OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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Knowledge, boundaries, and bodies: Social construction between medical sociology and science and technology studies	31
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas	29
Ethical turn in the social sciences	26
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore	25
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries	25
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda	24
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach	24
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation	23
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families	22
Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course	22
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions	22
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Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South	19
An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology	19
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions	18
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective	18
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Siblings caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness	17
Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay	17
Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women	15
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination	15

Manipulating diversity: How diversity regimes at US universities can reinforce whiteness	15
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine	15
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury	14
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda	14
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis	14
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness	13
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies	13
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences	13
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Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey	12
Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity	12
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers	12
Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐19	12
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies	11
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future	11
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The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide	10
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University	9
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing	9
What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives	9
Teaching & learning guide for cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters	9
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z	9
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology	9
Femicide: A Need for Orientation	9
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”	9
Sociology Compass Editorial 2023	9
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?	8
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Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action	8
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise	8
The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans	8
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour	7
Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives	7
Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas	7
Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise	7
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism	7
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Hacking age	7
Experiences of white‐collar job loss and job‐searching in the United States	7
Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective	7
Maintenance work: Interrogating the sociology of art	7
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames	7
The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders	7
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates	7
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Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework	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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The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France	6
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics	6
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula	6
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again	6
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education	6
The institution of medicine and transgender identity construction: Between a doc and a hard place	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
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness	6
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	6
Spatial dynamics of protest: Themes and trajectories	6
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Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development	6
In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies	6
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The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships	5
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research	5
Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach	5
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion	5
Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis	5
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach	5
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory	5
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A regional approach to militarized riskscapes: An environmental justice analysis of military proximity and air pollution in United States Environmental Protection Agency's regions	5
For a Du Boisian economic sociology	5
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives	4
Research on Social Stratification in Brazil	4
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces	4
Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective	4
Rationales for body camera implementation and outcome measures	4
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation	4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation	4
What makes a developmental network state durable?	4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media	4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance	4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe	4
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Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review	4
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world	4
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach	4
Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
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Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations	4
Precarious work: A global perspective	4
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature	4
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Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field	4
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Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere	4
What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family	4