OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A Partial Simulation Study of Phantom Effects in Multilevel Analysis of School Effects: The Case of School Socioeconomic Composition	156
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	78
Recurrent Multinomial Models for Categorical Sequences	52
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis	51
Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods	36
Evidence of Validity Does not Rule out Systematic Bias: A Commentary on Nomological Noise and Cross-Cultural Invariance	32
Aligning Interviewing with Process Tracing	29
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	28
Using Google Maps to Generate Organizational Sampling Frames	27
When Corporations Are People: Agent Talk and the Development of Organizational Actorhood, 1890–1934	27
Causal Decomposition Analysis With Time-Varying Mediators: Designing Individualized Interventions to Reduce Social Disparities	27
A Primer on Deep Learning for Causal Inference	24
Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed-methods Approach for Large-scale Textual Data	23
The Living Codebook: Documenting the Process of Qualitative Data Analysis	23
The Social Autopsy	19
Sharing Big Video Data: Ethics, Methods, and Technology	18
Addressing Non-ignorable Panel Attrition Using External Population Data: Analysis of Demographic Events From Survey Data	17
Linking Input Inequality and Outcome Inequality	17
Attendance, Completion, and Heterogeneous Returns to College: A Causal Mediation Approach	17
A New Approach to Detecting Cheating in Sensitive Surveys: The Cheating Detection Triangular Model	15
Understanding the “Grievance Studies Affair” Papers and Why They Should Be Reinstated: A Response to Geoff Cole	12
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	11
Video Data Analysis and Police Body-Worn Camera Footage	11
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	10
The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer	9

The Potential for Using a Shortened Version of the Everyday Discrimination Scale in Population Research with Young Adults: A Construct Validation Investigation	9
The Effect of Question Positioning on Data Quality in Web Surveys	9
Estimating Causal Effects of Multi-Valued Treatments Accounting for Network Interference: Immigration Policies and Crime Rates	9
Dynamics of Health Expectancy: An Introduction to the Multiple Multistate Method (MMM)	9
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	9
Theory Building, Case Dependence, and Researchers’ Bounded Rationality: An Illustration From Studies of Innovation Diffusion	9
Estimating the Uncertainty of a Small Area Estimator Based on a Microsimulation Approach	8
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	8
Mobilizing the Masses: Measuring Resource Mobilization on Twitter	8
A Theory of Higher Order Interactions Between Sensitive Variables: Empirical Evidences and an Application to a Variety of Smoking	8
Path Analysis for Binary Random Variables	8
Multiple imputation of partially observed covariates in discrete-time survival analysis	7
Longitudinal QCA: Integrating Time Through Change-Based Intervals (CBIs) and a Flexible Lag Condition (FLC)	7
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	7
Surprising Causes: Propensity-adjusted Treatment Scores for Multimethod Case Selection	7