At the end of the rainbow	5
Angry youth or realistic idealist? The formation of subjectivity in online political participation of young adults in urban China	5
Reframing the rural experience in Aotearoa New Zealand: Incorporating the voices of the marginalised	4
Pox populi: Anti-vaxx, anti-politics	4
Religious diversity through a super-diversity lens: National, sub-regional and socio-economic religious diversities in Melbourne	4
Clothing and identity: Chinese rural students’ embodied transformations in the urban university	4
‘Let fa’afafine shine like diamonds’: Balancing accommodation, negotiation and resistance in gender-nonconforming Samoans’ counter-hegemony	4
Women who ‘talk the tools’ and ‘walk the work’: Using capital to do gender differently and re-gender the skilled trades	4
Young, unauthorised and Black: African unaccompanied minors and becoming an adult in Italy	4
Rural youth in southern Nigeria: Fractured lives and ambitious futures	4
The moral and political economy of suicide prevention	4
New mothers and social support: A mixed-method study of young mothers in Australia	4
Imagining the future: Social struggles, the post-national domain and major contemporary social transformations	4
Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health	4
Belonging in England today: Schools, race, class and policy	4
Meaningful work in late modernity: An introduction	4
The isolating side effect of civic participation	3
Re-imagining the world: Australians’ engagement with postnationalism, or Why the nation is the problem	3
Complex data and simple instructions: Social regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Measuring happiness in the social sciences: An overview	3
State of normality: Transnational migrants’ shifting views of state institutions and their obligations	3
Post-national belongings, cosmopolitan becomings and mediating mobilities	3
Social enterprises and community wellbeing in regional Australia	3
Post-nationalism, sovereignty and the state	3

Research productivity of sociology PhD candidates at interdisciplinary schools of social science at elite Australian universities, 2013–17: A gender perspective	3
Producing the self: Digitisation, music-making and subjectivity	3
The victims, villains and heroes of ‘panic buying’: News media attribution of responsibility for COVID-19 stockpiling	3
Career volunteering as good work in do-it-yourself heritage institutions: A serious leisure perspective	3
Pride, belonging and community: What does this mean if you are Aboriginal and LGBT+ and living in Western Australia?	3
Sexual orientation and life satisfaction	3
Experiences of and responses to disempowerment, violence, and injustice within the relational lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people	3
Education and the production of inequalities across the Global South and North	3
The digital racist fellowship behind the anti-Aboriginal internet memes	3
Pathways to precarity: Work, financial insecurity and wage dependency among Australia’s retrenched auto workers	3
Motivators, facilitators, and barriers to blood donation in Australia by people from ethnic minority groups: Perspectives of sub-Saharan African, East/South-East Asian, and Melanesian/Polynesian blood	3
‘When I look in the bathroom mirror, I see all the women standing behind me’: An evaluation of a leadership development program for women in STEMM	2
Migrant residential concentrations and socio-economic disadvantage in two Australian gateway cities	2
Characterising Australians who have high levels of anger towards Islam and Muslims	2
The political signification of riots: A dispositive perspective on the 2011 England riots	2
Permission, obedience, and continuities: A contribution to the sociological theory of genocidal processes	2
Agri-food scholarship: Past, present and future contributions to Australasian rural sociology	2
Burning out in emotional capitalism: Appropriation of ganqing and renqing in the Chinese platform economy	2
Existential advertising in late modernity: Meaningful work in higher education advertisements	2
One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in ‘What I Eat In A Day’ videos	2
LGBTQ+ non-discrimination and religious freedom in the context of government-funded faith-based education, social welfare, health care, and aged care	2
International students on the edge: The precarious impacts of financial stress	2
Writing national histories of sociology: Methods, approaches and visions	2
Changing the date: Local councils, Australia Day and cultures of national commemoration	2
Public health pedagogy and digital misinformation: Health professional influencers and the politics of expertise	2
The role of an equity policy in the reproduction of social inequalities: High School Ranking and university admissions in Chile	2
Not that old person: Older people’s responses to ageism revealed through digital storytelling	2
Addressing the silence: Utilising salon workers to respond to family violence	2
Understanding Covid-19 emergency social security measures as a from of basic income: Lessons from Australia	2
Loneliness and housing tenure: Older private renters and social housing tenants in Australia	2
Globalisation, postnationalism and Australia	2
Paradigmatic upgrading of social innovation studies	2
Migrant children in a Chilean school: Habitus, discourses and otherness	2
The state of the discipline: Australian sociology and its future	2
The trope of the vulnerable child in conditional welfare discourses: An Australian case study	2
Introduction to the special issue – Imagining rural futures in times of uncertainty and possibility: Progressing a transformative research agenda for rural sociology	2