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

Article	Citations
Workplace Networks and the Dynamics of Worker Organizing	36
Local Policing and the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented College Students	26
Life-Course Transitions and Political Orientations	20
Rising Educational Divides in Attitudes: How Polarization across Cohorts Can Mask Age-Related Polarization	18
Decomposing Heterogeneity in Inequality of Educational Opportunities: Family Income and Academic Performance in Brazilian Higher Education	17
Predictive Algorithms and Perceptions of Fairness: Parent Attitudes Toward Algorithmic Resource Allocation in K-12 Education	15
Literary Fiction Indicates Early Modernization in China Prior to Western Influence	14
Findings on Summer Learning Loss Often Fail to Replicate, Even in Recent Data	14
Differences in the Risk of Grade Retention for Biracial and Monoracial Students in the United States, 2010 to 2019	14
Who Learns from Deliberative Minipublics? Identity-Based Differences in Knowledge Gains across Thirteen Citizens' Initiative Review Experiments	14
From Metallica to Mozart: Mapping the Cultural Hierarchy of Lifestyle Activities	13
Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables	12
The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century	11
Pathways to Independence: The Dynamics of Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood	11
Opportunities for Faculty Tenure at Globally Ranked Universities: Cross-National Differences by Gender, Fields, and Tenure Status	11
The Religious Work Ethic and the Spirit of Patriarchy: Religiosity and the Gender Gap in Working for Its Own Sake, 1977 to 2018	10
The Stalled Gender Revolution and the Rise of Top Earnings in the United States, 1980 to 2017	10
Breaking Barriers or Persisting Traditions? Fertility Histories, Occupational Achievements, and Intergenerational Mobility of Italian Women	9
Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure	9
“Was It Me or Was It Gender Discrimination?” How Women Respond to Ambiguous Incidents at Work	9
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
Shattered Dreams: Paternal Incarceration, Youth Expectations, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage	8
Differences in Academic Preparedness Do Not Fully Explain Black–White Enrollment Disparities in Advanced High School Coursework	8
The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution	8

Social Status and the Moral Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence	8
Dog Whistles and Work Hours: The Political Activation of Labor Market Discrimination	8
Status Ambiguity and Multiplicity in the Selection of NBA Awards	6
Public Support for the Legalization of Undocumented Immigrants during the 2016 Presidential Campaign	6
Inclusive but Not Integrative: Ethnoracial Boundaries and the Use of Spanish in the Market for Rental Housing	6
Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades	6
Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data	6
The Inequality of Lifetime Pensions	5
The Effect of Workplace Raids on Academic Performance: Evidence from Texas	5
The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States	5
Demographic Change and Group Boundaries in Germany: The Effect of Projected Demographic Decline on Perceptions of Who Has a Migration Background	5
Classed Burdens: Habitus and Administrative Burden during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Institutional Survival under Extreme State Repression and Subsequent Revival	5
Life-Course Differences in Occupational Mobility Between Vocationally and Generally Trained Workers in Germany	5
The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook during the U.S. 2020 Election	4
Emerging Pronoun Practices After the Procedural Turn: Disclosure, Discovery, and Repair	4
Measuring Memberships in Collectives in Light of Developments in Cognitive Science and Natural-Language Processing	4
Education and Social Fluidity: A Reweighting Approach	4
The Intergenerational Reach of Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences: Associations with Children’s Emotional Support and Cognitive Stimulation	4
From Social Alignment to Social Control: Reporting the Taliban in Afghanistan	4
How to Make a Functionalist Argument	4
Schedule Unpredictability and High-Cost Debt: The Case of Service Workers	4
Evolutionary Influences on Assistance to Kin: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics	4
Factorial Survey Experiments to Predict Real-World Behavior: A Cautionary Tale from Hiring Studies	3
Colorism Revisited: The Effects of Skin Color on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States	3
Prejudice, Bigotry, and Support for Compensatory Interventions to Address Black–White Inequalities: Evidence from the General Social Survey, 2006 to 2020	3
Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment	3
Teacher Bias in Assessments by Student Ascribed Status: A Factorial Experiment on Discrimination in Education	3
Prosociality Beyond In-Group Boundaries: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Selection and Intergroup Interactions in a Multiethnic European Metropolis	3
Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class	3
The Causal Impact of Segregation on a Disparity: A Gap-Closing Approach	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
The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom	3
Getting a Foot in the Door: A Meta-Analysis of U.S. Audit Studies of Gender Bias in Hiring	2
Layered Legacies. How Multiple Histories Shaped the Attitudes of Contemporary Europeans	2
What You Need to Know When Estimating Monthly Impact Functions: Comment on Hudde and Jacob, “There’s More in the Data!”	2
Commuting and Gender Differences in Job Opportunities	2
An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences	2
Intergenerational Social Mobility Among the Children of Immigrants in Western Europe: Between Socioeconomic Assimilation and Disadvantage	2
Do Organizational Policies Narrow Gender Inequality? Novel Evidence from Longitudinal Employer–Employee Data	2
How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?	2
When Do Haters Act? Peer Evaluation, Negative Relationships, and Brokerage	2
The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation	2
Marginal Odds Ratios: What They Are, How to Compute Them, and Why Sociologists Might Want to Use Them	2