Sociological Methods & Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Sociological Methods & Research is 8. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research150
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified88
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream51
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework44
Rationale and Methodologies for Surveying Vulnerable Neighborhoods: Lessons From Three Nordic Countries34
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables29
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning25
Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions24
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data22
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes21
Suspicion During Fieldwork: Lessons From Ethnographers Suspected of Espionage19
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys18
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)18
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research16
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies15
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model15
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models14
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations13
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention13
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites13
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat12
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula12
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery12
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate12
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–202012
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate11
Beyond Proximity: Investigating Crime With Organic Neighborhoods and a Two-Stage Unsupervised Learning Approach11
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study11
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily11
Treatment Effect on the Association Between Outcomes10
Benefits of a Pragmatic Approach: Rethinking Measurement Invariance and Composite Scores in Cross-Cultural Research10
Sampling in Video-Based Social Sciences9
Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text9
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study9
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research9
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages8
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status8
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision8
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric8
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