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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	188
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	95
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	41
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	38
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	37
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	37
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	34
Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling	31
Network Diffusion Under Homophily and Consolidation as a Mechanism for Social Inequality	24
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	22
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	22
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	22
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	18
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	16
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	14
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	14
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	12
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	11
Understanding the “Grievance Studies Affair” Papers and Why They Should Be Reinstated: A Response to Geoff Cole	11
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	11
Applying Responsive Survey Design to Small-Scale Surveys: Campus Surveys of Sexual Misconduct	11
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	11
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	10
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	10
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	9

Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	9
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric	9
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	9
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	8
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement	8
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	8
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	8
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork^,	8
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	7
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery	7
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood	7
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	7
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models	7