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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Protest Event, Political Culture, and Biography: Post-protest Local Activism in Russia	18
Thanks to Reviewers	11
Culture and poverty from a lifeworld stance: rehabilitating a controversial conceptual pair	10
“We love martyrdom, but we also love life”: Coptic cultural trauma between martyrdom and rights	8
Theorizing the performance of (racialized) difference: the case studies of Asian artists in classical music	8
Thanks to Reviewers	7
Ethical dilemmas of minority creative workers in the cultural industries: Palestinian actors in Israeli films and dramas	6
Transforming the sacred: a neo-Durkheimian analysis of the aesthetic modification and cultural resignification of Barcelona’s municipal crèche (1961–2021)	6
When the political tail wags the religious dog, and vice versa. Religion, hegemony, and democracy in contemporary North America	6
From incorporation to emplacement in the cultural sociology of immigration	6
Reading Hong Kong literarily across two generations: localism and translocality	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	5
Popular transformations: the introduction of an Arab American superhero and negotiation of a popular iconic change in the civil sphere	4
The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport	4
Living in the shadow of market competition: career commitment and orders of worth of social workers in Shanghai	4
Rapport: affective cultural structures in sociological inquiry	4
Making sense of sibling economic gaps: racialized meritocratic frames, economic inequalities, and family relationships	4
From multiculturalism to antisemitism? Revisiting the Jewish question in America	3
Harry Potter and the ‘Death of the Actor’: reimagining fusion in cultural pragmatics	3
Gliding on the edge of the iron cage: performing rationality and artistry in the sport of figure skating	3
Gifting of Hagia Sophia: icon’s role in extractive sacralization	3
“We don’t fit at all”: the symbolic boundaries of libertarians connected to the academy	3
The Winding Path, Smith, P. (2020) Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020. Cambridge: Polity	2
Appropriating the civil sphere: the construction of German collective identity by right-wing populist actors during the Covid-19 pandemic	2

A new cultural sociological approach to social movements: cultural pragmatics, iconicity, and the transformation of the Hong Kong Palace Museum into a symbol of authoritarian power	2
Max Weber and China: a defense	2
Capital and distinction or goods and traditions? Toward a post-Bourdieusian cultural theory	2
Bringing power down to earth: a multidimensional model of power	2
The resurgence of antisemitism: insights from cultural sociology	2
The mobilization of “a difficult past” in narrating the Russian invasion of Ukraine by the German and Italian backlash	2
Stigma management, group interaction, and cultural trauma: a Rwanda–Germany comparison	2
Sonic double consciousness: public radio voices of color	2
Discursive combat: the question of Palestine	2
Correction: How to divide people with things: division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy	2
Write it out loud? Civil engagement through reading fiction	2
Why do states discriminate between refugee groups? Understanding how Syrian and Ukrainian refugees were framed in Germany and Poland	2
A sociology of the “and one!”: the culture of charisma in pickup basketball	2
The many faces of race: toward a global cultural sociology of co-descent	2