Sociological Methods & Research

Papers
(The H4-Index of Sociological Methods & Research is 16. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified186
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research95
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework59
Rationale and Methodologies for Surveying Vulnerable Neighborhoods: Lessons From Three Nordic Countries51
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables42
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream36
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning29
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data28
Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions27
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites27
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)26
Suspicion During Fieldwork: Lessons From Ethnographers Suspected of Espionage26
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys22
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research21
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies17
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model17
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations16
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes16
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