OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Science 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Workplace Networks and the Dynamics of Worker Organizing	33
Rising Educational Divides in Attitudes: How Polarization across Cohorts Can Mask Age-Related Polarization	27
Predictive Algorithms and Perceptions of Fairness: Parent Attitudes Toward Algorithmic Resource Allocation in K-12 Education	21
Decomposing Heterogeneity in Inequality of Educational Opportunities: Family Income and Academic Performance in Brazilian Higher Education	17
Differences in the Risk of Grade Retention for Biracial and Monoracial Students in the United States, 2010 to 2019	16
Life-Course Transitions and Political Orientations	16
Who Learns from Deliberative Minipublics? Identity-Based Differences in Knowledge Gains across Thirteen Citizens' Initiative Review Experiments	15
Findings on Summer Learning Loss Often Fail to Replicate, Even in Recent Data	14
Pathways to Independence: The Dynamics of Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood	14
Opportunities for Faculty Tenure at Globally Ranked Universities: Cross-National Differences by Gender, Fields, and Tenure Status	13
The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century	12
From Metallica to Mozart: Mapping the Cultural Hierarchy of Lifestyle Activities	10
Literary Fiction Indicates Early Modernization in China Prior to Western Influence	10
Breaking Barriers or Persisting Traditions? Fertility Histories, Occupational Achievements, and Intergenerational Mobility of Italian Women	10
Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables	10
“Was It Me or Was It Gender Discrimination?” How Women Respond to Ambiguous Incidents at Work	9
Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure	9
The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution	8
Some Birds Have Mixed Feathers: Bringing the Multiracial Population into the Study of Race Homophily	8
Examining Attitudes toward Asians throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic with Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey Experiments	8
Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades	7
Social Status and the Moral Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence	7
Public Support for the Legalization of Undocumented Immigrants during the 2016 Presidential Campaign	7
Differences in Academic Preparedness Do Not Fully Explain Black–White Enrollment Disparities in Advanced High School Coursework	7
Inclusive but Not Integrative: Ethnoracial Boundaries and the Use of Spanish in the Market for Rental Housing	6

Fathers’ Military Service and Children’s College Attainment	6
Classed Burdens: Habitus and Administrative Burden during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
The Effect of Workplace Raids on Academic Performance: Evidence from Texas	6
Shattered Dreams: Paternal Incarceration, Youth Expectations, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage	6
Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data	6
Status Ambiguity and Multiplicity in the Selection of NBA Awards	6
Life-Course Differences in Occupational Mobility Between Vocationally and Generally Trained Workers in Germany	5
The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States	5
Institutional Survival under Extreme State Repression and Subsequent Revival	5
The Inequality of Lifetime Pensions	5
How to Make a Functionalist Argument	5
The Intergenerational Reach of Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences: Associations with Children’s Emotional Support and Cognitive Stimulation	4
There Is Cumulative Status Bias and Status Entrenchment in NBA Awards: Comment on McMahan and Shor (2024)	4
The Effect of the Texas Migrant Busing Program on the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election	3
Making Progress in the Chicago Police Department, 1862–2024	3
Teacher Bias in Assessments by Student Ascribed Status: A Factorial Experiment on Discrimination in Education	3
Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection	3
Colorism Revisited: The Effects of Skin Color on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States	3
The Causal Impact of Segregation on a Disparity: A Gap-Closing Approach	3
An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences	3
Emerging Pronoun Practices After the Procedural Turn: Disclosure, Discovery, and Repair	3
The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook during the U.S. 2020 Election	3
From Social Alignment to Social Control: Reporting the Taliban in Afghanistan	3
The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom	3
Factorial Survey Experiments to Predict Real-World Behavior: A Cautionary Tale from Hiring Studies	3
Prosociality Beyond In-Group Boundaries: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Selection and Intergroup Interactions in a Multiethnic European Metropolis	3
Evolutionary Influences on Assistance to Kin: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics	3
Does Unprecedented Mass Immigration Fuel Ethnic Discrimination? A Two-Wave Field Experiment in the German Housing Market	3
The Effect of Workplace Raids on Academic Performance: Evidence from Texas	3
Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment	3
Getting a Foot in the Door: A Meta-Analysis of U.S. Audit Studies of Gender Bias in Hiring	2
The Cultural and Symbolic Foundations of Status Hierarchies: A Rejoinder to Biegert, Kühhirt, and Van Lanker	2
Intergenerational Social Mobility Among the Children of Immigrants in Western Europe: Between Socioeconomic Assimilation and Disadvantage	2
’13 Reasons Why’ Probably Increased Emergency Room Visits for Self-Harm among Teenage Girls	2
Eurythmics or Xenakis? Cultural Tastes (Are Not Made of Genes): Comment on Jæger and Møllegaard, “Where Do Cultural Tastes Come From? Genes, Environments, or Experiences”	2
Jargonization, Language Development, and Team Performance	2
When Do Haters Act? Peer Evaluation, Negative Relationships, and Brokerage	2
What You Need to Know When Estimating Monthly Impact Functions: Comment on Hudde and Jacob, “There’s More in the Data!”	2
Do Organizational Policies Narrow Gender Inequality? Novel Evidence from Longitudinal Employer–Employee Data	2
Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities at Work	2
Using Machine Learning to Uncover the Semantics of Concepts: How Well Do Typicality Measures Extracted from a BERT Text Classifier Match Human Judgments of Genre Typicality?	2
Straight Jacket: The Implications of Multidimensional Sexuality for Relationship Quality and Stability	2
How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?	2
Layered Legacies. How Multiple Histories Shaped the Attitudes of Contemporary Europeans	2
The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation	2
Commuting and Gender Differences in Job Opportunities	2
Marginal Odds Ratios: What They Are, How to Compute Them, and Why Sociologists Might Want to Use Them	2
Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity	2
Ethno-nationalism and Right-Wing Extremist Violence in the United States, 2000 through 2018	2