OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Cultural 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The sounds of executions: sonic flaws and the transformation of capital punishment	13
“We love martyrdom, but we also love life”: Coptic cultural trauma between martyrdom and rights	8
Protest Event, Political Culture, and Biography: Post-protest Local Activism in Russia	8
Theorizing the performance of (racialized) difference: the case studies of Asian artists in classical music	7
Culture and poverty from a lifeworld stance: rehabilitating a controversial conceptual pair	7
From reductive to generative crisis: businesspeople using polysemous justifications to make sense of COVID-19	6
Thanks to Reviewers	6
From incorporation to emplacement in the cultural sociology of immigration	5
Ethical dilemmas of minority creative workers in the cultural industries: Palestinian actors in Israeli films and dramas	5
Transforming the sacred: a neo-Durkheimian analysis of the aesthetic modification and cultural resignification of Barcelona’s municipal crèche (1961–2021)	5
Correction: When something is happening but you don’t know what it is: mood and agency after a stolen election	5
Social skills and audience agency in improvised social performance	4
Reading Hong Kong literarily across two generations: localism and translocality	4
When the political tail wags the religious dog, and vice versa. Religion, hegemony, and democracy in contemporary North America	4
The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport	3
Popular transformations: the introduction of an Arab American superhero and negotiation of a popular iconic change in the civil sphere	3
Gliding on the edge of the iron cage: performing rationality and artistry in the sport of figure skating	3
Rapport: affective cultural structures in sociological inquiry	3
Making sense of sibling economic gaps: racialized meritocratic frames, economic inequalities, and family relationships	3
Harry Potter and the ‘Death of the Actor’: reimagining fusion in cultural pragmatics	2
Gifting of Hagia Sophia: icon’s role in extractive sacralization	2
Bushwhacking: accounts as symbolic violence in the arts-based gentrification of Bushwick, Brooklyn	2
The Winding Path, Smith, P. (2020) Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020. Cambridge: Polity	2
A sociology of the “and one!”: the culture of charisma in pickup basketball	2
“We don’t fit at all”: the symbolic boundaries of libertarians connected to the academy	2

Bringing power down to earth: a multidimensional model of power	2
Living in the shadow of market competition: career commitment and orders of worth of social workers in Shanghai	2
From multiculturalism to antisemitism? Revisiting the Jewish question in America	2
Max Weber and China: a defense	2
Capital and distinction or goods and traditions? Toward a post-Bourdieusian cultural theory	2