OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology Compass is 3. 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
The gendered pandemic: The implications of COVID‐19 for work and family	129
When “model minorities” become “yellow peril”—Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the COVID‐19 pandemic	123
The structural roots of food insecurity: How racism is a fundamental cause of food insecurity	56
Beyond resilience: Resistance in the lives of LGBTQ youth	44
Theorizing race and settler colonialism within U.S. sociology	36
Mobile communication and refugees: An analytical review of academic literature	31
Digital technologies and power dynamics in the organization: A conceptual review of remote working and wearable technologies at work	29
Racial/ethnic segregation and health disparities: Future directions and opportunities	29
Black Women's experiences of sexual assault and disclosure: Insights from the margins	23
The racial and colonial dimensions of gentrification	23
What do we mean by broadening participation? Race, inequality, and diversity in tech work	21
Sociological perspectives on artificial intelligence: A typological reading	20
Mother needs a bigger “helper”: A critique of “wine mom” discourse as conformity to hegemonic intensive motherhood	19
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates	19
When class is colorblind: A race‐conscious model for cultural capital research in education	18
Crime and deviance during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Veganism as a lifestyle movement	17
Is there a global super‐bourgeoisie?	16
Is America coming apart? Socioeconomic segregation in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and social networks, 1970–2020	16
Intersectionality and social movements: Intersectional challenges and imperatives in the study of social movements	15
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature	15
Gerontocracy in a comparative perspective: Explaining why political leaders are (almost always) older than their constituents	15
A sociology of counter‐revolution in Egypt	14
Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic	14
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	13

Schools as racialized organizations in policy and practice	13
Black women’s mental health matters: Theoretical perspectives and future directions	13
Intersectionality and coalitions in social movement research—A survey and outlook	13
Children of immigrants as “brokers” in an era of exclusion	13
Can TV shows promote acceptance of sexual and ethnic minorities? A literature review of television effects on diversity attitudes	13
Problematizing the “informal sector”: 50 years of critique, clarification, qualification, and more critique	12
Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality: Second chances or Matthew Effects?	12
More than just a product: Strengthening literature in sociological analysis	12
Sexuality and digital Space	11
The politics of neoliberalism in Latin America: dynamics of resilience and contestation	11
We must do better: Ableism and fatphobia in sociology	10
Unequal effects of disruptive events	10
Food insecurity among college students	10
Healthcare professionals' trust in patients: A review of the empirical and theoretical literatures	10
Black monument matters: Place‐based commemoration and abolitionist memory work	10
Women, work, and opportunities: From neoliberal to feminist mentoring	9
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda	9
Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future	9
What is algorithmic governance?	9
Policing counter‐protest	9
Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice	9
The frontiers of new psychedelic therapies: A survey of sociological themes and issues	9
Toward a multifaceted understanding of Lareau's “sense of entitlement”: Bridging sociological and psychological constructs	8
Coalition‐building and the forging of solidarity across difference and inequality	8
Proposing a sociology of donation: The donation of body parts and products for art, education, research, or treatment	8
In sickness and in health: The politics of public health and their implications during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Homemaking in the public. On the scales and stakes of framing, feeling, and claiming extra‐domestic space as “home”	8
Racial microaggressions: Bridging psychology and sociology and future research considerations	8
Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status	8
How can stigma contribute to our understanding of the formation and mobilization of collective identities in health social movements?	7
Innovation and creativity in creative industries	7
Moving beyond class: A critical review of labor‐environmental conflicts from the global south	7
How social policy impacts inequalities in political efficacy	7
The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans	7
Race and inequality at work: An occupational perspective	7
Disability and climate change: A critical realist model of climate justice	7
Cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters?	7
For a Du Boisian economic sociology	7
Manipulating diversity: How diversity regimes at US universities can reinforce whiteness	6
Reframing the whistleblower in research: Truth‐tellers as whistleblowers in changing cultural contexts	6
Dynamics of an American countermovement: Blue Lives Matter	6
Men, masculinities, and gender‐based violence: The broadening scope of recent research	6
Punishment, support, or discipline? Taking stock of recent debates about homeless governance in neoliberal cities	6
Towards a theoretical understanding of the selfie: A descriptive review	6
Violence against transgender people in the United States: Field growth, data dilemmas, and knowledge gaps	6
The persistence of gendered dating	6
Mobilizing motherhood: The gendered burden of environmental protection	6
Humor and satire in politics: Introducing cultural sociology to the field	6
Freezing time? The sociology of egg freezing	6
Youth underemployment: A review of research on young people and the problems of less(er) employment in an era of mass education	6

What do we know about LGBQ+ college student academic experiences and outcomes?	6
Theorizing race in Hawai‘i: Centering place, indigeneity, and settler colonialism	6
Crossing the finish line? A review of college completion inequality in the United States by race and class	5
Review of Carceral State Studies and Application	5
Unequal foodwork: Situating the sociology of feeding within diet and nutrition disparities	5
Privacy violations and procedural justice in the United States prisons and jails	5
Orania: A white homeland in post‐apartheid South Africa	5
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	5
Neighborhood reputations as symbolic and stratifying mechanisms in the urban hierarchy	5
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	5
The social movement for reproductive justice: Emergence, intersectional strategies, and theory building	5
Everyday terrorism: Campus sexual violence and the neoliberal university	5
Social media as public journalism? Protest reporting in the digital era	5
Neighborhood context and racial/ethnic disparities in judicial processing	5
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	5
Migration and the senses	4
Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐19	4
Shifting categories, changing attitudes: A boundary work approach in the study of attitudes toward migrants	4
Family formation under the law: How immigration laws construct contemporary Latino/a immigrant families in the U.S.	4
Conceptualizing homonationalism: (Re‐)Formulation, application, and debates of expansion	4
Theorizing surveillance and social spacingthroughfootball: The fan‐opticon and beyond	4
Academic parenthood: Navigating structure and culture in an elite occupation	4
Are social movements truly social? The prosocial and antisocial outcomes of social movements	4
The sociology of Catholicism: A review of research and scholarship	4
Political non‐participation in elections, civic life and social movements	4
Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities	4
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives	4
The racialized patterns of police violence: The critical importance of research as praxis	4
A comprehensive review of quantitative research on crime, the built environment, land use, and physical geography	4
Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field	4
User‐generated online queer media and the politics of queer visibility	4
Intersectional oppression: A reflexive dialogue between Muslim academics and their experiences of Islamophobia and exclusion in UK Higher Education	4
The impacts of corruption on forest loss: A review of cross‐national trends	3
The racial state and the violent (re)production of educational inequality	3
Why not? Explaining sympathizers' non‐participation: The example of Hong Kong's 2019 social movement	3
Invisible no more: White racialization and the localness of racial identity	3
Continuity of the “code”: A review of the subcultures and informal social norms in prisons, streets, and schools	3
Racialized parenting in the United States	3
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	3
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families	3
Toward a sociology of family movements: Lessons from the Global South	3
Sibling caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness	3
Marriage matters for Black middle‐class women: A review of Black American marriages, work, and family life	3
Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us	3
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise	3
How do macro‐ and micro‐level changes interact in the emergence of educational outcomes?	3
Working‐class Latina/o youth navigating stratification and inequality: A review of literature	3
Between research and revival. Emerging trends among highly religious young Catholics in Italy	3
An intersectional approach to military sexual violence	3
Social welfare in the light of topic modelling	3
Hegemonic whiteness: Expanding and operationalizing the conceptual framework	3
The family as gender and sexuality factory: A review of the literature and future directions	3
Protecting Black mothers: How the history of midwifery can inform doula activism	3
Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis	3
Global gendered anti‐Black belonging and racial ideology	3