OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of RSF-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	51
Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality	32
Listening to the Voices of America	30
The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality	27
Finding Integrated Schools? Latino Families Settle in Diverse Suburbs, 2000–2015	26
Why Reparations? Race and Public Opinion Toward Reparations	21
Hyper-Illegality, Reentry, and Everyday Life in the United States Post-Deportation	20
No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19	19
Settlement Duration Matters: Deportation Threat and Safety Net Participation Among Mixed-Status Families	18
Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data	18
Do Perceptions of Privilege Enhance—or Impede—Perceptions of Intelligence? Evidence from a National Survey Experiment	17
Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes: (Un)desired and (Un)planned Reasons for Changing Childcare Arrangements	17
A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts	16
Social, Resource, and Institution Disruptions and the Evolving Lives of Economically Vulnerable Older Adults: Implications for Policies and Programs in the New Normal	16
Ethnoracial Transformations? Linking Administrative Data to Explain Changes in Identification	15
The Social and Political Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Introduction	15
Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Local Proposals for Black Reparations	15
Inequality and the Status Window: Inequality, Conflict, and the Salience of Status Differences in Conflicts over Resources	14
Living Alone for Black and White Men and Women over Four Decades, 1980–2019	14
Crafting Democratic Futures: Understanding Political Conditions and Racialized Attitudes Toward Black Reparations	14
Movin’ On Up? The Role of Growing Up Rural in Shaping Why Working-Class Men Do—and Don’t—Seek to Improve Their Labor-Market Prospects	14
Growing Up in Rural America	14
“I Used to Get WIC . . . But Then I Stopped”: How WIC Participants Perceive the Value and Burdens of Maintaining Benefits	13
Not Just White Soccer Moms: Voting in Suburbia in the 2016 and 2020 Elections	13
Urgent Returns: The Link Between Family and the Remigration Intentions of Deported Central Americans in an Era of Border Externalization	13

The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020: Continuity, Change, and Implications	12
Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children	12
Catching Up and Coping in the COVID Economy	12
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Educational Attainment	12
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems	12
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions	11
Do Consequences of Parental Job Displacement for Infant Health Vary Across Local Economic Contexts?	11
Sensemaking in the Legal System: A Comparative Case Study of Changes to Monetary Sanction Laws	11
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Latino Immigrants	11
Motivated by Money? Class, Gender, Race, and Workers’ Accounts of Platform-Based Gig Work Participation	11
Life During COVID for Court-Involved People	10
Institutional Capacities, Partisan Divisions, and Federal Tensions in U.S. Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Racial and Ethnic Status Distinctions and Discrimination: The Effects of Prior Contact and Group Interaction	10
Reinforcing the Web of Municipal Courts: Evidence and Implications Post-Ferguson	10
“But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!” How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs	10
Some Surviving, Others Thriving: Inequality in Loss and Coping During the Pandemic	10
Caregiving in a Crisis: Mothers’ Parenting Experiences and the Persistence of Class-Based Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Monetary Sanctions and Symbiotic Harms	9
The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility	9
The Transition from Prison to Community	9
Inequality in the Origins and Experiences of Pain: What “Big (Qualitative) Data” Reveal About Social Suffering in the United States	9
Introduction: The Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19	9
Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-Related Discourse Across Social Class	8
Native Americans and Monetary Sanctions	8
Families’ Job Characteristics and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Differences by Income, Race-Ethnicity, and Nativity	8
How Americans Judge: A Topology of Moral Communities	8
Stalled Progress? Five Decades of Black-White and Rural-Urban Income Gaps	7
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	7
Exploring the Trade-Off Between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneous Responses to Adversity and Disruptive Events Among Disadvantaged Black Youth	7
Depopulation, Deaths, Diversity, and Deprivation: The 4Ds of Rural Population Change	7
COVID-19 and Emergency Rental Assistance: Impact on Rent Arrears, Debt, and the Well-Being of Renters in Philadelphia	7
The “Rise” of Multiracials? Examining the Growth in Multiracial Identification in the 2020 U.S. Census	7
Coming of Age in Appalachia, Emerging or Expedited Adulthood?	7
Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status: Women’s Deference to Men in Wealthy Families	7
“Disconnected” Men: Understanding Men’s Joint Roles as Workers and Romantic Partners	7
The Political Implications of Economic Lives: Listening to AVP Respondents’ Perceptions of Efficacy	6
Rural Kids and Wealth	6
The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity	6
Do Federal Place-Based Policies Improve Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities?	6
Gender Minority Status and Family Inequality in the United States	6
Moving Out to Move Up: Higher Education as a Mobility Pathway in the Rural South	6
The Black Suburban Sort: Is Suburbanization Diversifying Blacks’ Racial Attitudes?	5
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010	5
The Impact of Remote Hearing Policies on Racial Equity in Criminal Case Outcomes During the Pandemic	5
Frontiers of Research on Racial Inequalities in Criminal Justice	5
Introduction	5
Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans	5
The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality	5
“Turning Their Back on Kids”: Inclusions, Exclusions, and the Contradictions of Schooling in Gentrifying Rural Communities	5

Administrative Burdens in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs	5
Growing Up in Rural America	5
Making Sense of Health-Related Labor-Market Exits and Disability: Evidence from the American Voices Project	5
Multiple Meritocracies: A Text-Based Analysis of Personal Narratives Revealing Distinct Frames of Success	5
Representative Voices: Native American Representation, Political Power, and COVID-19 in U.S. States	5
Racial Diversity and Segregation: Comparing Principal Cities, Inner-Ring Suburbs, Outlying Suburbs, and the Suburban Fringe	4
Stepping In and Stepping Away: Variation in How Children Navigate Responsibilities Stemming from Paternal Incarceration	4
Monetary Sanctions and Housing Instability	4
Suffering, the Safety Net, and Disparities During COVID-19	4
Punishing Immigrants: The Consequences of Monetary Sanctions in the Crimmigration System	4
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions	4
New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York	4
A Qualitative Examination of Work, Families, and Schools in Low-Income Latinx Communities During Strict Immigration Enforcement	4
What Makes a Reparation Successful? A Discussion to Inform Design of Reparations to Black Americans	4
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America	4
The Not-So-New South Suburbs: Asian Immigration and the Politics of School Integration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina	4
Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans	4
“We Keep Each Other Safe”: San Francisco Bay Area Community-Based Organizations Respond to Enduring Crises in the COVID-19 Era	4
Future, Interrupted: Examining the Impact of a Large Worksite Enforcement Operation on Students’ Educational and Workforce Pathways	4
Private Probation Costs, Compliance, and the Proportionality of Punishment: Evidence from Georgia and Missouri	4
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness	4
Administrative Burden and the Reproduction of Settler Colonialism: A Case Study of the Indian Child Welfare Act	4