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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research252
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified128
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies63
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream54
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables50
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning41
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework37
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data29
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)27
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites26
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations17
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research17
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys16
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models15
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model15
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes14
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies13
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention13
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat12
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–202012
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery12
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily12
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate12
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 Survey10
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric10
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision9
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages9
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research9
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition8
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry8
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork,8
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models8
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility7
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions7
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery7
Using Inverse Probability Weighting to Address Post-Outcome Collider Bias7
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?7
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?7
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