Sociology and Political Science papers

Pofolia’s corpus holds 115 papers from Sociology and Political Science (2011–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.

At a glance

• Most cited: PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation (2018, 41,247 citations).
• The 20 papers listed have 220,526 citations between them.
• 5 of the 5 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
• 3 have a free full text (open access).
• Most frequent journals: Cambridge University Press eBooks, Stanford University Press eBooks, Annals of Internal Medicine.
• Published between 2012 and 2020.

Most cited

Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals

• PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

  Annals of Internal Medicine · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 3112.55 · 41,247 citations

  A new PRISMA-ScR checklist with 20 essential and 2 optional reporting items has been developed to improve the methodological and reporting quality of scoping reviews.

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• Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste*

  2018 · FWCI 6638.83 · 20,382 citations

  Taste is not merely personal preference but a social tool used to assert distinction from the working class and its basic needs, particularly through the consumption of luxury versus necessity goods.

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• Exchange and Power in Social Life

  2017 · FWCI 775.16 · 13,647 citations

  Peter M. Blau's foundational 1964 work analyzes how social life organizes into complex structures by examining individual and group relations through the lens of exchange, reciprocity, imbalance, and power.

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• Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

  2020 · FWCI 2750.51 · 13,492 citations

  In late modernity, the self is a "reflexive project" where individuals actively construct their identity through lifestyle choices, rather than inheriting it from tradition.

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• Saturation in qualitative research: exploring its conceptualization and operationalization

  Quality & Quantity · 2017 · Q1 · FWCI 1122.15 · 11,771 citations · Open access

  This paper identifies four distinct approaches to conceptualizing and operationalizing 'saturation' in qualitative research, highlighting the inherent uncertainty in its predictive logic.

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• Climate Change 2014 Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2014 · FWCI 577.03 · 11,266 citations

  This abstract describes the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a standard reference for climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.

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• Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide

  BMJ · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 941.13 · 10,625 citations · Open access

  A new 12-item TIDieR checklist and guide has been developed by experts to standardize and improve the reporting of intervention details in research.

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• Capital: A Critique of Political Economy

  2020 · FWCI 4900.55 · 9,951 citations

  Marx's unfinished Volume III of Das Kapital controversially argues that market economies are inherently doomed to worsening crises and eventual collapse, regardless of interventions.

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• Selections from the prison notebooks

  2020 · FWCI 2104.45 · 9,794 citations

  This abstract argues that the common distinction between 'intellectuals' and 'non-intellectuals' is based on the immediate social function and weighting of professional activity, not a strict dichotomy.

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• Parental Investment and Sexual Selection

  2017 · FWCI 1785.48 · 9,546 citations

  This paper argues that the adult sex ratio is often viewed incorrectly as an independent variable driving species adaptations, when it is instead a consequence of parental investment and sexual selection mechanisms.

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• The spread of true and false news online

  Science · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 10.00 · FWCI 1672.56 · 8,459 citations

  False news stories spread significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than true news on Twitter, with the effect being most pronounced for political falsehoods.

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• Economic Growth and Income Inequality

  2019 · FWCI 3980.46 · 8,164 citations

  Simon Kuznets's 1954 presidential address introduced the "inverted U curve" hypothesis, suggesting income inequality initially rises with industrialization and then declines.

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• Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2012 · FWCI 643.07 · 7,291 citations

  Extreme weather events, amplified by climate change, interact with vulnerable systems to create disasters, with disaster risk influenced by both event changes and evolving exposure/vulnerability.

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• Homo Sacer

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020 · FWCI 454.96 · 7,048 citations

  This work connects philosophical concepts of pure possibility, potentiality, and power to political and social ethics.

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• Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

  The MIT Press eBooks · 2017 · FWCI 3157.12 · 6,979 citations

  Technology is reshaping traditional humanities by introducing a 'convergence culture' where old and new media interact, leading to new social skills, ethics, and economic models.

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• Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election

  The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 8.00 · FWCI 1436.97 · 6,596 citations · Open access

  In the 2016 US election, social media was a significant, though not primary, news source, with fake news favoring Trump shared 30 million times on Facebook compared to 8 million for Clinton.

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• Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci

  2015 · FWCI 1070.68 · 6,362 citations

  This volume presents a foundational selection of Antonio Gramsci's influential Prison Notebooks, offering key texts on political theory, ideology, and culture.

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• Critical race theory: an introduction

  Choice Reviews Online · 2013 · 6,076 citations

  This work serves as the first concise primer on Critical Race Theory (CRT), a school of thought arguing race is central to American life, from two of its founders.

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• Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials

  2012 · FWCI 1498.33 · 6,045 citations

  This book presents a comprehensive overview of qualitative research methodologies, covering data collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation.

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• Dialectic of Enlightenment

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020 · FWCI 187.25 · 5,785 citations

  This is a new translation of a foundational Frankfurt School text that analyzes how Enlightenment ideals paradoxically led to modern barbarism.

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Recently added

• Bourdieu in Greenland: coloniality of distinction and the geographies of cultural capital in student migration

  Ethnic and Racial Studies · 2026 · Q1 · FWCI 15.04 · 1 citations

  Student migration from Greenland to Denmark reproduces colonial hierarchies, indexing the 'exchange rate' of cultural capital to North-Atlantic postcolonial asymmetries.

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• Generative debunking of climate misinformation

  Climatic Change · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 15.06 · 1 citations · Open access

  A novel "generative debunking" approach uses large language models (LLMs) to automatically counter climate misinformation by synthesizing LLMs with misinformation taxonomies and fallacy detection.

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• Beyond deliberation: Why we need affect for ecological democracy

  Environmental Values · 2026 · Q1 · FWCI 15.06 · 1 citations

  Environmental democracy theorists must incorporate affect and emotions, as current deliberative models overlook their role in ecological crises and policy framing.

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• The security imperative: how crime conditions the electoral effects of inequality in Latin America

  Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy · 2026 · Q1

  Crime amplifies inequality's effect on voting, shifting support from left parties (low crime) to right parties (high crime) in Latin American executive elections (1990-2018).

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• Transnationality as practice. An analytical proposal for applying Bourdieu in transnational studies

  Ethnic and Racial Studies · 2026 · Q1 · FWCI 45.19 · 3 citations · Open access

  A new framework, drawing on Bourdieu's theory, analyzes migrant transnationality by mapping individuals' resources and social capital, revealing five distinct transnational lifestyles and challenging individualistic views of migrant communities.

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• Middle-class locations: emplacements and displacements of habitus among the French in London

  Ethnic and Racial Studies · 2026 · Q1 · FWCI 45.19 · 3 citations

  Middle-class French citizens in London are 'sideways migrants' who experience 'dislocations of habitus' as they navigate transversal mobility to maintain status, according to a longitudinal ethnographic study of four women.

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• Transnational positioning of habitus: the importance of the temporal aspect

  Ethnic and Racial Studies · 2026 · Q1 · FWCI 60.25 · 4 citations · Open access

  Migrants' social repositioning across transnational fields is significantly shaped by temporal dimensions, including past trajectories, present circumstances, and future aspirations, interacting with evolving temporal structures and recognition inequalities.

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• Predictors and prevalence of support for white nationalism in the United States

  Nature · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 19.00 · FWCI 15.06 · 1 citations · Open access

  Support for white nationalism among non-Hispanic white adults in the US is higher among those experiencing personal hardship and local social distress, and those with close online friendships, but unrelated to local racial composition.

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