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Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology Compass is 4. 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
Ethical turn in the social sciences	110
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas	67
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries	36
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Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course	30
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation	27
When (Financial) Knowledge Isn't Power: How Race Disrupts Financial Literacy's Relationship to Health Precarity	26
Corporate Educational Philanthropy for Racialized Latin America: A Provocation for More Critical Studies	26
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore	26
School Cultures, Peer Cultures, and Inequality: Gender in K‐12 Schooling	26
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Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families	24
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	23
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach	21
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda	21
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination	20
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury	20
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Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South	17
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Siblings caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness	17
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective	17
Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women	17
An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology	16
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine	16

Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay	15
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions	14
Primary Habitus Formation in Families From the Upper Social Milieus	13
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UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	13
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future	13
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies	12
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers	12
Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey	11
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies	11
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	11
When Gender Roles Turn Into Violence: Perspectives of Women and Men Perpetrators in Türkiye	11
Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity	11
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness	11
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Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐19	10
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise	10
Contain and Callout: A Critical Investigation of SWAT Team Use of Force Reporting and the Limits of Institutional Statistics	10
Everyday Life Within Precarious Working Conditions: A Conceptual Home for the Practical, Subjective and Emotional Actions of Precariousness	10
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Informal Care Work From a Queer Lens: Challenging Heteronormative Paradigms	9
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z	9
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The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide	9
Islamophobia in Everyday Racial Encounters in Barcelona: The Emotional Impact on Maghrebi Communities in Spain	9
Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States	9
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Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University	9
What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives	9
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology	8
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?	8
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”	8
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing	8
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Gender Diversity and the Law in Pakistan: A Critical Review of Criminalization and Social Exclusion of Khawaja Sira/Hijra/Gender X	8
Sociology Compass Editorial 2023	8
The Evolution and Potential of Emotional Healing Design: A Systematic Review With Thematic Analysis	8
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action	8
Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework	7
Femicide: A Need for Orientation	7
Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas	7
The strength of a weak tie in the innovative performance of firms: A case of Korean high‐tech manufacturing small and medium‐sized enterprises	7
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Hacking age	7
Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise	7
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New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	7
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates	7
Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives	7

The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders	6
Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective	6
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Deficit‐Oriented Teacher Beliefs and Student Outcomes in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	6
Protect the land. Poison the sea. An environmental history of the Kirkcudbright Training Area and the firing of depleted uranium by the British Army (1982–2013)	6
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In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies	5
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again	5
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A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation	5
Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development	5
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness	5
The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France	5
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Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism	5
Inside the ivory tower, the view from a “space invader”: An exploratory study into the ways racialized PhD students experience white ignorance in elite universities in the UK	5
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory	5
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education	5
Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach	5
Ethical Analysis of Anomie: From Durkheim to the Digital Age	5
Spatial dynamics of protest: Themes and trajectories	5
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula	5
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames	5
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships	5
Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective	5
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion	5
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics	5
For a Du Boisian economic sociology	4
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The Paradox of Modernity: The Creation of a Tradition of Anti‐Tradition	4
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature	4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation	4
Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere	4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance	4
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach	4
Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis	4
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Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review	4
Rationales for body camera implementation and outcome measures	4
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research	4
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What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family	4
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations	4
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Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world	4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media	4
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	4
Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field	4
A regional approach to militarized riskscapes: An environmental justice analysis of military proximity and air pollution in United States Environmental Protection Agency's regions	4
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Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces	4
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Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities	4
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Research on Social Stratification in Brazil	4
Precarious work: A global perspective	4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	4