Sociological Methods & Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Sociological Methods & Research is 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research268
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified155
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream80
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies60
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework59
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning44
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables42
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data32
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)31
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys20
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies19
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research18
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes17
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model16
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models15
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations15
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites15
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention14
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–202013
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula13
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate13
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat12
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery12
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric11
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate11
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic11
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study11
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey11
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily11
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages10
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study10
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research10
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition9
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision9
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork,8
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood8
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models8
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery7
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement7
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference7
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?7
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility7
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions7
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